33 minutes ago, KMan101 said:

 

Agreed. Some actual drama is nice. I appreciated some of what he tried to do, other stuff not so much. I feel like of the four US soaps, GH would have been a better fit.

Well he co-created and produced Holby City which is the Grey's equivalent for the BBC. So he probably would've done okay there. 

15 minutes ago, slick jones said:

Mal Young should have stayed where he was before wrecking several characters that it had taken over a year to rehabilitate. Not to mention the stupid one show one day only. Some scenes in a story take more than one day to tell.  At least he kept Chelsea off-screen, I'll give him that.

I didn't care for the "Everyday is a new day" But like you had he knew when to get rid of Chelsea, Kevin, and Chloe. Though I hated how they crafted Nate early on to be "Deepak Chopra" who came off as he knew Lily since elementary school instead of being first cousins and Neil and Dru's nephew/godson. 

11 minutes ago, Marco Dane said:

Umm ABC needs to catch up... HULU smh...

I know it would never happen. But I wouldn't mind Loving and Ryan's Hope to stream on Hulu or the throwback page on ABC.com 

I loved Mal for dumping Chelsea, Kevin and Chloe. Chloe has always been an afterthought, which is a shame.

 

He definitely got a LOT wrong. He was smart in building up the younger crowd, who Griffith then had 'no story for'. Sigh.

 

I also could have done without the JT is an abuser but it's really not his fault after burying him alive. Yikes. 

 

Lily/Hillary was so something they pull off on the UK soaps. It's something soaps should do more often, frankly (the writing for it reeked and the optics of firing Morgan were awful so it was never going to work). They don't have 'the guts' to pull off killing someone (and we never believe it anyway), or doing a darker storyline.

 

I appreciated on some level the attempt at a more UK style soap mixed with US but it really couldn't work with Y&R. I'd love more of a shift on our US soaps but like I said, GH probably would have worked better, as long as he had a good head writer. But he also gives me 'Male JFP vibes' so I've always been mixed on Mal.

Edited October 19, 20214 yr by KMan101

This is awesome. I've never heard of this site and I'm super impressed with it so far. I like that you can watch in browser without the app and that you can watch live or on-demand.  And it's free and you don't need to make an account! Pretty much all I could ask for. If anyone out there is reading this, then know that your site has gained a new user because you put these soaps on there.  I'm really really hoping they add a lot more seasons, especially from the early years, the earlier the better!

 

I'm atually shocked they got Y&R.  B&B is out on a lot of platforms but licensing Y&R from Sony is a huge get.

 

The link in the first post goes to the live broadcast, so there are the on demand links I found:

https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/series/the-bold-and-the-beautiful-bell-tv/details/season/32

 

https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/series/the-young-and-the-restless-sony-rs/details/season/47

https://pluto.tv/en/on-demand/series/the-young-and-the-restless-sony-rs/details/season/48

@BoldRestlessPluto has some other great channels, a lot of classic tv if you're into that as well

1 hour ago, dragonflies said:

@BoldRestlessPluto has some other great channels, a lot of classic tv if you're into that as well

Definitely, and there is a pretty good movie selection too!

It is nice to see GT’s Phyllis again but what a weird time to pick to start with Y&R reruns with starting in September 2018, especially since Ashley would soon depart, the pointless Dark Horse story was beginning, and the Rosales invasion was about to happen. Oh well the bad thing is looking back three years ago at least there was story and drama as tawdry and repulsive as it was. 

Pluto has some decent channels. Not for everyone but if you want something on in the background and don't pay for cable services it can fill a void.

 

I feel like we get bones thrown at us and they never tend to go anywhere ...

1 hour ago, KMan101 said:

I feel like we get bones thrown at us and they never tend to go anywhere ...

This!

On the subject of Pluto, last year I watched a marathon of Hunter episodes, so that was kind of fun.

25 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

This!

On the subject of Pluto, last year I watched a marathon of Hunter episodes, so that was kind of fun.

 

Yeah, Pluto has some gems on it. 

 

I hope this goes somewhere.

 

Remember when Bravo briefly showed DAYS from like 2011 a few years ago? Just one in a long list of examples ...

 

Nothing ever lasts or goes anywhere ... lol

22 minutes ago, KMan101 said:

 

Yeah, Pluto has some gems on it. 

 

I hope this goes somewhere.

 

Remember when Bravo briefly showed DAYS from like 2011 a few years ago? Just one in a long list of examples ...

 

Nothing ever lasts or goes anywhere ... lol

It still really bothers me that Procter And Gamble productions didn't extend the licensing agreement with the SoapClassics people to stream and sell DVDs from some of their classic soaps.

1 hour ago, DramatistDreamer said:

It still really bothers me that Procter And Gamble productions didn't extend the licensing agreement with the SoapClassics people to stream and sell DVDs from some of their classic soaps.

 

Me too

 

Sigh

Pluto TV has a Facebook page and they posted the news. I requested 80s classic ATWT and other requested classic GL to be added to their line-up.

Edited October 28, 20214 yr by Soapsuds

12 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

Pluto TV has a Facebook page and they posted the news. I requested 80s classic ATWT and other requested classic GL to be added to their line-up.

Thanks for trying. I'm not on FB, so I appreciate it.

34 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Thanks for trying. I'm not on FB, so I appreciate it.

You're welcome!  I do try. I do it for me and others who I know want to see them again. I'd love to see ATWT 1983-1992 again.

4 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

You're welcome!  I do try. I do it for me and others who I know want to see them again. I'd love to see ATWT 1983-1992 again.

Frankly, the best way to get around music rights issues may be to stream, rather than sell episode compilations. I think this may be the reason why ATWT episodes can usually be up on YouTube for years, when most uploader account holders express that they don't intend to make any profit from the videos. I think the problems happen when people try to sell work with a copyright on it, especially when they had no part in creating the source material.

JMO, but if there were a link to identify the song, singer/songwriter and purchase the song in the description, something tells me there wouldn't be much objection.