Members kalbir Posted January 30, 2022 Members Share Posted January 30, 2022 (edited) A common soap element is a mother favoring one son over the other. That element also has a biblical allusion (Rebecca/Jacob/Esau). Which soap storylines of mothers favoring one son over the other are the favorites of this board? Bill Bell used this element several times, the two big ones being Vanessa favoring Lance over Lucas and Stephanie favoring Ridge over Thorne. To a lesser extent there was Cora favoring Matt over Victor, as Cora kept Matt and placed Victor in an orphanage. I don't think Liz and her relationships with Snapper and Greg apply here, and I don't count Mary and Paul as Mary's relationships with her other sons Todd and Steve were not really explored. Edited February 1, 2022 by kalbir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted January 31, 2022 Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 Like Liz Foster I can’t see Mary favoring one child over the other…Paul was the oldest right? I could see him currying extra favor with her more, but had Steve & Patty lasted into the 80’s and 90’s I could see Mary equally barging into their private lives as much as she did Paul’s….with Todd being a priest she may have felt satisfied enough lol. On ATWT didn’t Nancy prefer younger son Bob over Don back in the 60’s? I know Nancy also preferred her dead daughter over Penny as well. Primetime wise it was pretty clear Ellie’s favorite son was Gary on Dallas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRfan23 Posted January 31, 2022 Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 On Passions Ivy always favored Ethan over Fox, cause he was her true love, Sam’s son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted January 31, 2022 Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 As much as she loved Kevin, I feel like OLTL's Viki had a softer spot in her heart for Joey. After all, he WAS his father's namesake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carolineg Posted January 31, 2022 Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 Kate from Days is the first person I thought of. Not so much now, but in the 90's it's clear Austin was her golden child. She didn't even make it a secret. Carly on GH clearly loves Michael the best. I don't even know where her baby is most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted January 31, 2022 Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 Are you sure about that? Because, if memory serves me correct, Deborah Adair's Kate did her best to make like that part of her life (marrying Curtis/having Austin and Billie) never existed. To me, Lucas was her golden child. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted January 31, 2022 Author Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 From what I've seen/read, when Bill Bell added the Williams family, the children's birth order was Todd (away in the seminary), Steve (working as a reporter), Paul (working at a garage), Patty (high school student). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted January 31, 2022 Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 Wasn't Mary a very religious woman? If she was, then I would imagine Todd to be her favored child, just because he joined the priesthood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris 2 Posted January 31, 2022 Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 She was a churchgoer as many of her generation were. I don’t know if I’d describe her as “very religious” by the standards of her day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted January 31, 2022 Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 (edited) Any thoughts on Bert Bauer? I don't recall her ever favoring Mike over Ed or vice versa. Edited January 31, 2022 by Paul Raven Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members carolineg Posted January 31, 2022 Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 I feel like once she found out they were her kids she bent over backwards to make Austin/Billie happy. She was always weirdly invested in their love lives, gave them jobs, and I felt like Lucas was forgotten for awhile. You can see it from both views because she has done a ton of stuff for Lucas as well, but I personally always felt she wanted Austin to get everything he wanted more than her other kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soaplovers Posted January 31, 2022 Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 From watching episodes from when Patty was on, Mary had to keep Carl from butting into Patty's life while Carl had to keep Mary from butting into Paul's life. I think the fact that Todd was in the priest hood made him the favored one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members David_Vickers Posted January 31, 2022 Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 On GH, I always found it so stupid and weird, that Monica always seemed to favor Jason, her husband's bastard son over AJ, her own son. I also never understood why they always had a blonde playing Jason, when Alan & Susan (Jason's mom) both had black hair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NothinButAttitude Posted January 31, 2022 Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 Didn't Justine favor Grant over Ryan despite the fact that Ryan was her love child with Carl? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted January 31, 2022 Members Share Posted January 31, 2022 Maybe Monica never got over the fact that he wasn't Rick's baby, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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