Characters that ATE their Soaps

[Planet Soap]

could it be said that Queen Stephanie ever ate B&B, or that Erica ever ate AMC.

Edited May 6, 2022 by ironlion

[tsauer19]

This might be unpopular, but I always felt Bianca on AMC completely took over the show. She was in literally every episode for almost 3 years (early 2000's) and it seemed like they would purposefully try to force her into scenes just so she could appear in every episode. I liked the character and ER is a great actress, but it was overkill.

I quit watching the show because Ryan Lavery took over and we had to watch CM yell, oof, I mean attempt to act. I have nothing against CM, he seems like a very nice person, but I am convinced the only reason Ryan lasted as long as he did was because CM was easy to get along with backstage. 

[Vee]

And VM only quit at the time because they wouldn't give her some time off or a lighter schedule for her then-very-small child. I don't know how she survived that schedule tbh.

[Contessa Donatella]

I loved all of Bianca, but I sure got sick of Ryan Lavery & his family! If only CM had been an actor, really!

[Videnbas]

I can't really answer about Erica since I never watched AMC regularly, but as for Stephanie, I'd say no. You can't "eat" the show if you ARE the show. Stephanie was always central to the premise of the show and she is basically what made the show what it was.

Besides, Stephanie never felt like the writers' "pet project" or "shiny new toy" the way characters like Amber or Hope did. Stephanie was simply the glue that held it all together.

[sheilaforever]

True!

[MichaelGL]

When I started watching ABC soaps, Skye was on OLTL, and I felt she belonged on that show more than anything else. Never knew she had been on AMC until later on. While I do like RC, and find Skye to be fascinating character, RC does tend to come off cold at times; which no offense to OLTL fans, why I felt she was perfect fit with JFP's OLTL at the time. 

[Planet Soap]

That's exactly how I feel. Stephanie is B&B!

[AbcNbc247]

Agreed. 

Personally, I don't think characters that are on their soaps from the very beginning don't necessarily eat the show, only new characters have seemed to do that

[Contessa Donatella]

You'd never say that Mary Stuart ate SFT, that Victor or Nikki ate Y&R, that Bob or Kim or Lisa or Lucinda ate ATWT, that Rachel ate AW, although you could say that Jensen *tried* to eat AW ...

[Darn]

Yeah I wouldn't say Erica ate her show either. She was a huge focus but never to the detriment of other characters. Adam, Brooke, Edmund, Tad, etc. were all leading A story separate from her. 

It feels like a character is eating a show when every story aside from theirs feels like a C story (not even B). That's how I felt watching Sonny/Carly/Jason/Courtney(or Sam) in the early 2000s. The rest of the cast felt superfluous.

[Contessa Donatella]

Maybe that with a corollary to address the new character that is suddenly forced into every other story whether they have one of their own yet or not?

[AMCOLTLLover]

I do think Victor ate too much of Y&R.. 

[Contessa Donatella]

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LOL, okay, I stand corrected!

[Spoon]

As a non-viewer, I always got the impression that it was all about Erica, like Reva on GL.  SL being on magazine covers and name dropped in pop culture venues like the Regis Philbin show.