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What were some of your favorite or least favorite teen/young people groups on soaps?

Favorite: DAYS was pretty good with Sami, Austin, and Carrie

GH: Robin, Brenda, Karen, Jagger, AJ, Jason

Unimpressive: GH: Josslyn, Cam, (Spencer, Esme and Trina are okay but the writing is sloppy).

What are your thoughts about OLTL's teen scene with Starr, Cole, James & Langston + ?

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I'll second that and add Lucky, Emily, Nikolas, and Elizabeth as another favorite, as well as Y&R's Billy, Mac, Brittany, Raul, and JT cohort.

Didn't care for the Scott, Laura, Bobby, Anita, Kelsey, and Kevin group on AMC. Other than Kevin, they were all kind of unpleasant and grating (although Scott became less so when he was recast with Daniel Cosgrove).

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100% agree with Robin, Brenda, Karen, Stone, Jagger, Jason etc.

I loved Carrie, Austin, Sami, Lucas, but outside of Sami they weren't really teens.  I considered it more young adults

Agree with Lucky, Liz, Emily, Nik as well.

I would add Shawn, Belle, Mimi, Phillip, Brady et all on Days.  They had way too much story, but as actors and characters I thought it was a pretty decent group.  I also thought the college group of Stephanie, Chelsea, Abby, Nick had a lot of potential with decent actors as well.

Starr, Cole, Langston, etc fall into a similar category to me.  WAY too much story, but not a bad group of characters/actors in theory.

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Good:

Y&R: Brittany, Raul, JT, MacKenzie, Billy, Colleen

GL: 4 Musketeers: Phillip, Beth, Rick and Melinda 

ATWT: Gwen, Will, Casey, Allison

Bad

GL: Drew, Jesse Blue, Max, Michelle.

GL: Daisy, Ashley, Zach, Grady, Rafe

 

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Faves:

  • DAYS: Shawn, Belle, Mimi, Jan, Chloe, Philip
  • GL: Dinah, Harley, Dylan, Samantha, Alan-Michael
  • GL: Michelle, Danny, Jesse, Drew
  • SuBeach: Tiffany Thorne, Sean Richards, Mark Wolper

Worst:

  • GL: Daisy, Caitlin, Rafe, Zach, Grady
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DAYS: The Last Blast Gang: Shawn, Belle, Phillip, Chloe, Mimi, Jan 

ATWT: Will, Casey, Gwen, Maddie 

YR: Glo by Jabot: Billy, Mac, JT, Britney, Raul, Rianna. 

Passions: Theresa, Whitney, Miguel, Charity, Kay, Simone, Chad, Jessica, Reese 

GL: Bridget, Kat, Julie, Hart, David 

 

I wouldn't call them worst but had lack of potential 

GH: TJ, Molly, Rafe, Taylor 

YR: Maddie, Charlie, Reed, Shauna 

 

 

 

 

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