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After taking husband, Younger beautiful woman forces her way into company during bitter separation: Jill at Jabot, Brooke at Forrester after BeLeif.

Bill Bell: red headed/dark haired psychopath uses sexuality to manipulate desperate man: Phyllis/Morgan & Dr.Tim Reid, Sheila & Mike.

Red headed/dark haired psychopath drugs and or rapes high status man in order to get pregnant: Sheila & Dr. Scott, Phyllis & rockstar Danny.

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Also Stephanie/Brooke and to a lesser extent Nikki/Sharon.

Adding to Bill Bell

Mother that favors one son over the other: Vanessa, Cora, Stephanie

Upper class background/working class background romantic rivals: Ashley/Nikki, Caroline/Brooke

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James Reilly- not so much in his earlier work, but post DAYS possession through Passions- Characters constantly talking to themselves.

Another trope of Reilly was running mini stories around the larger ongoing plots.  He did this at GL, DAYS, and Passions.  Examples like Belle’s kidnapping being another story told within the frame of Marlena cheating on Roman, without ultimately resolving the main plot, only extending it.

Bob Guza- we spent a lot of time in court with Guza.  Both in little trials and larger ones like Laura with Damian’s death, Luke on trial for “killing” Stefan, Michael’s trial about Claudia, the many Sonny trials.  We saw Alexis, Ric and Scotty in court a lot.

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Isn't this just soap?

I guess Reilly's difference was characters constantly being on the cusp of finding out the truth. Every scene before a commercial break would seemingly lead into someone finding out some big secret. This would go on for 6 months at a time. Even if there was a side plot to extend the main plot the main plot would never lose focus because everyone was always reiterating what they were hiding and why.

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This is what soaps today lack the ability to do. Mini stories sandwiched in the main plot, so that it doesn't feel like the main plant is being endlessly prolonged.

For example, while we waited for Bobbie to find out Carly was her daughter, we got the Tony/Carly affair plot, Michael's paternity, and Jason/Robin's breakup inbetween. From that story was a springbord into Carly hiding AJ as Michael's natural father which also launched the Tony kidnapping and marriage to AJ stories. Today its just repeated dialouge and excessive complications that drag.

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Jill/Nina lines up w/ Nikki/Sharon and Vanessa/Lorie lines up w/ Stephanie/Brooke.

Brooke/Amber was Bradley's version of Jill/Nina and Nikki/Sharon.

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