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The epitome of this is Reva Shayne on The Guiding Light, who was heinously overhyped, overrated and overused, and saddled with one idiotic plot after another on The Guiding Light.

On DAYS, the endless kidnappings, presumed deaths, back-from-the dead stories and other moronic material (Possessed!) dumped on Marlena Evan crippled that character's believability and viability decades ago.

One Life to Live saddled poor Jacquie Courtney with a "British accent" when she played evil twin Maggie Ashley on that show. I adore La Courtney, but that wretched accent, which she could not pull off, God bless her, was wretched.

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I am of the mind that Marlena/Roman/John's believability as down to earth characters went out the door in 1991.  They continued to be viable IMO.  Although I have a hard time thinking any character outside of Tom/Alice is very believable on Days.  Days hasn't been a realistic soap since the mid 80's or at least the mid 90's.

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Personally, I think once you get to the point where Andre has a face mask pretending to be Roman it becomes unbelievable.  Once you have 2 Romans running around, Marlena and Roman back from the dead, and it's all a silly Stefano plot the credibility was gone.  GH was the same in the 80's and grounded themselves in the 90's.  Days just went wild with JER.

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Okay, then maybe it's not too much yet where I am in re-watching. That André, he sure was a stinker. 

And of course she had her special fans trained so that if a single solitary day went by without her on their screens that they would immediately call in & scream about how she was necessary for the future of the show. Even when she was working with a 4 guarantee, oh my god, that would leave a 5th day in the week when she might not be on! Don't get me started. 

So later Crystal Chappell played *another* person also named Maggie? 

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And yet, I'd take even that over JER's DAYS, because the difference between '80's DAYS and JER's DAYS is that '80's DAYS was still well-written, if also a far cry from the decade before.

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The character development was much better.  It's not believable, but the characters got more point of view while JER's characters repeated the same lines over and over for 4 years.  And...........I still can't tell you why Marlena didn't just tell John in 1996 that Kristen was bad news and that she (Marlena) still loved him. 

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I agree about when the show's believability went completely out the window. For me personally, once a character is inundated with a plethora of sci-fi/fantasy/camp material, their viability as credible characters (who can be used in believable storylines) is also decimated. They can then continue to be featured in fantastical, outlandish plots, but I'll never see them as identifiable, human people with feelings worth caring about again. Fembots have never inspired my heartfelt sympathy.

Right. JER turned DAYS into a cartoon, a joke IMHO. The show has never recovered. There are genres of television programs geared towards that sort of material, and it's fine if a portion of the audience enjoys it, but soap operas and outlandish, wacky cartoons simply don't mesh.

As I've noted previously, The Great Gazoo does not belong floating around Maggie Smith's head on Downton Abbey, LOL.

OMG, what a stinker story that was. DAYS had already fallen so far from the well-written soap it had been just two years before, when Pat Falken Smith  was guiding it in 1982.

I always considered Reva to have "stans" as opposed to fans. Manny and the San Cristocrap gang too. 

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Yes, she played Maggie Carpenter in the mid 1990s.

 

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Not just stans though, the most extreme ones there are. And you can't say Manny without conjuring up the GL fanbase wars!! 

Not used to shows repeating names unless it is familial naming of children & grandchildren.

Also shows used to avoid names being used on other shows to at least a degree. Now there's only 4 shows but there's 2 Finns, 2 Stephies, 2 Sonnys, there were 2 Victors but now only one, there were 2 Dougs,  ... 

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I feel like Maggie/Margaret is a fairly common name, though? It's probably dated now, but it's not super unique like Marlena lol.  I wouldn't confuse CC's juggling clown Maggie on OLTL for Days Maggie under any circumstance.

Doug, Victor, Stephanie are all very common as well.  We live in a soap world where Maxie and Lulu are names for adults.  That's worse.

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