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[Contessa Donatella]

Also I am excited & frankly it's been some time since we've had a reason for this kind of excitement. 

Well, of course you do. 

I mean, why wouldn't do your best?!!!

[Planet Soap]

People: "Soaps have sucked for the last 20 years, the industry is dying, we need a resurgence" 

*CBS boldly creates a new soap despite declining linear television and local news saturation*

People: "Eew no. The cast is the wrong color." 

You can't make this up

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Even if you aren't interested in an all black soap, wouldn't you want to see the success of the first new soap a quarter century because it could possibly reinvigorate the genre? 

I've seen people suggest re-runs of ATWT from the 70s onwards... Honestly speaking, who outside of us niche viewers is going to watch that? The network also has to cater to the modern day soap audience. 

People have even suggested re-vamping old soaps. As much as I sympathize with that idea, a lot of those cast members are dead, and modern audiences may not remember some of the old stories.

Edited January 2 by Planet Soap

[Vee]

Man, I don't know. Every year we have more and more of these ancient-ass SON accounts dating back 20 years coming out of hibernation, most with minimal to no posting history, to act deranged all over the board. Some of y'all know what I'm talking about.

Before he claimed full ownership of BTG upon its announcement and then began to turn on it for not being the show he made up in his head, vanguard's only post on this forum was complaining about Empire ten years ago. I don't know what this person is going through but I am through sanctioning it. He can join my very large Ignore filter.

Edited January 3 by Vee

[Cruising Soaps]

All I know is that I am looking forward to a new soap, and the fact that it is on CBS makes it easier for me. Other channel soaps, besides Hollyoaks, don't do it for me, and I don't know why.  

[All My Shadows]

 

But I agree. I feel like it's been said time and time again, but these weirdos only have power if we give them power. It makes me look at the people who willingly, and earnestly, go back and forth with them kinda differently, too.

[Khan]

YES, lol!!!!!

For years, we've had to be messy vicariously, through larger-than-life characters like Erica Kane and Victor Newman.  Not that I don't still love me some Erica and Victor (or some "Miss Chancellor" with those fabulous nails and diamonds), but now we're up in the big leagues, gettin' OUR turn at bat; and I, for one, cannot wait.

Thank you, thank you and THANK. YOU.

[Planet Soap]

This right here is a life lesson I've had to learn. You can make your point, but after a certain while you have to realize people's minds are set and just walk away. 

Likewise the weirdos only have power if you acknowledge them.

[Contessa Donatella]

I'm just gonna put this out there. Do I employ the stratagem "Just keep strolling on" Yes, of course I do, also been known to recommend it. Other stratagems vary from place to place. Whether it is Block or Ignore or Mute, I use them all.  But on occasion, not very often, I say to myself, This is such an uncomfortable situation, maybe I could defuse it with humor. Obviously high risk since it could be a flop.

[Antoyne]

I haven’t posted much but I’m super excited for a new soap with a lot of people that look like me. I know audiences these days are so quick to drop stuff but I truly hope this is a success. The genre needs it and us fans deserve it.

[te.]

I think the biggest obstacle that Beyond the Gates will have is that it usually does take a while for soaps to properly gel and since linear is dying there's not really a lot of channel surfing and people coming across the show in the same way it used to be. Hopefully as the show starts building up a library of episodes people might start putting it on while doing other things and get hooked that way down the road. I know Netflix wanted recently mandated shows to have more "casual friendly" scripts for this reason.

[Aback]

Regarding the latest pictures, my only pet peeve is that I hate it when there are no ‘shadows’ in the lighting. For example, the DAYS flat look or even the GH flat look bore me. I much prefer the B&B look or even Y&R because they have some contrast (ironically, I loved ATWT’s look in the early 00s and even GL’s light and pastel look in the Brown & Esenstein era… go figure!).

Another thing they should do: they should pack the weekly 5 episodes into a weekly 1 hour long ‘prime time’ edit. These days viewers are dying to go back to 20+ episode seasons. This solution would be ideal. 

[ReddFoxx]

Interesting indeed. Seems something of a pattern.

[Liberty City]

I think it's hard to tell how it's going to look, honestly. Unfortunately, the "modern" look isn't very pro-shadow in American daytime. But again, we haven't seen much of anything yet, so I'm excited to see how all sets will look in the "daytime" and during the "nighttime". It'll be interesting. Although, there are shadows within the sets (just re-watched the teaser), but I doubt they want to paint their actors with overshadowed lighting.

Glad others are noticing it, 'cause.... w h e w.

[Contessa Donatella]

So I am guessing that it's not really ABC or Peacock that it's really GH & DAYS. 

[Maxim]

I love the new shots and the new info we are getting. I love that angle they are exploring. MVJ is going to show all these tired writers... how it's f-cking DONE! I am sooooooo ready!  

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My Anita is shining. The Matriarch of DAYTIME has arrived, and she is here to expose people and show their true colors! And look at that handsome man! He is ageing like fine wine!!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S Speaking of showing true colors... I see this topic's disturbing presence has more or less completely shown their true face. And it aint pretty.