I love that this is the "core four." I already connect with each one in a different way.

You just know at some point there'll be a long lost son coming out the woodwork.

23 minutes ago, Alan said:

I love that this is the "core four." I already connect with each one in a different way.

They are gorgeous.

I'm looking forward to getting to know all the characters. I can't wait to go on this journey with these characters and this show. It's been 25 years since we've had a new soap and B&B is the only soap left that I can say I have watched from the beginning (I was very young).

Anyway, the next 6 weeks hopefully will be fun and full of surprises. 

10 hours ago, skiman12082004 said:

I'm looking forward to getting to know all the characters. I can't wait to go on this journey with these characters and this show. It's been 25 years since we've had a new soap and B&B is the only soap left that I can say I have watched from the beginning (I was very young).

Anyway, the next 6 weeks hopefully will be fun and full of surprises. 

The closest I've come to watching a soap opera from the beginning are the continuations of All My Children and One Life to Live in 2013, and the 2023 return of Neighbours. I'm stoked.

Handsome Jacob Hawthorne.

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I just saw him portray the dumbest man on Earth in the Tubi original movie, "Sugar Mama."

8 hours ago, Khan said:

I just saw him portray the dumbest man on Earth in the Tubi original movie, "Sugar Mama."

Mhmm, and I don't know if it was the writing or his acting himself, but it was painful to watch.

On 1/9/2025 at 9:22 PM, Bright Eyes said:

You just know at some point there'll be a long lost son coming out the woodwork.

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I don't post much here, but I'm excited for Beyond the Gates. I'm often told I havent experienced a "real" soap since my introduction to soaps was Passions at age 10 which I loved, unpopular opinion around here, and once it ended I got into Ron's OLTL which I also enjoyed and followed up to its cancelation. No surprise here, but I started tuning into DAYS during Ron's stint since I loved his OLTL work, so all I know in soaps are really James E. Reilly and Ron Carlivati's writing style.

Excited to see this soap from the begining, as I'm from the DMV area and there is a real Farmount Heights, Maryland that boarders DC that she may have drawn inspiration from including the name from the luxury Fairmont DC Hotel. Also excited to see Daphnee Duplaix, always thought she was gorgeous on Passions, unfortunately her character Rachel had already left OLTL by the time I started tuning in.

29 minutes ago, LostinHarmony said:

I don't post much here, but I'm excited for Beyond the Gates. I'm often told I havent experienced a "real" soap since my introduction to soaps was Passions at age 10 which I loved, unpopular opinion around here, and once it ended I got into Ron's OLTL which I also enjoyed and followed up to its cancelation. No surprise here, but I started tuning into DAYS during Ron's stint since I loved his OLTL work, so all I know in soaps are really James E. Reilly and Ron Carlivati's writing style.

Excited to see this soap from the begining, as I'm from the DMV area and there is a real Farmount Heights, Maryland that boarders DC that she may have drawn inspiration from including the name from the luxury Fairmont DC Hotel. Also excited to see Daphnee Duplaix, always thought she was gorgeous on Passions, unfortunately her character Rachel had already left OLTL by the time I started tuning in.

Yay, glad to see you posting, and hope to see more once the serial really begins production.

1 hour ago, LostinHarmony said:

I don't post much here, but I'm excited for Beyond the Gates. I'm often told I havent experienced a "real" soap since my introduction to soaps was Passions at age 10 which I loved, unpopular opinion around here, and once it ended I got into Ron's OLTL which I also enjoyed and followed up to its cancelation. No surprise here, but I started tuning into DAYS during Ron's stint since I loved his OLTL work, so all I know in soaps are really James E. Reilly and Ron Carlivati's writing style.

Excited to see this soap from the begining, as I'm from the DMV area and there is a real Farmount Heights, Maryland that boarders DC that she may have drawn inspiration from including the name from the luxury Fairmont DC Hotel. Also excited to see Daphnee Duplaix, always thought she was gorgeous on Passions, unfortunately her character Rachel had already left OLTL by the time I started tuning in.

Well, welcome! Are you watching DAYS now? I am so excited about Beyond the Gates!! 

If nothing else, I hope BTG proves to be successful enough to inspire CBS (and other networks) to invest in more, new soap operas.  Maybe they can't produce them on the same scale as they did 20-30 years ago - maybe we have to go all the way back to small casts and sets that consist of nothing more than doors and windows being hung on darkly painted walls by piano wires - but the genre is too important to our culture to let fade away completely.

16 hours ago, Khan said:

I just saw him portray the dumbest man on Earth in the Tubi original movie, "Sugar Mama."

Lol. Those Tubi movies. Very bad. Several of these newbies have it in their background. Let's hope they can hold up five days per week.

 

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2 minutes ago, Khan said:

If nothing else, I hope BTG proves to be successful enough to inspire CBS (and other networks) to invest in more, new soap operas.  Maybe they can't produce them on the same scale as they did 20-30 years ago - maybe we have to go all the way back to small casts and sets that consist of nothing more than doors and windows being hung on darkly painted walls by piano wires - but the genre is too important to our culture to let fade away completely.

Agreed.

How amazing would it be if BTG revives the genre? For networks and for streaming.