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Ratings are good (according to a Deadline article today they're averaging 2.1 million viewers) and we're two months in. We're just about to start seeing the stuff when they made the initial changes. I don't think it's accurate to say the show is in desperate need of any help. What soap was perfect two months in? And what is two months in the grand scheme of things? That's nothing for a soap.

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Every show has issues the first year, not just soaps. There are some really good sitcoms and dramas that have some awkward material at the start. Not everything is perfect, but so far the show has been more character driven which is what most of the current soaps are criticized for not being. We know most of the characters traits.

Ashley and Derek could be fixed like this: Have Ashley get caught up in Leslie's antics tampering with Laura's recovery at the hospital and have her struggle to not lose her dream of being a nurse. Derek can become friends with Hayley and because Hayley is a homewrecker have some tension arise between Ashley and Derek about the friendship even though it is just a friendship. We do lack good platonic male/female relationships on soaps.

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Alison is married, though. With all the relationship talk from Ted, I would like to see Eva revealed to be bi. Then, she and Chelsea can hook up and we can watch Kat's head explode.

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Trisha Mann-Grant is the breakout star of BtG and she needs to move on to bigger and better things when her initial contract ends.

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This has been a problem for me since the beginning. Too many of her scenes are comical and come off like some variety sketch show. Even the scene with Vernon and Martin came off as kooky and not scary crazy. Where is the spooky music? Creepy camera angles? 

You're right. I know I'm on my own with this but I personally don't think character storytelling always mean entertainment if that makes sense. Some stories just aren't soapy enough! There needs to be a happy balance between the two.

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Exactly. There's at least a dozen things to fix on the show if not more, but in the longview of building a soap this has honestly been a drop in the bucket time-wise. Still, certain folks in the thread have been predicting doom for this show ever since their fanfic spec scripts were returned to sender. They need it to hurry up and die.

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Now tbf, they have been teasing Martin's secret slooooooooooooowwwwwly. Especially Month 1 where it went from Martin just reacting to the audience hearing sounds as he dreamt to FINALLY an image. Then it vanished for the most part Month 2...something I've been pick, pick, picking on since it was in danger of falling off the backburner. So happy to see the imagery...in true soap slow burn fashion...is getting CLEARER. 

 

Fingers crossed it will be at the police fundraiser Anita is working on with Jacob's father.

 

 

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Not at all. I expect a good May Sweeps. 

 

Yep.

 

Both great ideas and organic to what we have seen from both characters. 

 

She is going to eat the next two weeks up. Because I totally feel that Mona giving everyone the day off on today's episode is going to factor in to what Silk Press Sheila does post-reveal.

 

I don't think you are alone at all. I would say it's a 50/50 split here with those who like the character storytelling (which can lead to soapy moments) and those who don't feel it's soapy enough (even when there are tropes that are indeed soap tropes though they have not been used on soaps in ages). In the end, butting heads aside, I think we all want that happy balance. Hopefully by end of sweeps. Of when the show finds that rhythm once we hit the episodes where they got the critiques from people.

 

 

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