To be fair, the writing was often so poor in the show's dying years that many stories were ridiculous, not just those foisted on Kim Zimmer. Harley the Super Heroine comes to mind. Dear God in Heaven! The problem with the Reva plots was that TPTB were so desperate and determined to keep her on the front-burner continuously, they just kept throwing anything and everything at Reva, no mater how ludicrous it was.
I started in about 1963, although I later acquired a huge library of radio broadcasts from a kind-hearted and generous friend who had hundreds of eps from before the television era. I got to hear a significant amount of 1950, centering on Meta Bauer's murder trial. It was thrilling.
The show really started collapsing in the 1980s, when a huge number of the core characters were wiped out (including most of the Bauers), the tone and style changed significantly, and the writing went drown the drain. It miraculously picked up again in 1989 or so, and was great for a few years, but TIIC killed off Maureen, the fine writer from that period left the show, and it disintegrated once more (with some ups and downs) after that.
Of course, this is just my personal opinion. I do know other viewers who enjoyed various parts of the show after I felt it had become unsalvageable. There's no such thing as a "wrong opinion." Everyone has the right to hold and express his own. I was just crushed to see how this once-fine soap had been decimated.
From what I could see, many viewers loved Rachel Miner as Michelle and others appreciated BJL, but no one ever seemed to warm up much to NSA, who was tepid at best and had no real spark with anyone.
Yep, by the time it was cancelled, putting the show out of its (and our) misery was akin to a mercy killing.
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