Yeah, I was a Guiding Light girl in a General Hospital world, because my grandmother was a CBS watcher, and it was her TV.
We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.
Mal ,'Serenity'
The Minearverse 6: Fiery Thread of Death
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
Jesse - Sep 07, 2016 7:59:29 am PDT #4380 of 4535
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
kat perez - Sep 07, 2016 9:51:18 am PDT #4381 of 4535
"We have trust issues." Mylar
I got into Y&R in HS and college because they had a ton of pretty black people on the show at a time when black people in lead roles on ABC soaps had gotten very rare over. Drucilla and Neil and Olivia and Lily were my everything for a while there. That was really the only CBS soap that I ever watched.
EpicTangent - Sep 07, 2016 1:15:25 pm PDT #4382 of 4535
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Tiny piece of Y&R trivia, the kid who played, I believe it was "Little Nate" is now in his mid-twenties, recently graduated college, and works here. (In the accounting dept. Remarkably nice guy. Used his acting money to pay for college).
Kat - Sep 08, 2016 3:41:09 am PDT #4383 of 4535
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Remember the whole Ice Princess storyline on GH? I mean, my word, ABC had a whole soap about vampires living in Port Charles (and it was fucking great!) They don't make soaps like that anymore.
So true. But I often wonder if telenovelas and Korean dramas are like this now?
kat perez - Sep 08, 2016 12:46:37 pm PDT #4384 of 4535
"We have trust issues." Mylar
I used to watch a lot of novelas and they were crazy dramatic but not in a supernatural way, or at least not the ones that I watched. Not witches and demons and time travel and stuff like that. Just your typical over the top soap stuff. Kind of like 80s night time soaps but on steroids! I'm not sure about Korean soaps.
Vortex - Sep 10, 2016 10:32:29 am PDT #4385 of 4535
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Days had a supernatural storyline, with Marlena being possessed.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 10, 2016 12:39:41 pm PDT #4386 of 4535
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yeah, I think that one is the medal winner, it got enough press that even people who never watched soaps were aware of it.
brenda m - Sep 10, 2016 12:48:52 pm PDT #4387 of 4535
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
That's about when I gave up on Days.
EpicTangent - Sep 11, 2016 11:43:54 am PDT #4388 of 4535
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Me too. Unless it was that Phantom of the Opera ripoff...
kat perez - Sep 12, 2016 8:48:08 am PDT #4389 of 4535
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Nobody did crazy ass like Passions, though! That soap was born to be over the top. I think Passions and Port Charles were the tipping point for over the top supernatural soap opera drama. After those two went off the air, soaps pulled back from being really out there with the demon possession, vampires and witches, possessed puppets storylines. But I feel like that's always been a strain of American soaps, at least since Dark Shadows. And it's just not really present in the soaps that are left these days. Or at least, I don't think it is. I'm not really up on the latest plots.