orestes wrote:I watch... uhh one you hate, Days of our Lives.
I got hooked on that from one of my friends and as it turns out half my friends watch that show!
She also got me hooked on Port Charles, which I enjoyed so much until it bit the dust.
Another one I have started watching is One Life to Live. I love how it's still a little unrealistic but not as far fetched as Days of our Lives. I actually started watching OLTL because of this one girl on there that looked beautiful.
That's all I watch right now although for some reason, through friends and family watching them I've seen every soap enough to kinda know what has been going on a bit. (except poor Guiding Light... I know no one who watches that one... B&B as well but I know a few things)
Oh and if you count it as a soap I sometimes watch Train 48... a show many hate but I have enjoyed it this year a great deal.
Anyways back on track. Yeah we need to record our soaps! I would love if they put Port Charles on DVD since it would be one of the easiest and I loved that show.
Coronation Street has DVDs as well... like best moments and things like that so it would be nice if networks made a nice set with specials or something like that! (NBC if you're listening this would be perfect for Days 40th anniversary next November!)
I used to be a big Days fan, up until 2001 with the teen invasion and that insipid island story and some stupid jewels and stuff. Good idea, though, for a nice DVD set for Days next year, as I'd buy it for their GOOD years, like the late 60s, some of the 70s, a bit of the early and late 80s, and the few good years in the 90s (1992, 1995, and 1997-1999 come to mind).
I never saw Train 48...but IIRC, it's a Canadian soap? About a...Train?
I've only seen eppys of Corrie through WoST, as no PBS station in my area carries it. We used to get EastEnders on NJN here, and it used to be on BBCAmerica, but I don't have BBCAmerica, so I'm screwed anyway.
Neighbours, the Aussie soap, is on Oh! (Oxygen), but my cable provider doesn't provide that, or SoapNet (but SoapNet is pretty sh*tty anyway, they put Another World at an ungodly afternoon hour, and are gonna limit Port Charles and Ryan's Hope reruns to 1 a day instead of 2).
OLTL was pretty sh*tty the past year, what with the Santis and stuff, and now they've got Days's ex-headwriter, who wrote a pretty sh*tty year of Days (well, more like six months of sh*t in 2003). But that soap has a place so dear to my heart, probably because of Viki, Dorian, Nora, Bo, Lindsay, and a few others. ANTONIO SHOULD BURN IN HELL!
I wonder who the girl is you thought was beautiful on OLTL. Was it the ever-charming Melissa Archer (Natalie)? Or the two ever-annoying Bree Wiliamson (Jessica #2) or Jessica Morris (Jen)?
And just for kicks, an condensed history of my soap-watching:
All My Children: 1999-present, with a break from March 2003-May 2003 and August 2004-November 2004
As the World Turns: 1999-late 2001, April 2002-February 2003, November 2003-July 2004, sporadically since September 2004
The Bold and the Beautiful: 1989-1995 (I was little, so I don't remember much), a few months in 1997, sporadically from 1999-2001. I hardly watch the show anymore, but I know enough to know what's going on.
Days of our Lives: Summer 1999-Summer 2001, November 2003-May 2004 (Sadly, I was hooked because of the Serial Killer, then stuck around to see Alice alive)
General Hospital: 1999-late 2001, Summer 2002, April 2003-Summer 2003, September 2003-July 2004 (Technically, I wasn't a fan, but I was a watcher)
Guiding Light: 1999-present, though I haven't watched a full episode since...mid-November, when Philip was killed (those bastards...).
One Life to Live: 1999-2004, with breaks that sometimes stretched months at a time, and I doubt I'll ever go back.
Passions: The first 6 months. And that was all I needed to see.
The Young and the Restless: 1989-1995 (same as B&B, I was little). I've been keeping up with the show since 1999, but the only time I've ever been watching consistently was for a few months in 2003, April to June.
As for Canceled soaps:
Another World: In the Womb. Unfortunately, I never had a chance to watch this soap, and only learned more about it AFTER it was canceled.
Sunset Beach: Summer 1998-1999, basically the second half of the series, as it was January 1997 to December 1999
Port Charles: 1999-2003, my favorite arcs were "Tainted Love", "Secrets", and the little I saw of "Superstition".
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