Spelling mistakes but who cares…my point is still there.

I totally agree with you on this!
Franco/Ava have been on practically everyday and their conversations are
SO damn boring.
Sabrina isn’t good enough for Patrick, she’s too starry eyed.
Hate the name Kiki.
Anna & Duke haven’t even had a chance to recapture their love again.
Genie Francis is our beloved character and all Laura does is walk around
with her dimwit daughter all day Lulu.
Tony Geary will be off on vacation now so there goes any L&L stuff,
not that GH is showing them anyway.
Maxie has been pregnant forever and Maxie & Spinelli never have any
scenes together anymore to build on anything.
Hoping for SOMETHING to come of Sam & Silas or dump this story.
Felix, sister, TJ, Sean — BORING. Go bye-bye.
Sonny & Olivia pairing? Yuk, can’t stand her.

At least Days is worth watching at the moment except JJ/Daniel/Jen crap.

I was a bit surprise to read this comment from a veteran soap watcher as yourself. I expected to read something like it from the younger fans who think daytime dramas should have the same pace as a night time show or night time soap. Daytime has to tell a story for 5 days a week 365 days a year as opposed to 10-20 episodes a year. So you could not have been surprised that GH could not keep up the level of storytelling they had leading up to the 50th anniversary?

I began watching last fall based on the raves the show was getting on this website and I only had to watch a week to know, no daytime drama could keep up the pace I was seeing back then– so the bubble bursting did not catch me off guard.

But you know how daytime dramas work– you have to look at their time, not our time to determine how long it has been since a character has been on. Some daytime drama’s “day” take a month to play out. So we don’t see character A for the whole month, on screen, but in Port Charles in has only been 24 hours.

Also most daytime dramas play out like a book with shows being like chapters with the various characters coming and going to tell the larger story of the plot. But I have found GH is more like a series of short stories and they don’t switch to another story until they finished the one they are on. Eventually all these smaller short stories form a larger story, but while one short story is playing, we don’t see the characters in the other stories. I don’t know if GH was always like this but this is vibe I get watching it.

I think it is that method of storytelling when most daytime dramas are more integrated together makes GH seemed choppy and unbalanced but since getting the knack of it, I don’t find it all that bad once you know you not going to see certain characters until it is their turn at the can.

I don’t know if any of those insights help, but I hope it does. It still a good show- and I am glad you guys got me to watch last fall– but don’t get mad at it for being what it is. Daytime, not nighttime

As for the topic I always liked KS from her times on Days and now. I am sure when her time comes, and this baby short story gets the writers full attention it is going to be worth the wait and KS will knock it out of the park.

Thanks. I enjoy your posts as well. You have a wicked sense of humor, but you can also stick to guns when need be on topics you believe in- I have watched almost as long as you have, not quite as long, but up there and I have to disagree with your notion that story writing was better in the early days. Whats changed is not the quality of the writing or the storytelling, but the world. Just look at the difference between JFK and Bill Clinton. Both fooled around on their wives, but during JFK day it was covered up because it would had destroyed his career– because back then, good men didn’t cheat, at least they wouldn’t get caught. But Clinton was caught and YAWN, no one really cared. The world changed and the scandal wasn’t the scandal it would have been in the 60’s/ My point being the stories soaps told in the sixties and seventies were topics never discussed on television before, abortion, divorce, premarital sex, drug use, adultery, addiction issues, domestic violence, etc and for those us growing up with the society at the time, these were exciting stories to hear. But now, if I watch a soap couple cheat on one another it doesn’t hold the punch that kind of story had back then. Also I have changed; before I had life experience under my belt, certain story lines interested me, like what is it like falling in love for the first time, finding Mr. Right and living happily ever after. Soaps were like a more grown up version of the fairy tales I listened to as a child. And once I did fall in love, got married had children, soaps were like a reminder of what was. But now, those stories seem quaint. I laugh when I watch the young teenage girl on a soap pine away for a guy. Or see lovely young woman scheme to get a man. I just want to say ” honey child, he ain’t worth all the trouble or tears. So today I don’t think there is a story a soap could tell that would get me excited to watch like I did when I was younger. For me, I watch not for the overall stories, but for the moments. Because that is where life is for me now. Experience has taught me that life happens in the day to day moments. So for me, I watch every show looking for the moment. For example, yesterday on GH, the moment for me was the scene between Carly and Sonny as they were reconciling– that was great. During all the dialogue between Ava and Franco there were certain looks exchanged between the two that were priceless. Yes, the overall show yesterday, in comparison to sweeping epics of the 80’s may have been dull as dirt– but if you look in the dirt long enough you might find a treasure. So that is how I watch now- l look… Read more »

agree with you on everything!

Jack Wagner should come back for that…hopefully Mac and Felicia will be shown more by then as well.

Why did you put sick in quotes like you don’t believe she was really sick?