How many times have I heard that the one life to live crossovers will kill general hospital? Looks like my favorite characters from landview are helping to get those ratings up, Seriously a few more wouldn’t hurt, Vicki, Victor, blair, roxy, The quartermaines need a rich family to keep up with the jones if you get where I’m going with this. I know that you can have so many people and the stories get lost but so many are leaving just replace them with one life to live characters, Because it is working. If general hospital wants to keep seeing those ratings go up and keep the one life to live fans bring the landview characters on their not hurting their helping keep our general hospital alive. I know this One life to live/ general hospital fan is happy and will continue to watch because general hospital is watchable again. I have to say I loved seeing mischievous todd bringing carly flowers and hearing Kate spill her guts, hes got the goods on her. Cant wait till monday.

#1 Y&R – unwatchable. I’ve said it so many times, and I’ll say it again: Bell/Hamner/Sheffer need to go. They need a “Ron Carlivati” over at that show, someone who grew up loving the show and someone who understands the characters history, inside and out, someone like me! 🙂 hehe

#2 B&B – I just never got into this show. It was always hard for me to believe this was even the “sister” show to the great Y&R over the years.

#3 General Hospital – This is a VERY good show. If I didn’t know it before, I know it 100% now, that Ron Carlivati and Frank Valentini are super talented and super adept at running a daytime drama. Things I’m loving about this show:
–John, Starr, Todd, Tea (hopefully Victor, Blair and Natalie will be along soon)
–the return of legacy characters like Anna and Felicia
–Kelly Sullivan (though I still adore me some Megan Ward)
–Sonny being more portrayed as the jack@ss he is. Don’t get me wrong. I love Maurice Benard, BUT Sonny is one of the more despicable characters I’ve every seen on daytime. I don’t mind the character, but what I DO mind is a character like this made out to be a hero/”good” person. What would be neat, if they do want to make him a hero, is to make a revelation that Sonny is/was actually FBI or CIA all these years. Of course, they’d have to explain away some stuff, like Sonny shooting his own police officer son, but maybe they could say that Dante was too close to finding out the truth about Sonny’s real mission, or something like that. Hey, it’s a soap opera after all. I think people are more connected to the characters, rather than the story. Anyway, I digress…….
–John and Sam, their chemistry is OFF THE CHARTS. If Natalie were to come back and make this a quadrangle, Natalie and Jason could commiserate about what this connection is between John and Sam. Maybe it’s a connection from another time and dimension that cannot be separated by this world even……..
–Finally, one question, where is Diane Miler? This seems to be a character that Carlivati would love to write for.

#4 DAYS – Could this be DAYS’ final days? It’s always promises followed by regression for this show.

I WOULD KNOW WENT WILL LIAM FIND OUT THAT HOPE

WAS SET UP BY STEPHAINE “S MOTHER AND STEPSHAINE

GRANDMOTHER.STEPSHAINE FOSTER,.I ALSO WOULD LIKE

TO SEE LIAM BE MARRIED TO HOPE”.I CANNOT WAIT TO SEE

THAT BILL HIS MACHINATIONS IS UNSUUCCED.I BEEN WATCHING

THE BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL FOR TWENTY FIVE YEARS

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE STEFFY MOVE ON TO SOMEONE NEW IN

HER LIFE.MAYBE WITH DR MEADE.

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOPE WITH NEW HAIR DO.(ATT MR. BELL)

I watched both OLTL and GH but before RH/FV came i was to the point I almost couldnt watch GH it was dark and no humor. They have injected some of the humor that was needed. I like all the OLTLers they have intergraded they need a few more tho. The John with Sam is not making sense he has always be written to have feelings for Nat and he was so happy to get her back now were to believe he all of a sudden is “drawn to Sam”. Then Todd has always been written as not a bed hopper so if he is paired with something it is Out of character. I would like to see a few more OLTLers over Blair, Viki Nat/Liam.
I tried to watch days and their s/l are just too boring and hard to get into

It’s obvious that FV and RC have little to no interest in GH, they simply miss OLTL too much. For a while on Friday, I thought I was watching an episode of OLTL. They should have just kept OLTL and cancelled GH.

There is really nothing about GH that is any different than it has been; people just hear others saying how great it is and just repeat it. You can tell what is going to happen 3 weeks before it happens (does anyone really think Dr. Ewen is going to die? Was anyone shocked that Konnie may have shot out the tires? Please). And don’t get me started on the way all the women have become helpless victims who can’t function without a man to do everything for them.

Great show indeed.

So, how soon before we have a “Who Killed Daisy” storyline?

And, will Heather be back (in the form of Jennifer Landon) because Ricky will be leaving (most likely suspect for a dead Daisy)

Actually, what I think is hurting Days the most is the production of the show – the storyline and scene sequences. I am not sure if I am or can explain this correctly, but I feel that this is bringing it down and part of the problem. If it could be tweaked and cleaned up, it may be able to help the show. I will try to see if I can explain. As far as soaps go the writing and story lines are not that bad right now
( there could be improvements, but better than the year before), the actors are good and doing the best they can with the material they have, but the problem is that some of the sequencing of the story lines and scenes seem messy, a bit sloppy, and all over the place. You get a bit of this story line, then it disappears for weeks, comes back a little, you get part of it, then there are missing pieces, or something is dropped, then it is out of sequence, etc. It is a great to have intrigue and good to have missing pieces and keep the audience guessing what is going to happen if there are good clues in a sequence that lead up to a climax in a story line and make the audience try to figure things out, but when you are not sure where some information went, or why something is either in our out (most likely because of TPTB disputing over storylines) – it becomes confusing and messy to watch then you start to say wait this makes no sense, where are they going with this, etc. even if eventually it all ties in, the way it is done does not keep the suspense so you do not want to keep watching. Basically, you tune out because it is like a puzzle with missing pieces instead of having the pieces and then trying to figure out where it goes. Then in other cases they give you too much information that they should leave out for intrigue. For example, they should not have let the audience know that John, Marlena, Bo, Hope, Carrie, and Rafe were alive during the wake. They should have kept the audience guessing – even though with spoilers and info that the cast is still in our out, you knew they would be alive but you could think may be we were not told if someone is going to leave or you may wonder how did they get out of the blast. Anyway there is not enough continuous intrigue to make you keep watching, and the way the scenes in the story lines are sequenced does not keep you coming back for more. They have to clean up the production of the scenes in a story line to make it flow better, so they are not so choppy, and all over the place – whether that is the writing, the production, or scheduling of actors – if this does not improve you cannot keep viewers tuning in. If the story lines and scenes keep going in and out of context, then viewers are going to keep tuning in and out. Shows and novels that have plots that have good well sequenced and timed scenes, clues, storylines keep you with them for more and more.

Hey Guys, This isn’t about the ratings for GH, but the Dark Shadows movie. I had so many doubts about seeing this film, based on the trailer and I had a problem with paying $11.50 for a movie that looked ridiculous! But, my curiosity got the best of me and I went to see it this weekend. I was pleasantly surprised! It”s somewhat of a comedy, but with horror and romance thrown in. Johnny Depp did a pretty good job as Barnabas Collins, but he is not Jonathan Frid. It guess he’s not suppose to be, since this is Dark Shadows for 2012. Eva Green was very good as Angelique Bouchard. She captured the evil essence of the 1960’s character portrayed by Lara Parker. However, I did have a problem with the character of Julia Hoffman, which was played by my favorite, Grayson Hall in the original and by Helena Bonham Carter in the film. I think they ruined the character and they made her look like something from Alice in Wonderland and Sweeney Todd! I won’t say anything else and spoil the movie for those who plan to see it, but I think it is worth checking out and would love to view the responses.