Not when you consider their numbers are included with the fact that they are broadcasted in Europe.

Harry….I’m responding to your post on another thread regarding MF notices. Generally speaking, I get mine in my main inbox…maybe your spam filter is preventing you from receiving them? Just a thought….However, there is something peculiar about the whole process…I have gotten replies that never made it to post, and I am thinking that they had been moderated out of existence for online perusal, but still sent to me, which is great. I like to reply to any comment I receive as long as they are decent and respectful, but the problem is that the replies you receive personally are blind and you cannot ascertain the identity author unless they are also posted online. (Sometimes you can guess according to personal writing style or subject matter, but one still likes to be sure.) Conversely, there have been numerous occasions when something I wrote was not deemed suitable (I guess…) for posting, but I had assumed(?) that at least the remarks ended up in the inbox of the intended recipient….now I am not so certain! I understand that not everything we write will pass muster to make it online, but I do wish there were a way to insure that the person for whom the response was intended does indeed receive it, and with proper identification of the sender. (Just a bit of nitpicking of the system….) I also suppose a lot of these oversights could simply be attributed to technical issues. At any rate, just so you know, I often send little replies to you….I ever so enjoy your wit and cultural references, thus, I like to show my appreciation! (It makes me sad to think that you never receive them!) Oh, and speaking of that subject, your recent quip regarding young Spencer’s whereabouts during his “m.i.a.” storyline was classic….my compliments!

Meant “identity of the author”…..my bad!

I sometimes do see your positive responses, Shay. But it’s only because I went back to look. Comments like yours are the ones I want to see! I did see your response to my comment pertaining to the whereabouts of Spencer (answer–in that great abyss called Alexis’s cleavage). I responded in kind but the post did not appear.
However, my missing comments is not always a bad thing. Inherently, I am a bit of a coward. Sometimes I am that person who throws a rock and then runs away.
And speaking of rocks, cracks and the abyss, this morning’s earthquake made me feel as nauseated as I feel when watching Alexis and Julian make out.

Oh, dear….I hope you are feeing better, Harry!!! I saw the news coverage of the earthquake….quite a fright you had there! Do take care!!!! Having said that, I’m firmly convinced that the “Mystery of the Lost Replies” (Sounds like a Nancy Drew book title…..) can be attributed to the MF moderators having to work overtime to deal with all of our snarky bon mots and snappy rejoinders, hence, I’m not surprised that a fair amount of our comments go m.i.a. (aka, unposted/unsent)….Oh well, it’s certainly NOT for our lack of trying!!!! (Let battle continue…..) Lastly, on the subject of our favorite exhibitionist, Alexis, perhaps we should give that poor insatiable woman a break….after all, she does now have to replenish her entire supply of push-up bras and age-inappropriate, immodestly revealing “top-wear” since her previous collection was completely blown to smithereens.

Harry.
the bored Y&R fans who dropped out of Y&R are coming to GH..
And– GH, a couple of times, did top out at 3 million,,
(wait for winter.. it’s gonna roll !
Root for the bad guys, Harry.. !! they will never bore you 🙂

Harry-I think that’s correct about disgruntled fans tuning out. GH is pretty stagnant and their ceiling seems to be just under 3 million on average. Hitting 3 million or a little above on a day or two doesn’t count for anything, it’s about averages, that’s how advertising is priced and sold.

I think GH gains viewers with some of the stunts and castings. like Stafford, but they lose viewers by throwing vets in the back, so the gains are offset and the numbers never really go anywhere. How many more fans can you bring with additional castings and how many fans do you lose with those new actors?

The largest pool of potential GH viewers are long time viewers, not people who have never watched and all of a sudden are going to think GH is cool. And they are not all senior citizens who you think are not in a desired demo either.

There are plenty of people in the higher range of 18-49 who tuned out years ago and who would come back if GH was back, if characters they new were on more prominently, if core families were put front and center. Plenty of people in the 35-45 age range who watched in the 90’s and 2000’s, even eighties, who would come back. They did with the initial vet returns and 50th, but left when it was just a bait and switch. That is the group that GH should have focused on and tried to grow with. That would have been the obvious and intelligent play, knowing who your consumers are. It still makes no sense that Cartini couldn’t figure a way to really resurrect GH and still put their ego, I mean stamp, on it, without decimating it’s history and bringing in so many new characters.

And Harry, I’m with you regarding the influx of more villains. It just means more camp, more nonsense and more stunts.

Miss Su00, in the future when I wince in disgust at watching what has become of my once favorite daytime serial, I shall take solace in the fact that you are deriving some kind of weird and inexplicable joy from it. I mean it–I am glad GH makes you feel happy.
I still maintain that with the villains outnumbering the heroes, that we are left with no one to root for. I never liked it when The Batman and Robin TV show had The Joker, The Riddler, The Penguin and Catwoman on the same show. Yes, this TV show from the late 60’s was supposed to be high camp and so the over population of campy, over-the-top villains not only produced a non character based storyline, it deviated from the interesting villains who were overshadowed by the other villians, thus losing their mysterious sense of intrigue. The same thing is happening on GH, and I must add here that GH is not supposed to be a pure camp adaption of a comic book series.
As it stands I am not rooting for ANYONE because I don’t like ANYONE on GH anymore. Therefore, my interest has not only waned, it is has rusted and as Neil Young once sang,”It’s better to burn out, than it is to rust. Hey, hey, my, my. Rock and Roll (soaps) will (should) never die.”
And GH50? I thank Hades for your all too rare occasional appearances which inject a much needed dose of rationality into our perspectives. As someone who has always been mathematically challenged, I may not always get your mathematical applications when it comes to breaking down the ratings, but I do understand and appreciate the premise behind the equations. So thank you.

I don’t want ANY soap to be cancelled. It would likely mean the end of all soaps, and I love them.

Replace Carlivati before deciding to cancel.

ahah self punishment watching a soap;
I seen it all now; soap opera masochist’s..

(A study should be done on soap fans who hate their soap and inflict pain on themselves by watching it; masochist’s )

I do use to like Y&R and now its horrible, but I only watch every other day for about 10 mins an episode if I see something almost entertaining..

GH ROCKS!! .. and puts Y&R to shame 🙂
I wish you happy watching !! 🙂

brain..
All the negative grumpy – – nothing is every right or good people,’
well .. imagine being married to one of the grumpies .. frightening, huh..

I love GH ..
Y&R- I tell it like it is.. It sucks .. no need to need write a ”War and Peace” length complaining post about it (I never read the long ones ) just say it sucks, its horrible boring, and the new Billy is gawd awful terrible.. no whining needed- just get to it lol..

(and kill Robin.. no need to write a whiny grumpy book about it, just kill her..

Now– everybody be nice !!

bow your head;
”thank you for my soaps.. soaps are good soaps make me happy kill everyone I don’t like and write the stories just me , Amen ..

long live GH!!

Oh, Su000… You are one long list of contradictions. No matter, though…I loooove reading your posts; very entertaining. Tune in…Y&R is getting better, (NOT)…..except that tptb should get rid of all characters and start fresh…lol.

SuOO, you will be happy to read this spoiler.
Helena Cassadine, while looking for her son Stavros in the family’s deep freezer unexpectedly runs discovers Ted Williams’ head.
Helena discovers a way of transplanting Ted Williams head onto the body of Morgan Corinthos who soon is the recipient of many a baseball scholarship. Unfortunately, the fact that Morgan not only has Ted William’s anger management issues teaming in his thawed out head, he has the same issues coming from that the body of that hot head of a man suffering from small man’s compex, Sonny Corrnthos. It doesn’t go well.

Sorry suOOOO but your evasive way of complaining about complainers as if you are trying not to sound like you’re complaining is still negative complaining(i know because of me daddy tellin’ me so)…lol…Looks like you wont be getting your soaps written and cast the way you want nor will you get your way on this message boards…us unpleasant negative people are here to stay…lol…i do like reading your posts and agree with your serial killer suggestion but i have a better idea: all four soaps join in on a crossover plot involving this serial killer…works for me…lol

Jimh.. how yah doing?
Hey.. I like your idea!! love serial killers ! (especially cannibal ones..
The soaps need serial killers, for sure..

The only thing in GH I would want different is a dead Robin, but I wouldn’t want to see her fans crying so Siberia is a good second….
I am a true GH fan who likes it all!! nothing negative here about GH..

And- Y&R sucks, big time! it is gutted and empty..
and that is not a complaint that is a fact and telling it as it is..

–and my mom said it right out too;
complainers are unpleasant people and nobody wants to hang out with them and listen to their whining.. heh..
dont like someone/character just say so and why you want them eaten by serial killer cannibals, that works .. lol 🙂
tc ..

@su @@ @@….As per usual, your latest series of scintillating, in-depth analyses have left me utterly nonplussed.

ToDAYS episode will be phenomenal too!