Slow Storylines

 stories.  I am enjoying Maggie/Victor as I think the Maggie we know would be torn over what he’s done while still being attracted to him. Vivian just drives me crazy – I’d put her in jail and throw away the key.  She’s not funny, just psycho!  I’d rather see Caroline in the Maggie/Victor story with both of them being interested in Victor while trying to deal with his history of evil deeds.  Yes, Parker should be Daniel’s son but knowing the show, there’s more drama with him being Philip’s even though the likelihood of it is less than zero considering his previous ‘ability’ issues but the same goes for Chloe.  Maybe Nathan and Melanie will do the deed while in the fevered state and produce a child too? lol

 than three months, i.e., from the beginning of a sweeps month, until the beginning of the next sweeps month.  There are 4 sweeps months in a year …. February, May, August and November.  Stories get repetitive and boring after months.  Fans began watching soaps for one reason and one reason only … to escape into a fantasy world of love and seduction and family oriented scenes involving all the characters they loved, but in different storylines.  They need to interact the cast more than they do.  Put some of these actors with other cast members with whom they do not usually work.  Stop the nonsense with the same 7 soap plots over and over and over until fans begin to turn away.  Return to the romance between charismatic couples with the OCCASIONAL triangle thrown in once in a while, but don’t make it their life’s work.  Plan their families well, but don’t use too many young kids in acting roles.  Most times they’re never with their parents, and they’re too young to hold my interest, even if they are adorable.  Don’t let them be used as pawns …. I would rather not see them at all.  Keep the psychos down to a minimum …. seems that’s all we have now are bad guys …. to many villains …. not enough lovers.  Don’t go so far beyond reality with certain storylines and plots that they become laughable to the fans, and never try to outsmart your audience by throwing in ridiculous reasonings why people survive, whether it be legal, medical, or homicidal.  It only makes writers look like fools and infuriates fans to a degree where they have no choice but to play the ‘reality’ card on those responsible for bad storylines with somewhere in-between incredulous and non-existing reasonability, and stop worrying about budget expenses and hire people who can hold our attention longer than fifteen minutes.  The fans know what they want.  Pay attention to them.  Then, maybe ….. just maybe soaps will survive critiques like this one.  Sorry for the rant, but tired ‘ain’t’ the word for what I’m feelin’ for most of the soaps I watch.  

of the show – Cruise of Deception, Hope and Bo in New Orleans or Paris, John and Marlena dancing by the fountain in Italy,  heck, where is Chez Rouge?  Where is the Penthouse Grill?  They don’t even have the couples ballroom dance to their favorite song anymore…it’s wam-bam-thank-you wedding and then a quickie breakup between the couples even some times before the wedding starts (Mel and Phillip).  Arrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhh!  I know times are tough but make a window and stick a back drop up behind it and let us have the illusion of a different place – heck stick a shamrock up on a wall and call it Ireland!  I know they have a lot of fake trees (from Sami’s latest wedding) – so why can’t they have an island somewhere.   I have a CD with ocean waves crashing on the beach I’ll let the props dept. have.  I know they can borrow furniture from Stefano’s and Victor’s house for a different set somewhere else.  Give us romance as you said Patti and the illusion of the characters being somewhere…but most of all give us a good and decent story line!

Heck, throw a sheet or bedspread on a piece of furniture to give it a new look in a different set. 

I somewhat see your point, but I’ve reached the point where the bad writing of today totally outweighs the good writers of yester-year.  Early soap writers were much more talented, creative and fan-caring writers compared to today’s writers (IMHO), and the recycled storylines reflect it.  Now-a-days it’s simply a ‘same church, different pew sorta’ thing, with the difference being the newer soap writers of today do NOT care enough to even watch the fruits of their labors themselves let alone afford the fans the enjoyment that past writing teams afforded, and that’s not just on DOOL …. it’s on all soaps.   My own opinion is budgets, smudgets ….. doesn’t excuse watching and listening to today’s writers who continue to write mediocre stories, with an occasional "winner" every other year or so, and then dragging them out til’ the cows come home, and in this day and age of soaps, my friend, the ‘hurrier they go, the behinder they get’ until they’ve lost their way so much that they may never find their way back. Sorry, Bonbon, but when soaps go off the air completely, I’ll remember the bad reasons why long after the good ones are gone.  Writing is an art, a talent if you will, and if it could keep the ratings booming (which it did) and millions of fans dedicated enough to stay tuned in for all of those years (which it did), why can’t they find the talent to return those fans in droves? An extra half hour added to a show 5 days a week compared to a half-hour show, which is what soaps were in the early years, shouldn’t make that much of a difference if today’s writers possessed anywhere near the creative imagination of their predecessors, who gave this die-hard fan so much pleasure when soaps were in their prime (and so was I).  Unfortunately, for today’s writers, they’re not even close.

 Thank you very much.