With the ebb and flow of Daytime soaps into extinction, which soaps do you still follow and which have you quit?

Soaps are so awful now. I quit watching YR, OLTL, ATWT, Days. I'll tune into YR if something major is going to happen (i.e.: Dru's return). I'll tune into OLTL if something interesting happens with Kish.

I pretty much watch BB only if spoilers indicate something exciting will happen, or if a Talk Soup worthy event (i.e.: a parasailing Jackie shooing away an off cam flock of seagulls) is happening. If not, I'll only follow the spoilers.

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I think to huge extent I quit all soaps I only care about EJ and Sami on DOOL, I like a lot characters on OLTL, I gave up entirely on GH ( not one character interests me), never been big CBS fan, and well AMC is such a train wreck I can't see how any actor can be happy on that show in past few years.

I pick up some shows and drop others frequently, because it's too much trouble to actively follow so many that suck.

I watch OLTL most days and have returned to DAYS, which by default is the best soap on the air right now since OLTL is too inconsistent. I watch Y&R less often, but still watch it. And I'm watching GL as it goes down the tubes in more ways than one; if it weren't going off the air, I would have dropped it months ago.

I've dropped ATWT; the addition of Lynn Herring makes me want to check it out, but for the life of me I just can't bring myself to tune into that mess. GH, which was once my favorite soap and I loved as recently as 2006, has completely alienated me since the addition of the Zaccharas and the neglect of great characters like the Quartermaines and Alexis. Watching the show just makes me angry. B&B I don't waste my time with, and the show formerly known as AMC I hardly recognize anymore.

I've pretty much dropped everything, i only watch OLTL if something big is going to happen, like a big return or something. But i didn't even watch the dobule wedding so clearly that indicates my feelings towards soaps now. I may catch up with a clip here or there on youtube but that's about it.

I'm so done with GH it's not even funny but i may watch parts of the carnival... and AMC is beyond a mess so it's never getting me back as a viewer.

I'll always follow AMC in some manner but I'll likely continue to not watch the show daily which has been my practice since 2001. Pine Valley disappeared a long time ago and I don't ever see it coming back.

OLTL needs to find its direction since it seems to be the closest ABC soap to cancellation. I've never been a huge fan of RC/FV but they have produced some good stuff. For now I'll continue to "check-up" on OLTL.

Y&R is the soap I follow the most. It has not been perfect but it does give the biggest reward for your time.

I gave up on AMC about two years ago. It is the most unrecognizable of all the soaps. The only core people we have left are Erica, Adam and Tad. Sure, we have Jesse and Angie, but they only just returned. Then there's Liza, but she is a recast. I don't really count Marian and Opal since they're so back-burner. No show has taken more of a plummet this decade than AMC. And it could have all been prevented.

When ATWT let Martha Byrne go, I left. That mixed with the inconsistency of Nuke did me in.

Y&R and OLTL can both go from being really great one week to awful the next. They're the best on the air though.

Under those two is DAYS...It isn't bad but losing Deidre Hall was a huge mistake and a turn in the direction this show does not need (i.e. AMC, GH).

GH is dead.

B&B has the actors but not the writing.

--Morgan

I watch OLTL faithfully.

Y&R I follow, but it is getting so Days like, and so NOT Y&R that my patience is running thin.

I quit GH and I quit B&B- B&B is complete garbage.

But I will tune in of Kimberlin returns. GH is unsalvageable.

I only watch Y&R and B&B but I'll be tempted to forsake the latter if Kim-boring Brown returns.

For me AMC died when they fired Jean Deadrio Burke and replaced her with Julie Hannah Currethers who has done nothing to help this show. Sure JDB wasn't as good as say, Felicia Meni Behr or some other producers the show has had but she was better than JHC for sure and at least attempted to use veteran characters. AMC hasn't been very good since about 2005.

I only watch ATWT... (or as of Sept. 21, )

I'm being forced to give up GL, because...
a) they cancelled the show on April Fool's Day to try to get us aroused (epic fail, Larbara Bloonves)
b) because of a), the cast and crew are moving on

But that Karn-Evil on GH sounds good....it could win Drama Series Emmy # 11...

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The one I had to give up is AMC b/c it is a soulless sack of nothingness and until they get rid of Pratt I am not watching.

I check in on the rest, but the one I have to watch live is OLTL, b/c it is the only one that is doing traditional storytelling w/a twist.

The sad thing about AMC's writing is that we keep waiting for the show savior who will resurrect the show like Ron Carlivati and Maria Arena Bell did in their earliest days of writing OLTL and Y&R, but he or she never comes. (Both Carlivati and Bell have proved plenty fallible in the months and years since, however.)

After Megan McTavish, we were all desperate to be saved from Satin Slayers, unabortions, and poison pancakes. Then we got Esensten and Brown, who got off to a promising start then went nowhere fast. And now Pratt, who started nowhere and has stayed there.

Brian Frons doesn't want to hire someone to save the show. He wants to hire someone whose "vision" correlates with his. ABC Daytime rots from the head. He keeps Guza in place at GH despite declining ratings. He hires writers who chip away at AMC's legacy. And he gets Ron Carlivati's way at OLTL, which wouldn't be perfect without Frons's intervention but would sure as hell be a lot better than it is.

Disney owns Marvel now. Can't we get Wolverine to run him through with his claws? Or have Spider-Man wrap him in webbing and hang him under the Brooklyn Bridge where he can't do any more damage?

I watch days faithfully...always have...


occasionally tune into atwt and y&r

amc...gl...oltl...never caught my eye, even if some of my favorite stars have gone there...can't convince me a show is watchable just because a favorite star is on it...though i will catch up on youtube if i hear there's some good scenes worth watching, and of course always at emmy time.


gh...used to be my second favorite back in the late 90's...when it was actually really good...though now it sits at the bottom of the list, does nothing for me anymore


b&b...forget it's even a soap sometimes...that says it all.

I was away all last week and only just over the weekend watched a full five episodes of the three shows I've been following: DAYS (my true love), OLTL (my Mr. Right Now) and Y&R (who I'm pretty sure is cheating on me). After that many consecutive hours, I can't wait to see today's episodes of DAYS and OLTL, and I'm about thisclose to dropping Y&R, which was tough to sit through.

I haven't watched ANY soaps (YR, B&B)!

Even the B&B spoilers are boring me.

Uhm, yay?