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Aug. 20th, 2007 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seldneiSo today I watched a lot of soaps while caring for the Zweeble, and I am filled with soap opera love. My reasons are threefold:
1. Days of Our Lives: There are all these old characters back! I can't tell you how many times over the past few years that I've put that show on and not known *anyone* on it except for Marlena. And I am not a Marlena fan. And thank you, writers, for remembering that Tony never liked or wanted to be a DiMera and fixing it. Today they had Judi Evans playing Adrienne again, and can I say how thrilled I was? I will admit to thinking the dialogue is still pretty cheesy, but I was a major Days fan when I was a teenager, so for all I know it's always been this way.
2. As the World Turns: okay, I do like AtWT usually, but it took this weird, creepy, sordid turn a while back that just turned me off. *Why* was Emily a hooker? I don't know. *Why* was Adam a creepy nutjob? I don't know. But now Will and Gwen are having a baby, and Carly is back, and Henry actually has a girlfriend ... and today, Luke was kissing Noah! Or, actually, Noah kissed him first, but still. I can remember when gay characters on soaps came out and then had no story at all. Plus, there's all this good soap-type tension, since Noah's dating Maddie--Luke's friend. Oooohhhh ...
3. Guiding Light: dude, they lost me when Josh got together with Cassie. The hell?! And Harley and Gus have gone totally stupid, and adding Dylan in is just *not* working for me. However. I really like Jeffrey and Reva together! See, I have watched GL on and off since I was five--I kid you not--and when I really started watching it on my own and without my grandmother, Reva wasn't with Josh, she was married to his father. So I have never had any investment whatsoever in Josh and Reva, and I actually tend to prefer her with the other guys she's been with. (I could actually deal with Josh and Cassie together had they not gotten together in such a ridiculous storyline.) This and the fact that Jeffry will have now shagged Cassie, Reva, and Reva's *daughter,* makes me a happy soap girl (really, he and Tammy should have had a fling, just for kicks).
Also, Olivia remains one of the most complex, but clearly defined, characters on TV. She does self-destructive stuff and you always know why.
What I *really* dug today, though, was Ashleigh. Okay, Ashleigh is a character that's been kicking around the show for a couple years now, and they've done really well bringing her up to being a major character. Here's the thing: she's overweight. And not in the television sense of weighing 140 pounds; she is *very* overweight. She's also in love with Coop, who is really pretty hot. Coop has a thing for her, too, but wouldn't admit it. He got back with his old girlfriend, Ava, a skinny, gorgeous girl ... and dumped her today because he likes Ashleigh. So he goes to her to tell her, and she can't quite buy it--not because she thinks "Oh, I'm fat, he can't possibly love me ..." No, it's because she's been dealing with him waffling about his feelings for months, and he's still having a hard time admitting them, and she feels that she deserves a guy who will just tell her he loves her *easily,* because he does. She throws him out because she wants his love on her unequivocal terms, not his reluctant ones. Rock on.
So, yes, loving the soaps today. Now I probably won't watch for another week. :)
1. Days of Our Lives: There are all these old characters back! I can't tell you how many times over the past few years that I've put that show on and not known *anyone* on it except for Marlena. And I am not a Marlena fan. And thank you, writers, for remembering that Tony never liked or wanted to be a DiMera and fixing it. Today they had Judi Evans playing Adrienne again, and can I say how thrilled I was? I will admit to thinking the dialogue is still pretty cheesy, but I was a major Days fan when I was a teenager, so for all I know it's always been this way.
2. As the World Turns: okay, I do like AtWT usually, but it took this weird, creepy, sordid turn a while back that just turned me off. *Why* was Emily a hooker? I don't know. *Why* was Adam a creepy nutjob? I don't know. But now Will and Gwen are having a baby, and Carly is back, and Henry actually has a girlfriend ... and today, Luke was kissing Noah! Or, actually, Noah kissed him first, but still. I can remember when gay characters on soaps came out and then had no story at all. Plus, there's all this good soap-type tension, since Noah's dating Maddie--Luke's friend. Oooohhhh ...
3. Guiding Light: dude, they lost me when Josh got together with Cassie. The hell?! And Harley and Gus have gone totally stupid, and adding Dylan in is just *not* working for me. However. I really like Jeffrey and Reva together! See, I have watched GL on and off since I was five--I kid you not--and when I really started watching it on my own and without my grandmother, Reva wasn't with Josh, she was married to his father. So I have never had any investment whatsoever in Josh and Reva, and I actually tend to prefer her with the other guys she's been with. (I could actually deal with Josh and Cassie together had they not gotten together in such a ridiculous storyline.) This and the fact that Jeffry will have now shagged Cassie, Reva, and Reva's *daughter,* makes me a happy soap girl (really, he and Tammy should have had a fling, just for kicks).
Also, Olivia remains one of the most complex, but clearly defined, characters on TV. She does self-destructive stuff and you always know why.
What I *really* dug today, though, was Ashleigh. Okay, Ashleigh is a character that's been kicking around the show for a couple years now, and they've done really well bringing her up to being a major character. Here's the thing: she's overweight. And not in the television sense of weighing 140 pounds; she is *very* overweight. She's also in love with Coop, who is really pretty hot. Coop has a thing for her, too, but wouldn't admit it. He got back with his old girlfriend, Ava, a skinny, gorgeous girl ... and dumped her today because he likes Ashleigh. So he goes to her to tell her, and she can't quite buy it--not because she thinks "Oh, I'm fat, he can't possibly love me ..." No, it's because she's been dealing with him waffling about his feelings for months, and he's still having a hard time admitting them, and she feels that she deserves a guy who will just tell her he loves her *easily,* because he does. She throws him out because she wants his love on her unequivocal terms, not his reluctant ones. Rock on.
So, yes, loving the soaps today. Now I probably won't watch for another week. :)
