Boy the typos in my post were astounding. Note to self: Don't write stuff when you should be in bed!
I think I grew up watching soaps even as a very small child. My sister is twelve years older than myself, so I remember her watching All My Children when I must have been in kindergarten (I even remember the Erica/Phillip/Tara stuff, though I would not be able to tell you the plot at all. And my baby sitter must have watched OLTL because I remember perfectly ancient stuff like Viki dating Joe Reilly and when the Buchanans were newbies and looking at the dates of those things, that places me in kindergarten to elementary school as well (amazing the stuff that sticks in our heads). That was all passively watching though. I don't think I began watching just because I was watching until I was ten or so and I caught the GH storyline of where Laura murdered this guy and Leslie covered it up to protect then teen Laura. Oh and Heather on LSD and Alan trying to blow Monica up for having an affair with Rick (so, y'know, totally acceptable viewing for a ten year old. Can you tell that I was a latch-key kid? :) I was around when Luke first arrived bringing mob-plots with him, but even as a child, I didn't get the great attraction. I did have a terrible tween crush on Rick Springfield, though. I didn't care for his character much, but I bought all his albums. LOL!
I do remember the L&L 'on the run' storylines as being fun, but then I was also watching Saturday morning cartoons/live action like Thundar the Barbarian and Land of the Lost, so I wasn't judging stuff beyond 'fun'. I did however love Robert Scorpio and I was all over the time period when Luke died and International Spy Robert married international thief Holly in a marriage of convenience post Luke-"death" and then Robert and Holly slowly fell in love. I also loved Anna. And was into International Spy Anna falling for mobster with a heart of gold Duke. I quit watching after the first Duke was blown to kingdom come.
Then in high school I sort of was dragged by peer association into watching "Days" in its late 80s live-action Romance Novel days and as long as the supercouple du jour appealed, I enjoyed it (primarily during the Steve/Kayla, Jack/Jennifer eras). That lasted until about 1990-ish. At some point, I was splitting time between the Anne Heche / Alicia Coppola eras of Another World (up to its cancellation), and the Claire Labine era GH (BJ's heart story still ranks as the best soap story that I ever saw), and whoever was the female show-runner who produced Dirty Dancing that took over OLTL for a while's era of OLTL. Interspersed somewhere along the way was Santa Barbara with a general knowledge of AMC from several quasi-isolated points in time (Cliff/Nina, Tad/Dixie, SMG, and Kendal/Greenlee rivalry ).
Currently I'm soapless, and it looks like I'll stay that way. I think I was more forgiving of stories as a child/teen than I am now.
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Date: 2010-07-30 06:14 pm (UTC)I think I grew up watching soaps even as a very small child. My sister is twelve years older than myself, so I remember her watching All My Children when I must have been in kindergarten (I even remember the Erica/Phillip/Tara stuff, though I would not be able to tell you the plot at all. And my baby sitter must have watched OLTL because I remember perfectly ancient stuff like Viki dating Joe Reilly and when the Buchanans were newbies and looking at the dates of those things, that places me in kindergarten to elementary school as well (amazing the stuff that sticks in our heads). That was all passively watching though. I don't think I began watching just because I was watching until I was ten or so and I caught the GH storyline of where Laura murdered this guy and Leslie covered it up to protect then teen Laura. Oh and Heather on LSD and Alan trying to blow Monica up for having an affair with Rick (so, y'know, totally acceptable viewing for a ten year old. Can you tell that I was a latch-key kid? :) I was around when Luke first arrived bringing mob-plots with him, but even as a child, I didn't get the great attraction. I did have a terrible tween crush on Rick Springfield, though. I didn't care for his character much, but I bought all his albums. LOL!
I do remember the L&L 'on the run' storylines as being fun, but then I was also watching Saturday morning cartoons/live action like Thundar the Barbarian and Land of the Lost, so I wasn't judging stuff beyond 'fun'. I did however love Robert Scorpio and I was all over the time period when Luke died and International Spy Robert married international thief Holly in a marriage of convenience post Luke-"death" and then Robert and Holly slowly fell in love. I also loved Anna. And was into International Spy Anna falling for mobster with a heart of gold Duke. I quit watching after the first Duke was blown to kingdom come.
Then in high school I sort of was dragged by peer association into watching "Days" in its late 80s live-action Romance Novel days and as long as the supercouple du jour appealed, I enjoyed it (primarily during the Steve/Kayla, Jack/Jennifer eras). That lasted until about 1990-ish. At some point, I was splitting time between the Anne Heche / Alicia Coppola eras of Another World (up to its cancellation), and the Claire Labine era GH (BJ's heart story still ranks as the best soap story that I ever saw), and whoever was the female show-runner who produced Dirty Dancing that took over OLTL for a while's era of OLTL. Interspersed somewhere along the way was Santa Barbara with a general knowledge of AMC from several quasi-isolated points in time (Cliff/Nina, Tad/Dixie, SMG, and Kendal/Greenlee rivalry ).
Currently I'm soapless, and it looks like I'll stay that way. I think I was more forgiving of stories as a child/teen than I am now.