On today’s episode of Days of Our Lives, Sami finally introduced Will to his ‘sister’ Grace. Will wasn’t too impressed with Sami’s story and got up to leave, but she begged him to stay and talk to her, which led to the following exchange that had the Sami fan in me cheering:
Will: “No, not if you're gonna cry all the time.”
Sami (starting to cry): I'm not crying, all right? I'm upset because you're angry. So, sit down.
Will (groaning): Oh, my god.
Sami tries to explain some more and apologize for his messed up childhood which leads to:
Will: My god, you're gonna cry again.
Sami: I'm not... I'm not crying. (Yes, she is, just like she always is, just like she has been doing – a lot for the last couple of years!)
Now we get to my point and the best part.
Will (getting up to leave again): Okay, look, I'm done with the tears. (And a few seconds later he walks out of the pub.)
Amen! Alleluia!! So say we all, Will, so say we all!!!!
Enough with Sami crying all the time Days – I want my scheming, angry bitch back!!!! If I wanted a weepy, whiney heroine I’d campaign to get Carrie back on the canvas! Will the real Sami Brady please stand up...
Monday, March 30, 2009
This is Why I Shouldn't Watch General Hospital...
Okay, so let me start by explaining I have tried to give up watching General Hospital for Lent, because it makes me and everyone around me miserable when I do since I complain about how awful it is while I watch it and for hours afterwards and really nobody wants to hear me anymore – so I really am doing it as a service for others –lol! Anyway, I go to visit my mother today and of course she has GH on – she is the one who got me hooked on it in the first place. So, what’s the first thing I see, but Sonny knocking on Claudia’s door and when she answers it, she’s greeted with a “Let’s do this.” as he starts taking off his jacket and walks in. Seriously? Hardly even a ‘hello’ or ‘how’s it going’. Nope, not from Sonny, he has needs that need attending too. Now, I thought this was bad, but than I watched as she continued trying to blow him off, telling him she needed to freshen up (since you know trampy Claudia has Sonny’s unconscious brother, whom she’s just had sex with, hidden under the bed, she probably figures this could get complicated) and Sonny won’t take “no’ for an answer as he replies with comments like, “Ok, but don't take long, ok? Because I need it right now.” Wow! I’m sure the entire female audience was swooning at that comment! Who says romance is dead on soaps?! Sigh.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
A Week in Review in the World of Soaps
Since I’m just getting things started with the blog, I thought a good way to get my feet wet would be to touch on the highlights of what went on in the world of soaps this week, so here goes…
Sweetest Moment:
I have to give this to Guiding Light. When Philip accidentally ran into Emma at Company it was too cute. The look on his face when he finally got to see his daughter combined with how happy she was to see him had me in tears. It was nice to finally see someone genuinely happy to see him back in town for a change.
Tackiest Moment:
This is a two-way tie for Days of Our Lives. I couldn’t decide between Tony lamely telling Philip, “Well, what are you gonna do, huh, challenge me with your lightsaber, young Padawan?” and Tony getting staked on the docks when he fell down the stairs – so I’ll just give it to them for both. I think I’ve talked enough on the subject in my other entry – so let me just add another “WTF?” and leave it at that.
Craziest Moment:
This goes to the Young and the Restless for having a completely losing it Kevin lock Amber up in the closet with a very dead and probably smelly body. Poor Girl, she just kept talking her way back into that closet – lol!
Soapiest Moment:
I have to go with Jack walking in on Carly and Craig on As The World Turns. Sure, Jack and Carly are divorced but he still seems more interested in her life than his own, so it had to hurt when he opened the door and saw them ripping off each others clothes.
Saddest Moment:
Well, there’s a lot of heavy stuff going on over at One Life to Live, but I think the moment that got to me the most was when a recently paralyzed Matthew told his father, Bo, that he thought they should put him in a home because he didn’t want to be a burden on his parents. The comment caught both Bo and me by surprise and had me instantly in tears.
Worst Socially Relevant Storytelling:
It was tough to decide between General Hospital’s Post-Partum Depression Story with Robin and As the World Turns Luke and Noah fighting against the bigot landlords of the world but in the end I had to give it to the ATWT. Watching this was like watching a bad after school special. How hard would it have really been for Jean Passante to come up with something better for these two to do? Apparently a lot harder then I thought. The only good thing that came from this thing was Damian’s return. Hopefully the show won’t blow that too. Well, the good news is that this is ATWT so the story lasted less than week. That’s great news for GH, because that means they can still earn themselves this title later –lol!
Favourite Character:
I have to go with Guiding Light’s Philip Spaulding. This week, the one character I enjoyed the most was Philip. He was the one character I couldn’t wait to see more of and boy was his week full. He was questioned by the police. He put his father in place with a little bit of blackmail, who in turn tried to do all he could to get Philip put in jail. He went around town trying to make amends with people he had wronged. He had a re-union with one daughter and revealed to his eldest daughter that he had killed Grady to protect her. All that and then he had to go and get himself to court for a hearing with the audience left wondering if his daughter Lizzie would tell everyone what he had done - luckily she didn't. Since his return, Philip has been like a shot of energy into the show and I’m loving every minute of it!
Worst Character:
Since Melanie wasn’t on Days this week, this is an easy choice for me. This week it goes to One Life to Live’s Stacey. Gigi’s annoying sister continued to be an annoying bitch this week as she refused to give her nephew Shane her bone marrow unless Gigi broke up with Rex. You know, usually I love a bad girl – hell, I loved Days’ Vivian burying Carly alive and I liked Carly – but this girl I don’t get. She’s just a bitch for the sake of it. What’s her motivation? She had a crush on Rex in high school? I just don’t get it. It doesn’t help that she’s on every day either. I think I can safely speak for OLTL viewers everywhere when I say – “Please, Ron! Give us a break!!!”
Favourite Episode:
This week, my favourite episode in soapland was probably from the Young and the Restless, when a very dead Marge was narrating as her body was being tested to prove it wasn’t Katharine in the casket. Marge’s comments were not only hysterical, they were dead on! She was saying what a lot of us were probably thinking as we watched. And damn, she looked really good for a dead woman!
Okay, I think that’s enough rambling about last week, hear's hoping this week is a fun and crazy one in the soap world!
Sweetest Moment:
I have to give this to Guiding Light. When Philip accidentally ran into Emma at Company it was too cute. The look on his face when he finally got to see his daughter combined with how happy she was to see him had me in tears. It was nice to finally see someone genuinely happy to see him back in town for a change.
Tackiest Moment:
This is a two-way tie for Days of Our Lives. I couldn’t decide between Tony lamely telling Philip, “Well, what are you gonna do, huh, challenge me with your lightsaber, young Padawan?” and Tony getting staked on the docks when he fell down the stairs – so I’ll just give it to them for both. I think I’ve talked enough on the subject in my other entry – so let me just add another “WTF?” and leave it at that.
Craziest Moment:
This goes to the Young and the Restless for having a completely losing it Kevin lock Amber up in the closet with a very dead and probably smelly body. Poor Girl, she just kept talking her way back into that closet – lol!
Soapiest Moment:
I have to go with Jack walking in on Carly and Craig on As The World Turns. Sure, Jack and Carly are divorced but he still seems more interested in her life than his own, so it had to hurt when he opened the door and saw them ripping off each others clothes.
Saddest Moment:
Well, there’s a lot of heavy stuff going on over at One Life to Live, but I think the moment that got to me the most was when a recently paralyzed Matthew told his father, Bo, that he thought they should put him in a home because he didn’t want to be a burden on his parents. The comment caught both Bo and me by surprise and had me instantly in tears.
Worst Socially Relevant Storytelling:
It was tough to decide between General Hospital’s Post-Partum Depression Story with Robin and As the World Turns Luke and Noah fighting against the bigot landlords of the world but in the end I had to give it to the ATWT. Watching this was like watching a bad after school special. How hard would it have really been for Jean Passante to come up with something better for these two to do? Apparently a lot harder then I thought. The only good thing that came from this thing was Damian’s return. Hopefully the show won’t blow that too. Well, the good news is that this is ATWT so the story lasted less than week. That’s great news for GH, because that means they can still earn themselves this title later –lol!
Favourite Character:
I have to go with Guiding Light’s Philip Spaulding. This week, the one character I enjoyed the most was Philip. He was the one character I couldn’t wait to see more of and boy was his week full. He was questioned by the police. He put his father in place with a little bit of blackmail, who in turn tried to do all he could to get Philip put in jail. He went around town trying to make amends with people he had wronged. He had a re-union with one daughter and revealed to his eldest daughter that he had killed Grady to protect her. All that and then he had to go and get himself to court for a hearing with the audience left wondering if his daughter Lizzie would tell everyone what he had done - luckily she didn't. Since his return, Philip has been like a shot of energy into the show and I’m loving every minute of it!
Worst Character:
Since Melanie wasn’t on Days this week, this is an easy choice for me. This week it goes to One Life to Live’s Stacey. Gigi’s annoying sister continued to be an annoying bitch this week as she refused to give her nephew Shane her bone marrow unless Gigi broke up with Rex. You know, usually I love a bad girl – hell, I loved Days’ Vivian burying Carly alive and I liked Carly – but this girl I don’t get. She’s just a bitch for the sake of it. What’s her motivation? She had a crush on Rex in high school? I just don’t get it. It doesn’t help that she’s on every day either. I think I can safely speak for OLTL viewers everywhere when I say – “Please, Ron! Give us a break!!!”
Favourite Episode:
This week, my favourite episode in soapland was probably from the Young and the Restless, when a very dead Marge was narrating as her body was being tested to prove it wasn’t Katharine in the casket. Marge’s comments were not only hysterical, they were dead on! She was saying what a lot of us were probably thinking as we watched. And damn, she looked really good for a dead woman!
Okay, I think that’s enough rambling about last week, hear's hoping this week is a fun and crazy one in the soap world!
Days of Our Lives: Count Dimera Gets Staked!
So, this week Days of Our Lives gave us the lead-up to Thaao Penglis leaving the show by having his character, Count Tony Dimera staked on the docks. I think the phrase that would best sum my reaction to this storyline would be “WTF?!” I mean, in theory, this should be an amazing story – the eldest Dimera son killed in fight with the Kiriakis heir leading to an eruption between the show’s two powerful, villainous families, and yet it isn’t. This should be fun, thrilling, and captivating, but instead, in the hands of the show’s current writing team this story comes across as a lame and pathetic waste of everyone’s time.
First of all, I think that if you’re gonna kill off Tony maybe you should have been building up to it over the period of a few months, not a couple of weeks. The writers should be playing all the beats of the story. They should have shown Tony slipping into bitterness about EJ being treated as the golden boy, while Stefano was treating him like mud. Then, there should have been a slow build up to Tony finding out the truth about Nicole and then him holding it over her head for at least a month – or better yet two. This way Tony’s behaviour in this whole stupid scenario would make sense and we would have seen Nicole unraveling some more before we see her trying to decide whether to bother calling 9-1-1. Instead, we get hardly any Tony for months. Instead, on the flip of a dime, we get a Tony who goes from wanting nothing to do with Stefano and the business, to a Tony that’s jealous of EJ and feels he’s being taken for granted. Instead, we get Tony acting more like Andre. Thus, leaving all of us viewers scratching our heads and collectively asking, “WTF?” And apparently, viewers aren’t the only ones wondering “WTF?” because in some of the scenes this week – like Stefano and EJ discussing what the heck Tony’s problem is – we can see the actors struggling with the material. When I see actors the caliber of James Scott and Joe Mascolo struggling with crappy dialogue and nonsensical motivation and storytelling, you know it’s not just you, it’s just that bad!
Second of all, the dialogue in the arguments building up to Friday’s showdown between Philip and Tony are absolutely cringe worthy. You have Philip running around town yelling, “Tony!!!” Then, you have Philip acting like an 8 year old in the school yard, stomping his feet saying, “I want my Alternative Fuel Project, now!” I’m surprised he isn’t threatening to tell his mommy for crying out loud. Then, you have what should be an interesting conversation between the two of them on the docks, where Tony tries to tell him he’ll never please Victor, but the writers ruin it with things like Tony saying, “Well, what are you gonna do, huh, challenge me with your lightsaber, young Padawan?” I mean, seriously? I love a sci-fi/pop culture reference as much as the next person, heck probably even more, but I’m supposed to believe Tony Dimera is quoting Star Wars? And not just any Star Wars, but the crappy prequels that all came out when he was stranded on an island for 20 years!!!! So according to these awesome writers, in the year and half that Tony’s been back, he made sure he caught up on all the movies he missed? I guess that explains where he was all those months he was offscreen! Sigh.
Thirdly, let’s get to the showdown, which consisted of Philip shoving Tony around and continuing his wonderful dialogue of yelling things like, “Are you gonna give me my project back? Huh? Huh? Answer me, damn it.” and then shoving Tony who gives him a ‘WTF” face as we see this wooden spike sticking up in the background the whole time. Subtle, really subtle. Then, after all this lameness is done and Tony pretty much laughs Philip’s ridiculousness off, he starts to walk away and falls when the railing on the stairs becomes loose and falls off, taking Tony with it and naturally he falls on the stake. Now, science wasn’t my best subject, but what did he do, back flip into the air and land on his back? Maybe, he did a summersault in the air? Should we judge his dismount too, while we’re at it? Talk about contrived crap! This stuff isn’t even worthy of a “B” movie.
After watching this week, I am appalled that someone out there thought what they were writing was clever. Thaao deserves more, the show deserves more and the fans deserve more. How am I supposed to look forward to the fall out from this, when the writers couldn’t even be bothered to give me a good exit story for Tony. Sometimes I think Steve and Kayla got off easy – not being written an exit storyline at all seems to be best for everyone with these writers.
End of Rant.
First of all, I think that if you’re gonna kill off Tony maybe you should have been building up to it over the period of a few months, not a couple of weeks. The writers should be playing all the beats of the story. They should have shown Tony slipping into bitterness about EJ being treated as the golden boy, while Stefano was treating him like mud. Then, there should have been a slow build up to Tony finding out the truth about Nicole and then him holding it over her head for at least a month – or better yet two. This way Tony’s behaviour in this whole stupid scenario would make sense and we would have seen Nicole unraveling some more before we see her trying to decide whether to bother calling 9-1-1. Instead, we get hardly any Tony for months. Instead, on the flip of a dime, we get a Tony who goes from wanting nothing to do with Stefano and the business, to a Tony that’s jealous of EJ and feels he’s being taken for granted. Instead, we get Tony acting more like Andre. Thus, leaving all of us viewers scratching our heads and collectively asking, “WTF?” And apparently, viewers aren’t the only ones wondering “WTF?” because in some of the scenes this week – like Stefano and EJ discussing what the heck Tony’s problem is – we can see the actors struggling with the material. When I see actors the caliber of James Scott and Joe Mascolo struggling with crappy dialogue and nonsensical motivation and storytelling, you know it’s not just you, it’s just that bad!
Second of all, the dialogue in the arguments building up to Friday’s showdown between Philip and Tony are absolutely cringe worthy. You have Philip running around town yelling, “Tony!!!” Then, you have Philip acting like an 8 year old in the school yard, stomping his feet saying, “I want my Alternative Fuel Project, now!” I’m surprised he isn’t threatening to tell his mommy for crying out loud. Then, you have what should be an interesting conversation between the two of them on the docks, where Tony tries to tell him he’ll never please Victor, but the writers ruin it with things like Tony saying, “Well, what are you gonna do, huh, challenge me with your lightsaber, young Padawan?” I mean, seriously? I love a sci-fi/pop culture reference as much as the next person, heck probably even more, but I’m supposed to believe Tony Dimera is quoting Star Wars? And not just any Star Wars, but the crappy prequels that all came out when he was stranded on an island for 20 years!!!! So according to these awesome writers, in the year and half that Tony’s been back, he made sure he caught up on all the movies he missed? I guess that explains where he was all those months he was offscreen! Sigh.
Thirdly, let’s get to the showdown, which consisted of Philip shoving Tony around and continuing his wonderful dialogue of yelling things like, “Are you gonna give me my project back? Huh? Huh? Answer me, damn it.” and then shoving Tony who gives him a ‘WTF” face as we see this wooden spike sticking up in the background the whole time. Subtle, really subtle. Then, after all this lameness is done and Tony pretty much laughs Philip’s ridiculousness off, he starts to walk away and falls when the railing on the stairs becomes loose and falls off, taking Tony with it and naturally he falls on the stake. Now, science wasn’t my best subject, but what did he do, back flip into the air and land on his back? Maybe, he did a summersault in the air? Should we judge his dismount too, while we’re at it? Talk about contrived crap! This stuff isn’t even worthy of a “B” movie.
After watching this week, I am appalled that someone out there thought what they were writing was clever. Thaao deserves more, the show deserves more and the fans deserve more. How am I supposed to look forward to the fall out from this, when the writers couldn’t even be bothered to give me a good exit story for Tony. Sometimes I think Steve and Kayla got off easy – not being written an exit storyline at all seems to be best for everyone with these writers.
End of Rant.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
My Name is Susan and I'm a Soapaholic
Hi everyone! My name is Susan and I'm a Soapaholic. Welcome to Diary of a Soap Addict. I guess since this is my first blog entry I’ll take the opportunity to say a little bit about myself and my soap addiction. I’ve been watching soaps for as long as I can remember - thanks to my mother. She got me hooked on the ABC soaps at a very young age. Some of my earliest memories involve me sneaking downstairs during “naptime” to watch All My Children and One Life to Live. I was that kid who had a SOD subscription in elementary school and learned how to set the VCR to tape my soaps before I was writing in cursive because I was afraid to miss Robert and Anna’s second wedding on General Hospital or Isabella’s death on Days of our Lives. I’ve watched every soap on the air at one time or another but my two favourite soaps are probably Days of our Lives and General Hospital which is why you’ll probably find I’m the hardest on them because they suck right now and it’s just so heartbreaking for me to watch them when they’re beyond bad. Anyway, I think that’s enough of the boring stuff. I’ll hopefully put something more interesting up in a little while. I hope you come back to check it out. Ttyl!
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