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Which ABC soap do you prefer?
All My Children 6 (18.8%)
One Life To Live 19 (59.4%)
General Hospital 7 (21.9%)
Total Votes: 32
Which ABC Soap do you prefer and why?
Topic Started: Jan 14 2010, 12:43 PM (1,693 Views)
Tammy
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I have seen a lot of debate over the ABC soaps. So I was just curious as to which ABC soap you all prefer and why... so let me know ;)
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OLTL, always and forever!
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Tammy
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Amello
Jan 14 2010, 01:33 PM
OLTL, always and forever!
This is why I love you :smooch: lol
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Sharon
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Duh... OLTL. Why? I Think That Should Be Obvious Tammy. LOL.
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skiman1208
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I voted All My Children but One Life to Live was a very close second. I prefer AMC primarily because I love Susan Lucci, Darnell Williams and Debbi Morgan. I have only been watching about 2 1/2 years but I really do love the show. As for OLTL, I am loving that right now too but the show can be really great or really bad to me so that's why I chose AMC. GH on the other hand is definitely third. If Port Charles was still on the air I would have had that number one ;)
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Eric83
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"Relax nobody's having sex.... at least not yet"

OLTL is way better than AMC and GH.

GH worships the mob, and continues to prop Sonny and Jason. I just CAN'T take that. And if I hear Spinelli say Maximista, I love you or Maximista how could you betray me with and sleep with another male human specimen one more damn time, I will die.

AMC isn't as bad as GH, but Zendall ruined it for me. Now that they will be gone I will be open to try it out again.

OLTL just rocks and I love the show. It's not perfect, but it's doing the best they can in this current daytime climate so OLTL ftw!
Edited by Eric83, Jan 16 2010, 01:20 PM.
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darraholic
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OLTL by a mile. AMC used to be great but it's in the shitter now. I've never been able to get into General Hospital.
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hawk_osu
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I am a CBS boy through-and-through. But I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE One Life to Live. I started watching it in the winter of 2003, around February I believe when Dorian returned married to Mitch in the divalious red dress I think!
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Daytime
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I chose GH mainly because I am obssessed with Liz and Nik....lol

But OLTL has better storylines.
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aveRex
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I've been watching soaps for more than 40 years and have watched all of the shows on all 3 networks during that time. One Life has been a favourite as has AMC over the years. I voted for One Life as my current favourite. I've been enjoying the show over the last few years in particular. I can't say the same for AMC. I no longer watch it on a consistent basis. Only 3 shows are in my regular viewing schedule: OLTL, Bold & The Beautiful, and Young & The Restless.
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IMissAremid
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After all... tomorrow is another day!

I am only an ABC viewer over the past couple years, but OLTL is the one I most prefer even though it's the one I usually don't watch live because it goes up against DAYS.

OLTL simply has the fewest characters, actors, stories that make me actively dislike them. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but rarely do I find it obnoxious.

AMC has some gems in David Canary, Susan Lucci and Debbi Morgan and I've grown to like Melissa Claire Egan but the rest of the 20-30-something set is just dreadful. Cameron Mattheson and Ryan Lavery just simply repel me. As does JR Chandler. Things are better with Zendall gone but there's still a lot of work to do and the nunuColby isn't helping.

GH's skewed moral compass doesn't bother me as much as some people and since I have such little long-term investment in the characters their destruction doesn't bother me as much as many long-term fans but what does bother me is the lack of any seeming movement in any of the storylines ever. Mainly all the shit revolving around Jason. He doesn't ever think he may get his memory back, or even not getting his memory back he doesn't ever seriously (like for more than one episode) consider trying to do something more with his life than be a hitman and Sonny's bitch. Then with the others... Luke doesn't ever stop being an asshole. Lulu doesn't ever do anything but get tied to railroad tracks and treat whatever boy is cursed to be in a relationship with her at the time like crap. Maxie doesn't do anything but be a slut. Liz doesn't do anything but cheat on Lucky but use him to raise her kids. Jax doesn't do anything but shady shit that will eventually get Carly to break up with him until she sleeps with Sonny and they're even and get back together. It's all redundant at this point.
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ScorpioQueen
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GH has the potential to be the best soap on-air IMO. But its repetitive story lines and mob-centered focus isn't entertaining. The last straw for me was when tptb broke up Jason and Elizabeth. :frownie: I miss them so much. After GH I would say OLTL and they have better story lines I'm not happy with the direction of most of them and the characters I like most are only props without an actual story line and are rarely shown. I don't watch AMC so I'm not voting.
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Meganab6
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General Hospital but i only started watching ABC soaps within the past year. i watched OLTL first because of the Paris,Texas storyline(grew up there,was interested to see how they portrayed it,ha). I watched it for awhile throughout the Starr/Cole pregnancy and then just stopped. I like it and prolly will start watching again because i see that they will be sending Jessica back to HS and that could be really interesting.

i guess i'm one of the few who likes the mob storyline? it's SO different than what's on any of the other soaps and it's keeping me entertained for now. ask me again after i've been watching for more than a year.
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kserox10


AMC.

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Meganab6
Jan 23 2010, 04:03 AM
General Hospital but i only started watching ABC soaps within the past year. i watched OLTL first because of the Paris,Texas storyline(grew up there,was interested to see how they portrayed it,ha). I watched it for awhile throughout the Starr/Cole pregnancy and then just stopped. I like it and prolly will start watching again because i see that they will be sending Jessica back to HS and that could be really interesting.

i guess i'm one of the few who likes the mob storyline? it's SO different than what's on any of the other soaps and it's keeping me entertained for now. ask me again after i've been watching for more than a year.
My vote is OLTL, hands down.

I will also defend GH... it's the closest thing to Edge of Night on the air these days (do not get me wrong, though... it doesn't hold a candle to Edge in its heyday... lol) and I don't think it's a bad show at all.
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McMarley
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GH.
I don't mind the mob either, it beats the second rate medical drama with scrubs any day of the week.

OLTL is great but I still prefer GH because I actually care what happens to the characters even the ones I hate.
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VetsRock
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OLTL is the only soap I watch on ABC and it Rules in Daytime,OLTL shows their Vets more
I use to watch GH,but it turned to mob drama soap and to me the real GH was Never like that
AMC,Never got into that one and I don't plan to
Goooooooooooo OLTL
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lvoltl
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OLTL - It's always been the soap that I watch, never watched AMC at all, and used to watch GH a LONG time ago, but OLTL is one that I have never stopped watching.
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