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SOD: Soaps 'Biggest Blunders'; Digest Singles out the Worse Mistakes In Daytime History
Topic Started: Oct 28 2011, 01:53 PM (2,074 Views)
ljacks13	Oct 28 2011, 01:53 PM Post #1
Posts: 282 Group: Members Member #317 Joined: August 31, 2007	SOD singled out the worst mistakes in daytime history. 1. Days of Our Lives: Melaswen (2003) 2. General Hospital: Decimation of the Quartermaines 3. The Young and The Restless:: Phillips' death 4. The Bold and the Beautiful: Brooke's Rape 5. One Life to Live: Marty's and Todd's romance 6. All My Children: Erica's Un-abortion 7. Guiding Light: The Death of Maureen Interesting List.



Mitchapalooza	Oct 28 2011, 01:54 PM Post #2
DAYS end FETCH NOW! Posts: 11,112 Group: Veteran Member #91 Joined: June 16, 2007	Wow - I agree with every single one of these! SOD finally gets something right for a change!



Mason	Oct 28 2011, 02:05 PM Post #3
Posts: 40,103 Group: Admin Member #291 Joined: August 26, 2007	ljacks13 Oct 28 2011, 01:53 PM 5. One Life to Live: Marty's and Todd's romance I agree with everything on this list except this one. I could think of a great many things on OLTL that were mistakes and should never have happened (in just the last couple years alone), but they choose this? Once again, I feel this storyline is unfairly maligned and miscategorized. Did they even watch the show when this happened, because it clearly was not supposed to be an actual romance. IMO, it was one of the show's most interesting stories in the last several years. Was it twisted? Hell yes, but that's what made it engrossing for me.



Crazygirl	Oct 28 2011, 02:09 PM Post #4
Posts: 12,999 Group: Veteran Member #527 Joined: November 8, 2007 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera General Hospital/OLTL Favorite Soap Opera of All Time General Hospital Favorite Current Primetime Soap Opera Vampire Diaries Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Knots Landing, Dynasty and Dawsons Creek	^^I agree Mason. Personally I think making Jessica Mitch Lawrences daughter was a worse storyline.



Bright Eyes	Oct 28 2011, 03:09 PM Post #5
Posts: 2,120 Group: Elite Member Member #9,535 Joined: June 8, 2011 Favorite Soap Opera of All Time The Edge of Night Favorite Current Primetime Soap Opera Game of Thrones Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Twin Peaks / Six Feet Under Current Soap Rankings Shortland Street YouTube ID DickHarlow89	Y&R: Philip's death? Are these people high? DAYS: Iraq was a hell of a lot worse, considering it was disgustingly offensive. Melaswen was just another dumb story, but not overtly harmful. Edited by Bright Eyes, Oct 28 2011, 03:09 PM.



KMan101	Oct 28 2011, 03:12 PM Post #6
Posts: 5,591 Group: Veteran Member #49 Joined: June 14, 2007 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera None Favorite Soap Opera of All Time DAYS Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Melrose Place, Dallas, KL, Dynasty (tied)	I would have picked Iraq as well for DAYS, but Melaswen works I suppose.



SpiralParadox	Oct 28 2011, 03:26 PM Post #7
Posts: 34 Group: Members Member #10,145 Joined: August 9, 2011 Favorite Soap Opera of All Time All My Children	On AMC, I thought Tad killing Greg, and especially Adam killing Stuart, were worse than the unabortion.



px780	Oct 28 2011, 03:30 PM Post #8
Streetcorner Philosopher Posts: 13,187 Group: Veteran Member #41 Joined: June 14, 2007	Bright Eyes Oct 28 2011, 03:09 PM DAYS: Iraq was a hell of a lot worse, considering it was disgustingly offensive. Melaswen was just another dumb story, but not overtly harmful. I disagree with that, because the stupid neverending kidnapping saga pushed me off the show for a good bit. And I could rant about it for pages but the bottom line for me is that besides containing some of the stupidest moments I've ever seen on the show, it revealed how cowardly TPTB were. If life-and-death stakes have absolutely no meaning, if everything can be reversed instantly, I'm not sure why I should bother investing my time. And, they kept going with the damn life/death crap even after undermining it by revealing that everyone was alive on an island. That's beyond lame. So that's what makes me agree that it's the worst. Death has been a joke on soaps for awhile. No need to rub it in your viewers faces the way they did, imho.



Mitchapalooza	Oct 28 2011, 03:30 PM Post #9
DAYS end FETCH NOW! Posts: 11,112 Group: Veteran Member #91 Joined: June 16, 2007	Ok screw Melaswen....Egg Baby Story is their biggest blunder!



Checkers	Oct 28 2011, 03:38 PM Post #10
You are swearing now that some day - some day you will destroy me. Remember, far better women than you have sworn to do the same. Go and look for them now. Posts: 2,108 Group: Elite Member Member #7,500 Joined: October 2, 2010 Favorite Soap Opera of All Time The Young and the Restless Favorite Current Primetime Soap Opera Scandal, Chicago Fire, Sons of Anarchy, Deception, Suits, Game of Thrones, and The Borgias Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Knots Landing	I disagree with Phillip's death. Which Phillip are they talking about? Are they talking about Jill's son Phillip? Or Mrs. Chancellor's husband who she killed while driving drunk? Neither one of those were a mistake, imo. The first Phillips' death added more fuel to the rivalry between Jill and Kay. Then his son dying wasn't a mistake either. Bill Bell did regret doing it but he never brought him back to life. That is one of the worst mistakes MAB has made. How about making Kay and Jill mother and daughter? That was not a good retcon at all. Edited by Checkers, Oct 28 2011, 03:40 PM.



spiderweb55	Oct 28 2011, 03:46 PM Post #11
Posts: 50 Group: Members Member #1,071 Joined: December 28, 2007 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera Twitter Favorite Soap Opera of All Time All My Children Favorite Current Primetime Soap Opera Homeland YouTube ID /user/spiderweb55	The rapemance was some nasty, sick ish, but not THE worst offender in OLTL history. Off the top of my head, I'd go with the Holden family massacre (complete with Gabrielle dying in the toilet) or the Rappaport invasion. And even those are more "Ugh, that sucked" instead of "Worst blunder EVER!"



Mitchapalooza	Oct 28 2011, 03:52 PM Post #12
DAYS end FETCH NOW! Posts: 11,112 Group: Veteran Member #91 Joined: June 16, 2007	OLTL horrible attempt at out there storytelling with "The Lost City of Eterna" probably takes the cake for the worst from OLTL...extremely contrived writing, but the rapemance is a close 2nd FOR SURE. Edited by Mitchapalooza, Oct 28 2011, 03:53 PM.



Bright Eyes	Oct 28 2011, 05:09 PM Post #13
Posts: 2,120 Group: Elite Member Member #9,535 Joined: June 8, 2011 Favorite Soap Opera of All Time The Edge of Night Favorite Current Primetime Soap Opera Game of Thrones Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Twin Peaks / Six Feet Under Current Soap Rankings Shortland Street YouTube ID DickHarlow89	Mitchapalooza Oct 28 2011, 03:52 PM OLTL horrible attempt at out there storytelling with "The Lost City of Eterna" probably takes the cake for the worst from OLTL...extremely contrived writing, but the rapemance is a close 2nd FOR SURE. Nuh-uh. Eterna was fucking awesome. Just pure entertainment GOLD!



james0479	Oct 29 2011, 11:14 AM Post #14
Posts: 1,669 Group: Elite Member Member #4,627 Joined: May 23, 2009 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera Days Of Our Lives Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Days Of Our Lives Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Melrose Place	TFP! Personally, I disagree about Melaswen being the number one soap blunder EVER! Surely, we've seen worse on daytime. I had to remind myself that Melaswen was a different story than the Salem Serial Killer. The Killer storyline was fantastic to me. I was freaked out, worried, mad, riveted, sad and couldn't wait to find out what happened next. I literally was on the edge of my seat! Then, it was all destroyed with what I WOULD call a massive blunder......the reveal that Marlena was the killer. I've always found that to be all wrong. For one, she was possessed and making her the killer was too much. Then, after realizing she was the killer, I knew we were about to go into looney tune land....and boy did we! I thought the killer should've been Teck, or whatever his name was. While I didn't want all those characters to die, if you are going to Go There, then do it! Now, I know Reilly had a different way this story was going to go. He got permission to tell it and he did. Corday got worried cold feet way into it and demanded a different ending. Enter Melaswen (New Salem backwards)..... Marlena literally falls down a fucking rabbit hole and enters this island replica of Salem and the dead are being held hostage....all alive! Ok, I kind of give kudos to Reilly for coming up with any way to undo the story that played for nearly a year, a story initially approved and then had to change ASAP. Corday messed that story up! I would love to know what the original Salem Killer story Reilly had in mind was...from beginning to end. Had he told THAT story,we probably wouldn't have visited Melaswen......but we'd also have lost some major characters.....but that would have been riveting and it was for a while. Melaswen's biggest failure was the length of the story. Once we landed on that island,it was a year or so before we got off. Wrong couples were trapped together in a desire to up the ante and it started to get a bit skeezy. I'm literally shocked they didn't have Jack and Cassie do the dirty deed! Lol. There were SO many times you thought they were going to all escape or be rescued but it just went on and on and on. Much like this post. Lol Melaswen was a disaster in the end but I dont know that I fully blame Reilly for that. He came up with an emergency rewrite at, from what I've heard, the last minute and he tried to expand upon that story and it just didn't work at the end of the day. While it was a blunder, I still don't think it should be number one! I'd rather watch an hour of Melaswen than 3 seconds of Carrie and Mike flying on a fucking magic carpet. Edited by james0479, Oct 29 2011, 11:17 AM.



james0479	Oct 29 2011, 11:32 AM Post #15
Posts: 1,669 Group: Elite Member Member #4,627 Joined: May 23, 2009 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera Days Of Our Lives Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Days Of Our Lives Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Melrose Place	If I had to pick only ONE storyline blunder from Days Of Our Lives, I would pick one that, while it was airing, Ken Corday said was one of his favorite stories the show has ever produced. My award for Biggest Days Storyline Blunder goes to................ The "Who Is Alex North" debacle. It was a slap in the face to old school Roman and Marlena fans, a disgusting and rude wannabe cash in on WN and DH that failed miserably. It also, in a roundabout way, changed history instead of utilizing history. That should have been number one. At least Melaswen had a little action.



King	Nov 1 2011, 10:41 PM Post #16
Posts: 24,741 Group: Admin Member #3 Joined: June 6, 2007 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera Days of Our Lives Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Days of Our Lives, Sunset Beach, Passions Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Melrose Place, Dawson's Creek	I loved Melaswen to start, but then it went to hell when the Salemites found out about it and came to save them. IMO. The resolution of it was AWFUL. But the twist itself...I loved.



lysie	Nov 1 2011, 10:43 PM Post #17
Posts: 27,647 Group: Admin Member #4,604 Joined: May 20, 2009	james0479 Oct 29 2011, 11:32 AM If I had to pick only ONE storyline blunder from Days Of Our Lives, I would pick one that, while it was airing, Ken Corday said was one of his favorite stories the show has ever produced. My award for Biggest Days Storyline Blunder goes to................ The "Who Is Alex North" debacle. It was a slap in the face to old school Roman and Marlena fans, a disgusting and rude wannabe cash in on WN and DH that failed miserably. It also, in a roundabout way, changed history instead of utilizing history. That should have been number one. At least Melaswen had a little action. I think Melaswen was worse (it involved more people), but I agree with everything else you said about Alex North. As a matter of fact, when ever anyone starts complaining about something being a slap in the face to a fanbase, I always think about this story. It doesn't get much worse than what they did with the Roman/Marlena flashbacks.



Drew	Nov 2 2011, 12:02 AM Post #18
Posts: 13,462 Group: Veteran Member #62 Joined: June 14, 2007 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera Hollyoaks Favorite Soap Opera of All Time One Life to Live Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Dallas Twitter ID drewhatch Facebook ID drewhatch YouTube ID strangeparadise69	No single story could ever rank as one of the biggest blunders in daytime history.



SpriteEyes	Nov 2 2011, 03:49 AM Post #19
Posts: 1,356 Group: Elite Member Member #1,965 Joined: March 7, 2008	james0479 Oct 29 2011, 11:14 AM TFP! Personally, I disagree about Melaswen being the number one soap blunder EVER! Surely, we've seen worse on daytime. I had to remind myself that Melaswen was a different story than the Salem Serial Killer. The Killer storyline was fantastic to me. I was freaked out, worried, mad, riveted, sad and couldn't wait to find out what happened next. I literally was on the edge of my seat! Then, it was all destroyed with what I WOULD call a massive blunder......the reveal that Marlena was the killer. I've always found that to be all wrong. For one, she was possessed and making her the killer was too much. Then, after realizing she was the killer, I knew we were about to go into looney tune land....and boy did we! I thought the killer should've been Teck, or whatever his name was. While I didn't want all those characters to die, if you are going to Go There, then do it! Now, I know Reilly had a different way this story was going to go. He got permission to tell it and he did. Corday got worried cold feet way into it and demanded a different ending. Enter Melaswen (New Salem backwards)..... Marlena literally falls down a fucking rabbit hole and enters this island replica of Salem and the dead are being held hostage....all alive! Ok, I kind of give kudos to Reilly for coming up with any way to undo the story that played for nearly a year, a story initially approved and then had to change ASAP. Corday messed that story up! I would love to know what the original Salem Killer story Reilly had in mind was...from beginning to end. Had he told THAT story,we probably wouldn't have visited Melaswen......but we'd also have lost some major characters.....but that would have been riveting and it was for a while. Melaswen's biggest failure was the length of the story. Once we landed on that island,it was a year or so before we got off. Wrong couples were trapped together in a desire to up the ante and it started to get a bit skeezy. I'm literally shocked they didn't have Jack and Cassie do the dirty deed! Lol. There were SO many times you thought they were going to all escape or be rescued but it just went on and on and on. Much like this post. Lol Melaswen was a disaster in the end but I dont know that I fully blame Reilly for that. He came up with an emergency rewrite at, from what I've heard, the last minute and he tried to expand upon that story and it just didn't work at the end of the day. While it was a blunder, I still don't think it should be number one! I'd rather watch an hour of Melaswen than 3 seconds of Carrie and Mike flying on a fucking magic carpet. Marlena didn't fall into a rabbit hole, she went there via a fflying coffin elevator? I'm still trying to figure out how that one worked. And as bad as all that, it did have one of my favorite lines when Roman said not to worry, he had SPOONS. Laughed my ass off on that one. It was a really bad storyline. Did anyone ever believe Marlena was the actual killer? While Iraqistan was bad, Stami was golden. That actor had Sami down to a T.



SpriteEyes	Nov 2 2011, 03:50 AM Post #20
Posts: 1,356 Group: Elite Member Member #1,965 Joined: March 7, 2008	lysie Nov 1 2011, 10:43 PM james0479 Oct 29 2011, 11:32 AM If I had to pick only ONE storyline blunder from Days Of Our Lives, I would pick one that, while it was airing, Ken Corday said was one of his favorite stories the show has ever produced. My award for Biggest Days Storyline Blunder goes to................ The "Who Is Alex North" debacle. It was a slap in the face to old school Roman and Marlena fans, a disgusting and rude wannabe cash in on WN and DH that failed miserably. It also, in a roundabout way, changed history instead of utilizing history. That should have been number one. At least Melaswen had a little action. I think Melaswen was worse (it involved more people), but I agree with everything else you said about Alex North. As a matter of fact, when ever anyone starts complaining about something being a slap in the face to a fanbase, I always think about this story. It doesn't get much worse than what they did with the Roman/Marlena flashbacks. I don't even remember the flashbacks, but my eyes are still burning from Roman/Marlena sex.



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