God help me, I'm watching One Life to Live

[Trekker4747]

The last couple weeks or so One Life to live has had a story going on where Bo and Rex have (somehow) traveled back to 1968 and are occupying Asa (Bo's father) and younger Bo, respectively. Sort of a Quantum Leap sort-of thing.

Anyway. It's been fascinatingly interesting to me. (They're also using all of their actors to play versions of people in the past. Including a woman psychic in the future playing a male scientist in 1968 who's helping them bet back. It's interesting because they have to make sure not to alter the past meaning Bo (again, as his father) has to do things to "himself" (again Rex as a younger Bo) and his "brothers"/"children" that he hated his father for.

It's been really, intersting.

Ugh.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Maybe it's a strange side effect of the meds you are taking for your toe...I hope.

 

[Trekker4747]

Maybe it's a strange side effect of the meds you are taking for your toe...I hope.

Well, as I said it's a time travel-theme so that's what's gotten me interested.

 

[Mistral]

Yeah, but its still a soap!! May God have mercy on your soul!

 

[RoJoHen]

The other day at work business was so slow, and we were all so bored that we ended up watching Days of Our Lives.

It was pretty funny.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Yeah, but its still a soap!! May God have mercy on your soul!

So is a lot of TV. Just because they show it once a week,at night and on SciFi doesnt make it less soapy.

 

[Starbreaker]

I think I'm going to get into General Hospital again when they cut the cable back on.

 

[JonathonWally]

I was just going to say, General Hospital is far superior.

 

[T J]

^^^ "For me to poop on!"

 

[Timewalker]

I was just going to say, General Hospital is far superior.

Superior to what? There isn't one storyline on that show that currently makes any sense. The only couple on the show that makes any sense is Maxie and Spinelli.

They really need to resurrect Stefan Cassadine. And bring back Helena. Oh, and find Stavros -- it was a bottomless pit he fell into, so he can't have splatted anywhere fatal yet... The GH forum regulars at TWoP have been saying for ages that they want the show to explore Sam's Cassadine heritage (she's Alexis' daughter). That could be so delightfully creepy and fascinating...

 

[Skywalker]

Doesn't that storyline make the title "One Life to Live" a misnomer?

 

[auntiehill]

God help you? No, you're watching a soap opera. And liking it.

Even God can't help you now.

 

[Aragorn]

Trekker4747 (to himself): "I can't believe I'm watching a soap opera."

Flashback to...

Trekker4747 (to himself): "I can't believe I'm watching a soap opera."

Back to...

auntiehill enters the room.

auntiehill: "What did you just say, Trekker?"

Trekker4747: "What? I didn't say anything."

auntielhill: "I could've sworn you just said something about you watching a soap opera."

Trekker4747: "Oh, no. No no. I was saying... um... that... I need some more soap... to... to wash with."

auntielhill: "Oh, okay. My mistake then."

auntiehill exits the room.

Trekker4747 (to himself): "NO ONE MUST EVER FIND THAT I WATCH SOAP OPERAS!!! IF SOMEONE WERE TO FIND OUT THAT I WATCH SOAP OPERAS, IT WOULD BE THE END OF ME!!! I MUST KEEP IT A SECRET THAT I WATCH SOAP OPERAS!!!"

 

[Nerys Myk]

I was just going to say, General Hospital is far superior.

Superior to what? There isn't one storyline on that show that currently makes any sense. The only couple on the show that makes any sense is Maxie and Spinelli.

They really need to resurrect Stefan Cassadine. And bring back Helena. Oh, and find Stavros -- it was a bottomless pit he fell into, so he can't have splatted anywhere fatal yet... The GH forum regulars at TWoP have been saying for ages that they want the show to explore Sam's Cassadine heritage (she's Alexis' daughter). That could be so delightfully creepy and fascinating...

My wife watches both shows and sometimes All My Children (She usually gives up on that one once a year) One Live To Live his her favorite. She usually has them on when I get off work so I half watch whne I'm on the computer. So I'm familiar with the characters. Gotta agree that GH has some pretty senseless storylines. And I can never forgive them for killing Georgie.

 

[Timewalker]

Yep, the only positive thing that came from Georgie's death is that Maxie and Spinelli became friends. Otherwise, what a waste of a character. They could have simply sent her to Europe and recast later with a different actress.

I also watch One Life to Live (since 1988/89 or so). And the title is definitely ironic -- because I can't think of a single character on that show ever who has not either been missing and presumed dead, not missing but presumed dead, really dead but was revived (ie. Todd Manning and Viki -- several times each), pretended to be dead, pretended to be somebody else, gone time-traveling, had multiple personality disorder (aka dissociative identity disorder)... plus various combinations of the above. I'm just waiting for the human David Vickers to find a weird gizmo with an arcane inscription on it... he reads it aloud... and switches bodies with the canine David Vickers (who is one of the cutest little dogs I've ever seen anywhere!).

Oh, and I wanted Nigel to be Asa's long-lost son -- that would have been a nifty twist!

 

[auntiehill]

Trekker4747 (to himself): "I can't believe I'm watching a soap opera."

Flashback to...

Trekker4747 (to himself): "I can't believe I'm watching a soap opera."

Back to...

auntiehill enters the room.

auntiehill: "What did you just say, Trekker?"

Trekker4747: "What? I didn't say anything."

auntielhill: "I could've sworn you just said something about you watching a soap opera."

Trekker4747: "Oh, no. No no. I was saying... um... that... I need some more soap... to... to wash with."

auntielhill: "Oh, okay. My mistake then."

auntiehill exits the room.

Trekker4747 (to himself): "NO ONE MUST EVER FIND THAT I WATCH SOAP OPERAS!!! IF SOMEONE WERE TO FIND OUT THAT I WATCH SOAP OPERAS, IT WOULD BE THE END OF ME!!! I MUST KEEP IT A SECRET THAT I WATCH SOAP OPERAS!!!"

 

[Smiley]

The daily soaps are only good for watching in groups and making fun of them.

 

[1001001]

My wife has watched One Life to Live since before we were married. All My Children too. I have absorbed quite a bit over the years.

Last I saw, Todd Manning was going to kill the guy who got Star pregnant. Blair (who used to be Japanese but is white now) was trying to stop him. Star was trying to give the baby away to the chick who was going out with the guy who used to be a ghost but isn't anymore. Marcy, I think her name is? But since Marcy just got caught on the run with someone else's baby (I'm not sure what happened there) I don't think she's a good candidate.

Now...who wouldn't love a show like this???

 

[Aragorn]

Anyone find it funny what soap operas will fire their actors over? You posed naked in Playgirl, so you obviously don't have the integrity and family values required to play a man who is cheating on his wife by having an affair with the daughter of your ex-wife who may or may not be your own daughter.

 

[borgboy]

OLTL has had lots of crazy storylines over the years. Viki, the show's lead matriarch has been to Heaven twice, gave birth to two daughters she didn't know about, has recurring multiple personalities,and was trapped for months in a secret underground city. Her sister Tina gave birth to a baby 6 months prematurely after going over a waterfall and the kid lived. The show's did an extended time travel story to 1888 a long time ago, and there is now the 1968 Quantum Leap story. Ghosts of dead characters frequently show up to visit.The show is so insane I always get a kick out of it.