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[gwynnega]

My Jack/Siobhan shipper heart is happy, because their storyline is starting to kick into high gear--or, rather, the writers are alerting us, "Yes, we really are going THERE."

Lovely how they manage to convey Siobhan's "oh crap I'm falling for my brother-in-law" realization without a word:

Siobhan: [walks into Jack's bedroom]
Shirtless!Jack: [is asleep]
Siobhan: [covers Jack with ubiquitous prop afghan]
Shirtless!Jack: [continues to sleep, continues to be shirtless]
Siobhan: [accidentally touches Shirtless!Jack]
[backs away like she just burned herself]
[hurries to the other room to make a date with her ex-boyfriend]

Such great stuff ahead. And hey, yesterday's second episode had the scene this icon is from!


OLTL made me cry on Wednesday. GH is mostly sleazy crap with a leavening of just enough good stuff to keep me watching, damn them.

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[usedtobeljs]

Hugs and hurrahs for soaps!

I am easing myself slowly back into a soapish frame of mind by watching bits and bobs of Jon Lindstrom on ATWT on the intertubes-- in preparation for the only-a-month-away arrival of Lynn Herring. Soon I will watch an actual episode. :-)

[hugs]

[gwynnega]

Yay Lindstrom and Herring! Alas, ATWT isn't supposed to be very well-written these days, but it does have some excellent actors (notably Maura West). Lindstrom's role is a recast, and he's doing a good job, though some fans aren't convinced he was right for the part. But yay nonetheless!! :-)

::hugs::

[usedtobeljs]

Aside from a few months watching GL back in the day (when Patrick Mulcahey was writing for them**), I've never really watched CBS soaps. I will have nothing to compare Jon Lindstrom's portrayal of Craig Montgomery TO. ;-)

**And I confess that I bounced so hard off Y&R and B&B that even though Mulcahey is now writing for the latter, I just can't go there.

What soap is your fictional one like? (I remember bits and pieces of Another World, which I enjoyed although I wasn't fannish about. Linda Dano's Felicia and Stephen Schnetzer's Cass, BFF...)

[gwynnega]

Well, Y&R is awfully well-written at the moment. B&B, unfortunately, is not! Mulcahey may be writing scripts, but the overall story is drecktastic, and their ratings are in the toilet...as are all the CBS soap ratings except for top-rated Y&R.

My fictional soap is airing in 1975-76. It's a lot like Ryan's Hope, writing-wise, except unlike RH, it's a show that's been around a long time like GL or ATWT (though not going back to radio days). It also has some influences from various clips of mid-70s soap eps I've seen (Another World and early Y&R, for example). It has that classic 70s soap feel, I hope (though it's hard to convey that in fiction)! :-)