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Watch This! Bye Bye Binks
And once again, Bianca makes her exit from Pine Valley. I'm a spoiler whore so I'm going to talk more about that and a bit of random ranting in terms of people trying to convert my soap opera allegiances after twenty four years of viewing.
I love hearing from people who somehow know me through fandom. It greatly entertains me and I honestly like talking to other people about nerdy predilections we might share. That being said, I find it slightly annoying when people keep telling me over and over that I simply must convert my longtime obsession based love for All My Children over to Guiding Light because they perceive the latter doing a better lesbian storyline. I mean, it's all well and good, simply spiffy if people believe GL is going to stomp AMC in long term quality of their ship and I won't really argue if they say writing is better on GL because as much as I love AMC I can admit its shit writing faults.
But here's the thing... I don't care. Honestly. I've been watching All My Children and One Life To Live since I was a little girl with my mother who would tape them on our ghetto VCR and we'd watch them together after dinner in a weird bonding ritual. Susan Lucci is the Queen of Soaps to me and I love All My Children endlessly for its bad writing and it's pure insane soapy storylines. The show makes me happy in ways I can't really properly explain. While I love the character of Bianca Montgomery and I super love the fact that they made her a lesbian because she's the irreplaceable golden child of the show's lifeblood diva, Erica Kane, I don't watch AMC purely for Binks. I watch it all year round, I just get much happier when she's on the scene, so to tell me to switch soap opera viewing for random characters I know nothing about is weird to me.
Soaps are all about history. Storylines can go on for decades or more. Check out Marty Saybrooke's story on One Life To Live, that shit has been dragged out forever and it just gets more awesome. I have years and years of attachment to AMC and its characters while I know absolutely none of the background about any of the characters on Guiding Light. I don't even know the name of the town they live in. Why should I care if two of their female characters are hooking up besides the fact I'm a lesbian and I like writing lesbian fanfic? I dunno. It just bugs me people keep telling me how much superior GL is to AMC and then they expect me to immediately start writing Otalia fanfic because of this belief.
Also, I ship the pretty and I'm sorry, I don't find half of that couple pretty so I can't do it. lol. I'm shallow that way.
Enough about the show I don't watch and refuse to watch despite everyone telling me to! Which probably just makes me dig in my heels and refuse to watch even more. I'm stubborn that way. Spoilers about my soap opera true love, AMC, have been crazy as shit. Namely that Reese gets into a bitch fight with Kendall that causes her to go crashing through a glass table which results in blindness. Which I guess is why Bianca returns to Pine Valley. I would hope someone fucking calls her after her sister blinds her former wife. Is it former though? We don't really know if Reese signed that annulment, we never saw it on screen. Huh.
This blindness thing is probably yet another reason people would harp that GL is superior to AMC since it's so fucking soapy and ridiculous but I'm sorry, I giggled with glee when I read this spoiler. It's so great! lol. You just know Reese will get her sight back when Bianca comes to visit with the girls or something. It's bound to happen. Another thing that makes me perversely happy is Thorsten Kaye who plays Zach is still in contract negotiations and I'm praying he doesn't get what he wants and won't resign to extend on the show. I would loveeeeee it if Zach "died" as a result of Ryan's revenge shenanigans and that's what causes Ryan to shift out of his beady eyed anger mode. Plus it could hook up Kendall and Ryan again who have effectively "killed" each others love interests. lol. Nice.
Also, Zach dying an unconfirmed soap opera death would take away a lot of Kendall's anger with him and Bianca about Gabrielle. She would see Gabrielle as part of her dead husband whom she loved instead of proof of his betrayal. This could help to mend Kinks a lot. Although I was encouraged to see Kinks sort of on their way back today. Kendall is really fucking off though. I can't wait for her to find out Zach shot Josh in the head. Would someone tell her that already? It's going to make her go ballistic, it should rock.
All right. I'm done prattling. Watch the clips top to bottom in chronological order.
I love hearing from people who somehow know me through fandom. It greatly entertains me and I honestly like talking to other people about nerdy predilections we might share. That being said, I find it slightly annoying when people keep telling me over and over that I simply must convert my longtime obsession based love for All My Children over to Guiding Light because they perceive the latter doing a better lesbian storyline. I mean, it's all well and good, simply spiffy if people believe GL is going to stomp AMC in long term quality of their ship and I won't really argue if they say writing is better on GL because as much as I love AMC I can admit its shit writing faults.
But here's the thing... I don't care. Honestly. I've been watching All My Children and One Life To Live since I was a little girl with my mother who would tape them on our ghetto VCR and we'd watch them together after dinner in a weird bonding ritual. Susan Lucci is the Queen of Soaps to me and I love All My Children endlessly for its bad writing and it's pure insane soapy storylines. The show makes me happy in ways I can't really properly explain. While I love the character of Bianca Montgomery and I super love the fact that they made her a lesbian because she's the irreplaceable golden child of the show's lifeblood diva, Erica Kane, I don't watch AMC purely for Binks. I watch it all year round, I just get much happier when she's on the scene, so to tell me to switch soap opera viewing for random characters I know nothing about is weird to me.
Soaps are all about history. Storylines can go on for decades or more. Check out Marty Saybrooke's story on One Life To Live, that shit has been dragged out forever and it just gets more awesome. I have years and years of attachment to AMC and its characters while I know absolutely none of the background about any of the characters on Guiding Light. I don't even know the name of the town they live in. Why should I care if two of their female characters are hooking up besides the fact I'm a lesbian and I like writing lesbian fanfic? I dunno. It just bugs me people keep telling me how much superior GL is to AMC and then they expect me to immediately start writing Otalia fanfic because of this belief.
Also, I ship the pretty and I'm sorry, I don't find half of that couple pretty so I can't do it. lol. I'm shallow that way.
Enough about the show I don't watch and refuse to watch despite everyone telling me to! Which probably just makes me dig in my heels and refuse to watch even more. I'm stubborn that way. Spoilers about my soap opera true love, AMC, have been crazy as shit. Namely that Reese gets into a bitch fight with Kendall that causes her to go crashing through a glass table which results in blindness. Which I guess is why Bianca returns to Pine Valley. I would hope someone fucking calls her after her sister blinds her former wife. Is it former though? We don't really know if Reese signed that annulment, we never saw it on screen. Huh.
This blindness thing is probably yet another reason people would harp that GL is superior to AMC since it's so fucking soapy and ridiculous but I'm sorry, I giggled with glee when I read this spoiler. It's so great! lol. You just know Reese will get her sight back when Bianca comes to visit with the girls or something. It's bound to happen. Another thing that makes me perversely happy is Thorsten Kaye who plays Zach is still in contract negotiations and I'm praying he doesn't get what he wants and won't resign to extend on the show. I would loveeeeee it if Zach "died" as a result of Ryan's revenge shenanigans and that's what causes Ryan to shift out of his beady eyed anger mode. Plus it could hook up Kendall and Ryan again who have effectively "killed" each others love interests. lol. Nice.
Also, Zach dying an unconfirmed soap opera death would take away a lot of Kendall's anger with him and Bianca about Gabrielle. She would see Gabrielle as part of her dead husband whom she loved instead of proof of his betrayal. This could help to mend Kinks a lot. Although I was encouraged to see Kinks sort of on their way back today. Kendall is really fucking off though. I can't wait for her to find out Zach shot Josh in the head. Would someone tell her that already? It's going to make her go ballistic, it should rock.
All right. I'm done prattling. Watch the clips top to bottom in chronological order.
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Here's my thing. Nothing that calls itself groundbreaking is groundbreaking and I think it's an overused word and I wish people would stop applying it to almost every single gay and lesbian storyline that appearances on a lot of shows. Why can't it just be a fucking story? I dunno.
At this point I'm tired of ER coming and coming for such a short amount of time. I either want her to resign for a longer period or just allow a recast.
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And on the Breese board at one time, people were scratching their heads because the mod from Tamara Obscura was championing a Zeese storyline. "But, but, she's a lesbian...how can she be fangirling a straight pairing?" Good to know the ONLY thing I can watch is a lesbian couple--must've missed the memo.
Yep, Eden needs to get nabbed by some discerning nighttime show and cut AMC loose.
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By the same shocking vein, just because it's a lesbian couple and a lesbian storyline isn't enough for me to instantly become interested in it. I hate the idea that I somehow have to like it because I'm a lesbian myself. That's just retarded.
I'd actually prefer Eden to just renew long term on AMC. She's been away from that shoe permanently for a long time and all we really got from it is Imaginary Bitches which is great but I don't have a lot of hope she'd get a nice network primetime gig. I dunno, it would be great if she did but I suspect if she doesn't renew on AMC she'll do S2 for Imaginary Bitches and I won't see much else from her. Though to be fair, I don't stalk ER's career like I do Dina Meyer's who is on Burn Notice this week.
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