Sophie gets a love interest! (Guess what? She's not boring!)

I'm just posting like a storm now!

I haven't posted much about Coronation Street. The truth is that I am behind. May counts as behind right? I was at first trying to read the Coronation Street blog which is awesome. Of course they post so much that I haven't been able to watch. I really wanted to see their comments about Stella and her crap with the rebuilding of The Rovers. That is mostly due to the fact that Stella is the Dylan McAvoy of Coronation Street. The only reason that Stella even exists as a character is because the actress who plays her is friends with the executive producer who was there when she was hired. So mostly like Dylan, Stella only exists because of nepotism. In many ways I finds this funny as it's good to see that it's not just an American thing to have a douchebag executive producer who hires his/her friends and screws over the show and its history because he/she can.

Anyway the main reason that I watch Coronation Street is because of Sophie Webster. I am a lesbian so any show with a gay woman in it is great. Even when Sophie gets into her bratty modes, I personally believe that Brooke Vincent brings in an authentic portrayal. She acts like a real teen and not some idealistic or sensationalist kind of teen that you see today. She acts like a kid with real kid issues. I also love that she's a Christian. I think she's one of the few gay Christians on TV today. Most are athiest or from some new age type of religion. You don't see the LGBTQIA community outside of stereotypes much today. Religion is something that they tend to ignore. I'm assuming they think it will piss off the homophobes even more than they are by seeing someone who is gay on TV. So it's great.

Her love story with Sian was awesome. It's on youtube. The whole thing is actually. This is quite rare for a couple but Sian's first appearance to her last is on there. I saw it and it was great. People were quite dedicated to showing every beat, even before they kissed. I would check it out if you are curious. So those that would like a little inkling of what that was all about, here's a music video to introduce anyone who hasn't seen them.

Sophie and Sian ended when Sian's portrayed Sasha Parkinson decided to leave for greener pastures. They ended in late December 2011. Sophie did almost nothing for most of 2012 until the end when she got hit by a car. Then she got a new love interest by the name of Jenna Kamara who is the lost lost daughter of Lloyd Mullaney. They got to together and there was probably no chemistry at all. I'm surprised that they lasted so long. As I have not seen since May I'm not sure what the circumstances of them breaking up is about.

Here's a clip of them kissing from earlier this year.

I think I almost fell asleep after watching that. I just yawned too. There was never any chemistry between them from what I could see. Jenna was 10 years older than her which isn't 100% a deterrent but was with how it was played.

Now Sophie's got a new love interest. She looked to be about her age and adorable. I'm thinking about watching a whole bunch of Corrie or just skip it for now and get to the good stuff. Either way it looks promising.

You can check out a picture preview here. I would certainly skip Days for this. Then again Coronation Street is the show that makes someone taking their driving test very interesting. So yay.

Sometimes reading the synopsis is better

It really is.

I have gotten to watching "old" episodes of Y&R. I haven't done that much even though I have a whole bunch of episodes that go back to July. With less than 25% of space left I realized that I should get to actually watching them and deleting the ones that I have watched.

I wanted to get to the episode where Dylan finds out the truth. Of course I actually went to a week before that. I'm that awesome after all. *sarcasm*

So within the couple of episodes that I watched I have found out how annoying Nick is. I knew he was a douche before watching the episodes, but now I really know it. In the Friday and Monday episodes I found out that Nick is pretty much a seven year old boy trapped in a grown man's body.

It was quite embarrassing to see him throw a temper tantrum every time he saw Dylan or at least give him that icy stare of his. The most hilarious one was when he went to Crimson Lights with Sharon and the demon child and was pissed that Dylan was there. It's kind of weird that Dylan was there anyway. It's not like he owns the coffee shop or anything.

Oh wait a minute he does!

Then it got more hilarious when Dylan did the horrible thing of wanting to make a dollhouse for the demon child. He went to Sharon who was nice (asldweriuodsfjgkldsg WTF DID I JUST TYPE!) enough to give a donation in the name of his fallen friend Sully. (At least that how I think it's spelled.) He wanted to pay it forward except that his paying it forward meant giving a toy to that demon child. That's another story altogether. What was funny was Nick's reaction. Ignoring the fact that the walls at that house are apparently too thick for demon child to hear, wtf?! Nick literally had a temper tantrum over the fact that someone wanted to make his "daughter" a dollhouse.

It was a temper tantrum that showed how spoiled, privileged, and entitled Nick really was. It was HIS family, HIS coffee shop, HIS town that Dylan came in. Dylan did not have any reason to be there. Nick apparently gets to say who comes and goes in GC. Just Nick.

Nick is certainly all of these things and passed them down to his other daughter Summer who I dislike just as much. To be honest none of his children are on my awesome list. Noah is annoying and useless. Him being in any part of Newman that isn't the mailroom is laughable.

I will say this. I know that Steve Burton, is only on Y&R because the executive producer is his friend. I know that this is being written so that Nick is the bad guy and Dylan is the good guy. Unlike Jason Morgan I can like Dylan McAvoy. He doesn't kill people for a living which is a plus. It was pretty awesome how he doesn't even go down to Nick's level. He literally shoves off Nick's childish antics. It's badass to me. It makes Nick seem even worse. As someone who has not liked Nick since his affair with Phyllis, it's great to see him being written as the spoiled brat he has been since 2005.

Yes Faith Newman is now to be called demon child on this blog.

I'm Back!

It's been over a month. I think more like a month and a half since I last posted. I made a deal with myself that if I did this blog I would not neglect it. Look at what I did! I could consider that a New Years Resolution: to keep blogging. There is always something to bitch about in soaps so I shouldn't have to worry about not having any content.

My only excuse is that NaNoWriMo was intense. Writing a novel in a month is not easy. I kept procrastinating on this blog so of course I forgot about it. After NaNoWriMo was done I kept procrastinating. Now I'm hoping that I can keep up on this blog as I don't want to stop posting. It's fun to bitch about soaps!

November was a massive month for soaps. I mostly watched Days but know that some stuff went down on GH and Y&R. So here is my take on it.

Days of Our Lives

The main thing that went down was of course the exposing of the video that Kristen taped of her raping Father Eric. I was happy at first because it was finally out. I had no idea that the show was going to take it in the direction that they did. This became a true umbrella story that affected most on the canvas. It wasn't the typical "I'm related to those that were hurt" effected either. It was the directly effected, effected. I was mad at first to see Brady punching Eric and not believing that he was raped. I was pissed that EJ, who knew that Kristen had drugged him was defending Kristen and thinking that it was consensual.

I was really pissed that Kristen did not pay for what she did. The damage that she did, especially to Eric was more messed up than I thought. She had it edited so perfectly that it looked consensual. That's wasn't a roofie that he was given after all. Kristen should be in jail but for some reason, she wasn't. Even though Eileen Davidson was leaving so it wasn't like she was going to be onscreen anymore. Of course soap operas hate sending people to jail for crimes that they committed. Really.

It was great (Well not for the characters!) to see the effect this had.

Here is a list of people directly effected by the revelation of the video and how they were effected.

-Marlena has lost her relationship with her son.
-Maggie wants to leave Victor.
-Eric is temporarily suspended.
-Nicole is on the outs with Eric because of his cruelty towards thinking she was the rapist.
-Jennifer feels partly responsible because she knew Kristen had slept with someone.
-Sami can't forgive EJ for knowing about this prior to the revelation.
-Dimera Enterprises is in deep trouble and EJ is the only one to fix it.

That's just what I can think about now.

If there was one thing that was annoying and badly done it's the mess with Daniel and Theresa. What the hell was that? It seems that if there is one thing this show can do well it's plot centric characters. Lets have a character act unlike themselves for a storyline. We had Eric doing it with accusing Nicole of raping him. Now we have Jennifer thinking that Daniel is Satan for apparently sleeping with Theresa who ODed. It was obvious that Theresa wanted him over and only called to make JJ jealous. Now she is willing to forget everything she knew about him and assume he was going to have a drug party with her. We've seen the way she mistreated him for JJ who was pretty much acting like a romantic rival. Not only that but the self righteous Abby is doing it too. I really wish that Jennifer would shut the hell up. She is way beyond annoying.

What makes it worse for Jennifer is that all of this time that she is vilifying Daniel, he is selflessly protecting JJ. JJ should be in jail for being around drugs but Daniel is protecting him. I will say that this seemed to be what JJ needed. He seems to be acting less like a punk and more like a human being. He even plays guitar! Of course no one is questioning what brought about this change. Jennifer is being portrayed as quite daft anyone so I'm not surprised. She certainly isn't getting mother of the year is she!

I am assuming that Theresa will remember around February and the truth will come out. I cannot wait to see the look of Jennifer's face. The groveling she will do! I hope that he is with someone else by then such as Nicole who is my favorite character besides my WilSon is a great contender.

Talking about WilSon, they got a love scene! I am biased as I'm a lesbian so any gay couple is my favorite. They are the best. We got to see Gabi at her worst in the last couple of weeks. So she gets a fantasy modeling offer and never questions it. She decides, without asking Will who is the baby's father, that she is going to go and take Ari. Yes that's right while she is taking part in 10 hour photoshoots or whatever she wants the baby to stay with some stranger away from her whole family.

Though as a feminist of a sort I do believe in the ideas of having children and having a career at the same time, this was messed up. I was conflicted because I like that Gabi was going to be able to support herself and Ari. She is not a single mother and cannot make unilateral decisions. She should have told Will the second she found out. She should have understood that Ari needs to have consistency with a schedule and with people that she has bonded with. Not to get all psychological on y'all but Ari is at an important stage in her development. The bonds that she makes now are important. If she loses contact with people she's attached with it can cause mistrust with her during the rest of her life. Keeping her in Salem is the best choice. When you become a mother it's not a part time thing. The needs of the baby are very important.

I also am annoyed at the fact that Will had no way to stop her and was planning to leave Salem and possibly Sonny to be near his daughter. You are telling me that it's not kidnapping? Don't give me that we don't have a custody agreement crap. She had no right to travel with Ari beyond state lines without Will's permission. I don't think that the judge would have supported Gabi's position especially if they found out that Ari was going to be exploited by the modeling agency. I also feel that it would have failed if it was revealed that Sami was giving her a modeling job in Salem. The comment about how it would have been kidnapping if Will had taken Ari? I had to laugh at the hypocrisy!

Obviously I have thought a lot about this.

Of course she never went because she found out that creepy Nick set the whole mofo up. She was pissed so stupidly went into the woods. Nick tried to rape her (Even though he was the victim of rape himself and that is the reason that we are supposed to forget what he did to Will and Sonny for almost a year.) and she killed him. Of course then it got a little funny.

Obviously I'm not sad that Nick is gone. They ruined his character with the homophobic in my opinion. Even though I would have possibly forgiven him a year or two down the line they decided to make him remorseful for about two weeks before he became all obsessed with Gabi. Of course she did lead him on but still he was a sociopath so her looking at him twice would have made him think they were getting a second chance.

Kate and Sami arrived at the scene and it got awesome. Pretty much they had great one liners. I loved the lack of respect they had for Nick because it's exactly how it felt. I do wish that they had gone to the police. Though with Hope and her biased behavior I'm sure she would have destroyed Gabi.

There are two more things I want to discuss in regards to Days of Our Lives.

First how hypocritical is Hope? She talks about how pure evil Kristen is and yet she gives Nick a free pass? It's because she loves him. I really hope that she doesn't give EJ hell for protecting Kristen. That will put me over the edge. I don't think she has any room to judge or make one of those "they're Dimera's" comments. Lets be Honest, Nick acts more like a stereotypical Dimera than a Horton.

Second, I knew that Nick was creepy but that virus he put on Kate's computer? That sent it to a whole other level that I need to cap it.

Thank you for giving me nightmares for weeks Nick!

That was just messed up!

General Hospital

I really can't say much for General Hospital because I don't watch it anymore. This was about the custody of little Connie and of course Robin returning. I know there was some stuff with people running about the tunnels of Windermere and Robin being reunited with her parents especially his mother Anna. I didn't see it. I did see her reunited with Patrick and Emma so yay for that.

It was awesome and I loved how Emma ran up to her mommy and gave her a big hug. If you forget the histrionics of 13 going on 30 Sabrina, it was awesome. Actually I think most people blocked that out. I know that I should feel sorry for Sabrina but I don't.

There are several reasons why...

She was never really a legitimate contender for Patrick's heart. Having Liz in that place would have been better and more soapy. After all Robin did want them together if she died when she had the HIV scare back in late 2011 and early 2012. It would have been interesting if Liz actually fell in love with Patrick. Whether they went with Patrick falling for her or not it would have been great.

Instead they added a newbie who acted more like a 14 year old girl with a school crush. She was great as a babysitter but not much else. I laughed when they actually set it up like that last Spring. She was always treated like a girl with a crush on her English teacher. So when they got together I was shocked. The whole the glasses got to go thing made me laugh too as her transformation at the Nurse's Ball was stupid. She looked even more like a fairytale princess. What in the hell were they thinking?

Lastly there were signs that Patrick was still in love with Robin. She had to tell him to take off his wedding ring. Patrick still talks about her. From what I got from comments of videos that I've seen most of their conversations were about Robin. The only thing she had going for her was that Robin was dead.

I hate to say it but I found them to be very boring. The only thing that made them interesting was when Britt was doing bad things to her. Once she was out of the picture and with a real Prince, it go bad. Yay for Scrubs.

The custody thing also came to its conclusion. I didn't watch it but know about what happened from reading the good old soap opera digest. So I know that Spinelli has custody and Maxie can't have any contact with Connie for six months.

I am not happy about this. Spinelli as a father? That's laughable. Not only is there the fact that he worked for Sonny and Jason for years and probably still does but that he knew that Sonny and Jason were going to kill Dante in January of 2010 and did nothing. Yes I hold grudges that long. Yes I know it's only a soap opera but yeah I hate him. I know they had tried to make him less of a caricature, especially in his relationship with Ellie but I just don't see him as a father.

I feel bad for Dante and Lulu whose marriage is certainly not faring well. Lulu really lost it as she bonded with the baby and thought of it as hers. I think it's cruel what Spinelli and Maxie did to them. Maxie especially as I feel that she is not mature enough to be a mother. The way she treated the child as a thing to be given away like a piece of property pissed me off. After she knew that they had bonded she wanted to rip the baby away from Dante and Lulu. I know that Ben is supposed to be theirs but I'm still pissed. I really don't think that biology means that you have rights as anyone can get pregnant. It doesn't mean that you can take care of the baby the same way that someone who has no biological ties can. Yeah this sucks a lot.

Young and Restless 

Like General Hospital I don't know much of what happened. Fen was almost raped in prison? What is the obsession with rape on soaps recently? I do feel bad for the kid. He has paid times a million for bullying Jaime. I hope he can get to a better place. By that I mean out of jail and not raped. I did see parts of an episode last week where a bunch of them wanted to beat him up because his father sent these guys to prison. I want to laugh when prisoners want to attack the DA or his kid because they got caught committing crimes. Here's a strange idea: Don't commit crimes. It's that simple. I think that they are calling him mouse. What's that about. I have a feeling that the guy protecting Fen might be grooming him to be some sort of bitch for him. Maybe Michael paid him off? I don't know. I do know that Fen is quite rangy. (That's my word of the post!) He has some long arms and legs.

Billy is still effected by his daughter's death. So it isn't like Delia is going to be easily forgotten which is what I thought was going to happen. I had low hopes for this storyline being good. I will say that from what I saw I'm loving it. Of course we are talking about Billy Miller. He can ran circles around supposed A listers in Hollywood. With him being let go or he left, whatever the heck happened, I know that he is going to kick ass in Hollywood. If he isn't the newest star then Hollywood really does suck.

He is going to be replaced with original adult Billy, David Tom. I'm not sure what I think about this. Sure it's cool for nostalgia purposes. I remember the Glow by Jabot stuff from when I was 15 with Mac and Brittany and Raul and that other chick that went to Days of Our Lives as a bio-engineered twin or something.  He is not Billy Miller. So I don't know if Tom will be able to do justice but I'll just wait and see and actually watch Y&R on a regular basis. That's what DVR is about!

It's good to see that he is actually effected by this. His marriage is suffering. He's going to support meetings with Annie Dutton (Guiding Light represent!) and has a gun. I'm assuming that he's going to shoot Adam when the truth comes out. Adam really needs to go to a safehouse every spring because this will be the second year in a row that he's been shot during that time if this happens.

Of yeah there was the Dylan thing. The truth about Nikki being his mother came out. Of course it was in the worst way. Nick is being a dumbass of course. I really am sick of him and his self righteousness. He's the victim after all and Dylan is evil. Remember that mature conversation that he had with Avery which is documented with pictures on this blog? Apparently that never happened because he is acting like some serious prick. It was all about him. How about you serve valiantly in Afghanistan and then we can talk Nick. I do feel for Dylan especially as he finds out that he didn't know his mother at all. I do agree that people need to be considerate towards the fact that he is mourning the death of his beloved mother's memory. She is not the person he thought she was. They shouldn't think that he owes Nikki a relationship. I do think that this should take some time. I would like to see them forge a relationship down the line in a few months. Not now or tomorrow.

Victor is a douche. I think that we always knew it. Maybe I should feel for him because Nikki didn't tell him. Still he's a douche. It wouldn't be Victor if he wasn't a douche.

Bold and Beautiful

I have never commented about this show but since my favorite actor Thorsten Kaye is coming to Los Angeles, I thought I would make a few comments.

Yay for Crystal Chappell and Joanna Johnson. I'm glad to see lesbians on a traditional soap opera. I know that is what web soaps that Chappell is on is all about but yay. I love that Johnson is out too even if her behind the scenes role on the awesome show that is The Fosters, makes her appearances on B&B sporadic at most.

Hope is cursed to forever have men fighting over her or to be in a love triangle of some sort. Now we have Wyatt. In my opinion I would tell Liam to go to hell. He doesn't get a right to go after her after what he has put her through. What the heck! Somehow after the way he has treated her in the past, she still wants to be with him! Personally I'm on team Wyatt but don't know if I can stomach this going on further. Having Ally have a crush on this idiot. What the hell!

Quinn is apparently trying to tie with Nick Fallon as creepy soap opera character. She likes Eric who is old enough to be her father. Then again this is the soap that had him have two kids with Brooke so...yeah. Of course Donna is in the way. Remember when they were together back in 2007? Remember how she called him honey bear? That was pure camp. This is what this show is about. Not the most serious of soaps I must say.

I did have to post Quinn looking creepy since I did it with Nick. I'm an equal opportunity poster of all things creepy on soap operas!

I am certainly not Lois Cerullo!

Thorsten Kaye is coming to B&B. Watch as a squeal like a little girl! Yay! Of course I need one cap of that!

I am NOT Zach Slater!

I will admit that it's going to feel weird. Ridge has an European accent. Is it German? Ridge looks just like Zach Slater. I'm curious as to how he is going to play this. Is he going to be more Ian like? Literally they have him dressed and looking like Zach Slater so it's going to be weird. I'm going to expect Alicia Minshew to walk in and ask what he was doing with Pilar Santos. (I'm a little too much of a Guiding Light fan.)