Today this blog is 3 years old.
Happy birthday blog.
Honestly, it feels like longer.
I originally started the blog because I had started to get back into the soaps after a hiatus and didn't have time (and, in many cases, the fan-girl sensibility) to hang out on boards and chat about all the nutty goings on on the shows. That's still the case. In fact the starting of the blog ironically coincided with me taking on a major new role at work that involved a lot more work and travel. Which does interfere with soap watching from time to time, but also makes me appreciate coming home to curl up on the couch with the soaps and blog away.
There were a few other soap blogs around in July 2006, but absolutely nothing compared to the number there are now, which is such a cool thing. I love this soap blog/site community that's grown up in the last few years and continues to grow and feed itself and build a soap community within the soap community. It's supportive of the genre, it's generally pretty smart, and it keeps me in touch with what's going on on all the shows I might not be watching so that if there's something good I'm missing out on, I know to check it out.
Or, as with the moment, it gives me the hint that steering clear, even when I'm tempted, is still the best way to go.
See, General Hospital has been doing a few things that make me think that perhaps it could be on an upswing. More Alexis, getting back into great casting with Michael and Kristina, having Michael get back involved with the Quartermaines, ending the post-partum story with Robin, Martha Byrne, not actually killing Ric or turning him into a serial killer even if his send-off was virtually non-existent, remembering to throw in things like little uncomfortable scenes between Jason, Elizabeth, Lucky and Jake. All of that sounds good. But just as I know all of that from the blog-o-verse, I also know that there's still mob crap, not one but two pregnant women falling down the stairs, Sonny impregnating someone else, some rewritten history giving Luke another kid, Emily having a long-lost badly acting twin, and that Dante is about to maybe, finally, make an appearance. But, more importantly than all of those negatives, and despite the potential of all of the good stuff above, it seems that everyone still watching is bored to tears. And it was boredom that had me cease watching in the first place.
So I won't be tuning back in right now. Thanks soap blogoverse.
On with year four.
Happy Blogiversary! I tried watching recently and managed a few episodes but just couldn't stay interested. Oh how I miss Antonio who was the reason I watched in the first place. I do like Bradford and Kirsten so I wish there was a way to just watch those two since they are just adorable.
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Posted by: Barbara | 01 July 2009 at 09:40 AM
Congrats. I miss your blogs on GH but I can't blame you as i can barely sit through an episode myself.
Posted by: Sarah | 04 July 2009 at 07:44 AM