End of Soaps??

I grew up on soap operas. As akid my grandmother and my mom watched the line up of, Loving, Days, OLTL, and ending with General Hospital. As a teen I continued to watch the same line up, however Loving did end in the 1990's. As an adult I started "flipping" and watching enough of all three networks to know what was going on. I read Soap Opera Digest. You could say I was very much a soap opera geek! In the early 2000's I became hooked on the ABC lineup. I loved Leo and Greenlee's story on AMC. I watched OLTL and GH daily. As my life got more hectic with work and childen I would dvr my soaps and try and catch up on them sometimes on fast forward to just catch the "important parts."

People who never watched soaps were all too glad to see them end. They didn't understand that we had invested years on these characters. Soap operas NEVER repeated! Each day was a new episode. We watched charcters go from newborn to child to adult (sometimes in a manner of years) . While soap operas sometimes gave us some hard to beleive stories (IE 100'sof back from the dead and doppleganger stories, devil possession, and GH had an alien) they also tackled serious stories such as abortion, cancer, rape, and death of loved ones. Soaps were more then just "love in the afternoon" they were an escape.

We still have 4 soaps left. CBS has Bold and the Beautiful and Young and the Restless. NBC has Days and ABC has General Hospital. While I occasionaly watch Days, itis GH that has my heart. ABC daytime was the best and GH is all that is left. I will continue to watch Jason struggle with the choices he has made and hope that he and Elizabeth someday get back together and learn that Jake is still alive. I will watch and hope Alexis finds a good man. I am rooting fo Carly and Sonny to grow old together, but for now I like her with Johnny and he with Kate.

I will miss the days of afternoons full of soaps.. and I know I am not alone.