Guiding Light Is Going Off--Not Surprised

Guiding Light is the one soap opera that I was hooked on and watched daily with my mom during supper and even taped after I was married to watch when I got home from work. It started on radio first in 1937 and then moved to TV in 1952, a year before I was born! It's no wonder they ran out of good story lines. The show always had crazy story lines and that's why I liked it, because it was pretty far from reality and just plain entertaining.

Some of the story lines I liked best were Reva's (I think it was Reva) split personality, Annie Dutton, Roger Thorpe and Dinah, Roger Thorpe and Alan outdoing each other as who could be the worst villain, Danny and the mob before he married Michelle, Frank and Alaini, Buzz marrying the jewel thief, Lizzie with little dog, India and Philip, Harley before she got married and then the romance with her and Gus, Mindy Lewis, Jonathan and Reva scenes, Alan Michael and Harley and Spaulding vs. Lewis.

I quit watching because the story lines got to be so bad and they changed the personality of some of the characters I liked such as Harley Cooper, Gus, and Blake. When they made Josh Lewis a minister, that was the final straw for me. I just couldn't stomach it. Plus the fact that we got a computer and I only had evenings and early mornings to be on it, I'd rather give up the 45 min. it took to watch the show and spend that time on the computer instead. The final episode on CBS is scheduled to air September 18. I might just start watching again in September just to see how they end it.

What do you think of soap operas? Is there any you are hooked on?