OPINION
Blogging With Lynn
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Lynn Leahey, editorial director
— Digest and Weekly
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January 6, 2009
I took almost two weeks off for the holidays, the longest I've been away from the office that didn't involve a newborn, and it was so strange watching soaps at home. Instead of sitting at a desk, I was catching snatches of everything I could, in between car pools and grocery shopping and entertaining drop-in friends. I got a real sense of how complicated it can be to set aside an hour or two to watch soaps at home, as opposed to the way my mother did. Back then, I guess more homemakers were busy with
household tasks that they could perform while watching their stories — watching daytime was simpler. I can see why ratings have suffered as the rhythm of household life has changed, and so many caretakers have business outside the home. Last week it seemed like every time I'd try to settle in and catch DAYS or Y&R the doorbell would ring, or I'd get a call that a child needed to be picked up. So hats off to all of you who are better time managers than I am at home, or find more creative ways to keep up with your soaps. Spread the word, you're keeping daytime alive!
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I hate Erica with Sam Woods and I want her back with her soulmate Jackson. She looks like an idiot simpering for a man who arrested her while she was doing a live tv show so he could get publicity. Erica Kane kissing someone who used her like that is a slap in the fact to the character. Erica would be plotting to destroy him if she was being written as the real Erica and not a POD. Woods must go.
I'm confused at Y&R's writers lack of story history. How can Sabrina be pregnant? Victor had that famous vasectomy, so Ashley, Nikki & Diane could swap & steal the sperm. It was quite a story, How could that piece of history have been forgotten? We viewers didn't forget. Shame on the writers.
Why does the soap press ignore the lack of diversity in the genre. Case in point, OLTL recently celebrated their 40th anniversary and not one AA american was seen not to mention you had Melissa Archer in brown face playing a Latina. What happened to Agnes Nixon's vision? It's 2008 and I think it's shameful that minorities are becoming even less visible than they were 40 years ago.
Is it me or have the writers for Days Of Our Lives forgotten that Jay Kenneth Johnson (Philip Kiriakis)has a prosthetic leg? I haven't seen him limp in months.
Well, I don't have kids to pick up and need not to go out always, because my work in computer and i can work at home. But even my work at home i still have deadline to meet...So i agree with you that time management is important, so homemaker can spare time to watch their favorite soaps while cooking either for dinner or lunch. laser hair removal
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