Good-bye to Llanview

I am very sad, as today was the last day that my favorite soap opera, One Life to Livehad aired. It ran for 43 years, how­ever I did not watch it until around 25 years ago (I could not have watched it for 43 years regard­less because I have not been around for that long). But I pretty much grew up with the show.

I never really got into too many other soaps, except for All My Chil­dren very briefly– which also went off the air four months ago, but because I never devel­oped an attach­ment to it, I did not care other than the fact that ABC has done every­thing to ruin these shows. The only one stand­ing is Gen­eral Hos­pi­tal but I never cared for that one. Besides I would be sur­prised if that one stuck around for much longer. All because ABC wants to replace these soaps with these cheap shows like The Chew and The Rev­o­lu­tion (which of course is replac­ing my beloved One Live to Live) which will attract noth­ing but low rat­ings. I will never watch any­thing on ABC again because of this, and other OLTL fans that I have com­mu­ni­cated with say the same thing. In fact some are prepar­ing to boy­cott ABC but that will be noth­ing but wasted energy.

But One Life to Live def­i­nitely was filled with engag­ing and dra­matic sto­ries, some involv­ing return­ing from the dead;serious acci­dents and mirac­u­lous recov­er­ies; mul­ti­ple per­son­al­i­ties; rape; ser­ial mur­ders and mur­der mys­ter­ies that drag on for months (ok that got on my nerves); teen preg­nan­cies and more. I will miss Viki, Clint, Bo, Jes­sica, Natlie, John, Todd, Blair, Starr, Nora, Matthew, Gigi, Rex, Shane and more. The finale was much bet­ter than the finale that All My Chil­dren had the day it went off air in Sep­tem­ber. But we were still left with a cliffhanger that will trig­ger our imag­i­na­tions. What will hap­pen next? Espe­cially now after John arrest­ing Todd while he was mak­ing love with Blair for the mur­der of Vic­tor Lord Jr, while Vic­tor Lord Jr was very much alive but kid­napped by that nut Ali­son Perkins? We will never know, thanks to ABC being cheap.

Good-bye One Life to Live. You were a big part of my life, and sad to see you go.

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