Grab a hankie

I watched soap operas once upon a time. And my recollection of when I stopped is kind of vague, but I’m guessing it was in college. But I have to say, that the news that The Guiding Light has been cancelled is kind of a bummer. Kind of like hearing that the last drive-in movie theater in town has closed. Sure I hadn’t made it there in awhile, but it was part of my history that I kind of liked knowing was still there. I guess not many people had made it back to Springfield for a long while.

I think I saw that there are only 6 surviving daytime soaps. Which means that a lot of them have shut down over the years.

I kind of started wondering, what if you did what they do with old rock bands: Take the key players who want to get back out on the road and make a super group. Like a Super Soap. They all move into the same anonymous small town, near some metropolis (only known as “The City:). Luke and Laura. Erica Kane. Hope and Beau. Marlena and John and Tom. Opal Gardner. Josh and Reba. All the vixens, super couples, villains and disaster magnets. All of them causing trouble, swapping spouses, dying, resurrecting, coming in and out of comas, discovering evil twins, having mental breakdowns and generally wreaking havoc. They could call it The Bold Edge of General Hope of Light and Passion in the Days or Our Children’s World.