A Very Long Week Ahead

This week, the final five episodes of One Life to Live, will air on ABC. A week from now instead of getting ready to find out what’s going on with Starr, Natalie, Viki, Clint, Bo or Rex I have no idea what I will be doing. I know I won’t be watching the show replacing it, I haven’t watch the show that replaced All My Children except for 5 minutes at the end one day and that was just disturbing.

ABC lost faith in themselves and what they were doing in daytime. They lost a vision that got clouded by people who wanted to change the genre not save it. Brian Frons can go on and on about how he loves soaps, but he doesn’t. He loves what he wants them to be.

This week, all the posts will be about One Life to Live. On Wednesday we have a very moving post coming to you from one of my newer soap buddies. I also have a few things up my sleeve. Friday I’ll post my feelings, I’m still not sure what they are exactly besides sad. It will be a hard post to write, probably hard then the All My Children one was.

This week though, we know what we need. We’ve got our tissues, our comfort foods, our warm blankets, our dvr’s, twitter and the knowledge that it’s not over just yet.

Also we know that these characters will always be alive in our hearts. Rachel Cory, Reva Shayne, Erica Kane and many others are still a part of us and that’s one thing that ABC and Brian Frons can never take away from us. They can never take away the legacy these characters left behind. We will remember their strength, their pain, heartbreak and the happy moments we got to share with them in ways that they will never understand.

posted 1/9/2012