Also, these actors do not age. And the same characters from when I watched soaps are STILL on the show. Carly and Jason? STILL THERE. Fiona Hughes? STILL THERE. Victor Newman? YUP!
It is one of the vanishingly few Hollywood arenas where if you start being hot in your twenties, they will still treat you as hot in your sixties. It’s pretty cool in that regard.
I was just yesterday how much I miss miss my soaps, I watched guiding light and as the world turns all through high School, in college and beyond and I miss those people, the first parasocial relationships I had I guess. Whatever happened to the Spalding family??
Caught an episode of Y&R recently and so many of the old cast were back. And revisiting old storylines. It was the oddest kind of flashback to my teens and my old crushes.
Victor is still kicking around!? When I was a small boy in the 80s I wanted to be as smart and handsome as he was when I grew up, but less evil. 😆 And speak with the accent.
I used to watch YnR in college in 1992, every so often. I recently saw that the cast are all still going, and I can't determine if they are totally winning at life or in a hellish hyperloop of punishment.
As teenagers my brother and his friends watched General Hospital one summer for the Luke & Laura story (for Laura). A few months ago I we talked about it and I said Laura was still on. He said "WHAT? And it's the SAME ACTRESS??" When I confirmed, he was speechless. My brother is never speechless. 😄
