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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 309178" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>To be fair, though, none of the soaps today can hold a candle to how they were produced in the 1980s, or even the 2000s.  Heck, there is even a difference in style from ten years ago.  Soaps went into "survival mode" around 2010, where they are simply trying to keep the show going under the impossible pressures of reduced budgets, etc.  If it is enjoyable viewing, that's just incidental; they no longer have the luxury of time to work on turning out primetime-esque work.  It's a struggle just to hit all the high points and make sure it holds together...and sometimes that doesn't even happen.  Which is not to say they don't make an effort to turn out the best show possible....it's just that the lack of support from their networks gives them a built-in excuse to lower expectations, and that industry seems to be in a slow spiral downward.</p></blockquote><p></p>