WeLoveSoaps Best & Worst of 2007

Best TV Soap: "Friday Night Lights"
All the daytime soaps had their moments this year, some more than others, but none were consistently good throughout and several were downright awful for most of the year. So I look to prime time for best soap and "Friday Night Lights" is continuing drama at its best.

Best Online Video Soap: "Coastal Dreams"
This experimental soap by NBC featured a beginning to end (well, until the cliffhanger) storyline that actually made sense. Yes, it was beautiful people on the beach, but the characters were well-defined, likeable and the story made sense. "L.A. Diaries" was a guilty pleasure but the story was weak and did not tie into ATWT or Y&R very well. "Crescent Heights" had potential but the story was limited.

Best Storyline: The budding romance of Luke and Noah
It wasn't perfect, but the young love story that has slowly developed between "As The World Turns" teens Luke and Noah is something soaps have been missing in recent years - romance. Loving and respectful relationships should be the rule, not the exception. Treating a partner like dirt, raping someone and falling in love with them and sleeping around have become the norm. Thanks to ATWT for finally getting it right with "Nuke."

Best Episode: "Guiding Light's" 70th Anniversary
Crisp writing, an homage to GL and soap history and fantastic performances made this a standoff show. Reference: WeLoveSoaps Top 10 Episodes of 2007 list.

Best Actress: Melody Thomas Scott, "The Young and the Restless"
Why aren't people outraged that Melody Thomas Scott does not have an Emmy? After almost 30 years on Y&R, she continues to act her ass off and deserves one dammit. She was so awesome this year she almost made "Out of the Ashes" watchable.

Best Actor: Scott Bryce, "As The World Turns"
Scott Bryce can play a huge range of emotions. The chilling aftermath of Craig finding out Meg's baby isn't his was a masterpiece.

Top Newcomer: John Brotherton, "One Life to Live"
A number of outstanding newcomers debuted on soaps this year. If only the writing could match the acting talent on soaps, the future would look brigher. John Brotherton from OLTL (Jared) was my top pick this year. Reference: WeLove Soaps Top 10 Newcomers of 2007 list.

No Class Award: Brian Frons and ABC
Firing Sabine Singh and replacing her as Greenlee with Rebecca Budig might not have been so horrible had the "Real Greenlee" ads not started running while Sabine was still airing on the show.

Most Confusing: Former Y&R Characters on B&B
So Eileen Davidson is still Ashley Abbott but Heather Tom is Katie Logan? John McCook (who I loved as Lance on Y&R) is Eric on B&B. If they are going to cross some people over from Y&R as their same characters then stop hiring former Y&R actors to play new characters.

Worst Quadrange: Paul/Meg/Rosanna/Craig, "As The World Turns"
I seem to vaguely recall a few triangles in the past that were worth watching but not this year. Unless Bill Bell or Douglas Marland are coming back from the grave in 2008, all quadrangles on soaps should be outlawed. Paul/Meg/Rosanna/Craig on ATWT reached a new level of boring never seen on soaps before 2007.

Best Funeral: John Black, "Days of our Lives"
I haven't like John Black since, well, he turned into John Black and not Roman. But his funeral was so well done that it made me actually wish he was still around. If he turns out to be alive though, DAYS may have lost the last bit of credibility it had left.

Hottest Hunk: Brandon Beemer, "Days of our Lives"
I named him hottest hunk earlier this year and haven't changed my mind. He also just won a slew of SoapHunks.net awards.

Biggest News Story: The Writer's Guild of America Strike
Will soaps survive? Who will be writing them? How many scripts are left? The WGA strike provided a lot of interesting soundbytes this year and got fans talking.

Worst Execution: "General Hospital: Night Shift"
I liked the idea of NS, but the show itself left much to be desired. It didn't match up with the daily GH and seemed like a wannabe "ER" or "Grey's Anatomy." If Soapnet decides to do this again in 2008, let's hope for better results.

Most Overexposed: Steve Burton, "General Hospital" and "Nightshift"
Burton appeared on the most episodes of GH this year as well as the prime-time spinoff "Night Shift."

Worst Storyline: Vincent the hermaphrodite on "Passions"
There are no words to describe how stupid this was so I'll stop here.

Worst Soap: "All My Children"
The murder of Dixie, the Zarf/Zoe storyline, Jonathan/Ava, there were so many things to hate about AMC this year. The good news: it can't get any worse, right?