As the World Turns - MESSAGE BOARDS

Wrap it up already; this story was bad to begin with and is painful to endure! If they had to have a false Holden death story, why couldn't it have been with more interesting, less stereotyped characters? What is it with NY/LA soap writers? Even soaps theoretically set in the midwest are written strictly from the "bicoastal" point of view; and the minute the action shifts to outside of home base the characters come strictly out of a blend of "Deliverance" and the "Dukes of Hazard." There are lots of economically-strapped, desperate people out here in the midwest who would have more complex motives to capitalize on having Holden in their clutches. Why couldn't Holden have fallen in with an unemployed steelworker's or foreclosed farmer's family instead of Pappy and Mammy Yocum living in a shack in the woods? I'm from Appalachia and have yet to meet anyone named "Ebb." Puh-leeze! But what can you expect from people who think that the west bank of the Hudson River is the gateway to one vast set of "Hee Haw."

You got that right. I am sick of that storyline. Who writes this garbage? If I wanted to see Ma and Pa Kettle I'd watch TMC. I could care less if Holden ever comes back. He is so boring!

It would serve Lily right.I hated the fact that she jumped in bed with Damien and continues to have him at her side all the time.She has family to help and she shoud be working on helping her daughter right now.That is my veiw.I hate Damien totaly he is a real creep and user.GO GO AWAY AND NEVER COME BACK. This s/l sticks.