Alan Sarapa

Alan Sarapa
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Alan’s Soap Box: 10 Characters Saddled with Terrible Writing

Soap characters getting bad writing is unfortunately common. They could be getting shoddy writing that makes a story that should be about them about...

Alan’s Soap Box: Y&R Is Treating Sharon Newman Terribly

Sharon Newman is one of the most popular characters on The Young and the Restless. She's up there with Victor, Nikki, and Jack in...

Alan’s Soap Box: Top 10 Best Soap Decisions of 2022

The year is almost over so the time has come to reflect on the best decisions made by each soap in 2022. Soap fans...

Alan’s Soap Box: How to Fix The Bold and The Beautiful

If you watch The Bold and the Beautiful, you've likely noticed that it is terrible right now. We have plots devoid of logic and...

Alan’s Soap Box: Habits of Head Writers

Writers in all mediums have plots, themes, and character types they reuse. If you pick up a Jodi Picoult novel, you usually expect to...

Alan’s Soap Box: GH Doesn’t Care About Elizabeth Part 2

It has been less than a year since I quite aggressively tore into General Hospital for how they treat Elizabeth Webber and her portrayer...

Alan’s Soap Box: The State of Days of Our Lives

If you are a fan of Days of Our Lives, you are likely used to seeing the phrase "The Plan to Save Days!" every...

Alan’s Soap Box: General Hospital’s Carly Overload

There's been a common refrain amongst fans of General Hospital lately: There's too much Carly. Even people who like the character or love to...

Alan’s Soap Box: Focusing on the Positives of Every Daytime Soap

Soap fans have a tendency to focus on what they are hating on a soap and not what they are enjoying. Readers know I'm...

Alan’s Soap Box: How Y&R Can Fix Billy Abbott

How does a character go from beloved legacy character to asshole who gives navel gazing monologues on a podcast? That's what fans of The...

Alan’s Soap Box: Top 10 Things Soaps Need To Stop Doing Immediately

Soap fans complain all the time. We are a notoriously whiny bunch. I'm sure there are whole group chats of soap writers and producers...

Alan’s Soap Box: The Worst Romances on Daytime Soaps

Romance is the foundation of soap operas. Unfortunately for us, a lot of the pairings currently on soaps are shitty. I'm not trying to...

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