Best ambiguous scenes in SoapLand

Jimmy Todd

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Ambiguity can be intriguing or frustrating, depending on how it's executed and written. What are, in your opinion, the best examples of ambiguity in SoapLand?
Some of mine are
1. Miss Ellie's offscreen convo with Wes Parmalee. I like to think he admitted he was JR, but told her he was leaving because he was causing too much pain.

2. Abby consoling Val after Val's attempted "suicide." Abby was on a campaign to show everyone she had turned over a new leaf, when in reality she throwing them off her scent while she ramped up her schemes. Was this little scene with Val genuine or part of her plan?

3. Alexis' and Claudia one scene together in season 2. Wonderful scene. Alexis extends her gratitude to Claudia for whatever happiness she had brought to Steven. Claudia called her out and point blank wanted to know why she was even speaking to her, "I'm nothing to you." Was Alexis sincere or just trying to find out if Claudia knew anything about Krystle's accident earlier. Alexis was such a cagey minx in season 2, one always wanted to know what was going on in her mind.
 

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The two most enigmatic departures that spring to mind both come from the Australian soap opera, Prisoner Cell Block H :)

(1) in the 1981 season “top dog“ Sandy Edwards is seen going out to the rubbish bin area to give another prisoner, Kate Petersen, a
“good talking to”. The character was simply never seen again with it being left open for the viewer to decide whether she had escaped from the prison or whether she had been “attacked” by Peterson and her body disposed of in the garbage bin.

(2) In the 1984 season escaped convict, Sonia Stevens is last seen in her car parked at the edge of a cliff. When her car is discovered Sonia is mysteriously nowhere to be seen and there is a bullet hole in the windscreen. It is left open for the viewer to decide if she has been murdered by gangsters who have finally caught up with her or whether she has faked her own death.
 
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