@iam3green said:
it's so people won't be surprised at it. i don't know why people would watch those shows. it's pretty much the same thing every day, week. people always cheats on people. it's a love triangle.
It's actually MUCH more than that simplistic of a view. There are some very intricate storylines in some of them. It's odd because I look at something like Sons of Anarchy and I think "there's not much difference between this and General Hospital". Both involve gangs, badasses, cheating, manipulation, barters and deals under the table, secrets and lies, people sitting around in rooms just talking to each other about shit we've seen all season.
It's about the characters in the end, and there are a lot of great soap characters. That's kind of the main reason I personally found myself enamored with General Hospital: the characters on that show for a strong ten year span were fantastic. The show was well-written. They would be more than willing to throw people for a loop every once in a while.
The only two issues I end up having with soaps is the handling of death and the handling of children growing up. When it comes to death, no one actually dies unless the actor dies in real life, and even then, there are very few times that they won't bring the character back with a different actor. I'm honestly kind of hoping that they flat-out kill off Edward Quartermaine in GH because there is no one that can play him better than John Ingle did. They killed off Lyla's character, so why not kill him off? At the same time, ELQ and the Quartermaine family are such an important part of that whole series that Edward is almost a necessary character, especially since they killed off Alan some time back.
As for kids, I just hate it when the kid is a kid, and then after about a year, they bring in the character again and they are a fucking teenager. It's like...seriously, just let them goddamn age. Give them some credit. I understand that right now the companies making the soaps are trying to bring in younger viewers (that 20-30 age group) and so it helps them relate more. Nonetheless, it does a disservice to some of those characters. I'll never forget when they aged Shaun D. on Days of our Lives. I wanted to gag afterwards. Granted, the actor grew into his own and really owned that character well. Nonetheless, it was just...I don't know, it was a travesty to me. The same thing recently happened with Michael Corinthos and Kristina Corinthos (Sonny's kids on GH). They aged them up, and it kind of killed the show for me. Then again, they also brought in characters from another soap opera that was cancelled (i.e. Todd and Blair from One Life To Live) to try and pull over some of that viewership and such. Some of those characters just don't mix well with General Hospital.
Anyways...yeah, I think I just spoke more about soap operas than most people on these forums would have the foggiest about. I'm going to exit stage right and continue to weep about Steve Burton leaving GH.
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