I'm humbled that people appreciate my thoughts and commentary. Thank you, @OzFrog
So many folks are expressing that very same sentiment to me. It's interesting; we've only "known" Shane and Ilya for a total of six hours, yet viewers are already more emotionally attached to them than they are to tepid soap opera pairings who have been rammed down our throats for years. Probably because so many soap characters today lack real depth and humanity, and their on-screen shenanigans come across primarily as contrived plot mechanics, rather than being borne out of genuine chemistry and human feelings.
So true: finding out that other people hold the same attributes that you do, attributes which you value and admire, goes a long way into making you warm up to those folks and feel close to them. That sort of intellectual/emotional attraction tends to go further and last longer than just surface, physical appeal.
I, too, became immersed in soaps because of their reliance on interpersonal-relationship dynamics and the exploration of the human condition. When those components were largely discarded in favor of glitz and glam, flash and trash, soaps lost their appeal for me.
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