ALL: The Brits attack AMERICAN SOAPS!

Also, I don't get the watching-daytime-to-block-out-the-world-therefore-they-can-throw-any-old-[!@#$%^&*]-at-you routine. People are willing to watch escapism in primetime (DH, Grey's, OC to name a few) that still has some semblance of continuity, realism and logic. So why's it okay for daytime to pass lazy writing off as escapism?

Well, I wasn't necessarily talking about the [!@#$%^&*] that soaps like to give us now. I'm talking about the wide variety of storylines that a trip to any soap history site would tell you all about. I'm talking about how the soaps were in their glory days, the 1970s and 1980s. There were socially relevent storylines that humanized certain issues on the stories, but there always seemed to be some kind of balance. If a soap opera was to follow the lives of the people down my street, it'd be one trauma after another, no time at all for light moments. There needs to be SOME kind of fun in soaps. It can't be all drama, all the time.