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After reading through it, they are just being dramatic little divas.

They are upset bc Zarf/Zoe was this HUGE storyline and the show was focused all on him during the month of Decemeber and then the first week of January when he came out to Bianca as Zoe...and then ever since then, the show has focused more on the Satin Slayer and Zoe/Zarf has taken a backseat (minor backburnered)....at least the progression of him turning into Zoe 100%.

Hope that makes sense, but they just want to see more of his transgendered part of the storyline, and not just him being a suspect on the outside of this other huge storyline.

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Whew!

THank God. I knew there had to be some sort of misunderstanding since Zoe IS in the opening titles, and that carries a lot of weight.

By the way, I disagree that BWE is about watching 'trainwrecks.' It's about people who appreciate something different than you do! And I'm one of them. AMC, due to Zarf/Zoe, is no longer the whitebread, boring, run-of-the-mill soap I thougth it was just last year. I'm HOOKED on this show because of that hook, Zarf/Zoe. Don't get me wrong, I've discovered great characters like Bianca, Kendall and the incredible coupling of Ryan and Annie that keep me interested -- and this Satin Slayer story is just blood pumping, intrigue every second (except when they show the mother of Zach, who, when looking and winking at child Zach looks like SUCH a child pedophile -- NO mother acts that way, people) -- but Zarf/Zoe hooked me. So I'd hate to lose that hook.

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Um, they featured "Passions" because it was FUNNY. They featured "Brokeback PASSIONS" because they LAUGHED. That's different from ordinary, whitebread soaps. They're over-the-top and yes, out there, and THAT'S why the show was featured. Because you don't expect to see that sort of thing on daytime soaps.

As for Zarf's meltdown, which they featured, it wasn't poorly acted, it wasn't poorly written and it wasn't poorly directed. But they featured that too. It's DIFFERENT. To them, yes, it was funny, but you're more likely to end up on BWE if you're DIFFERENT and turn heads.

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Yes, in a bad "Isn't this absurd?" way. BWE latches onto the absurd in soaps, it can't just be different, it has to be ridiculous.

And I disagree on any of that being well-acted of written or directed. Nothing on AMC is any of those things anymore, sad to say.

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Sorry, Darn, but if BWE were on when "Days" told its possession story, which was well acted and loved across the nation, that story would make it.

It's different and yes, on some level, weird, but that doesn't make it BAD.

AS viral video has shown to us all, there is a market for the weird, the different, the parody, the "trainwreck" even, if you will.

You're confusing that, however, with being bad or lacking quality. Even parodies can have high quality.

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Yes, they can however this Zarf tale and Passions do not. Yes, BWE would have shown the possession story and for all the reasons I stated, because it's soaked in the absurd, not because it's good. Clearly you and I have different tastes and perceptions of what BWE is all about.

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Well, you were wrong when you said both of those things you mentioned don't. Art isn't objective. It's SUBjective. I'll agree that "Passions" isn't at its highest quality, but it has had very high quality and been "the best soap" of 1999 and 2000 and 2001 by several magazines and media shows. I'm not sayin gthat makes them right above everyone else but it does show that art is SUBjective.

People don't miss trainwrecks. They watch car accidents but they don't miss not seeing them. BWE posted a heartfelt entry about the loss of "Passions." A show that will be missed, which was like crack for many because of its bizarre incidents. You hear people say they can't NOT watch even though nothing happens on the show, but if nothing truly happened, they WOULDN'T watch. It's not the typical soap opera. Hell can be in your closet, girls can be turned into blocks of ice, a doll can come to life...there's something to that, and it lassoed the hearts of millions over the last eight years.

THAT'S not a trainwreck. THAT'S not a car accident. People genuinely see something worth sticking around for in this show. They don't drive by and forget that wreck they just saw. They come back for more.We can agree that JER hasn't given them much to come back to (the show's best years were early on) but to write the WHOLE show off as something bad and wrong and shameful, that's wrong.

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You can't call how I feel wrong. I've been dismissing Passions as stupid and insulting for 7 years. It is to me and always will be.

And for the record I disagree with basically everything in this post but in order to not be accused of adding nothing to the conversation yet again I'll just let it go.

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