EE- Can any clip like this be made in American Soaps?,.

[Andrew]

You know someone on youtube mentioned on this clip that it cant be made in an american soap, well it could if the right writers and actors actresses where on it. But otherwise not.

This is best friends and Senior ladies Dot and Ethel played by June Brown and deceased actress Gretchen Franklin. This clip who is about six minutes long makes anyone cry, i can admit it makes me really cry, because it`s so sad, and it shows two old women who has been friends all of their lives, as they talk about memories and about dying.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJ1LfXq5Qg

So are all of made of steel or can you admit it makes anyone cry?..........

[JamesF]

In all fairness, the soaps did do stuff like this. I was scanning through the 100 Greatest Soap Moments on the Shrine to Soap Hunks website earlier and there were several. BJ's heart, Stone's death and the fallout from Margo Hughes killing Casey Peretti were all wonderfully written and acted.

I'm not in the mood for tears but it did make me shed a tear at the time, I'll admit.

[leevo64]

I LOVE that clip. I also love the EastEnders clip when Tiffany runs to get her baby and is run down as the clock strikes midnight on new years' eve.

American soaps have the potential to do it. I think the opportunity was missed with Asa's death. That was treated with more joy. American soaps don't show restraint; the potency of Dot and Ethel was that we didn't have swelling music drowning out the quiet sadness; we didn't see Ethel actually take the pills; and the dialogue was spot on.

[AMCGio83]

I'll see your clip and raise you this one:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rxbjZMkczS0

Nobody used to do traged like AMC and there is hardly a more convincing crier than Julia Barr. Laura's Death. Saddest AMC moment EVER.

[All My Shadows]

Isn't "EastEnders" is the same soap that had an original character who had been on the show for more than 20 years killed off on the Christmas episode?

[Y&RWorldTurner]

That was because the actress left and said she had no intention of ever returning, so they killed her off.

[All My Shadows]

ooo okay. But on Christmas, though? If that kind of thing happened here, there'd be major backlash. Imagine B&B killing off Stephanie on Christmas.

[dannigold]

Christmas day soap episodes in the UK, are the most watched and most important soap episode of the year.

[Andrew]

Brooke where very good in this scene, but i dont think the men where that good, Julia Barr is a capable and very good if she is getting the right material, a much better actress then rival Lucci, Susan.

But i must admit it didn`t move me at all, sorry. What i meant with the other clip was also that it shows two elderly ladies and Gretchen Franklin looks like a woman from a retirement home, it where so very natural, maybe to natural for some, that is the biggest difference between Us & Uk soap, i think many actors are good, and american actors are good with the right material also, but it is the look thing and the age.

An American soap would never show an elderly woman visit her very old friend whoes dying at the hospital in town, if they where the ladies would look like Anne Jeffreys and Joan Rivers, but that is not how normal people look like, that`s why it so more natural, because in all of the english soapoperas (Coronation Street, Eastenders, Emmerdale), they are natural and there looks and acting are like it could be made in real life, i enyoy American soaps also, but it dosent move as much as english.

Unlike American soaps English ones showes old people who look old, that is not ok in America....