Stories You'd Like To See

[Paul Raven]

Seems everyone has had their fill of baby switches,long lost children,murders and all the other stories that are constantly recycled from show to show.

Are there some stories that you feel could be told on soaps that might add a freshness that seems to be missing currently?

Or are there some plots that you think could be used again that weren't done to well the first time around?

Come up with some suggestions and even include shows and characters that might be involved.

Here's some of mine:

Paralysis-often used on soaps and always short term.How about a character becoming permanently disabled?This could be a gut wrenching but ultimately uplifting tale that reflects the reality of a lot of people.Imagine if a vital woman like Margo Hughes had to deal with life in a wheelchair.It could be educational but also have a 'soapy 'aspect.

Maybe a younger couple would have to deal with not being able to have a child,or a risky pregnancy.A woman is deserted by her shallow partne,when she is paralysed,only to find true love with someone who accepts her as she is.

The possibilities are endless.

Prostate Cancer-An older male character,say Bo Buchanan,Roman Brady etc has to deal with the disease.Many viewers would be able to relate to this being in that age group.

A husband dealing with his sexuality.This would work with a character that is fairly new to the show.He has an attraction to another man and it is revealed he did have some same sex experiences as a younger man.He has a brief affair with another guy,but breaks it off,but is unable to contain his feelings.Wife notices a change,suspects an affair and is devastated when the truth comes out.However,they agree to make a go of their marriage but ultimately he has to leave when he again meets someonenew,

I have read many accounts of similar scenarios.

Over to you...

[BadBoy93]

i would like to see a swine flu outbreak in one of the soaps.Most notably GH

[ian]

So that the vets that are already on life support can get killed off? We lost Tony Jones in the last one. Bobbie and Tracey and Monica and Edward and Alexis and anyone else over 40 who isn't an albatross to this show would be on their way out\

Back to topic: I've said it ten million times

I WANT AN EARTHQUAKE ON THE B&B

[BadBoy93]

oh yeah forgot one more thing.I would say to GUZA

NO VET MURDERS.KILL OFF SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN INTRODUCED SINCE 2007.

The 2009 Crisis was pathetic.

Andy from Nightshift

Leyla

& Trevor Lansing.

The whole stunt meant nothing.

[MichaelGL]

Two conjoined twins (infants), who share the same heart. The parents have to make the decision as to which child should live and which should die. Though in this atmosphere I wouldn't want such a storyline played out, perhaps in two or three years from now.

Sex addiction.

A leading character that is bisexual.

[RoseVioletDaisy]

May I add a leading character that is bisexual and NOT a psycho.

[ChiTownBoi03]

I'd love to see soaps deal with not-so-known issues that haven't been explored before. I recently saw two documentaries on Discovery Health that prompted my curiosity about seeing these things on a soap. One was on something called Sleep Paralysis, where you wake up still in a REM sleep state...or something to that effect. But it can get pretty frightening if you can't move, you see visions of things in your dreams that seem so real...but you can't move. I could see something revolving around this on DAYS(well nowadays maybe more Y&R...) Another story, in the same ballpark, could be a regular, normal player (generally a vet) who generally seems like a normal person. But...they've actually been running around town killing people in what could be termed as 'Homicidal Somnambulism'...pretty much when you unconsciously commit murder while sleepwalking (which can actually happen apparently...also seen on Discovery Health lol.) No chips, no brainwashing, but a real condition. Rather far-fetched ideas, but the general point is that it would be interesting to see these true to life things, that we previously may not have been educated on, explored on soaps. I guess if I wrote a soap opera, I would be ripping all types of relevant s**t from documentaries and newspaper articles!

[ian]

There was a guy in Canada who got off for killing his in-laws because apparently he was sleepwalking... That was a VERY controversial case.

Soaps use DNA as a joke anyway, why not explore genetic chimerism. It's SUPER rare, but - apparently if in vitro, one twin absorbed the other (and it happens all the time... in the egg stage, one will die but because it's not fully developed the other absorbs the cells, it's quite common actually.. they say if you're left handed you have a HUGE possibility of having started out as a twin then absorbed your twin, not sure how they arrived at that) anyway, if it was fraternal twins (two separate eggs, two separate DNA)... then a person can actually have two distinct sets of DNA. What if the DNA in your blood is different than the DNA say in your hair... it makes DNA really not the be all and end all (of course like I said super rare but it does make DNA fallible)... what if, in true soapy style, we had twins from 2 different fathers (as rare as that is in real life but common on soaps) and if they integrated into one fetus, one person could have different DNA, imagine the heyday a chimera soap villain would have with that, he'd get away with everything because he could leave different DNA than his own. Hmmm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimerism

Again, this is out there but has some basis in fact: what about Tulpas?

It comes from Tibetan Mysticism, but it was first breached by an explorer named Alexandra David Neel in her 1929 book: It's the idea that if you focus enough, the power of the mind can actually manifest a tangible object. David-Neel says that she focused really intently and created this character, kind if a friendly friar-tuck thing but he started to get kinda dark, just kinda scary in a way... and she had to physically exhaust herself to get rid of him.

I had planned a story for an original soap where a character creates a tulpa, kind of like Multiple personalities to the max in a way - your coping mechanism is a real person... but then the tulpa starts killing people, and the problem is this woman's tulpa is an idealized version of her, and it has her DNA. When this character is unable to get rid of it, they have to kill it. So, they're riding around with this dead tulpa in the trunk of their car... but the cops are after them, and then when they open the trunk... she's gone because the character was able to focus enough to get rid of her.

It's totally batsh!t crazy, traditional soapers wouldn't be cool with it, but there's actually enough info to have it based on fact

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulpa

and just interesting.

[ChiTownBoi03]

Love it! I'd be absolutely intrigued if this were to crop up on DAYS. Crazy, far-out s**t...based on fact.

[SFK]

ian, I watched that program on Discovery Health about chimera. I found it intriguing and a little unsettling, the idea that DNA test results may have destroyed or even built relationships under false pretenses is really something to think about.