Members DeeeDee Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Don't give Maria ideas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dm. Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 ICAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkH Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Alien baby for dmarex's Heather/Vail! They could do a WTD story--Billy or an alien? How could anyone tell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lovely_m Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Or the alien could be Brittney Hodges and she'll say Mark did you miss me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkH Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Aren't the above attributes definitional of soap opera? In 1952 (?), on radio, Meta Bauer on GL had a custody battle with her husband, who was concerned that their little boy son was gay (euphemistically referred to as "too soft"). The husband forced the son to take boxing lessons...he did so against his will. Eventually, the little boy hit his head and died. Meta then up and killed her husband. America voted on the verdict. That is golden-era radio soap. Let's see what attributes it had: - dysfunctionality (check) - craziness, psychoses (check) - neuroses (check) - crimes (check) - vileness (check) It kept America GLUED to the story Ugh. Seacrest out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted January 27, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 They have already landed. Those chipmunks are aliens which only Kevin can see. This is the next big reveal. Mariella Bollocks strikes me as someone who is into New Age stuff/Dan Brown bull (tarot decks, esoteria, crystals, secret societies, conspiracy theories etc.) so Sylvia Browne's appearance doesn't surprise me one bit. It was bound to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dm. Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Oh please. No more ideas like these. MABs head will explode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted January 27, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 No. You are equating two very different things. Y&R serves "sensational", "shocking" hollow lurid tales, while the above GL examples was something completely different. It's the type of "craziness" that matters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dm. Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 The things people will say to justify horrible writing. But I do realize that taste differs in people, so everyone is free to watch whatever they want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkH Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 See, now again we agree! There were HUGE differences between the Meta story and today's Y&R. First, not ALL of GL was crazy at the time. (Well, it kinda was, in the sense that on a 15-minute show, Meta really owned the show at that time). But the show was more balanced. Second, the craziness was reality based (a plausible, horrific scenario). But I just wanted to make the point that "crazy", "psychotic", "crime" etc. is not necessarily a problem. It can make for amazing soap. We agree (I think) that today's Y&R is "sensational", "shocking", "lurid", and we agree that these are bad things because they are done without balance and without long-term repercussions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted January 27, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Yes, I agree that it can. Just like JamesF said in that thread I posted, soaps desperately need to be grounded in reality. Sure, sometimes an out-there villain can be entertaining, but it is dangerously close to becoming a parody of himself/herself. So the keyword is motivation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 And it would STILL be better than Bank Robbing Chipmunks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bellcurve Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lovely_m Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are suing Y&R writing team for damage done to their reputations. People haven't been able to look at them the same since Kevin's chipmunk fiasco. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted January 27, 2010 Members Share Posted January 27, 2010 However Leanna would come back for later storylines so I wondered about that. As for Skip, I thought it was mentioned he was killed in an off-screen motorcycle accident. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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