Members Faulkner Posted March 24, 2021 Members Share Posted March 24, 2021 I just think we’re more likely to get quality products with primetime (or streaming) versions. Fewer content restrictions, better production values, more progressive stories, etc. I get that the soap aesthetics and daily immersions are very comforting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted March 24, 2021 Members Share Posted March 24, 2021 Indeed! Just like a friend of mine who held off on ever watching The Handmaid's Tale until she knew whether 45 would be re-elected... now she can do so without the fear of it becoming a reality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Charles Posted March 24, 2021 Members Share Posted March 24, 2021 (edited) I wonder if the potential opening of Pine Valley would incorporate the “book”/photo album?? Probably not. Perhaps we’ll get some “DARK” images of pine trees?? Please register in order to view this content But more on-topic, I need to stop being so bitchy about the whole “dark” thing, but I was so tired of seeing people going crazy over that. I would love for ALL of the soaps to get the reboot/continuation/resurrection/sequel treatment, actually. Every soap has/had devoted fans. Could anyone see primetime Passions?? That particular show seemed like a low-rent Twin Peaks more than anything. Edited March 24, 2021 by Pine Charles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members te. Posted March 24, 2021 Members Share Posted March 24, 2021 They could always just recreate the Pasadena opening: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lucaslesann23 Posted March 25, 2021 Author Members Share Posted March 25, 2021 (edited) I could see a passions reboot, I didn't watch but im catching up on YouTube and its crazy lol wasn't it popular with the young viewers? Edited March 25, 2021 by Dylan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Charles Posted March 25, 2021 Members Share Posted March 25, 2021 I like that opening!! Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted March 28, 2021 Members Share Posted March 28, 2021 Yes, it was, and the crazy thing is, I didn't really realize it at the time it was on the air, but I'm starting to see it now. I follow two or three millennial-targeted Instagram accounts, and there have been a couple Passions posts, mostly with Tabitha and Timmy, and the comments blow up with memories of watching it after school. I never watched regularly, but my routine from junior high until graduation was to get home, fix a bowl of cereal, and switch back and forth between the second halves of Passions and GL (with the occasional GH thrown in). And honestly, a reimagining/reboot/re-whatever of it wouldn't be a bad idea. It was only on the air for eight years, debuted only 22 years ago, and was always targeted at a young audience. So there's not a whole big decades-long canon to pay attention to, it would be easy and not very jarring to produce it as a primetime/streaming series (as opposed to the time it would take us to get used to watching Erica Kane on single-camera film rather than multi-camera video), and the audience who mostly watched the original show would likely be receptive to any major or minor changes in the new show. But take something like ATWT. 54 years of source material. Would you just retell the story of the original Hughes family? But then some fans would be wondering where Carly and Jack or Lily and Holden were. Well, let's still include them in the series - so Lily and Holden would be teenagers...alongside Penny and Bob Hughes? And what teenagers today are named Penny and Bob? Okay, well, let's make just make it a continuation of the original series. Do we acknowledge that ten years have passed? Or do we just pick up from where the last episode left off? Who will you still have from the original series? How many new characters will you create? You can't have too many newbies but you also can't just put the show's success in the hands of the small audience who was watching in its waning days. It's like a reboot of one of the classic long-runners really can't be a full reboot. There's just too much there that can't be ignored. Whereas with a Passions, you can basically start all over from scratch and no one would be upset about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SteelCity Posted April 1, 2021 Members Share Posted April 1, 2021 God, I hated Passions, even as a teen. I just found it stupid and insulting. The lack of story progression and the inconsistent magic angle. And U.O: Timmy was annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Forever8 Posted April 1, 2021 Members Share Posted April 1, 2021 As the old saying goes "To Each Their Own" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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