Soapies
What would we do without soap operas? Especially with they’re convoluted story lines, filled with creepy incestuous relationships, and old men finding true love in his ex-wive’s sister niece. Well I suppose that hasn’t ended since Channel 10 decided to move “The Bold and the Beautiful” into a prime time slot. I’ve flicked on the tv at 6 expecting my daily fix of my beloved The Simpsons episodes, only to be confronted with a leathery looking gentleman in bed with another leathery looking blonde expressing they’re love for each other. The thing is that the guy is infact the lady’s half-son. Hey, you’ve only got half the DNA, that’s ok, that’s not wrong at all! So of course, this like many other soap operas involve some sort of millionaire tycoon and his empire, but instead of just being a family man, he lets the power and money get to him and he ends up impregnanting everything and anything with legs, in turn giving life to a small town worth of offspring, who *gasp* will go on to marry each other, and produce more children. There’s apparently a doctor on that show, she should know better, but no, she’s too busy being in a relationship with her eldery half brother.
Australian soapies have ended, and next year the viewer will expect yet ANOTHER fire, flood, drowning, explosion via attachment to plane/ boat/anything with a motor or stabbing by a someone with a grudge but decides to take it out on a whole town. A couple of years ago, I sat one of those consumer surveys where they lay all the actors photos on the table and made everyone say what they thought about them. I didn’t really watch the show, I don’t really like it but for 60 dollars I’m sure I could make up something. After the summer, the new series of the show was back on, and surprise surprise the 3 characters who were thought of as stale, were to be killed off in a plane crash put there by an evil twin.
Back to the original question-what would we do without soap operas? We would live more normal lives, not corrupted by awful story lines and terrible actors found off teenage girl magazine competitions.
