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or you can do the confusion 'til your head falls off
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Well, there's the longevity factor, and the fact that even early in, the writers would get confused about things like the names of off-camera spouses and such. (Mrs. Blake, for instance, started out as "Mildred" but ended up as "Lorraine," I believe.)
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Even worse than sitcom's continuity problems are those of soap operas.
Soaps have the opposite problem of comic books in that the characters usually age at a rate faster than in real life. This is known as SORAS (Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome). A character will be born. Two years later, he's in kindergarten. We see him around now and then and then he disappears for two more years and then he's about sixteen. A character will remember things that happened before he was born!
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I remember that on GH. Kids born in the late 70s vanished for a few years; by 1990ish they were in college!
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I think American soap operas would benefit from adopting the Latin soap opera format of a really long mini-series with a beginning, middle, and end.
OTOH, they tried that in American prime-time in 2006 and it was a ratings disaster.
quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lass: I think American soap operas would benefit from adopting the Latin soap opera format of a really long mini-series with a beginning, middle, and end.
OTOH, they tried that in American prime-time in 2006 and it was a ratings disaster.
American daytime soaps seem like an endangered breed, so who knows? it may become possible.
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quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lass: I think American soap operas would benefit from adopting the Latin soap opera format of a really long mini-series with a beginning, middle, and end.
OTOH, they tried that in American prime-time in 2006 and it was a ratings disaster.
I don't know if it will help soaps, but that format (common in England and Japan as well) has definitely impacted cab;e and network shows these past few years.
quote:Originally posted by Kent: American daytime soaps seem like an endangered breed, so who knows? it may become possible.
Which is very sad. I lost my show, Guiding Light, last year. As the World Turns ends next month. Most of the others are barely hanging on. It's a part of American pop culture that will be lost.
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Rocky, I remember you said you speak a little bit of Spanish. If you become fluent, you could watch Latin soaps. They've still got quite a bit of life left in them.
quote:Originally posted by Fanfic Lass: Rocky, I remember you said you speak a little bit of Spanish. If you become fluent, you could watch Latin soaps. They've still got quite a bit of life left in them.
I can follow Spanish-language TV fairly well if I watch it with the captions on. I may have to try some time.
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sounds similar to Quebecois teleromans, essentially episodic novels told over a lengthy but limited run.
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They do, but only the US had one that lasted 72 years. I still miss GL.
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