On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:49:24 +1200, Anybody
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>In article
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>Cory <my_wheel_life@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Apr 19, 2:31 am, Anybody <anyb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> > In article
>> > <5008e78c-8377-46a7-b36c-e44e014da...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Cory
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>> > <my_wheel_l...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > > I find it mind-boggling that ER has managed to last longer than
>> > > M*A*S*H. That makes absolutely zero sense to me.
>> >
>> > There are a few daytime soap operas that have lasted much longer.
:-)
>>
>> Of course. I, OTOH, was making a direct comparison between M*A*S*H
>> and ER since they are both medically related television series.
>
>Ah, but so are some soap operas. To name a few, there's New Zealand's
>"Shortland Street" and Australia's "Young Doctors", as well as
>America's "General Hospital" ... all are utter rubbish and all (I
>think, I'm not sure about Young Doctors) lasted longer than MASH or ER.
>:-)
Daytime soaps don't count -- even if they're soaps overseas that are
shown at night but nevertheless emulate all the trappings of US
daytime soaps. ie: They're all crap. Low budget, videotape (ALL US
daytime soaps are videotaped/DV, overseas sometimes or often mixes
film and video), doggerel dialogue, repetitive and redundant
exposition, redundant and repetitive exposition, no-dimensional
characters (even compared to the usual one-dimension characters of the
more histrionic nightime US soaps like 90210.) Characters get recast
with different actors over time (rather than a character being
****trayed by a single actor in virtually all cases of non-soap shows
(by necessity there are exceptions, but they are far more rare than a
kind word from Darth Cheney.)
IOW, ER ain't a soap, it's a melodrama. Soaps are degenerate forms of
melodrama that are by definition most concerned with cranking the
shows out regardless of any concerns for quality and with cranking out
shamelessly (and shamefully) lurid topics depicted in ways that are
generally lacking in redeeming social value.
EXCEPTION: Passions is clearly a deliberate parody of the degeneracy
of the entire soap opera.subgenre.
-- Rob
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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