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SOD: The future is now
Topic Started: Jan 17 2015, 06:51 PM (3,824 Views)
Mitchapalooza
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^ My face watching DAYS

DesignatedShelley
Jan 20 2015, 07:37 PM
OTOH if DOOL were on a network that could give them a bigger budget, aspects of the show might improve, and possibly ratings. They might be able to afford a less insane taping schedule for one. Being an NBC soap breeds just its own survival strategy.
This is it for sure.

I am sure that ultimately though, DAYS (at its current ratings) costs NBC less than GH is costing ABC.

The accountant in me would love to pick through their financial statements.
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Drew
Jan 18 2015, 10:46 PM
I'd like to see the American soaps grow up. Target adults, tell adult stories. Tell 2015 stories, not 1985 stories.

Social issues, yes. Romance, yes. Spies and police, no.
I take issue with this because I think the mid-1980s stories dealt with social issues far more effectively than they do today. In 1985-1986, Days, for instance, dealt with Kim's sexual abuse, Maggie's rape and trauma, interfaith relationships and marriage with Mike and Robin (along with the conflict between Eli and Robert as Holocaust survivors), and alcoholism and the responsibility for serving alcohol (the events surrounding Tod's death). Class issues also were far more pronounced at the time than they are today. Those are just the ones off the top of my head. In the next few years, the show dealt very seriously with teen prostitution (Eve), domestic violence (Jo and Adrienne), and rape (Kayla

Today, those kind of issues are thrown into storylines for shock value and the social issues are rarely explored. For instance, Will's coming out and marriage to Sonny could have been given some substance if we had seen some of his family struggling with his sexual orientation. Having Caroline or Eric actually try to reconcile their strong Catholic beliefs and the Church's teaching with their love for Will would have been good drama and thought-provoking. Instead, the only hater was "evil" Nick, whose own rape in prison should have been the impetus for a story about male rape. Similarly, stories like Jack's PTSD was never addressed in depth (why didn't Jennifer feel guilty for her treatment of Jack once she learned he had PTSD) or even once-important stories like Theo's autism are pretty much ignored except for an occasional reference to his treatment, when the effect of Lexie's death on an autistic child and Abe suddenly becoming a single parent to an autistic son were obvious storylines that were never developed.
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My son is not a homersexual.

What does Celeste predict?

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