[2013/01/22] What’s Your Favorite Soap Opera?

What’s Your Favorite Soap Opera? By: DivineCaroline (View Profile)   <?xml:namespace prefix = v /><v:shapetype id=_x0000_t75 coordsize="21600,21600" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" stroked="f" filled="f" o:preferrelative="t" o:spt="75"><v:stroke joinstyle="miter"></v:stroke><v:formulas><v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"></v:f><v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"></v:f><v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"></v:f></v:formulas><v:path o:connecttype="rect" gradientshapeok="t" o:extrusionok="f"></v:path><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:lock aspectratio="t" v:ext="edit"></o:lock></v:shapetype> Love triangles. Murder mysteries. Faked pregnancies. Demonic possession. Soap operas milk the drama genre for all it’s worth, and fans tune in day after day, year after year, to see what’ll happen next. Which soap operas did you grow up watching? Which do you remember your mom or grandma watching, and which do you still watch today? Who are the characters you can’t stand to see hurt—or the ones you just plain can’t stand? Marjoycek Knowles 06.14.2011 Report I love All My Children,and I have watched it since the beginning.   Alan Brown 10.25.2010 Report I remember watching The Edge of Night , Secret Storm, Guiding Light , As the World Turns, Search For Tomorrow, Love of Life, General Hospital, Love is a Many Splendored Thing and many other ones that I still remember on TV.   Vicki Santillano 10.20.2010 Report I totally watched Days of Our Lives in middle school, and then I switched to General Hospital after that. I always cheered for Bo and Hope and I wanted to throw my shoe at the TV whenever Billie came on screen. I was also a big Lucky-Liz fan, but then Lucky died and then somehow came back to life and I started to lose interest. Now I have no idea what's going on with any of them, but that's probably for the best.   Helen Johnson 10.20.2010 Report I grew up watching "The Edge of Night", "The Secret Storm" "Dallas", Knots Landing" and "Dynasty". What I liked about then was i could miss a week of shows, and still pick up where I left off. The Diva attitudes of the female leads were funny. At times i wanted to smack them myself. I found myself talking to the TV - Laugh. Now i do not watch any soap operas. I find them broing and can predicte what will happen. I do not get the suspense any longer.   Cassandra Owens 10.20.2010 Report When I was growing up, my mother had a daily TV routine. There was The Young and the Restless in the morning before the gameshows, then Ryan's Hope (my favorite of all time), All My Children, One Life to Live, and lastly General Hospital (back when Jack Wagner played Frisco). Does anyone think it is creepy that I was watching these shows 20-30 years ago, but the same actors are still on and look pretty much the same? I remember when One Life to Live went off the deep end plot-wise and the character Vicki somehow went to Hell on a spaceship...and the character Mitch was the Devil, or something. Compared to Passions, though, that was nothing! If I had time I would definitely try to watch these old shows for nostalgia, those were the good times!   Valerie Fletcher 10.20.2010 Report I love General Hospital!   Mia Young 10.19.2010 Report I grew up watching Days of Our Lives. My mom watched it when I was young. I really loved the Marlena/Roman/John storyline, well the second one anyway. The one where Sami found out about John and Marlena. You end up getting really invested in the characters. I haven't really sat down and watched it since before my daughter was born (2007) but I catch bits and pieces. It's funny how some storylines are still in action over time (like Carol said, you can skip six months, start watching again and feel as though you haven't missed a thing) but the children grow up so quickly! That's the thing about soaps, as long as the writer's are creative enough, they have built-in longevity. As long as characters keep procreating, they have a show.   Alice Barker 10.19.2010 Report All My Children is my Fave & I watch all 3 on ABC!   Carol Dugan 10.19.2010 Report I used to watch All My Children years ago. Then I went to Texas which was a good soap.Then they took it off and put on General Hospital. I vowed to never watch GH because I liked Texas so much and I never did. Then I went on to Passions a little bit wonky but an alright show.For the last few years now its been Days Of Our Lives. Only thing about it you can miss about 6 months of it and start watching it again and it seems it's where you left off.Why is that? It can get pretty boring.The same ole same ole. SUSAN WENDLING 10.19.2010 Report The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful are my favorites. I really miss As the World Turns and Guiding Light.     * Soap Opera, Series의 차이점 <A name=_GoBack></A>  Drama - 서구에서는 희곡문학, 연극등이 활발해서 희곡과 방송국을 아울러서 드라마라고 한다. 반면 한국에서는 TV드라마의 힘이 막강하고 대중들이 연극, 희곡문학에 관심이 적어서 그냥 방송국만 드라마라고 한다. Soap Opera - 오전 11시에서 오후 2시 사이에 티비를 시청하는 여성시청자를 겨냥한 TV show로써 우리나라의 아침드라마나 막장 드라마에 자주 나오는 비슷한 줄거리를 가집니다. 야외촬영보다는 주로 세트촬영으로 이루어진 것이 특징. - Soap Opera라고 이야기 하는 이유는 이런 TV통속극의 주 시청대상이 주부들이었고, 때문에 비누와 세제, 주방용품 등의 회사(P&G에서 이 용어를 처음만듬)에서 자사제품의 주 고객층인 주부들이 많이 보는 드라마의 제작 스폰서나 광고주가 되었습니다. 그래서 주부들 대상의 통속극을 낮춰 부르는 말로 Soap Opera라고 했습니다. - 비슷한 예로 서부극을 horse opera, 공상과학 우주활극을 space opera라고 합니다. TV Series - 우리가 흔희 아는 Friends, Law and Order, Lost, 24 Hours 등과 같은 미드를 미국에서는 TV Series라고 합니다.   *Source http://www.divinecaroline.com/122442/105917-what-s-favorite-soap-opera http://blog.daum.net/jjjisun/40     Q. 1. Do you know any difference of drama and soap opera? How about TV series? 2. What’s your favourite soap opera? 3. What’s your favourite soap opera in korea? Or japan? 4. What’s the worst one? 5. What do you think about this kind of soap opera?