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From: gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (Greg Skinner)
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Subject: Re: Is net.tv.soaps For Daytime Soaps On
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 02:07:52 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 16 02:07:52 1984
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>> I simply have to put in my 5 cents worth.  .soaps should
>> be only for daytime soaps.  I hope that you will all
>> agree that there is quite a difference between Dallas and
>> Dynasty, and All my Brats and General Hospital.

Well, I guess so, but that's no reason to confine .soaps to daytime
only. 

> Of course.  Daytime soaps are frivolous, "top-40" entertainment,
> while nighttime "continuing episode dramas" are serious literature
> on a par with the best of the great authors like Sidney Sheldon
> and Harold Robbins. (FOR THOSE WHO LEFT THEIR SARCASM DETECTOR HOME:  :-)
> [HAVE I GOT A NEWSGROUP FOR YOU...]

Well, I wouldn't call Dallas/Dynasty serious literature, although it is
somewhat more realistic than GH has been of late (since the Casadines
and the Freezing of Port Charles).  However, no soap is as serious as
Hill Street or St. Elsewhere.  Would you have called Family a soap?  (I
know it didn't have continued episodes.)  Even if it did, I wouldn't
have called it one.  HSB/St. Elsewhere are continuing episode dramas.
They are not nighttime soaps.  They are meant to be taken seriously.

> Hey, I watch Hill Street, but I only watch Dynasty to get a peek at
> Joan Collins.  My favorite evening soap is, of course, Dukes of
> Hazzard ("Can't you see I'm dun fer?"  "Dun fer?  Why that's a word that
> Dukes don't know the meaning of!"  [AMONG MANY OTHERS] ).  Of course
> Dukes is a soap; it's part of CBS's Friday evening of soaps.

The Dukes of Hazzard is no more a soap than Three's Company, Alice, etc.
It is comedy.  No more, no less.  Any attempts to classify it otherwise
are ridiculous.

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					Be ye moby,
					for I am moby.

Greg Skinner (gregbo)
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