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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Is net.tv.soaps For Daytime Soaps On
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 16:27:02 EDT
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> 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.

Referring to a nighttime soap as a "continuing episode drama" is roughly
analogous to calling a nighttime game show a "knowledge-based inquisitional
prize incentive program" (or calling a missile a "Peacekeeper"?).  Lyndon
LaRouche is also meant to be taken seriously.  Just tacking on a pretentious
name does not make something somehow more serious.  I do believe that HSB et al
*is* certainly a much higher quality program than Dallas/Dynasty (with their
sweeping non-character non-development), but let's not get carried away
with pretentious doublespeak names.  Let's call a soap a soap.

> > 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.

It *was* supposed to be a joke...  ["We're dunfer!!"]
-- 
"So, it was all a dream!" --Mr. Pither
"No, dear, this is the dream; you're still in the cell." --his mother
				Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr