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Post by milowent on Mar 16, 2007 0:01:09 GMT -5
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Post by hyemew on Mar 16, 2007 5:00:29 GMT -5
Is a soap opera plot really what one wants to aspire your project to become...?
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Post by Smashing on Mar 16, 2007 5:41:33 GMT -5
Is a soap opera plot really what one wants to aspire your project to become...? I know what you mean, Hye. It's not what we wanted it to become, but it's what it IS. I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with wanting to run a soap opera. They are very successful, which was half the point of his comparison to General Hospital. A comparison to a daytime soap is the most accurate I think, and it definitely has evolved into that. As Miles said on their radio show when talking to Mesh about how the writing has changed, "it's the difference between writing for film vs. writing for television." A curious statement considering the show's never been on either of those media. But that's how they thought about it. At the beginning, they thought of it as an independent film. Then when they realized they hoped to keep going for, as Miles now says "50 years," it became like a tv show. It's been compared to Lost, but that's so unfair because Lost is more like a big budget movie broadcast on televsion. If you compare it to a daytime soap, it still doesn't have the budget, but there are a lot more similarities. In fact, if you read the wiki entry for characteristics of soap opera plots it's basically describing LG. |
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Post by slainte on Mar 16, 2007 11:29:21 GMT -5
Wow...It has been SO LONG since I've heard from Luke and Laura! Oh how I miss his Members Only jackets and Laura's ever so post-disco clothes! I spent many a college day watching with great anticipation.! (You HAD to be able to speak intelligently about the story if you wanted to "meet" girls at the Uof MD College Park)
Odd...truely odd. I suppose it's because I want to see them but I see so many parallels between the cast and plots of both.
Luke/Yousef and Bree/Laura are falling in love against there will as they chase down Mikkos (OpAphid) Cassedine before he can unleash his ultimate plan to hold the world to ransom.
If world leaders did not accept his demands for total world domination, he would use his carbonic snow to send the Earth into a new ice age.
In order to show that he was capable of doing this, he selected Joans mountain retreat as a test and soon it was plunged into a blizzard -- even though it was still summer.
The young golden gloves "Wannabe" Blackie (Jonus) Parish joins forces as a sort of third whell...
It goes on and on!
What fun
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