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Jan. 30th, 2010 02:29 pmConfession: I've been dipping my toes back into my childhood (and teen years) stomping ground of daytime soaps (omg I swear the acting wasn't always this bad). Except...why is Kish the smoosh pairing name for Kyle Lewis and Oliver Fish? Surely Kysh would be fairer?
I'd seen a couple of Kyle/Oliver clips from One Life to Live, but this week I've watched a lot of their storyline (I've gradually worked around to watching it in order, I didn't start out like that). Hurrah for multiple people on youtube sharing clips. Also, hurrah for surprise All-American Rejects! They got to be a concert date for Kyle and Oliver *and* the background music for a brutal gay bashing :\
I grew up on Days and Young & Restless because my grandma, who lived with us, watched them. Then my sister and I got seriously hooked at different times to plots on Days, General Hospital and Bold & Beautiful and would tape them (such a good way to watch soaps, you can ffwd through the plots you don't care about).
Man, I miss being addicted to soaps. Well, not really, but I do love good trashy love triangles/quadrangles, faked pregnancies, unknown family relationships (I'm your mother/brother/son/half-aunt *and* half-sister), or people coming back from the dead (oh Stefano and Marlena, no one does it like you two do). I loved the continuing nature of the storylines, that you always found out what happened next.
When I was a kid, and I loved a book or movie or tv show, I wanted to know what happened to my favourite characters afterwards (hello, big reason I was drawn to fanfic - there's always more adventures for your favourite characters!) Soaps, you always find out what happens next, until the person runs out of storylines and dies (often temporary), rides off into the sunset or goes upstairs to fix some curtains and is never seen again. All set against an incredibly complex backstory of decades of preposterous relationships.
I think good badfic (you know, the sort which is competently enough written that its not painful to read, but is ridiculously over the top, out of character and can be so satisfying to wallow in) pushes many of the same buttons for me as soaps.
And watching clips from a soap with which you have no previous exposure (One Life to Live has never aired in Australia) is really entertainingly confusing. I have no idea who people not directly connected to the Kish storyline are or understand a lot of the relationships/history. Now, if this storyline was on Days, Young and Restless, General Hospital or Bold and Beautiful, I'd have some ideas (though I'm years out of regular viewing, except for occasionally seeing the last 5 minutes of Bold when waiting for it to end and the news come on, which is totally enough to keep somewhat current with it).
Anyway, kudos to OLTL for the Kyle/Oliver relationship. It's been done pretty well, though I feel it could be improved if Kyle's evil identical twin was to show up at some point.
I'd seen a couple of Kyle/Oliver clips from One Life to Live, but this week I've watched a lot of their storyline (I've gradually worked around to watching it in order, I didn't start out like that). Hurrah for multiple people on youtube sharing clips. Also, hurrah for surprise All-American Rejects! They got to be a concert date for Kyle and Oliver *and* the background music for a brutal gay bashing :\
I grew up on Days and Young & Restless because my grandma, who lived with us, watched them. Then my sister and I got seriously hooked at different times to plots on Days, General Hospital and Bold & Beautiful and would tape them (such a good way to watch soaps, you can ffwd through the plots you don't care about).
Man, I miss being addicted to soaps. Well, not really, but I do love good trashy love triangles/quadrangles, faked pregnancies, unknown family relationships (I'm your mother/brother/son/half-aunt *and* half-sister), or people coming back from the dead (oh Stefano and Marlena, no one does it like you two do). I loved the continuing nature of the storylines, that you always found out what happened next.
When I was a kid, and I loved a book or movie or tv show, I wanted to know what happened to my favourite characters afterwards (hello, big reason I was drawn to fanfic - there's always more adventures for your favourite characters!) Soaps, you always find out what happens next, until the person runs out of storylines and dies (often temporary), rides off into the sunset or goes upstairs to fix some curtains and is never seen again. All set against an incredibly complex backstory of decades of preposterous relationships.
I think good badfic (you know, the sort which is competently enough written that its not painful to read, but is ridiculously over the top, out of character and can be so satisfying to wallow in) pushes many of the same buttons for me as soaps.
And watching clips from a soap with which you have no previous exposure (One Life to Live has never aired in Australia) is really entertainingly confusing. I have no idea who people not directly connected to the Kish storyline are or understand a lot of the relationships/history. Now, if this storyline was on Days, Young and Restless, General Hospital or Bold and Beautiful, I'd have some ideas (though I'm years out of regular viewing, except for occasionally seeing the last 5 minutes of Bold when waiting for it to end and the news come on, which is totally enough to keep somewhat current with it).
Anyway, kudos to OLTL for the Kyle/Oliver relationship. It's been done pretty well, though I feel it could be improved if Kyle's evil identical twin was to show up at some point.
