tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post2724036942750086219..comments2024-03-25T05:23:41.171-04:00Comments on Bilbo's Random Thought Collection: All My Soap OperasBilbohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14213505386288233192noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-43633633106178474292009-04-04T06:27:00.000-04:002009-04-04T06:27:00.000-04:00Katherine - someday, I'll tell you about my advent...Katherine - someday, I'll tell you about my adventures with the French customs officers who spent the better part of an hour jerking me around at the Wissembourg border crossing just because it was fun to jerk some poor American's chain...Bilbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14213505386288233192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-76316223944199213202009-04-03T20:29:00.000-04:002009-04-03T20:29:00.000-04:00I was sorry to hear about GL--which is the only so...I was sorry to hear about GL--which is the only soap I ever watched. It was great--you could watch it about once a year and keep up on the plot lines!<BR/><BR/>Soaps really are an international phenom. I was once briefly detained at the French/Spanish boarder by a couple of bored French immigration guys who wouldn't return my passport until I revealed who shot JR! Well, as one who neither speaks much French nor watched Dallas, I had to get them to list characters, and finally told them one who I thought was the culprit from what little I'd gleaned from others. What a hoot. I think I was wrong, too.KKTSewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14300483956686864167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-42635798218348278972009-04-03T17:48:00.000-04:002009-04-03T17:48:00.000-04:00Amanda - that was my problem in the end, too.OCgir...Amanda - that was my problem in the end, too.<BR/><BR/>OCgirl - I think that sounds like fun!<BR/><BR/>Anonymous - good call on the cultural aspect. I never understood why AMC had such a grip on the base, other than it was so over the top with its plots.<BR/><BR/>Leslie - Yep!<BR/><BR/>Fiona - glad you broke the addiction. That dram sounds good!<BR/><BR/>Andrea - don't think I know about "Passions." And not just because of my age, either.<BR/><BR/>Mike - yes. Yes it did.<BR/><BR/>Jean-Luc - Guiding Light is being ended because of "declining viewership," according to the article. Perhaps it was just showing its age...Bilbohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14213505386288233192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-53994550828584858622009-04-03T15:33:00.000-04:002009-04-03T15:33:00.000-04:00I never watched soap operas as the had no ending. ...I never watched soap operas as the had no ending. Though I'm in Britain, I've heard of 'The Guiding Light', though never seen here.Why is it ending?Jean-Luc Picardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01689798190618944262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-26717638194997489542009-04-03T13:21:00.000-04:002009-04-03T13:21:00.000-04:00"and went overseas, and somehow never got back int..."and went overseas, and somehow never got back into it when I returned five years later"<BR/><BR/>So the intervention seems to have worked.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00017192454403363349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-44414969865976197402009-04-03T12:40:00.000-04:002009-04-03T12:40:00.000-04:00I used to have a small addiction to Passions cos i...I used to have a small addiction to Passions cos it was so weirdThe Mistress of the Darkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16923975714269274370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-4392010336920897282009-04-03T11:18:00.000-04:002009-04-03T11:18:00.000-04:00I lived a year of my life controlled by Dallas...U...I lived a year of my life controlled by Dallas...<BR/>United Whisky and Haggis Inc just made their weekly delivery! Anyone like a wee dram?fionahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06596725053201745199noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-30059272871624901552009-04-03T10:22:00.000-04:002009-04-03T10:22:00.000-04:00Ha! I agree with anOCgirl--when I was stationed i...Ha! I agree with anOCgirl--when I was stationed in Korea I'd come home and turn on the tv to find out the maid had been watching it--it was tuned to a Korean station rather to the bland, boring AFKN. I missed out on a year of Dynasty but my neighbor and I used to get together, eat popcorn, drink sake and do embroidery while watching some program that was a year old or had been cancelled in the US. <BR/><BR/>Much more fun to watch a Korean drama or soap opera, whatever, without the sound and make up your own dialogue.Leslie Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-46466899020851193952009-04-03T10:10:00.000-04:002009-04-03T10:10:00.000-04:00With the wide range of international soap operas a...With the wide range of international soap operas available via regular cable in the polyglot DC Metro area, we can learn everything we didn't want to know about almost every culture on earth--but seriously, has anybody ever seen a soap opera that featured anything but the rich and as a minimum, the upper levels of the middle class? I've always assumed you can find out what TV producers believe is important to their culture by what comes up on the soap operas....<BR/><BR/><BR/>I'd really be interested to find out how one air base got hooked on a specific soap--seems almost like a form of mass hysteria!<BR/><BR/>Anonymous observer of cultures for fun and profit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-25677137730032403502009-04-03T09:22:00.000-04:002009-04-03T09:22:00.000-04:00trust me, you're not missing much by not understan...trust me, you're not missing much by not understanding what they are saying on telenovelas. in fact, it's more fun if you mute it and create your own ridiculous dialogue!an orange county girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09269731495219291076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23683658.post-69609199277964666582009-04-03T06:08:00.000-04:002009-04-03T06:08:00.000-04:00I always wondered why they were called 'Soap Opera...I always wondered why they were called 'Soap Operas'. There are similar shows in Asia but they don't go on for years. The plots are also twisted and shocking, just like the American shows, but they only run for a month each. <BR/><BR/>I always hated getting hooked on one of them. It makes you re-schedule everything else just for that one hour.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03542715899155247984noreply@blogger.com