<![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @katieee: Word. Liam and Leanne: the horror. Discuss.

Hez

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @PimpMyCouch: What's amazing to me is that I have no idea who Patch is, and I'm pretty sure I never saw the "let's have sex" episode, but I can see Kayla's face in my head clear as day! Like a long-lost friend!
Same for Bo and... Marlena, was it?
And Caliope!! (Or was that Another World?)

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> Man, I thought this was gonna be about Coronation Street. Get with the UK zeitgeist (of the past 50 years), Josh!

katieee

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @DorothyMantooth: All of my soap opera memories (save anything after 1991) are pretty foggy. I do remember Patch telling Kayla "Let's go have sex" on Days of Our Lives. That was pretty risque, since it's always "making love" in soap operas. Scandal!

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @PimpMyCouch: It DOES look so lame! But I, too, will give it a chance for GOB.

And I think I remember that falling off a balcony thing... Vaguely.

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @DorothyMantooth: I remember watching it after school too. All I remember really is Eve and Cruz, and the tawdry sex. I think Eve fell off a balcony at one point.
Speaking of Knight Rider - have you seen the new commercials? It looks soooo lame, but Will Arnett is KITT, and my GOB love knows no bounds.

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @PimpMyCouch: There was also some, erm... backstabbing? Tawdry backstabbing?
It was only on for, I think, the 4 years I was in high school. I used to come home and watch it over the phone with my best friend and think we constituted the entire viewing audience!

I'm pretty sure I can't remember anything that actually happened on that show... But remember Gina? I randomly saw an episode of Knight Rider (I think) recently, and she was on it! And I kept staring at her, and staring at her, thinking, "Where the HELL do I know her from?" And then I (mistakenly!) cried, "I got it! It's a young Madonna!!"

True story!
Boring story. But true.

Oh! And Mason!! He was awesome!
Yup. Gina and Mason.

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @DorothyMantooth: I was thinking Cruz! A Martinez. Hah. I'm going to start referring to myself as P MyCouch.
Wasn't amnesia the worst thing to happen on that show? That and tawdry sex? Tawdry even for soap standards?

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @PimpMyCouch: Yes!! A Martinez...
Um, Cruz? Maybe?
And young Robin Wright in her pre-Buttercup (and pre-pre-Penn) days!

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @DorothyMantooth: OMG! I remember Santa Barbara! Eve and the sexy dude...what was his name...

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> Evs, y'all! Santa Barbara pwned!

DorothyMantooth

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> I used to run home from the bus stop to watch ... not "Dark Shadows" because it was 1987, but "As the World Turns." Julianne Moore as identical cousins! William Fichtner as a repentant rapist! Martha Byrne as Lily! Well, that last one still stands.

Ed

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @AuntPeniston: I wish no malice upon Juliet Mills, but she could never replace Rachel Cory... although the stuff is pretty hopelessly dated when I watch it now on YouTube. (Yes, I'm talking to YOU, Linda Dano.)

Hez

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @Hez: Not cancelled, actually, but moved EXCLUSIVELY to direct tv. I guess that's as good as cancelled...

AuntPeniston

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @AuntPeniston: The bigger crime was that they took Another World off the air to make room for that dreck. (Well, that is dreck calling the dreck dreck, but...). AW was the number one soap in Canada for thirty years, the place where both LiLo and crazy Anne Heche got their starts, and it got binned in favour of a fucking talking doll... talking doll that has since been cancelled.

Hez

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> As far as preposterous soap plots are concerned, nothing can compare with the time the Bennett's house was sucked down into hell on Passions. It's true, though, that Passions is actually too bad to qualify as a soap opera. For christ's sake fans of the sci fi network got pissed when they started showing reruns.

AuntPeniston

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @FuturaPerfect: Remember Roxie Shane? I'm not obese either, but damn, those were the good days.

Billy Lewis, wow, no Bauer BBQ, boo.

Spirit Fingers

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @bessmarvingirldetective: Agreed: youtube.com

JojoSaysNo

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @Spirit Fingers: Sadly, the budget has been hit so hard that not even the sanctimonious Bauer BBQ has taken place in the last couple of years. However, they did bring Jonathan AND Bill Lewis back...OK, I need to shut up now. I swear though, I'm not obese!

PrincessKashmir

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @JojoSaysNo: best storyline in soap opera history.

bess marvin, girl detective

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @edisdead: My friends and I started a drinking game during the Sami's-in-a-coma storyline. I'm pretty sure we could still apply it to today's stories.

PimpMyCouch

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> The first third of Gaspar Noe's Irreverisble almost made me vomit, but that could just as easily have been seeing a guy's face get pulverized by a fire extinguisher as it could have been the shaky-cam.

JojoSaysNo

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> Remember when Dr. Marlena Evans was possessed by the devil on Days of Our Lives?

Yeah, me too. That was great.

JojoSaysNo

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> All I know is that "All My Children" brought back Jesse and Angie, which means that, after nearly 10 years of soap sobriety, I'm back on the sauce. Steadicam, handheld, slow-motion, silent, I don't care. I need my Jesse and Angie fix.

picardia

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> and i say this as a person who was dangerously obsessed with 'days of our lives' in college.

edisdead

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> at least now we'll know the nausea is from the shakycam and not from the plotlines.

edisdead

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> All My Children introduced shaky-cams about a year ago and had to stop by popular demand. Their young-uns have been texting like forever.

msanthropic

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> @VoxPopuli: Somehow, death threats written in LOLCat are hilarious: "U Can Haz Poizoned Cookie. Oops U Did!!!0!11 LOLZ!11"

BettyCrocker

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> This is not making the Spirit happy. I'd rather not need a Dramamine in order to watch Reva's clone try to seduce Josh, or the Bauer family 4th of July BBQ with an airplane puke bag nearby...but then it's Guiding Light, the puke bag may be needed anyway.

FYI...Cloverfield nearly caused a mishap.

Spirit Fingers

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> The National Housekeepers' Association has already expressed their intent to strike should this change occur.

fiveinchtaint

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> Ooh... text messaging. Edgy.
How threatening can a death threat be when it's "im gona kill u. watch ur back."

VoxPopuli

]]> <![CDATA[Handheld Cameras To Make Soap Operas Edgy]]> ...and the scripts will be written on cell phones.

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