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There are a lot of complaints about the length of storylines, how they drag on, etc. Isn’t that what a soap opera is? I can remember lots of storylines in the past on several soaps that went on for a long time. I actually have not minded the Sydney storyline going on this long. Sometimes things are wrapped up so quickly they make my head spin ! I guess it’s just the culture now of wanting everything now, right away.
I actually haven’t minded the length of this storyline either, because it’s been full of such amazing acting and drama. I’ll be sad to see it end honestly.
I don’t mind lengthy SLs as long as they are interesting! lol For example, the Salem stalker SL was pretty long, but actually pretty good! On the other hand, the Belle-Shawn-Philip SL (in which Philip was injured and leg cut off, and Belle pretended to still be in love with him, when she really was in love with Shawn), was BORNING and long!
Days’ stories are short in comparison! lol The Passions’ stories lasted years with no resolve. This kidnapping story has only started to drag now for me. I just feel like they were holding off to wait for Ari Z’s return.
around Christmas time that made me realize that this whole story line started over a year ago. On the whole, I would say that for me it’s moved along pretty well. Having said that, it really is time to "get ‘r done"! It’s interesting that the whole story line is bookended with two real life pregnancies: Ali’s and Ari’s. I just hope that the writers don’t let EJ walk away unscathed by what he’s done and that Sami really does find out what he did. Then, I hope the writers get Sami back on track to becoming the more mature adult that she was heading toward before all of this happened. For me, a happy result would be for her to know what EJ did and never trust him again. Of course, that’s what we thought was going to happen in the past too, but it never did. One can only hope!
once EJ is found out and Nicole returns – turning Sami against EJ and Brady once again toward Nicole, might we see Arianna/EJ and Nicole/Brady.
Well, if he does walk away unscathed (which I hope he does…ouch!), it wouldn’t be the first time a salemite did so, would it? I mean, Kate came dangerously close to killing Chloe, and she’s FREE AS OXYGEN right now; hasn’t suffered an ounce for what she did to the poor woman! I say this: if EJ has to actually suffer for his wrong doings, then the writers better go back to the Kate-Chloe SL and see to her getting greatly punished! Heck, even Vivian is in more hot water for just the "desire" to kill Mel, while Kate literally POISONED Chloe (they all know she did), and she’s roaming throughout Salem, slowly but surely being redeemed via the Vivian-Carly drama (just look how Philip’s more apt to be around her, etc). Ugh! Not fair at all!
as soon as she crosses him, what do you suppose he will do with the evidence he has to convict her? Not to mention, I so hope he intends to exact more than a little justice on Junior as well.
In the old days of Days, storylines could last for years! I remember a woman called Kitty had the goods on Bill Horton — that his brother Mickey was sterile and therefore Mike Horton could not be Mickey’s son. That whole "Mike is really Bill’s son" storyline went on for years. From the time Laura found out she was pregnant, through Tom Horton knowing the secret and not divulging it, through Kitty having a tape of Bill talking to Laura about Mike, through Mickey’s secretary Linda finding out about his sterility when eventually I think the truth came out. It was years! These storylines are super short by comparison.
I also remember in the old days that half the show was taken up in establishing who was talking. So they’d say, Tom? Are you saying that our son Mickey’s son Mike is not really his son after all? That he is in fact our other son Bill’s son with Laura? Used to crack me up the constant references to who everyone was. They don’t seem to do that as much any more (thank goodness)
Gayle
Right. Mickey and Mike didn’t find out until Mike was a teenager and visiting Mickey and Maggie on the farm. There was an acccident and Mike got hurt and needed a blood transfusion. That’s how it came out.
The thing with those old storylines that went on for years was they were always in the background, the viewers were in on the secret but it wasn’t front and center every day and crammed down our throats. It was mentioned then not talked about for a LONG time. Then maybe it came up again but dropped and in the background again. They didn’t change history as they do now they just waited for the right time for the secret to come out.
The baby switch could have been like that. EJ and Nicole raising Sydney for even 4-5 years before it came out and it not being the main focus of every show would have been good. The backlash of that after that many years would have been great.
our culture is more fast pace and conclusion oriented so a year of the same story line is mind-numbing to most of us. I watch the show because it reminds me of my serial books that I read where the character’s and story lines develop over the course of several tomes, but in the show, as with my books, I don’t want the story to stalemate and stagnate. Move it along people, move it along…
We’re also becoming more "instant gratifications" fixated. I WANT IT NOW!!
I actually enjoy when a storyline I like or characters I like are on frequently and the story moves along but if it’s going to take a year to move on then don’t keep shoving it down my throat on a daily basis. Let me have something else to distract me until something that’s pertinent to the story comes up, I don’t need to keep seeing the same dialogue over and over and over.
to see any storyline dragged out that long. It becomes monotonous and frustrating to me, and that’s putting it mildly. Sweeps should end some story lines and begin new ones. It’s okay to create an umbrella storyline, where one concludes, but leads to the opening of another. That I like; for example, now we have Carly’s revelation affecting not only Melanie, but Daniel and Chloe, and eventually I’m sure Victor will be involved at some point. That’s fine; but, when one storyline goes on and on and on, with no end in sight, with the same dialogue repeated week after week, month after month, that’s when I give my fast forward button the usage it now and then deserves.
Something happens in them. I remember a lot of longer romances (Jack & Jenn) that were great. But things happened, moved, and didn’t repeat. With this Syndey SL it just seems to be dragging on and the same things, same conversations, same everything keep happening. I know it is because of Nicole, but they could have been a LITTLE more creative in this departmenet.
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