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Have British soaps become staid and comfortable?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 85032" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>When the Emmerdale plane crash happened it got attention because it was so out of the ordinary. Disasters, explosions, serial killers, kidnapping, hostage-taking, gaslighting or whatever won't shake things up much because they're now just a regular part of the landscape. I'd find it exhausting to watch the soaps regularly today. </p><p></p><p>Back in the latter half of the Eighties I recall reading a magazine or newspaper interview with a Corrie producer who felt <em>EastEnders</em> wouldn't last because they'd already done everything. Overdone everything, they added. And they went on to criticise the faster pace, saying they didn't believe people lived their lives in such a constant state of high drama. </p><p></p><p>Flash forward a couple of decades and every British soap has bought into that energy and pace to a lesser or greater degree. </p><p></p><p>Events aren't the solution, in my opinion. They're actually part of problem and the frequency with which they now happen is a reason I find British soaps far less attractive today than they were thirty years ago. </p><p></p><p>The bravest thing one of the soaps could do today would be to slow the pace right down, focus on quality over output and have a period where events take a back seat to the characters getting on with the fascinating business of being prosaic. To <em><u>really</u></em> become staid and comfortable. But I can't see that happening. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This too.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This sums it up and holds true on every level.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 85032, member: 23"] When the Emmerdale plane crash happened it got attention because it was so out of the ordinary. Disasters, explosions, serial killers, kidnapping, hostage-taking, gaslighting or whatever won't shake things up much because they're now just a regular part of the landscape. I'd find it exhausting to watch the soaps regularly today. Back in the latter half of the Eighties I recall reading a magazine or newspaper interview with a Corrie producer who felt [I]EastEnders[/I] wouldn't last because they'd already done everything. Overdone everything, they added. And they went on to criticise the faster pace, saying they didn't believe people lived their lives in such a constant state of high drama. Flash forward a couple of decades and every British soap has bought into that energy and pace to a lesser or greater degree. Events aren't the solution, in my opinion. They're actually part of problem and the frequency with which they now happen is a reason I find British soaps far less attractive today than they were thirty years ago. The bravest thing one of the soaps could do today would be to slow the pace right down, focus on quality over output and have a period where events take a back seat to the characters getting on with the fascinating business of being prosaic. To [I][U]really[/U][/I] become staid and comfortable. But I can't see that happening. This too. This sums it up and holds true on every level. [/QUOTE]
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