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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 397018" data-attributes="member: 27">I recall As The World Turns had one of those &quot;nine lives&quot; characters named David Stenbeck.&nbsp; After faking his death several times, he got killed off for real, even having an open-casket funeral.&nbsp; Julia Lindsey had been victimized by David repeatedly, so when she showed up at the funeral, people hoped she was there to gain closure and start to heal.&nbsp; Instead, in her quest to be absolutely sure he was &quot;dead dead,&quot; she pulled out a gun and unloaded all its bullets into the corpse as he laid in the coffin, just to be sure.&nbsp; And Julia just got crazier and crazier over time.&nbsp; But could you really blame anyone on B&amp;B (and especially Y&amp;R&#039;s Lauren) for doing something similar if given the chance?&nbsp; Soap characters rarely are allowed to &quot;learn&quot; from these wacky plots---they just keep reacting the same way no matter how many times characters rise from the &quot;dead&quot; or have their babies switched/stolen, or (in B&amp;B&#039;s case) take back the same lover/spouse you&#039;ve dumped a dozen times.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 397018, member: 27"] I recall [I]As The World Turns[/I] had one of those "nine lives" characters named David Stenbeck. After faking his death several times, he got killed off for real, even having an open-casket funeral. Julia Lindsey had been victimized by David repeatedly, so when she showed up at the funeral, people hoped she was there to gain closure and start to heal. Instead, in her quest to be absolutely sure he was "[I]dead[/I] dead," she pulled out a gun and unloaded all its bullets into the corpse as he laid in the coffin, just to be sure. And Julia just got crazier and crazier over time. But could you really blame anyone on B&B (and especially Y&R's Lauren) for doing something similar if given the chance? Soap characters rarely are allowed to "learn" from these wacky plots---they just keep reacting the same way no matter how many times characters rise from the "dead" or have their babies switched/stolen, or (in B&B's case) take back the same lover/spouse you've dumped a dozen times. [/QUOTE]

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