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Why has Grey's Anatomy succeeded where 80s soaps failed?
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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 72346" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>A tenth season would have been great, yes. More than that? I'm not sure.</p><p>Season 11 was Knots' last great season. Season 12 was absolutely horrible (except the last 4 or 5 episodes) and both season 13 and 14 were a mixed bag.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying that a family-based soap is an excuse for doing a bad job, I was merely pointing out that it needs a stronger narrative than hospital/courtroom/cop soaps because it doesn't have all the stand-alone plotlines (patients, law suits, investigations etc).</p><p>Therefore it feels a little "apples and oranges" to me.</p><p></p><p>Actually I find it more interesting to see that GA continues to succeed (or at least, exist) in our <em>current</em> TV landscape.</p><p>5 or 6 seasons seems to be the max these days?</p><p>Not that every story <em>needs</em> to go on forever. - and hospital shows seem to be most suitable for that neverending story. Life, death, tragedy, mixed with doctors love stories - people love it.</p><p>They can't kill off that many characters on soaps, although Falcon Crest surely tried. And three of its characters actually died in a hospital bed (!)</p><p></p><p>I've watched 190 episodes of GA.</p><p>Meredith, Christina and Miranda had become insufferably unlikeable (for different reasons) and there was still hope when April Kepner (the "Carly Fixx" of the hospital shows) left, but then they brought her <em>back.<img src="http://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/agressive/t0128.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":r&r:" title="R & R :r&r:" data-shortname=":r&r:" /></em></p><p>Watching the episodes became a struggle and overall I lost the desire to find out what would happen next.</p><p>But the first 6 seasons were absolutely amazing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 72346, member: 8"] A tenth season would have been great, yes. More than that? I'm not sure. Season 11 was Knots' last great season. Season 12 was absolutely horrible (except the last 4 or 5 episodes) and both season 13 and 14 were a mixed bag. I'm not saying that a family-based soap is an excuse for doing a bad job, I was merely pointing out that it needs a stronger narrative than hospital/courtroom/cop soaps because it doesn't have all the stand-alone plotlines (patients, law suits, investigations etc). Therefore it feels a little "apples and oranges" to me. Actually I find it more interesting to see that GA continues to succeed (or at least, exist) in our [I]current[/I] TV landscape. 5 or 6 seasons seems to be the max these days? Not that every story [I]needs[/I] to go on forever. - and hospital shows seem to be most suitable for that neverending story. Life, death, tragedy, mixed with doctors love stories - people love it. They can't kill off that many characters on soaps, although Falcon Crest surely tried. And three of its characters actually died in a hospital bed (!) I've watched 190 episodes of GA. Meredith, Christina and Miranda had become insufferably unlikeable (for different reasons) and there was still hope when April Kepner (the "Carly Fixx" of the hospital shows) left, but then they brought her [I]back.:r&r:[/I] Watching the episodes became a struggle and overall I lost the desire to find out what would happen next. But the first 6 seasons were absolutely amazing. [/QUOTE]
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