Let's Classify Soaps

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That's soap operas, not soap for ablutionary purposes.

Can we classify them into Happy Soaps and Sad Soaps?

Or Teen Soaps, Middle-Aged Soaps and Grey Soaps?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 10 October 2004 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)

My main classification is soaps about hospitals (won't watch), soaps not about hospitals (might watch).

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 10 October 2004 11:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I tend to find the Happy Soap and Sad Soap dichotomy useful, although like all such dichotomies it can only be taken so far. Neighbours and Home and Away are definitely Happy Soaps. I tend to think of Hollyoaks as s Happy Soap even tho some pretty tragic things have happened in it (eg the murdurous Toby!).

East Enders is definitely a Sad Soap. As was the now-defunct Brookie. I'm not sure about Corrie and Emmerdale as I've never watched them.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 10 October 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Who did Toby murder? He was the comic relief when I used to watch.

― Cathy (Cathy), Sunday, 10 October 2004 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Corrie and Emmerdale are the good soaps, doing a mix of happy and sad. EastEnders and Brookside try, but fail this.

What about Cheesy Soaps (Sunset Beach!), High Drama Soaps (Dallas, Dynasty) etc?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 10 October 2004 12:16 (twenty-one years ago)

(I never watched Dynasty, but Dallas was more about the stories than the glamour, which is why I never classified that as a Glamorous Soap - see also Knots Landing)

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 10 October 2004 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Cathy, Toby murdered his mother by pushing her down the stairs and then did in a lot of teenage girls. He tried to murder Steph Dean, but only succeeded in biffing her on the head, giving her epilepsy, which is the reason behind her grudge against Toby's widow Ellie Hunter, who protected Toby and didn't go to the fuzz even tho she knew he committed the murders.

re-your earlier point - how about Vocational versus Non Vocational Soaps? Some are linked to a certain career - why the medical profession is so popular I'm not altogether sure. My mother gets annoyed about Casulaty but not from the blood and guts angle, but coz she thinks the programme focusses too much on the private lives of the ppl in it rather than their actual jobs. Not only do I think this is wide of the mark of itself, I don't see why it is a problem when a programme does this.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 10 October 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

My mother gets annoyed about Casulaty ...coz she thinks the programme focusses too much on the private lives of the ppl in it rather than their actual jobs.

I'm with MrsH on this. I have gone off The Bill for exactly the same reason, when it was a drama more than a soap it wuz great, now not so much. In fact, I rarely watch it now. Casualty has slipped greatly also, but I haven't watched that for ages. Maybe it is because I am old and curmudgeonly, and they all seem to be full of people half my age being impossibly glamorous now, rather than grumpy old cops/doctors etc.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 10 October 2004 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

My main classification is soaps about hospitals (won't watch), soaps not about hospitals (might watch).

My main classification is: soaps (won't watch).

I did watch Brookside back when it was good, though - until about 2000.

― caitlin (caitlin), Sunday, 10 October 2004 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

a boo

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

PASSIONS RULZ!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

http://boomersint.org/images/rabbit.jpg

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

My favourite soap:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v146/portobellopearl/peteinbathnaked.jpg

(in both senses of the word, so I'm on topic, hah!)

― Danger Whore (kate), Monday, 11 October 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

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