What is a soap opera?!


Question: What is a soap opera!?
What qualifies a show as a soap opera and what do those words mean together!? This is a serious question, I am just wondering how they got that name!? Would Smallville be considered a soap opera!?Www@Enter-QA@Com


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A soap opera is ANY SERIEL DRAMA that has continuing story lines that span across multiple episodes!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

Soap operas are more character-driven than plot-driven (at least the good ones are)!. They focus on people who happen to find themselves in dramatic situations, as opposed to dramatic situations and the people who happen to be involved!. Typically the term is only applied to daytime shows and a very select group of primetime shows -- usually "guilty pleasure" type faire such as Gossip Girl, stuff that's meant to be pure escapism with no intellectual value!.

However, if you think about it a lot of more respectable shows really could be considered soaps!. I've heard ER, for example, referred to as having soap-like qualities!.

They're called "soap operas" because they originally aired on the radio in the afternoons, before there was TV, when most women were housewives and most men went out and worked during the day!. They were sponsored by the soap companies who used them as a form of advertising, figuring that if they could keep women entertained they could get them to buy their products!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

It generally is just a tv drama that is usually on in the afternoons!. (Such as "All My Children", "One Life To Live", "General Hospital" etc!.)

They got that nickname because when these dramas first came out, it was in the '50's, and since most women stayed home, they would watch these drama's while they did house chores, such as the laundry and ironing, (that's the"Soap" part)!.
They called them "Opera's" I think because they generally have a sad storyline which would make the women cry!.
Thus, "Soap Opera!."

No, Smallville is not a SoapOpera, just a Drama (mainly because it is on in the evening hours and not the afternoons)!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

I've never seen Smallville!.
A soap opera is a daytime drama, initially sponsered by soap companies!. It's a never-ending story - continued from day to day!. With Dynasty, it was continued from week to week - an on-going story with the same cast!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

daytime dramas that come on everyday monday-friday!. no smallville is a series!. i don't know where the name come from unless it's because the actors seem so emotional all the time or the history between the families could be a lot of things!.Www@Enter-QA@Com



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