Please give me some evidence which proves that Soap Opera's are unrealistic?!


Question: Please give me some evidence which proves that Soap Opera's are unrealistic!?
Thankyou for your help!. I rarley see soap opera's so this is difficult for me!. Best answer gets 10 points!. (:Www@Enter-QA@Com


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I only watch General Hospital, but I'll give you some specific storyline examples of common cliches:

1!. Casey the Alien!. I wasn't watching at the time, but it gets brought up on message boards a lot as one of the worst storylines in the history of the show!. Apparently, during the 90's Anna and Robin befriended an actual alien!. I'm not talking about immigration, either, so unless you're Fox Mulder this is highly unrealistic!.

2!. The Text-Message Killer!. Last fall/winter there was a serial killer storyline that stretched out for ages!. The problem was that the writers started killing characters off without figuring out who was going to be the murderer!. Eventually they realized that there was only one person, Diego Alcazar, who had a connection to all of the victims!. The only problem!? Diego was already dead!. That didn't stop them from making him the killer!. And then he died again!. Until the next time they need someone to pin a crime spree on!.

3!. An oncologist who doubles as a plastic surgeon moonlights as a mafia hitman!. Dr!. Ian Devlin was unrealistic enough when he first came on, because no doctor can practice two completely unrelated areas of medicine, but then our idiot head writer Guza decided doctors aren't cool enough, so he had Ian get hired by a mafia princess to take out the local kingpin!. Of course, not being a gunman by trade, Dr!. Lee Harvey Devlin missed and got the kingpin's 12-year-old son in the head, leading to what is quite possibly the single most vile storyline in the history of soap operas: Child In A Coma, I Know, I Know, It's Serious!.

4!. That person you can't stand is really your long-lost daughter/son/father/mother/sibling!. I know this happens in real life, but the frequency and the typical animosity between reunited family members is what makes it so unrealistic on soaps!. This has been done to death on GH, but I'll give you the three most glaring examples!. It started with Bobbie and Carly in the 90's, and that one was actually good and soapy!. Bobbie was a teen hooker when she had Carly, and put her up for adoption!. Carly had a good adoptive mother, but her father walked out on the family when she was a tot and she grew up poor, so when she came to Port Charles and found her birth mother married to a rich doctor she felt abandoned and sought revenge by sleeping with Bobbie's husband!. They eventually got past that and created a real mother-daughter bond, but it took a lot of time and effort!.

Compare that to a couple of years ago, when Sam discovered she was adopted and that her birth mother was Alexis, a woman she already had a bad history with!. At first they tried to put the past aside and forge a new relationship, but eventually Sam ended up sleeping with Alexis' husband just because Alexis had dared to argue with her!. They seem to have forgotten about that now, though, and are back on good terms!.

A few months after that, an Iraq war veteran named Logan showed up in town and turned out to be the long-lost son of local attorney Scott!. Scott hadn't known that Logan's mother was ever even pregnant, but somehow it was still his fault that Logan grew up without a father!. Scott still tries to connect with Logan in spite of mutual bad feelings, but they're both such marginalized characters that there's no real story there!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

I probably couldn't point out a specific moment in a soap opera, because I watch the English soaps, but it's unrealistic in the way that it's (usually) one street/town/group of people that are the main characters, and the amount of trauma and drama is ridiculous!. They have people dying off, natural disasters, murders, every week and it's kinda stupid!. Normal, real-life people would be in counseling for the rest of their lives!.

And then, everyone (in our case) meets in the pub!. No one ever seems to go to work!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

I once asked my mother about one of her "story" characters!. He was a young man about voting age!. I was having an interaction with a middle-aged woman about money (!?), and I asked her who these characters were!. She replied that the young man was the woman's great-great grandson!. I was flabbergasted!. She followed her stories very closely, and I had no reason to doubt what she said!. If that were anything close to the truth, these people would have to starting having children at about age 5 or 6 to crowd that many generations into their story line! Do the math! It made no sense to me!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

OK!. We'll take Bold and the Beautiful!. In my little world, I would not come back from the dead, sleep with and/or marry anyone who was with my sister (and had kids with), hook up with my niece's beau, fall in love with a guy who I believed for most of my life was my father (oh, we are not related, lets hook up!), sleep with someone who had kids with my father, sleep with and have a kid with my daughter's husband!. I don't know, maybe that is just me!. But I am guessing this is a little far fetched, that is why they are soaps!. They have to be unrealistic to keep us entertained!
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Characters will die!.!.!.!.!.!.then show up again months or years later!.
Everyone is usually wealthy, or at least always seem to have the money they need to do whatever they please!.
Kids age extremely fast!.!.!.!.!.once adults, they seem to never get old!.
Pregnancy is never 9 months!.!.!.!.if no mis-carriage(which happens A LOT)!.!.!.!.!.it is usually 3-5 months to delivery or sooner if it is premature!.(which also happens A LOT )
Most of the characters are thin and fit and beautiful/ handsome!.

just to name a few!.!.lolWww@Enter-QA@Com

Everyone (even the so-called poor) has money, nice cars and clothes!. You almost always get away with murder, At lwast half the town has an evil twin!. Everyone has slept with everyones else ex, brother, sister, mom, dad, etc!!! Something that should take months to cure is cured within the week!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

couples never last!. something ALWAYS happens!. they can never be happy!.

eastenders - everyone just lately has an attitude!.

some story lines are soooo far fetched!.

no one's life is boring!.!. that's unrealistic!.

corrie and eastenders tend to copy storylines!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

couples never last long they brake up but find there way back to each other if it is true love they do and some one is always getting killed or you think there dead but there not!. big gh and days fan!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

story lines are never real come on i mean david being a loonatic come on and someone could of stopped him smashing it allWww@Enter-QA@Com

listen, if you don't like them, don't watch them, turn the channel and move on, I get so tired of answering these stupid questions!Www@Enter-QA@Com

Bringing someone back from the dead after being "dead" for 20 years!. Having ghosts show up to haunt you!. Switching DNA - not just once, but several times, etc!.Www@Enter-QA@Com

there always seems to be a murder about 5 people cheating on their partners- everyone knows each other and meet at a pubWww@Enter-QA@Com

its "unreal" like not real!.!.!.!.you don't need evidence because it is not based on facts but fantasy

Baily B!?Www@Enter-QA@Com

Everyone is "rich"!.!.!.!.!.!.go figure!Www@Enter-QA@Com



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