Your comment on enjoying love rather than passing it by while waiting for The One is well noted, Nyghtshayde.
But within the context of soaps, this is the sort of baseless myth that's allowed to fester, giving women everywhere the fervent hope that the ending of "Pretty Woman" will happen to them, before dashing those hopes with the inevitable "torrid scheming love rat husband" plot that follows the Great Soap Wedding with the same tired, cliched inevitability as the ad breaks.
And I reserve my special loathing and cynicism towards the soaps which, after forty years, turn their eyes towards the teenage audience all of a sudden, creating plotlines of lurid lesbian sexual awakening at fourteen and underage sexual dramas for the sole purpose of catching the pubescent kids just as they're just starting to turn into adults.
Let me share a small but salient point about the makeup of my personality on this lj which explains the cause of my cynicism. No, wait: I'll make it the topic of a full brand new post ...
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Re: Well...
Date: 2004-03-16 02:44 pm (UTC)But within the context of soaps, this is the sort of baseless myth that's allowed to fester, giving women everywhere the fervent hope that the ending of "Pretty Woman" will happen to them, before dashing those hopes with the inevitable "torrid scheming love rat husband" plot that follows the Great Soap Wedding with the same tired, cliched inevitability as the ad breaks.
And I reserve my special loathing and cynicism towards the soaps which, after forty years, turn their eyes towards the teenage audience all of a sudden, creating plotlines of lurid lesbian sexual awakening at fourteen and underage sexual dramas for the sole purpose of catching the pubescent kids just as they're just starting to turn into adults.
Let me share a small but salient point about the makeup of my personality on this lj which explains the cause of my cynicism. No, wait: I'll make it the topic of a full brand new post ...