What was the last thing you searched for online? Why were you looking for it?
Actually it was something extremely frivolous. It involved my favorite soap opera General Hospital. I have watched General Hospital off and on ever since I was a little girl. One of my fondest memories growing up is sitting on the couch in our apartment on 24th Street to the left of my mother and my little sister sitting on her right and my mother feeding us both a spoonful at a time of Cream of Wheat while she watched General Hospital. I still remember all of the original characters; Steve Hardy, Jesse Brewer, Audrey Hardy, I forget her maiden name, Rick Webber, Jeff Weber, Leslie Webber, Diana and etc. If any of you are soap opera fans then you understand what I mean, the history of a soap opera is so very important to the fans because the soap opera is essentially a family’s history and you cannot disturb the actual history just for ratings. General Hospital on average does very well with respecting all of the families back story and for forty years now I have been a fan and now with the internet I can cheat and google story spoilers when ever I want.
I normally never want to know what might happen down the road, but when I have a favorite character or actor involved, sometimes the suspense gets to be too much and I need a sneak peek to make myself feel better. This is November and for soap operas it means sweeps, basically soap operas across the board are dishing out their big nail biter stories, all in the name of advertising dollars, the more viewers, the more exposure for product and the more dollars the advertisers are willing to fork over to the networks to broadcast their commercials. It’s all a business and all about money, I know, but for the soap opera fan it is all about the story, the characters and the respect to the fan from the writers and the producers.
So I googled just yesterday what was potentially going to happen for tomorrow regarding the newest character Franco and his art show, the writers are trying to redeem this character Franco because when he was originally introduced several years ago, he was a psychopathic serial killer who happened to be a world renown artist, he was played by James Franco the film actor and now the character Franco has been taken over by one of my all-time favorite soap opera actors Roger Howarth. The writers in their quest to redeem Franco, gave him a brain tumor in his frontal lobe, essentially making the tumor the bad guy and now that Franco is tumor free, he is a redeemed person. Unfortunately with the removal of his tumor, he lost his artistic mojo. He is also broke because he had several civil suits pending ready to grab his millions so he needs an art show, but since he can’t find it in himself to produce art, he borrowed some works from his number one fan, his seriously deranged and psychotic cousin Heather Webber. This obviously will be a problem so that is why I cheated and looked at the website dedicated to General Hospital Spoilers, I am worried for Franco and others but primarily Franco.
And there you have it, another one of my guilty pleasures.
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I never do that, but I love to Google a movie after I’ve watched it, for extra info.
I do that as well, especially if I haven’t read the book. The older generation of American women used to call their soap operas, their stories. Are there soap operas in the U.K similar to the American ones? The soap opera here started out in radio, mine didn’t, but it started in black and white and as a half hour serial show, I think the year was 1963. The soap opera helped my mother learn conversational English.
Yes, we even have the longest-running soap opera in the world, Coronation Street. Our soaps tend be a lot less glossy than yours, but we still have sex and scandal.
I only watched one soap (Coronation Street, set right here in Manchester) and almost refused to get on the plane to South Africa in 1982 when I learned it wasn’t on there; but I haven’t watched any soaps at all since 2002. Watching the documentaries on the first anniversary of 9/11, I realised that life was too short to watch rubbish on television, so I stopped. I take the same approach with books, movies, etc. Now, if I could just learn to stop playing internet games…
When I had my first baby in SA, I would have the TV on around dinner time. I gradually realised that I was scheduling dinner around the airing of ‘Loving’ 🙂 Do they still make that one? Stacey, I think it was, was killed in a bank robbery, if I remember correctly (I’m going back 23 years).
I watched Loving for the longest time, sadly it went off the air years ago. My soap General Hospital paid a small tribute to it in one of its story lines. I loved Stacy and the love triangle between her Jack and Ava. I watched the soap opera’s when I could but with video taping and now TiVo I can watch it when it suits me. You’re right life is too short but I do like my escapism, always have, it balances the cold reality for me. I hadn’t a clue that you guys had the longest soap opera, we Americans never learn, we always think that we invented everything. hee, hee, hee
Yes, it began in 1960. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation_Street
I recognize Mister Yates from Keeping up Appearances, he’s Daisy’s husband. Thanks for the link. 😀
He’s dead now 😦
How sad. 😦
You are adorable!
😀 You are sweet!
I was a sickly child (asthma) and I remember being babysat by people watching this show – oh the weird nostalgia!
That’s how I feel about my soap opera, it is a common bond between us fans. 🙂
My favorite saying is “GOOGLE IT” gotta make a t shirt! I was looking to research dyi on Washi tape, craft ideas, for home made gifts for Christmas this year. You are so creative.
That’s a great idea for presents for the upcoming holiday season.