Essentially, this is... a recap of recaps

[cleolinda]

Today's The Month What My Journal Was Born In flashback: I learned my recappin' in a hard school, y'all. For about three months, I wrote daily Days of Our Lives recaps. And then, between my class schedule changing and the show being on every weekday, I burnt out. BUT THE LESSONS I LEARNED STAYED WITH ME FOREVER. And as soon as I figure out what

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[cleolinda]

Oh, Passions was a lot crazier.

[sweetsyren]

Crazier? Theres crazier than Crazy Jan. Seriously.

Why don't we get to have crack like that?

*sulks*

[cleolinda]

Oh, man, I should have recapped Passions when I had the chance. The LEAST crazy thing I saw was a dirty-dancing competition to the strains of Garbage's "#1 Crush" that lasted an entire week of show time. There was a storyline where one of the characters went to hell (which was tastefully decorated all in red. I think Hitler was there). There was also one where a psycho chick faked a pregnancy with a bag of sugar and had a chimpanzee "nurse" following her around everywhere; the girl who was really pregnant was being held captive in the basement so that psycho could steal her baby when it was time for the psycho to deliver her bag of sugar. Also, there was Timmy the Evil Talking Ventriloquist Doll, who was played by a--what's the preferred term now, "little person"? Until the actor passed away, at which point they had a very loving montage of Timmy the Evil Talking Ventriloquist Doll.

[sweetsyren]

Sweet deities!

I mean there's crack and then there's crack!

I'm going to look some of this stuff up cos I have to see it to believe it. Not that I don't believe you, I jsut really have to see it!

Are their writers just stoned all the time?? I mean, that's some Grade A LSD they're sucking on!

EDIT: Dear lord. I looked it up. I found this Timmy tribute. Is this what you meant??

[cleolinda]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passions

A random sentence I just happened to see: Summer 2007 saw the resolution of the "blackmailer" storyline as Vincent Clarkson was revealed to be the half-man/half-woman blackmailer, and Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald was saved from execution for Vincent's crimes by Endora's spell that turned back time in the execution chamber.

Wait, no, this one is better:

In 2002, Julian and Timmy set out on a journey in the magical land of Oz as Theresa was "executed" for Julian's "murder"

[sweetsyren]

I was just reading that. This is my favourite sentance so far:

Passions also broke new ground in 2007 with its portrayal of Vincent as a hermaphrodite who becomes pregnant with his own father's son.

I....I have no words... The best we get is some teenager getting sexed up in the allotment (no that's not a euphamism.) You lot get satanic possesion, masked kidnappers, dolls that come to life and have adventures with what appears to be a witch.

I am so jealous right now.

[cleolinda]

You'll enjoy this, then--this is back from the "Beth is fake-pregnant with a bag of sugar and some mentally unbalanced, really mansome woman named Charlie is helping her because Charlie's in lesbian love with her and Beth is stringing her along so she can get to Luis" storyline:

http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/8967.html

[sweetsyren]

*blinks*

WTFudge...So, hang on, I need to make sure that I didn't accidently drink meths or something.

Theres a lesian dude trying to cop off with some chick in front of the chicks mum and the chick (who is now supposedly a dude) was suspected of killing a baby by driving off the pier but didn't really cos this Beth woman apparently has kidnapped it first.

Is that right?

[cleolinda]

The lesbian chick was actually a guy in disguise the whole time (clarification: the lesbian chick was played by a woman the whole time; only when the fakey-fake rubber mask was ripped off was there a male actor involved), and that guy actually happened to be related to the woman whose baby Beth was trying to steal (her uncle? I don't know). And yeah, Beth successfully kidnapped the baby and Charlie the lesbian only made it look like the car and baby went into the river. I think. I didn't ever see how that whole storyline shook out. But supposedly Beth was using Lesbian Charlie in her kidnapping plan, when it turned out that Evil Guy/"Lesbian" Charlie was letting Beth use "her" so that Sheridan's baby would end up with anyone but Sheridan. I think. This was a while ago.

[sweetsyren]

It's machiavellian in it's demented genius.

So, lots of people watch this and don't all have to keep detailed records to figure out what the hell is going one?

I would have to be there with a notebook and the pause button just to make sure I didn't miss anything that would later be relied upon.

Dear Lord. I take my hat off to you guys. Our telly must look positively dreary and one dimensional to you!

[awanderingbard]

If my experience with soaps is any indication to the norm (I was a Young and the Restless watcher for a bit, far less crazy), you never need to take notes because the storylines crawl along. Like, someone is pouring coffee on Monday and maybe, maybe by Wednesday they've added the sugar. You can skip out on whole days or weeks and come back in time to pick up the plot.

I guess you always want what you can't have, because I always think that British TV is awesome in comparison to ours. Although, I am Canadian, so our TV is more some guy in an igloo with a camera. ;-)

My icon has nothing to do with any of this except: Black Books love!

[sweetsyren]

I just think it's really sad that we as a nation have missed out on this whole thing. Series that run for decades on pure unadulterated crack.

Give me this over bloody Coronation Street or Emmerdale any day of the week!

Yay Black Books! And your Dresden Icons FTW!

(Also Dylan Moran for Eleven! *is really hoping that wasn't geeking out too much*)

[trash_addict]

(Also Dylan Moran for Eleven! *is really hoping that wasn't geeking out too much*)

OMG. That is genius

[awanderingbard]

I'm surprised you don't get any of them there, actually. Isn't there some sort of Soap Operas of The World channel? We get Coronation Street and Neighbours (which is Australian, of course, but also imported) and episodes of The Young and the Restless from the '80's are being shown on the French station. I say rioting is always a good course of action.

Dresden Files love!

Dylan Moran would be a grumpy, drunken, Irish, awesome Eleven.

[undersaturn]

I don't think anything on Passions really surprised me as much as when I heard about Vincent/Valerie being pregnant! And now I just read what happened with the rest of that....

OMG, I can only imagine the amount of crack that had to be involved in creating Vincent's storyline.

[cleolinda]

Dear lord. I looked it up. I found this Timmy tribute. Is this what you meant??

Ah, so there was more than one montage, I see.