Comments | cleolinda: Essentially, this is... a recap of recaps

cleolinda

Essentially, this is... a recap of recaps

Oct 02, 2008 12:33

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 ( Read more... )

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robinmc October 2 2008, 19:30:10 UTC

When I was in middle school, my best friend was a huge DOOL fan, so I'd watch it with her sometimes, and she'd try to explain what the hell was going on. I remember the first time I saw Marlena on DOOL. My reaction went something like this:

"The mom from Our House is possessed by the devil? What?"

pescivendolo October 2 2008, 19:30:49 UTC

I REMEMBER ALL OF THESE! HAHAHAHAHA.

This is totally how I found your LJ. All those years ago. Ahh, the Love Cage and the Kewpie Doll. Those were good times.

cleolinda October 2 2008, 19:32:02 UTC

Aw, hee!

softerthansound October 2 2008, 19:34:40 UTC

I will read the rest of this eventually, but I am currently choking on my own laughter from the first recap excerpt.

cleolinda October 2 2008, 19:49:05 UTC

That was the day I started recapping. You see why I couldn't resist.

paranoidgrl October 2 2008, 19:41:33 UTC

Oh my lord, I think I watched part of that summer. I have no idea how it ended, because I got sick of the show focusing on the teenagers.

cleolinda October 2 2008, 19:49:48 UTC

I suspect a lot of that was because kids were out of school for the summer, and they were trying to hook the teenage demographic.

fiveforsilver October 2 2008, 20:40:02 UTC

Haha I got sick of the teens, too. I used to watch Days with my grandma - she'd been watching it forever - so I cared about the adults and then they kept having these stupid annoying teens just like show up out of nowhere (ok, I'm sure they didn't actually show up out of nowhere, but I only watched the show a few weeks every year, when I was visiting Grandma) and I just didn't care.

I don't remember there being magic and voodoo and stuff when I watched it, though, just lots of affairs and kidnappings and so on.

everstar3 October 2 2008, 19:50:28 UTC

Oh man, I remember this story line. Good times.

I feel I should share my own bit of soap opera nostalgia: I was looking for an audio book of Jane Eyre and going through the options, and I came across one called "Celebrities Read the Classics." I started listening to Jane Eyre and thought, "Wait, that sounds like... could it be...." It was Juliet Mills, or as I like to think of her, Tabitha from Passions. Needless to say, I wouldn't be able to listen to that particular audio book without waiting for Zombie Charity to burst into Thornfield to seduce Mr. Rochester.