On Apr 25, 11:50 am, "Mark J." <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, soap fans are overly sensitive (thanks to all those
> years where soaps--or anything on daytime TV that wasn't pre-1985 Phil
> Donahue--were a favorite target of lazy critics who wanted an easy
> target to write about) and are unable to grasp the fact that the genre
> is not what it used to be.  

Sad but true. On a private, TV-focused mailing list I was on about a
decade ago, there was one woman who vowed that she would never again
watch NBC after that network canceled her favorite soap, "Another
World." Every time we would have discussions on the list about "The
West Wing," she would take the time to make a post reminding us that
she didn't watch "West Wing" - not because she disliked it, but
because it aired on the same network that canceled "Another World."
She focused so much on her soap obsession that it dominated all her
discussions, and she became so insufferable because of it that she was
eventually exiled from the list.

-Tim

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