let my love open the door
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schmericaThe more I think about Jersey Girl, the more one thing in particular about it starts to seriously bug me. Because, hi, huge pet peeve.
Listen, writers and directors and people of the world: IF YOU START OUT YOUR STORY WITH A FRAMING DEVICE, YOU HAVE TO END IT WITH ONE TOO. That is actually what makes it a frame. You don't start a framed narrative, then get distracted by the movie or book or whatever and just end up like you never framed it to begin with, because that will drive your audience FREAKING NUTS.
(Yes, Shakespeare did it in Taming of the Shrew. Shakespeare did a lot of things you can't pull off.)
Also, I now have "Let My Love Open the Door" stuck in my head. Luckily, I kind of like that song.
My sister was watching Days of Our Lives this afternoon, and I ended up sitting in the room watching with her. Apparently there is a plot going on right now where an uncle is in love with his niece and they are contemplating a romantic relationship. Apparently, this is not totally creepy to anyone on the show because the uncle was adopted. Um, yes.
Listen, writers and directors and people of the world: IF YOU START OUT YOUR STORY WITH A FRAMING DEVICE, YOU HAVE TO END IT WITH ONE TOO. That is actually what makes it a frame. You don't start a framed narrative, then get distracted by the movie or book or whatever and just end up like you never framed it to begin with, because that will drive your audience FREAKING NUTS.
(Yes, Shakespeare did it in Taming of the Shrew. Shakespeare did a lot of things you can't pull off.)
Also, I now have "Let My Love Open the Door" stuck in my head. Luckily, I kind of like that song.
My sister was watching Days of Our Lives this afternoon, and I ended up sitting in the room watching with her. Apparently there is a plot going on right now where an uncle is in love with his niece and they are contemplating a romantic relationship. Apparently, this is not totally creepy to anyone on the show because the uncle was adopted. Um, yes.
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21/6/06 05:42 (UTC)And I remember when Steve "died", they did a total huge funeral and flashbacks and crap but then at the VERY end you saw someone switching the coffin and so you KNEW that Steve wasn't really dead. HAHAHAA!! I watched General Hospital in the 90's and they had the actors who played Steve and Kayla on there and that was funny because they didn't have them meet for ages either.
Are they the same actors? I remember when Marlena was "possessed" but that was a couple of years after I had stopped watching, so I didn't know the whole story. By then the whole Roman, no John, no Roman, no HE'S Roman, no HE was Roman FIRST thing got annoying and that might have been why I stopped watching.
OH SOAPS! How I don't miss you!! LOL
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21/6/06 05:52 (UTC)That's hilariously awesome, re: Steve and Kayla on GH. And yes, the exact same actors. It's really eerie to be seeing all these original actors coming back.
I agree on the John and Roman thing. I forgave them because they got rid of Roman for a long time (but then there was drama with John and Kristen, and I swear sometimes that show should be called Days of Worshipping Marlena Evans), and then last year they just had to shove Marlena and Roman together again. Seriously, let it go already!
Soaps are bizarre like that -- I never miss them when I'm not watching! But if I let myself watch just *once* after ages, I have to take an hour or so to go catch up on everything I've missed. Brain eaters!