Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.
I can't imagine soaps will ever stop, because people will always watch as long as they have great stories and characters. But the soaps will have to keep evolving, won't they?
Television audiences are ruthless - look what happened to 'The Killing.'
That's the problem with soaps, of course. The stories never end. They can go on and on and on.
We've all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved 'Guiding Light' in 2009, and 'One Life to Live' was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes.
Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence... is not in their interests.
In spite of the advances of medicine, deathly epidemics are more menacing than ever before.
I just don't see ABC letting go of soaps completely.
Life goes on, and I'm moving on to the next thing, but I hope the soaps that are still running will thrive. They have millions of loyal viewers.
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