One of the most tiresome storylines in soaps would have to be the pregnant one. And the events are always recycled hash from other soaps. Pick one or more of the following and you have instant story:
1. Pregnant woman doesn’t know who the father is
2. Pregnant woman falls down (and she always falls down stairs – what is with that?) and risks losing her baby
3. Woman cannot fall pregnant/deals with infertility in one episode/begins IVF or adoption or surrogacy
4. In the case of IVF – it works the first time
5. In the case of adoption – parents struggle to find perfect birth mother/ birth mother fights for custody after adoptive parents finally get baby
6. When baby is finally born, no mention will be made of him/her ever again
Haha @ No. 6
As-Salaamu ‘alaikum,
TV always takes liberties with anything medical anyway. Even medical dramas.
Recently a nurse in the British TV drama Holby City broke her back in some incident. A few weeks ago she was flat on her back and it looked like she might be a paraplegic for life. A couple of episodes later, after an emotional chat with a terminal cancer patient, she struggled up onto the parallel bars. Two issues after that, she was walking like nothing ever happened.
I told my sis that (she’s training to be a nurse) and she said, “there you go, the nursing profession”. I guess it would have been a less tragic way of giving her a route out of the series, which she obviously didn’t want.
Are you so bored that you actually watch soaps??
I stopped watching them years ago, the plot lines kept repeating from parents to the children … on and on and on …
Don’t watch them but nice to know things haven’t changed in the 20 years since I’ve sat through one.
Walaikum asalaam,
Achelois! HA! But it’s true! Until of course after a few months, they children are young adults so that they can join the story once again and yet their parents haven’t aged a bit!
Yusuf – I guess the writers should be allowed some avenue for exciting stories every now and again but all that happens is that I feel like I am being treated like a complete idiot. The medical stories are a close second to the preggers ones. If a character is going to get cancer, it has to be one serious enough to get the viewer interested & sympathetic but also a high cure rate so that the character can stick around. Lymphoma is always a good one.
You forgot one:
8. If said child is ever seen again, it is 10 years old after 2 months of real time. Then 6 months later the child is a teen having romances…
And one of those romance stories will end up being an accidental pregnancy! We have now come full circle.