One trap that many beginning writers encounter - especially those who’ve read some of the more notorious screenwriting books - is taking the truism "character-driven story" too literally. Either you take the characters and their predicaments seriously, or you regard it all as a complete farce or parody.
It's either character-driven, or it's plot-driven. A soap opera cannot be all things to all people. The move to cable was pioneering, and now we're just going to have to wait and see what happens next, and whether it is salvaable for another network. I know it sounds weird to say that Passions holds the future of the soap genre in its hands, and that is a bit of an overstatement, but it is carving a path that could be an indication about the future of the other soaps. It was seriously cracked out, but I did it enjoy sometimes.Īnd now I really want Passions to keep going. It was nice to see a soap that didn't take itself seriously, and that was willing to employ a chimpanzee as a nurse for an elderly woman. HOWEVER, the show definitely had it's good points. I watched it for a little while back in 2003, and eventually stopped because I couldn't handle the way that secrets that a single conversation about Eve and her sister lasted multiple weeks. For them, and for the future of soap operas, I hope Passions finds a way to survive. But they like it, and they're entitled to like it. Are viewers of the other eight soaps really in any position to judge? I don't think Passions fans take their show seriously at all. We know that most soaps are pretty terrible.
I mean, soaps are generally considered by the rest of society to be one of the lowest forms of entertainment.
Passions fans deserve to like their show without ridicule. All soaps right now could be better, but they're not.
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