so yesterday i was watching a soap opera -- all my children, and only because there's nothing else to do in between when i wake up (noon-ish) and when i leave for work (2/230ish) -- and i saw something that irritates me in a lot of movies/shows. this guy whose name i never caught, so we'll call him bob, and this girl whose name i also didnt catch, so we'll call her shanaenae, were having a conversation about how bob used to be in love with lily but is now sleeping with ava. meanwhile, he's protesting that he's not just sleeping with her, he's completely in love with her, and he's sorry to hurt lily but he really loves ava. and shanaenae is all, but can you honestly say you don't love lily anymore? and he goes, no. i still love lily. and meanwhile, ava has shown up in the background -- skulking, perhaps, although it seemed she just was coming home/wherever they were (a dock.. why, i don't know -- i've only seen this show like twice before) and came upon them. so she's listening in from the beginning of shanaenae's question, and she hears bob's answer, or at least up until that period, where he paused, and she gets all huffy and walks away. meanwhile, bob continued, ..but not as a husband. i love her as a friend. i'm in love with ava.
so. clearly, if ava hadn't gotten all upset, she would have heard the rest, and they could have avoided the drama that will no doubt stalk the rest of the season as bob doesn't know why ava doesn't like him anymore and ava wreaks revenge on bob for dissing her, which he didn't actually do. hell, they could probably get a couple seasons out of that -- she tries to run him off the road, he tries to win her back, she tries to stab him, he tries to win her back, she sleeps with his best friend, he tries to win her back, she gets pregnant with best friend's baby, he steals said baby (cause now he's just pissed off, he's done trying), ...... etc. and while i understand that drama is essential for any entertainment, this irritates me. mainly because honestly, if you walked up and people were talking about you -- specifically a loaded question like hey is the person you love in love with you? -- would you HONESTLY walk away without listening to the rest of the conversation?? who walks away in the middle?? i'd stand there until they stopped talking, or at least until they stopped talking about me. and in which case, i would have heard the answer, and i'd have been happy.
stupid ava. and stupid bob. that's a failure answer on a soap opera! i mean come on, that's asking for trouble.
..yeah, i know, i'm new at watching soap operas. but i think this is why i normally don't. although it's also possible it's because some are just ridiculously silly, cause i saw snatches of another one that had some guy meeting his father for the first time, but we never saw his face, and he had a mask similar to the guy on nip/tuck's, and some weird voice, and a red glittery shirt with long red fingernails (yeah, a guy). and he was all, 'but you saw me, mom. when i get upset.. i even tried to kill you!' and she's all, 'but i forgive you honey. come meet your father.' and it was very weird. and i think that's odd.. are they really hurting for plot lines? cause that's an outlandish, ridiculous plot line, and i only saw like 3 minutes of it.
maybe that's what i should do -- i'll go write for a soap opera. i'll just think of the most irritating and annoying ways possible to stretch every possible thing out as long as possible. i'll just think, hey, what would make me want to tear my hair out as a solution to this problem? and presto, i'd have a script. seriously, i think i'd be brilliant at it. i can bs with the best of them, and isn't that all you need for a soap script? pffft. i'd have them all eating out of my palms.
...muahahah?
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