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Why you started watching

posted 16 years ago by Lizzie2009
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I am just curious. I think stories about why and how you start watching soap operas are interesting seeing as they are somewhat mocked in today’s society. My story is simple: the summer of my thirteenth year I came down with a terrible case of pneumonia. I was bed ridden for six weeks, with only the glow of the TV as company. I would wake every morning at eight and search through our cableless channels. After about two days of boredom I came across Laura Wright on Guiding Light. The pictures and stories enthralled me; I quickly caught up and looked for more to appease my hunger for cheesy drama. I started watching everything I could; All My Children, Days, One Life to Live, Passions, General Hospital, Bold and the Beautiful, Guiding Light and Young and the Restless. I soon became obsessed and for the rest of my sickness I watched all I could. Flipping for one channel to the other during a commercial hoping not to miss a juicy bit, six years later and my passion is still strong. I have cut back only caring about Days and GH, but my passion for drama is still lingering and only subsided by a cruel twist of fate or long lost siblings realizing they are related after they sleep together. So there is my story what is yours?

"In the end we are all who we are, no matter how much we may appear to have changed"

[–] piscesny 15 years ago

I was never really into soaps but I loved passions. I started watching in the summer of 2000. A girl I knew from school kept talking about how great it was so I decided to check it out. I fell instantly in love. I remember when I had a summer job in a hospital, I would sneak away from my desk at 2 pm and watch the show in a patients room. After passions switch to a different network, I wasn't able to see it. However months later I discovered episodes online.Now I watch days of our lives because luis,theresa and ethan are there...lol

[–] abajasds 15 years ago

My friend made me get into the show. He used to mention he watched it around 2000 or so, and I was like "I don't like NBC soaps", I only watched CBS soaps then. I saw the show a few times,and thought, all NBC soaps look the same,even the actors looked alike. In 2003, I tuned into the show,and got interested in the Julian and Eve storyline which was heating up around that time.

I started taping the show soon after. I watched regularly from 2003 until early 2006,by early 2006, the show became too boring to watch.

[–] Hulkus 15 years ago

I started watching Passions when it first aired. I read it was going to have a supernatural storyline with witches and talking dolls. I was intrigued, so I checked it out. I watched it everyday for the first three years because I loved Tabitha and Timmy. They really made the show. No one could top those two. Not even the stupid monkey and Edna. When Josh died, the show literally died for me as well. I thought it was really disrespectful and low for them to try to replace Timmy with Cracked Connie and Cecil. Josh's trademark in the show was that his character was a talking live doll. There never should have been another doll in the show after his passing. After they did that, I stopped watching the show all together. Plus, I kept checking the spoilers for the show after his passing and JER seemed to have gotten rid of all the huge supernatural storylines which made the soap another average boring one. There was nothing unique about Passions after that.

[–] eri0001 15 years ago

It was the supernatural part that got me interested, too. I started watching in 2000, after I had my son and I was home during the day. A friend used to watch it and I'd kinda tease her about it, but I'd still let her put it on if she was at my house when it came on. After a while, I started watching on my own. I loved Tabitha and Timmy, and Charity and Kay, and the E/T/G triangle (even if it dragged on way too long). It wasn't nearly as good in the last few years, but I miss it anyway.

So shines a good deed in a weary world...

[–] glassrose385 15 years ago

I had been a Days fan since I was little so I ended up watching it from the beginning which was cool to see a soap from the beginning. Even though I have DirecTV I didn't watch a lot towards the end.

[–] tommyboy221 14 years ago

i was bored in 1999 afte r my brain surgegy watched it everyday.

[–] blaque108 12 years ago

I got hooked onto Passions thanks to my aunt. This was in 2000 I never heard of this show I saw her watching it and the first episode I saw of Passions is the one where Grace and Sam house or closet was possessed.

[–] Inspector_Spacetime 11 years ago

I had never watched soaps before Passions. I didn't even know much about them. But in the summer of 1999 I read an article in TV Guide talking about the show and how it was about to premiere. I became curious, especially as it seemed it would have a supernatural slant to it. And I was fascinated by the idea that it had no repeats and would be new every weekday. So I tuned in for the first episode and quickly became hooked.

I then got my mom watching, which reinvigorated her interest in soaps. She had previously watched Days of our Lives and she started back watching it, telling me I should give it a try. I resisted briefly but quickly got into it due to the teen scene that was forming at that time.

My interest in soaps led to me getting Soap Opera Digest every week. I'd occasionally read the articles about the other ones, and General Hospital stuck out as interesting. So while I was on spring break in a hotel room in 2000 I watched my first GH episode. After that, every other week I was at my mom's house on the weekends and she got soapnet, where they had marathons on Saturday of that week's GH episodes. I slowly got into the habit of watching them when I was there. By the summer of 2002 I was watching the show regularly.

Those were my only soaps for a while. Eventually Passions was cancelled and my favorite Passions actress, Lindsay Hartley, moved to Days, but was let go and snatched up by All My Children. Due to my love of Lindsay, I started watching that show about a month before she debuted so I could know who everyone was before she started. And I'm still watching it on Hulu Plus now that it is back.

[–] lferrigon-1 11 years ago

I watched since its premiere and stayed until it went to DirectTV.

[–] aprilkepner 10 years ago

I started watching in the year 2000 when I stayed the weekend with my Grandma and she had the episodes on tape. My sister and I would watch it together after that every since. The first storyline I remember was when Theresa couldn't get Gwen's engagement ring off her finger.

[–] gabelandeskog 8 years ago

I started watching around 2001/2002, I think. It was aroind the time where Theresa's fake funeral at the Crane mansion was taking place. What got me intrigued was zombie!Charity saga. I was thinking to myself, "WTF is wrong with this girl?" when she kept making strange sexual advances towards Miguel during his sister's funeral. Lol.

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7243) 8 years ago

All soap operas are kinda cheesy, kinda dumb, but also formulaic. When I first caught this randomly on TV, I was struck by how much this show embraced the cheese and took it to another level, but still took itself seriously. The actors didn't (for the most part) write it off just because it was insane. So it was able to be insane and yet still totally believable somehow.

Also, I was shocked that this soap allowed cursing. I still find it amazing when I recall the scene of Theresa hiding from Gwen in a bathroom, and mentally uttering the S word.