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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 242842" data-attributes="member: 8">I watched these 3 snippets and I also watched my own reaction to it.No, it&#039;s definitely not the same as these Eastenders videos.The videos I just watched are quite similar to the US daytime soaps, imho. It doesn&#039;t take very much to intrigue me, soap-wise, but even in the scenes that are high-octane there&#039;s some kind of monotone narrative creeping in - not because of the actors or the story, but the way it&#039;s filmed. Especially the second video (a confrontation between gay enemies, no less) made me zone out pretty fast.One could argue that Sons &amp; Daughters was a daytime soap too, but there&#039;s something more vibrant and &quot;non-stop&quot; about it. Maybe it had something to do with the excessive use of props - eating, pouring drinks, doing the dishes, characters using the entire set instead of remaining in the same position to play out whatever it was that needed to be played out.Of course it would be ridiculous to rate Eastenders based on these snippets alone so that&#039;s not what I&#039;m going to do. And I suspect that the UK soaps looked different in the 1970s and 1980s. When someone mentions Coronation Street I &quot;see&quot; lots of shop &amp; pub scenes, like Number 96.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 242842, member: 8"] I watched these 3 snippets and I also watched my own reaction to it. No, it's definitely not the same as these Eastenders videos. The videos I just watched are quite similar to the US daytime soaps, imho. It doesn't take very much to intrigue me, soap-wise, but even in the scenes that are high-octane there's some kind of monotone narrative creeping in - not because of the actors or the story, but the way it's filmed. Especially the second video (a confrontation between gay enemies, no less) made me zone out pretty fast. One could argue that Sons & Daughters was a daytime soap too, but there's something more vibrant and "non-stop" about it. Maybe it had something to do with the excessive use of props - eating, pouring drinks, doing the dishes, characters using the entire set instead of remaining in the same position to play out whatever it was that needed to be played out. Of course it would be ridiculous to rate Eastenders based on these snippets alone so that's not what I'm going to do. And I suspect that the UK soaps looked different in the 1970s and 1980s. When someone mentions Coronation Street I "see" lots of shop & pub scenes, like Number 96. [/QUOTE]

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