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Current Talk '13 I / Re: Discuss - Ep #0408
« on: March 08, 2013, 08:27:00 PM »My only notes say that I'm sick of their telling us every episode that time and space have been suspended (how do you suspend space?), and that I want them to cut it out already.
Well, even more so than nowadays (because there were no such things as VCRs, DVRs, watching online, online recaps, or even magazine recaps) soaps were not designed to be watched every day. And telling a storyline set in the 18th century with the majority of the cast playing completely different roles was a hugely radical switch. Anyone not having watched the show in a few months would have had no idea what was going on - not to mention there were new people coming to the show during this period. So, it really made a good deal of sense to explain the switch every day for the benefit or potentially returning and new viewers, even though to those of us rewatching today it may seem unnecessarily repetitive. And truthfully, one of the problems with DS in its later years is that it was no longer repetitive enough. People complained that often if you missed some eps the show just became too confusing to catch up on - and that's one of the reasons why it lost viewers.