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Current Talk '06 II / Re: Moments that made you go "WHAT?!!!!"
« on: October 19, 2006, 04:40:25 AM »My concept of a drama queen is someone who lives off of drama to the point where they will create it for themselves in order to have something going on . . . to make something out of nothing.
The classic definition of drama queen is "someone who is melodramatic" or "an overly dramatic person" - though someone who fits that bill could most certainly resort to creating drama/melodrama for themselves if there's a lack of real drama/melodrama already in their lives to over-dramatize.
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By its very nature, soap operas are operatic; heightened stakes further heightened by stupid and/or irrational decisions and usually repeating the same dumb mistake over and over again. I don't think it is really possible to single out any one character on DS who was more of a drama queen as least in my definition of the term with the exception of Carolyn. I thought the early Carolyn was a drama queen if ever one existed on DS.
Well, there is no shortage of drama queens or characters who were something of drama queens on DS. Carolyn was most certainly one of them, particularly during the first year of the show. (Whoa, was she ever! ) But as you say, soap opera is operatic and, well, opera and over-dramatic characters/situations tend to go hand in hand.