![]() ![]() ![]() Anyone who watched Passions towards the end knows what I mean. R87 I wasn't even talking about "grey area, maybe she wanted it" rape. He spoofed other genres to get the show attention, but he was never trying to be other genres. The thing about Jim Reilly was that he was unapologetically a soap opera fan. All Jim Reilly did was take As the World Turns circa 1960, mixed in a little Dark Shadows and a little Melrose Place with some pretty models and made a soap. The slow pacing, the repetitiveness, some of the questionable acting, clearly defined good and bad characters, and the girl from the wrong side of the tracks looing for her come up was about as classic soap as you can get. Personally, I've always thought that soaps had a clear line as to what was rape and what wasn't rape - even though that line was sometimes blurry, but the world has changed and now almost every fucking thing is rape.Īnd finally, Passions was a throwback to the days of classic (pre Luke and Laura) soap opera. Women being "taken" by men out of control passion, where a "reluctant" woman says no, but really means yes. Soaps borrowed heavily from romance novels "bodice ripper" tropes.
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