SWAMP THING is a soap opera. A GOOD soap opera-- But still...

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Waits for villagers with torches and pitchforks

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^ And this is a bad thing because?

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Didn’t say It’s a bad thing. It’s a Swamp Thing. I’m just calling a muck monster a muck monster.

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Maybe, just maybe Swamp Thing is not the greatest invention since the wheel.

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@Misfit: The way your post is worded gives the impression that you think Swamp Thing is somehow ‘diminished’ because it draws on Soap Opera tropes,

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@Digiwriter

Soap Opera is a broad term, though. Professional wrestling is a soap opera. Downtown Abbey is a soap opera. The fans of both of these products will scream bloody murder, “No…”!!! if you tell them this truth.

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What is the point of this post then… aside from getting attention?

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“A soap opera is an ongoing drama serial on television or radio, featuring the lives of many characters and their familial, platonic and intimate relationships.” - google/Wikipedia

So, like… every single series on this service.

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@iJest
Quite so. Which is on of the reasons I find folks bashing the CWVERSE about being a soap opera-esque but DCU Originals being “real tv”. They’re all soap operas, get over it.

Hopefully HQ is more comedy than soap opera.

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If we’re going to be doing the ‘pitchforks and torches’ schtick, can we at least get Swamp Thing singing ‘Puttin’ On The Ritz’? (Doom Patrol had a musical number after all :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: )

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Mel Brooks might sue.

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I like that it’s an ongoing drama like a soap opera. Self contained episodes don’t really allow for the fleshing out of characters and stories to the same degree. Were this a broadcast network show, the downside would be it can intimidate viewers from starting in with it, but that’s less of an issue on a service where all the prior episodes are readily available.

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I’m all for a performance of Puttin’ On The Ritz.

I love soap too.

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Now wouldn’t that be an amazing way to end the series!

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I’d go as far as to say that pretty much all of superhero fiction is soap opera. I think we can all agree that Swamp Thing is at least pretty damn good soap opera.

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I think the song should be “In the Moonlight” instead.

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@Misfit What Music of The Night?

Too soapy?

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Since the show is half way there ; I for one am interested in seeing how deep the relationship between Alec and Abby will go . For so far I still feel like it’s still in the early stages of a ship :of complete trust and how their conversations last a few minutes at best , and how we seem to learn more of the characters in flashbacks and how the impeding “Rot” and Sutherland and Woodrue will contribute to the story …any thoughts "¿

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ALL serialized fiction is soap to some extent. Things happen, characters grow (or don’t) and drama ensues.

Heck, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is one giant soap opera.

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For some reason I’m getting a vision of a Viking woman singing with a spear and soap bubbles