Episode 19 - Soap Tropes: The Plot Has Amnesia (Again)
A soap trope is a promise. A cliché is what happens when the writers forget the characters, the continuity, and apparently the show bible. Jenn and Rachael get into why we’ll happily follow a familiar bit of soap chaos, as long as it actually makes sense and changes something.
From John’s missing past and RoboJohn to Hope returning as Gina, they compare amnesia stories that delivered the emotional goods with the ones that made Rachael want to eject 2005 from canon. Plus: surprise soap babies (Paul, we’re looking at you), evil twins, presumed-dead returns, obsessive villains, and why Days…
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