So i just read that General Hospital has over 60 seasons and the longest airing show ever is Guiding Light at 72 seasons.
So like are each season consistent with the last? Do they reference something that happened 10seasons ago? Do they use the same actor/actress for all seasons? Is soap operas just a dramatized version of real life?
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something like general hospital has a consistent group of people but someone coming in, someone leaving, is completely normal and expected. There are pretty generic reasons why ‘someone got into a fatal accident’ or ‘we hired a new doctor’ to explain a character shows up or leaves.
Yes there are pretty consistent references to prior episodes/seasons – keep in mind that allows for less writing ‘today’ and allows for the staff to take time off. It really isn’t hard to write ‘character x was in a car accident’ then 5 minutes of filming a handful of other characters around the hospital bed make a few comments and then using old footage to ‘reminisce’
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