One More Episode!
Viki Explains The Importance of the Soap Opera
The fans are so loyal, so passionate, so invested in their stories. I always ask how they got started watching "Fraternity Row". Some of them were stay at home mothers some of them were stay at home mothers, taking a break before their children would get home from school and others were college students with free time between classes.
Many of them inherited the love for the show from their parents or their grandparents who were long time fans themselves.
I remember the first time I tuned into Fraternity Row; I was hooked instantly. I needed to know what would happen next to these fascinating people.
I remember the first time I tuned into Fraternity Row; I was hooked instantly. I needed to know what would happen next to these fascinating people.
Would the hero and the heroine find their way back to true love?
Would the villains get their comeuppance? Or would their crimes go unpunished?
Would loving families overcome their obstacles or would their troubles prove to difficult to surmount? Ultimately, that's what soap opera is about, families, close families, rival families, even families that are unexpected, or the ones we choose for ourselves.
And when a show is lucky enough to have been on the air as long as Fraternity Row, has, these families become extensions of our own. Fans might become upset when a favorite actor leaves, but they're always willing to welcome a new one; even when the new cast member is quite different from the one being replaced.
After all, this is a place where people come back from the dead
...go off to grade school in the morning and come home from high school in the afternoon. Because for every new face, every new couple, every new family, there are long familiar faces. Some who have grown up before our very eyes
and a few more we hope to watch grow up.
We know them so well; they've become our friends; we yearn for their happiness, especially when it's hard won. We laugh as they laugh; we cry as they cry. We can't imagine doing without them; and when things are at their very worst on the show, that's when we seem to enjoy them the most.
There's just one thing we have to do to keep them in our lives ...
Tune in tomorrow!
