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Can Soap be rewatched?
Dec. 2nd, 2005 03:43 pmIf you're the same sort of age as me, you might have fond memories of the TV show Soap, which was shown over here late at night when I was an impressionable teen. It was a parody / satirical soap opera which launched the career of Billy Crystal, among others. I can still 20-odd years later clearly visualize scenes which I found hysterically funny.
Anyway, I've not watched it at all since then, but the whole four seasons of it has fairly recently come out on DVD. So the question is: is it going to be worth watching, or will it be horribly dated? I really don't want a sort of Monty Python experience where it turns out the good bits were only ten minutes out of each episode, and the rest is unbearably cringeworthy. Given everything that's happened on TV since, will Soap look tired, tame, weak, limp and passé?
I hope not, but I don't dare put it directly to the test -- it might destroy too many of my happy memories. So instead I ask you, the great LJ public -- did you ever watch Soap? did you think it was any good at the time? -- have you watched it again more recently? if so, was it any good then? -- if not, would you expect it to be?
Anyway, I've not watched it at all since then, but the whole four seasons of it has fairly recently come out on DVD. So the question is: is it going to be worth watching, or will it be horribly dated? I really don't want a sort of Monty Python experience where it turns out the good bits were only ten minutes out of each episode, and the rest is unbearably cringeworthy. Given everything that's happened on TV since, will Soap look tired, tame, weak, limp and passé?
I hope not, but I don't dare put it directly to the test -- it might destroy too many of my happy memories. So instead I ask you, the great LJ public -- did you ever watch Soap? did you think it was any good at the time? -- have you watched it again more recently? if so, was it any good then? -- if not, would you expect it to be?
