No, of course not to all your examples. But extrapolating that to the original point would lead to: "Americans writers are overly influenced by soap operas, which does not make American writers soap opera characters." That's not what I was accusing you of saying. Because... duh. (To use a blatant Americanism. ;))
I was saying that claiming that American writers are overly influenced by soap operas indicates to me the belief that the minds behind American writing have absorbed the story patterns common in soap operas. And American minds = Americans.
I did watch Eastenders for quite a while when I was at university here. Maybe that's why the storytelling in Merlin went so wrong in the end? The writers watched too much Eastenders and Corrie?(joke)
fyi, on another note -- My best darkfic pals are all Brits and Europeans. Only a few are Americans.
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No, of course not to all your examples. But extrapolating that to the original point would lead to: "Americans writers are overly influenced by soap operas, which does not make American writers soap opera characters." That's not what I was accusing you of saying. Because... duh. (To use a blatant Americanism. ;))
I was saying that claiming that American writers are overly influenced by soap operas indicates to me the belief that the minds behind American writing have absorbed the story patterns common in soap operas. And American minds = Americans.
I did watch Eastenders for quite a while when I was at university here. Maybe that's why the storytelling in Merlin went so wrong in the end? The writers watched too much Eastenders and Corrie?(joke)
fyi, on another note -- My best darkfic pals are all Brits and Europeans. Only a few are Americans.