things that make me feel old
back when i was 11, i spent a whole year being ridiculously addicted to the soap opera general hospital. i got turned on to it by a babysitter, and started rushing home from school every day to watch it at 3:00 pm as if my life depended on it. something about the unapologetically over-the-top storylines and sanitised romance appealed to my pre-pubescent sensibilities. combine that with a raging crush on jack wagner (”frisco”) and i was hooked.
anyway, i watched obsessively for a whole year, but at a certain point they introduced a plot about alien abduction that even i, in my slavish willingness to suspend disbelief, could not abide. and so i just stopped watching one day, and decided to get a life.
still, i remember a child actor of about 5 on the show as the character “robin scorpio”.
and here’s “robin scorpio” today. a full on, badly dressed adult, courtest of the eminent go fug yourself.
i’m getting seriously creaky.
Comment by Anglofille
21.06.2007 @ 12:17 pm
i never watched ‘general hospital.’ i was a ‘days of our lives’ girl — like my mother was before me. you know, family tradition.
Comment by amity
21.06.2007 @ 17:13 pm
oh god, i was a DOUL watcher for years, until i was a teenager. i too got dragged into it by a babysitter (what is it with babysitters and soap operas?). the part that turned me off was when there was a storyline that revolved around a character becoming possessed by the devil and having an exorcism performed by her former lover who she had thought was her husband (until they discovered he wasn’t, just a lookalike) but who had amnesia and thought he was really a priest. it was just bad, so bad.
anglophile, you’ll know what i’m talkin’ about. dont’ even get me started on the stefano/marlena/john ‘phantom of the opera’ storyline.
Comment by Nicole
22.06.2007 @ 00:13 am
I feel so old.
Comment by Anglofille
23.06.2007 @ 15:54 pm
Amity: My grandmother used to speak about Stefano as if he were a personal enemy. She always discussed the DOUL characters as if they were personally known to her. Scary.