This is the beauty of soaps; this is what they are all about. Real life has several emotions, several situations, and by exploring every single one of those emotions, good and bad, bitter and funny, sad and satirical, characters, couples, and storylines are given three-dimensions. No one person fits in one mold all the time, every actions creates a different reaction. Soaps have no one tone. The goal of a soap is to keep people engaged, but there are no rules about how they should go about it. Even soaps with a theme or specific type of storytelling don't remain in one type of mood. The mood can change with each sentence, with each scene, and with each character. This made soaps unique and so enduring. You can always tune in and escape and get in a few laughs and a good cry. But recently soaps have backed themselves into a corner, getting stuck telling only one type of story, creating only one type of emotion, setting a specific and constant mood. It is in my opinion, partially responsible for the mass exodus of fans. Each soap had something that set it apart from others and there were differences in the way they told their stories or what the focus of those stories were, but no soap was stuck doing the same type of story over and over again. No soap was intent on showing only one emotion and now, most are.
