23 years' worth of soap opera romance condensed into 6 minutes

Here's a sweet little animation spelling out 23 years' worth of the complex interpersonal relationships on The Bold and the Beautiful, a soap-opera, visualized with artists' maquettes and liberal use of connecting lines and narration.

Beautiful LAB - EPISODE 0 in English: The Bold and the Beautiful in 6 minutes

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Anonymous

They should rename this “Everyone F*cks Everyone”
Anonymous

Who are you and apparently – according to the website “I write Like…” (http://iwl.me), I write like you!
Anonymous

Oh, please. Soap operas are for pure entertainment purposes only. If you’ve never followed one for a period of time, you have no idea what you’re talking about.

As for as human lives lost, how is watching hours of primetime every night any different. If you did a summary of ER or Lost or Friends, would it be much different?
irksome

Won’t someone please find a way to blame this on Pres. Obama?
gbmbg

So, basically, soap opera storylines are like comic book storylines, except that sex and superpowers switch places.
- Shay Guy
  
  Same problem of indefinite story extension, really.
Anonymous

awesome
jfrancis

I just made an image with a soap opera theme

http://www.digitalartform.com/archives/2010/11/the_edge_of_nig.html
Bulone

I can’t even watch this 6 mins recapitulation to the end; I can’t imagine how anyone can watch this for 23 freaking years; or there’s no such person.
Anonymous

I have a solution! Polyamory.
Anonymous

It is mindblowing to consider how many people spent so much time following this series over the years. In aggregation, that’s many, many complete human lives wasted. I’m glad we’ve now progressed out of that dark pre-internet era! Today we know better and use our time more productively. Ok, gotta go, time for my daily round of checking cool cat videos on youtube. Later!