How You Know Your Favorite Primetime Drama has turned into a Daytime Soap

1) Lots of slapping. And some occasional drink throwing.

2) A character dies. And then comes back to life. (example--Dylan's dad dies in season 3 via car bomb. Oh wait, come season 9 (or 10?) he's actually in the witness protection program...alive and well!)

3) Long and drawn out Whodunit murder storylines. Note to new Melrose Place, can you tell us who killed Sydney and get Ashlee Simpson off the show already?

4) Babystealing. enough said.

5) Generic opening credits with characters posing behind generic backdrops with generic instrumental music.

6) Long musical montage at the episode's end. Does anyone else go to the bathroom during this part? I'm bored just including it on this list.

While some might be sad at that point where their favorite nightime dramas become all soapy, personally, I think it's quite entertaining. Daytime Soaps are if nothing but creative (the ones I watch anyway are on for an hour a day, 5 days a week, for like, the last bashillion years)...they have to be to keep your attention. Usually, it doesn't happen during the nightime shows until a series has been on the air for a couple seasons--which makes sense, they just have to introduce something classic, yet ridic to switch it up. But when you're fave dramas start out that way....you've got to wonder if the writers are introducing classic soapy signs so early in their career--I can't be so sure it's going to last...