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It's all about the 'ears' on a soap or is it?
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While many of you don't celebrate Easter once retailers begin to peddle Cadbury eggs, cheesy plastic baskets and other assorted confections, Easter just seems to be in your face at every turn.
If I have to stare at one more cutesy rabbit hopping around in supermarket and department store circulars, I think I will cry. Yet, I still managed to post my own cutesy rabbit, so what the heck am I thinking?
Being forced to look at those animated rabbits for the past couple of weeks got me to thinking. Aside from seeing them in television and retail circulars this time of year, I also have more than a few wild rabbits lurking around my back yard. They are for the most part an innocent bunch of critters but their ears have always fascinated me.
Rabbit ears simply perk up upon hearing a motor vehicle or a lawn mower or any sound foreign to their life at ground level which signals me to believe their hearing must be keen. In addition some scientists claim their eyesight functions equally as well.
Getting back to my soaps ears logic however, I once thought I had a former boss of mine outwitted. He listened to talk radio in his office and I purchased this adorable battery operated radio that was AM-FM plus TV bands to tune into the morning news and then capture the audio from a few soaps. My boss never even noticed what I was listening to and well hey--I got the job done with no issues.
One day it simply hit me however that the visual components of a soap are super important. Audio feed alone doesn't cut it. Say for example when Eddie X-Ray (that hot radiology technician) finally tells shrink Doctor Greta Life he's married after months of fooling around with her in the supply closet at the hospital--it plays out as a one on one conversation with simple audio feed. But that is rarely the case on the soaps and with the visual scene you you quickly realize Eddy's wife Candy the former stipper just happens to be eavesdropping outside that supply closet. It changes everything.
This made me realize, rabbit ears are not enough on their own. On a soap, you always need to watch your back because the eavesdroppers are out there whether they are employing baby monitors to capture conversations or just happen to be as quick as a bunny rendering their good eyesight and large sensitive ears to lead them to the place where they can overhear the juiciest gossip on the planet. The eyes are equally important to hearing when you are attempting to keep up with your favorite hour of angst in the afternoon.
Yes kids, it's the visuals and the audio together that lend many clues to deciphering unfolding plots for any seasoned soap viewer worth their salt. So, I urge you all to realize when you watch a soap, you cant simply listen while you pull a Peggy Bundy stunt and walk away from the television set to turn on the vacuum (just to make it look like you were doing something) two seconds before your significant other walks through the door. You could simply miss too much.
Whatever you do tomorrow, have a happy Sunday. Just remember while it may be all about the ears on the soaps if you miss seeing those perked up ears in any scene while you are walking away from your television set, you will never have a clue as to why what happens next ever happened.
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