Forbidden lusts

[lobelia321]

An update on my latest obsession -- and by latest, I mean: as in last night. (Yes, things move fast in the land of Lobelia. They lurch from Second Life to Sims2 to yaoi manga to to nekkid Shahrukh to daytime soaps. *is dizzy*)

This is about daytime boy/boy (http://gaydaytime.blogspot.com/). This is a whole sub-genre of the category of Daytime Soap! The boy/boy angst and love!

Ever since thelana introduced me to this a few days ago, I have been mainlining Verbotene Liebe (Forbidden Love -- what a title!) non-stop on youtube. (Go to the link above and scroll down. You'll see what I mean...) And drooling over the story of Christian/Olli and the delicious triangle plot of Christian/Olli/Coco.



The latest ep features this:


Video of The Kiss here:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=qiIDFsvBnTQ

And with English subtitles:
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=DMd1dKqqWRI



There is also this:


http://www.myvideo.de/watch/2424063/Marienhof_Suelo_und_Mischa
Angsty pretty boy/older Turkish man lust love and angst plus gorgeous pianist's hands. To quote thelana: Guh. It's called Marienhof.



What's been happening in daytime soaps since the last time I looked (around 1978)??!! All this pretty boy love -- who knew?! And how international it is! Germany, Catalonia, France, Mexico --

Melodrama is insatiable. It spins its evol hypnotising web over everything (and made me burn my cauliflower last night). Gender? Class? Ethnicity? Who cares, it's all fodder for the maw of Melodrama.

As long as there are FEELINGS, all else is fair game. But there must be FEELINGS and LOVE HATE JEALOUSY DEATH plus deus ex machina catastrophes ("my house burnt down and I lost all of my CDs and my job!" "Olivia got shot!") but only in order to enable more FEELINGS and more JEALOUSY and more LOVE to take place. Sex, too, plays an entirely functional role in this universe: sex only occurs in order to facilitate angsty FEELINGS and incite JEALOUSY.

A favourite ploy of The Melodrama is THE LOVE TRIANGLE (see my icon for Essence of Melodrama). And in order to proliferate the triangle's possibilities, it seems that these days gender limits just fly out of the window. Because how much more delicious is the triangle when it's boy/girl, boy/boy, girl/boy -- and these soaps have girl/girl action as well. Insatiable, as I said.

Also note some scrumptious Melodrama dialogue:

"But ever since you walked into my life and turned everything upside down... you... with your face..." *angst ensues, and kissing* (Sülo)

**

"So what was sex like with your hot one night-stand?"

"He kisses beautifully. And he's so tender. And understands what I want to say before I say it." *jealousy ensues* (Oliver)

Sex is about 'kissing beautifully' and being 'tender'?? Oh, *hearts*.

**

"It's not because I'm a coward but... but because I desire him!" *said with much weeping and hair-tearing* (Sülo)

It's customary in these situation to *point fingers* at the evol temptress wot lured one in but I'm going to say: Thank you, thelana!!

*cackles in deranged fashion*

*is fourteen*

Literally.

Because it's at age 14 that I penned my first melodramatic slash story. I just didn't know it was a genre yet, is all. *digs around in attic in hope of finding said gem*

Comments

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I might have to take a look at that later. Right now I'm livestreaming the Arsenal-Liverpool match and trying to watch youtube will make the laptop shut down. Poor, old thing.

But wow. Real pretty boys. The last time I watched Verbotene Liebe it was because of boy/boy love as well. Sadly one of the boys was not so pretty but the other one was + he brought the drama of having thought himself straight till then. The Drama. Whoot.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

The soaps always have one boy who is "not gay" but "just in love". How slashy can you get??? Here, too, the boy Christian struggles against his own love because it so Forbidden! And he is really into girls! Except he LOVES Olli!

*is puddle*

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Woot. The Drama!! I can only take it in small dosages (doses?), though. Because it is just so very not realistic it makes my inner nitpicker rant and rage. Heh.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

It is totally and utterly unrealistic. And unreal. And it can only be taken in small doses. I should know. I just ate 43 boyplot episodes in practically one long sitting.

*feels queasy*

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Started watching the first ep in their saga and I couldn't even finish that one. The acting is soooo bad. On the other hand - maybe I should try again now. Tired might be just the right space of mind... Heh.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

All the best eps are . Or the ones I liked best, anyway. With the kissing. And the fondling. And the angsting.

Ignore the acting!! Goodness, woman, never been in a TV fandom before? *cackles* They have to be wooden actors! Otherwise it's not slashy!!

[junalele.livejournal.com]

You. Are. Just. Evil. ZOMG. The angst. Just watched the clip of the first time and Teh Angst and how am I supposed to resist. Damn. Not enough bad acting to counteract teh angst.

*off to watch more*

And btw, I tried to disagree with you about wooden acting being necessary for slashiness but you might actually have a point. Damn. Prison Break maybe the only exception but of course, it's not a plotline there.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

You mean Tom and Ulli by any chance? Only, who is the ugly one?

Ah, the innocent days of soap opera when the actors were still giving interviews going into detail about just how disgusting it was to shoot the love scenes and how completely straight they are.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I watched the beginning of Tom/Ulli yesterday but then had to stop to watch more C&O. And just now I watched the rest. They are CUUUUUUUUUTE.

I'm trying to think of analytically clever things to say about the historical and aesthetic difference between 2000 and 2008 but can't think of anything besides *squeeee*.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how ridiculously terrible "Olli" was back when he was new. The scene where Ulli almost runs Olli over with his car and Olli starts screaming at him? Hilariously awesome badness.

I did get the impression that they were trying to avoid kissing too. Or rather, they pulled all the stops for the big scenes (like first boinks or cheater boinks) but in the casual scenes it seems that they were trying their best to get through it with hugs and hair ruffling too.

It's hard to judge whether it's just the bad tape quality, but almost everything looks a bit more awful back then. They also seemed to do much fewer extreme close-ups of the reactions.

Speaking of directing and cinematic style, how can you guys sit through this incredibly annoying zap-zap-zap reaction shot thing they sometimes do on AWZ? It drives me nuts.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

So, hang on, Ulli/Olli interact? In the vid you linked? Did Olli look completely different? Which one is he???

So Olli was in the show in 2000? But the actor looks about 21 years of age...!

What is AWZ?

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Nope, but there are separate clips about how Tom and Olli met and about a storyline where Ulli returned while Tom was dating Olli. All can be found here.

So Olli was in the show in 2000? But the actor looks about 21 years of age...!

I think he should be closer to 30. And *technically* Olli should be mid to late 20s too. After all when he was dating Tom he was a student and then he got into legal trouble and spent 5 years on the cruise ship.

But yeah, I'm in denial about that too ;D

AWZ, Alles Was Zählt the home of Deniz and Roman. I thought maybe there was a chance that you guys were watching that too. :D

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Tom. That nose and actually all of him. Just sooo not my type for teh pretty. Of course, Ulli is almost too pretty but yes.

And seriously? Woot. That's like - erh, forgot the name but the actor who plays Michael on Queer as Folk liked to be vocal like that, too. maybe he still is? No idea as I'm no longer in that fandom.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, Ulli, looking like the twinkiest twink who ever twinked. :)

[junalele.livejournal.com]

Perfect description of him with the bambi look. heh.

[tansu.livejournal.com]

Oh, how delicious!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I am so addicted, it's queasy-making.

[anitac588.livejournal.com]

Surfing from fflist

Oh dear --- this pair!!! Just today I spent the whole afternoon watching clips on You Tube -- it has everything -- pining, angs, love and aaah.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

It is phenomenally.... addictive. Terribly. Terrible.

*buries head under anti-macassar*

[karneol-vision.livejournal.com]

OH, The DRAMA! Isn't that refreshing? while it gets all mushy... heh, well.

*Tries hard to be shallow enough not to be repulsed by the acting*