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Telenovelas

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by sokk, Nov 14, 2015.

  1. sokk

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    How do you feel about them? Do you watch and do you have a favorite one? I'm currently watching a telenovela with a gay character and it's surprisingly not that bad. I mean, it's dramatic and ott as hell, but I love it.
     
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    Is this the same as a soap opera?
     
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    Yes :slight_smile: Latin American soap operas :slight_smile:
     
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    I don't watch them, but I like that they exist. Lots of man and woman candy. :thumbsup:
    My mom currently watches one on Univision about a girl with a hideous bob and really thick eyebrows. I've caught bits of it and found myself chuckling.
     
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    OMG that is the one I'm watching. Maite Perroni from RBD is the protagonista, she's ugly and a loser but becomes pretty eventually (like I said.. this is a telenovela lol). The telenovela actually has a gay character too, so you should definitely check it out if you can. I think it even airs with subtitles in USA.

    Here is a clip :slight_smile:

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    :lol: SCORE!
    I remember Maite! When I was in highschool RBD was big. It seemed like all my cousins loved them.
    Maybe I should secretly check it out... :grin:
     
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    Many of my fag hags watch them. I don't like them.
     
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    I used to watch a telenovela. XD
     
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    I watched the first ep of Reina de Corazones and loved it. I couldn't find it anywhere else online except YouTube and it only had the first one or two eps of it on there and I haven't watched it since.

    I don't know of any others though.
     
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    I don't like telenovelas because they're so predictable: poor girl meets rich guy and they eventually fall in love, but also the poor girl happens to have some long-lost relative who is rich and she finds her true identity and then also becomes rich in her own right. Or, ugly girl becomes pretty girl.

    I don't like telenovelas because they seem to lack creativity and/or used as an aspirational tool to keep the poor Latin American masses in place and to ensure they have "hope" that they, too, can have a "fairy tale" life.

    That said, I don't watch Spanish television (or any television).
     
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    Yep.