Yeah, I was addressing PC's use of "soapy", not yours. Guess it wasn't clear, sorry. (Kind of funny where he ended up, after saying that. :-))
I was a huge fan of Star Trek: DS9 a while back, and "soapy" used to be one of the accusations flung about by people who thought Trek (and by extension all sci-fi) had to be all spaceships and monsters and explosions, mixed in with the occasional moral message. No room for character or emotion or romance, no sir, all that belongs only in soaps, chick flicks, and trashy novels with Fabio on the cover -- you know, stuff they imagine women like. So I got to be a little sensitized to that word. :-P (Conversely, women can't possibly be in it for the spaceships, etc... *I'm* not, but I know there must be some who are.)
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I was a huge fan of Star Trek: DS9 a while back, and "soapy" used to be one of the accusations flung about by people who thought Trek (and by extension all sci-fi) had to be all spaceships and monsters and explosions, mixed in with the occasional moral message. No room for character or emotion or romance, no sir, all that belongs only in soaps, chick flicks, and trashy novels with Fabio on the cover -- you know, stuff they imagine women like. So I got to be a little sensitized to that word. :-P (Conversely, women can't possibly be in it for the spaceships, etc... *I'm* not, but I know there must be some who are.)