Archive for December, 2004

Getting Creepy

December 1st, 2004

Once is Happenstance. Twice is Coincidence.The third time it’s Enemy action. Right?

There’s a soap opera called "Passions". My TV preferences do not lean toward soap operas, I normally can’t stand the things.
This one has one major thing going for it, though. It’s wacky enough to be considered more as a satire on soap operas, and not as a soap opera by itself. Kind of like a low-level "Soap".

In 2002, one of the actors died of a complication from a heart surgery, just when his character on the show died due to cardiac arrest. That’s once.

Now another one of the Passions cast has died, just after recording episodes in which his character was poisoned and slipped into a coma. That’s twice.

The third time is more complicated. Around here the show is being broadcast at a lag, we still haven’t reached the 2002 episodes where the first actors died.
A few weeks ago they showed here several episodes that were based on Psycho. The culmination of that silly sub-plot was in a bad reenactment of the famous shower scene. And guess what happened at about the same time we saw a character being stabbed in the shower… The actress Janet Leigh died. She’s the one who played the character that was stabbed in the shower in the original movie. That’s a clear third time.

Spooky. There’s something about this series…
I wonder what can be correlated with character death times in other countries and broadcasting networks. It may be even bigger than I think.

Then again, it may just be a coincidence enemy action.