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But the real reason GH gets away with all of this has to do with the strange morality of daytime TV. Like the daytime talk shows where audience members chide swingers for forsaking the nuclear family, soaps have a reputation for being conservative because the characters aren’t afraid to talk about “values.” Everyone always wants to stay together for the kids, men always want to do “the right thing,” motherhood is the most fulfilling thing a woman can do, every chick on the show has been imagining her wedding since she was a little girl and longs to be “taken care of,” and when things go pear-shaped, characters deliver soliloquies to God. Apparently, after almost 50 years of talking this talk, soaps can walk over and kill almost anyone, execution-style. (via The soap opera “General Hospital” has morphed into a violent mafia show.)

But the real reason GH gets away with all of this has to do with the strange morality of daytime TV. Like the daytime talk shows where audience members chide swingers for forsaking the nuclear family, soaps have a reputation for being conservative because the characters aren’t afraid to talk about “values.” Everyone always wants to stay together for the kids, men always want to do “the right thing,” motherhood is the most fulfilling thing a woman can do, every chick on the show has been imagining her wedding since she was a little girl and longs to be “taken care of,” and when things go pear-shaped, characters deliver soliloquies to God. Apparently, after almost 50 years of talking this talk, soaps can walk over and kill almost anyone, execution-style. (via The soap opera “General Hospital” has morphed into a violent mafia show.)