The phantom "soaps" are simply mental geniuses by parallel and perpendicular layouts, nothing is left at random, above all nothing is impossible in a world which mirrors the everyday life, and simultaneously has autonomous internal rules. This little book will be a satyrical re-reading of what my memory allow to word in order to carry to the top the Loving/City story and follow step by step for a while with the italian episodes, and finally I'll summarize all the final story until the hideous cancellation of the program. Today is 30 october 1998, in America this soap opera was cancelled on 28 march 1997, with the desperation of I don't know how many soap maniacs. And infact one day Tom King had the good idea to follow by internet the story lines of "The City", which is the continuation of "Loving" with change of setting from Corinth to New York. For us in Italy these ones would be news, but I didn't hold on to surfing by internet into the world of the story lines already happened in american episodes. Here in Italy we are 3 years late, and I prefer so. The "Soap Opera" in general is undoubtedly a pleasant disease, sometimes excessively deviationist from everyday life, but anyway it is also a useful reference of what often happens in the same reality. Agnes Nixon, creator of Loving, has filled up the episodes of all what can be found in a normal life, such as love affairs,drug, violence, accidental or not deaths, political matters, trade affairs, intrigues, happy marriages never forever, miracolous returns from nothing, and so on, to fill up the days of the fanatical soap maniacs with exciting shifty extrareal reality. I began when I was child fonding of this TV genre thank to "Capitol", a soap of first 80s, and then I followed watching from the first episode, but anyway with several time pauses, "Loving", and then, with less success, I tried also to watch "Beautiful" and "Santa Barbara". My number one is clearly "Capitol" of which I failed to watch one or two episodes at maximun, but recently "Loving" was growimg up more and more in my valutation. I'll try, differently from Tom King who writes new scripts, to re-live what I manage to remember of the past of this soap opera, and then for a while to follow step by step the emotions risen by the up-to-date, for Italy, episodes, and then to complete my work with the future, for us italian, story lines at great lines, given that I read them by internet. My eye will be critical and also a bit supporter, as veryone could be taking side with one or another. Everyone has his own preferences and tastes. I don't know what will be the final result of this work of mine, if good or not, but anyway will be a token of my esteem for this soap opera and the attempt of concerning with the subjectivity of audience. And now, we have to go about 10 years behind, when "Loving" started. I'll make a sort of retrospection based upon my memory and also suppositions about the times when I lacked to watch the soap opera, but ever enough reliable. It's probable I'll make any confusion, above all about time sequences of the facts, but clearer possible. I think it's easier to create a new story than to relive a past story, and the sense of direction is often the major problem in it.
