Egoli – Place of Gold has been around for as long as I can remember which, excepting a few pre-washing-the-blood-off-my-hands gaps, is about 1992. It’s gone now. (I’ve already seen a tearfully produced YouTube video, complete with nostalgic music and whatisname’s hilarious suicide scene.) It ended with execs whimpering about future ratings and Franz Marx saying he needs a holiday, despite the best efforts of a poorly-attended (and misplaced) petition to save it. My view: all good things – and, in Egoli’s case, mediocre things on an ever-steeper decline – must come to an end.
But don’t think I’m being unfair! Or, if I’m being unfair, don’t think I do so without adequate Egoli-exposure. I’ve seen many more episodes than the average tween and if you’ll step into the home life of young Kyle for a moment, you’ll find out why…
Supper is at 6pm and because Gran cooks it’s regular as clockwork. Food’s finished by 6.30 when the funnies come on, like The Simpsons, and this is enough to keep young, chubby Kyle firmly rooted in his beanbag all the way through SA’s favourite Open Time soapie. Everybody watches even though only one person falls into the “women of all nationalities between the ages of 25 and 45, with middle or upper incomes” core audience. As the boy grew in height and shrunk in girth, the family’s viewing patterns slowly evolved from watching every single bloody episode to every second one, to eventually replacing it with Binnelanders entirely when the slots swapped last year. So I – yes I – somehow enjoined with the most ardent fans, remember when Stephen was originally a druggy, when Rex became a baron, and when Jane was trampled by a horse and required plastic surgery to change her from Catriona Andrew to Corine du Toit.
“OH Thank the Gods for cancelling that fracking show!” – I agree with this post on MyBroadband because, for all the suppers Egoli and I have shared, Darryl Desmarais (Stephen Edwards) is still the worst actor I have ever seen, Egoli’s conflict scenes still always finish in mid air; and because they’ve never had hot actresses, and because I love The Simpsons and a comedy timeslot must be freed, and because Binnelanders has the genuinely evil At Koster, and…! Yes, thank the Gods for cancelling that fracking show.
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u sound like a disgruntled ex egoli actor or crew member now working on binnelanders