Wow, I kind of forgot what it was like

[gwyn]

As much as I squee over Don on Numb3rs or Max Martini's sexy characters on both Numb3rs and The Unit, I haven't had that insane, squeeful, maniacal glee in anything since I think before my sister got sick. I still passionately love the things I love, but nothing has made me feel that heart-racing, in my head all the time, OMG I must write or vid this NOW feeling. I'm sure most people passed right over my post on Friday about Steve and Kayla returning to Days of Our Lives because most people sneer at soaps, and anyway, if they watched soaps, they were probably fans of either other soap couples or other shows, and S/K were never really as huge as a lot of the other power couples, even on Days.

But man, finding out that Steve was coming back and seeing people making icons and whatnot just brought back such a huge surge of fannish feelings for me I can't believe it. This is the first time I've felt this squeeful and gleeful since I can't even remember. When I got that little tantalizing glimpse of Steve at last at the end of Friday's episode, I just about died. I was screeching and jumping up and down, and it's probably a good thing Emma had gone walkabout (the little minx disappeared and was gone for 10 and a half hours, scaring the bejesus out of me) because I would have terrified her.

I got home late yesterday from being gone all day up to Bellingham to watch mlyn graduate from college (sniff! They grow up so fast!) and spend time with her excellent family (who included me in dinner at the Oyster Bar on Chuckanut Drive -- Northwesties, take note, this place is incredible and you should totally take the drive to have dinner there). I didn't log in to email till this morning, and there was a mail from paraviondeux with a web site URL of someone who had actually had the foresight to save all the Steve and Kayla moments, edited to focus on them, on tape and she's selling them and oh my god, I am so happy. Not only am I going to get everything, I can so totally see the kingiest of lord king bad vids coming out of this, because I don't even need to access my inner 12-year-old since she's already RIGHT HERE and is squeeing like a baby.

I mean, I had totally forgotten the cheesy wonder of all this. Finding out that rich Jack Devereaux was Steve's long lost brother! And then Jack falling for Kayla and marryng her and raping her, and then her being imprisoned in the Devereauxs' house and being poisoned and Steve rescuing her and carrying her away, down the stairs, JUST LIKE INGRID BERGMAN AND CARY GRANT in Notorious!!! I can hardly contain my excitement at the possibility of seeing this again. Or when Kayla was injured and she was deaf and mute, and Steve learned sign language, and they finally got married, and she was able to speak again AT THE WEDDING!! Really, truly, it does not get any better than that, people! Except, wait, there's more! There's the dream/fantasy dance to Lady in Red (big hit at the time). There's him getting ready to go on a first date with her, but he knows he's just an evil thug and not worthy of her, so at her door, he drops the flowers he brought her and leaves! Because he's not good enough! But she loves him and he doesn't know it! There are the dream sequences where he always has both eyes so you get to see him without his eyepatch. There's the fact that -- OMG, the cheese of '80s soaps does not get any better than this -- The Rose was their song! And he learned it in sign language so he could recite the lines to her!!!

I swoon with cheese-induced love. I had totally forgotten what it was like to feel this excited by anything. I never would have expected it to be nearly 20-year-old soap characters, but I'm okay with this. They're coming back, I'm filled with fannish squee, I have a TiVo (though, alas, I cannot dump these down to dvd because my hookup won't seem to let me record anything off the TiVo and I keep forgetting to get feochadn down here to help me figure it out -- are soaps on the torrent sites these days, or are they too frequent and cheesetastic to be torrented?), and Steve and Kayla are back.

Fandom, man. It's a good thing. I fear I will perish of squee and the cheesetasticness of it all, but if I was lucky and there was an afterlife and I was able to see my twin again, and she asked me, "What happened?" I would be able to tell her, "Well, Steve and Kayla came back to Days, and I found someone who had all the original eps on tape, and that was that. My heart gave out from happiness." And she would totally, totally understand.

Comments

[umbo.livejournal.com]

Hey, I haven't watched soaps in at least 10 years, and I never watched Days, but I'm pleased as punch to see you all squeeful.

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Cheese indeed! *chants Lord King Bad Vid!* I'm glad to see you so happy about it.

Your description of yesterday made me all verklept, too. *flaps hands*

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Spike and Buffy got nothing on Steve and Kayla.

I've been listening to some music to try to find a song for your 13W vidding desires. I think I'm getting closer to finding something.

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Ooo, yay! (To all parts of that comment.)

[viverra-libro.livejournal.com]

I watched Days back then, too! And it's bringing back such memories for you to talk about the storyline. I really liked the Steve/Kayla arc, too. Y'know what else I watched? Another World (and I so miss that, too!). I hope you do get to watch all the old episodes again - what fun!

Sweetness!

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I'm ridiculously besotted. It's going to be really hard for me to delete stuff off the TiVo. If I could dump it all to disc, I would, but I'm afraid I'm going to run out of room for this new stuff, especially when Kayla comes back and they're reunited on camera. I wish I could remember, though, why they each left. I thought Steve was presumed dead, but I can't remember the details and I don't remember why they left separately.

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

I'm telling you, the down the stairs bit is imprinted on me like nobody's business. I get swoony thinking about it.

LORD KING BAD STEVE AND KAYLA VID. I swear, I will fall at your feet and sob in gratitude, and you'll be totally embarrassed, and then we'll have a drink and write it off to bad 80s flashbacks.

I can't remember exactly how they left Days, unfortunately; I think I'd stopped watching by then.

But yeah-- Steve in the hospital with Jack! EEEE!

(I did watch GH for a while when they were on. SN did a nice Stefan Cassadine-- creepy and powerful. Unfortunately they wrote a terrible character for MBE and she made my teeth itch. I'm so glad they're both back where they belong.)

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how/if I can get these tapes in any kind of way before VVC, but if you're going, and I get them before then, I will bring some with me and we can watch them and cry and drink and remember the '80s (I'm already in '80s flashback fever with the Miami Vice eps, so bring on more '80s is all I can say!). I wish I could get some kind of vid made before then, but I doubt it will come together in time even for a private vid. Entre nous and all that because we are FANS!

Stuff is starting to come back for me now after reading this woman's tape synopses and some of the things you mentioned. Like, I'm starting to remember more and more events and the stairs and the time she was married to Jack, and when he took the rap for his sister, but most of all, Stockholm! The action plot! OMG, I was SO IN LOVE at that time.

Ah, soapy goodness.

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

It makes me vicariously happy to see how happy this is making you. :-)

[batdina.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I could survive watching all those old eps again. Then again, I'm starting to think I can't survive *without* watching them again.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I know. I know. I'm not sure if I can, either, what with the cheese and the melodrama and the '80s fashions and whatnot. But, on the other hand, just remembering is making me squeeful, so maybe it'll be okay. Some things you revisit and it's just pain and more pain, but others... it turns out to be just as much fun as before. Vice has the bad fashion of the '80s, but it's been otherwise really wonderful to rewatch all the first and second season eps. So, I'm hopeful.

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

It's always fun to see someone whose fannish buttons have been well and truly smacked. It's fairly surprising and unpredictable what's going to appeal to people, and sometimes it's the oddest things that appeal the most. It's always interesting to hear *why* something works so well, too.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Rock the fuck on, girlfriend.

Fandom is the shiz.

And I used to love Steve/Kayla too. I might have the old Luke and Laura GH eps on VHS. *cough*

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Aha! We have discovered kita's secret shame!

I adore your icon. That really does say it all, doesn't it?

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

Glad you found some squee!

[merricatk.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how happy it makes me to read these posts of yours.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I am happy that you are happy! Because damn, I think we deserve a little bit, you know?

[merricatk.livejournal.com]

We certainly do!

[mmapmaker.livejournal.com]

What I love about people is that sometimes it takes so little to give us great waves of happiness. I swear I can feel your joy from here. I'm so glad you shared it!

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

With all the new shows coming and summer movies and huge fandoms around and all this other stuff, it's so odd to me that this is what's making me excited, but I'm going with it, becuase it's been a long time since I felt this way.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Hi, I run tivolovers. We might be able to help sort out the connection configuration to allow you to dump shows to DVD. :-)

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool -- duh, of course there would be a TiVo community! Why did I never think of that?

I'm not sure, though, that anyone would be able to help me, though I'm willing to try... my setup is so weird and convoluted. It's largely focused on getting my old tapes archived to the DVD recorder, and I can't help thinking this has something to do with why the TiVo can't seem to get the signal to either the tape deck or the dvd recorder... but I have a feeling there are probably much greater minds out there at work than mine. I'm pretty feeble when it comes to the wiring stuff.

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

If you have a standalone DVD burner it is as simple as connecting the A/V out on the TiVo to the A/V in on the DVD burner. If you don't have a receiver, you'd do it directly - TiVo to burner to TV. Right now it sounds like you have the VCR going into the burner. You can daisy chain them and go TiVO - VCR - burner - TV. But that can degrade things passing through the VCR. Either temporarily connect the TiVo directly to the burner, or you can get an A/B switchbox at RadioShack, feed both the TiVo and VCR into it, then select the one you want to feed the burner.

If you have a receiver, then basically you feed the A/V out from everything into some A/V in on the receiver, and vice-versa. Then everything can feed everything else, depending on how you set the receiver.

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I *thought* I had the latter (I believe when my friend hooked me all up after my revamp of the A/V system due to new furniture), everything was going through my Yamaha receiver. I've got the VCR going into the line 2 port on the front, but if I try to use the line 1 to get the stuff off TiVo, that's where I seem to fail -- I can sometimes get sound but not a picture, though I confess I've only tried the VCR yet to see if it would work. Maybe I should give the dvd a try and see if it actually takes. Thank you for the input -- weirdly, all that made sense to me!