The people of Soapland are subject to a set of special ills. Temporary blindness, preceded by dizzy spells and headaches, is a common affliction of Soapland people. The condition usually clears up in six or eight weeks, but once in a while it develops into a brain tumor and the patient dies. One script writer, apparently forgetting that General Mills was the sponsor of his serial, had one of his women characters go temporarily blind because of an allergy to chocolate cake. There was hell to pay, and the writer had to make the doctor in charge of the patient hastily change his diagnosis. Amnesia strikes almost as often in Soapland as the common cold in our world. There have been as many as eight or nine amnesia cases on the air at one time.-- James Thurber, Soapland.
LOL. Good point.
But my screenplay has several time-sensitive topics that I meticulously spent months and months researching so I'd like to leave your option as the one of last resort.
By the way, since it's been awhile since I started a thread, did I do this one right? Did I put it in the "Vanity" area properly?