It usually depends on the decision of the translator (who is usually a German native speaker with a good grasp on English) what to include and what not. When a storyline is a main storyline it usually is not that hard to decide which parts are essential to the story and what parts aren't.
When something is unclear the English fans usually ask (like: Why does character X not live in that appartment anymore? Did characters Y and Z break up?), either at the boards or in the youtube comments and other fans answer the questions for them. Some of the international fans are very curious about the entire soap/the rest of the characters while others couldn't care less about anybody outside the couple and their core supporting characters.
As for why those parts in particular, well, I think it's a supply/demand thing. Het romance is fairly easy to find in English if you crave it, from RomComs to soap operas to your Grey's Anatomy and stuff like that. Same sex romances and particularly well done same sex romances are very rare, particularly since the end of Queer As Folk. VL has been doing straight up romantic same sex stories since the late 90s. While English soap operas are only slowly coming around them and there are still a lot of starter hurdles (just ask All My Children's Bianca).
Personally, I can only reccomend the VL stories, they exist both subtitled and not subtitled, cut together to make a straight up story as opposed to a long sprawled out soap opera structure. Just youtube Christian and Olli or Carla and Hanna (or Carla Susanne or Carla Stella or Carla Anke or Tom Ulli or Tom Ulli Olli or Nina Erika and those are just the VL ones and they don't include the storylines of Gero from the late 1990).
I think AWZ has more viewers that watch the the whole soap mostly because RTL offers up the entire show for free streaming into all countries while ARD so far doesn't (though rumouredly they plan to start this summer to offer it). Also, ARD so far has turned a blind eye to people posting only certain storylines on youtube, but people who have put up entire episodes have always been kicked.
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carisma_sensei
Re: Way too much navel gazing and rambling...
Date: 2009-05-04 11:05 am (UTC)When something is unclear the English fans usually ask (like: Why does character X not live in that appartment anymore? Did characters Y and Z break up?), either at the boards or in the youtube comments and other fans answer the questions for them. Some of the international fans are very curious about the entire soap/the rest of the characters while others couldn't care less about anybody outside the couple and their core supporting characters.
As for why those parts in particular, well, I think it's a supply/demand thing. Het romance is fairly easy to find in English if you crave it, from RomComs to soap operas to your Grey's Anatomy and stuff like that. Same sex romances and particularly well done same sex romances are very rare, particularly since the end of Queer As Folk. VL has been doing straight up romantic same sex stories since the late 90s. While English soap operas are only slowly coming around them and there are still a lot of starter hurdles (just ask All My Children's Bianca).
Personally, I can only reccomend the VL stories, they exist both subtitled and not subtitled, cut together to make a straight up story as opposed to a long sprawled out soap opera structure. Just youtube Christian and Olli or Carla and Hanna (or Carla Susanne or Carla Stella or Carla Anke or Tom Ulli or Tom Ulli Olli or Nina Erika and those are just the VL ones and they don't include the storylines of Gero from the late 1990).
I think AWZ has more viewers that watch the the whole soap mostly because RTL offers up the entire show for free streaming into all countries while ARD so far doesn't (though rumouredly they plan to start this summer to offer it). Also, ARD so far has turned a blind eye to people posting only certain storylines on youtube, but people who have put up entire episodes have always been kicked.