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* ClicheStorm: Ellen and Matt's relationship, which managed to display no less than five tropes--BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama, DisabledLoveInterest (he's paralyzed), LikesOlderWomen (she's at least 10 years his senior), TeacherStudentRomance (he's an intern while she's an attending), and DefrostingIceQueen.

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* ClicheStorm: Ellen and Matt's relationship, which managed to display no less than five tropes--BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama, DisabledLoveInterest TragicallyDisabledLoveInterest (he's paralyzed), LikesOlderWomen (she's at least 10 years his senior), TeacherStudentRomance (he's an intern while she's an attending), and DefrostingIceQueen.
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* NightmareFuel: The entirety of the "Tainted Love". While "Time in a Bottle" introduced the supernatural to the soap, with the time traveling elements, "Tainted Love" was more overtly fueled by horror, with Jack fighting his thirst as a fledgling vampire, and Caleb's obsession with Livie.

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* NightmareFuel: The entirety of the "Tainted Love". ''Tainted Love'' arc. While "Time ''Time in a Bottle" Bottle'' introduced the supernatural to the soap, soap with the time traveling time-traveling elements, "Tainted Love" ''Tainted Love'' was more overtly fueled by horror, with Jack fighting his thirst as a fledgling vampire, and Caleb's obsession with Livie.Livvie.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: As a soap opera that started out realistic and then became Gothic and [[SupernaturalSoapOpera supernatural]], with a particular focus on vampire lovers, the series has a great deal in common with ''Series/DarkShadows''.
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* NightmareFuel: The entirety of the "Tainted Love". While "Time in a Bottle" introduced the supernatural to the soap, with the time traveling elements, "Tainted Love" was more overtly fueled by horror, with Jack fighting his thirst as a fledgling vampire, and Caleb's obsession with Livie.
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* ClicheStorm: Ellen and Matt's relationship, which managed to display no less that five tropes--BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama, DisabledLoveInterest (he's paralyzed), LikesOlderWomen (she's at least 10 years his senior), TeacherStudentRomance (he's an intern while she's an attending), and DefrostingIceQueen.

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* ClicheStorm: Ellen and Matt's relationship, which managed to display no less that than five tropes--BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama, DisabledLoveInterest (he's paralyzed), LikesOlderWomen (she's at least 10 years his senior), TeacherStudentRomance (he's an intern while she's an attending), and DefrostingIceQueen.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: Chris was played by a young Creator/NolanNorth.
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* TheUntwist: When the "General Homicide" murders kicked off, Julie Devlin was the prime suspect, as the first victim was her father, whom she'd had a vicious argument with. Witnesses reported seeing her at other crime scenes and she was promptly arrested. The murders stopped while she was in prison, then resumed once she was acquitted and released. Everything culminated in a bomb being planted in the hospital and a close-up of Julie's watch mirroring the countdown to detonation. All this and it was still a shock when Julie was revealed to be the "General Homicide" killer.

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* TheUntwist: When the "General Homicide" murders kicked off, Julie Devlin was the prime suspect, as the first victim was her father, whom she'd had a vicious argument with. Witnesses reported seeing her at other crime scenes and she was promptly arrested. The murders stopped while she was in prison, then resumed once she was acquitted and released. Everything culminated in a bomb being planted in the hospital and a close-up of Julie's watch mirroring the countdown to detonation. All this and it was still a shock when Julie was revealed to be the "General Homicide" killer.killer.
** Then it was "untwisted" even more when the real killer turned out to be resident psycho (or rather psycho resident) Greg Cooper, who kicked off the show by holding the interns hostage--he didn't know which one of them had replaced him in the residency program and as such, intended to kill them all to get his revenge. It turned out he had somehow managed to periodically sneak out of the mental hospital he was incarcerated in order to commit the murders. Julie's supposed guilt was the result of the StockholmSyndrome[=/=]BrainwashedAndCrazy she developed after he kidnapped her (for some reason, he developed a particularly sick fixation on her).
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* ClicheStorm: Ellen and Matt's relationship, which managed to display no less that five tropes--BlackGalOnWhiteGuyDrama, DisabledLoveInterest (he's paralyzed), LikesOlderWomen (she's at least 10 years his senior), TeacherStudentRomance (he's an intern while she's an attending), and DefrostingIceQueen.
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* TheUntwist: When the "General Homicide" murders kicked off, Julie Devlin was the prime suspect, as the first victim was her father, whom she'd had a vicious argument with. Witnesses reported seeing her at other crime scenes and she was promptly arrested. The murders stopped while she was in prison, then resumed once she was acquitted and released. Everything culminated in a bomb being planted in the hospital and a close-up of Julie's watch mirroring the countdown to detonation. All this and it was still a shock when Julie was revealed to be the "General Homicide" killer.

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