Swans Crossing

I used to watch this show when I was in high school; it was conveniently on 330 after school was out. I really can't believe the countless hours I wasted watching this soap opera for the teen set, or the countless conversations I had about it with my friends. High school really was a strange time. Anyway...

This show was pretty much your typical soap opera fare, except that it featured no one over the age of 18. It had all your classic soap opera standards: melodramitic plots, terrible dialogue, mediocre acting, poor production values, and way too many closeups. It's really only noteworthy as the first regular TV appearance of Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played the school bitch. In fact, the first time in saw Buffy, I said, "Hey, that's the girl from Swans Crossing". The show wasn't as terrible as the tripe that passes for soap operas nowadays, but it wasn't exactly Gone With the Wind, either. I did derive some degree of enjoyment watching it long ago. In fact, if nothing else were on, I'd probably sit down and watch it.

Listen not only did it start the careers of many noticable stars of today, it was smart, funny and very cool for it's time, because so many shows now like Dawson's Creek are trying to get to where Swans crossing was way back in 1992, by far the best one season tv show ever, Glory is the best!!!!!!

Swans Crossing was like a teen soap opera. I enjoyed, and still enjoy watching it. I am lucky enough to have some of the episodes on tape. The best thing about Swans Crossing was that it was not about sex or drugs, it was a show you could sit and watch with your whole family. I also am a huge Sarah michelle Gellar Fan. All and All 10 years after it was canceled Swans Crossing is still a very much remembered TV show. I actually watched my episodes today. I really enjoy watching it. The best scene to me, it is also to me the best Sarah Michelle Gellar scene ever, was when Sydney(Sarah Michelle gellar) was supposed to walk off the baseball field with Garret(Shane Mcdermont)and announce their love together, but Sydney did not go. So later she had to run through the woods to catch Garret, but when she arrived at the Soda Shop Garret was with Mila(Brittany Daniel). Sydney cried and walked outside and fell near a bench. I love that scene. This is already too long so I will stop writing now.

It's been a while since I've seen Swans Crossing, but it was an integral part of my TV childhood. Every morning at 6:30 I would wake up to watch this half hour soap opera because I simply could not miss it. Looking back now at the stars in it, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Mira Sorvino, it is funny to remember how silly the show had seemed. Ms. Gellar has not chosen much different roles (Cruel Intentions) but that's okay because Swans Crossing was good fun. It's too bad it still isn't shown as I would love to get my hands on a copy of the show.

I used to watch this show back when I was younger. It would be on at 6:30am and I'd watch it as I was getting ready for school. Then it was abruptly canceled and I obviously never got over it because here I am watching it 30 years later. Sarah Michelle Gellar was already a star in my eyes back then. She did some phenomenal acting in this show. I used to have a crush on her, as well as a HUGE crush on Tom Carroll who played JT (he still looks good to me in the reruns).

This was like The Young & The Restless for teenagers. The stories were varied: romance, revenge, espionage (some terrorists were after a formula for high-powered rocket fuel). The show moved at just the right pace for the material. I'd set my alarm early so I could wake up and be all teaser for school by the time Swans Crossing came on - so I could lay back and watch it uninterrupted. Why isn't this on DVD? In the imaginary world in my head, people are crowdfunding a Netflix movie that catches up with the characters all these years later.