space opera(editing)

Space opera originally was not popular SF subgenre according to Wilson Tucker in 1941 he named space opera after "soap operas" which is morning series in USA where it broadcast through Radio in daytime targeting housewives and "horse operas" which is westerns movies. He describe it as a "Hacky, grinding, stinking, outworn, spaceship yarn."

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When Radio was the principal medium of home entertainment in the USA, daytime serials intended for housewives were often sponsored by soap-powder companies; the series were thus dubbed "soap operas". The name was soon generalized to refer to any corny domestic drama. Westerns were sometimes called "horse operas" by false analogy, and the pattern was extended into sf terminology - See more at: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/space_opera#sthash.dEYoPmHt.dpuf

When Radio was the principal medium of home entertainment in the USA, daytime serials intended for housewives were often sponsored by soap-powder companies; the series were thus dubbed "soap operas". The name was soon generalized to refer to any corny domestic drama. Westerns were sometimes called "horse operas" by false analogy, and the pattern was extended into sf terminology - See more at: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/space_opera#sthash.dEYoPmHt.dpuf

When Radio was the principal medium of home entertainment in the USA, daytime serials intended for housewives were often sponsored by soap-powder companies; the series were thus dubbed "soap operas". The name was soon generalized to refer to any corny domestic drama. Westerns were sometimes called "horse operas" by false analogy, and the pattern was extended into sf terminology - See more at: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/space_opera#sthash.dEYoPmHt.dpuf

When Radio was the principal medium of home entertainment in the USA, daytime serials intended for housewives were often sponsored by soap-powder companies; the series were thus dubbed "soap operas". The name was soon generalized to refer to any corny domestic drama. Westerns were sometimes called "horse operas" by false analogy, and the pattern was extended into sf terminology - See more at: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/space_opera#sthash.dEYoPmHt.dpuf

When Radio was the principal medium of home entertainment in the USA, daytime serials intended for housewives were often sponsored by soap-powder companies; the series were thus dubbed "soap operas". The name was soon generalized to refer to any corny domestic drama. Westerns were sometimes called "horse operas" by false analogy, and the pattern was extended into sf terminology - See more at: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/space_opera#sthash.dEYoPmHt.dpuf