Salatut elämät - General Discussion

[kevvoi]

Salatut elämät (Secret Lives) is a Finnish soap. It has started a gay storyline recently -- with Elias an out kid gets bullied in school. Monpensiers88 is uploading the storyline and providing English subtitles! Not only is Elias gay, but his cousin Tale pretended to be gay in order to get the attention of a girl. The first clip has a detailed description of who is who in the information box below the video.

Salatut elämät is the longest running daily Finnish soap (wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salatut_elämät).

The first three clips:








the third clip doesn't have subtitles yet.

[kevvoi]

Part 3 now has subs!

[kevvoi]

Part 4 courtesy of Monpensiers88:

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Part 5 courtesy of Monpensiers88:



the uploader provided the following background infromation for the clip:

So that this part makes any sense to you, here's a little bit of background information: The brunette woman in this part, Cindy, dated Elias' father, Sebastian when they were young. Cindy got pregnant and didn't wanna keep the child so she gave him to adoption. Sebastian had no idea of what Cindy had done, because they had already broken up by then. Years later, when Elias was about 5 years old, Sebastian found out what Cindy had done and went searching for his son. He found Elias, and told him he is his biological father. Cindy knew that Sebastian had found Elias, but she wasn't ready to meet the boy. Little after all of this, Elias moved to Brussels with his foster mum and her new husband. Then, years later, he moved back to Finland to live with his father. Elias has no idea that Cindy is his biological mother or that she is living in the same building with him.

Dami is the coffee house where the teenagers used to hang out, but it's now closed because of drug dealing. Amanda (the place where Ida and Elias are in the beginning of the video) is a inn and Elias' grandma owns the place. There is also a gym and a spa in Amanda. Cindy works at the spa.

[dmagiclight]

thanks really enjoying this show thanks for the clips also can not wait to see who the bf will be I have a person in mind who I think it will be

[kevvoi]

Part 6 courtesy of Monpensiers88:



with the following background material provided by the uploader:

Elias and his dad are moving, but not very far. Otherwise this part is mostly about Cindy. I know it has nothing to do with the gay storyline, but it's kind of relevant part of Elias' story so I'm going to cover it. It helps to understand Elias more.

Again I give you guys a little background information. Cindy had her baby at the same time than Isabella. Isabella is the ex-girlfriend of Elias' father, Sebastian and the baby was his. Someone switched the babies in the hospital, so that Cindy went home with Sebastian's son and they went home with Cindy's son. Sebastian's son, Aleksander, died soon because of some mystery illness. Right after that Cindy found out that the babies got switched but because she couldn't bear the thought of losing her son, she didn't tell anyone about it.

So, the baby Aleksander who died, was Elias' stepbrother. And so is OJ, baby living with Cindy, though Elias doesn't know about it.

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Part 7 courtesy of Monpensiers88:

[boyofgod]

Do you know who will be his boyfriend?

[kevvoi]

No idea. As I don't know any Finnish, I haven't tried to look for any spoilers for the show. You should ask the uploader of the storyline (http://www.youtube.com/user/Monpensiers88).

[kevvoi]

Monpensiers88 uploaded two more parts!

[kevvoi]

two more parts, courtesy of Monpensiers88:

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there are a few weeks of scenes between parts 9 and 10 that the uploader (Monpensiers88) hasn't been able to find and translate yet. Here are a couple of those scenes without subtitles. Elias has a crush on Joonatan:



and a kiss! though unfortunately Joonatan is not interested.



Clips courtesy of Shinuski Toffi and Halkerification's youtube channels.

[kevvoi]

boyofgod, I found a clip that Monpensiers88 hasn't gotten to yet in terms of translating -- it looks like Elias will have a boyfriend named Ville:



Clip courtesy of Halkerification

[cbuholzer]

I did a little searching and found exciting news! Highlight to read:

Apparently, in an episode that aired May 15 (so not nearly close to being subbed yet I believe) Lari (the bully) kissed Elias!

[ari]

Thanks to all of the uploaders of these great clips.
I was hoping it'd lead to where it did. I love it,
love it, love it!!!!

[kevvoi]

Part 12 courtesy of Monpensiers88:

[kevvoi]

cbuholzer, could you provide a source for your spoiler?

[cbuholzer]

There is a clip on youtube! I don't know if you would consider it a spoiler or not since it technically already happened so I'll just post the link...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCGvB-sLsGY

[kevvoi]

thank you! Elias certainly gets a lot of kisses!

[cbuholzer]

He definitely does! This is turning out to be one of my favorite storylines (Along with Måne, Stug, and hopefully WilSon again soon). There may be some missing parts and it may be a slow story but it doesn't seem cliché at all.

I know if you search Lari and Elias on youtube there are some fun fanvids already made

[kevvoi]

Its just refreshing to see a gay teen story without all the stress and drama of a coming out storyline. Instead he has plenty of other dramas to deal with.

[cbuholzer]

Exactly! Plus, it is refreshing to see a gay kid be so nonchalant about all the bullying, at least up to this point.

I actually really like the Cindy storyline, it is different and Cindy is so nice you can't hate her!

[ferdavid]

uh, i'm really looking forward elias getting a boyfriend..and the two seem very cute togheter and i think, we will see a lot of kisses between them . but he might get a boyfriend in the autumn, winter................so we have to wait

[kevvoi]

Part 13 courtesy of Monpensiers88's channel:



And some background information provided by Mon:

Ida is missing her ex-boyfriend.

Matleena is a new character. She's Tale's girlfriend and Cindy's sister.

And here's the background information:

Ida and Janne broke up awhile ago. After that, Janne slept with Heidi, who's about 20-years-old girl. Janne didn't tell Heidi he's only 15-years-old (in Finland the age of consent is 16). Then Janne and Ida got back together and Janne didn't tell about Heidi to Ida. Ida heard about them having sex by accident and was so jealous that she posted about it to internet. Police of course found the writings and now both Heidi and Janne are on trial about it.

[yahoorain]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpeZzEOOf6c contains spoilers for the people not living in Finland but the episodes have already aired