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  1. On 11/18/2023 at 6:39 AM, DramatistDreamer said:

     

  2. 5 hours ago, Mitch64 said:

    A really good actor and character wasted on trying to make the audience like Lucy Cooper and the actress, one of JFP's friends. 

    Such a good actor. So frightening. Not surprising he carried some of that darkness IRL. He elevated that story that, without question, would be deemed transphobic today.

    Not gonna link to a clip because of how Santa Barbara videos get taken down so promptly, but Judith McConnell’s Sophia was in male drag when she first appeared in town.

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  3. 19 hours ago, Cheap21 said:

    SLC Seating chart

     

     

    YES MONICA! That feels unheard of as a newbie to an established franchise. She is definitely coming back. She was the MVP this season

     

  4. 5 minutes ago, Vee said:

    It was such a disaster. But as I said, Roger was clearly just happy to no longer be playing a role that had weighed very heavily on him (as he talked about in that recent outside podcast). And I think when he came back to ABC that more calm ethos he's talked about a lot in recent years remained, including while playing Todd. He had put all the agita behind him and was just happy to be there and act. But he has only a certain range, he has limitations and weaknesses, and only so many abilities when faced with not one but two overplayed dud characters foisted on GH (not unlike his messy run as an overly reinvented Paul).

    Soap operas can offer a good, stable life, so I totally get it. But, like you say, Roger is gifted within a narrow range and he can’t spin sh!t into sugar, especially when you’re miscast or the characters are just poorly defined. When RH starts mugging (which is most of the time), you know he doesn’t have confidence in what he’s playing.

  5. 53 minutes ago, 1974mdp said:

    Follow through with the writing has been a problem on this show for many many years. It just keeps reverting back to what was happening before. For example, Brooke and Taylor's friendship presented an opportunity to take the show in a new direction, but...it all got dumped in the span of one episode so they could fight over Ridge for the millionth time. It often feels like they're scared to do anything new.

    Totally. I’m all for dropping things that don’t work, but this show feels so chaotic with the fits and starts that ultimately revert back to the “norm.”

    Again, I wish we had a more empowered soap press who did more than transcribe publicity soundbites from TPTB. Like more insights on process, how they respond to fan reactions, etc. The types of interviews we often get from primetime showrunners.

  6. Susan Haskell is such a professional that she played all that unhinged stuff to the hilt. But it’s so strange to write Marty Saybrooke as a campy joke.

    Daytime’s piss-poor writing of the last 25 years has laid waste to a lot of gifted actors. RH could soar in the right role, but not on daytime. He was SO miscast as Paul. And FV’s attempts to make fetch happen were so labored.

  7. 6 hours ago, Planet Soap said:

    The 2005 scene of Stephanie slapping Brooke was my first thought!

    Leslie slapping Monica was a good one (7:38)

     

    He thought you were DULL! He thought you were DULL and respectable! We used to lie in bed while we were MAKING LOVE and laugh about you! Making the kind of love that YOU, poor fool, are INCAPABLE OF, and it’s called PAESHUN!!!!! 

  8. Again, JG has a lot of the ingredients in places for a solid show. Family members like Mamie, Heather, and Danny back. Audra as a vixen JG doesn’t seem to be sacrificing as a short-term psycho. Jack finally getting an age-appropriate love interest and settling down. The Newmans getting something drastic to shake them out of their interminable PG-rated episode of Succession. MTS finally getting something to do. Potentially giving Victoria a grown daughter could be what she’s long needed. And CZ certainly can command the screen opposite EB and MTS (in the same way Alex Donnelley did years ago as Diane).

    But we have zero evidence from his past work that he’ll make good on this potential.

  9. 1 hour ago, DramatistDreamer said:

    I do remember that I couldn’t make it through watching Making The Band because I got the distinct impression that Combs enjoyed humiliating the aspiring musicians on that show. It’s not a giant leap from smaller but persistent humiliations to big ones.

    Yeah, I remember him making the girls go all the way from uptown Manhattan to Brooklyn to get him some cheesecake or something late at night. There was a cruelty to reality-competition TV that people reveled in back in the 2000s and it was quite revealing. There was a nakedness to it, as if, “Get ready, this is just the tip of the iceberg of what you’ll have to deal with as you navigate this industry, so suck it up.”

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