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  1. 19 hours ago, te. said:

    It actually looks like they used the model that stood in for Alexis in the print ad. 

    Who looks like Hillary Clinton.

    I am in the middle of season two when Dynasty is not quite *Dynasty* yet. It is nice to find myself watching in the moment with only minimal mental flashes to the show's future. I wonder how many first run viewers forgot about the utterly camp Alexis and Adriana the fortune teller scene with its major foreshadowing.

  2. This video has been sitting in my Watch Later folder for months, forgive me if it has already been shared:

     

    Somerset was before my time. There was a poster here or on WoST who had the opportunity to read its bible. He said that Pammy was explicitly written to be a Rachel clone, presumably, to capitalize on Rachel's popularity. I do not know to what extent that came to be.

    I found what Robin Strasser said about the arrival of Gerald Davis to be interesting. She favored the actor more than she did Constance Ford, and she thought it was kind of compelling for the audience to finally see this man who gave Rachel her darker physical features and penchant for unscrupulous behavior.

    While I did not see any of Gerald Davis, I did see some of Eric Kane as a child (and more recently on YouTube). I feel like there were significant missed opportunities with these father/daughter relationships on each show in their later years. I did not care for AMC killing Eric offscreen and the revelations thereafter.

  3. Revisiting the Iris/Mac/Sylvie backstory, I am reminded of a couple of plots from B&B. Li and Jack raised their adopted son, Finn, who unbeknownst to Li was Jack's biological son all along. Even more disturbing, Ridge had a romantic dalliance with Bridget, who he raised as a daughter and later accepted as a sister. Let us thank Kay Chancellor's dear God in heaven that Lemay never took Iris' Electra complex to the forbidden once it was revealed that MacDaddy was not biologically related.

  4. I think you need a strong, spunky have-not to make it work. It's okay to have a Claudia in the family, but Matthew and Lindsay were drips. That's why I liked Walter and I think he would have worked as a surrogate patriarch had the show stuck with the Blaisdels. His fire and craftiness worked well up against the Carrington/Colby set. You need your have-not to be a Cliff Barnes or a Richard Channing, even a Dex Dexter with his robust energy. And your Lindsay needs to be more Lucy Ewing.

  5. I don't want to veer too far off topic, but our conversation leads me the question: Is family (blood, legal, or found) essential to a soap? I loved teen dramas like Degrassi and Fifteen which certainly satisfied my soapy leanings. There were a few instances of characters who were siblings and plot points that involved unseen relatives, but the platonic and romantic relationships are what carried these shows.

  6. 45 minutes ago, Vee said:

    I do think TC was ahead of its time slightly in terms of the handheld filming, the setting of young or upwardly mobile people in NYC starting over, the found family concept, etc. I think it was modern and I think there are real things to be learned from it still - I liked a lot of things about it. But I think the quality stories often just weren't there.

    ITA, and I disagreed with Lemay's criticism, particularly of the found family concept. I do think he was right in that the show could have used a little more generational representation. Say, a Myrtle Fargate-like grandma figure in the building. I'm specifically thinking of the older Latina woman Jesse and Jenny befriended during their summer in New York whose name I'm frustratingly forgetting at the moment. I don't know if the actress was still around at the time, but that would have been a lovely throwback to have her in the mix, she could have been Bernardo's abuela.

    14 minutes ago, te. said:

    I think the biggest issue with The City was that it was aired at 12:30, yet obviously aimed at the Gen X crowd. Same thing with Sunset Beach - even if the intended audience would've been interested, they wouldn't have been at the television to watch it.

    I seem to remember talk of ABC toying with the idea of airing same day repeats late at night. I may be confusing/combining memories with 13 Bourbon Street on FOX. At any rate, I would have loved that given the fact that I was always missing the show because of school and inconsistent VCR taping.

  7. Not Holly about to light up in the DiMera living room.

    So is that it for DVL for now? Add me to the chorus, not feeling an ounce of the forced sympathy for Leo.

    23 hours ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

    And, was I the only one who felt like "shades of Rosemary's Baby"? 

     

     

    For me, it was shades of Knots Landing... the doctor gaslighting Val about the twins. I was certain Nicole was about to say, "I heard (him) cry."

     

    I could hardly believed that I burned through three episodes this morning. I had to go back and make sure I hadn't skipped an episode.

  8. On 1/29/2009 at 1:27 PM, SFK said:

    A few years ago, I had the idea for a fan fiction about the messed up emo kids growing up under the shadow of the serial murders in Corinth ("Children of the Corrinth"-silly working title :P ) It would be a nice touch if Corinth got a mention every now and then, or if a new character/family was from there.

    Looking back on this idea, it feels akin to any number of teen shows we've seen on the CW or streaming in the last 15 years.

    Loving as source material is hardly a big draw, the connection might resonate with the show's loyal audience (aging, international even) but it's really no different than any other potentially good film or series inspired by another obscure, widely forgotten one.

    While Corinth got more than a passing mention on GH, a development on TC that was omitted from the revisit was that Deborah Brewster won the lottery and bought the Alden mansion. While this irked me at the time because GH's writer was always pulling sloppy stunts, to be fair, I don't remember more being said on TC about Deborah moving in and living happily ever after or anything. I suppose it could be easily established that the sale fell through or whatever.

  9. 12 hours ago, Khan said:

    That was always my number-one issue with DYNASTY: characters on that show almost always behaved in ways that defied logic or common sense.  Your own niece conspires to have you locked up and have a lookalike take your place so she can get her hands on her inheritance, and you don't even give her a good thrashing after it's all done and over with?  GMAFB.

     

    Speaking of forgiveness, don't get me started on that season one rape...

  10. 3 hours ago, j swift said:

    This may be overcomplicating things, but, I wonder if the last minute details about Xiao Xing were meant to foreshadow her arrival?  Although, from the story, it didn't sound bad enough to be a motive for murder.

    Also, are we to assume that EJ being the DA means his hit woman will never be prosecuted?  And who told Paulina that he needed a job the same night that he got fired from Dimera?

    Yeah, I thought for sure Xiao Xing was on the way. Then again, I wasn't spoiled and didn't know Li's fate.

  11. Has DOOL made any sort of statement about their penchant for bringing back so many (yes, even three is "so many") actors in new roles? I'm all for actors staying booked and blessed, but there is no shortage of strong out of work actors out there who are deserving of these casting opportunities.

    One might argue that there's something nice and familiar about the idea of a DOOL rep company with the same actors popping in and out and in again when a role needs to be filled. For me, something that made a show like All My Children so special was the mosaic of inimitable characters who were so strongly identified with the actors who played them. I think the canvas, the memories, the emotions all get muddy when you keep playing the same actors in different roles. Particularly when the new characterizations aren't strongly deliniated. We just get different hair or a pair of glasses in a new set of circumstances.

    Perhaps the identical twin soap trope isn't a fair comparison to what we're seeing on DOOL (the same faces and bodies in new roles with no real desire for much difference in execution). But when I look back on what a David Canary or a Kate Collins did, each giving their show an unforgettable new set of thumbprints, I'm just bored and unimpressed with these unnecessary casting changes on DOOL.

  12. Initially, I liked Li. RH worked well as a handsome, charming supporting player. That was his strength on the DOOL canvas. While boosting Li's presence was a fine idea, it has not worked for the actor given the material. Li going off the deep end plays to RH's weaknesses and the result is corny, cringey "bad soap acting". Given time, maybe a director or coach could have helped modulate these performances. I'm disappointed that I've developed such a mistaste for the character.

  13. I'm halfway through a binge watch of season one. Most of these episodes I've never seen in their entirety from previous runs in syndication. I'd like to think that I'm not just feeling this way because I know what's coming, but season one doesn't deserve its widely accepted bad rap for being boring and skippable. There's no denying the particular brand of energy a character like Alexis injects into any show, but to say that Dynasty was bad before she showed up in the courtroom is revisionist history to me.

    Dale Robertson as Walter Lankershim is a hoot and I'm already anticipating how he'll be missed. Coarse and wily without the polish of a Cecil Colby, I like the idea of Walter having been a lasting foil for Blake. I think Walter and Alexis tangling like GL's Hawk and Alexandra would have been fun.

  14. What heartbreaking news. My mind raced back to the high school memory of my friend describing these scenes I'd missed after school that day. It took this tragedy for me to look them up after all these years. This mysterious handsome young man came to Port Charles and naturally my friend was immediately smitten, as if her crush on Lucky hadn't already consumed her enough. May he rest in peace.

     

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