Members CassieFan Posted January 22, 2010 Members Share Posted January 22, 2010 He's not a good actor anyway. The dumbest thing is his reason. He said that he doesn't feel utilized. Seriously??? He was practically on every episode in every storyline last season and he still has somewhat of a main story this season. Dumb move. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted January 22, 2010 Members Share Posted January 22, 2010 Honestly, Rob Lowe leaving is the best thing to happen to this show. I cannot stand him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted January 22, 2010 Members Share Posted January 22, 2010 Like I said... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted January 22, 2010 Members Share Posted January 22, 2010 Yes!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris B Posted January 22, 2010 Members Share Posted January 22, 2010 Rob Lowe is one of the reasons I stopped watching. I preferred Kitty's romance with Josh Hopkins character. That was him right? I think they felt they needed a big name, so they were going to make Lowe work regardless. His stories have sucked from day one and his chemistry with Kitty is limited. So glad he's gone, but I couldn't care less about this show now. They lost me when Rebecca was de-Walkerized. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted January 22, 2010 Members Share Posted January 22, 2010 This show has always been artificial, emotionless and stiff in my view. A sort of unnaturalness about it, like a B-class still life painting. Sally Field killed it for me. The endless behind-the-scenes shuffles killed it for me. The mediocre writing team and subpar writing killed it for me. It was actually never born. It's just there, lingering. Interesting premise, terrible execution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris B Posted January 22, 2010 Members Share Posted January 22, 2010 I do think it had potential. I had Knots Landing hopes for it. I liked the big family, but at the same time half the characters were completely forgettable. I agree that the tone was always shifting and uneven. The big emotional scenes feel so "LOOK AT ME!!!! I'M ACTING! EMOTING! EMMY TAPE!!!!!!" And Calista Flockhart is miscast. I would've preferred someone like Juliette Lewis in the role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted January 22, 2010 Members Share Posted January 22, 2010 Really? Why? Sally Field is the main reason I watch! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted January 22, 2010 Members Share Posted January 22, 2010 I cannot stand her. Sally Field a matriarch? Please! She has this vulnerability + neuroses vibe, it is totally unfitting for this show. That puppy, sleepy look, that voice... Disastrous. This show needed a strong, powerful, towering main woman figure, not Sally Field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted January 22, 2010 Members Share Posted January 22, 2010 Hmm. You see, I like the vulnerability and neurosis vibe because that's how Sally actually is and that's how many women of her generation are, my mum is just like Sally Field and let me tell ya, she has been the matriarch with ease. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted January 22, 2010 Members Share Posted January 22, 2010 She doesn't have one, she has a Pndora's box of neuroses. I used the plural intentionally. She just bugs me. But I liked her on ER. That's a role for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphanguy74 Posted January 23, 2010 Members Share Posted January 23, 2010 So I take it you didn't purchase this DVD?: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members alphanguy74 Posted January 23, 2010 Members Share Posted January 23, 2010 But in all seriousness... I like this show, I think it's the best thing on the air right now. but don't get me wrong, it's a 7, while Knots Landing was a 10. If I were writing this show, this is how I would get rid of Rob Lowe's character: I would have him go ahead and run for re-election, and over time... become more moderate due to Kevin's influence. Then I would have him assasinated by some dissolusioned right wing nutjob who felt "betrayed" by him straying too far into that "liberal/marxist" territory. After his death, this would bring Kitty to question her whole ideology, and she would struggle with whether her cohorts in the right wing media fueled the flames that caused her husband's death. At the same time, Kevin would be dealing with HIS guilt thinking it's all his fault, even some conflict, where Kitty... not wanting to accept that the right wing bomb-throwers that she has always socialized with fed this man's psychosis... actually TELLS Kevin in an angry moment that she blames him. There could be some good layers and good drama with that kind of stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 23, 2010 Members Share Posted January 23, 2010 I thought Sally Field worked very well in the first season of the show. The histrionic fighting with Kitty was raw guts and Callista and Sally both stepped up to the plate. Those early episodes, which were about a family trying to find their place and Nora realizing her husband was a liar and a cheat, I think they were very watchable. Cliched, yes, but those types of melodramatic confrontations suited the cast. Lots of good stuff with Kitty/Nora, Kevin/Nora, Tommy/Kevin, Kitty/Justin, Holly/Nora. Deep relationships. When they started bringing in the people like Robert and Rebecca and the stories went more and more into being about stunts (elections, custody fights, babies, marriage, long lost relatives), and William Walker was turned into a mobster, the show was never the same. I still watch sometimes and enjoy the actors but it's hard to get back that early flavor. It really made an emotional connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted January 23, 2010 Members Share Posted January 23, 2010 I hope ROb Lowe leaving will mean less of these weird politics (the liberal republican wanting to be presient bla bla) which have REALLY bogged the show down. When Baitz was writing, cuz he's a political playwright, the politics (largely) served the show well, IMHO they stopped pretty much when he left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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