ALL: Which vet or vets are you willing to sacrifice to save your show?

[SteveFrame]

I obviously felt it was or I wouldn't have started and that is not being sarcastic or mean, just stating that it has been on my mind.

It just hurts me for people to even say that vets are sacrificial, because I do believe the powers that be read these boards. And they obviously feel that those fans are rights, or they wouldn't be doing it.

I know for all those that say people like Deidre Hall, Kim Zimmer or Susan Lucci or any other vet are sacrificial to the show - there are just as many who feel they aren't.

To me losing any three of those ladies would be detrimental to their shows.

And to me if Days lost the big 4 as they are referred to Days would lose it's heart and soul. They are what are familiar to long time viewers and to me it is even noticeable many days now since they have been backburnered and esp if an older vet is not seen that day too. JMHO

[tylerbo20]

i just thought id say that because i started one basically just asking if people would want to see DAYS stars on other shows and where they could see them fitting in, and nobody liked that!

[SteveFrame]

I saw that post tylerbo and I thought it very unappropriate. There is no rule that I know of in the SON rules that says they can't do it. I was going to post just a personal opinion about it and not something official, and got called away on a moderator's matter and forgot about it.

Sorry about that. But I did think it was wrong of someone to ask that. I can understand that some don't want to even think that Days could end in 2009 and that was their way of expressing that they didn't want anyone else to think about it either.

[Ms. Walsh]

Not all vets are old. Some actors and actresses have been on the show for 20+ years and are in their 30s and 40s, so I don't expect them to die anytime soon. I'm talking about new characters who have absolutely no reason to be there. And I didn't say to get rid of ALL newbies. There are new characters that do very well on the show, but when a soap is filled with them, then I think it's overboard. I think that some, though, are just not needed.

[DrewH]

I never made it a point that all vet are old. Vets are actors that have been on the show for a long time. Now, if the show never introduces newbies, then those actors that are "30 and 40" are going to get old and then the show has no one. And who's to say that a character that isn't popular right now, won't be popular in 5 or 10 years. I seem to always have to bring up Arianne Zuker from DAYS. She and Nicole were hated on in '98. By the time Ari decided to leave the show in 2006, fans were in an uproar. She's still missed to this day. It only took her 2 or 3 years to come over with fans, but if the show went by popular opinions on "newbies" as you call them, we would have missed some really great Nicole moments.

So no, "unnecessary newbies" shouldn't be fired, just for the budget. With good writing, any character can become a favorite.

[dragonflies]

I completely agree!

[Kylie]

I'm not willing to let one vet go to save AMC. Because if there is any hope of saving AMC, they're going to need those vets when we get a competent writer. The vets are the one good thing left about soaps, it isn't their fault that soaps aren't utilzing them.

[tylerbo20]

sorry i will no longer be posting here. have a good one guys....

[DrewH]

See ya, Tyler.

[Vee]

I'm just a tad bit tired of playing the game after Cady McClain, Julia Barr, Fiona Hutchison, Stuart Damon, etc. How about they cut a few useless people in my age range again and then I'll reconsider.