Members Wendy Posted December 21, 2011 Members Share Posted December 21, 2011 Oh, bad does not BEGIN to cover this. By now, of course, ED was Kelly and this was off the heels of the disastrous Kelly/Cruz pairing. Think of an SNL parody of a soap and magnify it times ten. It was a stereotypical pearl-clutching shriekfest. In short, basically another redux of "It's A Wonderful Life". I say redux since Cruz already did the same scenario in 1989. And don't apologize. I like to fill in blanks if I can! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 21, 2011 Members Share Posted December 21, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtzfELx7SnU&feature=plcp&context=C3d116ebUDOEgsToPDskIrhwQeGCUjMFavGWJoznH1 This channel has a lot of other Cruz/Eden scenes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wendy Posted December 25, 2011 Members Share Posted December 25, 2011 Merry Christmas! <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5PFtF99Z4K8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 26, 2011 Members Share Posted December 26, 2011 August 89 Digest. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted December 28, 2011 Members Share Posted December 28, 2011 How could great writers the Dobsons who pinned ATWT and GL to great success come up with such a shitty show with awful writing....lol....it boggles my mind how bad this soap was IMO. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wendy Posted December 28, 2011 Members Share Posted December 28, 2011 Wow, I disagree. And while the last year did have shitty writing, up until about '90/'91, SB had anything BUT. With the writing Emmys to show for it. But as with everything, I guess it is tomato, tomahto. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soaplovers Posted December 28, 2011 Members Share Posted December 28, 2011 I cant help but disagree... SB was an awesome show.. even in it's final year, it was leaps and bounds above the dreck that shows present to us nowadays.. The only weakness SB might have had was a lack of a strong, long-term b-story... It was like the show was both traditional soap opera and a telenovela... if that makes sense. While Cruz/Eden, Mason/Julia, C.C/Sophia stories seemed to span several years... other stories like Brick/Amy, Flame, Cain/Andrea, Quinn/Robert, etc. seemed to last a year or so then vanish without leaving any trace of their existence... Not to say that those b-stories were horrible because they were fantastic.. but perhaps these hybrid might have turned off traditional viewers. Just a thought. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sungrey Posted December 28, 2011 Members Share Posted December 28, 2011 Soapsuds, did we watch the same show? lol Holy crap, was this show fantastic... the thing it suffered from was too much turnover among the secondary characters, which in turn brought down the show in a long run. That and the battle between the Dobsons and NBC/New World Television. I have to wonder if the Dobsons had stayed if Lane, Nicolas and a few others wouldn't have departed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 28, 2011 Members Share Posted December 28, 2011 I wonder if they should have phased Eden and Cruz out as main characters when they knew A and Marcy were leaving. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 21, 2012 Members Share Posted January 21, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is9CjPPOcVU&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 21, 2012 Members Share Posted January 21, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mbjtO0zBjY 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ~bl~ Posted January 21, 2012 Members Share Posted January 21, 2012 While I loved watching SB back in the 80s, some of it doesn't translate well to today. SB was great, but it isn't everyone's cuppa. It was smart though sometimes they would attempt something far out and fail miserably. Some things that were common then were uncommon later, so things that were cool seem lame in comparison. I'm coveting the old school Days and SB shirts... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 22, 2012 Members Share Posted January 22, 2012 Which parts do you think don't translate well? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Wendy Posted January 22, 2012 Members Share Posted January 22, 2012 I'm curious, too, since, besides the '80s clothes and hair, I think Santa Barbara was a soap that held up remarkably well! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ~bl~ Posted January 22, 2012 Members Share Posted January 22, 2012 Some of the stories...the first one that popped into my head was Cruz's amnesia. At the time, I thought it was so romantic that even though he remembered nothing he still loved Eden. Now I'm horrified that anything happened between them... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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