Members Dr. Jay S.W. Posted February 6, 2009 Members Share Posted February 6, 2009 Is it just me or is OLTL's scriptwriting getting better. Hillary B. Smith was definately triggering Nancy Lee Grahn yesterday in those courtroom scenes. Kudos to Sharon Lennon who is proving to be a much better writer than Katherine Schock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted February 6, 2009 Members Share Posted February 6, 2009 I wonder how's Fred doing and how he's dealing with a whole lot of [] stories he needs to "break down". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted February 6, 2009 Members Share Posted February 6, 2009 Are you questioning the rest of OLTL's breakdown team? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted February 6, 2009 Members Share Posted February 6, 2009 Remind me who else is there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted February 6, 2009 Members Share Posted February 6, 2009 The rest of the OLTL breakdown team are: Shelly Altman Janet Iacobuzio Chris Van Etten Anna Theresa Cascio Yeah, none of them are as esteemed as Johnson. However, I haven't really noticed any real change in OLTL's structure or anything else since Johnson joined the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted February 6, 2009 Members Share Posted February 6, 2009 Neither did I. I was just wondering how such an esteemed writer deals with the [] he needs to break into daily stories. It must be unbearable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted February 6, 2009 Members Share Posted February 6, 2009 Johnson would've definitely been a better asset to AMC, rather than OLTL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members monabone21 Posted February 6, 2009 Members Share Posted February 6, 2009 Forgive my ignorance, but what does "[]" mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkH Posted February 7, 2009 Members Share Posted February 7, 2009 [] = expletive deleted in Sylph-talk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted February 7, 2009 Members Share Posted February 7, 2009 LMAO! No one deleted it, I intentionally just wrote "[]". Not to angry the villagers, you know, who will go straight to Toups and do what — well, complain, of course! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jehosefat Posted February 7, 2009 Members Share Posted February 7, 2009 Hello all, I'm new here. I've often wondered how anyone can identify what makes a good or bad breakdown writer, especially since, from what I can tell, the breakdown writers are never credited with a particular episode? For instance, Fred Johnson seems to enjoy a certain degree of reverence around here, but given recent comments, no one can identify a difference he's made to OLTL. Is there a "Fred Johnson" show, or a "Janet Iacobuzio" show? If we took five consecutive episodes of OLTL, would anyone here know which episode was written by which writer? Perhaps that's not a fair question, seeing as how so many people here claim to have so much inside information. I do have another question. Which soaps do people here watch regularly? And by that I mean at least three time per week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted February 9, 2009 Author Administrator Share Posted February 9, 2009 You're right, there's no way of knowing if they're not listed in the credits. I do wish every soap would list the episode breakdown writers and script writers. As far as identifying what makes a good or bad breakdown writer......we fans just have to go by what happens in an episode. Did the episode flow well? Was there a theme to the episode? Were the tags good? How did the characters act? Were the scenes as good as they should be? At least that's how I judge, I'm not sure how anyone else does it. Since you were talking about Fred Johnson, I'll use his scenes. He wrote the breakdown for the day after John's funeral (the second half on October 19th). There was an amazing scene between Marlena/Belle. It was very emotional. The stuff that Marlena talked about: how she dealt with past patients, talking about grief......it was a 7 minute, 30 second scene and it was golden! And then the next scene, Sami shows up and it's just Marlena and her girls, together on the bed. Breakdown Writer: Frederick Johnson Script Writer: Bettina Bradbury Right now I watch 7/8 soaps. It'll 8/8 soon when I start watching GL this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members brimike Posted February 9, 2009 Members Share Posted February 9, 2009 That Marlena/Belle scene never gets old for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted February 9, 2009 Author Administrator Share Posted February 9, 2009 Same here. DAYS doesn't do scenes like that anymore. Here are couple more of Fred Johnson's scenes. Octoboer 22, 2007 - BDW: Fred Johnson; SW: Bettina Bradbury Man, the last five months of Sheffer's tenure was amazing. There were so many great scenes/episodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members brimike Posted February 9, 2009 Members Share Posted February 9, 2009 Fred and Bettina are a FANTASTIC match-up, going back years to AMC. You can just tell that she gets his breakdowns, and their styles mesh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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