GH to go hi-def?

[JackPeyton]

But her man arms are scary. and her voice is.... ugh.

[Ann_SS]

I go back and forth about Sarah Brown. Yes, she is talented, but GH does not need her or this particular character. She feels shoehorned into Sonny's life and it is all to forced and desperate. It is "let's get Sarah something to do and someone to play" rather than here is a character who can slide into Sonny's life and replace Kate.

[Cat]

Sarah Brown is extremely talented at playing herself. Well, a soapy, high-drama version of herself in the shape of OriginalCarly. There's no shame in it. Vanessa Marcil built her career on doing the same thing.

GH looooves the kind of actors who can "hit the high notes" during sweeps and improv a little to add color to certain scenes. Sarah is definitely that kind of actress. With Carly 1.0 she used to rake her hands through her hair and play with her hands nervously and bounce around her alloted camera space. As opposed to other soap actors who just stood there rigidly, delivering their lines.

She also lucked out with the writers who came up with Carly and wrote her stuff -- the Mulcaheys and Valjeans and Harrises.

So, in terms of technique, she's got a bag of tricks and does well. But I haven't seen any real difference between Carly or Julia or Claudia.

And like yesterday's show? The scene between Claudia and Olivia. If that was meant to be a battle, well, Lisa LoCicero won it. With no shouting or snark or "nuh-UH!" head movements.

[Rakesh]

I don't watch GH but I do watch OLTL. When OLTL finishes, sometimes I would just leave the channel on GH for 5 mins to see what's going on and I really like Sarah Brown(Claudia).

[bellcurve]

It isn't uncommon for an actor, who may be good at learning lines and developing their own style, to, essentially play the same part. It doesn't help that the writers of her respective soap characters have made all of those characters into poorly written versions of Carly.

For example: a film teacher once told me that it's not Jack Nicholson playing a role. It's Jack Nicholson playing himself playing (fill in blank).

[Ann_SS]

ITA. Sarah Brown is good, but does not have a lot of range as an actress. It occurred to me that Sarah Brown is playing original Carly and Laura Wright is playing Cassie from GL. They both have slipped into their comfort zones as actresses, perhaps because these are the characters more like their real life personalities. The only actor who ever challenged Laura Wright since I have watched her soap career was David Andrew McDonald on GL. She did her best work with him. He is a strong talented actor who pushed her out of her Cassie niche to react to Edmund and she was good, but it didn't last long. The moment she wasn't paired with him, she slipped back into tame Cassie.

[detroitpiston]

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Sneak peek of GH in HD with the new hospital set:

[Sylph]

Alvin, you watch occasionally for like 5 minutes, right?

[Y&RWorldTurner]

I do watch GH, like once or twice a week. It's hard to get invested in anything on this show.

[Ann_SS]

How do you view a computer clip in hi def? Epiphany is back. Robin and Patrick are still going through PPD hell.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Click on the HQ button YouTube gives you, it gives you a general simulation.

[MarkH]

Is today the debut of HD?

[Y&RWorldTurner]

I have no idea, possibly.

[MarkH]

GH to go HD on 4/23/09 in the US, according to this article. I do want to tape it and see how it looks.