The show looks cheap. I can't believe that they would do this over getting better writers and producers.

Do any of you remember that Sandra Bullock movie, 21 Days, and they had Judith Chapman in some others in a fake soap opera they watched in rehab? The DVD put all those scenes into the deleted footage area. The lighting and sets remind me of the "new" GH, only, those scenes were, you know, entertaining.

That dark red polished that they used on the sets don't go well with the lighting at all.

I can't believe that they would do this over getting better writers and producers.

They have excellent writers! Only the HW is the problem!

Jason's face is orange but his arm is white.... Liz(I think that's her name) looks great.

Did they update the opening?

I recorded this on my DVR, HD Channel. I can't wait to see how it looks in comparison to Y&R.

Mark, as you know Y&R is the gold standard for production values, and even in HD, it looks flawless. It is very funny to me that GH in HD, which requires much less light, is lit so freaking bright!! Between that and the ugly, old sets- I just don't get this. What was the point?

I am curious to hear what you think.

The show has a much clearer, colorful tone though- I have to give it that.

I hate that they just stretched the opening into widescreen.

The show looked good on my HDTV. None of the actors looked terrible(though NLG really needs to take care of those lines and wrinkles) and the colors really popped.

Mark, as you know Y&R is the gold standard for production values, and even in HD, it looks flawless. It is very funny to me that GH in HD, which requires much less light, is lit so freaking bright!! Between that and the ugly, old sets- I just don't get this. What was the point?

I am curious to hear what you think.

The show has a much clearer, colorful tone though- I have to give it that.

I don't watch the show but I took a quick look today because of the HD switch and I completely agree with your assessment. A few of the men looked orange, the women looked pretty good, but the sets looked like ugly crap and it was entirely too bright. I was surprised at how good NLG looks, she seems to be one of the few women over 50 in daytime who are still in very good shape and whose face doesn't look botoxed into oblivion.

Rebecca Herbst's hair looked to be some weird orange/red color.

Edited April 24, 200916 yr by AllAboutAngst

I tuned in to see the new HD broadcast. It's not bad but the sets look just terrible and some of the men look orange. I can't recall, but didn't it take Y&R some time to get adjusted to HD back when they switched over?

On a side note, since I haven't watched in ages, remind me what's so great and compelling about Kimberly McCullough? Lord is this really the same actress I watched on this show years back? One note and one dimensional to boot. Aside from her being a legacy character, I don't get the appeal at all.

And I know it's unpopular to say this but I am just not a Nancy Lee Grahn fan. The only level of interest I had in her on GH was her story and scenes with Stephen Nichols.

Edited April 24, 200916 yr by JaneAusten

Who is GH's lighting designer? What's his/her name?

I wanna look up his/her experience.

Its probably

OLTL: 1986-1990

Walmart Lighting 1991-1999

7-11 Lighting "Designer" 1999-2004

Home Depot Lighting "Designer" 2004

General Hospital 2004- FOREVER!

The show looked good on my HDTV. None of the actors looked terrible(though NLG really needs to take care of those lines and wrinkles) and the colors really popped.

I didn't notice the lines and wrinkles so much as the fact that you can tell that Make Up have been laying it on with a TROWEL. The eyeliner on Ingo Rademacher and Nancy Lee Grahn was Rebeccily-worthy. And Maurice obviously stole all the blusher because he looked like he had an itching case of rosacea.

By contrast, Sarah Brown looked washed out. Maybe its her dark hair color.

As RTR pointed out, the lighting is the biggest problem. That overhead bulb they have in the Sonny/Zacchara house? Has to go.

Damn, this show looks really washed out and crappy in HD.

Yup. It so does.

Some folks on SON have espoused the opinion, repeatedly, that one area in which GH excels is DIALOGUE.

What to make, then, of this critique from the Serial Drama gals? Per SON policy, this is just an excerpt. I don't have an "ear" for dialogue, but do these ladies have a point?

While watching yesterday's episode of General Hospital, my ears kept perking up every few minutes. "There it is," I'd say, "That's the day's dumbest dialogue." And I'd write it down...under the list of the, like, seventy pieces of dialogue I'd already thought would wind up as the day's dumbest. Moral of the story: never think this show has reached a quality nadir.

Day's Dumbest Dialogue #1

Sonny

: Doctor, schedule the operation.

Dr. Hensen

: Do you need to discuss this with Michael's mother?

Sonny:

No, no, I know Michael's mother very well. She would want me to do it.

Um...don't you need to have custody of your child before you can give consent for them to undergo a life-threatening operation? I would have liked to hear Sonny go into more detail about how well he knows Michael's mother. "See, she and I go way back. We forced Michael's biological father to give up his rights by hanging him on a meathook. It was crazy. We've been married like thirty times, and I shot her in the head once. Funny story, I'll have to tell it to you one day. And Michael is in his present state because he got caught in a hit on my life. So you see...Carly would really want me to make this decision, because I do so many reasonable, well thought out things."

Day's Dumbest Dialogue #2

Olivia

: Here is what I think. I think you set sonny up so he wouldn't notice the convenient timing of your pregnancy and he wouldn't ask too many questions about how you got pregnant when you were supposedly using protection.

Claudia:

Sonny and I can be extremely energetic during sex. I was a gymnast. What can I say? Accidents happen.

Some folks on SON have espoused the opinion, repeatedly, that one area in which GH excels is DIALOGUE.

That critique is totally laughable! In more ways that one!

First, they're not discussing dialogue. Dialogue is something else.

Second, how many times did the "critic" say "not actually dumb, but..."?

Hysterical.

Edited April 28, 200916 yr by Sylph

Yeah, I love Becca and Mallory, Mark -- but somehow I knew the Sylph vs. Serial Drama face-off wouldn't exactly be a challenging debate.