Members DRW50 Posted April 23, 2009 Members Share Posted April 23, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rakesh Posted April 23, 2009 Members Share Posted April 23, 2009 That dark red polished that they used on the sets don't go well with the lighting at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted April 23, 2009 Author Members Share Posted April 23, 2009 They have excellent writers! Only the HW is the problem! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rakesh Posted April 23, 2009 Members Share Posted April 23, 2009 Jason's face is orange but his arm is white.... Liz(I think that's her name) looks great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rangethatrover Posted April 23, 2009 Members Share Posted April 23, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members detroitpiston Posted April 23, 2009 Members Share Posted April 23, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AllAboutAngst Posted April 24, 2009 Members Share Posted April 24, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JaneAusten Posted April 24, 2009 Members Share Posted April 24, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rangethatrover Posted April 24, 2009 Members Share Posted April 24, 2009 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cat Posted April 24, 2009 Members Share Posted April 24, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted April 24, 2009 Members Share Posted April 24, 2009 Damn, this show looks really washed out and crappy in HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted April 24, 2009 Author Members Share Posted April 24, 2009 Yup. It so does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkH Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted April 28, 2009 Author Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members brimike Posted April 28, 2009 Members Share Posted April 28, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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