Members DeeeDee Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 +1. BLATANT racism & homophobia. WE'RE ALL HUMAN!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 Welcome to the club. +1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 THIS! What pissed me off, and I know it did alot of other viewers was Todd using air quotes when talking about having raped Marty. The acting choice for those scenes was off as was the writing. Jessica's being ruined for what? Gigi is annoying and is starting to remind me of how McTavish wrote Babe on AMC and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ann_SS Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 I also suspect that Gigi and Rex as well as Fish and Kyle didn't test well in focus groups which ABC loves. The network's solution was to dump the supporting characters in the Gigi/Rex horror show and get rid of Fish and Kyle completely. ABC should have done what Days did and gotten rid of its top actors and characters. OLTL would actually stand a chance of recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 +1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 You expect equality from Daytime when the fans endorse TPTB's racism/sexism/homophobia? Yet they bring back Tognoni & are already out of story for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 It's become terribly obvious that ABC tiers their stars in a way that some are allowed to leave the show when they want to and others can be dumped whenever the show wants them gone. There are the "main characters," and it's their world; the "supporting characters" just rotate in and out. Rex isn't going anywhere, Gigi isn't going anywhere, John isn't going anywhere...Todd, Blair, Dorian and Viki...all of them are safe no matter what. There may be a little middle group in there (Bo, Clint, Nora, possibly Marty, Natalie, some others, but make no mistake, there are the people who are just expendable and can be ditched at any time. Markko, Layla, Cristian, and Greg mainly, who are, I'm sure don't have to say, are all a few shades darker than Snow White. When any of those four get the boot, however, it'll be because there isn't any storyline for them or because they have no "connections" or blah blah blah. Ir reflects poorly on the writer who did not take the time to create connections for these characters, kthxbye. But, I forget, "this is Rex and Gigi's time" (Carlivati, 2010). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Eric83 Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 She will have plenty of story being Todd's latest victim love interest. Just imagine when ATWT goes off, Passanante will get some of her faves over to OLTL. It's going to be horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 You see how well that worked out for Blair, Marty & Tea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Leia Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 I love the core family logic argument. Kevin Buchanan was core. Duke Buchanan. Sarah Lord. Joey Buchanan. Core family does not guarantee anything. A core character is an actor that has the investement of the network behind them. Kim would have become a core and under that definition Rex is a core. The blood tie he will receive is a side effect to the fact that Frons wants to position him as a lead. If minority and homosexual characters had that kind of committment in daytime none of this would ever happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ann_SS Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 Exactly. Once ABC decides an actor is a star based on focus groups and fan mail, then the character and actor is safe. It is irrelevant of talent. I still burns me how OLTL fired Kathy Brier because Marcy and Michael had no more story, while the talentless FF gets tons of airtime and the talentless BW continues to get ridiculous story and love interests. FV and RC can kiss my ass. I can't stand what the both of them have done to OLTL. I think that they are far more to blame for the hot mess that is OLTL. They suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 LOL! True that! I stand corrected, Vee. :-D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 Co-sign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ReddFoxx Posted April 6, 2010 Members Share Posted April 6, 2010 Wasn't saying most are, just that a good chunk or even a plurality are. Plus, soaps have a largely reduced audience from a decade or so ago, when it comings to demographics now, I don't think are as many progressive viewers as one might think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members evermore Posted April 7, 2010 Members Share Posted April 7, 2010 what I don't understand is the disconnect between the focus group/fan mail reaction and the reaction to Kish on these boards; most people seemed pretty happy with the couple, tho the writing isn't great. Was there any kind of outcry on the soap boards when Kyle and Fish had sex? (Was there even one during the mass gay wedding?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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