Members DRW50 Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 I bought the Worlds Without End book. Not sure what I did with it. That was the first time I read a lot about radio soaps and about the quippy putdown articles Thurber wrote on them. I think that was also where I first read about the things like a person writing in a letter to a soap wife telling her that her husband was cheating on her (the actor did a voice on another radio soap). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 27, 2010 Members Share Posted October 27, 2010 The Worlds Without End coffee table book is one of my fave. They also have interesting peices about foreign soaps, issues in soaps (they discuss how at the time AMC was the top soap among gay men and that was one reason they went with the Michael storyline), etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted October 28, 2010 Members Share Posted October 28, 2010 It's kind of interesting how Ford's "punishment" always comes in the form of physical violence, which really isn't all that satisfying though perhaps it's meant to be on a visceral level? All of the manipulative emotional pain caused by Mommy and Daddy stuff I just won't buy, so it's all pretty lose-lose with me in terms of this guy getting his just deserts. It seems kind of lazy to "put him in his place" by having the [!@#$%^&*] kicked out of him once every few months. He needs to be told off, emotionally dressed down (no pun intended ) but the only character who gets to do that type of thing is Destiny and she isn't right for the job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted October 28, 2010 Members Share Posted October 28, 2010 It just reinforces how hollow these men are. This is the same as having Todd beat up a few times a year to make us weep for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members London Posted October 28, 2010 Members Share Posted October 28, 2010 Some of this is seriously comical. Starr needs to hit her upside the head with that shovel. Tea & Blair are funny. Oh and I'm waiting for Natalie to pry into what Marty was saying on the phone so she in return can find out about Natalie's WTD dilemma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted October 28, 2010 Members Share Posted October 28, 2010 Oh my Lord, those drunken Halloween kids, wtf? I'm sorry, I don't care if she has a gun in her hand that she can barely keep a grip of, Starr and James could totally rush her with those shovels and take one straight to her dome. She'll drop the baby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted October 28, 2010 Members Share Posted October 28, 2010 And by "men" I assume you're including RC and FV. Oh my GAHD, no this trick did not just pistol whip James and take him out in ONE blow. I HATE IT WHEN CHARACTERS SUCK AT FIGHTING BACK!! I am LMAO over here, James has even got the gimp arm/hand thing going, that had to have been an in-joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TeamEric Posted October 28, 2010 Members Share Posted October 28, 2010 I think the Hannah/Starr/James scenes were meant as gothic horror, but Roscoe Bourne they ain't. He could have pulled off that dig your own graves scene but not MF, KA and NR. But the whole episode I was just screaming at my TV get on with TnT reunion and THAT was a great payoff moment. Too rare does ABC soap deliver a really GREAT emotional payoff cliffhanger like that. That was well-done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ann Posted October 28, 2010 Members Share Posted October 28, 2010 What McBain family? There is only one McBain in town anymore. The rest went by way of the firing squad. Mother Eve McBain - first played by Lisa Banes and then Lisby Larson Cousin Shannon McBain - played by Daneell Harris Michael McBain - played by Nathanial Marston and then Chris Stack Marcie McBain - played by Kathy Brier and baby Gabriel McBain - saw him once after he was born Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted October 29, 2010 Members Share Posted October 29, 2010 I never knew Lisby Larson was on OLTL. You see -- they're intriguing after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MontyB Posted October 29, 2010 Members Share Posted October 29, 2010 Yep! Love her and loved her short stint. Loved her best as Paige on Texas though. I wish they'd bring her back and bring Carla Borelli along with her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ann Posted October 29, 2010 Members Share Posted October 29, 2010 Lisby played Eve for a short time leading up to and then at John's "funeral". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted October 29, 2010 Members Share Posted October 29, 2010 Starr is such an idiot. Why didnt she wrestle the bitch when she had the chance and let James go for the gun? Ugh, I didnt like that John told Todd Tea was alive. I wanted it to be a complete surprisewhen he saw her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted October 29, 2010 Members Share Posted October 29, 2010 All I remember about Eve McBain #2 is I thought she looked like a Muppet in a giant blonde fright wig. I was pretty much boycotting the show at the time. Eve #1 was brought on to minor fanfare - one of the first "look! We hired a stage actress!" bits they've done in the last ten years, as if OLTL and other East Coast soaps haven't been hiring theatre actors since time immemoriam - but I called her Scary Death Lady, because that was what she was. After all this talk about John and Michael's rough and tumble youth in Atlantic City, here comes this Lady Of The Theatre in shawls and gowns, intoning purposefully in every scene in the most solemn terms. Then she started singing at Capricorn and it was like Judy Collins with a side of Bauhaus, just these shadowy, creepy musical numbers. And because RSW and/or Bo still seemed to be in his No Nora phase, we had to endure a brief flirtation subplot between Bo and this terrifying woman. Bo would sit in the club like, "yes, this is enthralling, I'm into it." Thank God it went nowhere. The relationship Eve had with John always struck me as frankly incestuous. That's the one thing I'd do with John's character, reveal that his home life was far from squeaky clean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted October 29, 2010 Members Share Posted October 29, 2010 OMG Kristen Alderson can't cry worth a damn. That last scene was AWFUL. Can we keep Hannah and get rid of Starr? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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