Members EricMontreal22 Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 Yep near the endof the era when soaps would still fairly routinely license "real" music and not someone either you had never ever heard of, or some generic fake club music, etc. I was in Jr High and I think I felt kinda dirty about it too (not that I didn't like it ). My mom around then would start watching sometimes with me and I know sometimes if I knew what stories would be featured I'd go out of my way to make sure she wasn't watching (oh the innocent days before any teen or preteen could access far worse material with the click of a mouse...) I agree with Carl, some content like that has become a negative soap cliche (and the kind of thing that primetime soaps, particularly by the time of Melrose Place, would take from daytime soaps and emphasize to the utmost), but when done right it's hard to argue it's soapy appeal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Charles Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 I remember how their sex would be pretty rough. You probably could never do that on a soap today (or in the last 10 years or so). What happened? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 Nipplegate is one factor. Network tv got so tame when it came to sex since then--remember how just before GL and Y&R experimented with male rear nudity--as did even the family show Once and Again). But in general late 80s/early 90s soaps had a LOT more graphic sex than anything since--I remember around 91 or 92 seeing a Donahue episode where peopple discussed how soaps were softcore porn that children could watch at home and how horrible it was. I admit too many sex scenes on a soap, or even embarassing excuses to have shirtless men can annoy me, but sometimes I wonder (AMC for its past few years seemed to go out of their way not to have any male partial nudity--even for people like Ryan and Griff who seemed hired at east partly for their abs--Griff I think took his shirt off about three times in a year lol--of course watching OLTL right afterwards made the disaprity between shirtless guys on the two shows even more obvious). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Charles Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 Yeah, it's not like I wanted to see everyone having rough sex, LOL. In the case of Alec & Arlene, however, it totally made sense. Soaps did get too tame, although, I think AMC did pretty good with the Bianca & Marissa scenes from last year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 Considering all the factors with networks, etc and the lesbian angle, I agree. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ellabelle Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 I LOVE the Madonna music. It makes it that much sleazier to me! Shut up - you were in elementary school??? Damn I feel old, and I'm still in my early - mid 30s. Seriously though, I thought AMC was really tame compared to other soaps in the 90s. I remember a scene from DOOL with two characters having sex in a shower. You could see a silhouette of more or less naked figures behind the steamed up glass shower walls, with water pouring down, and lots of thrusting. I remember thinking "Why isn't this on AMC???" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 AMC probably in general was one of the tamer soaps, it's true. I do remember around this time there was more though (I also remember a ton of ridiculous scenes when Alec was into Gloria and first came on, of him working out shirtless in the CHandler gym and her ogling him lol) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 In one of the July 1995 episodes there's scene after scene of Alec's pecs, Noah's pecs, Mateo in a tight t-shirt. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Charles Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) Gurl, I'm probably not that much younger than you. I've had those "I feel old" moments lately..... to which everyone says: ''You're ridiculous!'' Edited January 19, 2012 by Pine Charles 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL4a6sMebFs 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Charles Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 (edited) I find this funny. Gloria apparently tries to get close to Erica...yet she totally dismisses her... Erica: "Nurse?----I'm sorry! I don't have any idea what you're talking about!" (skip to about 5:50) Edited January 19, 2012 by Pine Charles 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 Why is Erica wearing racing stripes? It's interesting to see Gloria with the Chandlers here, since she would share stories with them for several years, after reforming. I don't remember her ever having a lot to do with Erica. Teresa Blake had such a melancholy acting style which can sometimes work beautifully. One of her lines after she was trying to get back into nursing (after the Anna Claire fiasco) was, "I only know how to take people, or take care of them." 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7CF1e2uoT8 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jonathan Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 I thought Teresa Blake had a lot of talent. Her character lasted such a long time given that she had no family in town and if you consider all the other new characters that came on at the same time, like Craig Lawson, Stephen Hamil, and Galen Henderson 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 19, 2012 Members Share Posted January 19, 2012 Stephen and Galen were such odd characters, since they seemed to be introduced with some notice but ultimately turned into nothing. There was something very offbeat about Teresa Blake, and very 90's, in a way a lot of soaps didn't quite get. She could also be scheming, innocent, sexy, strong, weak, kooky. She almost left in late 1995 but they worked something out with her. I liked her most as part of the community, as I always like the idea of slightly broken people finding each other (soaps used to be great at this). She also had a good exit, low-key, but involving most of those who were important to her, and showing all sides of the character. McTavish sometimes desecrated her creations but thankfully Gloria was an exception. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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