Members JackPeyton Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 Yes to all of this. I even agree with you about bo/hope being a very realistic couple on daytime, as much as i hate them. I do totally believe tho, as you said, Reckell could be lead and carrying that show on his shoulders if his character was able to exist outside of hope. the few times he has been allowed he has thrived. The carly era this second time around is a prime example, the story was weak, but reckell shined and Bo was a leading man again only to be thrown back to hope and for it to be rewritten as basically big bad bo cheated and poor innocent hope was able to forgive him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChitHappens Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 Heather left because they wanted her to agree to less airtime? The guarantee would be 2 eppies/week, right? On another note, I've always felt her to be tremendously overrated! ANDREA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SweetPea36 Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 I started out at the beginning of the recast Victoria/Billy story thinking Heinle was terrible, then I realized how hard it must be to be paired with someone who is totally unaware you're in scenes with him because he's so busy mugging and acting cute. It would be like acting with a court jester. I agree with you about Reckell. He could be doing so much more than they give him to do on that show and he never seems to get noticed much except as half of the couple. MTS is downright good. I love to watch her, always have. I started watching Y&R because of a bunch of guys I knew who scheduled their lunch breaks every day so they could watch Y&R. They got me hooked. They all thought MTS was the best thing on that show, and not because of anything superficial; they all related to her character and loved her acting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JaneAusten Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 Reckall is phenomenal IMO. Very understated yet a very real performer. You never see from him the OTT acting many others in the genre get praised for as good acting but he has a very quiet presence and power on screen. And unpopular, Days needs to stop listening to fan bases.Every time they do the show digs itself further into the gutter. Case in point the return of all those characters killed off in 2004 to lower ratings. And now this flop of a reboot. I don't care how much Fangurls online scream for this or that couple or character, the audience they've lost is the general audience who doesn't care who is with who. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JaneAusten Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 I do recall part of it also had to do with creative direction for the character I like her on B&B and I could see why she likes the climate that show, not a lot of egos, but IA with Carl she's very underutilized there much like many others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 she was fine as Victoria when she first came on and I preferred her over HT. Problem now is the writing sucks and is uninspiring and she isn't one of those actors that can rise above that and turn sh-t into gold. She's also fallen into bad habits and that also comes from her co stars that also don't seem to care Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 I don't think DAYS was wrong to bring those characters back. Many of the characters who were left alive pretty much sucked, and the ratings were always going to fall. I don't think ratings would have risen if Maggie or Abe were still dead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 I think it was a case of a soap doing something huge, then backtracking because they didnt know what to do next. Bringing them back was a mistake, but it did give them more story to play, but then after the return they still didnt know what to do and the show fell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 I think the problem is killing people off and then not planning a story. So Mickey ended up with Bonnie (which I just didn't get)? Lexie may have had some chance with Abe gone, but given the history of black characters on soaps, I doubt it. The only character I would have kept dead was Roman, and Jack, since they kept killing him off anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JaneAusten Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 Another unpopular opinion Kim Matula is as good as JMW on B&B. I think she gets a lot of flack because she plays the "good girl" to JMW's alleged overly propped bad girl( and I do like JMW). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 JMW has a more showy acting style which can hide how crap the material is. Matula is good in the breakdown and angst scenes, she just doesn't seem to do well in romance. I still have no idea how Steffy is a "bad girl". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 Believe it or not, I think that particular story had "on paper" potential. If nothing else, it would have given us more Maggie and a different side to Mickey's personality. Unfortunately, the whole idea was sunk once Mickey was recast with John Ingle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 she was one. She currently isnt being written as such Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Skin Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 Both of them were unhappy with their respective stories and wanted out. They probably could have been coxed into staying if the show didn't give them such horrible storylines to work with. JJ left because he wanted LnL2 and he didn't get it, Kim was also dissatisfied with the Lisa Niles story and was particularly offended by the HIV syringe storyline. That being said it's not as if both characters couldn't be recasted. Lucky and Robin were characters who could have pushed the show away from the mob and are characters viewers have history with. Which is why I think they should have been valued characters instead of the same triangle of suck who have destroyed GH. They were a valuable alternative. No it doesn't. The soap medium calls Brenda Barret a "legacy character" - she was created in the 90's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 17, 2012 Members Share Posted April 17, 2012 Waste of space Brenda is mostly a legacy of GH's decline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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