Members Khan Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 And yet, no one has better chemistry with MB than Steve Burton. It just cracks me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SweetPea36 Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 By that time Guza was writing Scott to be a single-minded villainous prosecutor who was going after the poor mobettes because he was being vindictive for no other reason than his own fame and fortune. I always wondered why they never brought in the Karen aspect, but I guess that would have given Scott another dimension he was not allowed to have. I hated that Guza did that to Scott when I had such great memories of him with Dominique and also with Laura. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 Is that fair to PORT CHARLES fans, though? That would be my concern. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 I was a PC fan and hated that they killed her off to begin with. GH ignored a TON of other stuff from PC's latter years, so it wouldnt have been much of a stretch to ignore this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SweetPea36 Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 By the time PC went off the air, there were only about 100 of us watching it, isn't that right? They were probably not expecting a huge uprising. I used to watch PC, but only because it came on right after I got home from work at night. It was comic relief before I went to bed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfave06 Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 I used to love One Life more than GH but the shows are just so different that I don't see the point in merging them and in the first interview Valentini gave, he stated that they would first be focusing on GH and worry about crossovers later. GH needed a lot of fixing before they even considered a crossover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 It would have made more sense for ABC to merge ABC/OLTL instead of outright cancelling both. Both being Nixon soaps, they had a more similar vibe and tone.Being that the towns are relatively close to each other, crossovers wouldnt have felt so contrived/forced Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members frequentsoapfan Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 I was never under the impression Cartini cared about soaps. I f they did they wouldn't have written there own so badly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cyberologist Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 Oh ok I never knew this my tweet is really dumb now. Re: Carlintini caring about soaps: I'm just going by what I read about them as a team from other posters & their interviews; I like the fact how Ron started for the most part from the ground up; I stopped watching their show quite a few years ago; I didn't like how they wrote Evangeline Williamson so along with many of her fans I bailed. I can't comment on how badly it was written/produced esp since it has been said repeatedly Brian Frons was all in it... Carlivati said (in a dc podcast a couple of years ago) that he sat down w/Frons with his outlines then it was tweaked .... then approved (I assume). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AMCHistory Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 I agree the problem started at PC, killing Karen off for no reason other than the fact that Marie Wilson was not being used. But, GH had stopped aknowledging plot points on PC and vice versa. These shows had seemingly existed in separate continuities. A fact still not rectified since GH's cancellation. BTW Cheap, I love the picture of Lisa Rinna in your profile. It is a great shot; I wish she looked like that on air. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 Thanks. Her promo shots from this recent return were pretty good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members frequentsoapfan Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 Yeah the producers job is to handle production. That heavily consists of editing the show, handling the budget, overseeing casting, overseeing directing, set design, etc Ron started off not qualified for his job from the get go. He started off as a laywer not a writer. And if they get the Frons past so does Guza and so does GW yeah no excuses they just arent good at writing/production. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SweetPea36 Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 I thought the EP was also the showrunner. Some of the stuff the HWs get blamed for should land at the feet of the EPs. It was always said that Frons micromanaged OLTL less than GH and AMC because he hated OLTL and wasn't interested enough to control it. If that's so, then Cartini get even less of a pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members frequentsoapfan Posted April 14, 2012 Members Share Posted April 14, 2012 You're definitely correct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members VirginiaHamilton Posted April 15, 2012 Members Share Posted April 15, 2012 At the end of the day, GH was spared, in part, because of Cartini's involvement in that otherwise comatose soap. Their inclusion of the OLTL characters (which I'm well aware of it being a ploy) was a great move, as well as vindication for those whose superior soap was cut short while the most inferior of the three got to (inexplicably) live on. And, well, I'll straight out say it - the presence of John, Starr, and/or Todd is the only reason why many are tuning in in the first place, as we consider this current soap to be an empty vessel that Cartini have them allowed to play the next chapter of their lives out in. Should Cartini foolishly rid the show of the OLTLers, it's a given that many like myself will take their viewership with them - and I'm sure that is the last thing that they'd want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.