GH: November 2012 Discussion Thread

[Cheap21]

Not to be mean, but i thought that girl was not cute

[Mr. Vixen]

I've been avoiding this topic like the plague, because I wanted to wait until I'd seen the episode. Here are my thoughts.

Yes, it was a beautiful episode. Truly, a wonderful tribute. But it fell a little flat for me. I'm sorry, but I want to see a funeral.

First, was I the only one who noticed that in the flashback of Tracy talking to Edward that BrookLynn, Lucky and Siobhan's faces were blurred out in the background?! What was up with that? And it wasn't just the effect where they blur out the entire background, but rather the background was clear as day and just their faces were blurred out. WTF?

It was absolutely wonderful to see Skye and Ned again. RC is as beautiful as ever. The little girl playing LilaRae wasn't cute, but that's okay.

Y'all are crazy. I thought it was so beautiful and very sweet that Skye introduced Monica as Lila Rae's grandmother. Monica just lost her son AND her father in law, and literally has no one left...I thought what Skye said was very kind and I'm glad that Monica wanted Skye to stay.

There should have been more returns. No mention of Maya, Keesha, Jimmy Lee. Brook is on tour and Lois is with her?Dillon is filming a movie? REALLY, in the real world, someone wouldn't catch a flight if their grandfather died? I mean come ON! Ridiculous!

And aside from family, where were people like Gail, Lee, Brenda, Lucy? All of them loved Edward and, again, in the real world, would have been there.

We saw Monica receiving flowers and placing them on the mantle with a plethora of other flowers/cards...Who were they from? If we weren't getting to see people, it would have been nice to say "Oh, these beautiful flowers from Gail and Lee" or "I got the sweetest card from Brenda".

I liked seeing Heather, and I liked that she interacted with Skye.

Another thing was the flashbacks...What a random set of flashbacks!! They were all sweet, but there wasn't very many iconic Edward moment in there! We should have scene Tracy withholding the medication, without seeing Edward's face. That is a defining moment.

The ending was beautiful and I really, really liked it. Though I agree with Cheap that I felt like it was a 30 something in Lila's nightgown with that crooked weave!

All in all, it was a wonderful episode. I liked the interactions and the tribute, but to me it felt more like something that should have lead to a funeral episode where we saw lots more people return.

Side note - I'm hoping the secret is something big. But I feel like Heather may have switched the will, and she'll hold onto the secret for a bit longer. My bet is that Edward has Alan alive somewhere and he left that info in his will so that Alan (who is probably in a coma or some such situation) could be cared for now that Edward is gone.

[AlexElizabeth]

I noticed. The budget must be tight... lol.

[Ryan Chamberlain]

Yeah, the blurred out faces in the flashbacks really took something away from them.I have never seen flashbacks done that way before. It bothered me.

[Toups]

Another great episode! Loved the ending with Lila/Edward and the stairway to heaven.

It doubt it's us. We were mostly positive about yesterday's episode.

[SFK]

So y'all are tryna tell me that wig wasn't on point?

[Mr. Vixen]

I think that they have to pay the actor when they show the footage (Which is DUMB considering the show should own the footage....They filmed it while those actors were contracted to the network, so they should own it.) If they were too cheap to pay, then SHAME on them. If the actors refused to let their images be shown then SHAME on them!

SIDE note, why was there not a SINGLE Emily/Edward flashback? I don't care if it was Amber or Natalia, one of them should have been shown.

ANOTHER side note, why weren't Alan and Emily waiting at the top of the stairs for Edward and Lila?

Was not on point at ALL! Lila's bun was always firmly and SECURELY on the back, top of her head. This heffa's wig was falling to the right and not even bunned up!

[Ryan Chamberlain]

If they have to pay the actor to show footage. Why all the AMC/OLTL/GH reruns on Soapnet at night. You think with people coming and going from them constantly. They would owe everyone a fortune.

[Mr. Vixen]

That's what I thought. But if they don't have to pay, why else did they have those bootleg blurs over everyone's face like this was an episode of COPS?

[SFK]

Actors get residuals

Take that back! I better get my checks for $1.57 every time they air reruns of the show I was on! They may own the show, but they don't own my image. These shows make a lot of money, more than the actors will ever see, so they deserve to get paid. Constnce McCashin infamously did not let Knots use her image in the reunion projects.

[Mr. Vixen]

As an actor, I feel that if solely and actors IMAGE (picture) is being used, then the actor should get paid. But if I film the footage footage while contracted to a network, they own that piece of film and I don't expect a thing for it.

Come on, this legendary soap actor died in real life, and they gonna make a fuss over a couple dollars in residuals?

Shame.

[Ryan Chamberlain]

It's a huge shame. This was not the episode to do this to.

[SFK]

I don't know soap opera AFTRA rules on residuals, but even in primetime if you made $1,000 for a guest spot, the residuals are so low. Say 15 cast members appear in an episode of AMC, many of whom aren't making Lucci money. You could probably pay all 15 of them their residuals for under a hundred bucks (and I think I'm being generous), Lucci getting the lion's share of that.

[SFK]

I agree that they should have just paid those folks for using their faces but who knows, maybe ABC legal had something to say about it. I highly doubt that it was the actors' and their representation's doing.

[Mr. Vixen]

I just want to know where the Emily/Edward flashbacks were and why the only flashback of Skye/Edward was from a year ago and not from when she first rolled into town?