HOLIDAY MIRACLE: Prospect Park Back On Track To Revive AMC and OLTL

[alexisfan07]

This Laura Harrier girl is 5'9"...damn!

[AdelaideCate007]

Just. stop.

[Cheap21]

WTF?!?

[Vee]

I actually think the Cris and Layla mess was a lot more simple than that. There's plenty of serious racism in daytime to go around, but there's also simple character favoritism. Cristian was written off years before that by OLTL as being strictly C-Team story. And his last big pairing and frontburner story on OLTL was with - yes - Evangeline.

By the time Cris got to Layla, he'd been with junior scrub Sarah as played by Justis Bolding in a far more inconsequential romance than his with Layla. He had become the disposable hunk and talk-to for other people. And Layla, who had so much to offer, was basically always there as a talk-to for other people - Adriana, Evangeline, etc. By the time they got their great story with Kish, their status was cemented on the canvas and in the minds of the production. I loved Cris and Layla together, I thought they should have gotten so much more. But I think their characters had become so insubstantial - only brought to full-blown life by Tika's performance and the sheer effort some of the dialogue people put in on the page day after day - that they, like a Sarah or Claudia Reston or Langston or whoever else, had been written off as support staff, period.

Sometimes it's a combination of casual everyday daytime racism and simple short-sightedness in terms of character potential and value. Cris and Layla had all of that going against them by the time OLTL turned their eye to them in 2009-2010. There's plenty of characters like that who we simply can't ever conceive of as being 'important.' It's an affliction that we face as much as TPTB.

[Mr. Vixen]

I am BEGGING you to stop speaking.

[EricMontreal22]

Bobby Seggert (sp?) would prob never return, but Sam Grey would be an interesting character.

Is Gaskill involved in Paulus' version of Pippin?

[ellabelle]

Can we PLEASE have separate threads for AMC and OLTL? They are two separate shows, and some of us don't give a damn about the other show.

[Mr. Vixen]

Add it to the list of reasons that she's miscast.

[Dee41]

It's a sad reality in television. Somehow I doubt new Destiny will lack in the romance department the same way SE's Destiny did. SE's Destiny never got real kissing scenes (except the first kiss with Matthew, the rest were staged). She never had a love scene, although that's not something I would have wanted to see anyway. Overall she was not treated as an equal in romance department compared to Dani, Starr, and Langston. I'm not sure acting ability had anything to do with it. Shaun was treated the same way. On the other hand, new Destiny is bound to get a romance (Matthew or Mick), kissing scenes, and love scenes.

[ellabelle]

And while I'm at it, Errol, WHY is there a joint "in production" thread for AMC and OLTL??? Again, they're two separate shows, and I'm sure I'm not the only viewer who would prefer separate threads. I don't care what's going on with OLTL, who is being recast, who is written off, or the history of various characters and actors on that show. I'm sure there are others who feel the same way about AMC.

[Mr. Vixen]

This thread is fine, the shows don't need separate threads until the shows are airing, IMO. But that's just me.

[ChitHappens]

I think it is a bit premature to have separate threads as the shows have not aired yet.

[AdelaideCate007]

No (at least not that I know of). He was just commenting on some of the photos they've put up and talking about when he played Pippin in a regional production.

[Vee]

I still think they need to stay joined until they're airing. There's plenty of information that is mixing together on the larger effort as well as casting questions.

[frequentsoapfan]

Amen.