Members katie_9918 Posted December 31, 2012 Members Share Posted December 31, 2012 Oh, I totally forgot about that interview! Anyone have it? I'd love to read it again. I remember reading it and seeing that Peter Simon was kind of just there, like he had no idea what the hell he was supposed to say about the storyline, because he knew it was sh*t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NothinButAttitude Posted December 31, 2012 Members Share Posted December 31, 2012 The Ashley/Marlon/Laurel story is dreadful and character assassination IMO. Laurel and Marlon can stop drop dead and I wouldn't even care. But wouldn't Ross, Vanessa, and their carnival baby, Dinah, be a retcon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ~bl~ Posted December 31, 2012 Members Share Posted December 31, 2012 Dinah was a retcon as the reason given for Vanessa and Ross breaking up before we knew them had nothing to do with a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members VirginiaHamilton Posted January 1, 2013 Members Share Posted January 1, 2013 None of that "deadbeat mother" bullshit occurred on my TV screen, so, it most certainly was a retcon and rewrite that showkiller Guza pulled out of his ass. Same goes for having Adam kill his beloved twin brother, which was the opposite of everything that I've ever seen of his character portrayed on screen (even at his worst). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted January 1, 2013 Members Share Posted January 1, 2013 You mustn't have been watching the years when Felicia picked up and abandoned her daughters and Maxie getting pissed off at her about it when it occurred. Adam didn't kill Stuart in cold blood. I guess you also missed the episodes where he was drugged up medication that Nurse Grace was slipping him via David. That was a key plot point to the story. There was no retcons there as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juppiter Posted January 1, 2013 Members Share Posted January 1, 2013 I don't disagree but I think it is interesting that this is touted as a negative thing. Reilly absolutely had utter disdain for the actors and the fans, but I don't see him as all too dissimilar from Irna Phillips, and yet that attitude is generally touted as a positive thing for her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members VirginiaHamilton Posted January 1, 2013 Members Share Posted January 1, 2013 I watched on and off around that period and I still don't - nor will I ever - buy whatever showkiller Guza was trying to sell me - not after Labine actively portrayed her as a devoted mother to her two daughters. Same goes for whatever half-ass justification they came up with for having Adam kill his own brother - justification that wouldn't have been used if that shitty rewrite hadn't aired in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members y&r_fan Posted January 1, 2013 Members Share Posted January 1, 2013 I wasn't watching B&B in the 90s and all I've always wondered how they managed to keep Sheila around (and out of jail) for as long as they did after the crimes she committed in GC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 1, 2013 Members Share Posted January 1, 2013 The first few years she was on B&B, no one knew about her crimes. Lauren learned of Sheila's life in LA, but kept quiet first because of Sheila blackmailing her over and affair with Brad (which would have cost her custody of her son with Scott), and then a promise to a dying Scott. Sheila's first therapist died in an ambiguous way. Her second, James Warwick, was kept locked up when she realized he was wooing her to shop her to the cops. In spring 1995, all the lies finally came out, and she was arrested after holding the Forresters hostage. By the end of the year she'd been released from a mental institution after they decided she'd paid for her mistakes, and after she'd been raped by an inmate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted January 1, 2013 Members Share Posted January 1, 2013 You can choose to ignore it if you don't like it, but it doesn't make it any less canon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members y&r_fan Posted January 1, 2013 Members Share Posted January 1, 2013 See, it amazes me that the same HW who wrote amazing stuff like that in the 90s and early 00s is now force-feeding us the Hope/Liam/Steffy dreck, shameless PSA stories and barf-inducing characters like Caroline. WTF happened? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 1, 2013 Members Share Posted January 1, 2013 I'd say Bill Bell still had some impact on him at that time. And a lot of that wasn't all that well written (especially Scott's mystery illness and sudden death to keep Lauren quiet), but worked because of the momentum already built up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChitHappens Posted January 1, 2013 Members Share Posted January 1, 2013 I don't expect much from a character who entrance was equivalent to a toothpaste commercial. Remember her first eppy? Absolute cheese! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted January 1, 2013 Members Share Posted January 1, 2013 Anytime RC gives us fake flashbacks. Remember the inaccurate portrayal of John Jack's death on GH complete with insertion of Jerry into the scene when he was originally nowhere in sight. Rewriting the original Dead Man Hand's story by saying John was murdered by Ewen. What a mess Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members frequentsoapfan Posted January 1, 2013 Author Members Share Posted January 1, 2013 Making crap up through flashbacks is a lazy writing technique on any show and I've rolled my eyes at it on other shows as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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