One Life to Live OLTL: The Prospect Park Era (old production thread)

[Chris B]

Thank you jesus! I think all the cursing will hurt international sales and it just feels like they're trying to hard when they do it. It rarely felt natural. I'm glad they decided to focus on what matters and thats good story.

[cassadine1991]

God I hate this country and how puritan it is when it comes to sex and language.. They said the "f" word too

[Dee41]

Should PP get rid of love scenes as well? Pearl clutchers are up in arms over those too.

[greens_dupres]

That's my fear- the pearl clutchers are now in charge

Also on rewatch there's some stuff in the cursing package that we haven't seen. What is that scene where Destiny is yelling at Dani? I hope it wasn't cut- it looks interesting.

[marceline]

If this is true, PP is caving the same people who have held the genre hostage and squeezed the life out of it once and will do it again.

I'm back to being ashamed of and embarrassed by soap fans.

[Dee41]

That has to be a new Dani/Destiny scene recently filmed. I was actually impressed with LH in that small clip. Hopefully it isn't cut.

Their feedback seems to come from facebook. If so we should see Rex, Gigi, and SE/Destiny, and EA/Matthew returning. Also they should be cutting the love scenes because people feel they're too risque. OLTL can kiss any chance of seeing a gay character on the show goodbye.

[cassadine1991]

The mere mention of a gay character causes people to go apeshit

[Chris B]

I don't connect sex to this. They've been heavily promoting the scene where Colby gave Petey oral sex on AMC. I actually think people would've been okay with nudity here and there, but the constant "[!@#$%^&*]" in every episode was getting on my nerves. It wasn't that bad on OLTL, but on AMC it was terrible. There was one episode I recall where each scene had several curse words and then the final scene with Petey he said "[!@#$%^&*]" like three times. It was just annoying after a while, because it seemed obviously they were only saying it because they could. It didnt' feel natural and it took me out of the scene.

[greens_dupres]

Yeah I didn't remember their outfits (and god knows I remember Destiny's since most of them are awful) so I'm hopeful its a new scene and not a cut. It seems like a fight between them would be a development for the "A-team" that they wouldn't want to cut.

They need to not listen to the FB commenters- I was hoping they were taking more from twitter where people seem more sane and people who actually took time to send direct feedback. The people who turned out over cursing and Shelter were gone after 2 days and probably not coming back. I read the following on AMC FB yesterday- "Only charcter I miss is Ted. Don't want Kindle to come back and make trouble for Erka. Don't like the cusses and nudity" Yeah, listen to that person, great idea, effing great.

On the other hand, let's take a moment and pray (the pearl clutching fans should appreciate that) that this is the biggest news drop from PP for the rest of summer.

[Winchester91]

I'm shocked these mouth-breathers found out how to use hula. Screw them. These losers killed the soaps once...and they could do it again.

[Dee41]

They can handle watching people being raped, murdered, sexually abused, etc but a little cussing is too offensive? Okay then...I suppose it's impressive they even figured out how to watch the show with so many thinking it's hula.com

[acbuddy3]

That clip was hilarious. We were supposed to get an F-bomb in the first episode with the Blair/Todd confrontation. I just hope we don't lose good scenes because of a 2-second part of a scene where someone said a swear word.

I thought that the swearing was relatively under control on this show, and made sense when used. I think that because these shows were on network for so long where they couldn't use these words, people are not used to hearing them from these characters. I also thought the Pete/Colby "computer" scene on AMC was fine too, considering they didn't really show anything.

What bothers me about this whole thing is that the same people complaining are probably the same people who have been watching the long drawn out love scenes, women calling each other bitches, the rapes, and the murders for years on soaps, and did not complain at all.

When ATWT had the Slasher storyline (which our own Matthew was a victim of!), no one complained or batted an eye, and those were some very gruesome murder scenes.

Not everything is for your kids, or is rainbows and sunshine. Just because it doesn't exist in your world doesn't mean it doesn't exist in the world.

[Winchester91]

This is why I don't think Frons was the bad guy during the ABC days. He was only catering to what the fans wanted. I know we'd like to think that most soap viewers are enlightened, open-minded, and sane people, but we in SON are the minority and the Facebook fans are the target audience.

[greens_dupres]

Oh yay people are commenting that now their small children can watch again! Hallelujah- the preschool and elementary school viewers I'm sure that's what will keep the shows financially viable for TOLN.

And I say this as someone who got hooked on soaps in kindergarten during a violent storyline because my grandmother was a terrible babysitter- the whole fun of it was that they were for ADULTS.

[John]

This sucks and Its crap & im calling out anyone who cant deal with a [!@#$%^&*], bull [!@#$%^&*] & !@#$%^&*] every so often. Thx for censoring my show. I loved it the way it was