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

[AlexElizabeth]

I can't stop watching this. She is freaking crazy.

[KMan101]

Probably was. I don't remember. Wasn't he all 'down' about PP (which, I guess most of us had a reason to be HUGELY skeptical initially) for the longest time and then suddenly started raving. Or was that Jamey? I can't keep up with those two. It was definitely one of them.

[Chris B]

Peapack was a disaster because of the untalented people working at GL. I feel like that is what both of these shows should be going for, but better executed. By that I mean there should be regular location shooting and even some standing outdoor sets, but in order for it to work you have to have a talented EP, set designers, directors, etc. Guiding Light was just a total failure. The vision was a nightmare.

[rhinohide]

Jamey has been the biggest wet blanket I've seen. Has rarely if ever had anything positive to say about the reboots. But he's a Tarly AND McBam fangurl extraordinaire

[Vee]

I don't know. It could be some kind of Lil Wayne/Generalissimo Francisco Franco situation.

Their remaining indoor sets looked like models from Shining Time Station in those lights and camera lenses. It looked like everything was made of tinker toys and rice paper.

[Antoyne]

My friends in college put out better work for their film classes than GL's Peapack days...A tripod goes a long way.

[Vee]

I think we all did, and I was a writer who failed all my basic production courses.

[Chris B]

I'll never understand how that hospital set was greenlit on GL. That was the worst soap set I've ever seen. I would be willing to bet money it was the absolute worst.

[Vee]

I don't think it was "greenlit". I think they just threw it together one night. It looked like a sushi restaurant with rice paper walls, and every time anyone would enter a room I would always be reminded of Homer walking through the paper walls in the sushi restaurant on that old episode of The Simpsons.

[KMan101]

That hospital set was by far one of the worst sets I've ever seen. Absolutely horrible.

[Mr. Vixen]

Damn, I don't remember it. Anyone have a pic?

[John]

http://youtu.be/7LakvLXOSLo

[John]

http://youtu.be/hrS3rVD2ykg

http://youtu.be/44dkDAj2j9o

[Vee]

Company also looks like some sort of toy house. Especially when they shot it from "outside" which couldn't look less outside. All the standing sets of "outdoor Springfield" that weren't Peapack looked like that. You could see the plastic, the ceiling.

[Mr. Vixen]

Oh dear Gawd. The wallpaper is especially bad.