GH50: January 2014 Discussion - HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[Vee]

I didn't think it was creepy. I did think it took up too much time in an already OTT episode full of stupid stories, and that the kids could barely deliver their lines. Spencer was funny and cute, but he's not an actor and he shouldn't have had that much. Emma is cute in doses but annoying when they try to make her too active. I hate it when she turns into a fawning, mugging joke machine.

[chicklitsandfantasies]

They don't need to lay the groundwork now. Those kids are 5! Let the kids be kids. If they want a little love triangle for them then SORAS them.

[DRW50]

All I could think is about how GL handled Rachel Miner, Bryan Buffinton, and Gregory Burke when they were child actors, and how hard the show worked to keep everything believable.

Now it's all just CAMP CAMP ONE LINERS CAMP CAMP CAMP.

No.

[Cheap21]

the stuff yesterday was too grown IMO. Spencer getting in an expensive bath robe for Emma and all that fighting between the two boys was a bit much.

I remember people feeling the same way on AMC about Emma, AJ and Miranda. Thank god the show never tried to write a love triangle around those 7 year olds

[ChitHappens]

That sh!t with the children was REEEEEEDICULOUS! I don't expect these kids to be great actors, which is why they should not have so much dialogue.

Between that and the Dr. O trash, why is this show not on the cartoon network?!

ROTGUT!

[PJA]

That would definitely be better than what she doing now. I don't like FF when I watch any program...but I don't know how much more I can take of this Heather mess.

[chicklitsandfantasies]

It was way too grown. Spencer was acting like a little mini Sonny trying to romance Emma bragging about this and that. Yesterday actually made me think of when Emily told Sonny that what comes off charming in an adult comes off bratty and obnoxious in a kid.

[marceline]

Every now and then a show finds a child actor who really has the chops to be frontburner. GL was blessed with those kids. I'd say the Aldersons were that way on OLTL. But even then the shows usually have the sense to have the child play off adults not try to make a full blown kiddie scene with their own stories. Usually the point of a teen scene has been to try and attract teen viewers over the summer. I don't understand what RC is trying to accomplish here. Is he going for the much coveted single-digit viewer? Does he think there's some underserved audience craving to see a love triangle between children?

[Cheap21]

Clearly he's working on doing a back door pilot for a new Disney Channel show starring Cameron, Emma and Spencer

[chicklitsandfantasies]

Will they be SORASed before this backdoor pilot. Because I don't recall any love triangles between kids that young on Disney.

When Sonny acts the way Spencer did yesterday we call it trying to get into female of the moment's pants.

[PJA]

The children should be supporting the adults' storylines not having one of their own. They should be mainly interacting with the adults.

I wonder if this episode was taped the day TR decided to go to Y&R. We hadn't seen him or Mac in a minute and their first couple scenes are them "supporting" Emma in her little storyline. That would have made me leave too LOL

[John]

Those kids were relastically written and I enjoyed them

[DRW50]

I saw someone compare it to the short films Shirley Temple used to do where the kids played out storylines from films, parodying grown up actors. The whole thing just seems seedy and forced.

[cassadine1991]

That was 20 years ago, even though those writers are still around, yet some of them have been rehired to write anything

[Mr. Vixen]

Lol at Lucas hopping on a plane as soon as he finds out she's missing. Yet he was nowhere to be found when she got married, when Michael was shot, went to prison, got raped. Or when Josslyn was born or sick.