Members All My Shadows Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 Probably because they don't work in the business anymore... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzi_vBJ2Tfk&list=UU2T35dwK-2IwycP6eZBDRmg&index=1 I've been saying that for yearssssss...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 John, in what universe has the BTS team of a soap opera showed up on the talk show the next day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BetterForgotten Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 Massey probably declined to participate. The Y&R writers also aren't guests, this seems to be focused on the actors (which makes sense, as those are who the general public knows anway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 I would've thought Sara Bibel was a little above writing a thin piece about the injustice of OLTL 2.0 being recognized at all when GH was not, but clearly I was wrong as she has one up at DC. In her, uh, defense, I have never been a soap writer who went from that kind of money to being reduced to freelancing for fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BetterForgotten Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 She really is terrible and right up there with Jamey and Nelson in her own little way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 Given that her soap column was pretty awful most of the time, I guess I can't be surprised. I thought DC had moved beyond opinion pieces/screeds/catnip for the braying sycophants. They don't seem to do recaps anymore and when I went there a few days ago it felt even more like a ghost town than it had before. And their new site design looks like a video game review page from 2005. That's not really what irony means, surely? Not to mention that even many of the true believers said at the time that those "brilliant final months" were a pile of ass. Wow, even most of the comments don't agree with her. Pathetic really. I guess she doesn't remember that "Cartini's" OLTL had an oral sex scene? Of course *that* was brilliant, because they're the precious ponies of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 I never found her offensive, just boring. And I would've thought someone with her background wouldn't be that tightly interwoven with that scene. Mostly, I just thought she was above working for them or writing a piece about their Emmy win which is largely slanted towards the question of why they won when Ron and Frank weren't recognized in 2011. I think there was a lot of good (or at other times at least fun) in the show's last year on ABC. There was also a lot of horrendous bad. It was peaks and valleys and the show ended on a peak, but we had to endure a lot to get there and they, once again, submitted wrong that year too - submitting Fraternity Row and not the big drama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapsnstuds Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 I second that. Her ten year reign of terror still haunts me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 I never thought she was offensive, but she was a brown-noser, and not a very good one, because she didn't have the ability to holler and talk enough about how much she wanted Ron and Frank to lay pipe in her and which Y&R actors can she have sex with, which was where most of the soap "press" online seemed to be in those years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 Weird that that EW article just calls Brandon Barash a "viewer." I guess he was, technically, but... It's sad that this is now the only way the public even knows these awards exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 I think that says more about EW being misinformed than it does about Brandon's relevance. Sad. At this point, there are only 4 soaps left. They need to just go back to having an hour-long ceremony broadcast in daytime and leave it at that. A small part of the death soaps has been due to this need to cling towards relics of the glory days when daytime just doesn't have the means to do so anymore, thus falling incredibly short with every attempt. I'm one of the few who enjoy watching the non-soap categories. I mean, it's the Daytime Emmys, not the SOD Awards. I do think it's BS that so many non-daytime shows get nominated (and win!) at this thing. Remember when Regis won for Millionaire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChitHappens Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 People going all nuts about a rape joke from one of the miserable red carpet hosts? GMAFB! We have been told that rape is sexy and fun for years now on soaps! Find a new cause and keep it moving! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ellabelle Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 And maybe, just maybe, we're moving past that to a place where rape jokes aren't funny and rape isn't sexy and fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BetterForgotten Posted June 23, 2014 Members Share Posted June 23, 2014 Eileen and Miller on The Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YudbInkzG80&feature=youtu.be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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