Members Antoyne Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 Daniel Jonas. Does that count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 I say yes!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 Oh Lord, in acting school we spent hours doing sense memory, holding imaginary coffee cups in our hands, feeling the weight, the heat, so we'd learn to be realistic on stage with a cold empty cup. This reminds me of a soap costume designer whose pet peeve was women walking around with obviously empty flat pocketbooks. Insta-children irk me as well, especially when a character gets multiple ones. Adam and especially Amanda on Dynasty come to mind. Nothing against the characters per se, but the intros feel so cheap and tacked on. One can understand the need to give a major character like Dorian a child, Cassie is understandable, but to do it all over again with Adrianna is too much. Megan I have no issue with because I think the Eterna backstory is actually kinda neat, but again, Natalie TOO? I would much rather see a cousin/niece/nephew come to town and stir things up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 Insta-kids for women really bothers me. I refuse to accept that a woman can "forget" childbirth and/or never ever discuss the child she had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 -When family members don't speak like family, too formally with no short hand for the sake of us dumb viewers. -When folks never make casual mention of family/friends who are currently off-screen. During the Eddie Maine storyline, Lois was telling the Qs how Eddie's mom was at Woodstock and Lila, Edward and them all had a good chuckle. I loved that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 This is a minor one that I actually kind of miss from when the stories used to be good, but when they reshoot the cliffhanger lines from the previous episode to open the day's episode. They never sell the lines with the same gusto and you're reminded that you're investing in something very fake as you watch people say the same thing twice with different inflection as 24 hours ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SoapDope Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 Y&R is prime example of this with the Nikki/Dylan/Paul crap. Y&R always has a who's the father/paternity storyline constantly going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OldGHFan Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 My soap opera pet peeve is when writers and producers don't respect the history of the show. Yes, all of these soaps have been on for decades and sometimes there is a need to tweek history a bit to get a good story. However, more often than not, writers and producers simply disregard previous history and make up their own due to laziness. If there is an honest mistake, I would rather the writers and producers own up to it and try to correct it rather than shove this new history down our throats. An even bigger pet peeve for me is when soap journalists excuse the writers and producers for their rewritten history and come down on the fans. This is inexcusable IMO. The so-called journalists come across as suck-ups and I just lose respect for them. They should be calling out the writer and producer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OldGHFan Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 Another pet peeve of mine is soap publications like SID stating "Will Change the Show Forever!" I can't count the number of times I've seen this written and yet my show remains the same. Zzz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ellabelle Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 I think it's more workable for female characters who haven't been on the show that long. When a character has been on for decades, it becomes a lot harder to believe that she never ONCE mentioned having this other child, or that we never saw a scene where she looked longingly at a mother with a baby and became a little misty-eyed or where it was subtly hinted that she was hiding a secret. On AMC, it was established almost a full year before the Kendall reveal - and well before the character was ever cast or appeared in town - that Erica was afraid of thunderstorms (there was a storm during her rape, and she associated storms with that trauma), but even the thunderstorm fear might have been a retcon. I'm not sure if there were instances in the 70s or 90s or her being caught in a storm and being afraid. There was also a mention during Bianca's infancy of Erica dreaming about her birthday and her father, and it was clear that she associated the two together - it was a lead up to the Barney is Eric reveal, but it kind of fit in with the Kendall retcon later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlexElizabeth Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 OMG, I hate this too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 I think you're talking about former AMC costume designer Carol Luiken, who is probably my all-time favorite next to Robert Anton (THE DOCTORS, GL, LOVING, SFT, etc.). According to one actress in the AMC anniversary book, Luiken would stuff pocketbooks with tissue paper if she saw one on set that looked flat. It's things like that, along with dressing for character and not for actor, that make a good costume designer, IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 Yes, they could! But that would probably mean that they are unable to use them again...! LOL +1 Exactly! The empty pocketbooks are annoying as well. That's a really good one! In one episode the character says the lines with episode-ending intensity and, at the beginning of the next, they just throw them away like they're discussing the weather before they get all passionate about the new lines, :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 Exactly YRBB! It falls flat and undercuts the adrenaline of the cliffhanger. Khan, how could I forget that was Carol? I think I told you I worked with her once, what a lovely lady. And of course I asked her a million AMC questions, but she never got annoyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members amybrickwallace Posted July 31, 2014 Members Share Posted July 31, 2014 I totally agree about the cliffhanger lines. Good catch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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