I just need to see more good material given to Tamara Tunie. I think she's been only walking on the edge of what she is capable of. I want an old rival from back in the day when she was beginning her career... a bitch that envied her talent and her success through the years... Do I ask of too much?
Thanks. I had wondered why he never went back with Claire Labine for RH's last years.
Given how well-liked Sonny was with fans and how much Sonny fit the template of an '80s lady for soaps I am not sure why they took a hatchet to her.
Right now, they're one of the sole conflict-free couples, and right now, I feel like we need that to level out what's going on elsewhere on the canvas. Down the line? Maybe. But right now? I don't think it'd be smart.
I wouldn't be too mad at it. I like Naomi and Jacob, and they need more conflict. I agree, they must be sisters; the actress is too young to be her mom.
Paul Avila Mayer lasted exactly 26 weeks at SFT and I'd love to know who and how he was hired. I suspect Ellen Barrett was behind it but she was fired or left three weeks before Mayer started. Interestingly, there was a 2 week writers' strike in spring 1985. Both ATWT and AW didn't have writers listed from about 4/1 to 4/15. Mayer/Braxton started on March 25 and continued to be listed through this brief strike which leads me to believe he was hired and wrote months of material before the strike. Given that he also lasted exactly 26 weeks, I'm assuming that he had he couldn't be fired before 26 weeks (whereas most junior writers were (and maybe still) are on 13 week cycles. As far as his storylines, the circus was the pretty awful as were all of his stories. He clearly had a terribly old fashioned view of women and teen girls. The whole plot was designed for TR to be in danger as he build the triangle with her, Ryder and Danny. Mayer's take on women was also apparent in his character assassination of Sonny as well as the relationships Sonny had built with Hogan and Liza. Sherry Mathis and David Forsyth were riveting in their scenes when they discovered their passion but when integrated into the canvas, it was a terrible decision. Mayer retired from soaps and became a psychoanalyst after his SFT stint.
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