Good lord Ronn Moss didn't improve one little bit in 25 years.

 

And those close-ups are freaking me out.

19 minutes ago, Darn said:

Good lord Ronn Moss didn't improve one little bit in 25 years.

 

And those close-ups are freaking me out.

 

Moss was pretty bad there.  It was as if Johanna Johnson were acting against a near inanimate object.  

How did you guys forget this iconic scene?

 

 

This turns my stomach. So terrifying. Again, I wasn’t a full-time viewer of the show, but my mom watched.

 

 

Part 2 of that has some dialogue that is incredibly surprising to me, the doctor says to Margo "Your attacker...withdrew and he ejaculated on your thigh." Nowadays I'm surprised when a character even says the word "sex".

Douglas Marland was all about 'real talk' in how he wrote dialogue for his characters and he often had characters discuss really uncomfortable and awkward topics.  Sometimes the characters themselves would mention how uncomfortable certain topics made them feel. 

I remember on one occasion on ATWT, a couple was was arguing and the wife wanted to talk about the lack of sex in their marriage and her husband replied that he hadn't been raised to discuss these types of thing. Before that, the wife had wanted to discuss how her husband sometimes handled her "rough" during sex.  

Marland pulled no punches with dialogue dealing with intimate issues.

17 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Douglas Marland was all about 'real talk' in how he wrote dialogue for his characters and he often had characters discuss really uncomfortable and awkward topics.  Sometimes the characters themselves would mention how uncomfortable certain topics made them feel. 

I remember on one occasion on ATWT, a couple was was arguing and the wife wanted to talk about the lack of sex in their marriage and her husband replied that he hadn't been raised to discuss these types of thing. Before that, the wife had wanted to discuss how her husband sometimes handled her "rough" during sex.  

Marland pulled no punches with dialogue dealing with intimate issues.

 

I love it. I wish we could have this back! It's so much more interesting than sex being fantastic between every couple and everyone calling their partner "amazing" until they cheat on them.

 

4 hours ago, BetterForgotten said:

How did you guys forget this iconic scene?

 

 

Lol it’s amazing that this is one of the few soap scenes that got a lot of memes and, and re-enactment videos 😁😁

2 hours ago, BetterForgotten said:

 

 

Maureen Garrett is giving SO MUCH in this scene and the other actress is giving her absolutely nothing.

19 hours ago, Soaplovers said:

 

I have a feeling that in the story bible, Stephanie was going to be the heavy.. the one to root against.  Early Stephanie actually was mean and projected her own manipulative tendencies on Brooke's mother Beth.  Oddly enough, Beth didn't even want to pursue anything with Eric because he was married.. but Brooke encouraged her mother to do so.  

 

 

Here is a fun clip I came across from 1987 of B & B.. showing again the promise the show had and how Caroline wasn't just the typical ingenue. 

 

 

I never got over B&B killing Caroline off the show. I thought it was a big mistake on their part. 

The Margo attack was Law & Order SVU quality disturbing

 

4 minutes ago, ironlion said:

The Margo attack was Law & Order SVU quality disturbing

 

There was a warning posted and voice over about it before the episode started. 

6 minutes ago, ironlion said:

The Margo attack was Law & Order SVU quality disturbing

 

 

But it was really good soap.  I was glued to ATWT at that time.  The show didn't skip one beat!  

1 minute ago, Soapsuds said:

There was a warning posted and voice over about it before the episode started. 

 

Sure was!

I watched the scenes of Eden’s rape on Santa Barbara, which was also very disturbing, but it was done in this amped-up, exploitative  (very Chuck Pratt) set-piece way, whereas the violence here is more unsettling through not being seen. 

 

What really bothered me about Eden’s rape (other than the disgusting revelation that the gynecologist who examined her was the perpetrator) was that it seemed to have no big impact on characters beyond Cruz. I kept wondering, where are Eden’s siblings throughout this story? Where’s her mother? Where’s their angst and struggle? I always most appreciated soaps that showed how traumas rippled out to affect a community.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 23, 20196 yr by Faulkner