40 minutes ago, All My Shadows said:

Today's episode has been processed to look like film 

Yes, I was going to ask about this. Frame rate change?

Oof. This “film” effect makes this sumptuous show look like a cheap foreign ‘70s drama on PBS. Make it stop. 

Steven Ford is so yummy. The way Doug looked at him. I wish they had gone there with the two best friends.

I got the feeling that the music was changed for the Victor/Ashley dance scene.

37 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

Yes, I was going to ask about this. Frame rate change?

Oof. This “film” effect makes this sumptuous show look like a cheap foreign ‘70s drama on PBS. Make it stop. 

 

The audio is off too- the dialogue doesn't match their mouths moving- looks like a foreign movie that was dubbed into English.  I wonder why they did this.

 

11 minutes ago, watson71 said:

The audio is off too- the dialogue doesn't match their mouths moving- looks like a foreign movie that was dubbed into English.  I wonder why they did this.

It better be the only time, too. The excitement of watching classic episodes on TV or DVD is that you get to see them look nice and smooth, the way they originally aired. Today's episode looked like it came from the internet, which obviously as soap fans, that's how we watch most old episodes anyway, but if it's going to be on TV, I want my videotaped programs to look like they were done on videotape.

2 hours ago, All My Shadows said:

Today's episode has been processed to look like film 

Well this I got to see. 

It looks like the frame rate was dropped from 60 fps to 24 fps.

 

On a side note, I've always had an inkling that Jerry Douglas had a face lift in the mid-late 80s - but I didn't realize they wrote it into the story!

1 hour ago, kalbir said:

I got the feeling that the music was changed for the Victor/Ashley dance scene.

 

It's the same as the original.  "Tales from the Vienna Woods".

Usually the actors are dancing without music so the microphones can pick up dialogue, and then music is added later. That's why a lot of times it seems like they're not really dancing to the music.

20 minutes ago, ChickenNuggetz92 said:

On a side note, I've always had an inkling that Jerry Douglas had a face lift in the mid-late 80s - but I didn't realize they wrote it into the story!

Was that what those scenes were about then. I thought they felt so odd with Joanna telling John he should have plastic surgery. It felt random...and kinda insulting on her part.

 

Joanna never really seemed to take off as a character.

 

I wonder if it's true that Bell had written the part of Stephanie on B&B with her in mind. Maybe that's why he never really invested in Joanna if he had SSH in mind for that role.

18 minutes ago, ChickenNuggetz92 said:

It looks like the frame rate was dropped from 60 fps to 24 fps.

Mustn’t inflict “the dreaded soap opera effect” on actual soap operas that actually were made with that look in mind. It’s stupid.

23 minutes ago, ChickenNuggetz92 said:

On a side note, I've always had an inkling that Jerry Douglas had a face lift in the mid-late 80s - but I didn't realize they wrote it into the story!

Jerry Douglas was 54 in 1986 and he didn't look like he needed any work at that time. I think he had some eye work sometime in the 1990s. Somehow I remember an episode with a line about John looking more refreshed.

59 minutes ago, kalbir said:

Jerry Douglas was 54 in 1986 and he didn't look like he needed any work at that time. I think he had some eye work sometime in the 1990s. Somehow I remember an episode with a line about John looking more refreshed.

 

His hairline was also receding in the early 90s. By the late 90s he came back with a perfect hairline, but I think it was a toupee.

 

Kinda shallow of me but I think Doug D also has worn a toupee for a long time.

3 hours ago, pdm1974 said:

Joanna never really seemed to take off as a character.

 

I wonder if it's true that Bell had written the part of Stephanie on B&B with her in mind. Maybe that's why he never really invested in Joanna if he had SSH in mind for that role.

 

Yes, she was offered the part and turned it down to return to Days I believe.

 

Eilleen Davidson does not play coquettish well so seeing her that way with Victor is off-putting. I really do not like them together at all.

17 minutes ago, Darn said:

 

Yes, she was offered the part and turned it down to return to Days I believe.

Wow...>I bet she regrets that decision. How could she not? Stephanie was a front burner role until SF left of her own accord.