I'm happy that they have nothing but good stuff to say about JER. I know he gets a bad rap in the industry, but he was always good at the basics, and in my opinion had he avoided the sci-fi stuff I think the industry would've held him in a much higher regard (especially if paired up with the likes of Curlee, Demorest on his team). 

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It's just a damn f.ucking shame we don't have writers like this anymore - not that they would be allowed to thrive in this daytime climate though.

 

JFP came back from a focus group and said Ellen Parker was not rating well, and that she wanted to do something with Ed...

 

Once they knew they were going to lose Ellen Parker, they wanted to make it "count" and wanted to "blast the heart out of it." 

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5 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

So Stephen wrote the blackout. Nancy was on maternity leave.

As far as I know it has always been credited to Demorest/Reilly/Broderick.  I love that Nancy came up with the blow dryer though.

They should have sacrificed everything to keep Broderick on the writing team; her writing always felt similar to Curlee's.

Edited July 1, 20214 yr by MichaelGL

It sure seems Stephen has no love for Hogan. Wasn't he there at that time? Interesting he doesn't remember anything from ATWT. I find that hard to believe... Lol

Edited July 1, 20214 yr by Soapsuds

Nancy says she misses serial writing - and she regrets leaving her career after GL. She said she would have killed to write a primetime serial.

 

Nancy said she was in negotiations to HW GH - this would have been after the Labine's were thrown out and Guza came in.

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6 minutes ago, MichaelGL said:

I'm happy that they have nothing but good stuff to say about JER. I know he gets a bad rap in the industry, but he was always good at the basics, and in my opinion had he avoided the sci-fi stuff I think the industry would've held him in a much higher regard (especially if paired up with the likes of Curlee, Demorest on his team). 

His first period at DAYS, before the possession, was classic and worked incredibly well.  I loved the possession at first, but by the end he kind of settled into really slowly moving stories and characters talking to themselves all the time as a style.  Everyone got really stupid, and over the top.  Which he then carried over to Passions.  It didn’t work for me, but I’ve never said he was a bad writer.

 

It’s like Guza at GH- it wasn’t for me.  But I can’t deny that he was a strong writer.  It was just all misery.

7 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

It's just a damn f.ucking shame we don't have writers like this anymore - not that they would be allowed to thrive in this daytime climate though.

 

JFP came back from a focus group and said Ellen Parker was not rating well, and that she wanted to do something with Ed...

 

Once they knew they were going to lose Ellen Parker, they wanted to make it "count" and wanted to "blast the heart out of it." 

Nancy wanted Roger to save Maureen? And whisk her away? That would've been great!

2 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

Nancy said she was in negotiations to HW GH - this would have been after the Labine's were thrown out and Guza came in.

I think she would have been great with Riche and her writing for Roger makes me think she could have given Tony Geary what he wanted without making Luke so awful.

 

According to Claire, the Labine’s left on their own to try to launch a new show of their own.  They were finally back in a groove of new things happening when they left after Stone had dominated the prior 6 months.

Aw, Nancy said writing GL was "lightning in a bottle, you never know when you're gonna catch it."

1 hour ago, BetterForgotten said:

@Toups - Stephen said Reilly was hilarious, and the 3 of them had great chemistry. Nancy said JER had a great imagination, and he was great at running long-form story. She said he always helped them push the envelope. 

That’s great to hear they had nice things to say about Reilly. 😄 He definitely had those qualities.  Not going to read more posts - I want to be spoiler free when listening to this interview. LOL

39 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

Nancy said she was in negotiations to HW GH - this would have been after the Labine's were thrown out and Guza came in.

 

Shame it did not happen.

 

45 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

It's just a damn f.ucking shame we don't have writers like this anymore - not that they would be allowed to thrive in this daytime climate though.

 

It's what happens when you predominately recycle the same names.

Imagine working for a show where you have to "fight" to get Nia Long on the show. The soaps always had issues, even in the "good old days".

 

Curlee laid it down that the focus groups were pretty much no bueno when it came to effective writing.

She did mention the...wait for it...six month rule in being able to write Holly and Roger getting together after all that bitter history because Roger raped Holly.

2 hours ago, MichaelGL said:

I'm happy that they have nothing but good stuff to say about JER. I know he gets a bad rap in the industry, but he was always good at the basics, and in my opinion had he avoided the sci-fi stuff I think the industry would've held him in a much higher regard (especially if paired up with the likes of Curlee, Demorest on his team). 

 

This. I've always given Reilly credit for understanding the basics of a soap opera, for knowing the formula that works. He can be very frustrating on his own accord but when paired with other good writers to balance him out, and push them to do "more", it worked.

3 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

It sure seems Stephen has no love for Hogan. Wasn't he there at that time? Interesting he doesn't remember anything from ATWT. I find that hard to believe... Lol

 

I just saw that. He must've blocked that out. His response tells me that the work was forgettable.