Oh yeah! I think the dialogue writing has gotten better in the past couple of years, but every time I tried to tune into GH in the late 2010s, I was always struck by how leaden the dialogue seemed; it was mostly exposition, and while a few of the show's veteran actors were able to find some nuances in it, most of the younger cast just seemed to recite it flatly.
But back to Ron's Soapy interview, another thing I liked was learning what a fan he was of some of the actors he brought onto the shows he was head-writing (including Jackee Harry). He tells a funny story about getting to watch from the production booth as Erika Slezak and Robin Strasser acted out one of the first scripts he wrote, a scene where they get trapped in a locked room and rehash old arguments, and producer Jill Farren Phelps turns to him and asks, "Why am I watching two old ladies in a basement?" and he tells her, "Because it's amazing."
He also recalls the increasing budget pressure he was under at DOOL; when he started, he had permission to use up to 13 characters in each day's script, but that number kept going down, to 10 or 11 characters per day by the time he left.
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