We already have a topic about bad acting scenes and moments and great ones too. I want to start another one where we can showcase moments where THE WRITING was absurdly bad. There are a lot of scenes where actors are doing a great job, but the words... the actions that have been written in the script... are god AWFUL and don't make any sense.

I am starting it with something recent, which really bugged me.

Deacon pouring blue liquid from a random old bottle found lying around in a pile of trash IN AN ABANDONED building where Sheila has been left to die. Who in their right mind will pour a mysterious looking SPORT DRINK liquid in the mouth of someone who is struggling or ill. A decent writer would have had them call the ambulance ASAP and not just look around the pile of garbage to find something HYDRATING. Disgusting... Such horrible stupid writing.

 

All of PASSIONS. Especially after the first year.

2 hours ago, SteelCity said:

All of PASSIONS. Especially after the first year.

No arguments here, lol.

If anything, I’d add SuBe.  That [!@#$%^&*] was awful from scene one.

17 hours ago, Khan said:

No arguments here, lol.

If anything, I’d add SuBe.  That [!@#$%^&*] was awful from scene one.

That's where we differ! I loved SuBe! It wasn't without flaw, no soap is but, I thought was a good modern soap. The earthquake is still probably the best one I have ever seen on a soap. PASSIONS really had no redeeming qualities and was so inconsistent. We also NEVER go payoff! Not to mention that they dropped stories left and right losing their own mythology.

3 minutes ago, SteelCity said:

PASSIONS really had no redeeming qualities and was so inconsistent. We also NEVER go payoff!

ICAM!!

4 minutes ago, Khan said:

ICAM!!

Seriously! All that BS about "fated couples" and "true love" yet none of that ended up happening aside from Ethan/Theresa which by that point was tired as hell. They also never recognized that Theresa was really a conniving and manipulative bitch! Honestly, up until the scene where Gwen ignores the rape, I was team Gwen!

6 minutes ago, SteelCity said:

Seriously! All that BS about "fated couples" and "true love" yet none of that ended up happening aside from Ethan/Theresa which by that point was tired as hell. They also never recognized that Theresa was really a conniving and manipulative bitch! Honestly, up until the scene where Gwen ignores the rape, I was team Gwen!

Every week, I would read previews and such for the show; and every week, my reaction would be the same: "If this [!@#$%^&*] is bad on paper, I can only imagine how it's playing out on screen!"

I tried watching PASSIONS from the beginning, but I bailed fairly quickly, because it was clear that the show was nothing more than JER run amok.  NBCD literally handed that man a briefcase full of cash to inflict his issues on the American public; and for that, I'll never forgive them.

Edited May 18, 20241 yr by Khan

I remember watching Passions when I was 10 or 11... and loving it... Nearly 20 years later... when I tried to watch it... I was... speechless of how NOT my cup of tea it was... I just couldn't bear how infantile and childish everything was. I just couldn't. But I know it has a cult following and lots of people love it. So I just say... no my cup of tea. Some of the acting was also cringey-cringe. 

James Reilly created Passions for the middle schoolers and high schoolers that were too young to watch his run on Days. Notice the NBC run was 8 years. A 12 year old in 1999 would be 20 in 2007, so the NBC run covers their whole teen years.

2 minutes ago, kalbir said:

James Reilly created Passions for the middle schoolers and high schoolers that were too young to watch his run on Days. Notice the NBC run was 8 years. A 12 year old in 1999 would be 20 in 2007, so the NBC run covers their whole teen years.

I did love it when I was a kid. But... thank god I grew up. 😂

37 minutes ago, kalbir said:

James Reilly created Passions for the middle schoolers and high schoolers that were too young to watch his run on Days. 

Which was dumb, because what 12-year-old controls their household's finances?  And if 12-year-olds do, in fact, determine which purchases are made for the rest of the family, no wonder this country is in so much trouble, lol.

I know TPTB argued, "Well, if we get them at 12-17 years old, they'll be fans forever," but the problem there is what happens when they DO get older?  Are you still going to tailor your writing to the 12-17 year olds and ignore those who have "aged out"?  Or are you going to acknowledge that your original fans have grown up and, in fact, require more sophisticated writing (which means you are, in fact, no longer writing for 12-17 year olds)?

PASSIONS just needed to do what every other, new soap has done: write for a general (meaning: adult) audience and hope that future generations of fans will grow through those who were/are first exposed to the show through their mothers, grandmothers, etc.

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10 minutes ago, Khan said:

PASSIONS just needed to do what every other soap has done: write for a general (meaning: adult) audience and hope that future generations of fans will grow through those who are/were first exposed to the show through their mothers, grandmothers, etc.

I watched the first episode of Passions to see what it was going to be like and my reaction was "this show is made for the kids and its done in three months". NBC kept it for 8 years.

On 5/1/2024 at 10:02 AM, Liberty City said:

All of Bold could be featured for the past 10 to 15 years.

LMAO I was just about to say this. The only time they had any type of good writing was Monaco in 2022. Got praise for it even from non soap sites

But yeah overall horrible

B&B's problem is the same problem Bill Bell probably had with Y&R before he chose to phase out the original families and refocus the show.  In both situation, you have a core group of characters who have been depleted by years of constant, front-burner storylines and questionable recasts.  If Bradley were anything like his dad, he'd recognize that the time is now to revamp the show from top to bottom.

It's Brad's obsession with keeping characters around that have outlived any purpose they had: Sheila, Liam, Bill for example. It's backstage politics period. If KB weren't besties with Brad, Casey, KKL, and if they didn't like SC, their character's would be gone.

It's what's killing this show, one reason at least 

Also Brad getting rid of a popular character like Taylor and instead of doing Tridge, which are very popular, he sticks with Bridge, whom I haven't seen a lot of support for

It's all Brad's agenda period 

That's kind of what I'm saying, @dragonflies.  B&B is littered with characters who have been used so much in the stories that they're used up, preventing the show from really evolving.