Even with BTG, the show is designed around the Dupree family and they are mostly presented as aspirational and the heart of the show. The Quartermaines used to be part of a puzzle of important characters, but they were also seen as fully dysfunctional and backstabbing. Edward was a tycoon type of businessman. So the non-affluent main characters were often presented as better people at their cores.
Nina comes to mind. But so does Paul Williams, who might cross paths with Victor but they shouldn’t be fully immersed with them.
It’s a question of storytelling taste and priorities I guess. I just don’t understand why the levels can’t be there. Someone like Wendy Riche at the early part of her GH tenure wanted verisimilitude, but it didn’t stop the show from being entertaining. Jagger was a blue collar guy, Rhonda wanted Karen with Jason for the social climbing aspects. Luke and Laura lived in the Charles Street area, and so did Bobbie for that matter. Now we have Joss and Trina living in a ridiculous apartment on the mansion grounds. We can’t even begin to have something grubby or seedy going on, let alone just normal!
Exactly! The days of each show having their ultra wealthy characters with named staff are over. Esther might have gotten the most attention, but other shows had similar roles. It would be easy to scale it back but they choose to go the other direction. Didn’t Curtis pay Selena Wu a million dollars to off Drew and it just didn’t happen? Why isn’t that an ongoing problem for Curtis? They wrote out all Liz’s kids, so no more teenagers working at Kelly’s because they need the money.
When I tune into Y&R it’s such a miss-mash of bad business stories and a main psychopath. DAYS suffers when I see it from that same generic everyone is mostly comfortable or successful that GH also has a problem with.
I don’t necessarily want to see people just suffering under grocery prices in Port Charles. But it would be nice to see some normal things like nobody but Sonny coming close to being as rich as the Q’s.
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