11 minutes ago, alwaysAMC said:

This sums up all my feelings about the episode! I loved it and was happy they did something focused solely on the holiday. I too was surprised they didn't do a bigger Dupree family celebration, but I eventually understood it and liked the separate scenes.

The only negative for me was the ridiculous Cascade commercial with Andre/Dani - it was too much, as if the majority of us don't know what a dishwasher is and how they work - so cringe.

Absolute cringe 😂

I'm glad we at least had two new episodes this week. The Thanksgiving episode had everything and I kind of loved the Cascade plug. So happy we were able to visit Fairmont Crest for the holiday.

As someone who will not be celebrating Thanksgiving like most, I thought it was a beautiful episode.

11-20

Well I finally went back and rewatched the RC back-to-backs. I still agree with my opinion on breakdowns/scriptwriters to date.

I know that RC is divisive. I was/am a OLTL fan, watched his stuff on GH up to 2014 when it was just too much, and the start of his DAYS run right up to the John/Marlena wedding with Stacy Haudik joining as Kristen. So I definitely have a firm idea of his style...which was on display in his first official episode on this show. But I will give credit where it is due...I actually don't mind his stuff (for the most part) on this show. Yeah, there are still some annoying tics of his (mentions of elevator baby, the cat in the tree, Carl Vati, etc), but I do find that his breakdowns usually have a soapiness or balanced campiness at best, over the top silliness at worst. When RC is NOT in charge, it's good to see that he can still create a good episode, even if he is still drawn to the characters most likely to be over-the-top and/or shady.

What is also still holding up is my thoughts on the scriptwriters currently working under him. Jazmen Darnell Brown did one. Danielle Paige did the other. I feel Jazmen works really, really well with RC. And that he gets better on RC's breakdowns the more he does them. Not bad since he's my favorite scriptwriter anyway. I felt like it was still a RC breakdown cuz there were slight hints of that campiness RC likes to do, but Jazmen managed to either tone it down and keep the focus on what was going on or filtered it through so it could be actually funny to me.

I found more RC-isms in Danielle Paige's script. Not to say that it wasn't a good episode, it really was. But she doesn't 'hide' it as well as Jazmen has been able to do. I would say the same for when Judy Tate works on RC breakdowns, too. To be honest, I feel Danielle works better with Jamey Giddens IMO.

I know a few months ago we did have a discussion over the writing overall vs day-to-day. At the time, I believe I said it is just a matter of figuring out which scriptwriters worked with which breakdown writers. And how the writing team was still trying to jell. At the time, I mentioned that I felt Sara Bibel/Cheryl Davis found a groove. Same for Teresa Zimmerman and either Judy Tate or Lynn Martin...who I believe is the team that did the majority of the anniversary party episodes. Otherwise it was hit or miss.

I should probably mention that I do feel that my love for the Bibel/Davis team seems to have lessen now when they originally seem to have the strongest episodes. Not sure why since their episodes are still serviceable to me. I guess it just does not have that 'pop' for me where I felt the characters, story structure, plot, etc.

I do believe that day to day has grown stronger now that everyone appears to be getting used to each other and settling in. But with stories shifting with a new Co-HW in house...some rushed, others becoming soapier...it will be interesting to see how overall goes.

I'm just surprised they didn't do WinterFest during sweeps (it starts next week). I would've pushed it up, but I do think the show is on an upswing after a couple more fallow weeks of plate-spinning.

Same. It had such a great build the first two weeks of November.

Make it make sense.

Re: the slowdown it's not that deep. Soaps just have off or slow weeks. Why they chose to do WinterFest in December though, idk.

Edited 27 minutes ago27 min by Vee

Potential wasted will always get a comment re: when you know, you know ;)

I can only think Winter=December so they figured it was a good idea to push it back. Sadly. I would have also had it pushed up.