But... but who will have the evil goatee now??
Stefano Dimera should just guest star on every soap opera and kill off all the characters until he is the only one left standing.
Yeah...I was just going to say this. I'm a telenovela fan. They are having their problems, too, though. Even their markets are fracturing; Univision has steadily lost ratings in the US.As the American soaps die off the spanish ones, called Novelas, are going strong. They have a key difference though - they last six to eight months and then end. Then a new one with different characters and story lines start (well different name characters and new locales on the story lines).
Actors like Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Reeve and Kate Mulgrew got their starts on soaps, so I don't understand the disparagement of soap actors.
Actors like Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Reeve and Kate Mulgrew got their starts on soaps, so I don't understand the disparagement of soap actors.
Actors like Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Reeve and Kate Mulgrew got their starts on soaps, so I don't understand the disparagement of soap actors.
A lot of soap actors are good, but a lot of them are not. And when you have to shoot an entire episode in one day, the really bad ones who were only hired for their looks really stick out. It also doesn't help that soaps are the most poorly-written dramas made with no sense of continuity or common sense, so the actor will suffer when they write his or her role completely different from episode to episode just to make the plot work (hey, it's like Heroes!).
Yes, soaps do have a tendency to screw with continuity but I find that only happening when you have different writers taking over and wanting to not adhere to what the previous regime had done. Otherwise, most of the time when the staff is guided by the same head writer for the life of a storyline the continuity is quite solid.People who bash Soaps really have no idea what they are talking about. Its just fashionable to do so, so they do. And star trek fans that point out continuity issues with a soap, considering TREK's own soap operish story telling and funked up continuity, really take the cake.
In other news, Superman: The Movie director Richard Donner is in talks to develop a sci-fi reboot called As the World Turns Backwards.![]()
If that were true, they'd be much more popular, since that's the in thing these days.The thing that bugs me most about soaps is that the characters are all evil. Since when did we actually see a genuinely good, upstanding, honest, decent, moral character on a soap? They couldn't allow that, of course, since soaps are all about pain. Lots of tragedy, downers, plots, schemes. Everyone is nasty. Everyone stabs everyone else in the back. No one is good. That's what really pisses me off.![]()
DooL had some really great actors and characters--Deidre Hall as Marlena Evans, Louise Sorel as Vivian Alamain, Kristian Alfonso as Hope Brady, Joseph Mascolo as Stefano DiMera who to this day is up there in my pantheon of favorite villians with Dallas' JR Ewing and Melrose Place's Dr. Kimberly Shaw & Amanda Woodward.
Are we married to the same woman?Actors like Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Reeve and Kate Mulgrew got their starts on soaps, so I don't understand the disparagement of soap actors.
Not to mention Nathan Fillion.
If One Life to Live gets canceled, my wife will collapse in a sobbing heap on the floor. She's been watching that show since college.
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