Xander ,'First Date'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
You guys are freaking me out with all the soap talk!
On the other hand, I have never made it through 108 messages so quickly with a skim. I was starting to think I fell into an alternate universe, then I saw a question about Tim writing as Chris Baena. I assume Allyson's later yes refers to that. Otherwise, I'm completely lost and have no idea.
Wow, what celebrity would volunteer to play himself/herself in a serial killer/stalker storyline? Oye.
Merv Griffin.
I don't see him credited, but it looks like him. Easton played Tanner on DooL, who may have been involved with Eve, and definitely was invovled with Melinda Clarke's (now of The O.C.) character, Faith.
No, no, he was involved with a girl named Molly. Although I don't remember much else about her, except she was all virginal and shit, and there was this one scene where he ended up licking whipped cream off her fingers. Rrrowr.Eve was involved with his storyline, but you're right, it was Molly, not Faith. I had conflated the two. Molly was a girl that Eve found in the woods or something. In Salem it turns out she was the daughter of that waitress, Ginger. I think Ginger, Brian Scofield, Molly, and Tanner all left town at the same time. Molly was played by Shannon Sturges, who went on to the GH spin-off Port Charles, at some point. I don't know anything about her role on there.
Faith Taylor was another virginal character. Her father was a (shady) revival preacher, who I think was responsible for the deaths of the parents of Dr. Marcus Hunter. I think Faith went blind for a time. Marcus befriended her. She was romanced by Scott Banning (Julie's grandson, I think), and Eve was trying to get in on that action, too.
I tried DOOL once. Don't know if I was unemployed at the time, or just hade days of from school, but I flipped the four channels we had at the time and there it was. My very first experience with a daytime soap.
I watched for a few minutes (I usually woudn't, but with only four basic channels there wasn't much else to do. Except, of course, to turn the TV off and do something else, but let's not go there now, mm'kay?!) and watched as someone was being locked much alive in a comfy coffin (I don't remember if she was buried or not). I really had no interest in the show, but was admittedly curious exactly how she would get out of that problematic situation, 'cause I hade no doubt she would, so I thought I'd watch it until she got out of her box.
Two weeks, I watched, and never learned just how she did it. I must have been very curious, or very bored, or very both. Two weeks for something I didn't have any real interest in. To this day this still amazes me. I blame my parents, for not getting more channels. Yeah, that's it.
No disrespect to the actual DOOL fans here, but no, daytime soaps is not my cup of thing at all. Even as an sometimes obsessed fan-boy of very silly things, I don't get the point of daytime soaps.
Yeah, that's about it. My two cents on the matter, and so forth.
Oh, er, by the way, hrm... how did that woman get out of the coffin..?
Fredrik see here: [link] . There's something wrong with that top picture. They must have had a photo-shopping accident on Carly's eyes. Ugh.
Merv Griffin.
I just really, really enjoy killing people.
I don't get the point of daytime soaps.
It's just what happens when you have to air 5 hours of show every week. Admittedly, on the range of soap plotting from dramatic to talking witch doll, DooL had Marlena possessed by Satan. It's a bit fantastical.
I don't know if crime procedurals or reality shows or game sho...you get the drift have much of a point either -- they're different sorts of TV entertainment, is all.
One thing about soaps - due to sheer quantity of time spent - best training ground for actor/actress ever. If you don't act well but are lucky enough to land a part on a soap, and have a spark of talent - by end of your run you will know how to act. If you are already good, by the time you finish you will be better.
watched as someone was being locked much alive in a comfy coffin
that was when i started watching DOOL. i didn't watch long though because the networks put GH and DOOL against each other and i only had one VCR. so GH got my viewership.