| Subject: I think on soaps you can do some heinous things |
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Holly
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Date Posted: 17:10:53 08/26/03 Tue
In reply to:
Siren
's message, "Re: Early morning contemplations..." on 15:46:03 08/26/03 Tue
and even totally lack empathy - for awhile - if the actor portraying you is good enough to generate empathy from the viewers. There's a short list of actor/character combos I can think of - Sarah Brown and Carly, RH and Todd (until Miss Perkins got on the plane was the end of that for me), VI and Doctor David, Tony Geary and Luke Spencer, Judith Light and Karen Wolek, and Stuart Damon and the murderous Dr. Q. If your actor just isn't that good, you either get redeemed by some outside force or you get murdered for sweeps. Or that's how it used to be. Before soaps were written by suits and focus groups.
Sigh.
By the way, some very fine actors have played characters redeemed by outside force (Julia Barr's Brooke was raped, Lynn Herring's Lucy hate a late miscarriage and then carried Serena for Scott and Dominique, and Gerald Anthony's Marco Dane was murdered, sort of). But, as much as I enjoyed early Brooke, Lucy, and Marco, I didn't feel for them when they were doing their misdeeds. Sarah Brown, Roger Howarth, Vincent Ir-I don't know how to spell it, all drew me in to the darker worlds, to the point where I went from hating them, to kind of understanding them, to feeling for them. Faith on GH was doing the same thing for me for awhile there. Rick Hearst, too. (Anyone who can make me like Liz, well, what can I say?)
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