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Topic Started: Oct 17 2016, 01:19 AM (42,707 Views)
lysie


Bigboy
Oct 22 2016, 11:35 PM
lysie
Oct 22 2016, 11:30 PM
Bigboy
Oct 22 2016, 11:25 PM

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Actors aren't writers. That's not how that works. The writer's guild would have something to say about that.
You think Corday will start to worry if things don't pick up after sweeps its just the way he was saying everything will change in September a few weeks also we see a new Days full of romance and ratings still have not moved i think he was expecting a big bump.
I don't know. You ask this every week. We have no idea what goes on in that man's head.
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missmeka1987_
Oct 21 2016, 09:20 PM
oh the uproar on twitter over DC exit Rope nor Haiden help ratings If DC was such the man why his episodes don't get higher ratings KA will never be rid of Bope pairing and It's evident..
I liked Aiden on his first run, I was not overly excited about him, but he was tolerable. Knowing how it all went down,
why on earth was he ever brought back?
As for Hope never being rid of the "Bope" legacy...well, it is a 30-year history and a tough act to follow and frankly I
never want her to forget about it, if only for the sake of her children and grandchildren.
That said, she could still be paired with someone new, a STRONG male character. Rafe does NOT fit that description, sorry!
Marlena had two successful pairings before John, she had Don and Roman. So, it is possible to find a suitable pairing for
Hope. It will never replace Bo, but it can still be enjoyable.
What about this new character that Robb Derringer will be playing? He's in her age group and is described as a handsome,
eccentric, elitist math professor BUT with an addiction to sex (NOT crazy about that part!). We already had enough of
these sex-craved characters with Daniel, Brady and Kate. Can't the writers come up with something else?
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HollyGolightly
Oct 22 2016, 11:37 PM
missmeka1987_
Oct 21 2016, 09:20 PM
oh the uproar on twitter over DC exit Rope nor Haiden help ratings If DC was such the man why his episodes don't get higher ratings KA will never be rid of Bope pairing and It's evident..
I liked Aiden on his first run, I was not overly excited about him, but he was tolerable. Knowing how it all went down,
why on earth was he ever brought back?
As for Hope never being rid of the "Bope" legacy...well, it is a 30-year history and a tough act to follow and frankly I
never want her to forget about it, if only for the sake of her children and grandchildren.
That said, she could still be paired with someone new, a STRONG male character. Rafe does NOT fit that description, sorry!
Marlena had two successful pairings before John, she had Don and Roman. So, it is possible to find a suitable pairing for
Hope. It will never replace Bo, but it can still be enjoyable.
What about this new character that Robb Derringer will be playing? He's in her age group and is described as a handsome,
eccentric, elitist math professor BUT with an addiction to sex (NOT crazy about that part!). We already had enough of
these sex-craved characters with Daniel, Brady and Kate. Can't the writers come up with something else?
I think fans have to accept Rafe is main man on the show now he is the fave of Dena KA would be back burned if she wasn't paired with Rafe i truly believe that. As for Rope it made more sense than Safe to me i hated how they had to change Sami to suit Rafe. At least Rope have something in common they both cops i can see why the show is promoting them a lot and i was always told ratings is about the show in whole not about certain characters or couples so you can't blame Days ratings on them its the writing.
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lysie


Supergirlx2
Oct 22 2016, 11:32 PM
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Oct 22 2016, 04:31 PM
Supergirlx2
Oct 21 2016, 11:18 PM

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Welcome to the rewrite of Safe. Wait until Ciara will consider Rafe her second daddy. Watch out for plaid. It's all in the plaid.
Rewrite of Safe?! More like a reincarnation of Bope. Rafe's transition into a near-perfect clone of Bo is nearly complete at this point (except that he's more possessive & physical with Hope than Bo ever was). :rolleyes:
I don't see that at all. :shrug: I do see how similar this is to Safe, though.
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Bigboy
Oct 22 2016, 11:48 PM
HollyGolightly
Oct 22 2016, 11:37 PM
missmeka1987_
Oct 21 2016, 09:20 PM
oh the uproar on twitter over DC exit Rope nor Haiden help ratings If DC was such the man why his episodes don't get higher ratings KA will never be rid of Bope pairing and It's evident..
I liked Aiden on his first run, I was not overly excited about him, but he was tolerable. Knowing how it all went down,
why on earth was he ever brought back?
As for Hope never being rid of the "Bope" legacy...well, it is a 30-year history and a tough act to follow and frankly I
never want her to forget about it, if only for the sake of her children and grandchildren.
That said, she could still be paired with someone new, a STRONG male character. Rafe does NOT fit that description, sorry!
Marlena had two successful pairings before John, she had Don and Roman. So, it is possible to find a suitable pairing for
Hope. It will never replace Bo, but it can still be enjoyable.
What about this new character that Robb Derringer will be playing? He's in her age group and is described as a handsome,
eccentric, elitist math professor BUT with an addiction to sex (NOT crazy about that part!). We already had enough of
these sex-craved characters with Daniel, Brady and Kate. Can't the writers come up with something else?
I think fans have to accept Rafe is main man on the show now he is the fave of Dena KA would be back burned if she wasn't paired with Rafe i truly believe that. As for Rope it made more sense than Safe to me i hated how they had to change Sami to suit Rafe. At least Rope have something in common they both cops i can see why the show is promoting them a lot and i was always told ratings is about the show in whole not about certain characters or couples so you can't blame Days ratings on them its the writing.
I haven't see him be the main man on the show at all this fall.
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lysie


Lovejm
Oct 22 2016, 11:54 PM
Bigboy
Oct 22 2016, 11:48 PM
HollyGolightly
Oct 22 2016, 11:37 PM

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I think fans have to accept Rafe is main man on the show now he is the fave of Dena KA would be back burned if she wasn't paired with Rafe i truly believe that. As for Rope it made more sense than Safe to me i hated how they had to change Sami to suit Rafe. At least Rope have something in common they both cops i can see why the show is promoting them a lot and i was always told ratings is about the show in whole not about certain characters or couples so you can't blame Days ratings on them its the writing.
I haven't see him be the main man on the show at all this fall.
He has a really high episode count but doesn't really do anything. He's not written like a lead at all. It's weird.
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Oct 22 2016, 11:54 PM
Bigboy
Oct 22 2016, 11:48 PM
HollyGolightly
Oct 22 2016, 11:37 PM

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I think fans have to accept Rafe is main man on the show now he is the fave of Dena KA would be back burned if she wasn't paired with Rafe i truly believe that. As for Rope it made more sense than Safe to me i hated how they had to change Sami to suit Rafe. At least Rope have something in common they both cops i can see why the show is promoting them a lot and i was always told ratings is about the show in whole not about certain characters or couples so you can't blame Days ratings on them its the writing.
I haven't see him be the main man on the show at all this fall.
I not a fan of GG i am going on what i read Dena say about him he is her fave actor on the show i am sure i heard her say that i wish i know where i saw that quote. I think over sweeps and into the new year he will be the main man and Corday always talks about Rope the way he talked about Ejami and Safe in the past.
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Bigboy
Oct 22 2016, 11:59 PM
Lovejm
Oct 22 2016, 11:54 PM
Bigboy
Oct 22 2016, 11:48 PM

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I haven't see him be the main man on the show at all this fall.
I not a fan of GG i am going on what i read Dena say about him he is her fave actor on the show i am sure i heard her say that i wish i know where i saw that quote. I think over sweeps and into the new year he will be the main man and Corday always talks about Rope the way he talked about Ejami and Safe in the past.
Oh she said that last year I think before the writing change. And while we've seen a lot of Rafe he hasn't driven story or really done much besides follow hope around

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Oct 22 2016, 02:27 PM
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Um I love ya, ORK, but Days already had an Auntie Viv, thankyouverymuch. And she was a hell of a lot more entertaining than Ciara.
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Bigboy
Oct 22 2016, 11:48 PM
HollyGolightly
Oct 22 2016, 11:37 PM
missmeka1987_
Oct 21 2016, 09:20 PM
oh the uproar on twitter over DC exit Rope nor Haiden help ratings If DC was such the man why his episodes don't get higher ratings KA will never be rid of Bope pairing and It's evident..
I liked Aiden on his first run, I was not overly excited about him, but he was tolerable. Knowing how it all went down,
why on earth was he ever brought back?
As for Hope never being rid of the "Bope" legacy...well, it is a 30-year history and a tough act to follow and frankly I
never want her to forget about it, if only for the sake of her children and grandchildren.
That said, she could still be paired with someone new, a STRONG male character. Rafe does NOT fit that description, sorry!
Marlena had two successful pairings before John, she had Don and Roman. So, it is possible to find a suitable pairing for
Hope. It will never replace Bo, but it can still be enjoyable.
What about this new character that Robb Derringer will be playing? He's in her age group and is described as a handsome,
eccentric, elitist math professor BUT with an addiction to sex (NOT crazy about that part!). We already had enough of
these sex-craved characters with Daniel, Brady and Kate. Can't the writers come up with something else?
I think fans have to accept Rafe is main man on the show now he is the fave of Dena KA would be back burned if she wasn't paired with Rafe i truly believe that. As for Rope it made more sense than Safe to me i hated how they had to change Sami to suit Rafe. At least Rope have something in common they both cops i can see why the show is promoting them a lot and i was always told ratings is about the show in whole not about certain characters or couples so you can't blame Days ratings on them its the writing.
They've also modified Hope's character to give Rafe more "reasons" to play hero. Hope doesn't have the same independence & strong backbone she used to have.
Also, the show isn't promoting Rope as cops, they're promoting them as this couple that has this deep & longstanding love for each other, but don't seem to think that they need a proper love story. The fact that they work together is simply a bonus in that it gives TPTB more reason to have Hope & Rafe in constant scenes together.
While it's true that you can't pinpoint the specific storyline(s) that caused a dip in the ratings, it's no secret that one of the lowest ratings Days has gotten in 2016 came from the Rafe-centric episode (&, at the very least, it's the lowest rated single-character-focused episode). The very low rating seems to indicate that the audience is not as receptive to Rafe/Rope as TPTB surely wish they were, especially given the number of episodes they've been in over the last 10-11 months. So while viewers may have to accept that Rafe is one of the main men on the show, it doesn't necessarily mean that they like it.
The one thing the ratings have consistently shown over the last few months is that people have been tuning in at the start of the week, but have been tuning out after Tuesday's episode and haven't been as interested in watching the episodes in the later part of the week. So there's clearly some sort of interest in the happenings on the show, but not enough to keep them engaged throughout the week.
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Oct 22 2016, 10:31 PM
CB is too stunning for words!
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Bigboy
Oct 22 2016, 11:48 PM

I think fans have to accept Rafe is main man on the show now he is the fave of Dena.
NO, fans do NOT have to accept Rafe, mainly because he is a writer's favorite or whatever.
It's the other way around, TPTB have to accept that maybe fans are NOT warming up to
certain characters and move on...the ratings should be proof enough!
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DesignatedShelley
Oct 22 2016, 05:49 PM
I admit that Tomlin and Whitesell did well with ratings for a while, but they also tanked them for a while too. And regardless, I don't think ratings are dependent specifically on which characters are featured, although I think continuity matters. IMO it's mostly about storyline build-up and pay-off, and Days can't seem to get both parts of that right for sustained amounts of time.

I would take one writer who is really good at storytelling structure, and one writer who is really good with Days history and characterization. They'd have to be people who are willing to put the show's needs above their own egos.
Writers will always have faves and so will the network some characters that people hate are others that some of us totally love so how does a writer know what is the best for the show. I was told the show is more balanced now compared to a few years back but its not showing in the ratings so that argument doesn't wash with me. JG did all that story telling and using plenty of characters for for the 50th and he still got the boot in the end when ratings crashed big time after Christmas.
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I feel like a lot of fans asking for TomSell to return don't understand that Whitesell is under contract with GH now. He's one of their breakdown writers I believe. I doubt it would be easy for Days to get him back since it's a different studio and network. I'm not sure about Tomlin, maybe he's available.
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Hugo
Oct 23 2016, 06:16 AM
I feel like a lot of fans asking for TomSell to return don't understand that Whitesell is under contract with GH now. He's one of their breakdown writers I believe. I doubt it would be easy for Days to get him back since it's a different studio and network. I'm not sure about Tomlin, maybe he's available.
I'm not sure if I'm asking for TomSell to return :blulaugh: but I don't think it's that difficult. Yes, CW is one of the breakdown writers at GH, but I remember when Y&R hired Jean Passanante as one of their HWs, she was under contract with GH as well. It didn't take too long for her to join Y&R. I guess, it probably depends on when their contracts are up.
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Oct 23 2016, 06:16 AM
I feel like a lot of fans asking for TomSell to return don't understand that Whitesell is under contract with GH now. He's one of their breakdown writers I believe. I doubt it would be easy for Days to get him back since it's a different studio and network. I'm not sure about Tomlin, maybe he's available.
Him and Tomlin made a good team especially from mid 2012 until early 2014 i don't where it all went wrong even Corday said they gave Days very good ratings but he also said they were burnt out in the end and ran out of ideas what to write for the show that is why he made another writer change.
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Oct 23 2016, 06:29 AM
Hugo
Oct 23 2016, 06:16 AM
I feel like a lot of fans asking for TomSell to return don't understand that Whitesell is under contract with GH now. He's one of their breakdown writers I believe. I doubt it would be easy for Days to get him back since it's a different studio and network. I'm not sure about Tomlin, maybe he's available.
I'm not sure if I'm asking for TomSell to return :blulaugh: but I don't think it's that difficult. Yes, CW is one of the breakdown writers at GH, but I remember when Y&R hired Jean Passanante as one of their HWs, she was under contract with GH as well. It didn't take too long for her to join Y&R. I guess, it probably depends on when their contracts are up.
I don't know about that but Whitesell joined GH in early October 2015 according to this, so maybe he already signed for another year.
http://daytimeconfidential.com/2015/09/30/former-days-head-writer-chris-whitesell-lands-at-general-hospital

My point was that a lot of fans assume people are locked in a room somewhere, waiting for Ken Corday to call them. By people, I mean former headwriters and former actors too (Ali, James, Peter, Chandler...). But a lot of these people have moved on, they are not available or not interested to return.
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Oct 23 2016, 06:45 AM
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Oct 23 2016, 06:29 AM
Hugo
Oct 23 2016, 06:16 AM
I feel like a lot of fans asking for TomSell to return don't understand that Whitesell is under contract with GH now. He's one of their breakdown writers I believe. I doubt it would be easy for Days to get him back since it's a different studio and network. I'm not sure about Tomlin, maybe he's available.
I'm not sure if I'm asking for TomSell to return :blulaugh: but I don't think it's that difficult. Yes, CW is one of the breakdown writers at GH, but I remember when Y&R hired Jean Passanante as one of their HWs, she was under contract with GH as well. It didn't take too long for her to join Y&R. I guess, it probably depends on when their contracts are up.
I don't know about that but Whitesell joined GH in early October 2015 according to this, so maybe he already signed for another year.
http://daytimeconfidential.com/2015/09/30/former-days-head-writer-chris-whitesell-lands-at-general-hospital

My point was that a lot of fans assume people are locked in a room somewhere, waiting for Ken Corday to call them. By people, I mean former headwriters and former actors too (Ali, James, Peter, Chandler...). But a lot of these people have moved on, they are not available or not interested to return.
Can you blame them he treated those actors very badly and those former head writers who still gave Days much better ratings than not only the current ones but the 50th ones as well especially in the demos. I was always told when you treated someone bad in the end it will always come back to bite you. He pushed Peter out the door by back burning Bo poor Chandler felt unwanted in the end and he gave Ali and James a crap ending death to EJ by some unknown character who was only on the show for a few days. Corday only got himself to blame none of them will come back unless he is gone from the show i wish someone had the power to fire him.
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Hugo
Oct 23 2016, 06:45 AM
thepadange
Oct 23 2016, 06:29 AM
Hugo
Oct 23 2016, 06:16 AM
I feel like a lot of fans asking for TomSell to return don't understand that Whitesell is under contract with GH now. He's one of their breakdown writers I believe. I doubt it would be easy for Days to get him back since it's a different studio and network. I'm not sure about Tomlin, maybe he's available.
I'm not sure if I'm asking for TomSell to return :blulaugh: but I don't think it's that difficult. Yes, CW is one of the breakdown writers at GH, but I remember when Y&R hired Jean Passanante as one of their HWs, she was under contract with GH as well. It didn't take too long for her to join Y&R. I guess, it probably depends on when their contracts are up.
I don't know about that but Whitesell joined GH in early October 2015 according to this, so maybe he already signed for another year.
http://daytimeconfidential.com/2015/09/30/former-days-head-writer-chris-whitesell-lands-at-general-hospital

My point was that a lot of fans assume people are locked in a room somewhere, waiting for Ken Corday to call them. By people, I mean former headwriters and former actors too (Ali, James, Peter, Chandler...). But a lot of these people have moved on, they are not available or not interested to return.
All of this is true. But no one can blame fans for wanting something :laugh: - fans usually don't know what these people (writers, producers, actors etc) think (unless they state it openly in their interviews), so why not ask the show to bring them back lol?
Either way, not a big deal - nobody pays attention to what fans want anyway LOL.
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Oct 23 2016, 06:43 AM
Hugo
Oct 23 2016, 06:16 AM
I feel like a lot of fans asking for TomSell to return don't understand that Whitesell is under contract with GH now. He's one of their breakdown writers I believe. I doubt it would be easy for Days to get him back since it's a different studio and network. I'm not sure about Tomlin, maybe he's available.
Him and Tomlin made a good team especially from mid 2012 until early 2014 i don't where it all went wrong even Corday said they gave Days very good ratings but he also said they were burnt out in the end and ran out of ideas what to write for the show that is why he made another writer change.
What Corday says is just PR. If he noticed TomSell were burnt out in mid-2014 (when they started the elephant statue, Eve/JJ, etc.), why wait until February 2015 to replace them? He said the same thing about Griffith, that he noticed while reading the January episodes that it wasn't "there" so his solution was to let him write 7 more months? It doesn't make any sense. I believe Corday has no clue what is good or bad for the show until he sees the ratings 6 months later and then: "oopsie, we messed up again, let's make changes but we have 6 more months of this shit to air and promote now." Bottomline, all the bad stuff that airs has been approved by Corday and other people, it's not just on the writers.
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