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| SOD: Austin Peck on JER: "His writing was maddening and genius!" | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 28 2012, 12:56 AM (6,170 Views) | |
| JTClassicSoaps | Jan 28 2012, 03:30 PM Post #21 |
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J&M and Family Fanatic!
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Yep, that's correct. He wrote PSSNS and Dool from 1992-1997 and 2003-2006 |
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| JamesScott_19 | Jan 28 2012, 03:36 PM Post #22 |
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Don't get up. So how are you? What happened, eh? Let me guess, Stefano told you that you could fly,and you jumped off a building. HeHe It's funny right, no I'm sorry Bad EJ, I should'nt be that cruel!
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Thanks:) I watch Passions for awhile and their stories got crazier and crazier, but I hung on to the end. I am not that familiar with his stories on here, but it seems like he still had the still insane stories, but you have to admit most of it was entertaining. |
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| Kenny | Jan 28 2012, 03:39 PM Post #23 |
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Yes, JER wrote Days until late 1997/early 1998, then he left to create Passions. Although it was never billed as such, Passions was a parody soap. It wasn't meant to be taken seriously. For the longest time I cursed JER for all the juvenile humor and ridiculous stories on that show, but looking back, I can appreciate it for what it was. Unfortunately, with no one at Passions to rein him in, JER went balls-to-the-wall crazy and he did the same thing when he returned to Days in 2003. For me, he was at his best from 1993 - 1997. |
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| lysie | Jan 28 2012, 03:41 PM Post #24 |
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I'd like to know what his original plan for the SSK story was. Maybe things wouldn't have gotten as crazy if they'd left him alone. Sometimes I feel like everything that happened from mid 2004-until he was finally gone was all one big revenge ploy on his part. |
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| AHM | Jan 28 2012, 03:50 PM Post #25 |
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I understand that JER's stuff is appealing to many, but I think Days lost so much soul when Langan and Reilly came in. Though I have to admit to missing a lot of the stuff that I know people like from the 90s because I lost interest (and I just couldn't take fauxJack). Unfortunately, I fear the current writers are lacking JER's strengths and do have some of his flaws. |
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| leela46 | Jan 28 2012, 04:01 PM Post #26 |
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I loved the original SSK story until they brought everyone back and had the stupid island stuff. I've always believed that Corday panicked because fans on the message boards were complaining about their favorites being written out, so he made JER bring them all back from the dead. Then JER wrote the most ridiculous shit he could think of bringing them back because he was pissed off at having to change his story. I too would love to know what his original plans were for the SSK story. The early part of that story was really must see TV. |
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| granolagirl | Jan 28 2012, 04:03 PM Post #27 |
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#SorryNotSorry
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+1. I don't remember actually relishing it in the same way as others, but I watched every single day. That was the last era I remember people in real life randomly starting to talk about the show, too. |
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| Drew | Jan 28 2012, 04:34 PM Post #28 |
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But what are you watching episodes of? Random daily episodes, or episodes of story traction or payoffs? If its the "good" ones, that still goes back to my point about the show in clip form. |
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| Drew | Jan 28 2012, 04:42 PM Post #29 |
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We tend to look back on alot of things we liked when we were young and go "wtf" :lol: I used to love Power Rangers. |
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| OldDaysFankat | Jan 28 2012, 04:48 PM Post #30 |
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JER wrote some crazy stuff but the show was entertaining.I sometimes think onliners in particular get so hung up on great dialogue and acting moments and who is the best actor or this couple has to be together that we forget a TV show is supposed to be entertaining. I watch Tony Geary's Luke kill his grandkid and go into an interventin. Was the acting good yes but I felt as if I was watching a PSA and can't really say it entertained me or anything made me engaged enough to watch more. JER had his flaws but he wrote an entertaining show. Off topic does anyone know why Corday slammed JER in the book? Did they have a falling out? |
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| Kenny | Jan 28 2012, 04:56 PM Post #31 |
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His stories on Days were pretty unconventional, but they weren't as extreme as the stories he wrote on Passions. One of his first stories was the "Who Killed Curtis?" murder mystery. He also wrote the Sami/Alan rape storyline which resulted in Sami shooting his balls off. He wrote Buried Alive. He (along with Sheri Anderson) wrote the climax of the affair storyline, which led to Sami witnessing John and Marlena having sex on a conference room table at Titan. Marlena ended up pregnant with John's baby (Belle). At the baby's Christening, it was revealed that John was Belle's father, destroying Roman and Marlena's marriage. Furious over her mother's betrayal, Sami kidnapped Belle and tried to sell her on the black market, but Belle was returned to Marlena on Christmas Eve. Then there was Maison Blanche, an umbrella story featuring John, Marlena, Stefano, Bo, Hope, Billie, Celeste, Kristen, Tony and others that took place in New Orleans. He also wrote the infamous Possession story. Following that was Aremid, another umbrella story featuring John, Marlena, Kristen, Stefano, Jack, Jennifer, Peter, Lexie, Celeste and strange characters like the Lady in White and the Parrot Man. At Peter and Jennifer's wedding reception, Tony killed himself and framed John for his "murder," which resulted in John going to trial and nearly dying in the gas chamber. He also wrote the Sami/Austin/Carrie triangle, which went on for years. Sami did everything from drugging Austin into bed and crashing his wedding to Carrie to lying about Will's paternity and faking amnesia and paralysis to keep him and Carrie apart. Then there was Lady In A Cage, which featured John, Marlena, Stefano and Kristen. Driven by his obsession with Marlena, Stefano kidnapped his Queen of the Night and held her captive in a gilded cage under the streets of Paris. Finally, there was The Secret Room, which was the climax of the John/Marlena/Kristen triangle. |
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| Kenny | Jan 28 2012, 04:59 PM Post #32 |
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That wouldn't surprise me in the least. JER definitely held grudges. Look no further than Thaao Penghlis and Matt Ashford for proof, LoL. It wouldn't surprise me at all to learn that he tanked his second run on purpose to stick it to Corday for interfering with his stories. |
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| Kenny | Jan 28 2012, 05:04 PM Post #33 |
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I'm pretty sure they did. Wasn't there a rumor about JER storming out of a meeting with Corday in '05 or '06 after telling him to kiss his fat ass? LoL. |
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| lysie | Jan 28 2012, 05:06 PM Post #34 |
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Didn't he supposedly just refuse to keep writing around the summer of 2006? |
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| Kenny | Jan 28 2012, 05:08 PM Post #35 |
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That was the rumor at the time but I don't think it was ever confirmed. |
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| CarlD2 | Jan 28 2012, 05:15 PM Post #36 |
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Did JER ever say anything about his view of Laura? It seemed like she left only about 5-6 months after he did. I guess that was down to Jack and Jennifer also leaving, and he can't have seen her as that important since she never returned in his second run, but she's such a fascinating character and he was the only one who had her come back at all (not counting the cameo at Alice's funeral). |
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| Tom | Jan 28 2012, 09:11 PM Post #37 |
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It's unfortunate that he was so reclusive though, as I've read, because I kept hoping a relative or someone would eventually expose what his plan was for the original Salem SSK plot. But there may be NO one alive who can reveal that information, and that' svery sad. (Other than Corday, perhaps.) :frustration: |
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| darraholic | Jan 28 2012, 11:40 PM Post #38 |
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I think JER really did like Laura. Jaime Lynn Bauer was used quite a bit during JER`s 93-97 run. You had the Jack & Laura affair, Laura & Daniel Scott, Laura teaming up with Vivian to destroy Kate, Laura exposing Lucas`parentage, Peter gas lighting Laura. Stefano/Kristen/Peter kidnapping Laura and erasing her memory, Laura exposing Susan at the wedding and Laura was also a main suspect in Kristen's "death" during the Killing Pool storyline. |
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| Dreamy | Jan 29 2012, 01:43 AM Post #39 |
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Agreed. JER was wonderful at creating new & unpredictable s/l's but they were too long and not moving fast enough. |
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| PhoenixRising05 | Jan 29 2012, 02:42 AM Post #40 |
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This was when I liked JER. For me, he went downhill right after Maison Blanche. Things just started progressing more and more toward the absurd. The show lost that serious, gothic tone slowly and by the time late 1996 hit, it was all but gone. It's almost like the Possession story made JER feel like he constantly had to top himself with something more and more wacky. 1995-1997 is when all the things Peck is talking about really came into play. I actually think the stuff with JER and Sheri Anderson working together and JER's first year on his own is probably the best stuff ever on Days. Even Buried Alive came off far more seriously than the Possession did. I will say that Aremid and Paris weren't bad. Take out the stupid goggles and People Of The Night stuff and I would've liked it better. I liked Aremid alot but I always had this feeling there was more that could've been done there (perhaps because they hinted at more...I think that was setup for a potential spinoff as was rumored at the time). Other than those two stories, the rest was just shoddy writing IMO. Everything was based on characters being dumbed down and stupid misunderstandings. It's a shame JER never stuck with the kind of tone and style he had early on because I think I and many others would look back far more fondly on his reign. Then again, I'm not sure Days would be here if he hadn't done what he did. |
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