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| thepadange | Jun 4 2014, 04:35 AM Post #21 |
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Just a random speculation. There was this blind item (on DC) loooong:) ago: "This sexy East Coast hunk is finally making the leap out west. Seems the stud with quite the royal surname wants to be where the action is." People were speculating this could be Ted King (Theodore William King). Might he be the one joining "Days"? |
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| Yoryla | Jun 4 2014, 04:49 AM Post #22 |
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Man that cast chart from 1987 looks great. Genie Francis... one of my all time favorites ever... :wub2: I didn't know Suzanne Rogers had been on recurring at some point by the way. I kinda like this DA. But I have to wonder, isn't there only one DA at a time? I mean, how are they gonna explain Trask not being there and then being there again later? Man that stunt man looks good :blulaugh: Kinda funny how Rafe and John can have the same stunt man lol. Guess that means he's gonna be beaten up again, oy........... |
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| Yoryla | Jun 4 2014, 04:54 AM Post #23 |
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Well, yeah, but they shouldn't be. I mean, their casts are extremely big and that's one of the reasons why Days is the best one out of all the four, that they have the right cast size... |
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| Yoryla | Jun 4 2014, 04:56 AM Post #24 |
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A new contract cast member? Really? Yeah I'm sorry but I don't see how there was any need for this... especially if it has to do with Jafe... that ship has already sailed by a mile and the writers should just drop it already.... |
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| thepadange | Jun 4 2014, 06:43 AM Post #25 |
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This had to be Eve's debut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQLWVuP-b8Y I don't exactly remember my feelings about it from when it aired (I don't know why) but I found this episode really heartbreaking when I rewatched it on YT a couple of years ago): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5CNrtYk7Fo Edited by thepadange, Jun 4 2014, 06:47 AM.
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| thepadange | Jun 4 2014, 07:17 AM Post #26 |
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Not that I could compare 1987 with any of the previous years of DOOL (when I first started watching the show they were airing episodes from 1987 on German TV in 1993) but that was a great year, IMO . And I loved :wub2: Genie with Drake on "Days", they had such an amazing chemistry :wub2: , IMO . |
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| Sindacco | Jun 4 2014, 07:36 AM Post #27 |
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Because they have different DAs for different cases. |
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| Hugo | Jun 4 2014, 07:49 AM Post #28 |
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I noticed Blake Berris was back in the credits this week. Can we expect another appearance or is it just a mistake? EDIT: Nevermind, he was also in the credits of the past few weeks. I thought I read somewhere he was removed immediately after Nick's death. Edited by Hugo, Jun 4 2014, 07:57 AM.
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| thepadange | Jun 4 2014, 07:57 AM Post #29 |
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They say (casting call etc) that Melinda Trask is a special prosecutor. |
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| thepadange | Jun 4 2014, 08:34 AM Post #30 |
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If we can trust SOC, Y&R has 30 actors playing contract roles, GH - 33. Days - 27(? SOC lists 28, KDP included). GH has an extremely long list of actors playing recurring roles. Edited by thepadange, Jun 4 2014, 10:51 AM.
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| blueskies | Jun 4 2014, 09:02 AM Post #31 |
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i don't watch the other shows but everytime i hear about GH's cast i feel like they have double the number Days does. Then again from what I can tell they write actual storylines for their recurring characters and not just "pop-up John" them all. |
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| thepadange | Jun 4 2014, 10:57 AM Post #32 |
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I have a soft spot for "Days" but IMO the way they use their cast is extremely unbalanced. About 1/3 of the characters played by contract actors don't even have a D-story (I won't even begin about recurring roles). They definitely need more storylines with more people involved at the same time to hold viewers' interest. I don't know what their problem is - lack of creativity perhaps? |
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| Jason47 | Jun 4 2014, 12:08 PM Post #33 |
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Blake hasn't been in the NBC credits since the week of 5/5-5/9. Those are the credits I use since that's the feed I watch. The Days credits on NBC.com might differ a little. Blake's done with the show and won't be appearing again, other than in flashbacks. |
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| Jason47 | Jun 4 2014, 12:09 PM Post #34 |
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We have 28 on contract as of the end of June, when you subtract Camila Banus and add in Kassie DePaiva and "Clyde." |
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| Jason47 | Jun 4 2014, 12:11 PM Post #35 |
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When Suzanne returned in 1985 after her year dealing with myasthenia gravis, "Days" didn't offer her a contract for her first 3 years back, so she was recurring from 1985-1988. |
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| Jason47 | Jun 4 2014, 01:47 PM Post #36 |
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JASON47'S FROM THE VAULT: THE "DAYS OF OUR LIVES" PROPOSAL...ALICE HORTON Posted Image Pictured above: The three faces of Alice Horton...Mary K. Wells, who turned down the role since she was based on the East Coast; Mary Jackson, who played Alice in the first pilot, and Frances Reid, who became the only Alice "Days" fans ever knew. Here's how Alice Horton was described in Ted Corday's proposal for "Days of Our Lives"... Tom's wife, ALICE, is still a strikingly handsome woman. It is easy to believe that she turned down the offers of more than one wealthy young man in order to marry Tom. Alice had the normal American girl's dreams of comfort and affluence when she married Tom Horton. Even then, as a young ball player, he was making more money than the average family doctor. Alice understood that the time and the earnings Tom invested in his medical studies were both investments in the family's future. The Horton family never missed a meal, or a mortgage payment. Neither did they ever move out of the rambling frame house the young ball player-medical student bought for his bride. The Horton family has never been able to afford the luxuries enjoyed by the wives and children of most of the other doctors Alice knew. At first, Tom's lack of 'practical' values was the cause of great distress to Alice. She resented his failure to 'get ahead' - but, being Alice, she kept these resentments to herself. Later, as her children began to grow up, and some of them began to complain that other doctors' children had more good things than they had, Alice found herself defending Tom with all her heart and soul. In her own mind, Tom had become a noble, visionary creature to whom science and academic honors would always mean more than money. She loved and respected him for it - but she was not about to let any of her children grow up to be as 'impractical' as their wonderful father. She was going to give her children 'firmer goals' in life, 'stronger values.' 'Values' mean different things for Tom and Alice. To Tom, values are things moral, spiritual, and intellectual; one exists to give of oneself to life and to all people, strangers and brothers, who share this life. To Alice, values are tangibles measured by the yardsticks of the marker place: life consists of taking all that life and other people can be forced to yield. However, she is not a taker for her own sake: for herself, she is quite content, but for her family she wants money, prestige, comfort, security. Alice would be truly astounded if she ever found out that, deep down, she and Tom want the same things. Above all things, Alice wants her children to be 'practical.' Tom has never learned how to be 'practical,' and Alice rarely tries to 'keep his feet on the ground' as she used to when they were first married. Tom is forever bringing home impractical and wildly extravagant gifts for his wife and his children and his grandchildren. The fact is, as their daughter MARIE once observed - that, in proportion to his income, Tom has probably spent more money buying gifts for his wife than any doctor in Salem City. Alice kicks up a fuss with each such display of Tom's extravagance - but she is also frank to admit that she would miss them if Tom 'reformed.' Now, in the third decade of their marriage, Alice is Tom's most ardent defender - against the world beyond the family circle. She feels he is entitled to far more honors, respect, and fame than he has yet received - and, in her own way, she does what she can to make the world look up to her husband, On their 30th wedding anniversary, one of their children proposed a toast that summed up the story of their lives together. It ran: "Here's to the marriage that never was supposed to happen, never supposed to last, never supposed to bring a moment of happiness to either of its partners - and this child of that marriage will go to his grave swearing that never has there been a happier marriage in the whole cockeyed history of matrimony." The Hortons have brought five children into the world... (Coming soon, find out the first descriptions of the Horton kids!) Edited by Jason47, Jun 4 2014, 01:48 PM.
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| Yoryla | Jun 4 2014, 01:57 PM Post #37 |
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Oh okay lol :D Didn't know that :D |
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| Yoryla | Jun 4 2014, 02:04 PM Post #38 |
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Yeah GH basically has 40 to 50 cast members on average, since they have about 30 on contract on another 30 on recurring, but usually many of their front burner characters are actually from the recurring side, and also they have a lot of coming and going movement aswell, which I think is a mistake because people want to know who the players are and it's impossible to care or get invested when you don't even know who belong in the cast and who not and who is coming and who is going. They also cannot tell real good proper storylines with layers and beats played because they don't have the time. They have way too many storylines and characters and sometimes one storyline is seen like one day in two weeks and many of the things also happen off-screen. It's horrible storytelling imo and a badly structured soap. Also the same things apply to a little bit smaller scale to Y&R, over there the problem is mostly that it is deadly boring, the characters are horrible and uninteresting and their focus is on all the wrong characters, there's way too many people who should only be recurring or supporting being pushed as leads whilst the real leads are nowhere to be seen, also the recasting is horrible there, most of the faces are unrecognizable there. Horrid show. |
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| Yoryla | Jun 4 2014, 02:11 PM Post #39 |
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Actually, what I would do is that I would take down the cast size a bit, not hire any newbies, and tighten the storylines. They need to be more consistent with a beginning, a middle and an end. Also, I would make it so that there two main A-storylines which can interchange with each other, A B-storyline, a C-, a D- and an E- So basically at the maximum about six storylines at once, that is enough to encompass the whole cast of characters which should be around 25 people at the maximum. And also if need be they could expand the other A-storyline to become an umbrella storyline encompassing some of the other smaller storylines or people from within them, or in the most specials of cases they could unite the two main A-storylines to become a big giant umbrella for a while, say for like a reveal or a big party of sorts. lol :D |
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| Mean, Mean, Mean! | Jun 4 2014, 05:12 PM Post #40 |
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Thanks for your work Jason! ...It kinda bugs me that the writers used "Marlena Black". She never changed her name before from Evans because of her Patients, so why should this marriage be different? |
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