PASSIONS LITE
When Galen Gering and Eric Martsolf were hired onto the show at the same time that our beloved vets were being given their last paychecks, I preached left and right that DAYS was turning into PASSIONS LITE, PASSIONS THE SEQUEL, PASSIONS II. Whatever the fuck you want to call it. And did people listen to me? No. I got lectures about how it was time for the vets to go…how DAYS needed change and new blood…how soaps go through these cycles all the time…and blah blah blah. And now, SOD has reported that Felicia Terrell (Arianna) is going to be replaced by Lindsay Hartley (ex-Teresa from PASSIONS). And here’s the kicker. Lindsay will be playing a character where Galen Gering is once again playing her brother and Eric Martsolf is again playing her love interest! Are you fools listening to me now? Do you finally get it?!
Now don’t get me wrong, I am no fan of Felicia Terrell. She managed to suck all the oxygen out of every scene she was in with her sarcastic smirks and her whining. My theory is that the DAYS casting department has to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find actresses that will actually make Molly Burnette and Nadia Bjorlin look good in comparison. And by the way, I have no idea who those two actresses are screwing to have such star power on DAYS…but I digress…
Gary Tomlin, the REAL Tsar of DAYS now, will not rest until he has managed to take a long-lasting beloved soap that has lasted for years and morph it into PASSIONS, a show that was written by his BFF James E. Reilly (lovingly known here as JERk) and was mercifully canceled. Where is the logic in this? If PASSIONS didn’t work the first time, why would it work now?
At least with the upcoming returns of Crystal Chappell, Wally Kurth, Kevin Spirtas and Louise Sorel, I will have the opportunity to recall that long-lost forgotten show. What was its name again? Oh yeah. DAYS OF OUR LIVES!
Not only didn't Passions work the first time, it didn't work the second time either. Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't it cancelled by Direct TV after they had picked it up after NBC's cancellation? I guess the real question is, how long will it take 'Days' to follow suite?
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I can't believe Passions lasted as long as it did. It was horrible. The actors and actresses on the show were horrible too!
ReplyDeleteI hated Passions, with the exception of Eric Martsolf. I do like him as the recast of Brady. The "actor" GG is just a joke. He is swallowing DOOL whole and turning the show into FF material. I don't really care about Lindsay Hartley. Some say she can act. Some say she overacts. Who cares? FT was not a very good actress but it seems to me she was treated like dog crap. The biggest mistake was writing the character to be the sister of a hunk of wood. She has only existed to harp and prop the wood.
ReplyDeleteI don't want PassionsLite, heavy or in any form. I want DOOL.
NBC kept P*SSonit around because they wanted the teen fans. No other network would have kept that show beyond one or two years without canceling it or firing JERk and forcing it to be more like a normal soap. It was even a bad supernatural soap. DARK SHADOWS did the supernatural thing but at least kept elements of soap and did not hate soaps and soap fans like JERk did.
ReplyDeleteI still think were JERk alive he would have been hired, but without him NBC forced Corday to get the second worst thing, his protégé Tomlin.
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ReplyDeleteThis is just fucking unbelievable. Corday has really lost his marbles to allow this to go on. The ghost of Reilly must be talking to Tomlin and Higley. Just wait till Tommy Bear comes to life and will Vivian be coming back as a witch prehaps? Oh god please don't screw with the character of Auntie Viv. Ok FT sucked and I can understand them getting rid of her but why the hell did they hire her in the first place? I do like Eric. He is a better Brady than Kyle and he is a cutie besides. GG is just plain boring. Maybe this Passions reunion will light a fire under GG'a ass, but I doubt it. Still anything is better than Danloe and Kate.
ReplyDeleteI just can't wait to see Nadia Bjorlin and Lindsey Hartley, one who under acts and the other who over acts, in scenes fighting over Brathen, crying about FATE.
ReplyDeleteThe rumors are true, NBC wants out of daytime and is doing everything in it's power to make sure DAYS goes the way of Passions, into the toilet.
Stick a fork in it, DAYS is done.
ReplyDeleteAttempting to revive DAYS by using a dreadful couple from a bad soap isn't going to get DAYS anywhere but cancelled.
Such a pathetic ending to a once great soap.
Here's something to think about, I wonder with change from moving away of the vets to pushing younger guys like GG and EM has to do with Tomlin trying to live out his gay fantasies since I read that Tomlin is gay and seems to have a liking for EM and GG upper body?
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