Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 184403" data-attributes="member: 27">One of the (many) casualties of the tight-budget era of modern soaps is the Big, Splashy Wedding.&nbsp; Very, very few characters get one nowadays, and instead they get an elopement, a last-minute &quot;come as you are&quot; affair, or something bedside at a hospital--you know, the sort of &#039;cheap-out&#039; like we saw with Gary and Val.&nbsp; Even the biggest daytime couples draw maybe fifteen attendees in a chapel the size of a living room; no outside remotes, no special guest stars, no extras to fill up the pews in many cases.&nbsp; The poor bride is forced to wear an off-the-rack wedding dress! <img src="http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/scared/scared0011.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":yikey:" title="Yikey&nbsp; &nbsp; :yikey:" data-shortname=":yikey:" />&nbsp;If KL&#039;s fortunes had been on par with, say season five or even eight, there would have been more emphasis placed on making their re-marriage an &quot;event&quot;.&nbsp; CBS would likely have jumped on a publicity bandwagon and loosened the purse strings a bit more.&nbsp; As it was, I recall CBS&#039;s promos being more about it being the 300th episode than about &quot;OMG! Gary and Val remarry at last!!!&quot;&nbsp; I think TV Guide and especially Soap Opera Weekly were the ones who promoted the (cheap) wedding as it ought to have been promoted.&nbsp; Perhaps CBS was aware that if they hyped the re-marriage episode there would have been a lot of people criticizing the lack of frills/expense for a couple who deserved it.Granted, the big, splashy soap weddings are well known as the events soap actors hate the most, since it involves many late days/nights of filming for a relatively short series of scenes.&nbsp; So much emphasis on the wardrobe, the lighting, the set design--none of which really is an acting challenge per se, but eats up huge amounts of shooting time and budgets.&nbsp; Still, I think everyone would have been willing to do it for the couple everyone had been rooting for all that time, and lord knows the network could have milked the remarriage for its nostalgic quality alone to draw in many lapsed viewers (justifying the expense).&nbsp; I just think the show/the network could not justify such a financial outlay in their strained budget.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 184403, member: 27"] One of the (many) casualties of the tight-budget era of modern soaps is the Big, Splashy Wedding. Very, very few characters get one nowadays, and instead they get an elopement, a last-minute "come as you are" affair, or something bedside at a hospital--you know, the sort of 'cheap-out' like we saw with Gary and Val. Even the biggest daytime couples draw maybe fifteen attendees in a chapel the size of a living room; no outside remotes, no special guest stars, no extras to fill up the pews in many cases. The poor bride is forced to wear an off-the-rack wedding dress! :yikey: If KL's fortunes had been on par with, say season five or even eight, there would have been more emphasis placed on making their re-marriage an "event". CBS would likely have jumped on a publicity bandwagon and loosened the purse strings a bit more. As it was, I recall CBS's promos being more about it being the 300th episode than about "OMG! Gary and Val remarry at last!!!" I think [I]TV Guide[/I] and especially [I]Soap Opera Weekly[/I] were the ones who promoted the (cheap) wedding as it ought to have been promoted. Perhaps CBS was aware that if they hyped the re-marriage episode there would have been a lot of people criticizing the lack of frills/expense for a couple who deserved it. Granted, the big, splashy soap weddings are well known as the events soap actors hate the most, since it involves many late days/nights of filming for a relatively short series of scenes. So much emphasis on the wardrobe, the lighting, the set design--none of which really is an [I]acting[/I] challenge per se, but eats up huge amounts of shooting time and budgets. Still, I think everyone would have been willing to do it for the couple everyone had been rooting for all that time, and lord knows the network could have milked the remarriage for its nostalgic quality alone to draw in many lapsed viewers (justifying the expense). I just think the show/the network could not justify such a financial outlay in their strained budget. [/QUOTE]

Verification

Who played Sue Ellen in Dallas?