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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 84158" data-attributes="member: 27">CBS attempted to do a daytime soap in the early 1980s called Capitol, which involved two feuding politically-connected families.&nbsp; It had similar problems to what [USER=22]@James from London[/USER] says about Emerald Point.&nbsp; Though one could buy that these families were rich and powerful, they could not depict such simple details as which political parties the main players belonged to (leading to such over-used lines as &quot;The party bosses say we can&#039;t do this,&quot; or &quot;The party won&#039;t support that&quot;), and though they were supposedly &quot;connected,&quot; the writers could not drop names of real politicians or power-brokers into scripts to make it sound more realistic.&nbsp; One character was a congressman, but he never spoke of what bills he&#039;d voted on that day, or what had gone on in the House chambers that day--the sort of stuff we saw on the news and knew was going on.&nbsp; Like most soap characters, his job didn&#039;t seem to interfere with his storylines (usually involving his comparatively dull romantic pursuits).&nbsp;&nbsp; It was like they had to develop an alt-reality Washington DC that these people functioned in, which took so much of the &quot;edge&quot; off the premise.RDA had every reason to be optimistic and excited about Emerald Point--it allowed him to escape General Hospital!--but we have to keep in mind that if EP had not been cancelled, he would not have moved on to the starring role in MacGyver, which was arguably his most famous role.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 84158, member: 27"] CBS attempted to do a daytime soap in the early 1980s called [I]Capitol, [/I]which involved two feuding politically-connected families. It had similar problems to what [USER=22]@James from London[/USER] says about [I]Emerald Point[/I]. Though one could buy that these families were rich and powerful, they could not depict such simple details as which political parties the main players belonged to (leading to such over-used lines as "The party bosses say we can't do this," or "The party won't support that"), and though they were supposedly "connected," the writers could not drop names of real politicians or power-brokers into scripts to make it sound more realistic. One character was a congressman, but he never spoke of what bills he'd voted on that day, or what had gone on in the House chambers that day--the sort of stuff we saw on the news and knew was going on. Like most soap characters, his job didn't seem to interfere with his storylines (usually involving his comparatively dull romantic pursuits). It was like they had to develop an alt-reality Washington DC that these people functioned in, which took so much of the "edge" off the premise. RDA had every reason to be optimistic and excited about[I] Emerald Point[/I]--it allowed him to escape [I]General Hospital!--[/I]but we have to keep in mind that if EP had not been cancelled, he would not have moved on to the starring role in [I]MacGyver[/I], which was arguably his most famous role. [/QUOTE]

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