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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 109515" data-attributes="member: 27">That Ron Carlivati sense of (absurd) humor was what drew me to GH after OLTL was cancelled.&nbsp; I sense that if I were ever to head-write a soap, it would have the exact same feel.&nbsp; I am willing to suspend disbelief more than the average viewer if it&#039;s done cleverly, and I like being &quot;in on the joke&quot; the way he let viewers in on it when he threw in the more absurd plot elements.&nbsp; Even if the story is ridiculous, if it&#039;s written as if &quot;Yeah,&nbsp; I know it&#039;s stupid, but here&#039;s some gags and a few in-jokes to keep you from feeling insulted,&quot; then I&#039;m forgiving.Current GH is basically humorless, except certain scriptwriters who drop occasional jokes into that day&#039;s episode.&nbsp; The over-arching plot direction doesn&#039;t have that &quot;flair&quot; that it had when Carlivati understood entertaining the audience is more important than following a playbook of plot clichés.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 109515, member: 27"] That Ron Carlivati sense of (absurd) humor was what drew me to GH after OLTL was cancelled. I sense that if I were ever to head-write a soap, it would have the exact same feel. I am willing to suspend disbelief more than the average viewer if it's done cleverly, and I like being "in on the joke" the way he let viewers in on it when he threw in the more absurd plot elements. Even if the story is ridiculous, if it's written as if "Yeah, I know it's stupid, but here's some gags and a few in-jokes to keep you from feeling insulted," then I'm forgiving. Current GH is basically humorless, except certain scriptwriters who drop occasional jokes into that day's episode. The over-arching plot direction doesn't have that "flair" that it had when Carlivati understood entertaining the audience is more important than following a playbook of plot clichés. [/QUOTE]

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