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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 404857" data-attributes="member: 27"><p>James Reilly (the Head Writer) was trying to push the limits of the genre through assorted crazy stories like this during his <em>Days</em> tenure. There was a feeling of "Wow, that was quite a story...now what do we do to top it?" and the network was egging him on because stories like that DID create short-term buzz. It actually hurt soaps as a whole, since other soaps were soon being pressured to do OTT stuff like that in the name of publicity/ratings. And of course Reilly's wacky reputation led to him creating <em>Passions </em>to take the OTT-ness to spoof/satire levels of ridiculousness.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 404857, member: 27"] James Reilly (the Head Writer) was trying to push the limits of the genre through assorted crazy stories like this during his [I]Days[/I] tenure. There was a feeling of "Wow, that was quite a story...now what do we do to top it?" and the network was egging him on because stories like that DID create short-term buzz. It actually hurt soaps as a whole, since other soaps were soon being pressured to do OTT stuff like that in the name of publicity/ratings. And of course Reilly's wacky reputation led to him creating [I]Passions [/I]to take the OTT-ness to spoof/satire levels of ridiculousness. [/QUOTE]
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