One Life To Live Discussion Group -- NOT AN AVID OLTL WATCHER..WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING

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Topic: NOT AN AVID OLTL WATCHER..WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING

Topic Posted by: vampyrslayer
Date Posted: Fri May 9 20:01:04 2008
Additional Comments: I more a GH fan, but I have to say I happened to tune into the episodes with Snoop Dogg..first of all, that remixed opening of his was just beyond WHACK!!!! And the backstory with Bo..unbelievable..who came up with that crap?? And I thought GH was a sinking ship these days!!!!! Whats the point of Snoop even being on OLTL..is he a big fan of the show, like MJB was..I wonder how much they paid for him...they should get their money back

Posted by: gemini
Date posted: Sat May 10 9:35:31 2008
Message:

Actually the backstory with Bo was real. Bo used to produce a soap opera called "fraternity Row".

Snoop was on The View a few weeks ago & said that he grew up watching OLTL & Bo Buchanan was his favorite character & was excited about being on the show.

Longtime viewers of OLTL knows that this show always has had musical talents of the time going back to the 80's with Peabo Bryson, & the 90's with Erika Badu & others. After watching this weeks shows & all the campiness of yesterday it's reminiscent of what OLTL had been before Higley came & almost destroyed. This is the OLTL I remember.

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Bo's backstory isn't what I think viewers are having a hard time swallowing. It's the suggestion that Snoop Dogg got his ''big break'' from Bo. It frankly sounds ridiculous. Daytime soaps & gangster rap, especially back then, I would have to say ''apples & oranges'' to that. The made-up backstory regarding Snoop Dogg - actually everything that had anything to do with his entire stunt casting - came off as lame and distracting. ~Soaker

The OP said she's not an avid OLTL watcher. Which too me means she doesn't know that yrs ago Bo was in the entertainment industry so the backstory didn't make sense to her. But in fact it wasn't made up at all. And for all we know Snoop could have had a role on FR & Bo introduced him to someone in the music industry. That's not farfetched. I don't think it was ridiculous at all. I don't particularly care for Snoop's music or any other rap but I don't have a problem with them suggesting that Bo as a producer had helped Snoop..Sorry I just don't see the big deal. Higley yrs were a big deal to me. OLTL was unrecognizable. But this few minutes of dialgue that gave a nod to history was not....G

Well, I'm totally biased, because I think the whole stunt-casting of Snoop Dogg and anything / everything connected to it (backstory alterations, opening theme revision) was ridiculous by consequence. I figured that may be where the OP is coming from, as well: That a minor history alteration isn't so out of whack, but that it has to do with ''Snoop Dogg'' is what made it lame. ~Soaker

Posted by: Mamba
Date posted: Fri May 9 20:38:08 2008
Message:

I saw the vid of the opening online. Yeah, totally lame.

Anyone notice how OLTL likes to bring on Black singers and rappers but refuses to write for or keep Black characters. Best pandering since politics. Let's assume the audience is stupid.

OLTL is totally full of shyte.