I think we told a fantastic story. Of course we feel like there's always more places it could go. We told an incredible story. It got a lot of great reactions, maybe one or two not so great ones from people who are closed-minded. Now we're done and moving on and I'm excited to see what's next in store for me.
its not over..
ReplyDelete:( the kish fans will keep fighting. we are showing oltl this was a horrible decision. but i dont blame scott/brett for saying they are moving on, they have to look to their future and not the past. unfortunately kish is the past for them.
ReplyDeleteScott Evans is claiming that only closeminded (therefore homophobic) people didn't like Kish. He's acting as closeminded as the homophobes he's critiquing. Evans should realize that not everyone who doesn't like Kish is automatically closeminded (which is his word for homophobic).
ReplyDeleteI'm a queer male fan of soaps since my childhood, I thought only Claywell was ok in Kish, not Evans bec of Evans's unconvincing, awful portrayal. I thought Nuke and Otalia had good moments, I really liked Bianca's coming out on AMC since the writing was great and Reigel brought a sensitivity to the role. Reigel was great with Lucci, and she would have won earlier had it not been for B&B's Jennifer Finnigan.
Scott Evans needs to realize that some people who were open to the storyline of Kish got turned off by the political overtones, Carlivati's writing and Evans's goofy, distracting acting.
I got the sense Scott was talking more about the letters they received at the show or him personally. And I would imagine if he said they were closed-minded it was probably pretty hateful.
ReplyDeleteI thought Scott's portrayal of Fish was extraordinary. I will miss him dearly.
Gay male here. Lifelong soap fan.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed Scott from the very beginning when he was primarily there for comic relief. But when the coming out story began, it took a while for me to adjust to Scott playing heavy drama. But Scott grew into it nicely. I came to admire his performance and love the story.
That said, the mass gay wedding was over the top, especially Dorian claiming to be a lesbian just to win votes! That storyline came out of nowhere and dominated the show for a few weeks. And it was way too preachy at times. I can certainly see why it turned off some viewers, especially the more conservative ones.
I'm very disappointed the show is abandonning the Kish storyline. Seems like there are so many places they could go wiht the characters.
I'm with "lonely" on this one. I liked Claywell and will miss him. Loved his relationship with Roxy. But Evans? His next thing to do would be taking acting lessons. His portrayal of Fish was god-awful. And even though I'm a straight female, I am not close-minded about the gay story line. I just don't like actors that can't act.
ReplyDeleteI agree with lonely and Sally. I am a heterosexual female who has watched soaps for 32 years. I have embraced and supported all of the same sex storylines on daytime. Even when the storylines would reach really idiotic plot points, I could always fall back on "at least the actors are bringing it" until the Kish storyline. I am sorry but Scott Evans has no appeal whatsoever in this storyline. I honestly think the audience was probably split on his performance also. I just never bought into this storyline which the daytime bloggers tout as "the greatest gay storyline ever" because he never made me believe anything that he was going through. I feel really bad for this fanbase but honestly as a viewer I am not going to miss them.
ReplyDeleteDani, Daytime bloggers proclaimed that Kish was "the greatest gay storyline ever" bec of the bias for Kish from the beginning since half of Kish is acted by an openly gay actor and Kish is written by Daytime's lone out headwriter.
ReplyDeleteMost of the routinely updated Daytime blogs are run by openly gay males who seem really starved for male on male storylines in Daytime. So they were willing to heavily promote Kish despite Evans's subpar, craptastic perfromances in critical junctures of the storyline (Fish's coming out, Kish love scene, Fish complaining about homophobia at the popo headquarters).
All they need to do is look at Primetime which has launched successful same sex pairings. It's not homophobia that sunk Kish. People are open to same sex rel storylines provided they're written well and acted even better.
Scott Evans has been outstanding throughout. He brought so much depth to the role of Oliver Fish. There have been very few actual gay love stories developed on daytime. In fact, has there ever been another gay couple we got to see their relationship develop and then got a real love scene between them. Bianca and Reese had a love scene but they fell in love off camera. Kish was a landmark story and it's too bad ABC chickened out. They were my main draw to the show, especially Scott's wonderful performances.
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