Topic Posted by: Wanda Wolek
Date Posted: Wed Apr 16 17:01:11 2008
Additional Comments: To do law work, background checks, or shine his shoes. Asa hated Sam with a passion.
Posted by: Blackjaxs Date posted: Fri Apr 18 13:54:02 2008
Message: Early on during Sam’s tenure on the show he did work for BE. Heck he even worked with Clint. I don’t remember the exact details of the story, but it was when he was dating Blair, and I remember he and Clint getting into a fight in his hotel room over Bo. I have the episodes, I may need to youtube them. But I hate to shine light on anything JFP. It did happen, but it was brief and insignificant.
Posted by: The Thinker Date posted: Thu Apr 17 17:24:56 2008
Message: So true, so true. It's classic OLTL revision and historical disregard.
Last I checked, the credits still say "Written by Gary Tomlin" so this is his doing, not Ron's.
From what I had read, Ron was unable to get re-writes of certain scenes on air because they were already too far along in production. From the sound of it, they didn't follow some of his story plans.
We'll start seeing his work again sometime in early May.
Hopefully, he'll be able to recover the show pretty quickly. I liked how he had been writing (the ideas, not rapidly throwing away storylines that he didn't want but still trying to give them some sort of ending).
Posted by: ladfan Date posted: Thu Apr 17 11:47:30 2008
Message: Wanda, THANK YOU!! That was my first reaction when Lindsay said that Asa hired Sam. First off, Asa woudl nevr hire Sam for anything. Secondly, Lindsay wouldn't magically be in possession of every single piece of information that Sam had as an attorney. Like another poster suggested, they could have gone the RJ route and said that RJ dug up dirt on those people.
Posted by: Tony Marino Date posted: Thu Apr 17 8:27:49 2008
Message: Wanda, didn't Asa used to call Sam and family the RappaDavidson's?? You are right about Asa hating Same but as a poster said below, RC probably had a tough time getting Lindsay back into the storylines.
Posted by: will vernon Date posted: Thu Apr 17 1:10:36 2008
Message: You're all right, but in this case I think it's ok. RC did it to put Lindsey into the story. And the story is a gem. The whole is very well constructed right now. Some of it is far fetched but that's soap opera. On the whole, OLTL deserves a lot of support from fans--this writer has worked very hard to fix all the stuff people hated and give back the real show. I only wish other soaps were so lucky.
Posted by: Rhonda Date posted: Wed Apr 16 22:37:14 2008
Message: Not only would Asa never hire Sam, Sam would never dig up dirt like some sleazy P.I. My recollection of the character was that he was Mr. Moral and Upright, part of the reason his marriage to Lindsay hit the skids.
ITA. I hate hate hate the way they rewrite history to fit current storylines. TPTB treat the viewers as though they think most just started watching the show yesterday. They do it so frequently and blatantly nowadays its seems like they really are trying to drive away their last fateful longtime viewers.
