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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 367674" data-attributes="member: 27">Unlike most soaps, Search for Tomorrow was created to be centered around a single character--Mary Stuart&#039;s character of Joanne.&nbsp; It was quite a feat to have both Joanne AND Mary Stuart remain with the show until the final scene 35 years later.&nbsp; Joanne (Jo) was not front and center every day (no one could have endured that) but she was a sort of touchstone for the series and Stuart was one of the most well-known actresses in soaps not only because of her longevity, but because Jo was a very root-able character.&nbsp; There were plenty of other characters worthy of note over the decades, so if for some reason you had no use for Jo, there were plenty of other actors and characters to tune in to see.&nbsp;&nbsp; If I had to characterize this soap using the POV of a modern viewer, I&#039;d call it &quot;gentle&quot; and &quot;quiet&quot; for the most part, while some might call that &quot;boring&quot; due to ever-decreasing attention spans.&nbsp; It was more Ryan&#039;s Hope than The Edge of Night.&nbsp; After SFT moved to NBC in 1982 they tried to &quot;juice it up&quot; a bit but even then it wasn&#039;t ridiculously out-of-character.&nbsp; They had a very well-received plot where Jo was kidnapped and held hostage by a nutcase named Vargas (played by John Glover, an actor who is no stranger to playing creepy villains), and the aforementioned flood that wiped out most of the town and allowed them to build a lot of new sets and do a soft reboot of the show.&nbsp; Frankly I was glad they stuck mostly to their signature style and went down with their heads held high---rather than becoming something they weren&#039;t in an effort to grab attention.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 367674, member: 27"] Unlike most soaps,[I] Search for Tomorrow[/I] was created to be centered around a single character--Mary Stuart's character of Joanne. It was quite a feat to have both Joanne AND Mary Stuart remain with the show until the final scene 35 years later. Joanne (Jo) was not front and center every day (no one could have endured that) but she was a sort of touchstone for the series and Stuart was one of the most well-known actresses in soaps not only because of her longevity, but because Jo was a very root-able character. There were plenty of other characters worthy of note over the decades, so if for some reason you had no use for Jo, there were plenty of other actors and characters to tune in to see. If I had to characterize this soap using the POV of a modern viewer, I'd call it "gentle" and "quiet" for the most part, while some might call that "boring" due to ever-decreasing attention spans. It was more [I]Ryan's Hope[/I] than [I]The Edge of Night. [/I]After SFT moved to NBC in 1982 they tried to "juice it up" a bit but even then it wasn't ridiculously out-of-character. They had a very well-received plot where Jo was kidnapped and held hostage by a nutcase named Vargas (played by John Glover, an actor who is no stranger to playing creepy villains), and the aforementioned flood that wiped out most of the town and allowed them to build a lot of new sets and do a soft reboot of the show. Frankly I was glad they stuck mostly to their signature style and went down with their heads held high---rather than becoming something they weren't in an effort to grab attention. [/QUOTE]

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