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<blockquote data-quote="James from London" data-source="post: 31845" data-attributes="member: 22">Yes. For years, I&#039;d always assumed Peyton Place was a daytime soap (i.e, painfully slow and probably crap) and then, in the &#039;90s I think, I caught a scene between Alison and Rodney when the show was being repeated on cable in the UK and I thought, &quot;well, even if this is a painfully slow daytime soap, if they fill up the time with scenes as beautifully written and acted as this, then I wanna see more&quot;. It was years and years till I did see more and came to realise that it wasn&#039;t a daytime soap at all, yet it still had that quality of the scene itself being well-crafted and all-important. You get that with the British (evening) soaps when they&#039;re at their best as well -- a scene isn&#039;t just about advancing the plot, it&#039;s about exploring the relationships between that particular combination of characters in that particular room at the particular time. PP was full of that. Maybe it&#039;s something do with the pacing of a year round evening soap -- you&#039;ve got your plots to advance but you&#039;ve also got time to check in with and examine your characters.Yes!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="James from London, post: 31845, member: 22"] Yes. For years, I'd always assumed P[I]eyton Place [/I]was a daytime soap (i.e, painfully slow and probably crap) and then, in the '90s I think, I caught a scene between Alison and Rodney when the show was being repeated on cable in the UK and I thought, "well, even if this [I]is[/I] a painfully slow daytime soap, if they fill up the time with scenes as beautifully written and acted as this, then I wanna see more". It was years and years till I did see more and came to realise that it wasn't a daytime soap at all, yet it still had that quality of [I]the scene[/I] [I]itself[/I] being well-crafted and all-important. You get that with the British (evening) soaps when they're at their best as well -- a scene isn't just about advancing the plot, it's about exploring the relationships between that particular combination of characters in that particular room at the particular time. PP was full of that. Maybe it's something do with the pacing of a year round evening soap -- you've got your plots to advance but you've also got time to check in with and examine your characters. Yes! [/QUOTE]

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