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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 352171" data-attributes="member: 27">This &quot;islanding&quot; of characters is a problem on all the soaps due to the production model that has evolved in the past fifteen or so years.&nbsp; Because certain characters usually end up in stories together (&quot;on their island&quot;), they interact with each other to the exception of everyone else.&nbsp; A group of actors will film blocks of scenes together (usually on the same set) to be dropped into multiple episodes rather than the old model of a complete script being done with all the participating actors reporting to work.&nbsp; The old model allowed a lot more interaction between the whole cast, but the new model saves a lot of money.This is also why viewers get so excited when they see characters from different &quot;islands&quot; crossing paths.&nbsp; Whether the show is doing a &quot;chemistry test&quot; between the two characters or it&#039;s just filler for a script, it&#039;s immediately noticed when you have two or more characters interacting who should know one another (living in the same small town, perhaps with friends and relatives in common) but are rarely if ever seen in the same scene.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 352171, member: 27"] This "islanding" of characters is a problem on all the soaps due to the production model that has evolved in the past fifteen or so years. Because certain characters usually end up in stories together ("on their island"), they interact with each other to the exception of everyone else. A group of actors will film blocks of scenes together (usually on the same set) to be dropped into multiple episodes rather than the old model of a complete script being done with all the participating actors reporting to work. The old model allowed a lot more interaction between the whole cast, but the new model saves a lot of money. This is also why viewers get so excited when they see characters from different "islands" crossing paths. Whether the show is doing a "chemistry test" between the two characters or it's just filler for a script, it's immediately noticed when you have two or more characters interacting who [I]should[/I] know one another (living in the same small town, perhaps with friends and relatives in common) but are rarely if ever seen in the same scene. [/QUOTE]

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