It’s Claywell’s acting which carried this pairing, but OLTL pimped the wrong guy. OLTL clearly tried to capitalize on him by casting his mother (talk about nepotism), using his out status (courtesy of his famous brother) and his famous last name to garner press for Kish. Evans made the rounds solo (instinct, welovesoaps, out, advocate) and with Claywell (this website). Claywell is the far better actor, but OLTL thought Evans would generate more interest, and thus more ratings, based on his background. It’s interesting that Bierdz (ex-Philip, Y&R) and Evans are 2 out actors who ironically can’t bring any authenticity to gay male roles. The soaps should cast talent over out status when casting for actors to play lgbtq roles.

Carlivati’s writing: Where to begin? Kish never seemed to come from an organic place. They seemed to be thrown together and a frat backstory was created (probably Carlivati’s fantasy, LOL). The political issues like mass same sex unions is just not kosher, and to have it on a frothy soap, it doesn’t work. But the mass wedding and Dorian’s scheme were integral for Fish to come out, for Kish to declare their love, and to be topical (Prop 8, homophobia) while being a first on Daytime to have mass same sex unions. Kish was too tied to these political issues. It also didn’t help that Kish isn’t from a core family, unlike ATWT’s Luke, or related to the leading lady character of the soap, like AMC’s Bianca.

I don’t think Carlivati and Valentini will be blamed by the soap press for Kish since they’re never blamed for anything that doesn’t work on OLTL. They’re pretty much untouchable, especially Carlivati, regardless of Stacy. I don’t think TVG’s Michael Logan, Nelson Branco, the gays that run welovesoaps, etc would ever criticize Carlivati, the only out gay headwriter, for the Kish fiasco. So yes the writing, meaning Carlivati, is to blame for the political overtones of Kish. TVG’s Logan’s “gay overkill” comment is probably the closest thing to indirectly calling out Carlivati’s bad writing for Kish, but now everyone’s screaming off w/ Brian Frons’s head and ABC’s homophobic. If that were true, there’d be no Bianca on AMC or no Kish to begin with on OLTL.

How can people say Kish is being used as “scapegoats” when Crystal Hunt was fired first? Stacy was written out before Kish. They’re getting rid of storylines and characters that don’t work, so Kish isn’t being made to be the scapegoats and Kish isn’t being “victimized” by the network and by homophobes. They and Stacy were given storylines, those storylines didn’t translate to ratings, so they’re out.

Soaps can make gay characters work. But they need to cast good actors. If the soap press should “go after” anyone, it’s Brad Bell. He has autonomy, he’s EP and Headwriter, he owns B&B, it’s the number 1 soap on the planet, he can do whatever he wants on B&B, and Bell has never written a gay char. Yet it’s set in LA and in the fashion business! How ridiculous is that? B&B has never been good with racial or sexual diversity, but no one dares to take Brad Bell to task in the soap media bec he’s a Bell and he has power. Brad Bell’s tired excuse is the 30 minute format. If he had the balls to make Felicia bisexual, w/c the show has hinted at in the past, a same sex rel would work bec LK’s a great actress. Kim Zimmer was rumored to join B&B in a role w/c would pair her with SF. LK being paired with KZ would most likely be a hit with the audience bec KZ and LK can rise above any crap Brad Bell writes.LK and KZ are talented unlike Evans.

Shame on the network for blaming their poor ratings on Kish and not having the decency to tell the actors before breaking the news. Brett and Scott have created a life long fan and I hope they will continue to far greater things as their talents are too precious to be wasted!

I surfed the internet yesterday and realized there was a LOT of those companies and subsidiaries that could be boycotted or flooded with e-mails. Just go to the following website :
corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/overview.html

Since Big Brother Mickey is soooo unproud of a gay family storyline, make him realize you’re not out anymore, you’re in for the fight and the glory of KISH !

One of the things that made the Kyle/Oliver relationship so believable was the friendship between Scott and Brett, which was on display here. Gutted doesn’t even begin to describe how I feel about the decision to end this amazing journey with two fantastic actors. I loved both their comments about the show, and their great chemistry.

I wish Scott and Brett the best, and wherever they go next–onwards and upwards–I’ll be following.