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Old 05-14-2013, 08:02 AM   #1
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Default Poorly-made roles in TV history

- Screech Powers in all the Saved By The Bell shows. It was also put into a difficult-made original class.

- David Tiant in Greetings From Tucson. The 15-year-old role cannot be played well by an actor, who has an 11-year-old personality.

Those writers and producers, who made these types of roles very poorly, may have panicked and should be charged. Those actors had suffered very bad lives after their acting career ended.
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Old 05-14-2013, 01:38 PM   #4
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- Screech Powers in all the Saved By The Bell shows. It was also put into a difficult-made original class.

- David Tiant in Greetings From Tucson. The 15-year-old role cannot be played well by an actor, who has an 11-year-old personality.

Those writers and producers, who made these types of roles very poorly, may have panicked and should be charged. Those actors had suffered very bad lives after their acting career ended.

His role was portrayed just fine IMO (Except in later year on The New Class). I thought he was funny on the original format.

Angie Grabowski on "Welcome Back Kotter" was poorly developed. I think it might have had to do with the actress or the writers trying to add something into the show that did not need to be there.
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His role was portrayed just fine IMO (Except in later year on The New Class). I thought he was funny on the original format.

Angie Grabowski on "Welcome Back Kotter" was poorly developed. I think it might have had to do with the actress or the writers trying to add something into the show that did not need to be there.
Back in the original class of SBTB, you might hink it portrayed well, but TV critics and some SBTB fans were both too rotten on that Screech role. Although, it became worse when the writers and producers act in a panic messing the Screech roles sometimes in the original class and also on the second half of the new class.

Dustin and his role gained INCOMPLETE TEEN POPULARITY in the original class. But I'm glad he came to the new class to COMPLETE both his TEEN POPULARITY and gain FULL RESPECT with the new students.

But here's the question, I don't understand why they did not mention Screech's future in the new class series finale at all?

The bottom line, in several ways:

1) If the original class has to be made difficult and put that Screech role in it, then either the original class has to be less difficult OR the Screech role cannot be poorly made to the public.

2) If the original class has to be made difficult COMPLETELY, then the only time is to set up a new class and put that Screech role in it.

The writers and producers of the Original SBTB class should get sued for making that Screech role poorly and put into the difficult-made original class in a haphazardous situation, according to both the TV critics and some fans.
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Back in the original class of SBTB, you might hink it portrayed well, but TV critics and some SBTB fans were both too rotten on that Screech role. Although, it became worse when the writers and producers act in a panic messing the Screech roles sometimes in the original class and also on the second half of the new class.

Dustin and his role gained INCOMPLETE TEEN POPULARITY in the original class. But I'm glad he came to the new class to COMPLETE both his TEEN POPULARITY and gain FULL RESPECT with the new students.

But here's the question, I don't understand why they did not mention Screech's future in the new class series finale at all?

The bottom line, in several ways:

1) If the original class has to be made difficult and put that Screech role in it, then either the original class has to be less difficult OR the Screech role cannot be poorly made to the public.

2) If the original class has to be made difficult COMPLETELY, then the only time is to set up a new class and put that Screech role in it.

The writers and producers of the Original SBTB class should get sued for making that Screech role poorly and put into the difficult-made original class in a haphazardous situation, according to both the TV critics and some fans.
Screech in the old class version was ok and tolerable...most of the time. Even the first two years of the New Class he was ok but when season four debuted, within a matter of episodes, his voice changed up and he became a joke to me. I could not stand to hear him speak. However, I don't think that the writers should have been sued, though. That is not necessary.
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Back in the original class of SBTB, you might hink it portrayed well, but TV critics and some SBTB fans were both too rotten on that Screech role. Although, it became worse when the writers and producers act in a panic messing the Screech roles sometimes in the original class and also on the second half of the new class.

Dustin and his role gained INCOMPLETE TEEN POPULARITY in the original class. But I'm glad he came to the new class to COMPLETE both his TEEN POPULARITY and gain FULL RESPECT with the new students.

But here's the question, I don't understand why they did not mention Screech's future in the new class series finale at all?

The bottom line, in several ways:

1) If the original class has to be made difficult and put that Screech role in it, then either the original class has to be less difficult OR the Screech role cannot be poorly made to the public.

2) If the original class has to be made difficult COMPLETELY, then the only time is to set up a new class and put that Screech role in it.

The writers and producers of the Original SBTB class should get sued for making that Screech role poorly and put into the difficult-made original class in a haphazardous situation, according to both the TV critics and some fans.
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