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« on: May 04, 2009, 03:02:19 AM »
I think many see it as melodrama, and not that many people would put "melodramatic" in a list of positives. That would partly explain Hall's attitude. With some directors (and an executrive producer?) coming close to telling actors to ham it up, maybe Hall had some trouble feeling good about the lines he'd written, after seeing some performances in some storylines.
I've been marathoning 1897 too fast, and have been noticing too much the fact that everyone could have toned the acting down, not a lot, just a bit. Aristede, Amanda Harris, and once in a while Beth are a little overplayed, with the lines "over-enunciated".