Post by shadow on Aug 6, 2006 7:59:39 GMT -5
Just a first contribution with some of my first thoughts and memories. I’m pretty sure more will follow in the future;
I started watching ATWT many, many, many years ago. I think even before I started walking because my mom was always watching. Her number one favorite was Hal, and I took both things over from her
When I became older and started understanding what i was watching Hal more and more became my absolute favorite. Not just the character of Hal, but Benyi’s acting, it seemed there was nothing he couldn’t do ; the lead in a romantic storyline, humoristic scenes, anger, pain, emotion, rage...he could do it all and with perfection. Because he managed to bring out to many emotions in me with his acting, there were times I wanted (and did) yell at him, hit him because he was behaving like a stubborn bullhead, so many times I wanted to reach to the screen and hug him because he was so sad, he could make me angry ,make me laugh, make me cry ...there never was a time he didn’t touch me.
The very first memories I have a from the Habs years. Now, I admit I’ve never been the biggest Habs fan, but his acting stood out in this years as well.
I remember Hal finding out Adam was his son, and how betrayed he felt Margo had kept this from him. The pain and anger was so real, you could just feel it. His fury with Babs when she told him Jennifer was not his, for a second made me feel he would do the unthinkable and lash out at her, which he of course didn’t do. But again that emotion was so real, so raw, you could just feel it.
Often he didn’t even need words to express the strongest emotion; So is there this storyline he’s presumably killed and goes to Kentucky to look for Babs. He sees she’s pregnant and realizes the baby is his. In that whole scene(s) there’s not one word spoken, but the look on his face said it all....maybe even more than a hundred words could
Like I said, I never was the biggest Habs fan, but watching Hal those years still was the start of my admiration for Benyi’s amazing acting skills. If only for his mounting frustration when yet another marriage with her did not work out. The scene were he walked out the kitchen after their last breakup, is one I will never forget. That was so incredibly powerful.
Another scene I remember so well from those years was when Hal, after his marriage with babs once again collapsed, he had to hand Parker’s custody to Carly. The breakdown that followed at the Oakdale PD after one of the cops handed him a car that Parker left behind. It was one of those moments and just wanted to crawl through the screen and hug him.
As die hard Hemmer, the Hem memories are engraved in my memory with so many outstanding episodes, scenes and moments I don’t even know where to start.
It was a couple you would never expect to happen, but when they did ; WOW!! The Benji/Kelley chemistry made each and every moment pure magic.
If I have to pick out a few that stood out it would be the period in which James kidnapped Hal and brainwashed him, this version of Hal gave me the creeps! He was so freaking scary those days. You never really got to see what happened, but when he first reappeared, you just knew something was wrong. Benyi’s acting was astonishing throughout that whole storyline.
THE Hem scenes that left an impression on me as deep as I’ve never had were the curch scenes in which they reconciled, just before Benji temporarily left ATWT.
I don’t like to use the word ‘legenday’easily, but in this case I think it’s justified. Those scenes were so strong and so full of real emotion, it was as if you were standing right there with them and witnessed it all live, instead of staring at your TV screen.
The Benji/Kelley chemistry that made Hem that fantastic and unforgettable couple they were, was never stronger as in those scenes. When I think of ATWT, when I think of Hem....these are the first scenes that come to mind, and I don’t think there ever will be anything that will be able to replace this.
Another storyline in the Hem years that made an ever lasting impression on me was when Will was revealed to be Rose’s killer.
The look on Hal’s face when he realized his son was a murderer, the scenes that followed on the helipad, that was, once again, top notch acting.
The most recent episodes/scenes I would like to mention in this first post is yet another Hem scene. When Hal went over to the apartment in a last ditch effort to convince Em not to marry Paul.
The explosion of rage, when he did not manage to get through to her was so real, it just freaked me out!
Of course the last scenes on ATWT, the storyline of Jennifer dying belong in the category of unforgettable moments, but.... at are at this moment just too hard to write and think about, so I will save those for a later date.
So far my first thoughts and memories that tell why I was, why I AM such huge Benyi fan. There never has been ( and I doubt there ever will be) an actor that made me feel about a character he portrays as strongly as Benyi did. He made Hal Munson an almost living and breathing character.
He brought so much more to his role, had so much class and style in all his scenes (whether the writing was good or bad ) it was always a delight to watch him.
And I will miss him forever.
I started watching ATWT many, many, many years ago. I think even before I started walking because my mom was always watching. Her number one favorite was Hal, and I took both things over from her
When I became older and started understanding what i was watching Hal more and more became my absolute favorite. Not just the character of Hal, but Benyi’s acting, it seemed there was nothing he couldn’t do ; the lead in a romantic storyline, humoristic scenes, anger, pain, emotion, rage...he could do it all and with perfection. Because he managed to bring out to many emotions in me with his acting, there were times I wanted (and did) yell at him, hit him because he was behaving like a stubborn bullhead, so many times I wanted to reach to the screen and hug him because he was so sad, he could make me angry ,make me laugh, make me cry ...there never was a time he didn’t touch me.
The very first memories I have a from the Habs years. Now, I admit I’ve never been the biggest Habs fan, but his acting stood out in this years as well.
I remember Hal finding out Adam was his son, and how betrayed he felt Margo had kept this from him. The pain and anger was so real, you could just feel it. His fury with Babs when she told him Jennifer was not his, for a second made me feel he would do the unthinkable and lash out at her, which he of course didn’t do. But again that emotion was so real, so raw, you could just feel it.
Often he didn’t even need words to express the strongest emotion; So is there this storyline he’s presumably killed and goes to Kentucky to look for Babs. He sees she’s pregnant and realizes the baby is his. In that whole scene(s) there’s not one word spoken, but the look on his face said it all....maybe even more than a hundred words could
Like I said, I never was the biggest Habs fan, but watching Hal those years still was the start of my admiration for Benyi’s amazing acting skills. If only for his mounting frustration when yet another marriage with her did not work out. The scene were he walked out the kitchen after their last breakup, is one I will never forget. That was so incredibly powerful.
Another scene I remember so well from those years was when Hal, after his marriage with babs once again collapsed, he had to hand Parker’s custody to Carly. The breakdown that followed at the Oakdale PD after one of the cops handed him a car that Parker left behind. It was one of those moments and just wanted to crawl through the screen and hug him.
As die hard Hemmer, the Hem memories are engraved in my memory with so many outstanding episodes, scenes and moments I don’t even know where to start.
It was a couple you would never expect to happen, but when they did ; WOW!! The Benji/Kelley chemistry made each and every moment pure magic.
If I have to pick out a few that stood out it would be the period in which James kidnapped Hal and brainwashed him, this version of Hal gave me the creeps! He was so freaking scary those days. You never really got to see what happened, but when he first reappeared, you just knew something was wrong. Benyi’s acting was astonishing throughout that whole storyline.
THE Hem scenes that left an impression on me as deep as I’ve never had were the curch scenes in which they reconciled, just before Benji temporarily left ATWT.
I don’t like to use the word ‘legenday’easily, but in this case I think it’s justified. Those scenes were so strong and so full of real emotion, it was as if you were standing right there with them and witnessed it all live, instead of staring at your TV screen.
The Benji/Kelley chemistry that made Hem that fantastic and unforgettable couple they were, was never stronger as in those scenes. When I think of ATWT, when I think of Hem....these are the first scenes that come to mind, and I don’t think there ever will be anything that will be able to replace this.
Another storyline in the Hem years that made an ever lasting impression on me was when Will was revealed to be Rose’s killer.
The look on Hal’s face when he realized his son was a murderer, the scenes that followed on the helipad, that was, once again, top notch acting.
The most recent episodes/scenes I would like to mention in this first post is yet another Hem scene. When Hal went over to the apartment in a last ditch effort to convince Em not to marry Paul.
The explosion of rage, when he did not manage to get through to her was so real, it just freaked me out!
Of course the last scenes on ATWT, the storyline of Jennifer dying belong in the category of unforgettable moments, but.... at are at this moment just too hard to write and think about, so I will save those for a later date.
So far my first thoughts and memories that tell why I was, why I AM such huge Benyi fan. There never has been ( and I doubt there ever will be) an actor that made me feel about a character he portrays as strongly as Benyi did. He made Hal Munson an almost living and breathing character.
He brought so much more to his role, had so much class and style in all his scenes (whether the writing was good or bad ) it was always a delight to watch him.
And I will miss him forever.
