Zach says don’t go to the DA North with Ryan’s claims that Annie’s the killer.  There is no evidence to back up the claims.  So Ryan of course takes Tad to DA North and he practically laughs at the two.  When Zach tells Ryan he told him not to go to North with his claims of Annie’s killing Stuart Ryan’s quick retort is “I don’t take orders from you”.  Of course you don’t Ryan because even though you have no common sense it’s best to never listen to good advice.

I love DA North and his agenda.  I think this could be a long term character that I love to hate but only if Chuck doesn’t mess it up.  AMC really needs a new bad guy.  And I love that this guy is written not to faun all over Ryan as most characters (Zach excluded) do.

Oh wait…Natalia…you remember her?  Why aren’t they building a storyline where she and Scott grow closer while she is working on Stuart’s murder case.  Um…Chuck she’s a cop…I remember that how come you don’t?

Okay so Tad was all happy and clownish and now he’s Mother Superior to Jake?  Randi and Frankie contemplating sex in his hospital room isn’t ROMANCE.

I do like Zach and Madison.  It’s easy and interesting.  Thorsten Kaye is such a good actor that anyone who works with him just shines.  He makes scenes seem so easy.  No matter what turmoil goes on he’s the calming influence that keeps the scene from falling apart.  He’s always kept Zach true.  No matter what happens to Zach, Thorsten has never swayed from how he’s always portrayed the character.  It’s amazing to watch how he takes mediocre written and makes it something worth watching.  I love how he goes head to head with North in a calm “I will win” attitude.  Unlike Ryan who runs around Belching how Kendall’s innocent with an over the top flare.

I’m left with one thing…well maybe two.  First being, why is it that if Kendall’s not in a coma she’s on trial for murder? The second is, it’s my guess that the killer of Stuart is Emma.  Talks amongst yourselves

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Sometimes Simple Is Better

Watching AMC sometimes is like watching someone put a square peg into a round hole.  Everyone knows that Annie’s insane and yet the insanity is that the whole storyline here is everyone proving she is insane.  So who is really insane in this storyline?

Some things just don’t add up.  Like Aidan falling in love with Annie to only now believing she’s crazy and he doesn’t love her.  His “mission” is to put her away forever!  Okay this guy spent almost a year on helping Annie.  He helped her kidnap her daughter, elude the police and saved her from that awful Psychotic Doctor.  And yet now he is all about locking her away forever.  Hmm.

I’m sure that some how we are to believe this s/l will bring Erica and Ryan to the brink of unbridled passion.  How that is going to happen only Chuckie knows but seriously I’m not feeling this couple.  And Erica is coming off as a busy body who has nothing better to do than interfere with everyone else’s life.

Brot and Taylor were a cute couple but now that there are all new storyline arcs in place they broke up.  Boo-Hiss what a cop out!  This to force a storyline with Tad.  Everything seems so over  the top and disjointed.

Compare AMC and Y&R.  Y&R right now offers use of it’s vets all of the time (Victor, Katherine, Paul, Jack, Ashley, etc) these characters are blended quite nicely with the newer members of the cast.  Jack giving his little brother life advice while they wait to see who the father of Sharon’s baby is was amazing and poignant.  Tricia Cast is back as Nina Warner Chancellor and the s/l is amazing.  Tying new s/l with old storyline and it has a bit of a spin.  They re-wrote the past or did they?  They’re storylines are calm and interesting.  Sure they have bumps in the road sometimes (Adam’s Gay? um okay).

AMC has in your face s/l’s that don’t work because to me they seemed forced.  Why do the writers think they need to write so many over the top storylines.  Some of the greatest AMC s/l’s just unfolded.  Tad and Dixie’s love affair came about because Adam was covetous and Dixie was vulnerable.  Ryan and Gillian’s getting together was cute and funny and most important romantic.  What do we have for romance right now.  Randi and Frankie? Marissa and JR (ew)? Ryan and Erica?  None of these pairings work right now.  And what the heck happened to Tad?  I was amazed when he was in a bar declaring that Tad the Cad lived no more.  Tad the Cad hasn’t been around in along time…you know why…because a 50 year old guy isn’t considered a cad…he’s considered a jerk if he behaves like that.  It would have been more profound if they had written Pete to be the new cad in town and Tad guiding him around the mind fields of love.  Instead Tad’s a goof all of the time (sometimes is okay but all of the time???) and Pete, well he’s a wet noodle.

Instead of enlarging the cast how about the writers tackle writing for the characters and not trying to force them into a scene.  Soaps are so much better when it seems effortless.  Look at the 70’s when Soaps had little to no budget.  Simple scenes in the living room or hospital lounge.  Now they have the look of reality in the background but the stories are somewhere in outer space.  Hey Chuck how about you reel that stuff in already!

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Erica Goes Back To High School

So now Erica is pretending to be a Teenager too.  Erica and Ryan’s tag team attack on Annie resembles a scene from the movie “Mean Girls”.

I can see how tormenting the mentally ill for personal gain is so in right now.  What’s next for this duo…tripping old people, making fun of Frankie for his handicap or maybe kicking puppies?

Okay yesterday’s episode perhaps got the response it was intended to do (made me mad) but it’s all very petty.

Annie was right when she told Ryan that he seems obsessed with her and perhaps he needs counseling.  He does seem obsessed and Erica…well I’m not sure what to make of her during this whole s/l.  Are Erica and Ryan going to smooch over driving Annie completely insane instead of just the mild insanity that she is going through before now?

Erica sitting on the sofa telling Annie she’s replacing her in Emma’s life was beyond mean.  It annoys me mostly because most of Annie’s mental problems stem from her relationship to Ryan.  I know I sound like a broken record but he has a habit of destroying the women in his life.  Ryan is basically toxic.

Maybe I’m just irked because yesterday’s show was just too low brow for Erica?  At this point I’m only interested in Kendall’s response to her mother’s sniffing after Ryan.  It would be classic if it was Annie who got to tell Kendall about Erica and Ryan.

I like the new DA North.  I want to punch him through the TV.  He’s smug and arrogant all to cover his insecurities.  It’s also nice to have a new bad guy because David and Adam being the meanies all the time was getting stale.

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Ryan is a Weasel

I’m watching yesterday’s show on SoapNet and I can’t stop yelling at the television every time Ryan opens his mouth.  If I didn’t hate him before (which I did) then I REALLY hate him now.

First off Ryan is the one who drove Annie off the deep end during his supposed memory loss.  He sniffed around Kendall and Greenlee and was such the carefree soul that he embraced everyone but the woman he professed his love too.  Proving Ryan has not loyalty to anyone.  Just look at his Brothers and Sister.

It was RYAN’s idea to get married to begin with…it was Ryan who took over Annie’s life when she was running from Terry.  Thankfully he had a serial killer brother who killed Terry for her.  Annie’s character was normal (well for a soap) when she came to town.  A mother who was trying to protect her daughter from a pedophile.  Eventually when the writers brought back Greenlee it all went to pot.  And after some time Annie started losing her mind.  Then her crazy brother came to town and who was there to help her.  Well Ryan the super hero was too busy wooing Kendall and then Greenlee to see his wife was in trouble.  No Ryan always has been written to be a selfish pig!

Ryan and Liza discussing Annie’s seeing Emma made me laugh.  He was all about protecting his daughter from the evil Annie.  Ugh, I bellowed as I laughed at the TV.  Ryan let his SERIAL KILLER brother babysit poor little Emma.  Yep father of the year.  Poor little Emma (until recently) spent more time with Corina the college student or Opal the Depressing Chicken Little than with her father.

Emma has nothing but wonderful memories of her Mother.  Even during the kidnapping it was Di not Annie who Emma remembered.  I get that Annie’s crazy but he could be there for a supervised visit with Annie and Emma.  I’m sure Annie’s wishing she never gave Ryan parental rights.  What really bugs me is he gave up on Annie without one moment of really trying to find what they had.  No it was easier to tell her he didn’t think he ever loved her.   All the while using Emma against her…not unlike her ex-husband Terry getting custody of Emma years ago.  It’s about power and not about what’s best for the child.

Any way I hate Ryan.  I know there are those who love him but every time he opens his mouth I want to switch the channel until he’s gone.  It frustrates me to no end because I loved Ryan pre-2003’s return.

I’m not sure I’m embracing the Erica/Ryan pairing.  She’s always in his business.  For me she’s coming off as one of those scary Step Mom’s and not a future love interest.  I’m not sure how they will spin this into a romance but they’ll have to do something for me to actually think this romance would be anything less than gross.  And it has nothing to do with the Older Woman/Younger Man (Loved Erica/Charlie)…it has to do with the characters involved.  I’m not feeling the love.  It’s all cardboard cut out, lacking any depth and emotion.

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p.s.  I absolutely despise the label of Cougar.  What’s the term for Older Man/Younger Woman?  Exactly…however I’ll go with Male Menopause.

Lost Opportunity

I’m watching AMC and realizing that there is a huge lost opportunity with the s/l.  Instead of bringing on Marissa who at this point adds very little to the s/l, I would have brought on Frank’s long lost son William.  Instead of having some lame story with Frankie being injured in Iraq, I would have had him intertwined with Jake and Amanda (friends) and he would have a s/l of his own with his  son.  Remember Frankie knew about William back in 2002 but agreed with Mia to let the boy live his life with his adoptive parents.  Why would this make a difference…well…let me share.

William in Mia's Dream

William would not only be related to Frankie but also to Liza, Jesse, Natalia, Randi and Angie.  Marissa is related to..David and Krystal.   William could be a love interest for Colby and maybe bff with Petey which now makes the interaction count  8 and Marissa…still at 2.

Could you imagine poor Randi with a teenage step-son who’s hunted down his biological father?  What are we being served?  Marissa trying to save David’s soul by filling in for Babe (who by the way hated David at the time of her death).  YAWN.  Marissa is supposed to be the love puppy that tears apart Scott and JR.  Scott hasn’t really been defined on screen yet and JR sniffing after Babe’s long lost sister is kind of lame.  Maybe they are trying a Kitty/Kelly type of thing but it won’t work because, well Agnes Nixon wrote the show then and she had vision.

I just think that Frankie, Randi and Marissa are very flat characters and at least with my idea Frankie and Randi would have something better to do than bore us for an hour.  JMHO.

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…and I say…ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

So I’m reading my morning news online as I usually do and what did I encounter today…something that almost made me loose my breakfast.

“Erica Kane becoming TV’s ultimate cougar”
(Article Here)

I caught a glimpse of this in SOD’s summer previews but please is this really what TPTB think we or even the younger viewers want to see?  We rally cry for more romance and this is what they throw at us.  Some gimmick to make us watch.  Sure we’ll watch.  It will be like a gruesome car wreck you pass on the highway.  So gruesome you just can’t help but to take a peek.

Okay let me explain my reaction.  I had no issue when Erica Kane was a cougar back in the 80’s with young and hot Charlie Brent but this time around she’s spooning with…belch…Ryan Lavery.  Ewww!

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Sweeps Are Over…Now What?

First let me tell you how awesome One Life To Live and Young and the Restless are right now.  They give us character driven storylines.  The stories envelope so many characters on the shows that I want to watch more.  On Y&R it’s Sharon’s Baby Daddy issues and how it affects not only Sharon but her ex/now husband Jack, Nick and his family and of course recently married Billy who is also Jack’s brother.  Romance and Drama at it’s best.  On One Life To Live Jessica learns the truth about Baby Chloe.  She deals with all that Bess kept from her.  Viki getting through to Jessica was just wonderful drama.  Starr and Cole are elated their baby is alive and yet now have to decide if they are still going to let Marcie and Michael adopt Hope.  But I digress.

Stuart’s Memorial was too camp for my taste.  Tad getting up acting crazy was just awful.  Frankly the way Tad’s been acting lately I could do without.  Oh and let me take this moment to say how amazing was Tad’s recovery from BRAIN SURGERY!

Anyway, back to Stuart’s Memorial.  Seeing Liza and Marian together and Scott and Marian was wonderful.  Adam’s grief was also incredible.  The memorial it’s self was less than great.

The inconsistency of the writing comes back into play after sweeps was over.  It’s almost like Chuck Pratt has never written for Daytime before.  Characters have just disappeared…they wrote Frankie’s injuries into the script and his going to Germany for rehab and that’s it.  It’s ignored.  Why even write about the injury.  Frankie was off screen in Iraq.  Randi could have been here dealing with loneliness or what not and leaning on a guy she shouldn’t as a married woman.  Instead what did we get…NOTHING!

The Ryan, Kendall and Zach storyline is borderline annoying.  Now Ryan is so noble pushing Kendall and Zach together.  I get that they are trying to portray the fact that Kendall is in love with both men but instead it’s coming off as lame as when Erica left Jack for Jeff Martin.

Tad…what have they done to our poor lovely Tad?  He’s a laughing imbecile.  Why can’t he be saving the girl.  I read that it was Chuck’s intention to pair Taylor and Tad.  Why aren’t they doing this…it’s all there.  She’s the girlfriend of an American hero.  How could these two dare love each other in the face of hurting Brot.  Instead Tad’s laughing all the time telling horrible jokes.  He is nothing but a cartoon.  Maybe there are some people who watch that feel this makes Tad more endearing.  I am not one of them.  Chuck has made him into a joke.  Not unlike what they did to poor Opal by making her the messenger of Death in Pine Valley.

So far the only decent thing that Chuck’s done is fix Krystal.  She went from a mindless junkie to back to normal.  And what is with David?

It’s all just a lack of direction as far as I’m concerned.  Sure Scott and Adam’s reaction to Stuart’s death was gut wrenching but then what?  It’s all flat now.  It’s two weeks for Sweeps gimmicks and then some lame attempt at a murder mystery and then what?

I’m left with a question.  Is Chuck Pratt writing this from California and the B team is piecing it together because from where this fan sits AMC is still very disjointed.

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Welcome To Monday’s Bloodbath

Why does Chuck Pratt think we love this stuff?  Seriously.  How hard is it to write love in the afternoon?  Is it too much to ask that they don’t kill people every sweeps on the soap?  Apparently it is!

I’m tired of the Murders, the killing, the blood soaked characters in Opal’s visions.  Most of the time anymore I only half watch the show because I’ve become so disinterested in it.  I’m watching GL these days.  And that show, which is actually good is possibly being cancelled.

Adam was an important character to the canvas of All My Children.  Instead of having him leave town like so many characters in the past the HW decided it was better to gun him down in another lame murder mystery.  Every sweeps someone dies.  It’s become so boring and predictable.  I can’t imagine that the test audience/Focus groups are all…yeah man that’s what I want to see.

I’m am extremely disgruntled and in awe that even though the fans are vocal we are constantly ignored by TPTB about what we want to see instead of what they think might be something interesting to write.  I’ve said it a 1,000 times.  If you ignore your fan base don’t be surprise if you lose them.

I get that David Canary was one of the people asked to take a pay cut but instead of killing off the character they could have had him run and hide because of extradition issues.  That way if in the future they are desperate for ratings he could make a surprise short term visit to PV.  Instead they mow down in a spatter of blood one of Daytime’s greatest characters!  Boo-Hiss!

So Chuck Pratt and Julie Hanan Currthers…YOU SUCK!!!!

p.s.  Since when is David a Neuro Surgeon?  And please David in the OR with Tad when his brother, father or even Angie would be a better choice.  I hate this part of the s/l too!

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Wholey Crappy Storyline Agnes

The show is all over the place these days.  Some of the s/l’s are good and others are pathetically awful.

I have issues with bits of info dropped in the s/l and then just left for nothing.  The number one issue of dropped info for me is they made the Cortlandt’s poor.  Opal and Petey move in with Tad after their house burns down.  That should have been enough but no they took it one step too far by having Petey state he’s poor and that they’ve lost all their money.  What about poor Palmer?  Is he living with his rapist son Ross?  His long not seen daughter Nina?  What bugs me most is that the writers didn’t think this one through.

This is a trend on a lot of soaps right now…all the rich people lose all of their money.  First I do not want to see depressing storylines and second, if all the people are poor then they should have jobs right?  Years ago when Palmer lost his money he worked at the Chicken Shack.  It was there he was able to re-coop his fortune in franchises.

Erica and Brot are the only two I can stand right now.  Erica, because she’s the strong and in charge woman that I’ve always wanted to see.  Her take charge demeanor in the Adam being drugged story and with Kendall’s situation has been amazing.  Brot needs no explanation…I’ve fallen for JR Martinez and Brot is just the sweetest character on the show.  He’s the non lesbian, non female Binx.

Where’s Jackson????  Exactly!  David and Krystal get a new child (Marissa) and where’s Jackson?  Why didn’t they recast Reggie who could have been a spoiler love interest for Frankie and Randi.  Reggie could have come back a grown man who has made a fortune through sound investments.  He could be the one who scooped up Cortlandt Electronics and subsidiaries.  He decides to take on the bad element that killed his family by reclaiming the old neighborhood.  Or in another version…Randi is one of Reggie’s long lost sisters.  That would work as well.

Scott has come back to town to do what…possible cause the death of a child?  Are the Chandler’s going to be poor again? Pleazzzzze!

Ryan hates Zach so much he wants to destroy him but all of the sudden yesterday he was all about helping Zach by stopping him from killing Adam?  How does this make sense?

How is it they can write a great segment for Marissa (when she tells David she can see right through him) but they can’t write a decent dialogue for anyone else?  Angie is still crying over Frankie’s accident.  I get it’s her son but still isn’t she a doctor who should be more understanding of the situation and less over the top?

I’m going ask this again…WHERE IS THE ROMANCE??????!!!!!!  I want love in the afternoon not death and destruction.  I don’t want depressing stories about the economy.  Hey I’m all for an action storyline but not one where everyone gets murdered.  And for the love of all that is soap…no more natural disaster stories!  Bring on the Romance!!! Please!!!

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