Oh Wow

The show sucks!  My lack of Rants is an indication that I just don’t know what to say anymore.  So let me break down some of the nonsense.

JR, who is CURRENTLY having chemo, wants to have a child with Marissa.  This is ridiculous and dangerous all at the same time.  When JR was told about his cancer he would have also been told about his treatment and the option to freeze his sperm in case he would ever want to have a child in the future. Okay the show tackled the subject that the chemo could possibly leave JR sterile but what they didn’t tackle is the fact that a child conceived while one of the parents is undergoing chemotherapy is not a great idea.  It would leave that child open to all kinds of deformities and medical issues for the rest of its life, if it even lived long enough to have a life.  So if JR knew this ahead of time he should have shared that info with his wife.  Oh and what kind of DOLT is Marissa that she only sees JR’s want of legacy if he should die and not the reality that if JR died she would be raising this child alone and that all the money in the world doesn’t matter if that child suffers every day because it’s parents were to complete morons!

Aidan went from Awesome Dude to WTF in an evolution just short of stupid.  Aidan was at his best when paired with Greenlee and they broke them up to pair Ryan and Greenlee again in the most contrived and ridiculous story.  Then he saved Annie and fell into like with her and they were cute but that went to hell in a hand basket when he went all Jekyll and Hide and went from like to hate in a New York Minute.  Now he’s all googly for Kendall again for a reason only Chuck Pratt can understand.  And we all know that since Aiden Turner isn’t making the trek west that they will probably kill off Aidan Devane.  Almost since his appearance t in 2002 the writers were at a loss as to what to do with Aidan after he broke up Ryan and Kendall so Cam Matthison could leave the show.  Aiden Turner quickly became a fan favorite so they put him with Maria/Maureen, Kendall, Mia, Greenlee, Annie and I’m sure I’m forgetting some in between.  They just didn’t know what to do with him but they couldn’t let him go because the fans (yep that’s me too) wouldn’t have stood for it.

But now that TPTB could care less about the fans it’s a free for all.  When the show moves to California, regardless what TPTB say, the entire dynamic will be completely changed forever.  No more Martin’s.  No more Dr. Joe, Aidan, Taylor and Zendall.  The show I GREATLY fear will become “All My Rylee” and this will in essence kill the show that has been on TV for almost 40 years.  The characters will be unrecognizable and not unlike when Loving became the City the fan base will hemorrhage even further and we will be left with nothing that could be identified as All My Children.

Perhaps I’m too much doom and gloom but having watched and been obsessed with soaps for the last 44 years I’ve seen it before and it’s not pretty.  Even SoapNet a network that used to be devoted to Soaps isn’t about Soaps that much anymore.  There was that dream when I first heard about that new network devoted to Soaps that we would get to see old shows like Edge of Night or Ryan’s Hope and that dream died in 2004 when things at the network started to change.  I get that is business but it still makes me sad.

I’ve been watching old shows of AMC from its grandest times (SoapNet used to rerun older shows from the 80’s and 90’s during such specials as “Tad the Cad” and “I Love Lucci” or even “Chasin’ Jason/GH”).  It fills the hole that Chuck Pratt’s lack of talent made in me.  I didn’t think it was possible for a writer to do more damage to the show than Megan McTavish but Chuck makes Megan look like friggin’ Harper Lee!

So where does this leave me these days…well all I can say is THANK GOD FOR ONE LIFE TO LIVE!!! This show is the bomb!  It’s amazingly written and the characters will all be the same afterAMC makes the move to California because OLTL is staying in NYC!

So if you are like me and still want to watch soaps hook on to ONE LIFE TO LIVE because it’s got the history and the families, the romance, social storylines, romance (involving all the generations not just the kiddies) and intriguing plots and oh…romance

Here Endth My Rant!