So many great points. Well, McTavish's bizarre autobiography almost entirely ignores her writing work at any show but AMC (I think she mentions a bit about GH and maybe that's all? I should give it a re-read.) So I agree, her affinity really does seem to be for AMC. Part of that too seems to be that she appreciated the legacy (even if she shat on it sometimes with stories like the un-abortion) While her memoir has a lot of grumpy/mean comments about Agnes Nixon, it also makes clear that she has respect for her and seems to revere her and want to please her (so many contradictions I know) and so maybe she also liked that aspect of working at AMC that, at least after Bill Bell was too sick to work at Y&R, you wouldn't have working with the other soaps (well aside from Loving back then--hrmm McTavish at Loving...)
I have to say, rewatching now I am much more impressed with the Erica pill story than I remember being (not that I wasn't impressed when it first aired, but... And as much as I revere Lorraine Broderick, it sure looks great compared to the follow up story with Baby Maddie.) That said, of course, most of the exposition for the pill storyline is the work of Corley and his team and then Broderick and not McTavish (it always interests me in transition periods just how much is playing out stories put in place by the earlier team.)
I had totally forgotten about the Rauch component and that, given his time at OLTL, it may have been him who pushed B/E to do more outlandish stories. Certainly if he was still there for the time travel painting, that wouldn't be so far removed from his time travel OLTL storyline. @Paul Raven is right to correct me, it looks like maybe it was the work of Lloyd Gold (it's from 2001 which according to Wiki Clarie Labine wrote until July of that year, but then Gold took over.
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