All My Shadows

Oh, I'm totally on board with her ATWT defense. It had a style and tone that worked for it, and clearly it was still appealing to the audience in 1976. I just wished she could respect that AMC, too, had a style and ton that work for it and its audience. Was it known at this time that Agnes had been Irna's apprentice?

I am SO NOT HERE for the heaps of AMC shade in that article at all. How is she going to sit there and be mad because other writers bashed ATWT to praise AMC while she's bashing AMC to praise ATWT? I wonder how she felt two years later when AMC dethroned ATWT in the ratings. If anything, this article proves that the Every Soap Must Be Like the Good Soap trope has been alive and well for decades.

I JUST watched that reel yesterday in hopes that the thumbnail might be from ATWT!

Me-TV did a very nice, complimentary feature article on LIAMST today.

What about the rumor that CZ and HBS feuded because of the shady way CZ and Mark Pinter got together? Not that it's any of my business, but I wonder how reflective CZ was about all of that when the Pinter marriage broke up.

Yessss! It's become somewhat of a Mardi Gras standard around these parts. It gets a LOT of play in bars after the night's parades have rolled. That smooth early 90s rap is one of the few varieties of the genre that I can really appreciate.

Nice seeing a feature on our "original" cast up there. I'm pretty sure all of Liz's dreams came true. I need to get back into watching this. I've basically missed two whole years, but it looks like conversation here tapered off big time once they got into late 1969. Since they put the show on the lineup, I've been waiting for Nancy Barrett's debut, which should be coming up soon.

That brief clip of Bill playing guitar and singing for Tess is one of my favorite rarities from soap history, and it's such a great example of how very romantic, and intimately so, the soaps could be with their couples at the time. I could only imagine how real they felt to viewers at home, and it's really no wonder so many soap couples became real-life couples in the late 60s and early 70s. In order to really play that stuff to the hilt, you couldn't avoid getting so personally invested.

When they were all doing interviews for the 50th anniversary (which was, wow, 10 years ago already), I remember her kinda alluding to the fact that the early 80s were her favorite years on the show, so it fits with that. It's interesting because we know how most of the veteran cast (those who were already at vet status by then, at least) felt in that era.

It's odd how because of the way technology is set up nowadays, I can listen to this and say that these ladies were a big part of the soundtrack of my high school years.

RIP to both McBride and Bua. I'm so thankful that we've been able to see at least a little bit of each actress's work, and of course, we're always wanting to see more of it. Both of them were huge leads in their respective eras.

Here's a Patricia Bruder Debrovner interview from last year, mostly on her work in the ethical movement. She talks for a few moments about ATWT beginning at the 9-minute mark. I'm so happy that more and more of her work on the show is being shared online.

Isn't Grant S. a regular on Devious Maids? I worry about Thomas Calabro. I always have this ominous feeling that he was bitter about the failure of 2.0, though I doubt he was that invested in it. And jesus right when I'm used to it being 2016, I see that his birthday has passed and now he's 57 years old. Man!

Nicky and Alex are both hot af but for the life of me, 20 years and 2 college degrees later, I still can not pronounce their real name.

Yes, the look was bizarre as hell!

A TV commercial uses this, and I almost like it more than the standard version of Gonna Fly Now.

What an excellent read. As interesting as his AMC comments were, the ODAAT stuff was even better. The episode where David has the affair and he and Ann argue is one of THE best episodes of the entire series, and how awesome to know that RM wrote much of the dialogue in its climax out of frustration.

That's from the fantastic mini-series Bare Essence. Linda played Genie's mom. Great cast of early 80s TV stars including Donna MIlls, Bruce Boxleitner, Joel Higgins, and Lee Grant.

I think it was a blessing in disguise that they weren't always running frontburner stories for the older characters. They were able to take on the supporting roles that they were due to inherit, making it easy for the actors to continue to play them with the same spirit that they'd played them with for years. If they'd been hot commodities at the end, they would have been obliterated.

How was this missed?

I just happened upon the new 1972 episode (plus some AW goodies), and I have to say that I thought I'd NEVER get to see anything from the Dan/Susan era! What a fantastic episode! Marie Masters was in her prime, yet it was still quite obvious that this was the same actress and character that we were watching 35 years later. Such a treat!

I just finished watching the other half of the season (are we correct in calling these 10 episodes the season? because...), and I'm game for more, so good job, nunuDegrassi! I will say that I think the arc as a whole felt a bit hollow. It's not really that they did too much in ten episodes -- the actual stories themselves didn't feel rushed at all, and the episodes all flowed very nicely, but they missed a TON of opportunities to do more with the characters to get them from where they were in Episode 1 to where they ended up in Episode 10. Granted, they only had ten episodes, and I have no idea if they even had the option to go for more, so I can't beat them up too much on that, but still. Hunter's descent into madness should have been the result of more than just getting his video game club shut down. Had they had more time, they could have explored his anger management issues and his interest in Yael. I don't get why they kept referring to Zig (who is a goddamn moron) and Zoe as having "fooled around" or "hooked up." They kissed. Was it an intense kiss? Was it making out? Yes! But were we supposed to assume that they went all the way on a log in the woods? I don't know. This might have been my least favorite of the continuing arcs simply because I don't understand what the point of it was. I get that Tristan and Miles have a good bit of history held over from TNG, so I was expecting more of them interacting with each other. There were nice moments, but it's pretty clear that that ship has sailed.

To the show's credit, Liberty languished in supporting character hell with Toby for most of the heyday, I think, because they chose to focus on the more socially accepted characters. Toby and Liberty were the real nerds from the jump (whilst JT was more of a dork), and they got nothing. This was perfectly illustrated by them conducting a damn science experiment in the opening credits. Now what they did to Hazel was dead wrong.

Oh, I like Miles. The actor isn't the best, but I like the character, and I see a lot of Craig Manning in him (though there are enough differences for him to not be a clone), which makes him very interesting to me. I just wish they'd spend just as much time developing the other characters, too. I generally like most of the characters. Shay is lame as fck, but once we saw her home life, it makes sense that she's such a goober. I didn't really like much of what I saw of Tristan back in the day, but he's tolerable here. Maya is giving me plenty of post-rape Paige vibes, but like with Miles, she's enough of her own character that I don't feel that she's a copy of anyone. The characters and stories are all perfectly fine right now, and I'm glad it's not a big merry-go-round of triangles and quads. The Muslim girl is giving me life. The sex has been amped up a bit, and I was kinda surprised by that, especially ol' girl (forgot her name) masturbating under her sheets. I appreciated the Zig/Maya sex story because that felt a lot like ol' school DTNG.