All My Shadows

You DID love Annie from the beginning I'm gonna miss all of your AMC banners Fusion could have been fun and sexy and hip, but Frons had no idea what fun, sexy, and hip were.

I have a ton of screencaps that I took when I first watched the first 20th anniversary special on YouTube years ago:

I'm sure she'll appear, and the poem is a given. I just hope they don't go with the "ghost Aggie" thing they did for the 10,000th episode. I'd love it if they just did the montage thing that SFK came up with in the other thread and just faded to a nice sunlit window, panned down to Agnes writing those final lines of the poem (as she does a voice over), then she closes it, props it up on the desk against the wall near the window, she gets up and leaves, and the camera zooms in on the book. "All My Children," with the sun light providing just the perfect amount of glow. Not a fade to black, but a quick fade to gold then a fade to black. I have a story similar to this. I hated this one chick. We never got along because we just had opposing personalities. So one day in 7th grade science, we're sitting in class, and she's in my group. I just randomly ask, "So, who watched All My Children yesterday?" I was eccentric and weird, I didn't expect anyone to actually respond, but she feebly says, "Me." And I'm cool with that chick to this day. All because of AMC.

I want the last episode to begin with this...

R Everyone's AMC stories are great. Meanwhile, if Opal Gardner was President, soaps would still be on the air.

I wonder what are the chances of them bringing back Marilyn Chris as Wanda. I've only seen a little bit of her (I know there's more thanks to HamiltonBernique, but I've been focused on watching AMC videos lately), and I'm not sure if she has any connection at all to any of the current characters, but I'd love it if maybe she and Roxy went into business together or something like that. That would be hilarious.

Not a perfect storyline by any stretch of the imagination, but...well, I miss these two... "Is it always gonna be like this?" "Always." Oh, to think of what might have been...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H9Wy8NAd2Q

Classic All My Children:

I've been so dismissive of OLTL for the last year, and rightly so, but I won't ignore the hours and hours of fun I've had watching the show and becoming acquainted with its history. It's such a hard show to define, but I guess in the end, it doesn't matter. Llanview's a town in a class of its own, and I'll miss its citizens

You know I hate Zach and Kendall and would personally write the scene that reunites them in hell, but even this makes me sad because I know how much you loved them. I want all of us AMC folks to band together and be nice once and for all until they close the book forever Canceled hoes!

We've been posting here together for years, and I never knew the story of how you got into AMC, but now I do, and it just drives home what these shows have meant to people. I'm so thankful for SON because no one here in my offline life could possibly understand the impact something like this can have someone's life. I almost like it that way, because then Pine Valley really is my "other world," it really is a place that can not and never will be destroyed by anything that gives me stress in life. I definitely meant 2001 (it's nearly finals time, I've been typing up papers and projects every day!). June 7, to be exact. I wonder what the last ten years would have been like had I not randomly clicked to AMC that day, or rather, if my lusty eye didn't catch "older man" Jesse McCartney being all rebellious that day.

That thread's gonna make me so sad now I started watching in June 2011 when I was eleven years old, and even though that was the heart of Passanante's reign, and even though the vast majority of my AMC viewing experience has been of episodes from the last ten years, I take pride in the fact that this show, written by Passanante and Culliton and Rayfield and Cascio and McTavish, was a special, special thing for a kid who, at the time, needed another world to escape to for an hour every day. Perhaps that's why I'm never as hard on some writers as they probably deserve, because no matter how nonsensical one could say their stories were or how horrible one could say their writing was, there was always something, especially in that little 2002-2005 time span, that kept me entertained, kept me watching, and kept me sane. And then as I got more acquainted with the first 30 years, learning those characters and those storylines and as much as I possibly could about what AMC really is, at its core, the attachment I have for this show was born and will never, ever go away. AMC will always have a special place in my heart because of that, and yes, it sounds strange because it's "just a TV show," but I think we soap fans know something and have experienced something that people who haven't committed to watching a soap nearly every day for years upon years can never really understand. Be glad we live in the time of the internet. In the 80s and 90s, after a long-running soap was canceled, that was it. Maybe you had video tapes, or magazine cut-outs. Maybe you were lucky and your soap got picked up for reruns. But in most cases? The show aired its last episode and that was it. I'm eternally grateful that Pine Valley will never more than a few keystrokes away.

I always tear up when the music starts...but then that chord hits at 3:47-3:48, and I'm done.

*dirty, sinful thoughts*

LMFAO!! I take a moment to get a kick out of Su'n'Hel boogieing down at least once or twice a week. That picture's gonna stick in my mind whenever I get the chance to start reading All My Life, I know it. Yeah, I was actually surprised to realize that, in the early 60s, it was alllll the rage to sing about dead teenagers. Like...why in the hell would anyone dance to that.

SFK!! I wanted to hear Andy Griffith come in there rappin' about Helen, Sarah, and the rest of his hoes in Mayberry. I love the background vocals here. "Down! Down! Whatchameanwhenyasaydathecamefromthewrongsideoftown?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhKpxJea64A

I was just randomly nosing around on YT and came across those '96 episodes and rushed here to tell Carl, but I see yall have already found them I can't watch them right now, but they're definitely first on the list when I have some spare time.

Wendy has the greatest .gifs. Her face at the beginning of this one is too much: She's gonna be hosting a game show that she and her husband are EPing for GSN called "Love Triangle." Basically, the contestant comes on and chats with Wendy to determine which one of two love interests he or she should go with. It has to be heavily scripted/set-up or something. Premieres on the 18th.

Thanks. I think I'll skip ahead to Jean's return, then. I like Whitney's storyline, but I'm mostly in it for Janine's involvement, and I can't bear being three weeks behind now that Pat's back.

Okay, I'm trying to catch up, but I really can't take much more of stupid/idiot Jane and stupid/mean Shirley constantly falling over themselves to keep the attentions of stupid/slimy Ian and stupid/fat Phil. I'm at a few episodes after Glenda left...if I were to skip ahead to this past Friday's episode, is there anything that I would be missing? And if so, what specific episodes, just so I can catch that stuff and not the nonsense.

Glenda's departure basically makes me loathe Ronnie, Roxy, Phil, and Shirley.

So glad to have a time frame for Pat's return now. I've been missing her like crazy!