allmc2008
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I thought Jenny on AMC was retcond to exist when she arrived. I didn't realize Opal was thought to have been dead. That said, in Aggies archive, the first draft of Jenny's intro was there and it was said the mom had died and Jenny became a hell-raiser. The point was to contrast "sweet Tad". This was 1980, before MEK joined.
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Is Chance Com really what they call it?! C-Com would be better (but not great).
She has a memoir in her archives about her run on soaps. I read it all in one sitting and she defends random stuff. She says she did Un-abortion as a way to give Erica a son, as we all know, but that Agnes was with her and supportive. I suspect Aggie was trying to get Meg to dig her own grave with that one. Meg says she was with Frons by the way. She says that Frons was the only network executive she got along with. She also loves Pratt and Guza's GH. But, she hates Phelps with a passion.
I'll have to double check. I think it was UNDER McTavish but not her idea. Evidently, Hal Corely pitched the idea of Brooke/Adopted Laura (all of it) during Megan's 1st run but Megan completely hated it. This was in a correspondence to Angela Shapiro and around the time she was fired. Then that story became a thing. In correspondence she was HIGHLY critical of Broderick.
Megan loved borrowing from herself. As said, she was going to redo Fake-will/Janet with Maria (after her death). I also learned that the Mardi Gras explosion was borrowed from her idea of Janet blowing up the courthouse during Laurel/Trevor's marriage (but that was scrapped due to the Oklahoma City bombings). Oh, she was mad that the focus groups hated Kelsey and they hated 'soft' Janet. She was going to turn Kelsey into a Janet but, evidently, that was changed. She stated that hating a character was better than indifference.
@victoria foxton @Vee Well, I'm glad we are now talking about Megan McTavish. Northwestern got her papers and, being a student, I got to go through them. Her bible along with all the outlines for her 2nd run are amazing. She wanted David to be Ryan's other brother and for David to have raped Kit (Jackson's sister). Ryan was convicted, if you all recall, because of the DNA match. It was supposed to have been David's they sampled. She wanted to do the rape because, and I quote, "Rape stories are juicy as hell and they are a great way to bring up the ratings." Her idea for David's mom was that she was a the Madam of a brothel who screwed Ryan's dad. Instead of what Jim/Brooke we WERE going to have a triangle between Dimitri/Brooke/Anton. Megan had accepted that storyline, which was presented by others in the room, but vetoed it. She felt that Brooke and Anton would gross out viewers. Kendall wasn't on by this point but she wanted to bring her back to pair her with Ryan. She wanted to redo that Janet/Fake Will storyline but with Maria. Someone was going to pay a look-a-like to act as Maria's ghost. She was obsessed with demographics. She specifically stated that she wasn't going to have (I forgot all who but I do know Brooke was one of them) on the back burner for the summer because those characters (again, I can only remember Brooke) "scared away the 18-34 demographics". Regarding correspondences I found. There were emails between her, the network, and others of power revealed interesting things about about Agnes. Agnes was impressed with Bill Bell's shows and how they were handling the ratings corrosion. Agnes told Megan to have less scenes per episode, make them longer, and make them less eventful. She wanted Megan to focus on characters trying to follow their dreams. Megan felt that Agnes was wrong and that everything needed to be action packed and the scenes needed to be shorter and quicker. One thing specifically was that Agnes wanted Megan to write scenes in which Scott talked about his dream of being a film maker to Becca. Megan told that to the head of ABC Daytime and told the head of ABC Daytime that 'nobody in the 18-34 group wants to work in TV or Film'. I can see why Agnes may have liked Megan McTavish. If you read her earlier outlines, I mean at the start of a run, she had a GREAT understanding of character. She even reiterates her storylines to the overall theme of AMC rather well. But she goes off the rails as the ratings move. She becomes more thrilled with the ratings movement and even says she gets a thrill from that. The thrill is was motivates her. Like, she comes off like a pro-gambler or a real estate agent or a car salesperson when it comes to hitting the correct demos. And that is when she falls.
I dont disagree but I feel it's easier than one thinks. Two things come to mind: 1: I was reading through Megan McTavish's archive at Northwestern -- specifically 1998 when she was struggling with Brooke. According to certain correspondences and outlines the her team wanted her to do a love triangle between Brooke and Anton and Dmitri. She felt that would gross out the audience though and so she vetoed it. It makes me wonder on how many other older characters could have had fresh stories like that in the later years, on all shows, but wound up getting dribble. 2: And I read an AMC projection dated Nov 1985 from Aggies archive and there was an awesome Greg idea. He was going to fall in love with a Morgan CHANDLER. Morgan was basically Sky (Anthea and Adam's daughter who rejected Adam and the wealth). They were to meet on a cruise ship. A live triangle with Tad was going to form between Greg and Morgan. Jenny's recent death was going to create a conflict too. ...and yet they say Greg's last year was rough due to a lack of story.
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