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Oh God I'd forgotten about that.

Did I miss the full version of the Risa long-form story document? What I saw cuts out partway through. I had no idea people knew so much about these mooted story plans years ago, I've never heard of any of this before.

I'll say it again: I'm gonna be very curious to see how the show looks at the end of May sweeps, which I think should be about 13 weeks.

That was the impression given by the specials. Sheila Ducksworth also seems heavily involved, along with ofc Val Jean who has the same co-EP credit Guza got at GH years ago from Frons, to ensure JFP could not control him.

Buckle up!

Sure, they would all work but those names are not, say, Scott Clifton or Eden Riegel. Those two are names I consider too big. Totally agreed about Darnell, though I frankly think he could do business onscreen as dirty cop Marcel Malone. The current guy is uh, not great so far.

Most of what she says about 2000s AMC backs up Leven Rambin and Sabine Singh's own stories, though Megan also puts a lot of blame on LR herself as a wild young girl. I think all of the above can be true without shaming the underage girl for reckless, immature choices. I guess those of us who thought Jeff Branson might have been tangled up in this too could be right. Megan is not wrong that Cady heavily sold Dixie with Zach and David and not with Tad in the early and mid-2000s. As I told DRW the other day I am one of the few who enjoyed the goth cosmopolitan take on Dixie they brought her back with post-ATWT, almost as a response to her amazing turn as Rosanna Cabot, but I won't deny the story was a huge mess. Ultimately that's on Megan though, not Cady looking for a pairing and take on the character she wasn't bored with. (Because I'm sorry, Dixie Martin in the late '90s up to her exit in '01/'02? was terminally boring except for when she was fúcking David.) Megan seems to consider the typical soap opera/industry behavior of actors looking out for their airtime and interests, however self-serving, to be cardinal sin.

Felicity (who only I and Megan liked!) also did a temp stint as Nora on OLTL in - you guessed it - 2000, under Megan McTavish. I think Susan's feelings about young women on the show are more complex than Megan claims.

I'll say this, though: It is kind of refreshing to have 'lame, token whites.'

This would absolutely fit with the author of this memoir, lol. She's not big on empathy, so of course she would see this all through the lens of 'Robin just wants to stay employed.' Well, BTG has like 3-4 EPs. Ducksworth is a major force. I believe MVJ and Guza also have EP credits.

That was the bare bones of my idea, yes. But I'll tell that story in private sometime, if you (or someone else) asks to hear it. I would basically use it to blow the last of the network budget as a prep for moving to streaming and culling cast lol.

He's a good choice but I think you'd need another star opposite him if you got Clifton, and then it becomes an issue because suddenly you have two major white soap stars supporting in a Black-centric soap opera. It's not the same thing as the older Jon Lindstrom and Cady (who have played smaller B/C roles before) as support cast. I think it'd become awkward. I just wouldn't bring on more major white soap stars until the central cast is more settled.

What's crazy is the claim that Roscoe abandoned not only the show, but his wife and baby lol.

I think Guza infused the Cassadines with real menace and atmosphere in the mid-late '90s. But when it got to the point of Helena hanging around on contract for years into '99, 2000, etc. and the townsfolk dunking on her, Stefan and Laura having boring picnics, and then especially in the late 2000s lingering on when Helena got involved with nonsense like Liz supposedly having Nik's baby (Aiden) or the stuff with them being broke, having silly capers with Summer the hooker and Lydia, that demystified them a lot (to say nothing of the Endgame disaster under JFP and McTavish). Still, Helena was always able to be menacing again with the right writing or script. I would welcome making them scary again and know how I'd do it, but it would start with offing Valentin. A lot of Helena's nonsense in the 2000s would be written off as her deliberately feinting with trifles vs. her actual plans, beyond death.

This is Megan McTavish. It's not a satire.

As I said to Darn, it would not surprise me if a lot of what she said about Agnes (or many other people) is true. Agnes was absolutely a political animal and a shrewd businesswoman. But in the end, I just don't care that much. When it came down to what went onscreen re: social issues Agnes often did the right thing, we don't know her mind vs. Megan's perspective, and plus, she's dead.

She also gets in a sideways swipe at Robin Mattson which she doesn't elaborate on, but despite having distaste for both parties she clearly seemed willing to write for Janet and Trevor. Of course, it's all Megan's version of the story all the time here. It was giving Erica's Woman of the Year.

Nor would I, but I also trust Geary's taste considerably more than hers. Even at his lowlights.

Megan claims this was all vetted by lawyers, but I think she's lucky it didn't get published. Even if the Kiberd/Collins stuff is true, which I can believe. It is almost cartoonish how she revels in killing off both Dixie and Nadine on GL, lol. (Though she claims Dixie's 'permadeath' was not her idea.)

Megan McTavish discusses her GH run briefly in her utterly unhinged unpublished memoir, and calls Tony Geary's original "Endgame" saga terrible (in her opinion) and claims it largely consisted of Luke descending into an underground labyrinth and fúcking the bad guys' various female cohorts. Given the fact that Megan's memoir roasts virtually everyone she has ever met or spoken to except Brian Frons (and has a forward/dedication page ending with 'you can all go to hell'), I take many of her opinions and claims with a grain of salt. She does admit her Endgame story was not great.

So Megan has smoke for just about everyone on the planet in this thing, including Maureen Garrett from GL. I think the only person she absolutely loves is, ironically, Brian Frons. Her comments about Agnes are complex to say the least.

I do love that even Megan was baffled by JFP's obsession with Kale Browne, and needing to write him and Jill's other faves into OLTL three times a week. This whole thing pretty much fits Megan as described by others (or imagined by her audience) to a T, lmao. The forward alone is hysterically insane. She even goes in on the whole camera thing!

I've spoken too much about this already, but I think a major white soap name would've pulled focus from the core Black cast. But I do think they could've gotten someone from a prior soap in a B-lead role to come in, because some of these n00bs are too undercooked for me. Tomas, Derek, Martin and Ashley are all painful, though Ashley isn't as bad as the other three, just deeply boring.

He was. They like to pretend it didn't happen because they desperately felt Carly needed a man and this vaguely amiable dayplayer was available. Patrick Mulcahey had him enmeshed with Valentin as the central heads of Pikeman, but once he was on his way out/gone (and they gave up on Jason/Carly 3.0) they began pushing hard to divest Brennan from Pikeman through magical thinking. Now that Chris is here and likely short-term from the start, I expect they will magically remember Brennan is bad shortly just as they magically remembered that Austin was murdered or that Nikolas let a Black guy take the fall for his crimes, years later.

Yeah, no, I don't think you need to worry about it. There is zero chance BTG is going to run with an opening storyline where a Black lead rapes one of the two white women on contract, no matter what clickbait theories a poster with three active forum accounts under the same SN wants to try to get attention with. He was already spamming videos from psychos calling BTG an anti-Black conspiracy before it aired.