Confirmed Megan Is Out on AMC

[AMCGio83]

I thought Labine did some goood work at GL. Remember the fire that killed Jim? I didn' care for him and I still cried. I think the obvious choice for AMC is Alden. There's no way ABC put all that money into getting her just to keep her as a consultant. I think she would be fine but we need some of our characters back and some of the newer ones desperately need to be developed (Amanda, Di, Aiden, etc.)

[Faulkner]

I thought she did some pretty damn good work over at OLTL, too...good Todd and Tea stuff, lots of excellent Cramer drama, Mel and Dorian. She made some big blunders, too (clown school, Ian Armitage), but I wouldn't call her time there a bust.

[R Sinclair]

Let JER and MMT create their own sh!tfests on My Network. There, they can have their precious creations in their own format, their own world, with their own characters and they don't have to subject our shows and characters and their histories to their warped visions.

Megan has never written this show to cater to its audience or its history and characters. She's got this tremendous ego, and feels she could just take something and turn it into her own show -- no matter what.

[bellcurve]

Um...sorry but MyNetworkTV isn't a "shitfest" kind of network.

WICKED WICKED GAMES and WATCH OVER ME far and beyond surpass ANYTHING daytime TV has had to offer. Ditto for DESIRE and FASHION HOUSE.

I know you're happy McTavish is leaving, but just let's get our facts straight, Mmmkay?!

[R Sinclair]

I really don't know who you're talking to, but whatever. Mmmkay?!

My main point was, if they want to tell their own style of stories with their own flavor and vision, then they have the outlet to create their own projects, instead of coming onto an existing show and foisting those visions and stories onto its unwilling and unsuspecting viewers. Megan can pitch her precious story bible for Purgatory, which she's been rumored to have been pilfering from during her latest run at AMC.

And I stand behind the sh!tfest comment, because "um... sorry but" that's the only thing McTavish can create. Mmmkay?!

[bellcurve]

Well I was talking *about* WATCH OVER ME and WICKED WICKED GAMES in terms of them not being [!@#$%^&*].

I was talking to YOU in response to suggesting that MyNetworkTV is some wasteland.

Noted. But you spoke of brining McTavish and Reilly to MyNetworkTV as though the novelas are a vast wasteland. You can't say that unless you've SEEN and experienced them for yourself. Don't wish those hacks onto the novelas.

Stand behind it. But don't say MyNetworkTV is trash in the process.

MMMKAY?!

Class dismissed!

[All My Shadows]

Well, to be perfectly honest, it's simply your opinion that MNTV isn't trash. I tried watching it, lord knows I did, but I couldn't get into it. It was just too amatuer for me and I couldn't stand to watch it.

There's nothing factual about it. If I think it's trash, I'll call it trash. Trash.

But, please, let us NOT get away from the topic of this thread.

THE !@#$%^&*] IS GONE!

[Jonathan]

Let's get back on track...YAY, she's gone!

[leevo64]

Was McTavish really writing a soap bible or was that a really clever joke?

[DruRocks]

Wow, such awesome news for you AMC fans. Hopefully you guys don't get stuck with an LML.

[Dan]

Exactly DruRocks. I'm being pensive right now. It's great that McTrash is gone, but you know what? I thought GL was in the clear after Ellen Weston was fired. Boy, was I ever wrong!

[leevo64]

I'd take an LML any day after McTavish. LML, flawed as she may be, is a good writer. Look at PC and Knots Landing. She's just not suited to Y&R.

[Jonathan]

I am sure that Kay Alden will come on board as head writer. I think she is a good fit for All My Children. She learned from one of the best, Bill Bell. Bell and Agnes Nixon were cut from the same cloth so I'm confident that Alden will continue the same tradition of intelligent storytelling on AMC.

Now, some of you may argue that Megan McTavish was Nixon's protege and of course look at all the trash that she wrote. However, I don't think McTavish is as talented as Alden and the stories that McTavish wrote that were considered good were under the jurisdiction of Nixon or Felicia Minei Behr.

[leevo64]

Megan's problem - to me - is that she is easily influenced by whoever her superior is. When she works for Behr or Nixon she has great moments. When she works with Phelps she is depressingly dark. When she worked with Carruthers this time around, she attempted to "innovate." Remember when JHC came to Port Charles? "Innovation."

Megan McTavish has no identity, other than that of a hack.

[Jonathan]

That's a really good assessment.