Members Adam Posted May 22, 2007 Members Share Posted May 22, 2007 I agree with you Angie. I am just glad we finally have a team in place and not this period of uncertainty. R Sinclair put it best, we wait to see if 6 months from now the show has risen, fallen or stagnated. That's really all you can do. At this stage in the game all we can do is hope for the best. Hogan is what's wrong at DAYS IMO. Not B&E.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KLN Posted May 22, 2007 Members Share Posted May 22, 2007 Except, at the moment, there's not really much wrong with Days. The show's gotten much better over the last month. Everyone noticed the positive changes, but nobody really knew why it happened... until now. B&E leave, and the show gets better! LoL I think one probably has a little something to do with the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted May 22, 2007 Members Share Posted May 22, 2007 But that's the thing — I don't want a good six month, I want five years. At least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted May 22, 2007 Members Share Posted May 22, 2007 Well, I'm not sure that's the truth. Beacuse Hogan is known as a head writer whose quality of writing depends on who his close advisors are. He was good in his first year with As the World Turns because Carolyn Culliton and Stephen Demorest were working closely with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members billyjill Posted May 22, 2007 Members Share Posted May 22, 2007 I'm more and more convinced that Hogan will only be as good as the advice he gets. And right now the one whispering in his ear is Corday ... as good as some changes can be, in the long run it's not really encouraging. Hogan has no vision for the show and that's very obvious. The thing I found heartening about Kay Alden was she seemed to have strong opinions that could translate into long-term cohesiveness and momentum for the show, instead of event-to-event writing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angela Posted May 22, 2007 Members Share Posted May 22, 2007 Kenny, pfft, you're mean. Could they really have had that much influence of DAYS writing? *Denial/Acceptance Phase* The 3 cancellations plus the tragic "fall" of DAYS once they joined the staff could all be conincidental! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KLN Posted May 22, 2007 Members Share Posted May 22, 2007 LoL! Cute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Adam Posted May 22, 2007 Members Share Posted May 22, 2007 They must have been free lancing at DAYS.... or DAYS gave ABC permission to talk with them. I just want to know why Alden was passed on... or who knows maybe the longterm plan is to pair her up with them? One can dream right LOL. I still would prefer Alden, but am excited to see what these two can do. I wonder if this is what got Thorsten to stay? I mean things are pretty good for Toasty now. The EP and HW are all his friends LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Loretta3938 Posted May 22, 2007 Members Share Posted May 22, 2007 Brown and Esensten were still on the writing staff during this past month. In fact, they were listed on the credits for today's episode. My guess is they probably left Days for AMC either this week or last week. Whatever contribution they've made to Days' writing will still be seen over the next two or three weeks. Loretta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KLN Posted May 22, 2007 Members Share Posted May 22, 2007 I understand that, but certainly if they were busy putting together a story bible for AMC over the last several weeks, they weren't really all that involved at Days, hence the changes we've seen. And judging by previews of what's to come, it appears as though things are only going to continue going slowly uphill as they make their final exit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juniorz1 Posted May 22, 2007 Members Share Posted May 22, 2007 WOO HOO!!! Two more recycled hacks take over head writing duties on a current daytime soap! I can't wait to watch Brown & Essenstein essentially do to AMC what they've done previously at Loving, The City, Guiding Light, and Port Charles. You wanna talk about 1 step forward, ten steps back...... Sh!t, [s.W.S.N.B.N.] taking over AMC would be better news than this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ponz Posted May 22, 2007 Members Share Posted May 22, 2007 How many of DAYS problems since Jan be attributed to script editors/BDW's, though? The ideas, pacing & balance are all factors controlled by the headwriter and/or producers. B&E would have influenced individual scenes/episodes but it's the overall stories and onslaught of unfamiliar faces that are the main issues. I think Hogan may have suffered losing the input of a seasoned writer like Brash but it seems a bit far-fetched that the departure of two staff writers would trigger a dramatic improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted May 23, 2007 Members Share Posted May 23, 2007 Oh, I totally agree with you. I say six months always seems to determine how the show's gonna be under a certain head writer. In six months I think would be a fairer assessment of the direction the current regime is going in -- unless you're McTavish and rape somebody the first week you return... THEN you've pretty much tipped your hand. But I agree -- after suffering four years, I would LOVE to be on an exquisite high for the next four, five years. I want to be PROUD to be an AMC fan -- not be embarrassed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dan Posted May 23, 2007 Members Share Posted May 23, 2007 Not to make this again about GL lol, but I think alot of the credit for cleaning up after McTavish belongs to interim writers Michael Conforti and Victor Miller. They began some of the stories that would climax during B&E's run (Apparently, they actually wrote the episode when Annie fell down the stairs at the Spaulding party.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kylie Posted May 23, 2007 Members Share Posted May 23, 2007 These two reek of contrived plot points. And I don't like it. I thought that stank left with MMT. Kay Alden on the other had, she smelled of respect and grace. Two things that AMC has been missing for years. She seemed like she was willing to take the time to know and understand the characters, to really write for them, not just for plot. I wanted that for AMC. I guess these two might surprise us. And maybe things aren't so bad, and I hope that's the case. I hope that I'm leaving AMC is good hands. But I just fear that they have real potential to make Megan missed. Do you know how much that thought terrifies me? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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