Sorry but I will never like the quad of Brad/Katie/Jack/Carly... Let's get the show on the road and have Carly slap Katie into the next orbit so we can have CarJack back.

Nothing at all hot or sizzling pops up for me when I see Jack and Katie slobbering all over each other... In fact, it's those scenes that I turn off or walk away from... I personally don't see any chemistry or anything when Michael and Terri are on screen; but see it instantly when Maura walks in on a scene....

Brad bores me even when he's trying to help Carly get her man back...that's not a good thing.

Brad feels like an afterthought, doesn't he? It's like the show was so gung-ho on having yet another Carjack-plus-X triangle, that that's all they really care about. I don't know why either man is "attracted" to Katie. She's so blatantly insecure with Jack, and she's downright hostile and rude to Brad. I really wish they'd let Carly just go to town on that little Bitch, but you know they won't. Fluffy must be worshipped and right at all costs. If there's anyone who's earned a comeuppance, it's Katie. And you know it's never coming.

Is 2.0 NOT an indication of a PROBLEM with the show? In less than one year, we've gone from a high of 2.8, during the slasher crap, to 2.0, a new low for the show! The stories are "excellent"?????

It's not necessarily the plots, but how they're written. NO set up, nothing approaching logic, and very little fallout. Other than Carly's return, and to an extent, the WW takeover, nothing is followed through. Em was a hooker...now she's not. Ali did porn...in three months, I"m sure it'll never be brought up again. Faith's anorexia/buliemia? Dropped. Luke's sexuality? Dropped for most of the last year. Johnny, the wunderkind who's very existance drove story for two years? Yeah...who mentions him now? Other than a cursory mention here and there, Hal and Jen deaths haven't generated story. Gwen gets a new story every three months...I can hardly wait for her next nemisis to appear and torture the girl.

There are very few "rules" on soaps, but as far as I'm concerned, ignoring history is the deadliest. I don't care if KMH and GM could light a fire on command with their chemistry (not that I think they can). DUSTY falling for the woman who nearly killed him is SICK. The examples of other history being ignored are too numerous to mention. But they all signal a lack of imagination of our coughGloriouscough Headwriter. She doesn't follow some logical story flow...she reinvents the characters to fit whatever Idiot plot she comes up with.

Craig/Meg/Paul is a huge yawn. Just one more woman for them to fight over. How many times have we done this story? Unless Paul grows a set of balls and finally gets the better of Craig, what is the point? Will it really be any surprise when Meg consentually has sex with Craig, just hours before (or after, if they're sneaky ) we learn Paul is alive/returned to town? Am I suppose to forget they just did that with Kack?

Carjack/Bratie....there is not enough chemistry between Bratie or Kack to justify this quad. You once said you'd laugh when Carjack made up, only to break up three months later. Well, I'm going to LMAO when Katie ends up on her back, welcoming Brad with every last Rah-Rah in her cheerleader arsenal. I'm not even sure how it can be called a Quad, when Brad is barely on.

Gwen/Will/Cleo...what is fresh about the story? Is there anyone who didn't think Cleo was going to go crazy? Has there been ANY point to the last three months she's been shoved down our throat? Yeah...great...we'll get some huge expositionary scene, where we find out Cleo's been nuts all along, then she'll escape conveinently, and we'll have to fear month after month (whenever JP gets bored, that is) that JP will "treat" us to Cleo's return. Worse than Cleo, her bad lisp and ratty wig, is the way Gwen's been watered down to near idiocy to accomodate Cleo's emergence. Lily still hasn't recovered (IMO, and if her wardrobe is any indication...) from MB's playing Rose for three years. Lily is a shell of the woman she was before Rose came to town.

PJ this was an excellent post. You should seriously consider sending this exact post to the magazines(SOW). Just copy and paste it and send it by email. I will guarantee you it will be put on the next issue. I have sent one about ATWT and it was published....LOL. I hope you do send this off.

Haha...I laughed at the title of this thread.

This woman is the definition of what a hack is.

I asked in another thread, but I'll do it again. Does Christopher Goutman have the hots for Jean Passanante or something? He hired her at Another World, then when he became EP at ATWT, he tried to add her to the writing team before naming her Hogan's successor. I mean what does Goutman see in this woman? If it was any other EP, I'm sure JPiss would have been out on her butt as soon as ATWT fell out of the top 5(I'm not familar with ATWT's rating history, but where it is now is not good).

Her stories are all about plot, plot, plot, just like her fellow hack at ATWT's sister soap.

6 years later and now all of you ATWT fans know AMC fans pain

I am seeing the exact same style of storytelling here and have been seeing it for a year and a half. Does not make any sense and things are dropped like hot potatos and never revisited again. All the strong female characters have absolutely been DECIMATED!!!! And I mean completely hacked. Yoo got to seriously wonder however how much of this should be blamed on Goutman. Can he not see what she is doing to this show.

I think both of them should be taken out in one foul swoop. And try to save this show before there is no show to be saved because I am telling you, another year of this crap and ATWT will be dead.

6 years later and now all of you ATWT fans know AMC fans pain

Unfortunately I watched AMC during her tenure also.

As low as the ratings have gone and From all the out cry I really am surpassed that Goutman or even P&G or Bloom her self for that matter hasn't canned her yet. Instead we got Bloom writing breakdowns supposedly at Y&R. Hang in there Oakdale. Her day is coming. I said once before. AMC, OLTL, and ATWT all follow each other. I expect an announcement by the end of the year

Unfortunately I watched AMC during her tenure also.

*hugs* As bad as her ATWT is, I still think she was far worse at AMC.

*hugs* As bad as her ATWT is, I still think she was far worse at AMC.

YoU're right, but if she stays any longer I fear it could get pretty close to being as bad as AMC.

About AMC, I'm not sure who was writing, but I started watching in the middle of the Jake/Liza/Adam/Colby story, I was intregued by the guy who played Jake then. Just getting confirmation, but Passanante didn't write that story did she?

YoU're right, but if she stays any longer I fear it could get pretty close to being as bad as AMC.

About AMC, I'm not sure who was writing, but I started watching in the middle of the Jake/Liza/Adam/Colby story, I was intregued by the guy who played Jake then. Just getting confirmation, but Passanante didn't write that story did she?

Do you mean Colby's paternity reveal.... or Colby's conception?

If it was the paternity reveal that was the writing team of Agnes Nixon, Jean Passanante and Elizabeth Page.

If it was the conception, it was Jean's cousin Megan McTavish.

Edited July 2, 200718 yr by amcfan_19

Do you mean Colby's paternity reveal.... or Colby's conception?

If it was the paternity reveal that was the writing team of Agnes Nixon, Jean Passanante and Elizabeth Page.

If it was the conception, it was Jean's cousin Megan McTavish.

It was the paternity reveal for sure.