AMC: Wednesday

[Kubla Khan]

I LOVE AMANDA BEALL!

::hides from R Sinclair::

[Adam]

That was a friggin awesome week for us T/D fans. When he was on the witness stand and just went off on her, and then when he admitted the hole ugly truth, my god MEK and Cady were flawless and the writing was absolutely fantastic. Not the whole storyline that got us to that point but the scenes oh fabulous. When Tad broke down in Dixie's lap I started balling. I still watch those scenes once a month maybe more. Best material Tad and Dixie got in Cady's short return to the show.

[Ryan]

Comments on the opening....

Annie still needs to be next to Ryan

Kendall should come after Erica

wtf Greenlee is sandwiched between Aiden and Jonathan?

Why Di is STILL away from Aiden I dunno

It looks a lot better. A lot less rushed. However with each new shot they add, either the quality is really, really bad, or the lighting is so weird.

[PAsoapfan]

The new Opening is ok hate Sabine's picture. I loved how Colby's picture's fade's into the next. I still don't like the arrangement if people.

Now the Episode was great I loved the Comedy and the drama was a nice mixed bag.

I loved seeing these women all interact together it made all of them likeable but (Babe).

Addie Walsh did a good job with the breakdown (Usually I hate her work )

Amanda Beall 90% time rocked and yesterday was no expection.

Robert

[dragonflies]

It really wasn't that bad, but it would have been better if Greensnot hadn't been part of it. Seriously she's dragging the show and Fusion down IMO

[Ryan]

Lol AMCZF, hate Greenlee much?

[alwaysAMC]

Ok R - you know you have to let us know what you thought of Miss Beall's script!

Also, anyone with screencaps or YouTube vid of the opening yet?

[PAsoapfan]

[quote name='alwaysAMC' date='Jul 5 2007, 11:59 AM' post='476479

Also, anyone with screencaps or YouTube vid of the opening yet?

Here you go enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9JL41B6cw8

Robert

[tina m]

Good episode, but I wanted to see more of the families at the 4th of July picnic then just the Fusion girls. Greenlee and Annie's makeover thing was pretty funny.

[dragonflies]

More than I hate Babe

[R Sinclair]

Gladly.

Amanda Beall wants to be a sitcom writer -- not a soap writer. Her scripts are filled with quips, sarcasm, one liners and they beg for a laugh track or rim shot 90% of the time, and Wednesday's episode was no exception. Now, if anybody who read my work were to read this right now, they'd think I'm a hypocrite because I incorporate humor in my scripts, too. And I'm not saying I don't like humor intertwined with drama -- actually, I think it's natural. But with Beall -- especially in Wednesday's episode -- it's nothing but setup-punchline, setup-punchline, setup-punchline... touching Ava moment out of nowhere? Setup-punchline...

Can she write anything else besides insult after insult, name call after name call, "bitch" after "bitch," "slut/tramp/hoochie mama/skank after slut/tramp/hoochie mama/skank?"

• Greenlee: You are one sneaky little -- B.
• Ava: You know, my mommy said that she wished I was never born. And then she lit up a smoke, grabbed a beer, and told me to "move my ass, bi
  tch."
• Annie: Did what on purpose? Made you a narcissistic, paranoid little bi
  tch?
• Di: Why do you have to be such a giant --
• Greenlee: You know, if anyone ever develops a hoochie mama cosmetics line, we'll give you a reference.
• Annie: Yeah. Lucky me. But I tell you. Greenlee -- she is just -- she's such a --

I mean, really. These are grown ass WOMEN saying these things! An entire episode of grown corporate women tossing around juvenile name calling is such WONDERFUL writing, I can hardly contain myself! More! More! Megan McTavish made women weak and needy, Amanda Beall makes women act like 15 year old high school sophomores. Bitchy, snarky and ready to catfight at the drop of a hat! Yay! Beall for head writer! More camp! Please! It isn't as if AMC viewers haven't had four years of camp! Adult, mature storytelling? Pishaw! Let's see more catfights and snarkfests!

Kendall doing Beall's trademark Babe propping made me ill! "Babe is right!" "Babe's the voice of reason!"

Kendall: ...Tension and frustration and wanting to tear your hair out.

Babe: Or someone else's.

(Ba-dum-bum-CHING! But, seriously... what is it with Beall and tearing hair out?)

Kendall: I heard that.

Babe is right.

Babe: Ok -- ok, that's enough, don't you think?

Kendall: All right, see, ladies? The person who joined fusion as a symbol of dissent is now the voice of reason.

Di: Was that a compliment?

Babe: You get used to it.

(Ba-dum-bum-CHING!)

Look, I understand the point of the fourth of July episode was to be fun and lighthearted! I know that. So before all the Beall-defenders start shrieking that battlecry, I KNOW THAT! Especially after, apparently, last year, we had such a dark and depressing HOLIDAY episode. Okay? I GOT IT!

But the dialog on Wednesday's episode made my EARS BLEED! It was just too much! Everyone was so caustic, catty, sharp and snippy that it's like ENOUGH ALREADY!

What saved it, for me, were the performances. All the ladies looked like they were having fun and it practically bled through their performances. They were in a fresh element, out of the norm, and it showed. But Beall's dialog in an episode like this where it's the same 8 characters in only one storyline for six acts -- nothing to break it up... Ugh! A little goes a looooooong way!

[dragonflies]

Kendall was awesome yesterday, loved her talking to the baby

Di was good, Amanda was okay, but dang if Greenlee didn't have Annie regressing to less maturity than Colby

Greenlee is seriously dragging Fusion down.

Kendall's right the company will tank when she's out having her baby

[alwaysAMC]

Ahhhh thank you!!!

Ok, now I can finally comment since I've seen it more than once.

I actually really like Greenlee's picture - the hair move is such a Greenlee thing to do.

The placement is pretty crazy though. It's like they didn't even try. Why is Aiden between Annie and Greenlee? They still have Tad and Di together, when it should be Di and Aiden. Amanda is now inbetween Jamie and Josh, which is fine I guess, but she should come after JR, then Babe, Jamie.

I love that the shots are longer now, since they took out 4 and only added 1. But Del's shot lasts way too long for his minor character, probably bc they took out Sydney next to him. I LOVE the Colby to Sean transition.

Thank God Jeff Martin is gone.

Ok, here is what a logical placement order would be IMO:

Erica, Zach, Kendall, Ryan, Annie, Greenlee, Josh, Julia, Di, Aiden, Tad, Joe, Adam, Krystal, Babe, Jamie, JR, Amanda, Jonathan, Del, Palmer, Myrtle, Stuart, Colby, Sean, Jack, Lily, Erica.

I thank you!

[alwaysAMC]

I think you should write for AMC. It's obvious you're a writer, so why not? You can type out perfect arguments (like the above) in no time. What exactly do you do for a living??? lol

Anyway - you are such a great persuasive writer. With dialogue and facts and all. Almost makes me want to join your anti-Beall camp.....almost. I'm ready for a drama-filled episode where Beall writes the dialogue - just to see how well she can do drama, since it's obvious she does the light-hearted and catfighting scenes (so well). lol

[R Sinclair]

I'm Joanna Cohen in drag!

KIDDING! JUST KIDDING! (Steve, hush! )

I'm just an ordinary soap viewer. I work retail to pay the bills and allow me flexible scheduling. Writing (along with music) is my passion -- I attempted to persue it in my early 20's, even sent a subsequently rejected spec to AMC seven years ago. I have family in the writing industry (one of my cousins even got featured in Black Enterprise magazine last year), but I'm not naming names because, thanks to Jackie, we all know how that goes. Oy!

But anyway, I'm no stranger to editing my own stuff and pulling it apart. Realizing when some things are overkill, and just aren't needed -- which is why I question Jeff Beldner's editing abilities, because once Mimi Leahy left, I've notice a lot of garbage has been getting through -- at least moreso over the last 2 years. Someone needs to pare Beall down on all of the insults and bitches/skanks/ho's/tramps/sluts, and "shut me downs" "hate ons" and "I'd rather gargle glass." Like I said, this is not a sitcom, it's a drama -- which means the dialog should be a little more natural and a little less kitschy -- which is what she writes, really. Kitsch and repartee -- not conversation.