Wow I never knew it sunk THIS badly in the 90s...

Believe it or not, it really did. But to be honest, it was really a frightening prelude for what would happen with so many soaps in more recent times. Daytime wasn't in as bad as state then as it is now.

Interestingly, the only memorable thing about 1996 was the way John humiliated Lisa on a big screen!

I forgot that Broderick went to ATWT and Behr was there--their brief period togethe ron AMC is one of my fave soap eras ever but I guess magic w3asn't repeated

To be fair, there were both positives and negatives when Behr and Broderick worked at ATWT. Broderick's job certainly wasn't easy because of the two years of stink that had to be cleaned up (though the transitional team in late '97 began to do so).

There are some who suspect that Valente deliberately did inferior work at ATWT (compared to his work at AW) because he was unhappy at being shafted in favour of JFP at AW and wanted to get back at P&G. Hearsay perhaps, but something to think about.

"1996: Stephen Black and Henry Stern, who had experience primetime writers (most notably Falcon Crest), become Head Writers. Black and Stern's attempts to remould the show prove disastrous in terms of quality as ratings correspondingly fall. Observers believe the deterioration in quality is such that the show had not only become the worst soap, but also the worst program on TV.

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Wow I never knew it sunk THIS badly in the 90s... I forgot that Broderick went to ATWT and Behr was there--their brief period togethe ron AMC is one of my fave soap eras ever but I guess magic w3asn't repeated

1. They introduced some of the most boring characters ever, namely Sarah and Zoe, and an actor even worse than Howarth to play Paul Ryan.

2. Some of the worse storylines ever:

-Paul and Sarah and their home shopping channel

-Danni the pathological liar

-Kim's car blowing up on the ONE-YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the Oklahoma City bombing

-Turning characters like Scott and Rosanna into fourth-rate villians

-T. Jones!

-Having the rapist/terrorist Diego be a dark romantic, with relationships with Sam(ick!), Emily(SICK!) and of course Lily.

-Writing out Ellen Stewart

-Having Margo lose her sanity

-Mark and Connor's treehouse affair

There's much more I could add, but I won't. There were some good moments like as someone mentioned when John humiliated Lisa at their engagement party all on those TV screens and some of the Carly/Mike/Rosanna stuff, but that was it.

Edited August 7, 200718 yr by soapfan770