Members KMan101 Posted November 22, 2007 Members Share Posted November 22, 2007 I don't really care about the timing OR the reason. I'm just happy she's speaking out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted November 22, 2007 Members Share Posted November 22, 2007 It's about damn time! The show has been appalling for years now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Khan Posted November 22, 2007 Members Share Posted November 22, 2007 Whitney Houston? Oh, hell to the no. Exactly. If you want to say Erica was raped, and then chose to block out that trauma psychologically, that's fine. In fact, that alone could have been an interesting (but believable!) story. However, unless you're Viki Buchanan - and therefore, highly susceptible (sp?) to brainwashing or post-hypnotic suggestion - I think it would be virtually impossible to give birth to a daughter and then give her up for adoption, without the experience affecting the rest of your life. Besides, the fact that Eric Kane left behind his wife and daughter when Erica was nine years old explained her self-esteem and abandonment issues just fine. Why muddy the waters, so to speak, with a retcon rape and teenage pregnancy? And I didn't like that part of the story, either. First of all, it wasn't in the original backstory; it was only during Erica's intervention that it suddenly came to light how Eric prostituted his own daughter to further his career - and IMO, Megan McTavish threw in that twist purely for shock effect, and little else. (And the less I touch upon how Vanessa Bennett just happened to be there to see everything, the better.) Second, Eric Kane was (or is?) a flawed individual...but he wasn't a monster. As self-centered and vain as he was, he still held a special place in his heart for the daughter he considered his namesake. It just seems unlikely to me that he would've done something so vile, regardless of how much he needed Richard Fields professionally. It's just like what has happened to OLTL's Victor Lord, who began as a simple-yet-complex domineering patriarch, but who somehow over the years became a womanizer, a child molester, a Nazi sympathizer, and a power-hungry supervillain bent on world domination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricaKane70 Posted November 22, 2007 Members Share Posted November 22, 2007 R. Sinclair I love your sigs, they are always hilarious and on point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tina m Posted November 23, 2007 Members Share Posted November 23, 2007 She's absolutely right too. I hope they listen to her. Do what OLTL is doing, bring back and put the VETS in front & center!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ryan Posted November 23, 2007 Members Share Posted November 23, 2007 Hopefully her speaking out will ruffle some feathers. Frons, JHC (yes, I admit she too needs to go), and B&E needs to go. How this man continues to get promoted despite the record lows on his network is beyond my comprehension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted November 23, 2007 Members Share Posted November 23, 2007 That is completely different. If you read Mulcahey's interview, you would have an idea about how backstage B&B is. He is not going anywhere. Didn't LML say that she never saw Y&R before she started writing for it? And even if she indeed loved it, I think she was more in love with how she wanted to make it, rather than loving the show itself. Plus, are you seriously comparing a demented LML with a fine Mulcahey? Btw, AMC is so bad right now, that I'd be glad if LML took charge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted November 23, 2007 Members Share Posted November 23, 2007 About time my Ry-Ry realizes what a hack that woman is. She might be good as a lower level producer, like she was on GH and SB, but she sure as hell isn't cut out to be EP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted November 23, 2007 Members Share Posted November 23, 2007 Janice Ferri? Are you kidding me? Yeah, yeah, wishful thinking... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted November 23, 2007 Members Share Posted November 23, 2007 I loved how Soap Net had AMC's 35th Anniversary on Soap Talk, and JHC decides then is the time to drop the bomb shell that one of the show's beloved characters was going to be murdered. All the castmates are looking around at each other like "Huh?!" Ultimately, she was talking about Edmund being murdered, but that made absolutely no sense to drop that shit with cast members who are still currently on the show during a celebration. Dumb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted November 23, 2007 Members Share Posted November 23, 2007 Yeah, okay. Right. Surrrrre. AMC may be in the crapper right now, but LML would turn it into a bloodbath. Running through the corridors at ABC with a freakin machete, hacking people left and right, screaming like a banshee. And then for her sweeps stunt, have a bunch of people jump off a scaffold and call it a "collapse." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angela Posted November 23, 2007 Author Members Share Posted November 23, 2007 That was just...bad (the part I bolded). A jump the shark moment. It doesn't and didn't negate the previous 11 or so years, off and on, of the story for me - which I liked. I didn't see the storyline as making Erica darker, but as giving her character more context and subtext, etc. The blocking out of 9 months didn't feel like a stretch to me, it was more like compartmentalizing that "that didn't happen to me, la, la, la..." I think Erica was traumatized enough to do that and then to move on to attain the life she felt she deserved. As I mentioned above, this part I 100% agree with. I hated that McTavish did that "twist." I thought it was such ridiculous and just purely stupid crap. The Bianca/Miranda situation was already pushing the "rape legacy" stuff, the father-as-a-rapist-dealer throwed it off that dang mountain. McTavish couldn't leave well enough alone and it's almost impossible to take back (you can say he faked his death but you can't erase the vileness of what McTavish wrote there), which is a shame since the reintroduction of the just-neglectful Eric Kane could have been really good story. He must have taken over JER's good standing with Satan during re-negotiations? lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted November 23, 2007 Members Share Posted November 23, 2007 Maybe they're trying to ween Frons away from ABCD and have him focus on Soap Net, and then bring someone else in for ABCD. We keep forgetting that once people get this high up on the corporate ladder/chain of command, they can't just be... fired! Nah. They don't get this far without knowing how to contractually keep themselves safe. Especially in the Good Ol' Boys Network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AMCGio83 Posted November 24, 2007 Members Share Posted November 24, 2007 I've thought about this. I know the ratings on all soaps have been steadily dropping for years now BUT ABC can't be happy with Frons and the ratings. I mean, All My Children, ALL MY CHILDREN is in LAST place. It seems unreal to me. I don't think B&E will last at AMC and I think Frons will inevitably be gone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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