Y&R and AMC especially have a long history of being nominated for writing awards. Neither show deserves it now, but on past reputation alone they're getting these nominations IMO. Very unfair....

Then again, I can't say any soap deserves any recognition for writing. Nothing on CBS, ABC, and NBC has been truly outstanding this year.

GH deserves this award for having the best script and breakdown writers in all of daytime. Guza and Korte might be idiots, but GH's writing team is outstanding, more so than its competition.

............. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I just hope AMC didn't submit any script written by Courtney Bugler.

Surely, you're not serious! The sheer elegance and sophistication of Bugler's script is so evident!

Surely, you're not serious! The sheer elegance and sophistication of Bugler's script is so evident!

Oh, are you kidding? With fabulous Bugler gems like this:

Each grain of sand, individually, is very rough and hard and sharp and really not all that pretty. But when you put them all together, you get this beautiful beach, this beautiful, soft, smooth beach. So I guess what I'm trying to say is when things get crazy, we just got to put together the sand -- take our beach back. I love you, and I know that we're going to be able to stay on the shore. I know that no matter how rough the waters get, you just got to fight with me.

How can AMC go wrong?!

Oh, are you kidding? With fabulous Bugler gems like this:

Each grain of sand, individually, is very rough and hard and sharp and really not all that pretty. But when you put them all together, you get this beautiful beach, this beautiful, soft, smooth beach. So I guess what I'm trying to say is when things get crazy, we just got to put together the sand -- take our beach back. I love you, and I know that we're going to be able to stay on the shore. I know that no matter how rough the waters get, you just got to fight with me.

How can AMC go wrong?!

That is Flaubert's style at it's best!

Almost interchangeable!

Almost interchangeable!

I can't see the difference at all! I mean she even surpassed Zola, who faithfully copied his master's style!

My head hurts from trying to untangle Bugler's beach analogy. Just what, pray tell, is she saying here? Is the speaker (Ryan?) attempting to compare his/her relationship to the beach, or to the water?

Oh, are you kidding? With fabulous Bugler gems like this:

Each grain of sand, individually, is very rough and hard and sharp and really not all that pretty. But when you put them all together, you get this beautiful beach, this beautiful, soft, smooth beach. So I guess what I'm trying to say is when things get crazy, we just got to put together the sand -- take our beach back. I love you, and I know that we're going to be able to stay on the shore. I know that no matter how rough the waters get, you just got to fight with me.

How can AMC go wrong?!

OMG! Was that really AMC dialogue? *shakes head*

No nomination for BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL?

Brad Bell/Kay Alden/Patrick Mulcharey: unfairly snubbed in favor of mediocrity!

Oh, are you kidding? With fabulous Bugler gems like this:

Each grain of sand, individually, is very rough and hard and sharp and really not all that pretty. But when you put them all together, you get this beautiful beach, this beautiful, soft, smooth beach. So I guess what I'm trying to say is when things get crazy, we just got to put together the sand -- take our beach back. I love you, and I know that we're going to be able to stay on the shore. I know that no matter how rough the waters get, you just got to fight with me.

How can AMC go wrong?!

Wow, I am a longtime lurker, and while I have read of the hot mess that is apparently Bulger's scripts, I have never actually seen any of it for myself. This is sooo very bad; so incredibly heavy handed.

OMG! Was that really AMC dialogue? *shakes head*

Even worse, I'd bet it was in the breakdown, too.

"Take our beach back"? Are you kidding me!?

Whatever happened to, "I'm not giving up on us...and I won't let you give up on us, either"? I mean, what the hell does Ryan Lavery (and I'm assuming it's Ryan, 'cuz no one else would say something that idiotic) know about a metaphor, anyway?

No nomination for BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL?

Brad Bell/Kay Alden/Patrick Mulcharey: unfairly snubbed in favor of mediocrity!

WORD!

My head hurts from trying to untangle Bugler's beach analogy. Just what, pray tell, is she saying here? Is the speaker (Ryan?) attempting to compare his/her relationship to the beach, or to the water?

See? Exactly! Exactly! That's one of the main things about that speech that makes no sense. Never mind that it's simply awkward and clumsy, and as ladybird said, "heavy handed" (don't get me started on when Bugler writes sexual innuendo), I still have no idea what it means!

OMG! Was that really AMC dialogue? *shakes head*

Given to one of AMC's greatest thespians ever... Cameron Mathison.

It was just a sad mess all around.