Members Sylph Posted March 14, 2008 Members Share Posted March 14, 2008 Khan, know'st thou of anything else besides sarcasm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 14, 2008 Members Share Posted March 14, 2008 Sylph, know'st thou of the "Manage Ignored Users" function? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 14, 2008 Author Administrator Share Posted March 14, 2008 GH: - Mary Sue Price back as Script Writer on March 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted March 14, 2008 Members Share Posted March 14, 2008 Interesting. And expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NYC123 Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Does this mean GH will be the first soap to list all their writers back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 I do that with GH because... ...of exactly this reason. Believe me, Mary Sue Price is what attracted me to GH. I just so happened to have caught an episode of GH during the summer of 2000 on Soap Net. I enjoyed the dialog which got me hooked. That was back in the day when they would put the writing and directing credits at the end of the show, and it just so happened Mary Sue Price had written that episode. It got to a point that even during the boring McTavish year (2001 sans Michele Val Jean), no matter how inane the plotting was, I could always pinpoint a MSP episode by the dialog -- and 9 times out of 10, at the end of the show, I was right. Even to this day (well, pre-strike) if I see Michele Val Jean or Mary Sue Price as the day's scriptwriter, I will watch the entire episode just to listen to the dialog. I live for Mary Sue Price's confrontation scenes. Don't get me started on Joanna Cohen -- before the Beall Lovers come out and start throwing around the accusation that I'm either Cohen or her part time lover. But I do enjoy Cohen's writing. ... Well, to be clear, I have no STRONG feelings about Susan Wald's writing either way. I do agree with the assessment that I think her writing is hit or miss. I think she excels in writing relationship arguments. Like when Sonny and Tamara Braun's Carly used to argue, WHEW! Excellent fights between them. But for the most part with her writing, I'm always left thinking "Hmmm... more could've been said. That scene was just too... simple!" And I don't mean the scene length or what could have been, might've been edited, but just her dialog in general. With Michele Val Jean or Mary Sue Price, on the other hand, it's very crisp and concise. Tracy Thomson is definitely joining my list of favorites as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Oooh, this post has made me tingly! Here's a part of Mary Sue Price's dialogue you quoted, R, somewhere on this board: Delicious! And if I remember correctly, on AMC's side you loathe Chip Hayes, Jeff Beldner, Rebecca Taylor, Marla Kanelos, Courtney Bugler (of course, that Beach Speech was fabulous), Amanda L. Beall... Which is more or less the whole team! Maybe I forgot someone... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Also, I had to post this reminder of Patrick Mulcahey's scriptwriting abilities: Dear Brooke, I am staggered by the news of what happened to you. I cannot tell you how heartsick I am. I know how dreadful it seems now, my getting involved with this man Andy Johnson. I had no idea what he was capable of. I believed he could have been an answer for you, Brooke, for your loneliness. I was wrong. What I did was unforgivable. But please know that I never intended for things to happen as they did. I would not wish this on my worst enemy. I went too far. I would ask you to believe that it was only out of my desire to protect your children — misplaced perhaps, but not ill-intentioned. And for my part in the tragedy that has happened to you, I am so very sorry. I know you can never forgive me, and I will need some time away to try to forgive myself. Stephanie. And to conclude with: BROOKE: I will be a woman who has survived rape, proud and strong. I promise you that. I will be a survivor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Basically. Addie Walsh is still on probation in my eyes for writing that HORRIBLE 4th of July episode last year -- which Beall wrote the script for. I wasn't even funny, which I guess was its intention. It was just cruel. I've said plenty of times that AMC's team needs a major overhaul. There's too much garbage on that team. Especially Beall, who props all of McTavish's pets (Anything Lavery, All Things Carey and Tad). But my top three choices to get rid of are Beall, Bugler and Taylor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 It's weird that Jim and Babs didn't bring any of their friends to write for the show... They just hired Sara A. Bibel and Kate Hall, if I recall correctly. I wonder if Sara will show up on Y&R again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LeClerc Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 They brought Ron Renauld on as a script writer. He's a a friend of their's from Dynasty, Loving and The City. And his dialogue sucks. Plus they already had Marla Kanelos and Amanda L. Beall there when they started. And there's still time. I'm sure Tita Bell's name will be popping at soon enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 15, 2008 Author Administrator Share Posted March 15, 2008 I doubt Tita will leave a secure job at GL to join AMC when the Head Writers will probably be fired by the end of 2008. I just can't see them lasting long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Oh, yes, you're right about Ron! I just hope these two get fired soon! But little good will it do if they replace them with Latham, for example... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted March 15, 2008 Author Administrator Share Posted March 15, 2008 For every one bad script, there's 100 good scripts. Like I said before, I think B&B is all wrong for Patrick's writing abilities. B&B doesn't have any smart, witty, dynamic characters that Patrick can sink his teeth into - there's no Quartermaines, Capwells or Cassadines. Instead there's Brooke, Nick, Taylor, Ridge, Thorne, Donna, Eric, Rick, Bridget, etc Like really, Patrick rarely gets the chance to do anything special with those bland characters. Surely SB, GL, and GH fans, over a span of about 15 years, can't be wrong about the greatest script writer of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted March 15, 2008 Members Share Posted March 15, 2008 Well, this is what I was waiting for! For a great scriptwriter there are no such limitations. You just have to be able to assimilate a variety of styles and be at home in every one of them. So this just proves my point that he isn't all that much. What sort of a great scriptwriter need a certain type of characters to be great? I can acknowledge that some people think very high of him, and there were script I liked that he wrote. Yet, to be called the greatest scriptwriter of all time? That seems exaggerated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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