AMC: Jesse Spoiler

[dragonflies]

From an article at cnn.com

[Vanguardian]

Lame! This completely undermines everything that happened all those years ago! I'm glad to see Debbi and Darnell again, but honestly, Jesse is supposed to be so dead after those heartwrenching scenes that played out years ago!

[kandbar]

If the TIIC can save Erica Kane's aborted child, they can surely bring back the dead. I can't wait until they bring Joe Martin's son down from the attic. I wonder why it's taking him so long to find his skis?

[reallyhateskateonlost]

OY. This is the best they can come up with?

[LoyaltoAMC]

According to B&E, Agnes came up with the idea of how to resurrect Jesse. I love Agnes, but there was no plausible way for even the best writer to bring him back from the dead, given that we saw his death bed scene.

[Khan]

Yeah, faking his death to protect his family is a lame plot device, but IMO, that's the only way Jesse would ever leave Angie and Frankie like he did. Otherwise, you're suggesting Jesse didn't want his family anymore, and as Marland once said, "He wouldn't do that."

[DevotedToAMC]

I am interested to see how the story will play out but we have had these types of stories on soaps before where someone fakes a death to protect someone or a character leaves town (not fake a death but still, in both situations, they leave the show) to protect a certain someone.

I am just glad the two are back

[Angela]

http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/...=tv#articleFull

Daytime’s ’80s ‘supercouple’ returns to ‘All My Children’

Angie and Jesse are about to be reunited and it feels so right.

One of daytime’s most memorable couples from the 1980s is returning to ABC’s “All My Children.”

Wait a minute. Didn’t Jesse die on camera?

“I’m the same character, but it’s a whole new experience,” said actor Darnell Williams. “They had to figure out a way to bring him back to life. The word is that apparently he never died. He had to fake his death in order to secure the safety of his family.”

In their ’80s heyday, the duo was dubbed daytime’s first African-American supercouple. Two decades later, network soaps have few contract players of color.

“I think it has moved a thousand steps backwards,” said actress Debbi Morgan (Angie). “It just amazes me that here we are in 2008 and we have so little representation on daytime. I don’t understand it and I think it’s shameful.”

Williams, who has coached some of the actors on the soap since 2001, said the lack of diversity is one of the reasons they were approached to return to the series.

“I think ‘All My Children’ kind of shot themselves in the foot by allowing the canvas to become so nondiversified,” he said. “And they found themselves sort of chasing their tails trying to figure out how to fix it . . . They came up with the idea, ‘Well, why not bring this core couple back that had such an appeal to such a broad audience?’ ”

Morgan said it took her only about 30 seconds to accept the soap’s offer to reprise her role.

“I can’t remember a time in my career where I felt so welcomed,” Morgan said. “It was like a homecoming. There were members of the crew that were here 20 years ago. It was just so heartfelt, it made me cry. I couldn’t believe it. I’ve played the character for so long, it’s like stepping into a pair of old shoes, as they say.”

Since ABC announced the duo’s return last month, the response from fans has astonished both actors.

“The amount of people that are interested still is kind of overwhelming,” Williams said. “The first thing they usually say, ‘I’m going to call my mother and my sisters and my brother right away and tell them that “All My Children” is back on the block.’ ”

Both actors have signed on for four years. Morgan reprises the role she began playing in 1982 tomorrow at 1 p.m. on WCVB (Ch. 5). Dr. Angie Hubbard Foster, now an infectious disease specialist, is called to Pine Valley to treat patients suffering from a mysterious ailment. On Jan. 25, Williams, who began playing Jesse in 1981, makes his first appearance.

Morgan and Williams, who refer to each other as family, have remained close friends since departing the series. They worked together on the ABC soaps “Loving” and “The City” (where Darnell played Jesse look-alike Jacob). Last year, they toured in the play “U Got Me Bent and Twisted.” But they don’t want their off-screen rapport to make it onscreen any time soon.

“I hope it’s going to be a while until everything reconciles,” Williams said. “I hope they take it at a decent pace to where the audience will believe it. If they go too quickly and make us a happily ever couple, that gets kind of boring. But I have faith that they are going to do the right thing.”

Morgan has made it clear to producers that she doesn’t want Angie in any preposterous story lines.

Soaps have changed a lot since I was on, and so many of the stories are so over the top and crazy to me,” she said. “The kind of actress that I am, I couldn’t play all that hokey kind of stuff. So I would really like to see the shows return to more real-life drama that’s akin to what goes on with people in their everyday life. I think when you can hit at that human core, it’s going to make a big

[DeeeDee]

Love her. So much.

[DevotedToAMC]

I am with you DeeeDee....very pleased that Morgan spoke up and made it clear she will not play any bad storylines. If they just were to bring her back to give her crap storytelling, what would be the point of the return? I know Cady McClain (Dixie) came back to the show in 2005 because the story looked exciting but the execution happened to be poorly penned. But I have no doubts that Morgan will see to it that the execution goes well.

[alwaysAMC]

Debbi Morgan

[DeeeDee]

Yep. That's dedication to what's best for the show!

[tina m]

So glad to hear he's alive and not a ghost! This should be great, I can't wait to see Jesse/Angie.

[Khan]

Love you to pieces, Ms. Morgan, but I think you'll be in for the fight of your life.

[DevotedToAMC]

Unless B&E and Carruthers are gone. Odds are B&E have already gotten pink slips and Carruthers is nearly on her way out. We can only hope