AMC: MMT has some nerve

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

Megan McTavish is like nearly 60 as well.

She turns 59 this year...I wonder if we should all pitch in and give her a birthday gift :lol:

Replies 112
Views 10.4k
Created 17 yr17 yr
Last Reply 17 yr17 yr

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

I'd agree that Megan was good at first, but she had a lot more to work with. Her big storylines of 2003 (Bianca's rape, Michael's murder and the Greenlee/Jack reveal), for example, were just built off of storylines that were already there. That's Megan's style, though (usually), she can be really good and hit the ground running, but then not only does she run out of steam, she loses her god d@mn marbles and starts writing destructive storylines.

McTavish did inherit a lot of positive aspects. I'd argue that when Anna Cascio joined Gordon Rayfield, the show went on an immediate upswing and the show was getting better by the day by the time their work stopped airing. The BAD aspects of the show at that time were things could be easily swept away. For example, when McTavish took over, she got rid of the newbies, and ended a lot of storylines that weren't working, very easily. By the time McTavish left, her "stamp" she had put on the show could never be undone, her damage has lasting ramifications that the show to this day suffers from.

B&E's tenure right now? Much ado about nothing. It's boring and forgettable as others have said, but destructive, oh they don't even holding a freak candle to McTavish.

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

McTavish took a chainsaw to AMC, B&E have used a dull weedwacker to do their damage.

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

She turns 59 this year...I wonder if we should all pitch in and give her a birthday gift

Let's get her something very appropriate, since we all love her so much!! :lol:

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

I'll stir up a batch of birthday pancakes!

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

I'll stir up a batch of birthday pancakes!

Maybe Cady McClain can help you? I'm sure she would put a lot of love into them!

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

Let's get her something very appropriate, since we all love her so much!!

I will get her a tampon just for the hell of it. Who knows maybe she has not gone through menopause yet :lol:

But man that woman going through her periods....ouch! It would be like Godzilla trying to squeeze through two pencil shaped buildings.

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

I'll stir up a batch of birthday pancakes!

Not just pancakes but PEANUT BUTTER pancakes :lol:

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

And watch it, Megs! Don't piss off B&E too much or else they might get rid of your niece Courtney Bugler.

Edited January 22, 200817 yr by Kubla Khan

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

Don't forget the peanut butter! Or the bananas!

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

The funny thing is that B&E seemed so deferential to McTavish in their first interviews after taking the head writer job. They were really hesitant to criticize any of her stories - even though any criticism would have been much deserved.

Edited January 22, 200817 yr by Faulkner

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

I just hope they reverse the unabortion and restore the history. I would not want Josh to leave since I like him but they should make him the child Erica thought she miscarried with Phil. It can easily be done

Edited January 22, 200817 yr by DevotedToAMC

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

Well, they kind of slammed her for the Dixie story. But you're right, they could've REALLY blasted her writing but they didn't.

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

I mean, who in the hell dies over poisoned pancakes? So stupid

January 22, 200817 yr

Member

I think you're all missing the point of this article - B&E are back and our hopes for new headwriters have been dashed!

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

No registered users viewing this page.

Guiding Light Discussion Thread

Agreed, I think Blake became a woman who learned from her mistakes and grew up. I too wanted them to be the core couple after the Tori thing, as a matter of fact, around Wheeler after Simon left I wanted them to move into the Bauer house..( I would have Blake say that this is the closet thing she knew as a home )SORAS the kids, and bring Sam back..Dinah would have a very contentious relationship with her, as she would be jealous of Ross and Sam's relationship, and Blake and Dinah would have that tension (ya, know cause she killed his brother) it would be a core family that had some fissures leading to good drama. But now, Wheeler and company though the Coopers should be the core.

By Mitch64 · 46 minutes ago46 min
BTG: December 2025 Discussion Thread

Agree that great minds can think alike :)
In terms of Derek, I see the show doing one of two things based on the most recent episodes that featured him.
1) They do the gradual fade-out of the character until he stops appearing and is occasionally mentioned by Jacob (i.e. still living and existing in town, just not being seen). We saw some evidence with him having a group of co workers he's friends with, plus a female co worker interested in him... so possibly we see him regain his walking and go back to his life with the Fire crew and eventually we stop seeing them on air.
2) His mentioning to Jacob that he hopes to win Ashley back signals that perhaps the dark side we saw glimpses of has been hidden and will rear itself if she appears to be moving on with a new guy.
In terms of Ashley, the show seems committed to keeping her character on the show especially since she was shown in the Thanksgiving episode having a quiet day with Jan and Mona as they discuss Black Friday shopping, food, and other day to day matters... so I think delving into her backstory in terms of who her father is would be a good place for the show to go while keeping her as a good friend to Naomi, Shanice, and a good nurse during medical stories.
Perhaps one of the children of the handsome new doctor could be her love interest down the line.

By Soaplovers · 1 hour ago1 hr
As The World Turns Discussion Thread

Re: 1978. I'm glad the unedited version of the episode complete with commercials is available. The one that has been posted several years ago had several segments missing. I like Barbara's long hair here. Dr. Steven Farrell didn't last very long I take it since she is re-connecting with Tom (Tom Tammi) by 1979. The actor playing Steven (Phil Peters) was the real-life husband of Lenore Kasdorf (Rita GL).

By SoapDope78 · 1 hour ago1 hr
Guiding Light Discussion Thread

Oh, how I wish we'd gotten to see Ross deal with his teenage sons. I loved his relationships with Phillip and Sam, but he really deserved to be seen with his own kids (other than the horror that became Dinah). The boys simply disappeared off canvas after either the Nursery Stalker or the affair with Tori.

By P.J. · 1 hour ago1 hr
Guiding Light Discussion Thread

What I liked about Bloss is that I liked how they grew to be the stable couple- the closest to an Ed and Mo in their prime. Especially after the Tori story when their extra-marital exploits were in the past. I wanted them to SORAS the three kids, along with Dinah and with Phillip's family as Ross's extended family would really be solid core family material.
With that said, I was rooting against Bloss in 1999 as I really liked the Ross/India pairing-- but that just turned out to be a waste of MKA.

By Spoon · 1 hour ago1 hr
GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

They did reveal Austin's shooter...about a year and a half later.

By DRW50 · 2 hours ago2 hr
Your daily (or nightly) thought

My Queen Kylie is always trying to get a Christmas hit, so spin it:

By te. · 2 hours ago2 hr
GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

They did actually resolve who shot Austin over a year later (it was Cyrus, as part of his hasty exit story). That was a last minute save though clearly when they forgot lol.

By Vee · 2 hours ago2 hr
Talkin' 'Bout TV Movies

I love those old TV movies, especially the ones from the 70's and 80's. The ABC movie of the week had a ton of them. Like
Satan's School for Girls (1973)
All My Darling Daughter's (1972)
Gidget Gets Married (1972)
The Girl Who Came Gift Wrapped (1974)
The Two Worlds of Jenny Logan (1979)
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)
Death Cruise (1974)
Here is the 70's ABC opening. The theme music "Nikki" was composed by Burt Bacharach and named for his daughter with Angie Dickinson.

By SoapDope78 · 2 hours ago2 hr
Looking back...Primetime Ratings from the 80's

The return of sitcoms' popularity in the mid-'80s was a real thing, but the crash of the wealth-based nighttime soap genre was resonate and self-induced.

There was an effectively grim finality to the mood of the cliffhangers in the Spring of 1985: Bobby's death, the Moldavian massacre, the return of Val's babies... and they felt as if they could have ended right there (and perhaps they should have, although I would have sorely missed S10 of Dallas, S6 of FC, and Season 9 of Dynasty , and the next five years of KNOTS as they singularly maintained quality).

But, wow, these shows just fell apart post-Spring 1985. They stopped being character dramas after a while, and just started trying to "impress" viewers in some superficial way and to "fake it" somehow.

What a painful, unnecessary slide it was. But once these shows seemed to lose their identities, their sense of self, their momentum into the dung heap couldn't be slowed.

By soapfan770 · 2 hours ago2 hr

Sign In

AMC: MMT has some nerve

Featured Replies

Archived

Recently Browsing 0

Recent Posts

Guiding Light Discussion Thread

BTG: December 2025 Discussion Thread

As The World Turns Discussion Thread

Guiding Light Discussion Thread

Guiding Light Discussion Thread

GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

Your daily (or nightly) thought

GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

Talkin' 'Bout TV Movies

Looking back...Primetime Ratings from the 80's

Important Information

Account

Navigation

Search

Configure browser push notifications

Chrome (Android)

Chrome (Desktop)

Safari (iOS 16.4+)

Safari (macOS)

Edge (Android)

Edge (Desktop)

Firefox (Android)

Firefox (Desktop)