AMC: Elle Magazine article about AMC & Soaps in general

[dragonflies]

http://www.elle.com/featurefullstory/13993...y-children.html

I found this part interesting:

plot has increasingly trumped character development on soaps, says C. Lee Harrington, a sociology professor at Miami University who studies daytime TV. “The industry is really in trouble,” she says, “and soaps are doing everything they can to compete with prime time, which sometimes means characters making 180-degree turns. They’re trying to mimic the pace of prime time, but it doesn’t really go with the genre.”

[YRBB]

Amen.

[Faulkner]

Woah...who did the fact-checking on this piece?

[EricMontreal22]

Fantastic piece! I think I watch largely for the same reasons as the writer. I especially identified with this: "When I was younger, the soaps seemed a window into a wider world; now that I’m older, the world they depict seems soothingly small. "

[Jonathan]

Great article. I cringed however when she brought up fetus boy. When is the show going to fix their mistake and let us all know that he is not Erica's son? C'mon, there was no DNA test done!

[DeeeDee]

[Khan]

Ditto YRBB's Amen.

Wasn't there? Not trying to start an argument, Jonathan, but I thought there was (and I thought Tad was the one who ordered it). If there really wasn't one done, though...WOAH.

[Jonathan]

No. I'm 99.9999999% sure there wasn't a DNA test done. Can someone please confirm? Sorry to bring this up again but you know how this issue upsets me.

[DavidEvanSmith]

I thought Erica had a DNA test done, and once it was confirmed she kept it a secret for a while, and even tried to get Josh to leave Pine Valley before he found out the truth.

[Jonathan]

From what I recall, I think there was a Jeff-Josh test but not an Erica-Josh test. Maybe I'm just confused and this is all wishful thinking on my part.

But hey, if Ryan can go from being a Lavery to a Stamp and then back to being a Lavery, then Josh can be aborted again.

[Adam]

If there was a Josh-Jeff test it was never seen or mentioned on screen. When Tad told Erica the truth he said all they needed to do now is test Josh/Jeff to confirm. It never happened.

[Khan]

Well, son of a biscuit-eater.

Okay, Mr. Pratt. If you (or whatever assistants you might have on payroll) are reading this thread, then you know to do, lol.

Thanks, Adam!

[Jonathan]

Thanks Adam.

[kzinlove06]

There was a completed Josh/Erica test. Tad took a bloody napkin that Josh used to stop the bleeding on his arm after a drugged Erica stabbed Zach and then cut Josh's arm when he tried to restrain/disarm her. Tad ran a DNA test and found it to be a match. He then pulled Josh's birth certificate and found that Josh was born seven months after she aborted Jeff's baby. The night of the Mardi Gras Ball, Tad told Erica that a DNA test confirmed that Josh was her son and that the lab was running a Josh/Jeff test and they were awaiting confirmation.

From that point on, Josh was assumed to be a Martin by everyone including Dr. Joe.

[Jonathan]

Oh nutz! Well, this can still be rewritten. I want it rewritten damn it!