Members Paul Raven Posted October 6, 2008 Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 Hope you enjoy this.if you want more details,just ask... Most Entertaining Couple Buzz/Nadine GL Most Boring Couple John/Sharlene AW Best Tearjerker BJ's Death GH Best Plot Device Eric's Vasectomy B&B Most Preposterous Plot Janet's Surgery AMC Most Convuluted Plot The Search for Scott ATWT Best Wacko Laura DOOL Best Reformation Todd OLTL Best Triangle Bo/Billie/Gina DOOl Worst Triangle Cal/Connor/Kirk ATWT Best Break Up John/Jill Y&R Worst Break Up David/Kat GL Best Trend May/December Romances Donna/Matt AW Dorian/Joey OLTL Vanessa/Matt Gl Worst Trend Convenient Disabilities Luna OLTL Angie LOV Amanda AW Best Blind Person Hope Y&R Worst Blind Person Tony DOOL Most Realistic Illness Monica's Cancer GH Best Special Effects Tornado AMC Best Reconciliation Jake/Paulina AW Best Prime Time Break Up Kelly/Dylan 90210 Most Shocking Plot Twist Powell's The Rapist OLTL Most Shocking Twist Prime Time Kimberly's Alive MP Best New Character Noah AMC Best Recast Krista Tesrau Tina OLTL Worst New Male Character Justus GH Worst New Female Character Gabriella GL Best Golden Oldies Nancy/Mac ATWT Most Realistic Teen Pete ATWT Best Contemporary Story Jamal and Alec's Divorce Case AMC Worst Contemporary Story Brandon Plays Politics 90210 Best Male Comeback Wesley Addy - Cabot LOV Best Female Comeback Hunter Tylo - Taylor B&B Most Dramatic Story Jack/Keemo Y&R Least Dramatic Story Lily/Miguel GH Best Quadrangle Eddie/Lois/Ned/Katherine Worst Quadrangle Alex/Ava/Jeremy/Gilbert LOv Best Bickering Dinner at Wildwind AMC Most Contrived Conflict Max's Gambling OLTL Smartest Character Kevin GH Dumbest Character Buck LOV Best Wedding Alex/Asa OLTL Most Disappointing Wedding Edmund/maria AMC Best Wife Eleni GL Worst Husband Michael MP Best Father Ed GL Worst Mother Nikki Y&R Best Housekeeper Mamie Y&R Worst Housekeepers Donna/Ginger GL Best Confession Samantha Comes Clean ATWT Worst Crush Marty Loves Andrew OLTL Most Realistic Couple Ally/Casey LOV Least realistic Couple Blade/Ashley Y&R Best Daughter Erica AMC Worst Daughter Sami DOOL Best Scam Vicky's Baby Switch AW Best Scam Gone Wrong David's Lies OLTL Most Rejuvenated Characters The Spauldings GL Biggest Waste of Talent Michael Sabatino B&B Most Entertaining Character Lucy GH Most Ruined Character Danny Y&R Best Movie Rip-Off Felicia's Misery AW Best Gimmick Salute To Hollywood Fashion Show B&B Best Mystery Who Shot Roger? GL Most Improved Show Loving Best Show General Hospital Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members y&r_fan Posted October 6, 2008 Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 They forgot one... Most Boring New Actress: Sharon Case (Y&R) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JackPeyton Posted October 6, 2008 Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 She wasnt really new. She had been on GH before that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted October 6, 2008 Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 And she wasn't really boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members y&r_fan Posted October 6, 2008 Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 She wasn't? My, how times have changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cashton Posted October 6, 2008 Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 Wow - Danny Y&R most ruined character? What did they do that ruined him so? Anyone remember? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 6, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 Here's what SOD said about Danny When Michael Damian announced that he was quitting Y&R to star in the Broadway musical Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,the writers devised an innovative exit for Danny. Send him to Broadway ,too , But soon,sweet Danny was doing one uncharacteristic thing after another. First, he sent Christine that cowardly "Dear Jane" letter. Then he returned to Genoa City with his horrible new wife Phyllis,close on his heels. (Would Danny ever really ever sleep with her?) Paradoxically, Christine is more interesting than she was when she was Danny's devoted wife. What a shame though,that her rise mirrors Danny's fall. The Y&R writers are going to have to work overtime to bring back the real Danny,the one we used to love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 6, 2008 Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 WOOT for Loving getting most improved. WHat was Angie's disability though? WOOT for Loving getting most improved. WHat was Angie's disability though? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dc11786 Posted October 6, 2008 Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 "Loving" earned the nod. Nixon turned the show around from the boring mess Guza/Taggert and then Taggert alone wrote. Taggert should have none better to introduce three new characters and put them front in center in a mysterious love triangle. Nixon turned the show into gold by refocusing the show around the Aldens. Unfortunately, Walsh & McCarthy couldn't keep things up. The Jeremy/Gilbert plotline was probably Nixon's last stand. It played out a lot like the Jonathan Maitland story as a way of restarting an old love story that had since soured. Nixon has stated she loved the supernatural Jonathan Maitland tale, which is shocking since most people consider her so against the supernatural. Most of the 'greats' had a flair for the gothic and slightly supernatural. I think Gwyn Alden has the record for sleeping with three different men who she thought was someone else ("Keith"/Jonathan, "Clay"/Alex, and "Jeremy"/Gilbert) Angie had an AIDS scare which was followed by a bout of aplastic anemia. As a result, Angie ended up passing out in Boston where she was held by the thug boyfriend of Janie Sinclaire, Buck's illegitimate daughter. This resulted in her needing bone marrow which was donated by Janie, who perished in a plane accident that Curtis engineered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 6, 2008 Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 I didn't know Agnes created Gilbert--I was never a big fan I admit. What were the three new characters Taggert created? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dc11786 Posted October 6, 2008 Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 The storylines seemed to get lost once Gilbert arrived. So yeah, I'd agree it wasn't one of the better storylines in 1994. I'm not positive Gilbert was Nixon's. A lot of things seemed to get zapped around August, which was when Gilbert arrived. Ava had been told by Uncle Harry someone was going to die when she was in a coma in April. Janie Sinclaire ended up dying, but I suspect the intended victim was Dinahlee. Jessica Collins left the show in August and went to New York to stay with Hannah. Janie had been intended to be Frankie's love interest and had been given substantial ties to Angie, the Aldens, and Buck. I got the impression Janie was intended to be another Erica Kane type. This is only speculation, but I think Dinahlee was intended to die in the plane crash, which would have had a bigger impact on Ava. Also in early September, the big Cradle Foundation mystery ended with Kate turning AE back over to the Aldens, which was such a lame ending to a rather big life changing storyline. Ava in charge of AE was a lifetime goal for this character and would have put strain on her marriage to Alex. Alex was very close to the Alden clan because of his time as Clay. McCarthy and Walsh should have continued that storyline. The reason given for the 'Gilbert' storyline was to try and reactivate the coupling between Lisa Peluso and Jean LeClerc. I've read the two had strong chemistry but the characters didn't click. Jonathan Maitland returned from the dead and kidnapped his younger brother Keith Lane right around the time Nixon took over from Marland in 1985. Jonathan was a spoiler to the Lorna/Linc Beecham pairing as well as Jim/Shana. Jonathan had this huge grudge against Jim and Shana, even though he was more involved with Doug Donovan due to their shared wife Edy Lester. Anyway, the evil brother taking over the good brother's life and sleeping with the show's vixen who was in a happy union seemed like quite a retread. I believe the Jeremy plot ended up being penned by three headwriting teams. As much as I've liked what I've read about Nixon's return to "Loving", I think she made a mistake in writing out Shana and Leo. They seemed like a very interesting couple and there was certainly story to tell there when they brought Jack back. In 1993, there was a big to do about Curtis Alden's return to Corinth. Taggert created this past with Buck Houston (Trucker's long lost half brother), Tess Wilder (Christopher's nanny), and later Joe Young/Dante Partou. Most of 1993 was spent about the trio (Buck/Tess/Curtis) past in the Persian Gulf. Curtis and Dinahlee seemed interesting, but Curtis was written out without the intention of recasting under Taggert after being recast twice. To be fair though, "Loving" seemed to have several major transitions between after Taggert left in 1991. Different executive producers kept coming and going and writing the Aldens in and out of the storyline depending on how they wanted to focus the show. Jacquelin Babbin seemed keen on writing them off while Fran Sears seemed more behind bringing them back and then Haidee Granger seemed involved in bringing on the AMC castoffs as she was behind both the arrivals of Jeremy and Angie. To be fair, it probably took a writer with some clout to get the show in order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 6, 2008 Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 I always thougth Agnes penned the Dante stuff... I do agree with nearly everything u say tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dc11786 Posted October 6, 2008 Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 Taggert created the character in the sense of his backstory. Tess' husband was referred to a lot before he actually appeared as that was the big mystery backstory, Buck and Curtis had been involved in Dante's death in Kuwait. I would suspect casting was going on when Taggert was still head writing as the character appeared around the time the show was transitioning from Taggert to Nixon. Dante didn't appear until early November, which was around the time that Nixon started writing. However, the story for Dante's arrival had been in place for severa months. It was all for nothing though because Dante was written out because of backlash over featuring a Middle Eastern villain in March 1994. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted October 6, 2008 Author Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 Here's what SOD said about Loving: if we had written this issue about eight months ago,Loving would have probably been the contender for a lot more Worats and no Bests whatsoever. but it's amazing what a new villianess, drug problem and a resurrected patriach can do for a show. Deborah's schemes,Casey's addiction and Cabot's return from the dead have kicked off a slew of stories that we actually care about. The writing is better and has resulted in a number of scenes - Buck's plane crash,Cooper streaking through the bank and Isabelle making Deborah carry her suitcases to mention three - that will long be remembered. Dennis Parlato(Clay),Amelia Heinle(Steffi),Nancy Addison Altman(Deborah)and Michael Weatherly(Cooper) tend to get all the accolades where this show's acting is concerned, but the truth is,almost everyone's good:it's just that those four performers are consistently front burner. We look forward to the days that Debbi Morgan(Angie)Alimi Ballard(Frankie)Geoffrey Ewing(Charles)Catherine Hickland(Tess) and Elizabeth Mitchell(DinahLee) aren't so shockingly underused. Of course,mistakes have been made this year. Janie,the freshest face that Corinth had seen in a while,should never have died in the plane crash and Christopher Marcantel (Curtis) should not have been dropped to recurring status. But the show has recovered nicely from the departures,and Alex and Ava have filled the void created by Leo and Shana's sudden exit. With Loving's unfortunate timeslot(it kicks off the ABC lineup and in many areas competes with Y&R)nobody's holding their breath for the show to crawl up from the ratings cellar. but it would be a shame if soap fans confused this show's Nielson rating with it's quality; Loving is slowly but surely becoming a show that you really can't miss. Exec Producer Jo Ann Emmerich in response to "What's the best thing that happened to your show in 94?" "I'd say that the fact our wonderful writing team won the Writers Guild Award and that we continue to receive overwhelmingly positive support from the media as well as strong word of mouth from the fans." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 6, 2008 Members Share Posted October 6, 2008 Shame--I actually loved the Dante story--Curtis being his "pet" in the cage, all that stuff. I like when AGnes Nixon does wacky Thanks for posting that--Loving got paid so little attention during its run, it's heartening to read (I didn't know they got a writer's guild award!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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