Rebecca Budig is leaving AMC with a huge phone bill

I love this observation.

Cameron Mathison's acting is a JOKE (I don't know what happened there -- because he wasn't always so laughably RIDICULOUS), Rebecca Budig is leaving AMC with a huge phone bill, and Aiden Turner is, and remains, an embarrassment to actors. Let's just say this: Thank god for Melissa Claire Egan.

Sad thing is she is making next to nothing compared to these so called "soap stars" .

I've been waiting a while to post this, because AMC is MY soap.

If Pratt has improved AMC, it's been ever so slightly. The two things Pratt has done for AMC:

1. Balanced the canvas.

2. Injected juice.

I didn't need the tornadoes, certainly not three of them, but metaphorically they worked. (execution wise, the '94 tornado was the best). The fallout hasn't been much from the actual tornadoes, if you think of it, save Krystal/JR/David. The juice comes from the increased pacing, which also brings me to the two worst things Pratt has done for AMC:

1. Played scenes off canvas or skipped beats.

2. Created fake-out cliffhangers that are wearing thin.

In reference to #1, I'm not even referring to the fact that Bianca met Reese and Zack helped them father a child. I'm referring to the fact that David says hello to Crazy Annie at Wildwind and in the next scene, David's on the floor and Annie's no where to be found. I'm referring to the fact that someone stabbed Lucci and suddenly she's in a hospital bed all recovered and no one talks about what happened! I'm referring to the fact that one minute Amanda wants the money to get JR and the next minute she cares for him. (Which in essence is great drama, but it's played minute by minute, i.e. skipped beats) I'm referring to the fact that Jesse and Rebecca built a freakin' LIFE together and other than some reminsicing from Natalia with UPSed ornaments, Jesse acts like he barely knows her. And did I miss when Frankie suddenly decided to accept all this and lay off his father? Musta been Randi's Wonder Cooch, because no one has referred to that either. The only thing that seems to playing all the beats and scenes is Taylor/Jake/Brot, and the other day, even that storyline had me thinking what the hell because there was a

fake cliffhanger

1. Brot falls in the hospital. Fade out Friday. Fade in Monday. Brot's checking out.

2. Krystal goes careening off the Wildwind driveway and hits something. Fade out Friday. Fade in Monday. Krystal is wrapped in a blanket on the sofa telling Opal she's getting over the flu.

3. Jesse encounters Natalia in the hall and says what the hell are you doing here. Fade out Friday. Fade in Monday. Jesse and Angie are talking at the hospital; never mind Natalia in the hall.

4. Annie has blood and guts hanging from a hunting knife in her crazy bridal dress at ConFusion. Erica lies artfully in a pool of blood in the bathroom. Fade out Friday. Fade in Monday. Annie's being checked in and we don't see Erica nor hear about it for almost a WEEK!

And the worst offender??

Annie jumps off the balcony of the "tippy-top" "penthouse" floor (to quote Friday's ep). Fade out Friday. Fade in Monday. Greenlee rushes to the balcony, looks over the edge, whips around and says to Ryan,

"She made it."

McTavish-Dark and Twisty

B&E-Sextet happy and boring

Pratt-B.S. Jerking of my Chain

Ever so slightly, all I'm sayin'.

AMC isn't amazing, but it's good.

Pratt still has his weak points. I hate how almost everyone in town seems to have an agenda. It reminds me of his days on GH. He's done nothing really to ameliorate the problem that is Rylee. Instead he's made a little worser. I also hate the 360 he's done with Annie, but it's been pretty damn entertaining though.

And really WTF is going on with Aidan?

He has a couple of characters that are like out there doing nothing at the moment too. i.e. Aidan.

I gotta credit Pratt with doing the impossible, he's made me like a Carey. I never thought I'd say that.

I agree with a lot of what was already said, especially by SteveFrame, cct & Kylie. Pratt has improved the show considerably from the mess that McT and B&E created.

The returns of David & Bianca have re-energized AMC. David's feud with the Martins and Chandlers brought back some much-needed conflict that won't be resolved quickly like Greenlee/Kendall under B&E. I'm so glad Pratt has taken Krystal out of Adam's orbit; their pairing never worked for me and it was getting boring to watch them constantly go back and forth. Adam finally has his backbone back & his bickering with Erica is entertaining even though I don't like them as a couple. Erica has also reverted to her true self and is once again fun to watch.

Annie's psychosis was a storyline Pratt inherited from B&E and imo he's improved upon it by addressing the fact that Ryan & Greenlee drove her there. B&E had Kendall getting in Annie's face about her sanity instead of dealing with what led to her breakdown. I'm grateful to Pratt for putting Kendall into a coma so we didn't have to hear her pimping Rylee all the time, too.

I don't mind Zach siring Bianca's child because to me it is completely in character for the man who married his son's ex-girlfriend out of spite. Yes, he should have told Kendall and imo that responsibility was his instead of her sister's since he was living with Kendall and seeing her every day. Now, instead of dreading seeing Kendall again due to her harping, I can't wait to see what happens when she finds out the truth!

Sure, the show is far from perfect. Taylor/Brot are too isolated from the rest of the cast, Randi and Colby need to be recast if their characters are going to stick around, and there are too many scenes we didn't get to see like Erica being stabbed and the aftermath Krystal's accident. For the most part, though, it is a huge improvement over anything written by B&E and McT.

Edited December 29, 200816 yr by Steve

Not seeing much improvement over B&E. There's been more character assassination under him than there was with B&E. He's even continuing the "Babe is a saint" mantra. Sure he killed her off, but continues to prop her in death

how has there been MORE under him?

and if by pimping her in death you mean using the death of someone that JR & Krystal loved as long term storyline then you are correct. Because honestly, aside from them no one is really sad shes dead. No one props her up.

I think the only characters he is writing in character is Adam/Erica, Erica has been revitalized, but he needs to put up or shut up when it comes to Adam/Erica. They're stagnant right now

I love the tango those two are doing.

B&E ruined Greenlee's return, but Pratt outdid them, he destroyed a KANE woman(Bianca) who is a core/legacy character in one fell swoop(even SOD says they want to know who this stranger who calls herself Bianca is, she's become that unrecognizable). McTrash ruined Greenlee in '05 with Rylee, and given their(B&E) lack of writing talent couldn't do much for the character. Pratt is supposed to have some semblance of writing talent, but keeps making blunder after blunder

SOD says so? WOW! They must be right. They dont ever cater to fanbases or anything. Just report cold hard facts and truths! What some may say ruined i say Bianca has become intersting and complex and human now that she has shed her perfect fairy wings.

His hard on for Ryan Lavery/Rylee makes me give him a huge thumbs down

Rylee is a frons mandate. we all know that.

Edited December 29, 200816 yr by JackPeyton

how has there been MORE under him?

and if by pimping her in death you mean using the death of someone that JR & Krystal loved as long term storyline then you are correct. Because honestly, aside from them no one is really sad shes dead. No one props her up.

Oh, silly JP, don't you know? A woman's husband and mother and son mourning her death is propping. Duh! No one does that in real life!

Oh, silly JP, don't you know? A woman's husband and mother and son mourning her death is propping. Duh! No one does that in real life!

damn AMS! What would i do without awesome smaricales to remind me of these things.

DUH! how i could ever think otherwise. I see the light now, and thank you my love.

damn AMS! What would i do without awesome smaricales to remind me of these things.

DUH! how i could ever think otherwise. I see the light now, and thank you my love.

You're welcome, dahling, very welcome. Sometimes you just have to put down the Kool-Aid, and only then shall you receive enlightenment!

You're welcome, dahling, very welcome. Sometimes you just have to put down the Kool-Aid, and only then shall you receive enlightenment!

i have a super random question/thought..

where did the term "dont drink the kool-aid" come from?

is it the peoples temple and jonestown? where those people all drank that koolaid that was tainted and they died?

I'm not completely sure where the Kool Aid stuff started. I always assumed that it meant that Kool Aid is something that everyone enjoys, even though it's easy to slip something in it, and so when someone is "drinkin the Kool Aid," it means that they're just taking what the show gives them, without questioning what's really behind it. I don't know, maybe that's a far-fetched explanation, but that's always what I just figured, subconsciously.

i have a super random question/thought..

where did the term "dont drink the kool-aid" come from?

is it the peoples temple and jonestown? where those people all drank that koolaid that was tainted and they died?

I'm about 95% sure that's where it comes from since the cult members drank the poison Kool-Aid and died.

Oh, silly JP, don't you know? A woman's husband and mother and son mourning her death is propping. Duh! No one does that in real life!

damn AMS! What would i do without awesome smaricales to remind me of these things.

DUH! how i could ever think otherwise. I see the light now, and thank you my love.

You're welcome, dahling, very welcome. Sometimes you just have to put down the Kool-Aid, and only then shall you receive enlightenment!

ROTFLMAO!!! Love this exchange!