AMC: Thursday 2/5/09

[marceline]

They've said a number of times that the pregnancy was troubled and that they didn't know if Gabrielle would make it past the sixth month.

And the Prego pimping made Best Week Ever:

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2009/02/05/for-...ime-tv-history/

[alwaysAMC]

^^That is hilarious - and this script writer should be embarrased as hell. I hear she's out anyway - probably just for this.

[R Sinclair]

Damn... should I even watch this episode?

[alwaysAMC]

^If only for Rebecca's last episode....(Right?) The goodbye scenes were sad.

[marceline]

My favorite is the comment under the vid where someone says "When he looks to his right, just before saying the product name—this is the moment you can plainly see he hates his life."

I love BWE.com.

And yes, Rebecca's goodbye broke my heart. LK really knows how to tug at the heartstrings.

[DeeeDee]

Pratt wasted Laura Koffman.

[Adam]

I'd really like to know what the hell happened with that one.....

He certainly dropped the ball on it big time.... She should have been a keeper.

[alwaysAMC]

Surely it can't all be Pratt's fault? Why start this huge story and bring on a big daytime actress, only to completely drop it THAT HARD 3/4 of the way through? Rebecca and Natalia was his big first Jesse/Angie story and he started it right when he came on board. It was going well and it was like Rebecca was going to live....then all of a sudden those two characters completely drop off the planet, and then there is this quick one day return for her exit. It sounds like some backstage drama where he was forced to sit on the storyline until decisions were made by the higher ups/execs?

[DeeeDee]

Ditto.

He really did.

Laura did wonders with a horribly underwritten character.

Pratt doesn't like The Hubbards.

Once he became HW they disappeared.

[marceline]

He seems to halfway like Angie but poor Jesse has been reduced to showing up at crime scenes.

[alwaysAMC]

I don't think he doesn't like them...I mean one of his first stories was this mysterious past of Jesse's...right?

But yes, I do believe he prefers Angie over Jesse...and in the last few months Jesse has been reduced to an amped version of Derek Frye. Because yeah, the latter half of this Rebecca storyline was all about Angie and Rebecca getting along and their reactions, etc.

I will say Frankie's airtime has been reduced ever since Brot showed his face and Randi's pimp was killed. And Randi has now just taken over Amanda's place at Fusion...now that Amanda has stepped up into the Babe role with more storyline.

[Adam]

Yeah, its clear the Hubbards are not a priority for Pratt...... I am very interested to see just where their story goes once Rebecca is out of the picture for good.

Anyone notice though that the Hubbards are in the banner at abc.com's AMC site....

I found that interesting. I still often wonder why Adam isn't there.

[marceline]

Yeah, I'm really disappoint in the way this story was handled. I know a lot of people hated Rebecca but I really wanted her to stay on. Main characters should have lots of messy complicated relationships. Having Jesse's ex-wife and daughter in town would actually solidify the Hubbard presence. And if they put Rebecca with Tad now we have the makings of the kind of weird extended family that is a staple of soaps. But instead Rebecca's going to be dead soon, Natalia's living 90% of her life offscreen and Frankie vanishes a little more every week.

[DeeeDee]

He treats Angie like David does.

Like Jesse sending Angie to her room when Jake visited or Angie's bubbleheaded speech to David that got her arrested.

Jesse's worse.

Pratt's made him into Derek 2.0 & not in a good way.

Cornelius & Shannon are wallpaper.

And Rebecca's dead.

[DeeeDee]

It didn't even qualify as a story.

It was a contrived plot device to give Darnell & Debbi something to do as a way to avoid writing for them.

The whole godawful story has been about Angie.

Jesse didn't even merit consideration & it really showed via Darnell.

Cornelius has been working hard but he's shackled to DV's non acting ass.

And certain viewers have used his beating up Fletcher ONCE to pretty much write the character & actor off altogether.

DV still can't act but she has more spark with Daniel Kennedy than Cornelius.