AMC: Monday 2/9/09

[rsmith2k2]

I agree they shouldn't be getting married right now. Tired of Zach/Reese scenes. Recognize the Reese problems and the stereotypes just like everybody else. I still want soaps to try and write gay and lesbian storylines. That's all.

I thought Aiden trying to explain all that background was a bit much to take in.

I don't know if I dig Petey and Colby anymore. I almost want him with Randi now.

Erica being a soft touch, trying to be a supportive freind to Bianca was nice.

Still not digging Zach's reactions to Kendall.

Greenlee's being so sweet to Kendall. They're building up the Kenlee love just to smash my heart.

Loved MCE's expression for Annie when thinking she'd gotten one over on Bitch Doctor. Boy Howdy Westmore can bring the weird.

[DRW50]

If they want to sell a story about a lesbian wedding, which is what they continue to push to the press, why not just have Bianca and Reese show up for a few months for the wedding? Reese and Bianca would have had plenty of story, given the inevitable clashes between Reese and the Kane women. Or, if they had to do the story with Bianca having Zach's child, why not just focus on the fallout there, instead of killing Josh to give Kendall a heart (which didn't even have enough drama to last more than a week), or on Reese falling in love with Zach? For the time they've had Bianca, they've barely used her as anything other than a bystander for Zeese. I don't think they care about Bianca, because they don't want to write for a lesbian. It's easier for them to try to use Bianca in an attempt to make a new character, Reese, popular, to help push Zach further in the direction of Sonny Corinthos, and then hope people will love Tamara Braun as much as they do and will become fixated on her relationship with Zach.

I don't know if this story would have been told better with more time, because other stories which have actors with longer contracts, like David's return, also seem poorly paced and haven't done a good job of communicating motivations. I think this was a very bad mishmash of ideas from the start, stories which probably never would have worked.

I haven't seen indications yet that Pratt knows how to tell a story. Or, if he does know how, Frons isn't letting him tell them.

[ChitHappens]

I agree with you. I just don't see good storytelling here. I really don't. Pratt is not telling a lesbian story at all, but this really does not bug me. I am not excited about whether Pratt or anyone else makes history with a lesbian story. I just want the story, and it's not happening.

ANDREA