Members EricMontreal22 Posted November 22, 2009 Members Share Posted November 22, 2009 As am I. I hope they give Broderick at least the year that IMHO she deserves (I mean B/E and Pratt got more than that...) I also hopetherumours of Scott (or ANYONE) replacing JHC in LA are true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jonathan Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 When Pratt wasn't announced as the new EP to coincide with the move, I'm sure Pratt knew his time was expiring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juniorz1 Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 Well this is certainly reassuring news for AMC fans- they're getting a respectable head writer who's previous tenure(s) were well-received. I can't remember the last time AMC announced a head writing change that actually got me excited. I totally disagree. I didn't like his tenure at all and HATED the way he wrote Marcy Walker's Liza. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LoyaltoAMC Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 I liked Culliton's stuff at first, but then it just became one big confusing mess with the whole convoluted Proteus thing devouring the entire show. To this day, I have no idea what that storyline was about. Something about drug trafficking and Vanessa's split personality! Totally clueless LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 Yeah I NEVER could untangle Proteus--to me it was an example of an umbrella storyline taking over everything. I think many of the problems during his run weren't his fault--just a feeling--but his tenure, for as much as I enjoyed it, was riddled with dropped characters (Timmy being the most obvious) and storylines. I also am not sure he quite got the Pine Vally vibe to me (again by no means do I suggest the writers since have gotten it any better, except maybe the first few months of McT's return when she briefly really focused on family again) Not sure why i feel that way but... It honestly felt more like Another World or something to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LoyaltoAMC Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 Supposedly Culliton had a plan to revitalize the show, which included keeping vets front and center. From what I remember reading, he had major story in the works for Palmer, Opal, and Brooke. But that was the last thing that Frons, who had just succeeded Angela Shapiro, wanted to hear. He dumped Culliton and hired Rayfield, who tried to turn the show into a daytime version of "Sex and the City." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 I wasn't overly bothered because at least she wasn't stuck being the somewhat dry heroine. Liza had been drifting as a character for years. She shouldn't have been stuck as a prop to Mia but I thought it had some interesting moments. As for dropped stories like Timmy, I thought that was more due to Culliton being fired than due to his own plans. I did think the Proteus story was a mess, although I thought Vanessa's split personality and Trey as her son was good, if very flawed (I hated that they dumped him with the writer change). Otherwise I enjoyed more of his tenure than I didn't, and he was the last writer to give Brooke a storyline, he wrote for Anna/David, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 Fuuusion...what women want. Fuuusion...what women want. Fuuusion...what women want TODAY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members y&r_fan Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 Alden is needed at B&B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 I hated Culliton's tenure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Charles Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 Ha! Same here. Wasn't there something about diamonds, too? I don't think they ever revealed who 'Proteus' really was. It was Vanessa, I guess, but then didn't they hint later on that it was someone else? It was either Vanessa only thinking she was 'Proteus' because of her insanity, or something like her faking the "Rosie Wells" persona to get off her crimes..??? UGH! Nevermind.... I'm getting a headache. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 CUlliton also wasthe one who made Simone such an unpleasant whiny character, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 I thought he created her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 Well yes exactly. Ididn't appreciate her till Rayfield of all people brought out her humour (even ifsometimes just a bit too much) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 I thought Culliton's tenure was largely excellent. I loved it, and Agnes was involved and wanted to keep Vanessa around; she was reportedly livid when Frons came to ABC and insisted Dusay had to go. There were rough patches. Case in point the introduction of Simone, who unwisely debuted as a 'slinky femme fatale,' dark and mysterious. Who gave a [!@#$%^&*]? Then they made her comic relief, and she worked in that role, but they could've done more with her. I loved her in that whole thing with Roger Smythe, but then they kept shuffling her off on all the rejected male leads, including (and this indicates the problems at AMC, for him to be a 'reject') James Scott. I despised Rayfield and Cascio. It was such a plastic, corporate program, not horribly offensive like Pratt, but incredibly soulless and boring. Dozens of new characters, it seems, and I didn't care about any of them. And despite the Lianca fans' boasts, that Cambias/Lena "corporate" storyline was just terrible, written by sixth graders. There was nothing "complex" or "intelligent" about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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