Members bellcurve Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 AMC: Karen Harris IN! Absolutely FORGET about JHC being fired. Stranger things have happened, but forget about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Steve Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 Yeah, I want to be thrilled but I dread to think who Frons will hire next. ICAM. 'The writer' destroyed our show and Pratt somewhat brought it back to life. It scares me to think Frons might reemploy her. ITA, any combination of Broderick, Walsh, Beldner and Johnson would be a huge improvement over the writers Frons has hired over the years, but I don't think he'd consider any of them because they would want to write for the real Pine Valley, not Frons' version of it. I'm trying to be optimistic, but I fear you're right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NYC123 Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 As much as many people hated Pratt's writings I enjoyed it. I am not saying I enjoyed every storyline because I didn't but at least Pratt kept me watching everyday. Pratt gave us more Erica and Adam then B&E ever did. I am shocked that he is gone because he is one of Fron's pets. Weird. Hopefully we can get a better HW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LoyaltoAMC Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 Another reliable soap board (don't know if we're allowed to mention or link to other boards here) is saying that there was a major dispute over the 40th anniversary episodes that led to his being let go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 So that means we'll get a mandate follower? If you don't follow an agenda and a mandate for the 40th anniversary, you're fired, thus we have to find someone who will write what he/she is told to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kylie Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 Maybe he was following policy, and someone finally said enough is enough? (Oh who am I kidding, if this is true, you're right). Ugh, it's stuff like that really makes me think Megan being rehired isn't that far off after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 Um... the 40th Anniversary episodes have already been taped. Why would he be "let go" over something that's not only already been written, but have been taped? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aMLCproduction Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 I wonder what straw broke the camels back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 I liked the way Pratt wrote Erica and the somewhat resurgence of the Hubbards, but other than, he can pack his [!@#$%^&*] and get out my house yesterday. I'm wearing my bulletproof (I was just visiting Port Charles, dontchaknow) and I'm prepared to get mauled on every side, but I would take the first year and a half of MMT's stint over Pratt's stint any day of the week. At least the show didn't feel like a crippled grandma limping along on her last legs then. AMC's main focuses, family and young love, were still the main theme. Pratt's AMC basically threw a hand grenade into everything the show was built on and left it in a state that can best be described as hollow. PS: I am in no way defending anything post-babyswitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 In a lot of ways Pratt seemed to be following the usual mandate. The same characters certainly got focus as they have with other regimes. Nothing about this era of AMC seemed like a risktaking exercise to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kylie Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 ^I can't imagine what he could have done that was worse then what happened this week...well, maybe it's more that I don't want to. I still haven't decided if it's a good thing or a bad thing that someone fired Pratt. I can't imagine that it was Frons, since they're BFF's but if it was someone above Froms...then what the hell did he write that would make someone above Frons step in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 Joe is shot in the head for the 40th anniversary. A grief stricken Ruth garrotes Petey with Opal's beads. Amanda has sex with Ruth to try to diffuse the situation. Ryan, meanwhile, tells everyone Annie is to blame. He then fires at her, and shoots Tad in the head. Tad, with head wound, breaks into an old Rip Taylor routine and throws confetti for the anniversary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 There are bullet-proof destruction kits. I know that. But, if this info is true, he obviously didn't follow what he was told to do. The clashed and lost. Do you understand? He wasn't following the orders 100%. So they'll find someone who will. As someone said, Pratt must be expensive. Writing contract, producing contract, god knows what else... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 I think if it were about that he wouldn't have lasted a year and a half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted November 21, 2009 Members Share Posted November 21, 2009 You can follow orders for 7835 days and on the 7836 you stop. Which is when they fire you. You have to do it all the way. Especially if it's something "big", like the anniversary episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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