Lorraine Broderick as AMC head writer

[Soapsuds]

That pretty much sums up her ATWT run...lol You would have loved ATWT at that time.

Btw...you need to bring back your AT avatar...hehe...loved it!!

[Jonathan]

Wow, Eric, you're a whore. FYI, we discuss whores in the AMC episode thread on Fridays. So go there.

[R Sinclair]

There were some brilliant lines of dialogue under Broderick. The Adam/Marian scenes were hilariously written. Even during the Tanner Jordan story, Adam and Mateo show up with the search and rescue team and Adam asks if they have any helicopters searching for Hayley and Tanner and the sheriff says "Helicopters?" and Adam says something along the lines of "You know, those things that fly and have big propellers that twirl around! YES! HELICOPTERS!"

Millee Taggert was rumored to be the one who came up with the Santa Claus storyline.

Yes. McTavish made him the one who carried the explosives on the doomed flight of TransGlobal 149 that killed Maria. Total rewrite of even RECENT history. McTavish's trademark, of course. That condescending "even though you were watching then and know there's no way this could happen, too bad! Deal with it!" kind of manner she loves to rewrite things in.

Could you stop pissing on our party? I heard wolf urine is acidic.

You don't get it. She probably read it somewhere. It must be true.

So?

That was my main concern. I love David and Vincent! That's another reason why I couldn't be too harsh on Pratt, because, in the words of VI, he wrote the hell out of David. Was it stellar writing? No. Was it entertaining and a helluva lot more than McTavish did for the character? YES!

LMAO!

Bobbie Eakes said they had taped this week's Thanksgiving episodes like the second week of October.

And via Kelly Ripa on Regis and Kelly, the January anniversary episodes are already in the can.

[EricMontreal22]

Harumph I'll go there later on after I've watched the episode:P (which should be when the AMAs are over )

As I suggested I suspect she had SOME say, yeah.

[EricMontreal22]

Ugh Tanner was awful. I admit the other stories didn't bother me as much (I don't remember Janet being turned into a cartoon under her)even the hated child pornographer one--and I (initially) loved Brooke/Pierce.

[EricMontreal22]

AGreed, it was a fun showcase for her...

I know ROscoe Borns left when they made his character for sure evil, right? But was that pre or post McTavish.

[EricMontreal22]

I agree that the Voodoo mess was a reaction to Days but do we really know it was James' fault? SHe did afterall say she Pine Valley as a Peyton Place like town lol

I would LOVELOVE LOVE to have more Brooke but I can't see Barr moving from the East Coast.

I count more than three...

[Ann_SS]

I hope that Broderick is a Madison/Frankie fan. Frankie has to be freed from horrible Randi.

[You're Soaking in it]

Borne's beef was actually with McTavish, due to the changes she planned for his character.

Both stories are Broderick's.

[MichaelGL]

Nice timing if you think about the fact that they've probably finished taping the upcoming anniversary episode. Too bad Broderick didn't get to pen it though.

I loved Broderick's ATWT.

[EricMontreal22]

So is Carl mistaken?

[You're Soaking in it]

Not entirely (I had to go back and read what you're referring to), but it wasn't the plan under Broderick to make Jim into such a menace. What viewers knew pre-McTavish about Jim is that Laura knew him and wanted to conceal it. Concurrently, there were inappropriate photos of Laura on the internet, which Tim Dillon had found. Jim started to become involved with Brooke, having bonded as survivors of the plane crash. Laura didn't want Broke involved with him. Several scenes would lead viewers to question if Jim was the cause of - or was just aware of - Laura's photos, or if he had some involvement in her upbringing prior to Brooke's adopting her. It was all being played VERY close to the vest... moreso that Laura had something to hide (perhaps beyond those photos). There were times that I actually wondered, during RB's run in the role, if Jim was possibly her biological father.

According to Borne's story at the time, he was brought on to be a mysterious character and new love interest for Brooke. He was clearly caught off-guard by the intention of revealing Jim as a "child pornographer," which was evidently disclosed to him soon after McTavish took over. He abruptly quit and the role was quickly recast. Borne, in a thinly veiled way, attributed the circumstances to the change in head writers.

It's hard to say exactly what Broderick had in mind for the Jim character.

Whatever it was, it was probably better than having Brooke lure Jim to a room covered with PG13-rated versions of the Laura photos (how nice - and perhaps a little sick - of Brooke to make the effort to put all those up! remember that?), shoot Jim in the back (killing him) as he walks away, put Brooke on trial & have her go on the run while Joe Martin abuses his Chief-of-staff role at the hospital by faking that Brooke is in an isolation room because she's ill and dangerously contagious.... then at the trial, have Tad reveal at the 11th hour pictures - SAID to have been taken on Jim's camera - of Amanda Dillon swinging on the play-set in her back yard ... causing Janet to gasp in horror ("OMG, she's swinging!!!") .... which swayed the jury that Brooke was justifiable in killing him ("oh my, he takes child photos that look like they're from Sears! He deserved to die!"), and Brooke is therefor acquitted... Oh, I almost forgot... after she was cleared, Tad chimed in that he took the photos himself and staged it to appear Jim had done it.

That last paragraph is what McTavish did with the story... and that's what I mean about sacrificing character for plot. It was SATURATED with ridiculously out-of-character, offensive events.

[juniorz1]

I have been beating the hell out of the "Fire Julie Hanan Carruthers" drum since Megan McTavish was with the show. I don't think she's going anywhere. She's a lackey and she & Frons go way back. No matter how much I'd love to see Felicia Minei Behr or Francesca James return, I won't hold my breath.

Broderick's return is very good news for AMC IMO. 1995-1997 was a solid period for AMC. Didn't she pen the Arlene/Alec storyline? That was some twisted yet delicious tale. She hit all the right marks for Liza's return and I loved everything she did with Adam owning the airline that caused the plane crash as well as Liza's miscarriage. And I know it's an unpopular opinion, but I loved the whole Erica stealing Maria's baby storyline. That trial was some of the best courtroom drama I'd seen since SB, save Marty's rape on OLTL. I thought Lucci delivered a powerhouse performance throughout and should have won her Emmy for her work in that storyline.

Unfortunately, I haven't watched much AMC since shortly after Edmund's murder and especially after Julia Barr left (it's sad that I can't even say she was "written out" because she wasnt't ), but AMC fans deserve this news. It's about time they got someone credible to head write the show, let alone someone who has as rich of a history with it as Broderick does. I can't believe I'm saying this but WTG Frons!

[DRW50]

For some reason I thought the child porn stuff happened when Broderick was still there. There was about a month of storyline, or two months, between the time of this reveal and when Born left. There was the reveal to viewers, the flashbacks, Jim killing Ricky and shaming Laura into keeping quiet.

The change in writing that seemed abrupt to me was Jim suddenly being a terrorist. That started right before Born quit. It was also around the time of other rapid changes, like Dimitri's redemption after Broderick had made him the heavy for Edmund.

[All My Shadows]

In regards to whether or not JHC should get out of dodge...HELLS YES. Like juniorz, I've been calling for her head for years now. I'd be interested to see a Broderick/Burke AMC. Judging from what others are saying, Broderick got AMC story-wise, and I feel that Burke got AMC style-wise. Perhaps it could be an appealing combination, though Burke might be in retirement now. Two ladies who began their soap careers in Pine Valley under the guidance of La Nixon.