Members soapfan770 Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 MAB/Sheffer/Rauch/Hamner, because at least under Latham I had hope the show would get better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dm. Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 MAB is worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 Maria is HORRIBLE yet she's STILL light years better than Latham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members classicmoment Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 At this point it doesn't even matter somebody please put it out of it's misery. The ratings seem to indicate maintanence in the current shaky daytime climate. So instead of having contractual issues with their already over bloated team I fear cbs/sony/beels may just let this ride out. They may not want to invest faith or more $$$ in a new regime, besides who else is left to impress upon new audiences in daytime? Like I said someone just put it out of its misery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 +1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 Maria is so much worse than Latham, there are no words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lovely_m Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 I was going to make a joke about how this is choosing between Chlamydia and Gonorrhea, but it's not the case. Even though Maria gave us the chipmunk storyline and Phillip back from the dead, she did a good job from Katherine's funeral until they dragged out Kay's kidnapping. LML never gave any stories that could out weigh the bad ones that she did. It's a shock to see how far Maria has fallen. The gap between her best and worst is really huge. LML's gab between her best and worst isn't as big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 Not a chance. Latham is SO horrible she makes Maria look like Chaucer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 True, overall its better but MAB has destroyed my hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bellcurve Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 I think we also have to consider what the expectations were: Lethal was bad, but she was bad because she wanted to turn Y&R into something that it wasn't. Maria, OTOH, claims she's honoring history, saying that all of her stories are "by design," and even says she's channeling Bill Bell via a seance with John Edward. Maria is worse because of the way she manipulated fans and how she completely dumbed down and isolated every character to suit a plot or purpose. Lethal may have done the same, but it was never this flippant to the audience. I think Lethal and her team honestly believed in what they wrote, even if that came at the expense of fans who were upset about the personalities of their characters changing or characters referencing events that never happened. And while that may suck, at least everything didn't come off as some arrogant parody designed to make the audience they cater to look completely and utterly inept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members detroitpiston Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 LML's stuff was at least semi entertaining. MAB is just fuckin awful. How the hell is anything Pratt did worse than undoing daytimes first abortion, having Tad bury a man alive and not even show remorse for it, and bringing Dixie back from the dead only to kill her again this time WITH PANCAKES? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Leia Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 +1 I think the difference for me comes down to the tale of Two Phillips. LML rewrote Phillip into Cane. MAB rewrote Phillip and made him gay but at least Phillip is still a Chancellor as he should be. It's really hard to say which is worse but I stopped watching under them both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 Neither Latham or Maria should ever be employed as writers again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted April 19, 2010 Members Share Posted April 19, 2010 Latham was terrible from the beginning. The ONLY thing that saved Y&R under her were the actors. Maria was fine (not perfect) until TPTB gave Rikaart's overrated ass JEANNE'S story. After that it was all downhill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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