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Mr. NoName, yes, I remember him so well. If I recall correctly he has about a gillion credits on IMDb. Very prolific fella. 

Barbara was much maligned. Same thing happened to her when she played Claire on GL. Possibly a case of typecasting.

You say this as if it's a bad thing.

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My husband has started watching with me more regularly. We are slowly falling in love with Dixie... and Tad. What a change that has been. As long as Brooke is not in the picture and the focus is on how evil and despicable Adam is to her... Dixie definitely looks like a protagonist and someone to root for. Her crying about her sick baby... and praying to God to help him... brought tears to my eyes.  I am also seeing Tad in completely different light. He's become the Jack Dawson to Dixie's Rose. 

And we have another very exciting twist in the Erica-businesswoman storyline. Someone who is clearly jealous of her success... is plotting something against her. All we are seeing are these creepy white-gloved hands from time to time. I am getting goosebumps. I LOVE STUFF LIKE THAT. 

SO EXCITED. Margaret De Priest is not as bad as I expected her to be. Not at all. The start was very rocky... but now... everything is working for me. 

Up to July 7th! 

 

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 It warms my heart.

1992/What a time to be a viewer? I loved that whole era too! I sometimes wonder if the show could have incorporated more gothic tones in the last few years, and, if that would have saved it a bit. 

Yes, so happy to learn I wasn't the only Nico/Julie shipper! I wish he would have stayed longer.

So glad you mentioned Pratt and Brot Monroe's storyline. I am in the minority, cause I enjoyed his first few months working on the show! In a perfect world someone with history and who cared about the show would have helped him bring a lot of his ideas to life. IMO, a lot of what he tried to do did connect to AMC's history and roots.

Also, thank you for that Jean Passanante's excerpt. Really enjoyed the bit on the vertical scenes.

 

 This is the only era I liked them in. 

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It actually lasted for several years, didn't it?  Inexplicable (I mean I know Sunset Beach used it initially but that was to try to make it look like the Spelling primetime soaps and they dropped it within a year...)

The final part of Pratt's run on the show was close to the show's nadir for me, but you're right--it started with a lot of potential, surprisingly.  I remember he also brought something that the show had been missing previously (were Brown/Esensten the previous HW?) and that was classic AMC--*humour*  I remember posting, probably on here, about how in his first few weeks he really brought that back.  But...

Maxim thanks for the tip of the AMC episodes on archive--WOW, I wouldn't have thought to look...  I haven't seen a lot of this since I got sent dozens and dozens of VHS tapes in the 90s from someone online

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Early Tad and Dixie were a pretty good couple, but eventually Dixie lost any sort of agency and character development as time went on.  Partly due to the actress opting to leave and come back the show on and off, but also because both characters kind of outgrew one another over time.

Lighting on AMC in the late 70s, 80s, and the first half of the 90s really defined AMC to me since it had a Gothic element that really defined the show.  I think the lighting in the later years of the show was too bright and the sets were basic without any sort of personality.  

In regards to the Gothic storytelling attempts after the early 90s... the Camille Hawkins story and Erica's Phantom of the Opera story in the late 90s was the last time the show tried to do some sort of gothic storytelling... but those stories made the Goldie/Silver/Damon story from 1987 look like a quality Gothic story... and that story had a lot of issues.

 

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Interestingly, looking at the episodes on archive, despite what other sources have said, it looks like Agnes Nixon doesn't start getting credited as HW until the start of 1990, which was also AMC's 20th anniversary and when the new credits premiered.

I'm definitely with you on lighting and sets (which really became basic and lacking personality in the 2000s) 

Ha you're right--McTavish's second run did have those ridiculous Gothic storylines...  Oh Erica's mask, and the Camille mess (which was not helped by having a terrible actress from what I recall.)

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Love this interview with La Lucci. But geez Rosanna is a sneaky sneak for sneaking in that love question at the end. You can tell La Lucci wasn't ready for the question. 

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