AMC Tribute Thread

[Vee]

I mean, that doesn't entirely surprise me given what went down BTS but I still thought what was done to Edmund was shameful.

[LeClerc]

Man McTavish is vile. But interesting to get more insight into what went down with Edmund's demise.

Although this reminds me, I could have sworn ELR revealed after she left in 2005 that Edmund was originally going to be killed off in Feb 2004 (after he was shot at the end of 2003 shielding Maria from some bad guys after Carlos and Juan Pablo...or whatever that story was) and that she went to Brian Frons and asked him to keep JC for one more year because she was planning on leaving in 2005, and Frons granted her request. So did their marriage only fall apart later in 2004?

What is this from? McTavish wrote a memoir?

 

 

[Contessa Donatella]

The pdf filename is Megan McTavish Autobiography but, yes, it's McT's memoir, or maybe "in progress", not sure if it's considered completed or not. 

[LeClerc]

Thanks. Is it publicly available?

[Contessa Donatella]

Yes. I believe it's at Northwestern Univ, Chicago but that's off the top of my head & I could be misremembering. But it is, and of course we can find out for sure where. 

[Soaplovers]

Mctavish sounds like a major witch, toxic to the very core.  

Her first stint was pretty good though it did move away from the Gothic touches of Nixon's AMC, but it did have some strong stories that brought the show into the 90s. 

Her other two stints were horrid

Edited 10 hours ago by Soaplovers

[Contessa Donatella]

I think of her as the anti-Agnes but I doubt I'm the only one to say so. 

[DRW50]

@EricMontreal22 Ouch. I think McTavish is a bit overhated as a writer but those passages sum up a lot of the negative atmosphere which could pervade her shows. Just extremely crass and blunt. I would like to believe that would have been cleaned up if the book had gone anywhere.

The story about the nail polish is amusing. No wonder the Maria vs Erica scenes always felt so genuine.

I remember talk about all that at the time and later on - she didn't even go into some of the details that were going around back then.

I think all her stints had strong moments but for me the worst was the second. 

[Khan]

Could Megan McTavish execute a storyline competently?  Yes.  But the sheer outrageousness of many of her ideas often overwhelmed whatever value there was to be found in the storylines that followed.

[DRW50]

There were moments where I think she did get the AMC structure, and even had surprising amounts of heart, they were just never properly balanced. Maybe aside from part of her first run.