AMC Tribute Thread

[DRW50]

@Maxim I appreciated reading your thoughts on 1988 AMC. I had forgotten just how much of the year is missing. I imagine that does weigh on views. My own view is that AMC went into 1988 with assorted riches but also had a multi-tiered system that was always going to collapse. The same had happened around the late '70s, but they did a better job with pruning and bringing in new creations around the early '80s than they would manage in the late '80s and early '90s. I think those decisions ultimately helped rob the show of its identity. 

There are also decisions at that time I've never really understood, like hurriedly and permanently splitting Jeremy and Natalie after many fans had waited years to see them together (it was not down to personal reasons as Kate and Jean were good friends).

Your points about Brooke and Adam remind me of why I never felt very involved in the pairing. The chemistry between Julia Barr and David Canary, along with just how much Brooke was written into a corner by the mid '90s, seemed to keep the relationship alive past a very natural endpoint. Even by 1995 the soap magazines were pointing out how repetitive their interactions were.

The story with Adam and Dixie and Brooke was pure soap and had long-lasting consequences...but it's not something I ever want to sit through. 

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[EricMontreal22]

I mean it basically is still unfolding in the shortlived 2013 Hulu reboot so... yeah long lasting lol

Yep one of those recurring characters I loved seeing still show up.

Well she was HW for 8 months or something so that's not long enough to change things too much

[Maxim]

Ahahahhaha, don't get me wrong - I LOVE trash. And I'm sure that in time I will see more dimensions in that character. 

 

[Contessa Donatella]

I, too, have a time, place, person, etc. that can be called trash, or guilty pleasure, but my love & admiration for Dixie simply don't have her in that category. This must be an issue of varying perspectives! Meanwhile Beware pancakes! And, no, you can't ask why because it's a SPOILER! Just a tiny bit of torture, meant in the best possible way!

[Maxim]

Aaaaaah, I felt that they are going to split Natalie and Jeremy. I just knew it! Just as the way they desecrated Travis and Erica in such a short period of time. How many times have we heard that Jeremy only likes women in trouble and unattainable things... It was meant to happen. One thing I can give the show at this particular moment in time - it goes faaaaast... and it's never boring. Some type of people/soap viewers would definitely appreciate this. I am in the middle - I do like the dynamic pace and that every episode offers plenty of drama and excitement, but I also... don't like rushed relationships and rushed endings. Why care to get them married or together when you are going to split them up in couple of months? Of course it's far from hack-writer material in the vein of Bradley Bell who can put couples together and annul their marriage the next week and then marry them again to ad nauseam. 

BTW, I have so much new stuff to talk about... since I'm up to Erica and Travis's divorce hearing. I stopped at that episode last night and I will continue today. I want to clip some scenes too so I can share them here, but will do that later after I finish work. 

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Now that is extreeeemely long-lasting. Hahahhaha. 

That's the beauty of experiencing soap operas. Every person can see different things in characters and have their own subjective opinion. What is trash to one... is gold to another. And vice-versa. And I don't really overthink when I write these commentaries. That's my natural reaction to that character so far. 

[Contessa Donatella]

I have this notebook. It fits in my purse. On the front I have affixed a sticker which says:

Hang on. 

Let me

overthink this. 

I totally love it!!

[Maxim]

This is a moment that hit me to the core. As a child I was put in the extremely inappropriate and traumatic position to sit and observe my parents' divorce hearing. My mother didn't care for my feelings so she used me as a mediator to express things to my father - she refused to directly acknowledge his existence. So I was there sitting next to my mother on one of the benches... and looking at my father, sitting on the other bench, staring at me with tears in his eyes. My mother was unflinching, he had called her a whore for going on a trip with her friends and she was determined to never ever forgive that. Minutes before going into court, my father told me to ask my mother for one last chance... and he expressed similar sentiments to what Erica is saying here. He wanted one last attempt to save the marriage, and I was the messenger. She refused, laughed at me. They divorced. 

Hearing Erica say all of these things, as melodramatic and cliche as they are, I find myself wiping tears from my eyes... because I've been there... felt that... and lived with it for years  thinking "What if" my mother had said "Yes". I loved Susan Lucci's performance in the entire episode. Before that scene, Erica had a fantasy in which Travis stopped the divorce, hugged her and took her back. That moment was equally touching to me, because it was quite obvious it's not real. That made it seem so tragic and sad.  

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[Jonathan]

Love this! Thanks for sharing 

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