Members LeClerc Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 The new SOW chats with teen romance novelist Meg Cabot who says that ABC approached her years ago to come up with a story idea for the character of Bianca that would attract a younger demographic for the show. This is her describing the story she sold ABC: According to Cabot her idea got tossed when Agnes Nixon decided to make Bianca gay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 AMC, The Disney Fairytale edition? That's BEYOND dumb even by soap standards. Forget the whole gay going straight aspect of it; that plot doesnt even hold up on its own Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 So Bianca was playing out Victoria Lord's Eterna storyline? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jonathan Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 OMG, you stole my post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members You're Soaking in it Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 Like Carl's mind, my first thought was that she probably watched OLTL around 1989 to come up with this original idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 I'm just sorry we won't get to see a story where Bianca meets a sexually confused female escapee from an underground kingdom They could have cast Jessica Tuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ~bl~ Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 Some Meg Cabot novels are very entertaining, but she never used this plot for one of her novels (even the teen ones). This sounds like silly Eterna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 Agnes must have looked at her like "OMG bitch you don't know me, do you?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 She lost me at no shirt and just a funky leather jacket. NEVER would have guessed she was going Eterna with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LoyaltoAMC Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 That just sounds retarded. If I were looking to become a writer on a specific soap, at minimum I'd pitch something consistent with the history and tone of the show. Then again, lord knows what craziness Pratt pitched that got him hired. Was it the tornado? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 Pun intended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LeClerc Posted June 4, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 She also says she was a big fan of the show during the Jenny/Greg era, so she must have known how incompatible this story idea was with AMC. So strange. I wonder though if maybe this story pitch is what got ABC execs thinking about shifting Port Charles to supernatural arcs. The timing would be about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Charles Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 Um..................OK. It sounds like she came up with that sh!t after 15 Sidecars. What an idiot. Thank God she wasn't at AMC to pen that trash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlexElizabeth Posted June 5, 2011 Members Share Posted June 5, 2011 What??? This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard in my life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Kylie Posted June 5, 2011 Members Share Posted June 5, 2011 That's ridiculous. Ugh. There was always that rumor that Frons wanted Bianca to question her sexuality by lusting after Erica's most recent ex, and at that point, it was David. yeah. They had some crazy ideas for the girl. Kinda makes the storylines we did get for her seem tame and creative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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