AMC and OLTL Will Move Online!

[KMan101]

I think a one year jump is good. I think PP has no idea what to do with AMC hence all the delays in info about it.

[John]

They can do an actual time jump. No massive jump. People can leave town in 4-6 months. Plus they would have to make it on par with OLTL's timeline as well. It wont be a big jump. A Year at Most

[JaneAusten]

Personally I like the longer jump because it gives them an opportunity to soras some of those 20 kids they have on canvas. Far too many. This show has become too baby fixated over the past few years.

[John]

I dont know if the actors would wanan play 5 years older. I hope PP just doesnt do it cause CM wants it. I hope SL would be like Hell to the No. Bad enough I got like 5 grandkids already as Erica.

Plus they would have to do a the same jump for OLTL. I say one at the most. Six months at the least

[Eric83]

Why? I know both shows take place in the same universe, but why would it matter? It's not like AMC/OLTL do regular crossovers.

[John]

They have before and could again. It would be problematic. One year at the most. Beyond that nope too much.

Plus if folks just wnat the jump so they can SORAS the kids. Outside Miranda and AJ and Kathy those kids arent seen too often

[JaneAusten]

I don't know what the actors preferences have to do with anything. They can easily jump 3-5 years and still maintain the ages the main characters are now. Its not like they would grey up Erica Kane or put her in a wheelchair. I think some suspension of reality is to be expected. An age is just a number anyway. 5 years might be too much but 3 years could be reasonable.Any time they soras a kid we suspend some semblence of reality anyway don't we? How may kids actually grow up on screen from birth

[marceline]

All of sudden now we care about linear time on soaps? Soaps?! Where one night can last a week and a half, people can fly to France in two hours without going through airport security and women can know they're pregnant before they've even taken a post-sex shower? The actors don't have to "play" older because we don't know how old the characters are now. And can we please get rid of the noise that its Susan Lucci who has a problem being called grandmother? That's an Erica Kane thing. Lucci has no problem discussing her age and she is a proud grandmother.

As for OLTL, their timeline is irrelevant to AMC's. And seeing as how they have a 7-year-old teenager walking around on screen, I think it's a little late to be worried about the space-time continuum.

How many primetime shows have done time jumps successfully? The tactic works and AMC needs something to put a little distance between what it was and what it will be. Assuming it will be at all.

[John]

It cant be 2012 in Llanview and 2017 in Pinevalley

[marceline]

AMC and OLTL are two different shows. They have nothing to do with each other.

This is a show that has Cady McClain and Jacob Young as mother and son so let's not pretend the calendar is something precious and sacrosanct.

[Mr. Vixen]

Plus shows often forget time jumps anyway. Desperate Housewives skipped ahead 5 years, but yet they still talk about it being 2011.....Which obviously it would not be. It's just not that serious.

[John]

They are both Agnes' shows and she is consulting On Both so Yes I doubt she would like one show jumping time and one not. If one does the other will as well.

[John]

I feel a one year woulkd be good for both. See where they are a year from now and how they got there plus new people and the returnees that happened in that year

[SFK]

I think a year is more than sufficient. A lot can happen in a year. Frankly, establishing that *any* time has passed since the final network episode takes the show "off the hook" for restructuring and working around the absences of some characters. Plus, we're all used to characters still being in town yet never seen. Someone like Randi for example could be referred to yet unseen if DV doesn't continue with PP. If Frankie's still on board and they want to give him a new romantic story down the line, they cross that Randi bridge when they get to it.

I think the passage of a year could be particularly interesting re: the fallout of whomever got shot by J.R. (perhaps he shot himself?). My hunch is that the passage of time would do nothing for the Erica/Jack cliffhanger, and we'd be back to the same old same old Erica-Jack *thang* they've been doing for damn near 20 years now. Now, if we opened the first episode with Jack having giggly pillow talk with Brooke, then we cut to a delapidated Chandler mansion with unwashed Adam and Erica playing spades on a TV tray shooting Jameson and smoking Black & Milds, we have a show.

[marceline]

Exactly. It's not that the new episodes are five years in the future, it's that the old episodes are five years in the past.

Desperate Housewives, One Tree Hill and Ghost Whisperer all did successful five year time jumps. Veronica Mars was set to do it when they got canceled. LOST jumped back and forth between a three year "then" and "now."

For those who are so concerned about time, I have a few questions: When was JR born? When was Kendall born? How old is Frankie? How old is Frankie's kid with Liza's sister? How old is Bianca? How old is Scott? How old is Erica Kane, (not Susan Lucci) but Erica Kane?

This is the perfect chance for AMC to reset the base timeline after decades of bullshit sorasing and plot point time bending. Whether it's three years or five years, it doesn't change anything on screen and it gives AMC a much needed fresh start. I know a lot of people just want to pick up where we left off but that wasn't working. Something has to change.

As for AMC and OLTL being connected because they're both "Agnes" shows, I don't think that even warrants discussion. The average viewer neither knows nor cares about that and for them each show exists within it's own reality. That said, I didn't know Agnes was consulting on PP's version of OLTL too. God bless her. That woman is unstoppable. *slow standing clap*