Members DRW50 Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 I would agree with you, but the lapses are something which can sometimes be fixed just by talking to the right person, or, in recent years, looking online. My main complaint is these lapses are so incredibly stupid and pointless. The pathetic OLTL rewrites. Anna forgetting she lost a child. Anna being John McBain's mentor during a time she had amnesia or was living in Pine Valley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members beebs Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 Actually, I do remember them mentioning Pat again. When Luke was presumed dead around 1982 or so, and was paralyzed, he tells the man he's staying with (whose name escapes me at the moment) about his two sisters, but that time, I believe he says that Pat's the eldest, thus even MORE rewriting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Vixen Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 Oh wow I don't recall that...I wonder if that's the last time they mentioned her. I know we are now supposed to believe that Bobbie/Luke are the only siblings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vetsoapfan Posted April 3, 2012 Author Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 This is fun; thanks to everyone for posting your memories. I had tried to start a similar thread to this on another board, but the moderator edited my original post, deleting every reference to west-coast soap operas like Y&R. Apparently, he has convinced himself that only soaps produced in NY are "real soaps", and therefore only east-coast shows are allowed to be mentioned. Weird. It's nice to be able to post about, and read about, any and all soaps, without the inexplicable restriction. Carry on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ellabelle Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 Here's another glaring AMC miss, by two people who should have known better: Lorraine Broderick and Agnes Nixon! In 2007, Megan McTavish killed off Dixie Martin by having her eat poisoned pancakes. We watched her die in the hospital, surrounded by doctors - you know, those people who are generally pretty good and pronouncing someone dead. In 2011, it was revealed that Dixie was alive and being held in some facility by David Hayward who was giving her some sort of mysterious IV treatment. So how the hell did David get his hands on a dying Dixie and manage to keep her alive? In 2006, months before Dixie died, David left Pine Valley and moved to somewhere in southeast Asia! He was on the other side of the world when Dixie ate those pancakes! I can *maybe* buy that David was on the Chandler property and saw Adam shoot Stuart and decided to try to save Stuart, even though it would have been seriously crappy of him to let someone else pay for a murder that didn't really happen. I can *maybe* suspend belief even further and go along with the idea that David was a silent partner in Zach's casinos and knew his plane would blow up, so he tried to get to Zach to save him when he couldn't stop the explosion, although frankly that's stretching it - it would have been far simpler to say that Zach faked his death to keep Kendall and the boy safe. But Dixie? No, that's just absurd to think that David could have known from halfway around the world that Dixie was dying and then get there in time to save her and slip her dying body out of the hospital and replace it with a cadaver, and frankly, Agnes and Lorraine were two people who knew the stories and knew they were writing complete BS because they apparently couldn't think of any other remotely plausible explanation for bringing Dixie back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 At the time I just assumed that he had contacts, as he seemed to during the time that he was keeping Maria alive. Still, they didn't bother to explain it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AlexElizabeth Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 John McBain having a sister LMAO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Susan Hunter Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 I believe that writers should have a certain degree of latitude to tweak things that may enhance a character, but I think certain, established character history and stories should be sacrosanct. For example, if we watched a single birth on screen. Years later don't pull a twin out of thin air. If we watched The Pawn in 1985 pick the name John Black off of some war memorial plaque, don't all of sudden write that it was his real name all along. We watched him pick it. If your going to SORAS a character, think about what it means for that character's parents and what it does to those characters ages. Think about the children who were born around the same time. Will they be SORASed as well? What does it do to continuity? For example David Banning was born in the late 60s, by the mid 70s he was a grown man. What did that do to Julie? Would Eileen Davidson want to return to Days to play the mother to James Scott? Isn't that a little insulting? When exactly was Heather Webber hot for Luke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members reallyhateskateonlost Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 And Anna Devane being his mentor! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Titus Andronicus Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 Drake Hogestyn spoke up about that, too. It was Reilly who originally did that, during Maison Blanche, letting John discover "Johnny Black, 1984" on one of the bricks in the dungeon. The second paragraph reminds me. It was either the time of Gina or another time Hope was presumed dead. Bo goes out to the boneyard to visit her grave. There's been a little adjustment to her birth year. As she's been SORAS'ed, 1974 doesn't make any sense, so the year was switched to 1964. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members applcin Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 GL The Wheeler regime not knowing that (Little) Bill's real name was Harlan Billy Lewis III. Originally, Jenna had not needed to sleep with Geoffrey Morgan to protect Harley and said as much to her. Later on, the story became that she had slept with him and became pregnant by him. Maryanne Carruthers vs. a group of middle-aged male characters who supposedly all knew one another as young men even though they originally hadn't. OLTL The double cesspools of constantly rewriting the life, personality and death(s) of Victor Lord, along with how Viki ended up with DID in the first place. The un-Buchananizing of Jessica. GH Luke cheating on Laura and having a son with Holly. AMC It was great to have him back but Jesse did die onscreen. DOOL Not a big deal on this one but I kind of wished, when Steve returned and got his memory back, that there had been maybe some passing mention of his best friend, Marcus, who was there when Steve "died." Just thought it would have been a nice little tribute to Richard Biggs to maybe have had Kayla say that Marcus had moved or was working at another hospital somewhere, had kids, whatever. Actually, the big rewrite on the above was going from Lawrence Alamain being the villain of the piece to Stefano DiMera and Steve's main captor being someone who would have been a young child when Steve was taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr Neil Curtis Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 Its funny how DiMera gets all the presumed dead character when they are "killed" by someone else: Marlena (Opherus), Steve (Lawrence), John (raised by the Alamains, and "died" in the pool), Hope (Ernesto) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cody_1990 Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 When JER re-introduced Kate in 1993 she became Kate Roberts instead of the Dr. Kate Winograd she was back in 1978. While he did stick with some of the original Kate/Bill/Laura story alot was re-written or forgotten. That was to bad because it could of all easily fit in with his take on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 Dark Shadows rewrote a lot of its past and had no real continuity, which was to be expected, since they were doing a hell of a lot, but it always annoyed me that, after clearly stating (many times) that the year Victoria went back to, and the year Barnabas was fanged, was 1795, for some reason in the show's last year or so they started calling this "1797." Over and over and over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted April 3, 2012 Members Share Posted April 3, 2012 This has been discussed before and established that Kate Winograd and Kate Roberts are two separate characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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