HOLIDAY MIRACLE: Prospect Park Back On Track To Revive AMC and OLTL

[SFK]

Yeah, SG bought a lot of Dorian's duds at this UES boutique. Political correctness (and RS's current stance) be damned, I hope SG incorporates some real furs instead of those cheap-looking crap faux furs the real Dorian and Viki wouldn't be caught dead in (pun intended?).

[Steve]

I'm dropping the cautiously and feeling extremely optimistic about my show now! They needed to do something to shake things up and bring in new viewers and the 5-year time jump is a great way to do it, imo.

Yeah, as much as certain people are complaining about McPherson being a dull writer, at least she didn't come up with the sci-fi crap that Racine wrote on GH. I can see the online version of OLTL bombing when they revisit the underground city of Eterna.

I'm really pleased with the current cast. As has previously been said, it's a good mix of old and new and young love stories as well as social issues were the 2 hallmarks AMC used to be known for. I'm also thrilled that so far there's not a Carey woman in sight! Imo, they didn't need Asher or Caleb anyway and I like how it sounds like the focus is going to be on the Martins & Chandlers. I'm glad Susan Lucci will make an appearance and undoubtedly once her schedule is lighter this summer she'll be back for more. I hope Michael Knight's health is okay and it sounds like he'll eventually return. David Canary hopefully will bring Julia Barr and Jennifer Bassey back, too!

[KMan101]

I'm getting curious about what the sets will look like. Are they recreating old sets? New ones? Obviously, some sets should be back, but was there anything on AMC that they even need to bring back? LOL. I think I'd be good without seeing many AMC sets and just have them do them all over again. The hospital set was OK. Krystal's (besides the name) was familiar.

[marceline]

Twitter is not the place for interesting minds.

[Chris B]

That is one story he did decades ago and it's still remembered, good or bad. What does McPherson have that people remember, good or bad? Nothing and she just left last year. Besides, Thom Racina's career speaks for itself. He's worked on several soaps and had lots of success with it. She's worked on DAYS and Passions and had very limited success. Yes she won that Emmy and yes that episode was great, but her tenure was terrible. I don't care so much about the teen focus or the 5 year switch, but I can't get too excited about anything AMC until I see the final product. Her work does not inspire faith.

I'm probably alone on this, but I hope they don't try to recreate old sets. These are new shows, so I want them to create new, modern sets. The previous sets in many cases were also very old. I just want the sets to be nice and well decorated. I wouldn't bother creating explainations of why certain things look different or saying that everybody moved.

[JackPeyton]

If all you want are vets and a community feel MM will be great.

If you want a good storyline that plays out well, well... i wouldnt hold my breath.

[KMan101]

But we really don't know just what she's capable of away from DAYS. Really guys, the pacing can't all be blamed on her. I'm not that fond of her but the hate she gets, I don't see it being justified, IMHO. She also had a co-HW and also a writing staff. As well as NBC, Sony, Corday, Meng, Maxam, de Cazotte ... DAYS has too many agendas at play.

However, if she proves to be crap, then fine, but I'm hopeful, like everyone else PP has hired, they are making a smart move with her. Of course we'll have to contend with "this is Agnes ... no that's gotta be Marlene" ...

And frankly, the stories she wrote for DAYS were not that terrible. On paper. Yes, the delivery itself really sucked and things were changed, dropped, etc. so I really wish we had a better idea of what was going on.

Jack has PTSD. John's framed for a ponzi scheme Carrie falls for Sami's husband.

Yeah, the gambling website, their fascination with Quinn (I liked the actor but I couldn't have cared less about the character) ... not all of it was good. Like I said ON PAPER they should have worked.

I'd call her DAYS boring and somewhat uneventful and poorly paced but it wasn't THAT awful.

[JackPeyton]

im not talking about pace. at all. and every writer has to write within limitations and approvals of bosses, thats not a valid excuse.

[Chris B]

I think the pacing was absolutely the problem. She did have some story ideas that were good on paper, the Carrie/Rafe affair and Abby/Austin for example--the execution was terrible. The network is not going to interfere on the pace, they only care about the stories. Each episode felt like it was 2 hours long, things were dropped constantly, things would strangely happen outside of a logical dramatic sequence. Those are all problems of the Headwriting staff. The new writers don't have that issue with pacing that they had and they replaced almost the entire writing staff.

[DRW50]

Characterization also flew out the window and never returned for a variety of characters.

[hsfolk]

TPTB need to turn Jack Manning gay

[JackPeyton]

Oh yeah the pace was bad, but I was referring to the general story lines, the lack of impact, the random characters popping up, then awful storyline ideas like Maggie's eggs and Alice's secrets and John hope being married. A lot more was wrong with this show than pace.

[dragonflies]

not to mention what she did to Alice Horton's legacy, some may not care but that always bothered me.

Yeah her Days was a snoozfest, I don't think it was network interference as much as she liked to claim it was. a boring writer is a boring writer, interference or not

[allmc2008]

Never watched DOOL but I know who Alice is. What did she do to Alice Horton's legacy?

[KMan101]

Yeah Daniel being Maggie's was .... ugh. I hated it. Same for Alice and her "mystery". Oy.