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

[Ryan Chamberlain]

Pancakes never looked the same to me after that. LOL.

[EricMontreal22]

I dislike a ton of things Megan has done--and tonight it sounds like I think she's brilliant, so tobe clear I don't. But she also had major story for Brooke, and Frons cut that (Megan has always written for Brooke, albeit often not all that well, but she seems fond of he character).

[Scotty]

For OLTL, PP could always go back to a variation of the original fireplace opening from 1968.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3E_Rs3JcWg

[EnglishTea]

The community feeling was back, yes, but from me, the focus was too much on the Kanes. Although Erica was never my favorite character, I did believe she should be front and center, but the show lost balance. The MC story suffered from not knowing who was the killer, and she the baby switch story went on for far too long. KWAK and Babe=Love were enough to make me vomit. Additionally, the show was just in such bad condition from Rayfield/Cascio that almost any seasoned writer could have made it better at that point.

[Ryan Chamberlain]

I'd rather hear the Peabo theme. But, I'm probably the only one.

I actually have it on my iPod.

[EricMontreal22]

Absolutely agreed. Although I admit even at that time the balance was coming apart--but that seemed to happen at all of the ABC soaps under Frons. I do think Megan burns out fast--for whatever reason (be it pleasing execs, or just running out of ideas). Her last half was a mess, and the last 6 months didn't even seem like Megan was writing the show--it was pretty awful but also felt like it was just going through the paces, not even spectacularly awful as her writing can be.

[Adam]

Eric, nice to be conversing with you again! I think over the years you and I have kind of had the same view of Megan. Overall, dislike her style, but are willing to admit some of the things she could do right. Yes, she alwas wrote for Julia (Brooke).... and it was so disappointing to me in the spring of 2005 when she was clearly setting up Adam and Brooke Part 106, but then it also clearly got yanked. Frons intervened, yes, but wasn't there also the story of Bobbie Eakes' agent stirring up trouble to get her more airtime? LOL. Oh the memories.

[EricMontreal22]

I just posted that she often fades fast before reading this. But I agree. I do think she played a part in Dixie's wretched death (she came up with it at any rate), though I feel like Frons was also eager to let her go--but Megan (and the innefectual EPs AMC was plagued with for its last ten years) were all too ok with going with it.

[Adam]

Frons backtracked later on to admit letting Dixie die was a mistake. This, I believe, was when Cady returned in spring 2008 to haunt Adam and to get Kate and Tad reunited. Basically I would imagine Megan pitched the idea, and he saw it as unloading an expensive contract of an actress inching closer to 40.

[AdelaideCate007]

I just hope that the episodes are posted somewhere than Hulu (if that's in fact where they end up), so that I might be able to watch them.

I'm so happy that Debbi signed up and that it looks like Michael E. Knight and Darnell have too.

[EricMontreal22]

The feeling's mutual! I guess with me and McTavish I don't think she deserves the scorn of, say, Pratt or Passanante (and I actually did like Pratt's first few months)--while it may not balance it out, she did provide me with a lot of stuff I love about AMC and the more I hear about he writing room in the 1990s and after, I don't think it's fair to say that that was simply because Agnes was more involved--from the Who Shot Will and even the Natalie in the well story, it was basically Megan but with Agnes' approval being more important (as well as a better EP, and less network involvement). So while not Nixon's ideas, she definitely shaped them by saying yes, or no, and I think McTavish does really need someone (in the writing room or as an EP) to do that. Carl once said on here he would love to see Broderick and McTavish co-HW AMC and while there's no way in Hell that would ever happen, I think it would be a pretty good mix of what makes a soap like AMC appealing.

[SFK]

I've got an upddated dubstep arrangement in my head with a Joss Stone-like female vocalist. I wish i knew how to edit/mix music.

[Pine Charles]

ANy chance Michael Nader will return as Dimitri? hehe

[EnglishTea]

There has always been confusion over who cut the story for Brooke. Either way, Megan never wrote a romance for Brooke after Edmund because JB had the audacity (rolling my eyes) to voice her displeasure with Brooke becoming Edmund's doormat during their romance. I loved Edmund/Brooke, but watching it again on YT, I have noticed there were many conversations were Edmund would wax on and on, and Brooke would have just a simple response. It probably got old from an acting standpoint. Both times that Brooke and Adam were headed toward a romance, Megan was forced out in 95/96, and the next time it lead to JB's recurring offer. I don't think there is much love between the two.

[Mr. Vixen]

This thread is a hot spot for people to say things they shouldn't admit to tonight.