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AMC: The Prospect Park Era (old production thread)

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Oh for [!@#$%^&*]'s sake!

I know this isn't going to be popular but I'm just going to say it. i'm increasingly disappointed by SON's "news" coverage. There's no reason to post a story to address every tweet, FB post or off-hand remark made by someone on these shows. It reeks of desperation.

Is AMC reining back on racy content? No. So why post a story about something that isn't happening? Why play "wink wink nudge nudge" with the words of two veteran soap actors like DM and DW who have never been anything but positive and supportive? It's unfair to them and us.

There was a time I knew that if SON posted a story there was some real substance behind it. Now it's just "My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night."

SON is better than this.

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I've been excited for the reboot, my love. My mother started watching AMC as well as all the ABC soaps when she took a year off work the first year after I was born. Then she took up AMC in the Employee Lounge after she went back to work and then started recording it when my father bought a VCR in the early 80s. So it's been a part of my life from birth till 32 years of age. I turn 34 in 5 weeks. So of course I'm excited my show, my characters, my town are all coming back! All My Children was why I started writing. AMC is why I wanted to act. AMC is why I wanted to get involved with the dramatic arts, period!

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I have no desire to see Scott back. He's Stuart's stepson not his biological children, and the importance Adam gave him within Chandler Enterprises made no sense to me because Adam was all about BLOOD and having biological heirs, not adopted pretenders. Hell, that was the whole point of the Dixie story - adoption wasn't good enough for Adam. In all the time Scott was on the show, I had no reason to care about him at all. Even when Stuart came back from the dead, it was Adam and Marion's reactions that were the really amazing scenes. Watching anyone play Scott Chandler just feels... I don't know... blah to me. I don't think any of the actors or storylines for Scott have ever really clicked for me.

I didn't think Michael Nader looked all that great, but he clearly wasn't trying either. A few sessions with a good dermatologist and a good stylist, and he could play Dimitri again. I mean, yes, we all remember how he looked circa 1993 or so, but that was 20 years ago, and he had a drug habit in between there. I still think it's doable if he's willing to put in the effort to look right for the part.

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