All My Children AMC: The Prospect Park Era (old production thread)

[All My Shadows]

I probably wasn't live posting in fall of '06 lol At noon that semester, I was busy flirting with straight boys in Mrs. Vicknair's Algebra III class. I think I was taking a break from soaps at that point.

YIKES. First, Josh really wanted to see what JR was working with. Second, when I hear "JR peed on Josh," I'm picturing JR literally peeing on Josh's body. Still pretty ridiculous, but not as WTFish as I'd always thought it'd been

[EricMontreal22]

I loved him (big surprise we disagree.) OK I do not forgive or excuse the unabortion story--but I grew to really like him as a character and actor. They should have used him more--he actually worked well with Greenlee but they barely went there (did they have a one night stand? I only remember them being trapped in the hospital elevator briefly.) And his exit just to "prop" (as you kids say) up Zack was ridiculous.

I think most people forget there was a Josh number one--who slept with Dani. He wasn't an awful actor, so I was kinda surprised when they quickly recast--not sure if they knew he'd be Erica's kid originally or not till the recast.

[allmc2008]

How do you do that? I pondered that Idea when AMC went of the air but I was afraid the show would comeback and I wouldn't get news until it began to air. I still don't know why I hung on to the show since I started when the Tornadoes of 2008 came in! I even thought Charles Pratt's reign of Terror was awful...yet I still watched.

The closest thing I did to a soap break was after I first watched Jesse/Angie's return episode. I decided to "Educate myself" on AMC from February 2008 to September 2008 so when the Tornadoes hit I expected everything to be doom an gloom for a while then revert back to the AMC I watched on YT from the 80s but that was only the beginning.

[All My Shadows]

It wasn't hard, really. I lost interest in all of the soaps, including AMC and ATWT, my two faves, and I just stopped setting my VCR for them. I was extremely busy with high school things at the time, too.

But alas, I always come home to Pine Valley. I figured I was done for good in '06-'07ish, never expecting to be sucked into it again for that final year and a half. And now...here I am again, awaiting its, hopefully, triumphant return. This show has had me by the balls since I was 11 years old.

[Cheap21]

she fell and couldn't get up

I wonder if Babe is alive. It was revealed that she was intended to be David's mystery patient. With 5 years haven passed, she could have come back, reunited with her family but now moved away, possibly to wherever Krystal and Marissa are.

[EricMontreal22]

That's kinda my story too (though I think I was about 5 months shy of 11 when I got hooked). When I was in grade 11 and 12 I became less into soaps mainly just due to time--OLTL was a huge mess then so it wasn't too hard to mostly drop and Loving/The City had ended... I did mostly keep up with AMC, though I would watch it just in the background while doing homework, etc, but being involved with school, a social life for the first time (!), all my theatre, etc, it's easy to just lose interest especially if there's not something incredibly compelling on tv. It helped that I had a spare class around noon time (when AMC airs on the West coast) and lived by the school so would often go home to have lunch and just turn it on.

[AllMyDaysatGH]

Ryan Bittle (JR) was in tonights episode of Shameless playing a big shot lawyer. He was pretty good. He reminded me of Ingo Rademacher (Jax) from GH.

[John]

Before PP took over in July 2011, Babe was supposed to be alive and her & Jr were to reunite. However, when PP happened & knowing Alexa wouldnt do AMC again, they made her a ghost.

Now If AMC wanted to say Bbae is alive, Cool. Personally even though Alexa was great, that role is recastable

Any nudity from him. I love that show. Love Micky & Ian. But dont have Showrime so have to watch clips on Youtube

[AllMyDaysatGH]

LOL! No nudity (seriously, what a shock), he was in a suit & tie in all his scenes

[John]

He is a great actor. PP made a great choice there for JR

[EricMontreal22]

You could just download it

As for Babe--there's no point in a recast IMHO. I actually loved the Babe ghost moment (I wish Gillian's had been as effective)--it was perfect for JR's messed psyche at the time, and I found it much more moving than I expected it to. They already recast her--it wasn't awful but she never gelled anyway, her mom's not on the show, they've dealt with her death-- I know she had some serious fans but they seemed to be more Alexa fans than Babe fans anyway--and I think everyone's moved on.

[Vee]

I see absolutely no point in recasting Babe, a polarizing character whose heyday is looong gone.

[Angela]

I thought that moment had more impact than all the (ridiculous) returns from the dead put together.

[Jonathan]

Gillian was actually supposed to return from the dead also, but the plan changed once PP came into the picture.

[PeterAKer]

Update from Cady McClain:

http://cadymcclain.com/lets-talk-about-sex/