I've never liked Dixie with any character except Tad in terms of romance (Craig, Brian, David, Zach all were colassal in terms of suckage). Besides the side effects of sensory MEMORY, I'm not sure if I even still like Tad and Dixie. They faced a tremendous amount of considerable ruination in the past 25 years both as individuals and a couple. I ultimately now like Tad more than Dixie. I liked Dixie more initially despite the dalliance with Adam. The 3-4 deaths and returns, the character changes, etc changed that.

With Dixie, I think they need to focus on how to write her correctly as an individual and after all the many fails ignore Cady's desires to play her as somebody different. She's supposed to be an earthy heroine on AMC. A do gooder that sometimes does really stupid things. "Rosanna" didn't work and won't work on AMC with Cady unless you say this is a new character. When the show strays away from the core of who Dixie is she becomes quite an irritant.

They definitely need to avoid taking Dixie out of her league in terms of career as well. The reason is two-fold as AMC needs to bring back class divisions and Dixie wouldnt make sense to me as a make-up maven or a major business woman. Social work, hospital work? Sure.

I actually got to the point I can't stand Tad, that's mostly due to his Carey women boot licking. I hated Dixie, but Cady's final return before the show ended made me like Dixie again

Tad has been written to do stupid things concerning Carey women but so has Adam and JR and Jamie and David and probably all of Pine Valley. I know that - despite MEK being so-so with letting his looks go - over the past 15 years that I've actually liked Tad with other female characters despite the show always stopping the romances in their tracks. Tad can make me swoon like a whipped bitch with a speech like the last one on AMC. I can barely remember the last time I really loved Dixie on the other hand except in 1980s flashback or in scenes with Adam. I've gone to cautious like at times at best.

They really need to work on her character as an individual. They really need to work on a lot of these characters as individuals but her more so because they've been failing at Dixie for a long time. I'm going to feel bad for any male character that gets stuck with her otherwise in terms of a romantic pairing. I can see Griffin and Dixie working more than Zach and Dixie and David and Dixie. The only problem with that is the show probably wants Griffin half naked a lot for hits and I really don't want to see Dixie half-naked a lot because I'm just not comfortable with that pairing - half-nakedness and Dixie. So the new latino charater or even Cassandra might be a better half-naked match for Griffin.

I mostly associate Tad with hypocrisy and sociopathy, and smarminess.

I think Dixie is a mess of a character, but I really enjoy Cady as an actress, and I think she has a certain quality, a sincerity, that is unique in soaps now. If they just gave the proper focus to Dixie, instead of having no idea what she is, I think she'd be in a better position.

Tad can make me swoon like a whipped bitch...

I just choked on my water with that.

Yeah, I think he did have facial work.

And now that I think of it - he was a Catholic priest, right? So they couldn't have dated. Or was "Elliot" a Protestant minister? I know they flirted a lot.

I remember thinking - and I was like 10 or something then - dear, God, writers - you shack Brooke up with the guy that killed Laura #1 right after she was doing the nasty with the guy that took nude pics of Laura #2 (at age 15)?!?!?

I'm surprised Brooke never had major depression. After that Jim story, the Brooke character should have had a more lighter plot - like something not too intense (with Aunt Phoebe, Tempo, ect.).

He was protestant I believe. That was an Agnes story and I think they realized it just wasn't working, although I...kinda liked it.

Just read about OLTL's new theme and I am happy for them because it seems to fit with their theme song history in the sense that they will have a song with lyrics, but I seriously hope PP isn't thinking of having AMC open with a theme song performed by some rapper and one of the artists from their label. AMC shouldn't have a theme song with lyrics period. Honestly I am still hoping they were able to obtain rights to the theme ABC had been using (Direct TV did it with Passions), but if they can't or won't just no lyrics please.

Would that be an issue? I would think if you licensed a show it would come with rights to things like theme music...

Hasn't poor Dixie suffered enough lol. I'd rather see Dixie just cope with her life as it is, she doesn't need a man unless she's able to truly move past Tad

Your bizarre hatred of a certain actor aside, I agree.

oh... so they share a dressing room.. Hmm... I wonder if I should get something for BOTH of them to use in their dressing room when the other is away

*resists the urge to make a joke about what inapropriate gift you were going to get for Andrew that Sal may not be able to use*

. The only problem with that is the show probably wants Griffin half naked a lot for hits and I really don't want to see Dixie half-naked a lot because I'm just not comfortable with that pairing - half-nakedness and Dixie. So the new latino charater or even Cassandra might be a better half-naked match for Griffin.

It was strange that after the "webisode" back story intro they gave for Griffin--where I think he was in a towel throughout, AMC didn't really exploit his body. I remember one embarassing scene with him working out in the little coffee room of the hospital, but that was almost all. But AMC seemed to oddly--Scott after the shower aside--eschew partial nudity in its last few years, it was almost like a weirdly deliberate stand off against how shameless OLTL became about it.

I mostly associate Tad with hypocrisy and sociopathy, and smarminess.

I think Dixie is a mess of a character, but I really enjoy Cady as an actress, and I think she has a certain quality, a sincerity, that is unique in soaps now. If they just gave the proper focus to Dixie, instead of having no idea what she is, I think she'd be in a better position.

I thought Tad was actually well written under Swajeski and K--and it showed me that the character was salvageable. He was really good with Damon despite the story missing some important beats (namely Hillary) and that would have been a good direction to keep him in, I think.

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I understood and supported Cady McClain's push to make more of Dixie, to open the character up to new things other than just being Tad's nice wife and a Martin woman. I thought she was a revelation on ATWT when she got out of that yoke and became Rosanna. When she came back to AMC in the mid-2000s I think they went about it wrong. But I do think there's much, much more you can do with Dixie than just make her Tad's wife, or baking cookies or "working at the hospital, but not as a doctor" which are the vaguest jobs possible on soaps IMO, designed these days basically to domesticate women like Dixie or Laura Spencer totally.

I think up to a point, yes, Dixie is the inheritor of Ruth's mantle. But only up to a point. Dixie is still a beautiful, vivacious, smart woman, like Cady herself, and Cady can do all sorts of things onscreen. It's just a question of Dixie's character not being compromised in the process. I'd love to see her with new men, doing new things.

Edited April 14, 201312 yr by Vee

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Ah that was a great little piece of fan commentary. Love to see coverage like this!