There are too many posts per day for one huge thread per month to be feasible for most people. Unless someone was reading regularly they would lose track very quickly and then there would be even more repeated content.

Same goes for every soap that is "so hot so right now" on this board. We've had huge Y&R threads, huge GH threads and the Pipi Miracle were the hugest of them all. We can all deal with a huge AMC/OLTL thread for a while

Well since Cady seems to be good with it. Thats cool.

Frankly, John, what difference does it make WHAT Cady McClain thinks? She's probably happy just to be working.

Maybe Dixie is late 48 or 50 now and JR is like 36 and AJ 16.

So Dixie had JR when she was fourteen? Way to go, Adam!

Edited May 11, 201312 yr by Khan

Frankly, John, what difference does it make WHAT Cady McClain thinks? She's probably happy just to be working.

Well there have been actors that put it in their deals they cant be Grannies. So If Cady is cool, why all the fuss over it. She is the one who has to make it believable. If she can sell it. Thats all that matters iMO

Cady could be down with anything in regards to Dixie. That's irrelevant to me. What is not irrelevant, however, and what shouldn't be to PP and the show is viewers' acceptance, or lack thereof, of the situation.

You know, it wasn't SO long ago that post-ers here complained about SORAS'ing, something which I called a "necessary evil." Yet, for some magical reason, it's totes okay now. Interesting.

Edited May 11, 201312 yr by Khan

Cady could be down with anything in regards to Dixie. That's irrelevant to me. What is not irrelevant, however, and what shouldn't be to PP and the show is viewers' acceptance, or lack thereof, of the situation.

I see your point but we havent realy seen Dixie act as mom to this JR and Gran to AJ yet. So Im gonna wait & see how it plays. It could be dieaster. It could work beautifully.

It matters for the same reason all the other examples cited matter: it's visually incongruous to the story they are telling. I don't see it as a PP problem as much as an endemic flaw of the state of the genre. All this crazy SORASing is the result of years of plot point baby rabies on ALL the shows. The only way this is more of a PP problem would be from the consideration that they really need to attract new viewers and this is the type of thing that makes new viewers say WTF?

Exactly.

Now, you see why I felt this time jump was ridiculous.

Well there have been actors that put it in their deals they cant be Grannies. So If Cady is cool, why all the fuss over it. She is the one who has to make it believable. If she can sell it. Thats all that matters iMO

IMO, that's not fair to Cady. She could be the best actress ever to grace stage, screen or computer but it's not her fault if when viewers look at her they don't see how she could be the mother to Bittle or grandmother to Nelsen. It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with what people see when they look at the screen.

IMO, that's not fair to Cady. She could be the best actress ever to grace stage, screen or computer but it's not her fault if when viewers look at her they don't see how she could be the mother to Bittle or grandmother to Nelsen. It has nothing to do with acting, it has to do with what people see when they look at the screen.

IA. She is not believable as mother or grandmother to either. She looks more like AJ's mother and Bittle looks like he could be a recast to one of Dixie's ex-husbands

Now, you see why I felt this time jump was ridiculous.

I always saw why you felt the time jump was wrong. Personally, I had no problem with concept of a time jump but I thought 5 years was a bit much.

Both shows have burdens to deal with. AMC has to manage the 5 year jump while OLTL chose to operate in "real" time but remain shackled to RC's work on OLTL and GH.

I'm fine with the time jump. It does what it needs to do for the kids and clearing the decks, but it is fluid enough to allow for OLTL and AMC to cross over in future if they so choose.

As for J.R. and A.J. re: Cady, that was going to happen sooner or later. JY already looked too old, and A.J. was only a year or two away from SORAS himself. At this point anyone who doesn't just accept that she got knocked up real young and go with it was never going to take the ride at AMC anyway. It's just not that serious.

Edited May 11, 201312 yr by Vee

I always saw why you felt the time jump was wrong. Personally, I had no problem with concept of a time jump but I thought 5 years was a bit much.

Both shows have burdens to deal with. AMC has to manage the 5 year jump while OLTL chose to operate in "real" time but remain shackled to RC's work on OLTL and GH.

I dont feel the time jump was necesary. The kids were born in 2003. W/O SORASing, they'd be 9 now. Having them be 15 for teen stories, isnt really that drastic considering other soap SORASING. They would have skipped the pre-teen years but we'd just have to have assumed that happened in the near 2 year gap.

And really they only jumped 3 years in the future. 5 years is emphasized and stressed but they actually jumped 3 years ahead. Time didnt stop when it went off the air. The show is only 3 years ahead of where it should have been.

Edited May 11, 201312 yr by Cheap21

I always saw why you felt the time jump was wrong. Personally, I had no problem with concept of a time jump but I thought 5 years was a bit much.

Both shows have burdens to deal with. AMC has to manage the 5 year jump while OLTL chose to operate in "real" time but remain shackled to RC's work on OLTL and GH.

I know you did, marceline. That statement was for the "room" in general.

I'm not saying AMC needed to pick up exactly where they left off. But I do think they would have been better off keeping in "real time," meaning 2013, along with OLTL.

At this point anyone who doesn't just accept that she got knocked up real young and go with it was never going to take the ride at AMC anyway.

Look at what John has suggested up-thread, though. In order to accept JR as Dixie's son, we have to accept or assume that Adam knocked her up when she was between twelve and fourteen. IMO, there are enough strikes against Adam already.

And really they only jumped 3 years in the future. 5 years is emphasized and stressed but they actually jumped 3 years ahead. Time didnt stop when it went off the air. The show is only 3 years ahead of where it should have been.

Next stop: parallel time.

I have to admit that the Dixie/JR/AJ age thing is a hot mess. I've made the conscious choice to accept it by thinking of it the same way I do nontraditional casting in the theatre but folks are fooling themselves if they say it doesn't matter.

Exactly (and honestly I've had to do that with soaps for ages, why is this different?)