Yes it is! I love love love that AMC had to rebuild itself. I am also pleased at how they have rebuilt themselves. Parallells to Erica/Mona in Miranda/Bianca, Pete/Celia a likely nod/play on Nina/Cliff. I am so glad that Agnes was involved. The set up is great.

all of that and no Ryass Slavery!

Yes it is! I love love love that AMC had to rebuild itself. I am also pleased at how they have rebuilt themselves. Parallells to Erica/Mona in Miranda/Bianca, Pete/Celia a likely nod/play on Nina/Cliff. I am so glad that Agnes was involved. The set up is great.

And AJ/Miranda have shades of Jesse/Jenny. Although I can only imagine the crossburning in front of ABC if Jenny had pulled a towel off a naked Jesse.

Personally, I'm enjoying that we're seeing the rebuilding start with family and friendships other than romance. IMO, one thing soaps really fell down on in recent years is showing friendship. In two days we've gotten AJ/Miranda, Angie/Joe, Jesse/Zach (which will do since we can't have Tad or Greg) and even Brooke/Dixie being there for each other. I'll admit that one of my problems with the opening was focus on coupling these characters together but so far, other than Pete/Celia having a meetcute (and Jesse/Angie [!@#$%^&*] like a couple of greased weasels) we aren't jumping into insta-romances.

I have to wonder about Joe/Ruth. If Joe's heavily recurring or contract (what is he again? The credits fly by), I wonder how they'll explain away Ruth if Joe is actually 'in town' again. Or maybe he'll just visit and not be 'in town'. IDK.

He is recurring per the closing credits but included in the opening

Personally, I'm enjoying that we're seeing the rebuilding start with family and friendships other than romance. IMO, one thing soaps really fell down on in recent years is showing friendship. In two days we've gotten AJ/Miranda, Angie/Joe, Jesse/Zach (which will do since we can't have Tad or Greg) and even Brooke/Dixie being there for each other. I'll admit that one of my problems with the opening was focus on coupling these characters together but so far, other than Pete/Celia having a meetcute (and Jesse/Angie [!@#$%^&*] like a couple of greased weasels) we aren't jumping into insta-romances.

I agree on this 100 percent, though I do think that there has to be a little more action occuring in each episode to balance out all the character moments. Whenever I've written anything, I'm always accused of not putting action into each episode I've written LOL Now action could be something as simple as an explosion, a verbal smackdown, or a secret coming out.

Even with Pete/Celia, there was the meet-cute but at least this episode laid out the basic character structure of Celia. She is a sheltered girl that just wants to be a normal 18 year old girl! She wants to eat junk food, stay out all night partying, meet a guy, and just watch some cheesy reality shows but is being controlled by either this man or the headmistress.. or both! Totally makes sense, and I hope there is more development for her character before she is instantly coupled with Pete.

OMG, Dixie is 100% hot mess. YIKES

Tad's dead.

Lol when Pete asked Heather how she keeps up w/her Facebook friend feed she said she "blocks the losers" Damn...

Yeah but that was perfectly realistic, I don't block anyone but all of my friends block people on the news feed portion

Yeah, I took it as she blocks people on the news feed.

Whatever she meant, I sympathized/agreed with her Good line

Did AllMyShadows watch this yet? He's gonna have an explosive orgasm over shirtless Rob/Petey.

Edited April 30, 201312 yr by Pine Charles

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Edited April 30, 201312 yr by David Jones

It's only the second episode. What do people want, an atom bomb to level Pine Valley in the first scene?

It's only the second episode. What do people want, an atom bomb to level Pine Valley in the first scene?

Pretty much. I think with some the show is damned if they do and damned if they don't

Edited April 30, 201312 yr by dragonflies

The most interesting person in that episode was Celia's friend Heather (I believe that was her name).

Celia is a dullard. I hate when characters spell out to me exactly how they feel. Could they put a more perfect pin on how they want her to come across? And that speech was horrendous.

Pete stalking teenage girls is weird, not cute or charming. He's almost a decade older than her (and if they've made him younger it's still weird because he is an ADULT).

It's funny remembering Eden Riegel sort of complaining on twitter about being the mom to a teenager now when she certainly looks old enough.

AJ and Miranda are honestly the best teenage characters I've seen on a soap in years and I've only experienced two episodes with them. Such great casting and no hamfisted "YOU WILL LIKE THEM RIGHT NOW" dialogue. In fact Miranda isn't all that likeable and I already love her.

Also, Angie and Jesse's scenes yesterday felt like some of the most authentic and truthful writing I've seen from a soap couple in a long time. They said all the pat "We're so thankful for everything" crap but they also were playful and sexy and really into each other. Loved it.

Edited April 30, 201312 yr by Darn

The most interesting person in that episode was Celia's friend Heather (I believe that was her name).

I'm perplexed about her. I keep going back & forth. The actress was cringeworthy at times but I liked all the pop culture references from her and also just her general ditziness. She's fun

I lol'd at her face at the beginning of the show when she realized Evelyn was in the room!

It's only the second episode. What do people want, an atom bomb to level Pine Valley in the first scene?

Are you surprised? Two episodes in and people are making all kinds of declarations. I give primetime shows at least three episodes before I decide, I'm certainly willing to give these shows a couple of weeks.