Here's how I think the writing team will eventually look

Written by

Charles Chucky Pratt, Jr (hack)

with
Michael Conforti (FOJ, and she brought him in twice to this team and he worked on GH under Pratt and for many years)

Tracy Thomson (FOJ and she worked with Pratt on either GH or AMC but has a long history with JFP)

Natalie Slater (she survived every regime change. Hopefully, will this time, poor lady)

Lisa Seidman (FOJ and FOC and loved by Sony)

Jeff Beldner (worked with Pratt on AMC, veteran will probably survive or go to DOOL)

Brent Boyd or Beth Milstein as Script Editor...I think Brent could go; he's young and lame and no real connection to Pratt

Janice Esser (same comment as Slater although I know Latham fired her for a while)

Susan Dansby (only AA on the team)

Amanda Beall (they all love her as if she's the female Alan Ball, NOT)

Anne Schoettle (married to David Shaugnessey, long history with Bell shows, great script writer. I think she survives)

I think Altman, Passanante and Gold will all go. Passanante has no history with Chucky or Jilly and was only brought in at the request of Altman. I doubt Passanante will cotton to Pratt. Altman was head writer and failed. She won't stay. Gold was hired by Passanante as her only representative on the writing staff. They threw her a bone but he will go.

Edited September 19, 201411 yr by RavenWhitney

I will champion anyone who is not Guza and Pratt and anyone who doesn't fetishize the mob and feature Steve Burton daily. I also don't believe I exaggerated anything and in fact all those things I mentioned actually happened on GH and AMC and happened under Pratt. Your obsession prevents you from discussing any topic anywhere without bring it back to "FrankenRon" or whatever you are calling them. Let the people who want to discuss Pratt discuss Pratt without listening to these off topic rants which they could find on every page of the GH thread for the last 14 months probably.

If anything is off topic, it's your tantrum towards me. I was simply making a comparison [trash is trash], and you have gotten way too excited for my taste. We can revisit once you have calmed yourself.

Notice YRBB completely disagreed with me but s/he didn't resort to insults. Go back a few pages.

Edited September 19, 201411 yr by ChitHappens

I will champion anyone who is not Guza and Pratt and anyone who doesn't fetishize the mob and feature Steve Burton daily. I also don't believe I exaggerated anything and in fact all those things I mentioned actually happened on GH and AMC and happened under Pratt. Your obsession prevents you from discussing any topic anywhere without bring it back to "FrankenRon" or whatever you are calling them. Let the people who want to discuss Pratt discuss Pratt without listening to these off topic rants which they could find on every page of the GH thread for the last 14 months probably.

BAM BAM thank you for this. If your talking about trolling the boards this all the person does. Duty are my HERO for this post

I will champion anyone who is not Guza and Pratt and anyone who doesn't fetishize the mob and feature Steve Burton daily. I also don't believe I exaggerated anything and in fact all those things I mentioned actually happened on GH and AMC and happened under Pratt. Your obsession prevents you from discussing any topic anywhere without bring it back to "FrankenRon" or whatever you are calling them. Let the people who want to discuss Pratt discuss Pratt without listening to these off topic rants which they could find on every page of the GH thread for the last 14 months probably.

Oh, and my comparisons [obsession] will continue

Well, if we are going to compare them, maybe we get one good-ish year from Pratt filled with long gone and beloved characters from the past, then it all gets dismantled because Sony buys Jason Quartermaine from ABC and they scramble to rewrite Dylan as Jason and never mention Dylan, or his created past with Nikki and Paul ever again.

Well, if we are going to compare them, maybe we get one good-ish year from Pratt filled with long gone and beloved characters from the past, then it all gets dismantled because Sony buys Jason Quartermaine from ABC and they scramble to rewrite Dylan as Jason and never mention Dylan, or his created past with Nikki and Paul ever again.

Yeah, lets include that debacle and ask why those losers are still on GH?!

Oh Lord have mercy. I just went into convulsions when I saw that name. God bless you Y&R fans.

Yeah, that is pretty much what I did

Pratt is far worse than Ron. What Ron does to a show can be deeply problematic but it is also fundamentally different.

Ron adores soaps, or rather his narrow-yet-broad idea of them, and is obsessed with that past as well as his own vision and ego. He is not without some good work or ideas in moderation, but if you let him off the leash with no checks and balances, he does what he's done to GH while behaving like an ass on social media.

Pratt hates soaps and everything about them. Comparing them is really apples and oranges, though, they are too different. And his work at GH with Guza was some of the worst of their shared tenure.

I love soaps too, but does this mean I should be masquerading as a writer?

Not comparing apples and oranges. Comparing Trash to Trash and Trash is winning!

When Pratt told AMC actors to ignore what they know about their character's I knew AMC was done for. Sharon will be thrown under the bus even more.

What does Ron and Frank anything to do with y and r? They are viewed as a success by ratings and the media. U loathe them and the prexy of abc has said they will be there a long time. Pratt was a horrific failure for amc. He IMO is the one who got the show cancelled by abc. It never recovered and all the actors stated how bad he was. I don't think I ever saw lucci complain except when it came to him. Pratt has much bigger ego as he was a co exec producer and head writer for meleose and just did lying game. Let's also remember he was an exec producer on desperate housewives. He's one of the few daytime writers who has branched into prime time and has success. He has zero history with y and r. Why wasn't Kay Alden called in as an exec consultant? Let's just say I am worried for y and r. I think since Jill won those Emmys she's got power.

You're exaggerating, but if it makes you feel good, carry on.

My point was that YOU expressed why Pratt will be bad for YR, yet you champion that foul duo decimating GH. YR will be fine under Pratt if he brings to the table what Craptini has brought to GH!

Is there seriously a block feature on this board. I've looked for it but can't find it.

Pratt is far worse than Ron. What Ron does to a show can be deeply problematic but it is also fundamentally different.

Ron adores soaps, or rather his narrow-yet-broad idea of them, and is obsessed with that past as well as his own vision and ego. He is not without some good work or ideas in moderation, but if you let him off the leash with no checks and balances, he does what he's done to GH while behaving like an ass on social media.

Pratt hates soaps and everything about them. Comparing them is really apples and oranges, though, they are too different. And his work at GH with Guza was some of the worst of their shared tenure.

Exactly. I will say the first two months or so of AMC under Pratt were refreshing--he showed humour and the faster pace was nice after the previous regime. And then when it became clear he thought he was writing Melrose Place again, it all went to Hell. (Agnes Nixon, who never says a bad word about anyone, even said that he locked her out of story meetings.)

Is there seriously a block feature on this board. I've looked for it but can't find it.

What did I do to get blocked?

But why would we cry if any of the remaining 4 were gone?

The final 4 should be showing why Soaps should still be on the air. Not one of the current soaps is remotely proving this!

I see what is going on now. Sarcasm. You have chided others for implying that because only 4 soaps are still on, we should accept and embrace them as they are.

I can't speak for anyone else but Y&R is still my show and still my favorite. I may not be able to watch it anymore but that doesn't mean I don't still hate--HATE--what has been happening to it... and the worse is yet to come. It doesn't matter what condition it is. I have loved it for decades and it's devastating to me.

Exactly. These soaps have been on for decades. I watched when I was a toddler with my grandmother. They matter (mattered - as in GL and ATWT to me).

Yes!

I understand. That is GH for me. I'm going down with my ship, but I will certainly be tying bricks to Craptini's ankles!

OK CH, I am not familiar with Pratt or Craptini so you can exclude me from the "Craptini's stuff is OK then Pratt's will be too." Obviously none of their stuff is OK with you and what you feel matters as much to you as the way the rest of us feels matters to us. That is in response to your comment on QFan's status update.

As I wrote above, I believe many of your posts about this are sarcasm. And pain. Instead of writing: I feel your pain. This is how I feel about GH. You are in essence writing: It happened to me - suck it up. Not sure if you care which is more productive. I read somewhere that when someone doesn't validate/ignores another's feelings, the unvalidated person's body responds in every way as if it has just endured physical pain.

Everyone wants to feel heard. It's odd that you understand Y&R viewers pain more than most, yet you are almost mocking us. Perhaps I am not the only Y&R fan who is not familiar with Pratt or Craptini or GH...?