Members DRW50 Posted March 10, 2015 Members Share Posted March 10, 2015 The sperm stealing would have been right up his alley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cassadine1991 Posted March 10, 2015 Members Share Posted March 10, 2015 Liza, Brooke, Dixie, Erica wanting Adam's sperm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 10, 2015 Members Share Posted March 10, 2015 Probably, yes. I think Kay is a great writer but AMC isn't a show I would have liked seeing her at, considering her Victor deification. AMC already had enough of that type of writing in its last 15 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted March 10, 2015 Members Share Posted March 10, 2015 It's really interesting to think/speculate about this. What we do know is that Bell considered her his right hand, that she often seemed to know/sense what he wanted or needed to do and that she deemed her worthy of succeeding him and headwriting the show. In other words, she was an indispensable part of Bell's experience in headwriting the show and played a major part in it. As far as her co-headwriting, I'd love to know. What's clear is that, in 1998 there was a hugely noticeable upswing in energy, writing and excitement as soon as she was 'officially' made co-HW, following two rather droll and uninspired years (still tons better than most else) so I don't know where that leaves us with the speculation. Maybe 1996/1997 were more about Bell's worsening health than anything else and Alden didn't yet have sufficient control over the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cassadine1991 Posted March 10, 2015 Members Share Posted March 10, 2015 It does make me wonder how she would've done the business stories (Enchantment, Fusion, Cortlandt, Chandler, Cambias) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted March 10, 2015 Members Share Posted March 10, 2015 Brilliantly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 10, 2015 Members Share Posted March 10, 2015 I don't think AMC was ever a business soap. The corporations were mostly just used as a backdrop for fun and camp and the occasional story of Adam or Palmer being penniless for a few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members YRBB Posted March 10, 2015 Members Share Posted March 10, 2015 She could have done that well. I don't think she'd go to AMC and decide to have it compete with Y&R's type of business stories or make it any kind of major focus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 10, 2015 Members Share Posted March 10, 2015 Probably. I think she would have been best suited for a show like OLTL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted March 10, 2015 Members Share Posted March 10, 2015 Alden was also really lucky that she was headwriter just before most soaps were forced to slash their budgets. The set design & costumes during her tenure were the best in Daytime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members titan1978 Posted March 10, 2015 Members Share Posted March 10, 2015 I bet she would have been fantastic on Guiding Light after the Curlee era dream team left. I can see her style working well there with those characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cassadine1991 Posted March 10, 2015 Members Share Posted March 10, 2015 Wonder what she would've done on that soap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted March 11, 2015 Members Share Posted March 11, 2015 She likely would have done a lot for Vicki and Dorian. However, Alden was clear that she was an AMC fan, not an OLTL fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 11, 2015 Members Share Posted March 11, 2015 That's interesting. It's hard for me to picture her at what AMC became by the time she was done with Y&R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 11, 2015 Members Share Posted March 11, 2015 I knew someone would bring that up. To this day, I believe that particular story did not originate with Kay Alden. But I do give her and her team credit for grounding it and giving it some logic. Because, in another writer's hands, that story would have been all about turkey basters, knockout drugs, wacky fertility nurses, and electric cattle prods. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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