could it be said that Queen Stephanie ever ate B&B, or that Erica ever ate AMC.

Edited May 6, 20223 yr by ironlion

This might be unpopular, but I always felt Bianca on AMC completely took over the show. She was in literally every episode for almost 3 years (early 2000's) and it seemed like they would purposefully try to force her into scenes just so she could appear in every episode. I liked the character and ER is a great actress, but it was overkill.

I quit watching the show because Ryan Lavery took over and we had to watch CM yell, oof, I mean attempt to act. I have nothing against CM, he seems like a very nice person, but I am convinced the only reason Ryan lasted as long as he did was because CM was easy to get along with backstage. 

4 hours ago, Darn said:

WHY do these shows do that? They run off actors who would happily stay if only they weren't played 5 days a week. You give these indispensable stars burnout but get mad when they choose to leave.

And VM only quit at the time because they wouldn't give her some time off or a lighter schedule for her then-very-small child. I don't know how she survived that schedule tbh.

1 hour ago, tsauer19 said:

This might be unpopular, but I always felt Bianca on AMC completely took over the show. ...

I quit watching the show because Ryan Lavery took over and we had to watch CM yell, oof, I mean attempt to act. ...

I loved all of Bianca, but I sure got sick of Ryan Lavery & his family! If only CM had been an actor, really!

7 hours ago, ironlion said:

could it be said that Queen Stephanie ever ate B&B, or that Erica ever ate AMC.

I can't really answer about Erica since I never watched AMC regularly, but as for Stephanie, I'd say no. You can't "eat" the show if you ARE the show. Stephanie was always central to the premise of the show and she is basically what made the show what it was.

Besides, Stephanie never felt like the writers' "pet project" or "shiny new toy" the way characters like Amber or Hope did. Stephanie was simply the glue that held it all together.

1 hour ago, Videnbas said:

I can't really answer about Erica since I never watched AMC regularly, but as for Stephanie, I'd say no. You can't "eat" the show if you ARE the show. Stephanie was always central to the premise of the show and she is basically what made the show what it was.

Besides, Stephanie never felt like the writers' "pet project" or "shiny new toy" the way characters like Amber or Hope did. Stephanie was simply the glue that held it all together.

True!

When I started watching ABC soaps, Skye was on OLTL, and I felt she belonged on that show more than anything else. Never knew she had been on AMC until later on. While I do like RC, and find Skye to be fascinating character, RC does tend to come off cold at times; which no offense to OLTL fans, why I felt she was perfect fit with JFP's OLTL at the time. 

7 hours ago, Videnbas said:

I can't really answer about Erica since I never watched AMC regularly, but as for Stephanie, I'd say no. You can't "eat" the show if you ARE the show. Stephanie was always central to the premise of the show and she is basically what made the show what it was.

Besides, Stephanie never felt like the writers' "pet project" or "shiny new toy" the way characters like Amber or Hope did. Stephanie was simply the glue that held it all together.

That's exactly how I feel. Stephanie is B&B!

Agreed. 

Personally, I don't think characters that are on their soaps from the very beginning don't necessarily eat the show, only new characters have seemed to do that

1 hour ago, AbcNbc247 said:

Agreed. 

Personally, I don't think characters that are on their soaps from the very beginning don't necessarily eat the show, only new characters have seemed to do that

You'd never say that Mary Stuart ate SFT, that Victor or Nikki ate Y&R, that Bob or Kim or Lisa or Lucinda ate ATWT, that Rachel ate AW, although you could say that Jensen *tried* to eat AW ...

Yeah I wouldn't say Erica ate her show either. She was a huge focus but never to the detriment of other characters. Adam, Brooke, Edmund, Tad, etc. were all leading A story separate from her. 

It feels like a character is eating a show when every story aside from theirs feels like a C story (not even B). That's how I felt watching Sonny/Carly/Jason/Courtney(or Sam) in the early 2000s. The rest of the cast felt superfluous.

1 hour ago, Darn said:

... It feels like a character is eating a show when every story aside from theirs feels like a C story (not even B). That's how I felt watching Sonny/Carly/Jason/Courtney(or Sam) in the early 2000s. The rest of the cast felt superfluous.

Maybe that with a corollary to address the new character that is suddenly forced into every other story whether they have one of their own yet or not?

15 hours ago, Tonksadora said:

You'd never say that Mary Stuart ate SFT, that Victor or Nikki ate Y&R, that Bob or Kim or Lisa or Lucinda ate ATWT, that Rachel ate AW, although you could say that Jensen *tried* to eat AW ...

I do think Victor ate too much of Y&R.. 

1 hour ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

I do think Victor ate too much of Y&R.. 

🤣 LOL, okay, I stand corrected!

As a non-viewer, I always got the impression that it was all about Erica, like Reva on GL.  SL being on magazine covers and name dropped in pop culture venues like the Regis Philbin show.