3 hours ago, DemetriKane said:

No. Because it's childish. Anytime someone brings his name up around here it's always the same tune. You suck it up! You guys are the ones UPSET that he can't write and ruined some shows, not I. Giggles.....

Okay, you asked for it. I don't think it is childish. He said what he said & that is not in dispute. If you must blame someone blame Lucci. She went her whole career basically without saying a hard word against anyone until she unloaded on 2 people: Brian Frons & Chuck Pratt. 

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“Chuck told the entire cast that he didn’t believe in character-driven story lines and that he didn’t care about characters. He said he was there to shake things up. Now, shaking things up can be good, but it’s my view that you have to leave your show’s characters intact.”

“By the time Chuck Pratt came on board, I’d heard from several reliable sources that Agnes Nixon had essentially been pushed out of the day-to-day process. Remember, this was being done to the woman who not only created All My Children but also to someone whose writing and story lines were so impactful over the years that she established herself as an icon on daytime television. It takes a level of arrogance so strong to be that dismissive of someone like Agnes Nixon, let alone the rest of us who were left with writing that I—and I have to believe other actors on the show, especially those whose characters were drastically changed—considered to be subpar and difficult to digest.”

All My Life (Promo e-Books) by Susan Lucci

But I also think that he really did care about characters if it was a character that he created. 

4 hours ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Okay, you asked for it. I don't think it is childish. He said what he said & that is not in dispute. If you must blame someone blame Lucci. She went her whole career basically without saying a hard word against anyone until she unloaded on 2 people: Brian Frons & Chuck Pratt. 

But I also think that he really did care about characters if it was a character that he created. 

What did I ask for?  I came into this thread speaking specifically about the subject at hand, and others turned it into a Pratt-bashing thread. When it's been done for 15 years yes it's childish in my eyes, and I'm not changing on that!

And that Susan Lucci's excerpt was cute LOL.  I always found her little shade toward them "A Little Too Late" Her only time to speak up would've been much more effective while the show was still on air.  And wasting her pages on Pratt and not McTavish (The Unaboration) was a little cowardly IMO. Pratt didn't do much damage to Erica; she came alive again under his pen so it's an opportunistic move by her To Me! 

Yeah, she can use he disrespects our cast and creator, yea but you choose now to say something? And where was this outrage when Edmund fired for not being sexy?Julia Barr let go? Stuart being killed?Lucci can go kick rocks.

 

@Vee My perspective of this issue isn't the same as yours. I do partly blame Eden because I don't buy that she would have stayed around if the storyline had been better. Her being permanent on the show was a problem with me before Pratt was even hired to write for them, and she still wasn't full-time when they went to HULU, she did a fist full or episodes. As I said before Pratt was an easy target.

This vindicated Pratt in my eyes. He admits this was a 2-year storyline and there's no way the audience could be satisfied with this rushed job.  And I like the fact he wanted to let Reese be able to stand on her own as a character,  so many couples on this show can't function without each other so I get it!

 

 

 

1 hour ago, DemetriKane said:

 I came into this thread speaking specifically about the subject at hand,

Me, too!

1 hour ago, DemetriKane said:

and others turned it into a Pratt-bashing thread. 

And, I honestly have no idea how that happened. 

1 hour ago, DemetriKane said:

When it's been done for 15 years yes it's childish in my eyes, and I'm not changing on that!

Well, we will just have to agree to disagree on that point. When certain people come up, or certain events, I am likely to have things to say. Pratt is one but he only gets a little fire from me compared to, say, JFP or Frons, or McT. 

1 hour ago, DemetriKane said:

And that Susan Lucci's excerpt was cute LOL.  I always found her little shade toward them "A Little Too Late" Her only time to speak up would've been much more effective while the show was still on air.  And wasting her pages on Pratt and not McTavish (The Unaboration) was a little cowardly IMO. Pratt didn't do much damage to Erica; she came alive again under his pen so it's an opportunistic move by her To Me! 

I can make no defense of not speaking about the Unabortion. Since it is absolutely one of the worst things to be done to a soap, everyone should have spoken up. 

1 hour ago, DemetriKane said:

Yeah, she can use he disrespects our cast and creator, yea but you choose now to say something? And where was this outrage when Edmund fired for not being sexy?Julia Barr let go? Stuart being killed?Lucci can go kick rocks.

I've spoken up about him & other people different places & times. It's because it came up. I've been more than ready for it to be done for some time. Which you basically said already. Folding my tents ... 

 

But I also do not always say it. Sometimes I just pass on by.