Funny to see Alan with his train set after it came up in the recent stories with Monica’s estate.
lol. I think Frons had a simpatico minded producer with Jill. She produced a splashy show, and that was what he was always trying to force onto AMC and OLTL and it just didn’t work the same way because they are all three fundamentally different shows at their cores. Nobody in their right mind would think Pratt would be a good fit for AMC.
Cutting vets to impact the budgets is something both of them believed in. The fact that Alan Quartermaine died and then shortly came back as a ghost just reeks of ABC getting cold feet and wanting to lessen the blow, forcing it on Jill. I know Laura waking up was an ABC thing to capitalize on the 25th anniversary of the wedding and also to get Tony and Genie to Super Soap Weekend in 2006.
The stuff with treating the women like crap bts, especially over the men was absolutely JFP. Again, Frons had no problem with misogyny, so he wasn’t going to stop her. I also think the overall nihilistic approach to telling stories fits both of them- they both acted like there was no future beyond a handful of years for soaps so they stopped training new bts talent and had no problem decimating the shows.
There are many little things that you can add up along JFP’s career and see her fingerprints on stuff that happened at GH during her tenure. But Frons shared so many of the same values that it’s hard to fully tell who made which errors.
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