I think it was a coked-up venture capitalist pipe dream like so many others. I suspected that from the beginning. I think they gambled they would make a big splash and then it would all somehow pay for itself. I just feel for the cast, crew and creatives who did legitimately great work and really updated both shows. It was the future of the genre IMO, it was just in the wrong financial hands. I especially feel for people like Debbi Morgan who did some of the best work of her career, was finally the center of the show and who apparently doesn't even like to talk about AMC 2.0 today.
Fortunately many of the BTS personnel have found their way to DAYS, GH, etc. in recent years. I know one of them just popped up again in the BTG writing staff the other day.
I hope someday someone (like the enterprising @EricMontreal22 , hi Eric!) can get some of the writers on record about the shows. I know Thom Racina and Susan Horgan have been polite about their time at OLTL but pretty vague, but allegedly (per Bob Woods and others) there were more stories in the offing, and the Triskelion Cartel conspiracy arc forming at that show screamed Racina's work. And AMC 2.0 had a lot of changes and plans floating around, so maybe someone can talk to McPherson or whoever else someday. IIRC the HWs all got rotated out once or twice while the PP guys were trying to save money (and presumably snorting lines).
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