my favorite writer was Broderock. Her AMC was gold

Broderock for me too, why isn't this woman writing for any soap currently? She's a damn genius.

...I loved Lorraine Broderick too. I hated that she had Erica kidnap Maddie but it did bring J/E back together

I also liked Cascio/Rayfield for making Erica dump Stump and again putting J/E back together but really writing Jack the way I have always loved him. Those first 6 months of 2003 was the best ever!

An AMC fan after my own heart!

Exactly what I think! I loved Lorraine Broderick's run. Very character rich and balanced with drama and comedy which used to be AMC's hallmark.

Same with Rayfield & Cascio (RayCascio as I call them). The action adventure stuff with Aidan and Maureen (Even though the couple was a dud, it was still exciting and well written), and the heavy drama with Anna and David losing Leora as well as the corporate drama with Enchantment and Cambias (before McTavish came along and made Michael yet another cardboard cut-out rapist). They also diversified Pine Valley with Henry and Carlos and Reggie and Janelle and Joni the Bible Thumper, and incorporated the vets with the new characters. They even made the decision to put JR on that tramp steamer OUTTA TOWN!! Praise the soap gods!

I have to say the first six months of 2003 were AMC's best in years. It was an ensemble show. Not the Hayley and Mateo show (McTavish circa 1997-1999), or the Greenlee and Leo show (Culliton circa 2001-2002), and now the Babe Carey show.

Especially Richard Culliton. He did his best to try and make everyone on that show related to Leo. David & Anna, Vanessa, Maggie, Trey, Kendall... Ugh! While I loved Leo... initally... it just made no sense for the whole cast of characters to be the descendants of a Euro-trash mooch who was living off his wife's trustfund. Culliton had a lot of dropped and poorly executed storylines. The Revlon product placement story, which fizzled out. The Proteus story which ended with a whimper. The Chris Stamp is Ryan's Father story which NEVER made sense! And the Kendall Returns as the Demon Witch who forgot she made peace with Erica before she left town in 1995.

McTavish has issues of her own, and she works them out through her writing. She victimizes women like crazy. She makes them weak and needy. She writes in the same boring formula:

Hero.

Ingenue.

Slut.

Villain.

Save.

Protect.

Angst.

She doesn't write for character, she writes for templates. I watched an old tape I had of GH from McTavish's pass at that show in late 2001. I'm telling you, Jax could be Ryan = Hero. Sonny could be Zach = Intense Brooding Anti-Hero. Carly/Skye could be Kendall = Wounded and Vulnerable yet Vicious and Caustic. Courtney could be Babe = Blonde Ingenue. Ironically Lucky could be JR (since Jacob's played both characters under McTavish's writing) = Angry Brooder.

And if you notice in her interviews, it's the same thing: "High emotional stakes" or "Raising the emotional stakes" a.k.a. contrived plot devices to cause unnecessary drama, regardless of it's in character or not.

But, I'm rambling. McTavish needs to go. My faves have been Broderick and Rayfield & Cascio -- who weren't given a fair chance at ALL!

An AMC fan after my own heart!

Exactly what I think! I loved Lorraine Broderick's run. Very character rich and balanced with drama and comedy which used to be AMC's hallmark.

Same with Rayfield & Cascio (RayCascio as I call them). The action adventure stuff with Aidan and Maureen (Even though the couple was a dud, it was still exciting and well written), and the heavy drama with Anna and David losing Leora as well as the corporate drama with Enchantment and Cambias (before McTavish came along and made Michael yet another cardboard cut-out rapist). They also diversified Pine Valley with Henry and Carlos and Reggie and Janelle and Joni the Bible Thumper, and incorporated the vets with the new characters. They even made the decision to put JR on that tramp steamer OUTTA TOWN!! Praise the soap gods!

I have to say the first six months of 2003 were AMC's best in years. It was an ensemble show. Not the Hayley and Mateo show (McTavish circa 1997-1999), or the Greenlee and Leo show (Culliton circa 2001-2002), and now the Babe Carey show.

Especially Richard Culliton. He did his best to try and make everyone on that show related to Leo. David & Anna, Vanessa, Maggie, Trey, Kendall... Ugh! While I loved Leo... initally... it just made no sense for the whole cast of characters to be the descendants of a Euro-trash mooch who was living off his wife's trustfund. Culliton had a lot of dropped and poorly executed storylines. The Revlon product placement story, which fizzled out. The Proteus story which ended with a whimper. The Chris Stamp is Ryan's Father story which NEVER made sense! And the Kendall Returns as the Demon Witch who forgot she made peace with Erica before she left town in 1995.

McTavish has issues of her own, and she works them out through her writing. She victimizes women like crazy. She makes them weak and needy. She writes in the same boring formula:

Hero.

Ingenue.

Slut.

Villain.

Save.

Protect.

Angst.

She doesn't write for character, she writes for templates. I watched an old tape I had of GH from McTavish's pass at that show in late 2001. I'm telling you, Jax could be Ryan = Hero. Sonny could be Zach = Intense Brooding Anti-Hero. Carly/Skye could be Kendall = Wounded and Vulnerable yet Vicious and Caustic. Courtney could be Babe = Blonde Ingenue. Ironically Lucky could be JR (since Jacob's played both characters under McTavish's writing) = Angry Brooder.

And if you notice in her interviews, it's the same thing: "High emotional stakes" or "Raising the emotional stakes" a.k.a. contrived plot devices to cause unnecessary drama, regardless of it's in character or not.

But, I'm rambling. McTavish needs to go. My faves have been Broderick and Rayfield & Cascio -- who weren't given a fair chance at ALL!

I have to thank you .. because I was making myself feel really bad about never liking MMTrash

You see... Agnes Nixon would be my favorite... heck she created my show.. so why wouldn't she..

Then Brodrick...

But I never liked MMTrash.. and Im sorry I do not have one good thing to say about her

I wished I could be like the rest of you.. and say she had her good times.. But I just want her away

from AMC... the sooner the better.. because she does have problems that seriously should be solved while she is lying down on a couch.. With a person sitting in a chair, watching the clock for 50 mins and taking notes... but I guess the next best thing would be to write it down... tape it .. then make other people watch it ... And to RUIN a show..

I'm a man and I'm disgusted with her treatment of women, so I could only imagine how a woman might feel watching this on her favorite program with characters she loves. All the females are needy or can only express themselves sexually.

Oh yeah, and another McTavish formula prototype... EVERY single new character has to be introduced either with a secret or hiding from everyone for months.