Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uscvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ittatc!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!uscvax!kurtzman From: kurtzman@uscvax.UUCP (Stephen Kurtzman) Newsgroups: net.tv.soaps Subject: Re: AMC flame for another reason Message-ID: <254@uscvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jan-86 20:35:13 EST Article-I.D.: uscvax.254 Posted: Wed Jan 15 20:35:13 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jan-86 00:41:38 EST References: <83700002@hpisli.UUCP> <2863@randvax.UUCP> Reply-To: kurtzman@usc-cse.UUCP (Stephen Kurtzman) Organization: CS&CE Depts, U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA Lines: 99 In article <2863@randvax.UUCP> boren@randvax.UUCP (Pat Boren) writes: > >> This is getting so bad that I have to scream somewhere. Please >> indulge my ravings. > > >Me too! Me too! >He came on the show as a good guy, and as soon as >he gets the girl, he's a jerk. It's even worse. He didn't become a jerk so much as people started saying he was a jerk and then he started acting it. AMC has not been taking the time to develop characters it used to. A really good example is Jessie's nasty temper. This temper was only displayed about a week after people started talking about it. This is a cheap device for giving a person a characteristic without taking the trouble of developing it. > >I'm also sick and tired of the "dumb broads" -- have all the women >taken stupid lessons from Jenny, Donna and Devon? Why doesn't >Angie tell Dr. Voight to get lost and at least let Jessie know >what's up? This is a sore point with me also. If Angie is an intelligent young woman burning up med school with her brilliance why is she such a dip in every other aspect? > >Stories I'd like to see: > o I can't stand Tom, so I'd like to see him put away for Gilles' > murder or hit by a bus and killed. No, Tom is one of the few people on the show with the potential of being a nice character. Poor Kate was the last one they had. > o Erica & Jeremy as a happily married couple, ala Robert & Holly > on GH. Just because a couple is together doesn't mean stories > are dead. In fact, a whole new realm could open up. They need to do it fast. Erica's inability to keep a husband/boyfriend/love is getting old. I wish they had done this with Mike. Mike was fairly intelligent and made a nice contrast to Erica. They could have shown some real growth in Erica. Instead they have changed to some Himalayan hocus pocus. (Another problem with the show -- too much supernatural garbage; first it was Kantu, now it is RL Peyton.) > o Brooke dredging up who her mother really is. Yes. And then have her grow up. > o New characters in the baby boomer group showing contemporary > problems facing them: job burnout (yuppies changing careers > midstream), having "last chance" babies, things like that. The idea sounds good. But, please, no more women desparate to have children. They have done that one to death. > o A little more humor (so do something with Brian). Only if they approach it correctly. Opal Gardner was hilarious. Recently the humor has been typified by the chase scene at the end of the call-girl floppy disk story. That was so insipid it was painful to watch. My wish list: o Billy Clyde comes back to Pine Valley to steal his daughter (Emily Ann). o Ross leaves Chandler Enterprises because of his differences with Adam and joins Cortlandt Electronics. This would give several avenues for stories: 1. Tension between Ellen and Ross as Ellen tries to get Ross and Adam to reconcile. Of course, the tension in the home makes Julie want to go back to the orphanage. All sorts of problems ensue as Julie becomes a problem child because of the unrest at home. This would give fertile ground for story lines. (In fairness to the AMC writers, some of this story line has been alluded to). 2. As Ross and Palmer come to know one another, they develop a deep personal bond. We can see how Ross overcomes the hostility at Palmer for abandoning his mother. Ross can feel guilty about abandoning Adam -- the man who was a real father to him. 3. Ross can be thrown together with Andrew at Cortlandt Electronics. The past is dredged up and has various effects on them. They never come to trust one another. 4. Ross and Palmer try to destroy Chandler Enterprises. Chandler vs Cortlandt -- the clash of the business world titans. o One week in Pine Valley, everyone thinks things through before they act. They make intelligent decisions and many heartaches are avoided. Well, maybe the last one is too much to hope for.