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!oliveb!hplabs!sdcrdcf!uscvax!kurtzman
From: kurtzman@uscvax.UUCP (Stephen Kurtzman)
Newsgroups: net.tv.soaps
Subject: Re: AMC Tad/Dotty flame
Message-ID: <161@uscvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 16:18:23 EST
Article-I.D.: uscvax.161
Posted: Tue Oct 29 16:18:23 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 05:11:22 EST
References: <1168@rayssd.UUCP>
Reply-To: kurtzman@usc-cse.UUCP (Stephen Kurtzman)
Distribution: net
Organization: CS&CE Depts, U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA
Lines: 38
Keywords: FLAME, gnashing of teeth
Summary: 

In article <1168@rayssd.UUCP> m1b@rayssd.UUCP (M. Joseph Barone) writes:
>	Why do the writers and/or Nixon always drag these plots
>out over such long periods of time?  They start out interesting
>but I find that I don't care what happens after the third month
>of the same drivel!  Over such lengths of time, development is
>so sluggish that it's boring.  Then they cheat us of a dramatic
>conclusion!  My wife and I were actual embarassed to watch Wed-
>nesday's program!

Another question to ask is why did they have Tad and Dotty sleep together?
This was about the most ridiculous story twist they have had.

My wife and I have not missed more than 4 or 5 episodes of AMC for the last
6 years and we have noticed that the writing is degrading at a fairly
constant rate. The Tad/Dotty/who-cares plot is an example of one of the
worst story lines we have seen.

We have also watched with some amusement how children mature on the show.
For instance, Tad was aged about two years extra years between the time he
ran away and the time he came back. A similar aging has occurred with Dotty
and Emily Ann. These are inconsistencies that the writers must feel the
viewers will abide. However there are other inconsistencies that makes one
believe that the writers are ignorant of past story lines. For instance,
Nina recently came back to Cortlandt manor thinking she is 16. She did not
recognize her mother! When the Nina character was first introduced to the
show she constantly stared at a painting of her mother. Nina should have
recognized her and gotten terminally confused since at 16 she thought her
mother was dead.

Now for a few favorite quotes from past AMC episodes:

"I'm gonna get them Martins" - Ray Gardner

"What are you? A product of inbreeding?" - Linda Warner to Nina Cortlandt
Warner.

Devon McFadden: "Do you love me?"
Sean Cudahy: "Well, wadda ya think?"