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I know, I was MIGHTILY impressed to learn how much behind-the-scenes input VW had into AW.

And any respect I may have had for NBC went right out the window. They PURPOSELY killed our show! Those...well, just remember what I said about THAT WOMAN and you'll have an idea of what I feel about the idiots at NBC.

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A lot of what she said hit home for me, both professionally, artistically and emotionally. Now I kind of realize too why I no longer enjoy TV like I did 10 years or so ago. I am no longer the audience that they are targeting and they don't even know how to target the audience they are going after. NBC was once the #1 network, now I think it is dead last. They did it to themselves. They alienated all of us who were more into those powerhouse performances that knocked our socks off rather than today's plastic Barbie doll actors.

Same here! Me too, totally! I watch How I Met Your Mother, which is the brainchild of two writing majors out of Connecticut, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, and is based on their lives (one of them is the model for Marshall, his wife is the model for Lily, and the other one of them is the model for Ted; I have no idea if they have a real-life Barney in their lives, or a real-life Robin), and like Carl Reiner and Phil Rosenthal before them, they are writing what they know, they are writing from their lives (and in the process their hearts), and that's what keeps me coming back (okay, my megacrush on the character of Marshall Eriksen doesn't hurt either, but these five kids--amazingly most of them are younger than me, including my Marshall--KNOW how to act, and the writing and direction are superb), and Men in Trees, headlined by our incomparable and highly talented Anne Heche with an equally talented supporting cast and Jenny Bicks' amazing writing. Other than that, I could care less about current network TV. Despite the fact that I'm in the target demographic, I'd have to be brain dead to be interested in the rest of the cr@p that's on the air! And OTH will forever be a sore point with me because the entire FREAKING series is now available on DVD, and because their final season wasn't starting until January anyway and was only 12 episodes long, that's about the only show the writer's strike HASN'T affected, so when it returns in a few weeks, it'll be those 12 episodes and that's all, so those last 12 epis will probably be out on DVD by this time next year, so people can, if they are so inclined, buy the complete series DVD box set of OTH, and yet SoapNOT is still showing it two freaking times a day, and we get SQUAT from them regarding AW! I'm starting to wonder if any former NBC Daytime execs (since the only soap they even have left is DOOL and that's hotly rumored to be cancelled when its contract is up at NBC in '09) are at SN and they decided to just screw us all over again, the b@stards!

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I liked what she said about Susan Lucci ~ I've never been a fan of hers but I don't hate her either. I just have never thought that she *rocked* like any of the great actresses we had on AW ~ VW, CF, LD, JEL, JB, AH, ABM. And VW said that her character (Erica Kane) never changed. That was prolly why it took about 100 years for her to finally win that Emmy.

ITA with what VW said about Susan Lucci. I've never been a fan of hers but I've never hated her either. Now I did watch AMC back in the day when I was in junior high, high school, and even for a while when I was of college age (Robin Christopher will always be Skye to me, and she was like 20 at the time and could BRING IT against David Canary as her powerful, evil father Adam Chandler...and if we have to get technical, even though I didn't like Ellen Wheeler on there any more than I liked the clips of her I saw on AW, RC also shared powerful scenes with EW, who played sweet, doomed Cindy Parker, which won EW an Emmy).

So this means I saw both the 25th and 30th anniversaries when they were doing the flashbacks to the very first year of the show, when Erica was a senior in high school plotting how to steal Phil Brent away from Tara Martin during study hall.

And I have to tell you, despite being married more times than Liz Taylor, with an even higher number of divorces, and now being a grandmother three times over (two grandsons and a granddaughter), the character of Erica Kane is still, emotionally, after 37 years (38 on January 5), back in study hall plotting how to steal Phil away from Tara. She never evolved, she never grew up, she never changed. And how RIDICULOUS is it that the woman is a grandmother three times over and refuses to be acknowledged as such? For crying out loud, Susan Lucci is a grandmother in real life now too! But Erica...they never refer to those kids as Erica's grandchildren, or to her as their grandmother, Grandma, or most befitting La Kane, Glam-ma. It's always "my daughter's daughter" or "the two sons of my oldest daughter." I feel like just saying, get over yourself and own up to it, Erica--Miranda is your granddaughter, and Ian and Spike (I am not making that up either--that poor child's legal name is Spike) are your grandsons. Just ONCE, will SOMEBODY in Pine Valley SAY IT? (That should have been Brooke's parting shot when they unceremoniously fired Julia Barr after she played Brooke English for 30 years, because Brooke and Erica were always rivals in romance AND in business--the very least they could have done, I thought, was have Brooke make a granny crack to Erica, but no. Nobody is allowed to call Erica anything even remotely pertaining to "grandmother," and Miranda, Spike, and Ian are never referred to as her grandchildren.)

So no, in 37, almost 38 years, there has been no evolution for Erica emotionally.

But with Rachel...actually with most of the characters, I would have to say...there is always evolution and growth. That's part of what makes AW so compelling and so entertaining, and part of the reason it stands the test of time.

Amy
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