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In article <2863@randvax.UUCP> boren@randvax.UUCP (Pat Boren) writes:
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>>  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.

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>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.