By Eva
7/29/07
I have been watching All My Children since the late 1980s, although I
have to admit at times I have stopped watching the show only to start
watching again, mostly because I enjoy watching the wonderful cast, not
because of any particular storylines. I really enjoyed the wonderful
stories of the late 1980s and 1990s, but there have been few stories I have
enjoyed recently. I have not stopped watching the show, however, because
when stories are bad it is fun to watch a wonderful cast make lemonade out
of lemons. I was the most heartbroken by the tremendous error made by
the writers with the Satin Slayer story. It was the most poorly written
story I have seen on soaps in a while. I know they needed a way to get
rid of seldom-used characters, but the story was so poorly written that I
only felt sorry for the actors who had to make the best of it. I
hope the show manages to get back to the wonderful character-driven stories
it once had that made me want to tune in each week, because I cared about
the characters and also wanted to find out what would happen next in the
story. I have seen some evidence that the show is getting back to what
I once enjoyed about it. I have enjoyed watching the sparks fly
between Jackson and Erica with the New Divorce story. I wish they
would give more of the veterans wonderful stories like that one to do.
The Ladies of Fusion are also back to how they used to be, creating make-up
and bickering with each other which is half the fun of watching them. The women
can fight with each other over anything but watch out if an enemy threatens one
of them or the company is in trouble because they always put their differences
aside to help each other or the company. I am also looking forward to watching
them continue to bond as friends. I am so happy that the All My Children I love
is slowly coming back, but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done on
it. I don’t like this Jonathan/Ava pairing at all, because it's frankly just a
bit out there and strange that Jonathan would fall in love with his ex-wife’s
half-sister, and it is also happening too fast and the writers are trying to push
the couple on the audience. I think it would be more interesting to see Ava
paired with Aidan, and Di trying to fight to keep her man, especially since Di has
been the only one in town trying to give Ava a chance to change her life.
I also wish they would pair Del with somebody instead of constantly having
him be the bartender who always listens to everyone’s problems. The character
of Del has lost what used to make him fun when he was first brought on to the
show which was that he was good with the ladies but deep down he seemed like a guy
with a good heart. Despite all the mistakes he made, you rooted for him,
because you knew that all he needed was a good woman to straighten him out.
I also wish they would give Di a good juicy story instead of just having her be
everyone's best friend. I have discovered that having good characters and a
severe lack of good stories for them has been a problem that All My Children
hasn’t been able to solve since the great stories written in the 1980s and
early 1990s that kept you on the edge of your seat not wanting to miss an
episode. All my Children needs to stop trying to rewrite character history
and stick as close to the history as possible and write stories about real
problems that people face every day, so that people watching can be inspired to
say, "If the Kane women can handle this problem, I can handle it too." All
My
Children has been one of the best daytime dramas at dealing with real-life
issues, and they should keep doing that and just mix it with some romance and
every once in a while a little comic relief. What I hope for one of my
favorite daytime dramas is that it will surprise us every once in a while and
stop being so predictable, and make me want to watch every week and say to
myself, "Wow, I didn’t know that was coming. What a great week." All My
Children is on its way back to what it once was. All it needs is some great
writing, because it already has one of the best cast of actors in daytime.
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