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| The way we used to feel about ATWT.. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 7 2009, 06:18 AM (934 Views) | |
| loves2turn | Apr 7 2009, 06:18 AM Post #1 |
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How many of us feel this way still about ATWT?  I know I don't...  |
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| Linda | Apr 7 2009, 07:16 AM Post #2 |
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I certainly remember feeling that way, especially before vcr's. I do still watch everyday, but the show is so bad right now that I really don't care all that much.
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| flashdance | Apr 7 2009, 09:51 AM Post #3 |
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Of course I don't. But I do not feel the same about ANY television show in the same manner as BEFORE. As much as I love all of the STAR TREK series...the shows always begins DULL and then improve on themselves. Many times we have watched WILL&GRACE, ROSEANNE, NCIS, etc...and strangely these SHORT PRIMETIME SHOWS tend to not improve so much as to drag alittle bit more. But then with the 50+ year old ATWT....things change from decade to decade. Things change from one collection of writers to the next. Things change from one collection of actors to the next. Things change from one collections of the PTB to another....but out of all of the NON REPETITIVE shows that I watch....THIS IS THE ONLY SHOW THAT I WANT to continue to watch and change with the times. Yes...out of the 50+ years...the JP years are becoming some of the worse. But the HOPE, the HISTORY, the CAST still exists and I still have more dedication to watching this daily hour of TV, five days a week. It may be more difficult to invest so much time with the same show....but compared to the PRIMETIME shows that we are given...I am still much happier with THIS DAILY SOAP and hope I have the ability to continue to INVEST 5 hours a week on the same show without repeats until I am blind, deaf or dead. |
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| RogerNewcomb | Apr 7 2009, 11:36 AM Post #4 |
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Since ATWT has gone to this super short storyline and almost episodic way to telling stories, it's hard to invest in watching every day. The characters on today won't be on tomorrow. The previews are usually a whole new cast of characters. They need to keep some throughlines every day to make us want to watch the next show. |
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| nluvw2 | Apr 9 2009, 06:44 AM Post #5 |
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The answer to your question is the reason why I haven't watched in about 3 years now. Before I became employed out of the house, I still watched daily, but the show either bored me to sleep or I couldn't stand the way the stories were told/charachter protrayal. Today, when I happed to be at home when it's on & I remember to watch, it's the SAME stupid stuff from years ago that made me lose interest!!   I remember when there was a time that I didn't think that I'd EVER stop wathcing ATWT. It's amazing how that day has come & I don't even miss the show! |
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| aetmauro | Apr 9 2009, 09:19 AM Post #6 |
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My personal history with ATWT began with some consistency in 1985, when I was in college. Prior to that, I'd been a GH fan because (1) my mom was, when I was growing up and (2) it was the only soap on by the time I got home from school. Mind you, I had watched ATWT a few times if it was a snow day or I was home sick or something, but GH was the soap I was used to the most. GH also had Luke & Laura (though I always loved Scotty) in the 80s and everyone knows how popular that was. But when GH introduced the Ice Princess, Elizabeth Taylor, and things started getting REALLY stupid, I gave up. College brought out the DOOL fans, which included a LOT of hormonal boys at my school - it was the soap that was showing on the TV in the school's "pub" at lunchtime every day. I would watch it, see all of the beautiful actresses and watch some of the most ridiculous stories I'd ever seen and wonder why on earth people were watching it. It was basically "Dynasty" in the daytime. And not in a good way, IMO.I watched ATWT because some of my college friends did, and I had seen enough prior to school to have a clue about some of the show's history. It was pretty entertaining and a great escape from school stuff. That's why I am still partial to Martha Byrne as Lily - with the exception of those few years that she was gone - I grew up with her in many ways. After college, I taped it while I was working full time. It was a great escape and even though I didn't like everything about it, I still looked forward to watching it in the evenings when I was unwinding. Roger brings up a very good point - the current trend of short story lines is the opposite of how the show was written years ago. I definitely enjoyed the well thought out and written plots that pulled in characters from various families and corners, had a few twists that made you shocked or second guess what you'd been assuming, and was compelling enough that I looked forward to seeing it unfold. I didn't need to have things wrapped up in 3 days and while there were definitely "newbies" now and then, most of the characters that come into town had some kind of connection to the existing characters. The randomness of JP's thinking just boggles my mind and is so frustrating to watch play out on the show now.  The lack of respect for the show's history, rich pool of characters and actors, and fans' intelligence makes me wonder just what on earth is wrong with her, as well as Chris Goutman (for letting her remain at the helm). There are no current storylines that make me want to tune in each day anymore. I read the recaps out of habit, mostly, and that perverse slow-down-as-you-pass-the-accident-on-the-side-of-the-highway kind of thing.  All of my own goofy conspiracy theories aside, I am 100% perplexed as to what JP and CG could possibly be thinking as they drive this show into the ground. I simply cannot fathom that they want the show to fail (not be renewed) but WHY???? |
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| Marah | Apr 12 2009, 02:37 PM Post #7 |
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I remember the days when I would actually schedule my lunch break around As the World Turns so I could run home, watch it, and be back to work on time. LOL! I worked a very short distance from home. I remember days when if my VCR messed up and didn't record, I was a total wreck...on the phone or on the internet boards looking for some way or somebody to copy their tape for me, or at least give me a detailed update. Hard to believe what the show has become since those days. It is barely recognizable to me anymore, and I barely watch. And, even on days when I am able to watch live, I just can't bear to do it because watching without the benefit of my fast forward button is just too painful. I feel like I'm witnessing the slow painful death of a beloved friend and I'm powerless to do anything to change it. Goutman and Passanante should be fired and jailed for what they've done to this grand old show, and Bloom should be horsewhipped for allowing it.  I don't expect that As the World Turns will be turning very much longer...
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| Lunatacker | Apr 13 2009, 11:59 PM Post #8 |
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There was a time on As the World Turns when the climax of a plot was only the beginning of the story, and the real story was how the details of the plot might change the relationship between two people. Casey Peretti's right-to-die story is a good example. Already paralyzed with Guillain-Barr� syndrome (GBS), Casey Peretti contracted encephalitis and didn't want to live on a respirator. With time running out and knowing he could never ask wife, Lyla, to turn off his life-support system, Casey turned to stepdaughter Margo for assistance. After begging Casey to reconsider and struggling with his request, Margo pulled the plug on Casey's respirator, and he died. Margo was devastated, but not as devastated as her mother, Casey's wife, Lyla, who screamed and thrashed and told Tom to get Margo out of her sight! "We know our Margo," Lyla railed. "She doesn't think; she just reacts!" (I'm paraphrasing.) You see, Margo had been known for her impetuousness, while Tom believed in the law; he saw the world in black-and-white with no gray areas. While Margo had to contend with her own guilt and her mother's anger and grief, she also faced Tom's disappointment. Tom finally admitted to his sister, Frannie, that he could not condone what his wife had done, and it broke his heart. Susan Stewart, Casey's friend and colleague, tried to get Lyla to see that Casey had made his own choice. But Lyla could not be consoled, nor could she forgive Margo. And then there was the murder trial, since there was no living will. The emotions between the characters is, for me, what made this story so stellar. I miss the way Tom and Margo's personality differences caused understandable (i.e. realistic) tension in their marriage over the years. I loved how Tom wanted Hal to give up all legal claims to Adam, yet he couldn't forgive Lisa for giving up Scott as a baby and not telling Tom about him until Scott was 30 years old or so. And it was Margo who pointed out that what Lisa had done was no different from what Tom wanted Hal to do. Margo was pivotal in getting Tom and Scott to give each other a chance, and Tom resented Scott and Margo's closeness. Though Lisa was his mother, Margo seemed to become Scott's anchor in Oakdale. Then, there was Scott's fling with Lucinda, Lisa's sworn enemy. Great stuff! I could go on for hours. But I won't. The point is, I miss watching how characters react to each other, and how the plot makes us wonder how relationships will be affected. I don't do that anymore. Anyway, for what it's worth, that's my contribution to this thread. |
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