That Old Marland Feeling?

Colleen, thanks for making us laugh...again. I haven't watched ATWT in a year when they made Emily a hooker. Or was it Allison? I forget... Snark, did I share with you my Douglas Marland blog?

Jennifer, I think you did, but feel free to plug it again for the home audience.

I stopped watching ATWT regularly when Emily was screeching after she thought she had killed Paul. An understandable thought, because she did shoot him and roll him off a cliff. Was that Paul's second death or his third?

But anyway, it appears Emily is the trigger to stop watching ATWT.

ATWT is in the crapper these days. All the couples suck, Noelle Beck is terrible as Lily, Holden and Carly is insipid, quashing Chris and Allison was dumb. Only thing interesting that the "Queen of boring, whiney whores" Sophie is dead. Colleen shared fantastic scenes with Fulton(yes, that Fulton) on Friday. I always liked how Sheffer used Barbara, which is what is really being invoked here.

Snark: Here's why Colleen Zenk said what she said: Your other commenters are, for the most part, right. Most of the couples on the show suck, but the storyline where Sofie was trying to blackmail Paul, someone murdered her last week and Paul buried the body and Colleen has gotten to chew the scenery a lot...there's something about the writing and the acting in this particular that is kind of riveting. I speak as someone who was a huge ATWT in the 70s..these were the real glory days of ATWT, in my opinion, not Marland, you had these really long meandering scenes of people drinking coffee and hanging out in the hospital cafeteria and then all the plot stuff would happen in the last 15 minutes of each episode...and now I mainly watch for Luke and Noah. I think if you and your commenters would check out a couple of episodes, they might agree about this Sofie/Paul/Meg storyline. However, it's painfully obvious that this show is written by committee...there's no way that whoever is writing this story is writing any of the other ones.

well, where to start... wish it was only one finger on ff, but it's all 10 on the keyboard grinding out the last of this chapter.

for some reason, what popped into my head after readying czp's comment was a story about how george orwell might be reacting to how, shall we say, "facile," of our current (and praise good, soon to be former) administration is with language:

pounding on the lid of his coffin, shrieking, "it was a cautionary tale, not a blueprint."

have to say, though, i've always felt bad for the actors who have to get it up for this nonsense. it wasn't clear from the original piece the context of her comment. if it was an interview arranged by, and possible in the presence of a cbs or p&g publicist, what's she supposed to say, "it's a steaming pile of cow dung," which is likely she really thinks? i mean, there is only one la liz.

on the other hand, if she has some happy pills, she really should share them with the rest of us.

Poor Emily, so much on her shoulders... Here's the blog: http://www.redroom.com/blog/jenniferkate/the-way-he-wrote Hope you don't mind me plugging... Lynn and I are neck to neck to win a contest on Redroom.com. Whoever wins gets to meet other writes at the St. Francis in the City. The guy who is winning said he "didn't want to lose to a woman who writes about soap operas." Um, don't cross us, pal. Just trust me.

"if it was an interview arranged by, and possible in the presence of a cbs or p&g publicist, what's she supposed to say, "it's a steaming pile of cow dung," which is likely she really thinks?"

True, but there's a middle ground between "steaming pile" and "Doug Marland would love this!" That's just so above and beyond what's necessary, you know? It does seem that CBS is turning up the rhetoric when it comes to promoting their shows. People at Y&R have been breathlessly discussing how amazing the show will be in the next couple of months; and Ellen Wheeler has been acting as though everyone associated with GL is so wonderful they poop gold bricks. So, I just wonder is CZP being sincere when she says it, or are these the new talking points?

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snarkie, snarkie -- you're distracting me from my task. and i'm just getting to the part where i quote you.

anyway, can't disagree with anything you've said, well, maybe the part about pooping gold bricks. but think about how hard it must be to drag your ass out of bed every morning and go to work with a script made up of gold bricks. i agree that the marland thing was a bit much, but maybe that was the talking point. after all, they do call it acting for a reason.