OK OK I know, it's several weeks late, but things came up.
However, I still wanted to get a few things off my chest.
First of all (oh yeah I should mention all points made will be totally random Ha Ha)
I really would have appreciated the original theme music and graphics,
to open the show, but then again, there I go with common sense, silly me.
I thought there 40th opener was cheesy, with not a lot of thought put into it.
I also couldn't wrap my head around why Amanda Baker was featured
in the Babe and JR flashbacks and not Alexa Havins, the original Babe
Chandler. I know a lot of people had mad issues with this character, and I won't
go into those now, too many to list, however, in my humble opinion, love her or
hate her (she was an excellent actress I thought) she owned the role. Alexa
truly grasped the concept of who Arabella "Babe" Carey Chandler was suppose to be.
Also, I agree with Jordan and Ashlee of the Pine Valley Podcast that no one
offering condolences to Matao about his sister's passing was incredibly tacky!
At least Eva La Rue aka Maria Grey made up for that in spades. When she talked about Julia,
it ripped my heart out! Hooker made me cry dammit. Then again, I'm a huge fan of Eva,
she doesn't have to do much to impress me, she's so good. She's been on CSI Miami since
2006 I believe, and comes in to shoot for one AMC episode, and in my humble opinion,
blew so many people out of the water!
And shame!! on ABC for advertising the anniversary as a two day event.
Seriously, are you kidding me, this soap celebrates 40 years on the air and
you can't seem to muster up 2 days worth of old and new footage plus
interviews to honor that achievement(at least that's how I would have done it).
However shitty this soap currently is, it still should have been properly acknowledged.
I don't get why the AMC producers had to come up with such a LAME!!!! plot to in order to
introduce the anniversary into the storyline. It was completely unnecessary.
Why not just do a two day tribute, PERIOD! If introducing the anniversary show in this
way was such a sticking point with them, which clearly it was, then the ONLY way to do it
would have been to write it in a "Time Out of Time" fashion. It is a style of
writing rarely done, at least in soaps, as far as I know. "Days of Our Lives" did
it not that long ago, back in the late 90's, if I'm not mistaken, and it was brilliant.
(If anyone remembers the actual year please tell me. Just curious.)
You know, it's funny, I almost believe me when I say almost didn't watch the 40th
Anniversary show. Why, well, the show has been such an abysmal disappointment for
myself as well as many others over the past two years or so. To the point where I've
pretty much boycotted the show for the last 4 months only watching about 20 or so
episodes. So when commercials for the 40th Anniversary were running I honestly did
not give a shit! About two days before the Anniversary show aired, I was suddenly
struck hard by the fact that I didn't want to watch an Anniversary show for a soap that
I've watched since 1979, when I was 9 years old. That's fucked up!!!! In the end curiosity
got the better of me, and I tuned in.
Moving the show out of New York is so blasphemous, that they really better step it
up in LA, to make up for such a horrible decision. I know were in a recession, but I
just can't help but think that there had to be another way to cut back costs until the
economy improved other than moving it from the east coast.
That all, I'm spent.
Cheers
