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So, about an hour ago, my air conditioner started smoking. Maintenance came up and took the thing apart and discovered that the problem with my AC being one step away from fire had to do with the circuit board. Which, first: I did not know that air conditioners were as complicated as computers and fighter jets. And second: clearly, this marks the first stage of the machines rising up against humanity because they have decided that, in light of All My Children and One Life to Live getting canceled while Frons, Guza, and Phelps are still employed, we are too stupid to be allowed to live.
Seriously, I am still kind of in a state of disbelief. We all knew it was only a matter of time, especially with the rumor mill in full swing these last few months, but still. Both at once? That's pretty cold. Even CBS spaced out GL and ATWT, and we all know the kind of terrible executive decisions they make! (And don't get me started on the dreck that's replacing the soaps...)
I'll admit, I only started watching AMC and OLTL in college, but I grew up with them all the same, especially One Life. That was my mom's show; she's been watching since episode 1. That and Another World (I mean, she has stalking stories. I don't know whether to be frightened or proud of her level of fannishness). I think she will literally sit shiva when OLTL goes dark in January, it's so much a part of her. I got my love of soaps from her, and I know that part of my love for storytelling came from them. That's something Frons can't take away, no matter how hard he tries.
And he's trying hard. Seriously, is there any worse indictment of the state of modern television storytelling than the fact that Bob Guza remains in charge of the sole ABC soap opera? Can you imagine how much worse things on GH will get now that he's gotten tacit acknowledgment that he's doing something right? My heart, it hurts.
Good bye, Victoria Lord-Riley-Burke-Riley-Buchanan-Carpenter-Davidson-Banks, and all six alternate personalities. So long, Erica Kane-Martin-Brent-Cudahy-Chandler-Montgomery-Montgomery-Chandler-Marick-Marick-Montgomery, and your successful career as a small-town, five-foot-nothing supermodel. It's up to Carly on GH to carry on the tradition of multiply-hyphenated, crazy storylined leading ladies on ABC.
...Fuck.
...OMG hi. I am still alive, even though you wouldn't know it from the frequency of my posts.
Seriously, I am still kind of in a state of disbelief. We all knew it was only a matter of time, especially with the rumor mill in full swing these last few months, but still. Both at once? That's pretty cold. Even CBS spaced out GL and ATWT, and we all know the kind of terrible executive decisions they make! (And don't get me started on the dreck that's replacing the soaps...)
I'll admit, I only started watching AMC and OLTL in college, but I grew up with them all the same, especially One Life. That was my mom's show; she's been watching since episode 1. That and Another World (I mean, she has stalking stories. I don't know whether to be frightened or proud of her level of fannishness). I think she will literally sit shiva when OLTL goes dark in January, it's so much a part of her. I got my love of soaps from her, and I know that part of my love for storytelling came from them. That's something Frons can't take away, no matter how hard he tries.
And he's trying hard. Seriously, is there any worse indictment of the state of modern television storytelling than the fact that Bob Guza remains in charge of the sole ABC soap opera? Can you imagine how much worse things on GH will get now that he's gotten tacit acknowledgment that he's doing something right? My heart, it hurts.
Good bye, Victoria Lord-Riley-Burke-Riley-Buchanan-Carpenter-Davidson-Banks, and all six alternate personalities. So long, Erica Kane-Martin-Brent-Cudahy-Chandler-Montgomery-Montgomery-Chandler-Marick-Marick-Montgomery, and your successful career as a small-town, five-foot-nothing supermodel. It's up to Carly on GH to carry on the tradition of multiply-hyphenated, crazy storylined leading ladies on ABC.
...Fuck.
...OMG hi. I am still alive, even though you wouldn't know it from the frequency of my posts.