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Post by Chris on Dec 3, 2006 18:47:37 GMT -5
I found this on TMZ.com, but can't figure out how to link to a specific story from that site. So here it is copied:This week, "All My Children" launched the first male-to-female transgendered storyline in daytime TV. Actor Jeffrey Carlson plays a British gender-switching rock star with the unlikely name of Zarf, who is having a flirtation with Erica's Kane's (Susan Lucci's) lesbian daughter, Bianca (Eden Riegel). Zarf bears a striking resemblance to "Project Runway" finalist, Austin Scarlett. It had been hoped that the storyline would give "AMC" a lift from a serious ratings plunge. Rather than play it with any seriousness, producers have chosen to portray the character as a ridiculous, wild-eyed cartoon homosexual, who is snickered at by nearly everyone in the show. Tacky. According to longtime pinevalleybulletin.com blogger Kathy Carano, "AMC needs a kick in the ass and they're hoping Zarf will do just that, but AMC's recent track record of ruining potentially great storylines weighs heavily on a lot of fans." The soap's been struggling for plots to prop up ratings; they even undid Erica's groundbreaking 1973 abortion and ventured into the absurd by coming up with her long lost son, who'd been "transplanted into another woman at the time of the abortion." Oh, the humanity. Austin Scarlett:
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Post by donutqueen on Dec 3, 2006 19:48:21 GMT -5
oh the humanity is right
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Post by Soaper on Dec 3, 2006 22:50:41 GMT -5
AMC makes it really hard for viewers to admit that they are still watching.
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Brandon
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Post by Brandon on Dec 3, 2006 23:18:19 GMT -5
Meanwhile this show sinks further and further into the crapper by the nano-second.....
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Post by Amy on Dec 3, 2006 23:40:04 GMT -5
Brandon, I'm going to have to give you karma for using the words "crapper" and "nanosecond" in the same sentence. That was just an all around great sentence. Kudos/karma to you. And on topic---I think the character of Zarf could be/could have been a lot of fun but the direction they have already taken him in 2 episodes leads me to believe that he's doomed.
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Post by donutqueen on Dec 4, 2006 0:17:57 GMT -5
he was doomed by the fact they released all that 'buzz' about him and the 'gorundbreaking SL' before he was even officially added to the canvas
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Post by kallietop on Dec 4, 2006 11:56:10 GMT -5
the writers can never live up to the expectations of their own released "buzz" - it seems as if they are more concerned to get people to turn on the station but not to keep the station on. that is sad. everything i read shows how crappy amc has gotten. *sigh*
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