Lord knows, many of us here, myself included, criticized ATWT when they started with the kissing ban. We screamed bloody murder when they gave us tripe, cliche and insulting plots. We begged them to return to a classic character driven soap and pointed out how the current writing teams' efforts were historically doomed to fail. And many of us at AferElton offered up brilliant ideas for plot twists that would have entertained, surprised and shocked the public enough to keep ATWT in the media's eye and at the top of the ratings and dare I say, people would be asking if ATWT were modernizing a tired old genre rather than asking if the show was on it's last leg ... if only .... If only they had listened to us. But no, they didn't. the writers and producers have taken a show that was at the top of the ratings and quickly and efficiently driven it into the ground -and that was before they fired Martha! P&G and the network have to take some of the blame and we have tried to get them see the light, as well.
We have been trying to save the show. All that time we were nudging, critiquing and prodding them to create a better show. If I had thought signing a petition would have been the push they needed to do what they should have done a long time ago (namely start by reverting to character driven plots amongst a million other things suggested on these pages) then I would have signed that petition a hundred times over a year ago. But alas, I don't think even signing a petition will get those morons to wake up.
Being out is not"being an activist." It is being honest. Unfortunately it's such a rare commodity in this world that honesty often seems like activism.
We tried
We have been trying to save the show. All that time we were nudging, critiquing and prodding them to create a better show. If I had thought signing a petition would have been the push they needed to do what they should have done a long time ago (namely start by reverting to character driven plots amongst a million other things suggested on these pages) then I would have signed that petition a hundred times over a year ago. But alas, I don't think even signing a petition will get those morons to wake up.
Being out is not "being an activist." It is being honest. Unfortunately it's such a rare commodity in this world that honesty often seems like activism.