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Date Posted: 15:21:48 07/30/11 Sat
Author: niki
Author Host/IP: adsl-108-85-210-139.dsl.applwi.sbcglobal.net / 108.85.210.139
Subject: From an interview with MEK

About the change in soaps:
"We've lost that long, slow building of emotions because we got to the point where they want things moving fast — they need more bang for the buck. We keep giving the patient shots of adrenalin in order to keep things moving. We lost our skill in knowing how to use our legacy, and a big part of that is because Agnes has been out of the mix for the last few years. She has not had the control she should have had. There was a point where the people at the network said, "We can take it from here." And the fact is they couldn't. Agnes, like Bill Bell, God bless his soul, were master storytellers. They knew how to string the viewers along and keep them in suspense and in a state of great expectation. They knew how piss off the viewers a little bit now in to order make 'em really, really happy later on."

"The audience knows when we're veering away from our history, when we've lost track of what our characters are really about. God forbid we have two characters sitting on a sofa just talking and revealing themselves the way we used to 20 years ago! Now every scene must have entrances, exits, movement, stuff. We can't just be."

From: http://www.tvguide.com/News/AMC-Michael-Knight-1035787.aspx

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[> Thanks for this link -- scooter, 07:33:19 07/31/11 Sun [1] (cpe-72-228-34-109.nycap.res.rr.com/72.228.34.109)

I found this article really interesting. And I agree with a lot of what he says. AMC stopped developing characters and relationships slowly and naturally; they always seemed in a rush to have them engage in some kind of action or plot.


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[> [> Sad. -- suek, 09:37:23 07/31/11 Sun [1] (adsl-70-130-136-172.dsl.stlsmo.swbell.net/70.130.136.172)


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