As the World Turns: More Disappointment Ahead
As the World Turns just added Josie Driver (Kristen Connolly) to the long list of lackluster storylines, unsurprising twists and uninspired dreck that parades across my TV screen every afternoon. The common thread between 2006 and 2008 is pretty obvious to most viewers, but I can't imagine the casual viewer who tunes in on their occasional day off who wonders if this has been going on for the last two years.
I wasn't quite sure how this storyline was going to play out, but it was clear that Josie was a woman with an unknown past who resembled Dusty's (Grayson McCouch) ex-wife Jennifer (Jennifer Ferrin). The quest for Josie to find her lost memory would have been the most interesting aspect for me. My Josie would have wandered into Oakdale, with someone spotting her resemblance to Jennifer, searching for answers to her past. Her connection to the canvas would have come in the form of Jennifer's family and would progress from there (any more fanfic would blow my main point).
Monday's episode tanked the entire story. I have to admit the revelation that Paul (Roger Howarth) was behind Josie's appearance was knocking in the back of my head since the beginning because it was the only thing that made sense. Retreading the Paul, Dusty, Craig vortex of suck rivalry is so common that even the most intricate stories are obvious. This story is over for me. Any intrigue, mystery or imaginative storytelling was destroyed when Paul blew into Josie's room demanding she be on 24-hour call.
This one story represents a deeper issue at ATWT. This one show has dropped more balls than the Syracuse Orange. Seriously, how many stories can be redirected before we tune out? Carly and Holden; Emily and Casey; Margo and Emily; Carly and Lily all had promise that was torn down and moved on. The logical move would have pit Dusty against Holden, while he tried to resolve his betrayal to a waivering Lily. The only story that has consistency is Luke and Noah's: No sex for you!
When Craig and Johnny reappear in the near future, I can't imagine the one-upmanship getting any better. Will we have to endure Meg (Marie Wilson) bouncing between three insanely jealous men? Oh, how the mighty have fallen. I was raving about this show a few short months ago, but I guess my counterpart Jamey is right: Daytime feels it can only have one good show at a time. Right now, this one ain't it.
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20 November 2007
3 days 11 hours
ATWT is like a leaking helium balloon!
They put a lot of helium into it:
Carly going after Jack for custody, who would win, what would the judge decide and flllllllooopppp Sage decided not to go ahead. So we had:
Jack: Janet said that no she did not...
Carly: Sage said that yes she did it...Ad nauseum.
The same with Josie, it could have been original and interesting to know the why’s Jennifer and Josie had so many things in common but flllllllooopppp it is Paul scheme number555-55552 against Dusty!
They just don't know how to deliver, except deliver drivel to be fair!
27 November 2007
2 years 4 days
So many storylines have not delivered on AS The Worls Turns there to many to name and also characters to disappointing to and not interesting many more the way it use to be .The head writer brings back characters like Adam, Dani, Aron, and write them outof character and then bring in characters like Spencer and Josie who wreck haeck on the people in town and some of the storylines are from 2006 it`s like there no creative writing or storytelling is going on with this headwriter at all and that`s disappointing to me as long time aoap fan.
4 April 2008
7 weeks 3 days
Dropping the ball/leaking helium are good analogies for what is going wrong on this show right now. Y'all hit the nail on the head, imo.
The show spends time building up these great storylines of budding conflict and/or romance--the very ones you mention, Mike--and then out of the blue, they are tidily resolved overnight or just dropped without explanation.
For example, I thought Carly and Holden coupling, while also being hot in and of itself, created fuel and fallout for at least a half a dozen storylines involving half of Oakdale for ages to come. Instead, it was dropped/resolved practically overnight and now Lily, Holden, Carly and Jack are back to acting like it practically didn't happen.
Instead we get Jack declaring his love for Carly one week and Carly rejecting him, to Jack declaring his love for Janet the next week and Carly chasing after Jack. Makes no sense, even on a soap timeline and even for Carly and Jack. And of course, as you mention, at least two or three men always fighting over Meg. Blech.
The writers have reduced these characters to robots with on and off switches. I don't feel like getting invested in any storyline because I feel like the ones I like will just get dropped a week later with no payoff.
8 May 2008
6 weeks 1 day
This show is in trouble because of bad plots, bad writing, bad actors, and newbies on the screen.
siomonstuart2003