Farewell to 'All My Children'

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Had no idea today was the finale episode until I saw someone tweeting about it. Ten years ago I replaced my AMC addition with my SJ addiction...stopped watching completely. Turned it on for the first time today, and understood every storyline completely. Tad looks a little thicker around the middle, but otherwise, everything looks the same. Especially Erica....so many chemicals in that face she can't move an eyelash.

Any other former AMC fans?

 

[Moderator1]

Is All My Children what replaced Dream House years ago? Or was that another soap?

 

[imjustagirl]

My mom is VERY upset right now. Like VERY.

 

[Dyno]

I watched religiously from about 1984-91. Since then, I've kept up off and on and because one of my friends still watched. I thought last Friday was the final episode, so clearly, I haven't been paying attention.

Tad has looked bloated for at least the last 10 years. Is he moving on to the internet AMC? If not, what else is he going to do? He's been Tad for like 30 years!

 

[imjustagirl]

I still think Tad's hot. It's the humor, and the little smirks. Just seems like a (pretend) guy I'd like to have drinks with.

Once Myrtle died, I stopped caring as much.

 

[Pancamo]

Speaking of AMC alums.


http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Whats-Wrong-With-Kim-Delaney-130402588.html

 

[Bob Cook]

My mom watched AMC when I was a kid, but I didn't get into the swing of it until I started dating the woman who was to become my wife. This was in 1992-93, when I believe Sarah Michele Gellar was still playing Kendall, and what's-her-name from CSI: Miami was the love interest of Edmund. To crack ourselves up, we'd imitate Dmitiri's overdramatic voice, with every breathy sentence starting, "Erica... ."

The actor who I gained the most respect for was David Canary, Adam/Stuart Chandler. He was a very believable and realistic tycoon villain as Adam -- and a very believable and realistic gentle soul as Stuart.

 

[21]

Gone With the Wind exit!
Gunshot!
Over!
More commercials!

Click.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

All My Children and One Life to Live were both given the ax a few months ago. OLTL has its final episode in January. Production company Prospect Park bought the rights to both and are intending to produce new episodes for an online multimedia network. How and if it happens remains to be seen.

 

[HC]

I watched for a while in 1970s but not since. Didn't even know it was still on!

 

[Dyno]

Gone With the Wind exit!
Gunshot!
Over!
More commercials!

Click.

I'd read it was going to end with a cliffhanger. Nice!

 

[Cansportschick]

All I have to say is "Long live Erica Kane!!!"

 

[SalukiNC]

My grandma never missed an episode since the start of the show. Need to check in on her, make sure she's OK.

Heard it's heading online, interesting.

 

[imjustagirl]

Wait, who got shot?

 

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Wait, who got shot?

Adam and Brooke throw a big spontaneous party, the entire cast is there because in Pine Valley everyone is always dressed in cocktail attire ready to sprint over to a local estate for champagne. AJ sneaks into the party, he is pissed about something (haven't watched in 10 years but you can tell he is pissed about something). Tad makes a big speech about friends and life and growing up in Pine Valley (definitely needs to lay off Dixie's chicken fingers, very portly) and you know somewhere IJAG's mom is weeping uncontrollably.

And then, as the final second tick away, you see AJ peeking through the doorway at all the people he would like to shoot (and at home you think, damn, he was so much nicer when he was Luke & Laura's kid Lucky on General Hospital).

Black screen. Gunshot. Commercial.

 

[imjustagirl]

I don't even know who AJ is.

 

[Cansportschick]

They actually cut off the last scene here, so I didn't realize JR was the last scene....

Why a gunshot at the end??? Are they setting up a big screen reunion at some point....

 

[forever_town]

The one moment from an Emmys episode I ever cared about was the day Susan Lucci finally won.

"THE STREAK IS OVER, SUSAN LUCCI!"

Other than that, I hadn't watched an episode since I was in high school. I still remember when a guy filled in for the actor who played Tad and then the actual actor resumed the role.

 

[21]

Okay, my mistake, it was JR, not AJ. I actually don't even know the difference but I know I was wrong.

JR has the gun. No clue who AJ might be.

 

[Cansportschick]

The one moment from an Emmys episode I ever cared about was the day Susan Lucci finally won.

"THE STREAK IS OVER, SUSAN LUCCI!"

Other than that, I hadn't watched an episode since I was in high school. I still remember when a guy filled in for the actor who played Tad and then the actual actor resumed the role.

I used to watch AMC a lot in my younger days and had the biggest crush on Tad. I always wanted to be Erica Kane too...