The Revolution won't be televised

[dwmckim]

My mother was a fan of All My Children and One Life to Live. She's very happy that The Revolution didn't do to well. She was also hoping that The Chew doesn't either (which took over All My Children). Though she does admit that some of the food that The Chew makes, looks good. She's trying to avoid (she is really )

She has been watching General Hospital lately. Mostly because they moved a character from One Life to Live (Star).

Tell her if she misses oltl to keep tuned in to gh - not only has Starr fully crossed over but so has John McBain. Cole/Hope/Blair/Todd showed up at the beginning of the Starr story - and Todd will soon be returning fulltime. Tea Delgado's also set to crossover...and those are just the ones that have been officially confirmed.

(OLTL's previous head writer and executive producer currently have those positions at GH)

 

[mr3urious]

I'm not a fan of soaps, but this is great news! Seeing any sort of program like this get cancelled just warms my heart!

 

[Hayley B]

Tell her if she misses oltl to keep tuned in to gh - not only has Starr fully crossed over but so has John McBain. Cole/Hope/Blair/Todd showed up at the beginning of the Starr story - and Todd will soon be returning fulltime. Tea Delgado's also set to crossover...and those are just the ones that have been officially confirmed.

(OLTL's previous head writer and executive producer currently have those positions at GH)

I'm sure she is aware of it. Thank you. I remembered one of her first complaints was that they killed Starr's family (Hope and Starr's boyfriend/husband? I'm guessing that's "Cole" ). She was like, 'if they were going to kill them off. Why didn't they just left them alone?'

 

[Drtooth]

I not a fan of soaps, but this is great news! Seeing any sort of program like this get cancelled just warms my heart!

I honestly have NO IDEA what these guys were thinking. Again, as I've said a hundred time, cheaper syndicated shows like the Revolution did poorly. The Chew... at least they have Rachel Ray's show to go on. That's been on for a randomly long amount of time.

The only selling point of The Revolution was that it was cheap to produce. To think that they were so blinded by the money they thought they'd save, only to wind up losing most of it and looking like the biggest wads in television history only goes to show how incredibly stupid and lacking of foresight corporate heads are.

Still, The only reason the Chew exists was that The View was such a cheap hit for them they wanted to come up with something similar, got lazy, and just picked the first word that rhymed with View.

Seriously.. I dunno what's more pathetic. That show or the such a direct ripoff of The View it's a wonder it wasn't made in a Taiwanese Sweatshop, The Talk.

 

[dwmckim]

I'm sure she is aware of it. Thank you. I remembered one of her first complaints was that they killed Starr's family (Hope and Starr's boyfriend/husband? I'm guessing that's "Cole" ). She was like, 'if they were going to kill them off. Why didn't they just left them alone?'

When i heard that was Starr's entrance story, i didn't like it either. Cole didn't bother me so much because he had recently had his death faked anyway and Starr was only a handful of people who knew he was still alive and until recently was in jail for a third-strike offense. But killing off a young child seemed like overkill.

But then over time i actually came to kind of agree with the story decision. Given Starr's overall history - this was a character we watched grow up, being played by the same actress since she was six - Starr should always have been a real fiery complex character given who her parents were and the things she grew up with and throughout her childhood, all those elements were in place...up until Dena (worst HW ever) Higley became headwriter in the mid-00's and turned Starr into a very bland milquetoast "average teen" character - and by the time she became a teen mother, Starr became incredibly unrecognizable. Towards the very end of the series when her real father came back, we started to see a bit more of Original Recipe Starr resurface with how she interacted with him...but all in all - with the death of her family, that not only took away elements that was really holding her back but her huge losses are adding a long lost fire back to her character which turns her more into an unpredictable wild card. I may not have liked the car accident but i'm very much enjoying the results of its aftermath. (Not to mention, it's given the actress some meaty material which she's been knocking out of the park)

(For the record, i'm also enjoying John Mcbain - who was often among my least fave characters. Again, he was a great character when he was introduced but got destroyed during Higley's reign as headwriter and ever since i've never liked his relationship with Natalie - their relationship became less like equals and more like a disapproving father/older brother-daughter/younger sister. I loved Natalie in just about any story/pairing that didn't involve John and likewise John became more tolerable and even likable when he wasn't in Natalie's sphere. Seeing John interacting with a whole different set of characters has been really refreshing.)