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As The World Turns Discussion Group
TPTB seem intent on another spin around the Carjack merry go round under the, I think, mistaken impression that we want to see that mess again. I don't, and I hope others on this board feel the same. There is NOTHING left there. We have seen the same story over and over again. Keep these two apart! Give Carly a fun, dynamic partner like Simon or Craig with whom she can get into trouble. And leave Jack and his no-fun moral patrol in the orbit of Janet or Katie or some other dreadful woman. Please!
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I'll respond this way. If you want ATWT to still be on the air J&C is the way. for those fan of ATWT who don't care for this couple or hate them together for whatever reason that's cool. FF or watch those storylines or characters you do enjoy. It's been almost a full 4 years since the assault began on both characters. CarJackers have hung in there (but thousands abandoned the show). For CarJackers out there it's been a long time coming & I am also confident that the ratings will reflect that as well.
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I have been against a reunion betwee Jack and Carly for a long time, since he had to choose to to come home after regaining his memory. However, circumstances have changed in recent weeks. I'd like anything that would break up Jack's marriage to that she-beast, and a reunion with Carly would really destroy that heifer. After the way Janet treated Liberty, the way she's blaming Jack for Brad's death, her tendency to boot Parker off the farm, the way she snipes at Carly at every opportunity, and her failure to acknowledge how she brought a lowlife slime into her daughter's crisis have made Janet a despicable tyrant in my opinion.
I'm hoping Jack's situation will bring about a change in him, and at the same time, I hope Carly's trip to rehab had a positive effect on her. If Jack and Carly can come to each other with the wisdom they learned from their recent experiences, I'm willing to give them a chance. Now that Jack sees how horrible it is to be berated for a horrible mistake he already regrets, maybe he'll have an understanding of how he's treated Carly. Maybe he'll think about the disgusting way Janet treats Sage and Parker, and think about how kind Carly has been to JJ. Janet deserves to be bounced out of Emma's house. (She's got barely-clad balloons up front to cushion her fall.) If Jack and Janet break up, she and Liberty just need to leave town...
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It's all in the writing; the characters aren't set in stone without any possibility of change. Over the years Carly changed from a confident, hard-edged schemer with mitigating qualities to a cringing sneak who can't seem to do anything right and always goes down in flames with Officer Jesus leading the torch carrying mobs. Jack changed from a straight-laced rule follower to a hypocritical, judgmental boor who thinks he's the moral center of the Oakdale universe. What was originally good got morphed. So I'm hoping something bad can morph back into something good.
TPTB have publicly said they are going to take a different approach to both characters in this story and it certainly is playing out that way so far. Jack is distressed and acting out and Carly has a newly minted sense of self after her time in rehab. Jack's the one in trouble here and Carly is the one with the frame of reference and working relationship with good sense. It's a much-needed reversal and a good start for a new journey for them IMO.
If it is indeed another rotation of the Carly is bad and fails and Jack is right and wonderful go-round like the brain lesion story ended up, then I'm totally with you. I absolutely do NOT want another installment in that worn out and painful crapola.
I'm of the "give it a chance" school at the moment and even though part of me can't believe I am saying this, I wouldn't feel that way if DK weren't now a co Head Writer -- if it was still just JP I wouldn't bother because I would believe it would just be her same tired approach.
I certainly didn't love or even like everything he did over at GL, but some of what he did was wonderful and compelling, so he does have it in him to put together a good ride. In general I've seem more ability to write with a quieter and richer sense of character than I have with JP's stuff. It seems like he starts out really strong but then things get bogged down over time -- which seems to happen with most HWs. It makes sense creatively, you lose fresh eyes and perspective over time and your relationship with the producers has to change with familiarity over time. I think incoming writers are given more room because of the honeymoon phase and their best work gets done when they aren't being micro-managed. I work in a creative field and that has always been my experience.
Anyway, I'm looking to be spared the same old same old too, but that doesn't mean I'm looking to be spared Jack and Carly moving on to a new day together. I'd love to take that ride and that's what I hope is coming. Even if it doesn't last or come to full fruition after all the 'ick' that's been created between them over the last couple of years, I need a chance to see them being good together again; being nice and loving to one another. I'm sick to death of the abusive crap they've been stuck in and I want a dose of the good stuff I know they can bring to wipe out the memory. I want it enough that I'm willing to risk taking this latest journey with the show in the hope that I'll get it.
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