Well, you really have to hand it to RC in that as offensive as many of his stories are, he often has his tongue firmly planted in cheek and will mock the hell out of his own stuff.
For instance, there's been the subplot of the on-air 'soap' "Fraternity Row" being canceled much to the dismay of citizens of Llanview who watched the series. So Roxy fell asleep a week or so ago and had some weird ass dream recasting "people" in Llanview as a soap opera alter ego complete with twin retconning (Shawn --an African American character-- was revealed to be Todd's (or rather the Fraternity Row equivalent of Todd) identical non-identical twin... which is mocking their Todd/Todd identical non-identical twin. That episode was funny enough to be worth finding the YouTube of it.
Then the writer went all out and had the prison have a great escape so a whole host of villains (and the wrongly imprisoned) escape, all arriving in town the same day, each terrorizing the character they were supposed to terrorize and each ending up shooting someone last Friday (triple cliffhanger last Friday!) Scorecard:
Rapey got skewered by the heroic brass chandelier and much to his surprise... found himself in hell (BWHA!!!) greeted by the likes of his skeezy dead Dad.
Mitch Lawrence wound up in hell where he was informed that Jessica wasn't his daughter. "Nooooooo!"
The wrongly imprisoned Cole got sent to heaven so we revisted the more beloved dead of Megan, Luna, and Gabrielle, before he was allowed to live... etc.
Mitch's crazy minion, Allison got to announce that they were correcting the "twins by different fathers" retcon by announcing that she'd screwed around with the DNA tests (and boy everyone was stupid, she announced. Who on earth would believe at face value that twins had different fathers... [She was pretty funny], which means that Jessica is back to being Clint's 100% biological daughter.
RC has a ton of problems as a writer, but he does have a sense of humor and he does make fun 'events' where crazy-ass shit happens just to delight fans. I'm not sure how much of that will translate when he takes over GH though.
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Date: 2012-01-11 11:16 pm (UTC)For instance, there's been the subplot of the on-air 'soap' "Fraternity Row" being canceled much to the dismay of citizens of Llanview who watched the series. So Roxy fell asleep a week or so ago and had some weird ass dream recasting "people" in Llanview as a soap opera alter ego complete with twin retconning (Shawn --an African American character-- was revealed to be Todd's (or rather the Fraternity Row equivalent of Todd) identical non-identical twin... which is mocking their Todd/Todd identical non-identical twin. That episode was funny enough to be worth finding the YouTube of it.
Then the writer went all out and had the prison have a great escape so a whole host of villains (and the wrongly imprisoned) escape, all arriving in town the same day, each terrorizing the character they were supposed to terrorize and each ending up shooting someone last Friday (triple cliffhanger last Friday!) Scorecard:
Rapey got skewered by the heroic brass chandelier and much to his surprise... found himself in hell (BWHA!!!) greeted by the likes of his skeezy dead Dad.
Mitch Lawrence wound up in hell where he was informed that Jessica wasn't his daughter. "Nooooooo!"
The wrongly imprisoned Cole got sent to heaven so we revisted the more beloved dead of Megan, Luna, and Gabrielle, before he was allowed to live... etc.
Mitch's crazy minion, Allison got to announce that they were correcting the "twins by different fathers" retcon by announcing that she'd screwed around with the DNA tests (and boy everyone was stupid, she announced. Who on earth would believe at face value that twins had different fathers... [She was pretty funny], which means that Jessica is back to being Clint's 100% biological daughter.
RC has a ton of problems as a writer, but he does have a sense of humor and he does make fun 'events' where crazy-ass shit happens just to delight fans. I'm not sure how much of that will translate when he takes over GH though.