As the World Turns - MESSAGE BOARDS

I have to say that after 30 years of being a loyal ATWT fan I have tuned out. What they have done to the charecters and s/l are shameful.

This used to be a show with family at the core and charecters that you love to love. Now charecters that have been around for a while you can hardly recognize.

For me the final straw came when they took one of the most talented daytime actress's and tore her charecter apart. Who had more fiest and backbone then Carly..now she is a drunk that let's her teenage son and x husband talk to her as if she were nothing..Like this story line wasn't predictable once we new Maura West was going on maternity leave...it won't be long before ATWT will follow Guiding Light. The writers' of ATWT should be ashamed!!

Personally,I don't think As The World Turns is nearly as bad as Guiding Light.Right now ATWT and Y@R are two of my favorites.B@B is boring because it's always Taylor/Ridge Brooke/Ridge or Brooke/Nick and Guiding Light do I really even have to say anything.I do agree with you about the character of Carly.They have her ex and her son talk to her like she's a piece of dirt.Now i'm a teenager also but i don't think i've ever acted that way towards my mother.I may exchange some words with her but it's never to the point of what Parkers doing.If I talked to either one of my parents like Parker talks to his I would be getting my butt kicked.LOL.This is all just my opinion though and I thought i would just stop in say what i had to say.LOL.

I agree. They have ruined the best characters. They are letting these good actors/actress go to waste. Carly, Janet, Paul, Dusty, Damion, Jack and Holden. They story between Henry and Vienna could have a lot of potential. They need bring in more good kids like Liberty. Not every kid on the show has to be a problem kid with a long criminal record. Yeah kids screw up but come on.

I love watching Carly! She is a complex character that has so many different faces. Right now she is abusing alcohol, I'm not sure she is an alcoholic but she is abusing it. Happens to lots of ordinary folks. carly has many. many layers to her....as we have seen over the years. I just enjoy the ride. Her character is not ruined, good or bad, she always redeemed.

I think, for a lot of fans, the difference is that Jack has always been bossy, especially toward Carly...he's never taken the Golden Rule to heart and he's never truly forgiven her for her mistakes, although he always says he has. And, Parker has always been a brat. Since the kiddo was born he's been bratty and never called on his behavior, everyone has just given in. So their characters haven't been changed as Carly's has. When she first appeared in Oakdale she was feisty, knew what she wanted and would do anything to get it.

In that case, I love the way the writers wrote Jack yesterday. Really took a stand with Parker. Bout time somebody did. I fear Parker is going to meet some real trouble.

My whole point was the writers are not coming up with any good concrete storylines and follow thorugh. Back to Carly lets just take a look at it from when she last returned from Maternity leave..She was dying or so she thought. Wow everyone involved in that just broke our hearts and then what do they do..Okay once again they ruin it by making Carly lie to Jack.

You say Jack hasn't changed..He jumps in and out of marriages like they were dirty socks. First we had Katie shoved down our throats and now Janet...when he asked Janet to marry him it was within days of wanting Carly back. In the mean time Carly/Holden affair. John Hensley was great and so wasn't Maura West. Trust me when I say this I was the first to say this won't work. Then again Carly is the bad guy never mind what Holden did..And now Holden is Mrs. Lily again.

And I'm sorry Luke & Noah way to much screen time and effort put into this story. Please give us back our old ATWT with Solid strong storylines before its too late!!

Just a quick question. Why can't a person(character or real life) change? Everyone says Carly was so strong (yes she was) and wouldn't act this way and the writers are to blame. Even the strongest people go through major life changes. Carly's kids aren't small anymore so they (esp Parker) will act differently towards her. She and Jack aren't together(her one true love) so it had royally shaken her and she is torn between her feelings for Craig. She turned to drinking- sure which is out of character but this IS her character now- confused and such. I for one would think that if her character was the same All the time it would be boring. If the show stayed the same EVERY DAY people would complain about that too. It's just a show so let's enjoy it and all the struggles, changes etc. we see characters go through.

It doesn't matter if Parker and Jack have stayed the same and Carly has changed because every word that comes out of their mouth was written by a writer and that is the point. Parker hasn't changed because the writers haven't changed the writing. Carly keeps changing because the writers keep changing(because Maura keeps getting pregnant, which is her right and I'm not knocking her for that). I agree you can't call one character a good guy and call another character a bad guy because the writers write them that way. They wrote the good guy good just like they wrote the bad guy bad.