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Posted By: chris Posted On: Sep 13, 2010 Views: 640

Helen Wagner "Tribute" Like many of you, I grew up watching ATWT. My mom was a big fan and even named me after Chris Hughes! I was sad that the show was ending and decided to tune on for the final three weeks. I was expecting a tribute to Nancy/Helen that would be worthy of a lady of her stature and contribution to the show. Man, was I ever disappointed. What a complete rush job. In my opinion, with Helen's passing Fate gave the writers a finale that they certainly didn't want but nonetheless presented them with a golden opportunity to honor Helen and feature all of the veteran characters. In saying goodbye to Nancy you are saying goodbye to ATWT. She was the core of the show, period. To spend less than one episode even mentioning her is inexcusible. All of the other storylines should have taken a back seat to acknowledging and marking the end of a 54 year old legacy that we will never see again. They could have let Reid and Luke end up together and avoided this whole silly and ghoulish heart transplant storyline and also spared us episode after episode of Katie whining and gnashing her teeth. It's likely now that the brief "tribute" episode will be the last we will ever see of Lisa, Susan, Barbara, Tom, Margo, the Snyders...just so there will be time to show a LOT of the younger characters. With five episodes left, I couldn't possibly care less about Janet and her baby. This is my rant and I'm sticking to it.

Posted By: kwbalan Posted On: Sep 13, 2010 Views: 648

Appalled By Ending I am a little late in posting this comment however I just saw this article and poll. Everything you said was very well stated. What an unhappy ending to a show that I have loved for 30 years. Even though I have posted my story just about everywhere else I am gong to post something here as well. I am just so frustrated that I want to be heard. I feel so utterly betrayed by this show that I have given 30 years of my loyalty to. Soaps for me have always been a happy escape (not always happy story lines but ones that you knew most of the time would end up happy so you sat through the angst). In September of 2009 I lost my mother after a long battle with cancer. She as well was a long time ATWT viewer. So I needed the happy escape of the soaps even more in this last year. (The reason I mention this is that I am not alone, there are many of us, in fact most of us who have struggles in everyday life and look to the soaps for an escape from this.) I was heartbroken when Helen Wagner passed (made me think of my Mom). I looked forward the wonderful tribute I just knew ATWT would give her. Was I sadly mistaken. Growing up with the show she was like a 3rd Grandmother to me. Anyway at the end of last year I was just watching and somewhat enjoying the story lines and just having the escape. Then at the beginning of this year when Eric Sheffer Stevens joined the show as Dr. Reid Oliver I quickly got sucked up in the story line. I almost immediately started going online because I could not get enough of his character and then of the the pairing of him with Van Hansis as Luke. I found a wonderful group of fans online and got involved in all the campaigning. I started writing letters, sending emails, sending post cards, calling the hotline. I even took the trip to Vermont, Paley in NYC & Boston this summer to see all of my favorite actors and meet this wonderful group of friends. I immersed myself completely into this story line. It is what helped me to get through a very dark time in my life. I had so much hope for this story. Even knowing I was about to lose a show that I had watched for so long I figured I had so much to look forward to with the LuRe story line through the summer and as the show was going to wind down. Boy was I in for a rude awakening. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined how bad this ending would be. We never got the air time we wanted or the love scene. We barely got anytime of seeing them alone together in the last weeks. I have not cried this much since my Mom passed last September. As you stated I as well was crying for the loss of Nancy Hughes, the loss of Dr. Reid Oliver, the loss of the show and most importantly the loss of my Mom which I felt like it was happening all over again. I am depressed, frustrated, angry, sad… every emotion you can think of except happy. I am still in denial that this is how it ends. I just don’t understand. I cannot believe that they spoiled the whole ending before it even happened, nothing was left unknown. The ending was definitely the coward’s way out. And there were so many other ways to appease all of the fans. But no the show chose to take the easy way. Now as we get ready to approach the final week I have nothing left in me to appreciate it. I will watch because even after everything I am still not ready to say goodbye to a show that has been a huge part of my life but I am sure there will be more disappointments and tears. I want to make mention of Van Hansis and Eric Sheffer Stevens. I have always loved the character of Luke since Van joined the show. Van is an amazing actor, as is Eric and if it wasn’t for these two very talented actors I would not have gotten so caught up in this story line. Kudos to Van & Eric. And to all the wonderful friends I have made through all of this. I would not have made it through this last 9 months with out you. You are an amazing group of people and I will always be grateful to the show and to the LuRe story line for that. We as a group have raised $15800 for Doctors without Borders. It was an incredible way to channel our grief and anger at how this story line ended and for the death of our beloved character Dr. Reid Oliver. I am proud to say I am a part of this amazing group of fans. I will close off now (sorry for the book) by saying that I am left heart broken by how this story line and the show ended. And there is no excuse for it. Thanks for reading and listening.