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Above: On the cover of the June 26, 2007 issue of Soap Opera Digest.
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Hit/Miss
AMC's final breaths - and gasps
Soap Opera Weekly
By JG, Published January 15, 2008
All My Children’s bomb shelter storyline climaxed with a high note underground but a new low above. Greenlee and Zach breathed the last of their prison's oxygen just as their significant others did some heavy breathing of their own.
Crosscutting made the dying Greenlee and Zach’s fate more poignant, and Aidan and Kendall’s sex even more distasteful. When a despairing Greenlee asked Zach, "What's it like to die?" he tenderly told her, "I felt free, and I felt alive, and there was no more pain.” In return she shared her own intimate experiences with death -- losing Leo and Ryan.
Meanwhile, Aidall argued about whether they were on a rescue mission or recovering remains. When Kendall pounded on Aidan's chest, he replied with a growl and looked like he wanted to mark the death of their loved ones by ripping her clothes off. Which he did.
While Aidall got primitive, Zachlee evolved by exposing rarely seen vulnerabilities. Greens admitted how scared she was, and Zach confessed that he wished his time with Kendall “would never end.” In their final moments, Zachlee were seeing the good in each other.
At the home of inappropriate behavior, Aidan and Kendall were simply seeing all of each other. Seconds after Aidan called her husband “a nasty piece of work,” she was licking his face and stripping. Underground, Zach tenderly cradled an unconscious Greenlee and croaked,” I’m sorry, Kendall."
(And we're sorry that it appeared the 90-pound Kendall caused a bomb shelter built to survive nuclear war to suddenly collapse.)
After making love to romantic music (what?!), Kendall muttered, "What kind of people are we?" The kind with no morals or scruples or conscience -- or any sense of timing, apparently.