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Babe had grown close to a man by the name of [[Josh Madden]], [[Dr. Greg Madden]]'s son. After several months of closeness, and feeling shut out from J.R., Babe had sex with Josh. Josh told J.R. of this against Babe's wishes, and when Babe later admitted it to J.R., J.R. went off the deep end. He angrily went in search of Josh and got drunk, but after being cornered by Bianca and Erica, he opted for the alternative: J.R. jumped through a window and slammed into the patio below, resulting in being knocked unconscious while he bled there, on the brink of death. [[Image:J.R._on_the_brink_of_death_after_his_jump_out_of_the_window..jpg|thumb|right|J.R. on the brink of death after his jump out of a
Babe had grown close to a man by the name of [[Josh Madden]], [[Dr. Greg Madden]]'s son. After several months of closeness, and feeling shut out from J.R., Babe had sex with Josh. Josh told J.R. of this against Babe's wishes, and when Babe later admitted it to J.R., J.R. went off the deep end. He angrily went in search of Josh and got drunk, but after being cornered by [[Bianca Montgomery|Bianca]] and [[Erica Kane| Erica]], he opted for the alternative: J.R. jumped through a window and slammed into the patio below, resulting in being knocked unconscious while he bled there, on the brink of death. [[Image:J.R._on_the_brink_of_death_after_his_jump_out_of_the_window..jpg|thumb|right|J.R. on the brink of death after his jump out of a
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Babe and J.R.

J.R. Chandler and Babe Carey are the popular J.R. and Babe or Jabe couple from the American daytime drama All My Children. [1] [2] J.R. Chandler is played by Jacob Young, and Babe Carey is played by Alexa Havins.

History

In 1992, after ABC executives decided that the show needed new blood, and promoted Agnes Nixon's protege Megan McTavish to the position of head writer, McTavish began adding new dimensions to the show.[3] As part of this, she created the character of Babe Carey, who first appeared in the fictional town of Pine Valley in 2003. The character was introduced as a vixen latched onto the arm of the wealthy heir to the Chandler fortune, J.R. Chandler.

When Megan McTavish and Brian Frons, president of ABC Daytime, collaborated on the storyline, their inspiration for the pairing was that of the story from two decades earlier, the Adam Chandler/Dixie Cooney/Tad Martin love triangle of the late 1980s, where Adam was set up as the roadblock antagonizing Tad and Dixie's union. McTavish and Frons originally saw Babe and Jamie as the true love couple with J.R. as the antagonist.[4]

Actor Jacob Young, portrayer of J.R., disagreed. He wanted to focus more on widening his acting range, so they began turning J.R. in a different direction, deepening the story by having J.R. not respect his father, and having many of the elements of his mother in him.[5]

Storyline

After the babyswitch drama of their son Adam Chandler III [6] [7]-- usually referred to as "Little Adam" or "Little A" -- and J.R. was further confirmed as the biological father of the child, [8] J.R. and Babe divorced as a result of the betrayal. But the couple would grow close again when Babe took the blame for J.R.'s drunken hit-and-run of Amanda Dillon. Babe was scheming J.R. at the time to steal their child away, but quickly realized that her love for J.R. had never faded.

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J.R. and Babe in a shack making love during their back-together status.

Complications arose when not too long after J.R. and Babe declared their love for each other, Babe and Little Adam were kidnapped by Janet Dillon, who made it appear as if Babe had run off with her son. J.R., angry and distraught, suffered as his trust in Babe was broken yet again. He began drinking, even resorted to holding Krystal at gunpoint in order to find Babe.

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J.R holds Krystal hostage, gun in hand.

Babe, meanwhile, was very much envisioning J.R. coming to rescue her. Once out of her daydream, she stood realizing that it was all too good to be true. Babe's innocence was proven when she was rescued from Janet, and she forgave J.R. for his doubts toward her.

The two remarried. They enjoyed a blissful getaway to the south of France for their honeymoon. While there, they knew true peace. J.R. wished upon a shooting star that their romantic love for each other would never die He revealed that he could draw and sketched a flawless portrait of Babe. Babe declared this time between she and J.R. as the happiest day of her life. She later wished on the same notion that their love will never die. But this great bliss between them, at least after France, was short-lived. When J.R. discovered his long estranged mother Dixie Cooney was still very much alive and had purposely stayed "dead"...J.R. shut himself off from everyone, and began drinking where his suspicions of Babe eventually led him to set a trap to kill Babe in what he believed at the time was the only way to save his son from having Babe do to Little Adam what was done to him by Dixie. However, longtime best friend Kendall Hart was caught in the trap instead and fell into a coma while pregnant. Babe, while eavesdropping on a one-sided conversation J.R. was having with a coma-induced Kendall, soon discovered that J.R. had tried to murder her. She then confronted him about it.

J.R. On Trial, Verdict Mess

J.R. was arrested and put in jail. He was angry with everyone, and most definitely Babe. However, his uncle Stuart Chandler provided him with the truth in which both were able to overhear Babe say that J.R. is the love of her life, even when she was romantically with Jamie. [9] J.R. decided to take responsibility for his crime, but ultimately Babe's testimony set J.R. free. She lied in court to keep him from jail, and the two set out to start fresh.

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J.R. and Babe work on re-building their bond.

The J.R., Babe, Josh Love Triangle

Babe had grown close to a man by the name of Josh Madden, Dr. Greg Madden's son. After several months of closeness, and feeling shut out from J.R., Babe had sex with Josh. Josh told J.R. of this against Babe's wishes, and when Babe later admitted it to J.R., J.R. went off the deep end. He angrily went in search of Josh and got drunk, but after being cornered by Bianca and Erica, he opted for the alternative: J.R. jumped through a window and slammed into the patio below, resulting in being knocked unconscious while he bled there, on the brink of death.

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J.R. on the brink of death after his jump out of a window.

Recovering, Giving Babe Another Chance

Josh found J.R. on the ground bleeding to death. There was a slight hesitation as Josh weighed the option of saving his enemy or having Babe free to himself. Josh chose to save J.R.'s life. A recovering, J.R. expressed that he hated Babe, but Tad told him that the kind of love J.R. and Babe share will never fade; it's the same kind of love that Tad himself has for Dixie. J.R. and Babe began to slowly repair the damage to their marriage. That is...until Babe's bodyguard told J.R. that he spotted Babe and Josh kissing on New Year's Eve. J.R. then called his lawyer to find out how to get full custody of Little Adam.

Babe's Almost-Death And Fake-Death

A serial killer was on the loose in Pine Valley, killing the women of Fusion. [10] Once Babe passed on eating a stack of pancakes secretly meant for her by The Satin Slayer, and Dixie ate them instead, Tad and J.R. rushed to her bedside at P.V. hospital where she died. J.R. said an emotional goodbye to his mother, returned to her a necklace in which she adored, and cried in his wife's arms.

J.R. was beyond crushed, but rather than drinking his sorrows away, he talked about his feelings in great detail to Babe, something in which Babe had always wanted from him. Babe blamed herself for Dixie's death. J.R. assured her that he'd never wish her dead in his mother's place, but when he caught Babe and Josh kissing in a shed, he forced her to choose between her mother's secret of being pregnant with Tad's baby or custody of Little Adam. Babe pled with J.R. that the kiss he witnessed was just a goodbye kiss, and that she was still very much in love with him, but J.R. didn't care for such talk. Babe was devastated when J.R. verbally lashed out that she should've died instead of Dixie. His words of --

My mother died in your place! She's dead because of you... All because you couldn't eat your favorite pancake breakfast. Your stupid favorite breakfast. No, 'ruin lives'? You should be in the ground, not her! And I wish to hell you were.

-- stuck painfully on Babe's mind. In the parking garage of Chandler

Enterprises, Babe's bodyguard was killed and Babe was attacked by The Satin Slayer. J.R. didn't believe that Babe had been attacked at first, thinking that it was just a ploy, but when Tad relayed it to him., J.R. quickly rushed to P.V. Hospital, just as Babe, at that very moment, flat-lined, experiencing her life flash before her eyes; the images were of her mother, her son, and J.R., noticeably ending on a final flash whereBabe is in France with J.R. looking over the balcony in what she described as the happiest day of her life. J.R. made it to the hospital a little after Krystal and Adam did, but soon after that...Babe was declared dead in the operating room...She "died" loving J.R..

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J.R. heartbroken that Babe is (supposedly) dead.

It was later revealed that although Babe was attacked by The Satin Slayer, she didn't die. Josh had saved her, with the help of Zach, Kendall, Jackson Montgomery, his grandfather Joe Martin and his father Jeff Martin. In truth, it was Zach's idea to fake Babe's death. And Jeff and Joe who saved her life by implanting a pacemaker within her heart to regulate it, but Josh got most of the credit due to his constant vigil at her bedside. To fake Babe's death, they had slowed down her heart-rate, causing her to go into a coma and then they moved her to Zach's casino. Josh pretended to skip town out of his "heart-breaking loss" of Babe. J.R. mourned, and the serial killer was soon discovered to be Alexander Cambias, Sr., Zach's biological father. Babe stayed at Zach's casino where, through Josh's lies, she was led to believe that she was in a real hospital and that J.R. didn't care about her.

Accepting Things As They Are

J.R. was eventually reunited with Babe and apologized to her for how he'd treated her before her "death"...but Babe expressed that although she will always be in love with J.R., being separated as lovers is the only way to ensure no more severe pain between them. She also reasoned that it would give their son a better shot at a stable life not brought up in a war-zone between two bickering parents. Joint custody of Little Adam is what both aim for now.

Cultural Impact

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A photo of J.R. and Babe's Celebrity Exclusive.
  • J.R. and Babe's second wedding (though literally their third) was so anticipated among viewers that the fictional couple was featured in the fresh magazine Celebrity Living. [11] [12] Being honored with exclusive coverage, even such detail as "Babe's Bridal Shower" was included. [13]
  • When J.R. tried to murder Babe, and yet the couple was still portrayed as true loves to each other, it furthered an older debate of female characters remaining romantically linked to men who have tried to physically hurt them in the past. This certainly wasn't the first time that a character in daytime drama had tried to murder the love of his life. Alan of the couple Alan and Monica had tried the same thing with his true love, except it was several times for that particular pairing. Blogger Ben Bryant noted, "ABC in particular, has seen the unpredictable rise of 'anti-leading' men, including two wildly popular characters with rapist pasts: Anthony Geary's 'Luke Spencer' on GENERAL HOSPITAL and Roger Howarth (later Trevor St. John)'s 'Todd Manning' on ONE LIFE TO LIVE. Is it the appeal (or at least promise) of 'redemption via a good woman's love' or the age-old affinity for the 'bad boy,' that draws..." [14]
  • J.R. and Babe's tempestuous romance got TV Guide's Daniel R. Coleridge to take notice. In his exclusive interview with Alexa Havins, he commented on the matter.

    Let's talk about Mrs. Babe Chandler's dysfunctional marriage. Not only has JR tried to kill her, but he verbally abuses her all the time. I can't believe she stayed with him!

    [15]
  • Jacob Young's very realistic portrayal of an alcoholic battling his inner demons at a time of struggling with the fact that he'd tried to kill his wife got him and his character noticed by PRISM, in which supports productions and performances featuring the accurate depiction of drug, alcohol and tobacco use, addiction, as well as mental health. He was nominated for the 11th Annual Prism Awards under the title of "All My Children: JR's Alcoholism."[16]

Popularity

  • Despite J.R.'s murder attempt on Babe and Babe's tough rode with fans, the J.R. and Babe romance still remains a popular pairing in polls such as the about.com polls. [17] [18] [19] or the Soap Opera Digest polls when being asked if Babe's destiny lies with J.R. or Josh.
  • The storyline of Babe's "death" at one of the most animosity-filled breakups between J.R. and Babe rocked AMC fans, and was one of the biggest upsets in daytime history, but not necessarily because Babe was killed off. Dixie Cooney Martin's death by The Satin Slayer serial killer is what had most viewers in a rage. The producers of "All My Children" decided to kill off the character of Dixie in place of Babe, then toyed with the audience in the notion that "ONE'S NOT DEAD" in their ABC promos after Babe died as well. Many fans clamored in trying to find a way to save Dixie [20], but it was too late, and the audience's rage toward Babe was magnified as witnessed in such articles as Creatvity anyone? Others simply said a peaceful goodbye to the character. [21]

References

  • Daily Recaps, All My Children, About.com (2005-2-18). "FRENCH CONNECTION". Karin Watkins. Retrieved 2007-5-11. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= and |date= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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