BetterForgotten

Accidentally posted in this thread, but meant for the Directors and Writers thread, lol

Jill is in the booth, supervising feedback for the overall production. In the ‘Thriller’ Halloween dance video that Courtney Hope and Melissa Claire Egan originally posted on IG, they quickly took a look at the producer’s booth where Jill was in (with longer than usual hair) with someone else. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQUVQl7iXMY/?igsh=MTAyaGI4N3F6c2R3eA==

Hell, soaps need to get back to characters before any of this.

Emma and Gio are pretty together. That’s all I got.

Tracy is not wrong for wanting Ronnie thrown out after what transpired. Regardless of how Tracy treated her from the onset; Ronnie was close to letting that entire family be thrown out on their asses just 5 mins ago. It’s just lazy writing to have everyone turn on her and act like she’s the villain for feeling this way. Ronnie is a nothing character and a total waste of Slezak’s talent (it was never going to be different sadly). This generic creation could have been played by anyone with the same effect, but as @Vee pointed out, it seems obvious that Frank and probably Van Etten don’t want people turning against a character played by Slezak and Tracy has to be sacrificed for it.

It’s nice to see ES again, but this Ronnie character in the end has felt like it could have been played by any regular older actress. It would have been more interesting if she was a true piece of vile work that was willingly colluding with Martin and Drew to screw with the Q’s (maybe she shared a past with Alan or Tracy), instead of this mousy older women who was forcibly blackmailed by Martin.

@I Am A Swede

A personal favourite:

I wonder if Case had some surgery (cosmetic or otherwise) or had some health issues when these scenes were filmed. In the latest BTS video on the Y&R YouTube channel around the upcoming Daytime Emmy’s, she looks less puffy and sounds more normal.

Heather was definitely a standout director and one of the best to ever grace daytime and especially Y&R. RIP.

Honestly, I do think she could creatively benefit from taking longer gaps between albums and not just putting out things rather quickly just because she can. She’s almost 2 decades into her career, her core audience isn’t going to suddenly abandon her if she takes a few good years between albums. Maybe with the impending wedding, she’s going to concentrate more on her personal life and it will be a longer wait for the next album. Maybe her divorce album is next (but likely her “motherhood” era before that, lol). 😛