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An executive of what??

What does Nate do now exactly? He just abandoned medicine? How?

Apparently Scorpio, of all people, is now DA. Robert Scorpio. This is goofy shīt of the lowest order. Robert should not have a law degree. Robert should be Commissioner again or still WSB - period.

I think she did a very good job. It is what it is, really.

I think some stories and characters at least have the sparks of some life to them, unlike most of Y&R. I wouldn't be watching atm at all if I didn't see some things I liked, unlike most of the last six years. I think the writers in place aren't terrible at times, and would like to do more. I think they're actively kept down by both FV's priorities and the network. There's a lot of potential, but so much of it is stifled by the same middle of the road monotony as Y&R - and Frank's own preferences.

I think making the first younger Asian-American female lead this show has ever had(?) a schemer against the whites would be a bad look. She should be given the same heroine push as her white peers. But yes, Keemo should turn up alive. And other siblings.

Yep. So much on the show coasts.

Carly and Sam, I understood them finding common cause when Sam first lost Jason. She was a single mother who'd lost her husband to the mob and was trying to break from that life; she finally had some reason to identify to who Carly was at that time, in the early 2010s. But becoming super friendly, never. And any time Sam and Liz try it out, Jason or Drew comes between them. Yes, they all have to coexist because of the children/families in the mix, and Sam and Carly can have an uneasy friendliness or cordiality, but that should be it. Ava has been Nina's obsession for years going back to the 1990s when she stole her husband. Nina awoke with a deranged lust for vengeance and went so far as to violate her and attempt to steal her baby in a series of pretty grueling scenes when Ava first gave birth to Avery. I just can't buy that Ava would ever let that woman near her again.

There is No Way Social Justice Tot Molly from the late 2000s-early 2010s would a) go to work for the DA's office or b) try to push a bum deal on Trina, lol.

I think this is tomorrow's show, so April? The Diane explanation: Given the circumstances it's probably about as good as they could do. I assume they'll deal with the part where she tussled with Nikki eventually.

They've been pushing Sam, Carly, Liz and now Nina and Ava as friendly or at least comfortable with each other for a long time now and I'm over all of it.

Chad being willing to get butt-ass naked in bed with Leo is just Ron and the gang stroking it tbh. It's ridiculous and tacky, and Ron's been doing it for years. I don't mind that RC has cultivated a rep for objectifying and sexualizing the str8 men of his soaps. That's what they're often there for, for both female and male audiences. I mind when they're reduced to eye candy or fetish objects while being dumbed down to idiocy, and I mind when the actual LGBT characters who could be equally sexualized leads are turned into camp events or relative bystanders who, it's implied, are lasciviously eyeing or preying upon the sr8 leads.

Again, the idea that they won't bring back Keemo because PB vetoes it doesn't have much proof. He complains a lot but I don't believe he can or would veto that. I think only Braeden has that power or wields it.

Adam is also kind of ancillary now. Not as much as, you know, Nick, but what tremendous story has Adam driven since his latest return? I'll wait. Grossman is well cast for Adam's actual age, but a lot of characters are only still around because Y&R and Sony/CBS feel they must 'always' be around. If they thinned the herd maybe he wouldn't feel like an extra piece atm.

I will def be watching today just to hear the crazy-ass explanation of her extremely visible death.

It is worth noting he appears to have stubble in the upcoming horror choose your own adventure game The Quarry, in stores this June! No, I'm not a monetized ad!

Many Dems are often very bad at messaging! But some are not, and the blanket assumption that they always get messaging wrong is at times knee-jerk, lazy and incorrect. But they do have more they could be doing right now, and at the same time, DC and the media handicap everything for the right wing as well. Meanwhile, Madison Cawthorn's insanity is being couched by the NYT as 'youthful brashness':

Yep!

Supposedly he is in therapy already and has been for some time.

They had wanted Vanessa to stay. They wouldn't give her the time off she wanted with her kid. The clear intent was to put her with Jason and keep S&C cemented. A few years later, with Tamara gone, I think Guza was over S&C - hence moving LW's Carly to Jax, which worked for the character under her IMO - and then increasingly over Sonny himself. Until the Dante saga, and Vanessa's return.

Friday's new episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the Gizmoplex will feature Jonah and the bots riffing on 1993's "Robot Wars," starring Barbara Crampton (Y&R, GL, etc.) and Lisa Rinna (DAYS). And I can't wait!

I have a hard time believing Molly, with her sense of social justice, would go to work in the DA's office.

I don't think the pivot to Sonny and Jason was planned for Sam initially. I don't think the show had a plan. They were told to hire her, they were given the thing with Jax and told to go. It didn't pan out because it was forced and rushed, and Maurice wanted a shot at the hot new girl to compete with Ted King and Tamara so then that went down. Then they kludged in the old Jason/Brenda stuff, because there was no getting rid of Kelly Monaco under Frons and it enabled Guza to finally toss Courtney into the reject pile. I think Guza was devoted to S&C under both Sarah and Tamara. He 'made' both of them stars, really; Tamara had gained audience goodwill under the JFP/McTavish struggle and Maurice had taken up for her, but it was the writing of the Guza team that cemented her when he returned. But when Tamara wouldn't play ball later both the actors and the writing turned on her. Whether or not Guza was into Jax and Brenda after the '90s, he sure didn't show it onscreen. Jax was almost a C-level player in the 2000s he clearly had zero respect for. I can't see him having gone back to that then.