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They briefly had Mariah mention she was upset with being left out of Dominic's illness, but JG chose the less dramatic route and had Tessa explain their point of view and all is good in the world. Mariah should 1000% be LIVID they left her out of the loop. When she was having attachment issues to Dominic, everyone immediately hovered over her and nipped it in the bud. But Devon has attachment issues, reneges on a contract, and everyone treats him like he's a noble hero. 

Speaking of Melrose Place, how about Marcia Cross as Phyllis on Y&R? Or Laura Leighton as Morgan DeWitt on B&B?

Though Krista Allen is knocking it out of the park with Taylor on B&B, I feel Kristian Alfonso could have been a good Taylor alternative.

I've always been curious to see how Sabryn Genet would be as Carly on GH if she were able to continue acting.

On 2/25/2022 at 1:14 PM, divinemotion said:

Why for the past 60 episodes Brooke is crying in EVERY episode and we have flashback of Sheila changing champagne bottles in every EPISODE. Why does nobody else in this show exist except Brooke and Ridge. Even Taylor will be left again in 20 episodes... who are they kidding. NOTHING is happening. NOTHING. What 30 years olds... MEN... like Liam and Thomas will chat about grandma Brooke ALL day long... for weeks and weeks... it's NEARLY MARCH!!! Brooke kissed Deacon ON NEW YEARS EVEEEEEEEEEE. Wtf is going with the writing team. If this was back in the day... in this many episodes... there would have been a  Forrester war, 2-3 love affairs, people pushed from stairs and a funeral. Why is NOTHING happening. Are they expecting that we will have 260 episodes with only 1 SLOW... SLOOOOOW storyline that is a repeat from 2011 when it was a repeat from 2009 when it was a repeat from 2005 when it was repeat from 2001 when it was a repeat from 1998 when it was repeat from 1994 when it was a repeat from 1991 when it happened in 1990.

 

PLEASE GIVE BROOKE more to do... make her a CEO... throw her a young lover.... give these characters something to do. Bradley Bell is the most talantless person on this planet.

Yup! In contrast to January-February 2002, they were able to jampack into those two months:

1) Brooke going to Ojai, going into therapy, actualizing her feelings for Deacon, and revealing her pregnancy to Deacon.

2) Ridge working behind the scenes to rid Brooke of the CEO title because of her depressed condition.

3) Rick and Amber navigating their pregnancy, and Massimo coaching Rick into holding his own in the Forrester board meetings.

4) Brooke stopping Ridge on time from taking over Forrester leading to their fallout.

5) Amber discovering Brooke's Pregnancy, then Stephanie revealing it in press conference which led to Whip's introduction.

6) Whip discovering Brooke and Deacon's secret.

They always excuse the fact that "it's difficult to tell multiple stories in a half hour", when it's simply not true. Brad Bell used to be able to write all of this.

14 hours ago, fivethej said:

Where are all the B&B 2001 episodes?

The folder is still there.

Am I the only one here who doesn't see Nina as going through some mental break, or am I being gaslit by the CarSon fans? They seem to be doing these mental gymnastics to analyze her behaviour as her being on the brink of insanity (i.e. creating a fantasy with an amnesiac man, grooming/manipulating Willow, etc.) when she hasn't gone through that type of breakdown since 2014-15.

What I see is a simply a woman (and a grieving one at that) who ended up in a complicated situation and just makes one questionable choice after another. I also see it as karmic justice for Carly after the way she handled the Nelle situation with Jax.

5 minutes ago, SteelCity said:

Wasn't she immediately sent away to acting classes or something?

I don't remember hearing that at all about TB - I remember hearing that about Erin Sanders as Eden on Y&R. I do know TB went to a very prestigious acting school that had a very limited acceptance rate, but did not have anything to do with her first few months as Carly.

Tamara Braun arguably had a very rough start as Carly after taking over Sarah Joy Brown but really came into her own after about a year.

Preview re: Jack's mysterious texts for next week.

Don't wanna get my hopes up because JG might somehow screw this one up, but it's something!

Canadian Spoiler.

37 minutes ago, fivethej said:

What year was this Y&R cue first introduced? This was another great classic.

The scene is from 2001 when Victor found out he wasn't the father of Diane Jenkins baby.

 

 

 

Late 1993- early 1994!

On 2/3/2022 at 7:32 PM, AlexElizabeth said:

Can we keep Lindsay Hartley? 

I second this! And can someone explain to me why KeMo fans are as rabid as they are??

Some jokes really do just write themselves.

45 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

Billy/Lily couch sex. Again. 

It seems that Josh Griffith is to Jason Thompson the way Bob Guza was to Steve Burton.

On 1/30/2022 at 5:26 PM, kalbir said:

Amelia Heinle has been employed for almost 17 years. She's another one we're stuck with until Y&R ends. To think some soap names thrown around in 2005 for Victoria were Sarah Brown and Christie Clark.

I would have loved to see Sarah Brown in the role of Victoria, but she also isn't the type of actress to stay in the same daytime role for too long as she likes to continually challenge herself with different roles.

On 1/27/2022 at 11:46 AM, BetterForgotten said:

All the Carly's (can't speak for Jennifer Bransford though) have aged pretty well and seemingly (mostly) naturally.  

Jenny Bransford still very much looks like herself. Looks like she's been busy in the Social Education Field over the last few years.

On 1/27/2022 at 11:56 AM, carolineg said:

Sarah brown doesn't look the most natural but TB and LW look great.

I think SJB still looks like herself but she definitely lost a ton of weight - perhaps having celiac disease might have something to do with it?

14 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Noah ponders two job offers

And ponders a relationship with a woman who don't play for his team.

On 11/25/2021 at 6:01 AM, Forever8 said:

11.3 A.M. Cue - The Young and The Restless

 

The track is actually called 3 A.M. 11 is the track number - it seems whoever inputted the track names into the Gracenote Database made a typo which is why everyone here is referring to it as 11.3 A.M.

Chloe doesn't have a storyline beyond cockblocking anyone close to Adam. They should just have her go full out Tricia Dennison and have her kiss or sleep with Adam before Chelsea or Sally get a chance to. 

Carly: "Look me in the eye and tell me you don't still have feelings for her"

Sonny: "I dOn'T kNoW wHaT yOu WaNt Me To sAy"

Pretty much says it all.

8 minutes ago, Sasha66 said:

Also think 2002 bold as well.

I second this. Y&R seemed like it was low on energy in 2002 after having a bang up 2001. 2001 was also a really good year for B&B as so much had happened to shift the canvas - watch an episode from January and December - it's literally night and day. But I'll give 2001 to Y&R by a slight edge.

I also compiled this a while back as a style guide for a video project I wanted to start a while back, obviously taking cues from Y&R's direction back then.

I always gravitated towards Mike Denney's style of directing. I think the direction around the early 2000s in terms of actor blocking, camera panning and sweeping, lighting, rack focusing, and music were perfection and would still hold up well today. Y&R loved their soft zooms in this era - it's a cinematography technique that seems to have been lost in recent filmmaking with the advent of DSLRs (I mostly see dolly-style/gimbal-style shots nowadays).

10 hours ago, Sasha66 said:

What is the absolute best year of Y&R for you all?

Post-Bill Bell (and my personal favourite year) I would say 2001 was very good from start to finish for both Bell soaps storyline-wise and production-wise, with 1999 and 2000 not being too far behind (yes, even the sperm-caper story, total guilty pleasure of mine).

I was disappointed when they didn't show too many episodes from that year when last year's classics aired. It seems as though 2005 was a writer's room favourite year because a lot of things happened that forever changed the trajectory of some families during that year, also the last year Y&R was considered to be classic recipe by many.

2 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Thinking back to the character of Dr Joshua Landers, one time hubby to Nikki.

In casting and writing that role, they seemed to go with the blandest actor and character possible.

There was not much chemistry between Josh and Nikki and not much storyline, except for the crazy wife.

Josh wasn't given any backstory or relatives. He was just there to be Nikki's husband and as source of conflict with Victor. Did Jack have much to do with Nikki and Josh?

They didn't delve into Joshua's psyche and explore his attraction to her or his feelings about Victor.

Why was Nikki attracted to Joshua? Did she deliberately choose someone the antithesis of Victor?

Imagine if Joshua was a stronger character who went up against Victor or insisted Nikki have nothing to do with him. Maybe his medical background be brought in-a patient accuses him of inappropriate behaviour and Victor funds her legal action.

There should have been years of story for this marriage.

But it seems Joshua was a plot device and they didn't want an actor or character that might successfully overshadow Jack or especially Victor.

Not to mention, Nikki seemed to care about Joshua's death for literally only an episode, then poof! He was old news once she reunited with Victor. Diane and Joshua were done pretty dirty in that storyline.

On 12/14/2021 at 10:09 PM, fivethej said:

Was Sabryn Genet playing a different character and not Tricia during this time? Funny how they were involved here when Matt Clark returned a few yrs later as Carter Mills using Tricia in his plan to seek revenge on Nick.

 

That's right, these clips used to be on YouTube in English years ago on a channel that used to post Shick and Megan/Tony clips. Gahh I'd love to share these with Sabryn.