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When Bill lit into Tomas today, I was hoping Tomas would go cast himself into the Potomac River. The actor is just HORRID.

I can't imagine why Naomi doesn't worry for her daddy. That would've made much better sense, storywise. I guess she ultimately will at some point. (Only reason I didn't mention Naomi as executor of her grandparents' wills is that she's a beneficiary, which could cause her sibling and cousins to resent her. Her daddy's not a beneficiary but has a vested interest in making sure the funds aren't squandered in probate costs.)

And just to add --- Michael Jackson certainly wasn't an EGOT on the Grand Scale of Anita Williams Dupree (lol), but he was considered a fairly successful entertainer back in his day. We learned a few years ago that the executors of Michael Jackson's estate had awarded the attorneys $625,000 in "bonuses", in addition to the legal fees they'd already been paid. We know the job of the executor is to preserve the assets of the estate to the best of his/her ability in order to benefit the heirs of the decedent. That's obviously not being done in the case of the Jackson estate, where the executors have no personal relationship with Paris, Prince, and Blanket. If Jermaine or Rebbie or Marlon had a spouse who was a high-powered attorney and who'd closed the Jackson estate for free, think of all the extra money Blanket could've had.

It's VERY realistic to me, because while listening to the show this afternoon, I was working on a large estate in which a former son-in-law is one of the executors. 🤣 The reason he was chosen is because he's a senior partner in a law firm, and he's handling the closing of the estate pro bono publico, which of course saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in administrative fees that will ultimately accrue to the grandchildren instead of to some random law firm. Bill is the only person in the Dupree circle who has a full staff that can do the estate work free of charge. The only "danger" of making Bill Hamilton the executor is that in the division of the residuary estate, he's likely to favor Naomi and Chelsea (consciously or subconsciously) over Martin & Kat. That would be negated by having Ted serve as his co-executor. Bill is savvy enough to know that if he asks Caroline Lee to transfer the lucrative Apple stock certificates to the Danielle Dupree Family Trust and the poorly-performing General Electric stocks to the Nicole Dupree Family Trust, Ted would say, "Nope, we're not doing that. We're putting half the Apple stock in Dani's Trust and half in Nicole's Trust, and we're putting the General Electric stock half and half in each, or else we're selling it and splitting the proceeds between them." Ted would be the logical stop-gap to keep Bill from making a decision that would favor Dani's kids over Nicole's kids. And it avoids placing Dani and Beautiful in a position where they become antagonistic toward each other over some specific asset.

The biggest surprise to me is that Bill Hamilton hasn't always been the executor of their estates and the trustee of their family trusts. Most families select an attorney or an accountant to handle that aspect of their wills, especially if the attorney or accountant is the father of their grandchildren. In my opinion, Bill and Ted Richardson should be co-executors of everything that's set aside for Martin, Kat, Naomi, and Chelsea.

Several years ago, someone posted a few scraps from the Y&R bible here on the board. There was a chapter about a wealthy, middle-aged lady [Regina Henderson] who would become romantically involved with a teenage boy due to her marital problems with her husband [Bruce Henderson]. Mrs. Henderson and the teenage boy would be in a very serious car wreck, which would expose their relationship and scandalize the Genoa City community. Bill Bell decided not to pursue that storyline, but he borrowed from it a couple of years later when another wealthy, middle-aged lady [Kay Chancellor] was in a serious automobile accident that caused Phillip Chancellor's death.

I've been noticing that too. My own feeling is that the Plasma Ring storyline is a tool to reunite Ted & Nicole temporarily, just as I think the BRCA Gene storyline is about Naomi's (upcoming) pregnancy. Right now, the focus of the Plasma storyline is on cop, reporters, and couriers, and the BRCA storyline is about Anita's chemotherapy. But long-term, I think they're stories about something entirely different.

"I'm passing the phone to somebody thinks he can put on a cap and ain't nobody in Fairmont Crest gon' recognize him." 🤣

Yeah, I think there's a therapeutic plasma treatment that's sometimes administered along with chemotherapy. Pretty sure they're heading in that direction.

The show's main script editor (Susan Dansby) is extremely weak. Reading the dialogue aloud as she's editing (or even whispering the lines to herself as she reads them) should alert her that certain lines need to be purged entirely or, at the very least, a drastic rewrite to make them resemble real dialogue. That's been a problem from Day One. The first five episodes of the series were supposedly written by Michele Val Jean, and the dialogue was often atrocious. Obviously no one edited those episodes. And it's set a certain clumsy tone in the dialogue that Susan Dansby has never bothered to rectify even after a year. Do I enjoy the show? Yep. Does the dialogue need work? Yep.

I thought Peaches was still lying up there in Garland Memorial, where they allow folks to stay for months on end, like a boarding house.

I'm guessing the Plasma Storyline is heading in that very direction. I believe the story is designed to facilitate a reconciliation of some sort between Ted & Beautiful Nicole, and some sort of pregnancy issue with Naomi and Jacob. That seems to be what all the foreshadowing points towards. The rest of the "plasma talk" almost seems like intentional debris to muddy the waters of where they're actually heading.

The scene today between Anita & Bill highlights one of the show's major strengths: the central characters are VERY well-defined and are VERY well cast. Hard to believe a scene with that much depth occurred on a show that's barely one-year old.

Yeah, Hayley's house is intentionally the "Graceland" of Fairmont Crest. Most folks who tour Elvis Presley's Graceland walk in and say, "Yikes!!", but others think it's beautiful. Tastes vary.

They're probably BOTH plasma thieves, and we'll soon be rid of them both.

For me, that's the worst bungle (so far) on the entire show. We saw her get a million dollars. Presumably, she might now have received a second quarterly distribution of a million. At max, she's got access to 2 million dollars. With which she's paid cash for a mansion in an elite neighborhood, torn it down, and is building a monstrosity of a new mansion with a mote. And had a new building constructed for the country club. And funded 50% of a free clinic. And paid for Peach's medical stay. And paid for some random man's hospital bill. Even to a child, that's a ridiculous thing to believe.

My feeling is that Naomi is pregnant & doesn't even know it; Jacob will get kidnapped & Naomi will decide to have the baby (in spite of her BRCA gene) because she'll fear that Jacob is dead. He'll turn up alive, but the "operations manager" of the Free Clinic/Stolen Plasma Clinic (Derek) is the person who's dead instead of Jacob. Just a hunch based on who's been dropped to recurring status (Derek), who's unknowingly placed himself in the middle of the plasma racket (Derek), and who "found the baby" at the Mardi Gras party (Naomi) .

Tamara Tunie has been around the attractive Daphnee Duplaix far too much. Anita's impersonation of Nicole was spot-on. lol.

It'll be months (probably) before we get another Friday cliffhanger on a Friday. This was a Wednesday's episode. They've been running two days behind in 2026 because of a couple of preemptions. One was President's Day; the other was a day right after New Year's. I noticed it when the Valentine's episode (which should've aired the Friday before Valentine's) didn't appear on our screens till the following Tuesday. Then there was an episode with several references to Mardi Gras Tuesday. It aired the Thursday following Mardi Gras day, clearly 2 days past its scheduled airdate. Mona launched into a big discussion about the "beginning of Lent" on a Friday, when Lent had begun two days earlier. They intended for that episode to air on Ash Wednesday. They seem to be consistently running two days behind ever since New Year.

Appears to me, Angela Fairley has the potential to be another "win", like Alex Cheeks as Donnell. They both genuinely look as though they could be Doug and Vanessa's kids.

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Glad they finally thought to put a cold cap on Anita. Now that she's whacked off 90% of her hair. Shanice is all right, but if I had to play Twenty Questions with her nosey Auntie, I believe I'd just go back to my "Superficial Occupation" and concentrate on Nicole's attractive ass.

I don't think anyone on Planet Earth would've made Greg Foster stand out. The character was just a dullard from Day One. In hindsight, Bill Bell could've just had two kids in the Foster house (Snapper & Jill) and saved his money by omitting Greg entirely. Greg's "legacy" on the show was basically just marrying Nikki (who doesn't even seem to remember him.)

Yes, Greg was a "suspect" (from the audience's perspective) during the stalker storyline. We were supposed to chalk it up to his bizarre headaches. Even as a kid, I immediately ruled him out. lol.

When you've got a character like Leslie, it's best to use that character sparingly. Or else she becomes a complete annoyance to the viewer. Today's episode exemplified that. Also when you've got a rather spoiled and entitled ingenue (such as Y&R's Lauren Fenmore in the 1980s or BTG's Kat Richardson in 2026), you wanna tone her DOWN from time to time so she doesn't become as tiresome to the audience as she becomes to her enemies on the show. Today's show exemplified that.