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Well, that's random as all hell. I'd even completely forgotten about the character.

I've been enjoying the story too for the most part, BUT they've already written her into a corner. I wish they would have taken more time with the story before revealing who Claire was and had Jordan come to GC and also wiggle her way into the Newmans' lives first while keeping her agenda under wraps for a bit more. I think the story would have had more impact.

Right, he's barely been on all of 2023. I always thought he and Taylor would have been interesting (even though she shot him!). What about Paris? We saw her briefly during the fashion challenge. Is she even on contract anymore, too? Although, I always thought the character and the actress were a bit flat. I don't know why this show can't write for a woman of color. Maya and Nicole were the best chances they had, and they dropped the ball on both of them, too. Katie doesn't really seem to have any sort of purpose at all. She could not have appeared at all these past few months, and the story would still progress. I was kind of intrigued by her pairing with Carter, but they've done ZERO with them. If you're not playing Brooke, Ridge, Liam, Steffy, Hope, Thomas...and MAYBE Finn and RJ at this point....the future is VERY uncertain. But, the show has been this way for years. Dropped storylines. Interesting new characters introduced, briefly used, and then unceremoniously dropped. Quinn and Carter were the HOTTEST pairing the show had had in years, so predictably they dropped it. Even Brooke and Taylor's "friendship" had promise to take the show in a different and new direction, and they dropped it because everyone needs to obsess over Ridge or Liam on this show.

I would LOVE to see CM's Jennifer and Kate go at it again. To me, the obvious story is for Kate to have an affair with a returned Mike. Jennifer would hit the roof that the woman who broke up her parents' marriage and almost hers was now getting freaky with her brother. Pairing Kate with Roman is yawn inducing for such a dynamic character.

CM actually made me care about Jennifer and revitalized the character, in my opinion.

If I were Zende, I'd be pissed, too! Ridge continues to come off as completely self-involved, but the character has always felt that way to me from day one when I started watching the show at the age of 12! I've just never been a fan of the character no matter who played him.

This is such a headscratcher. She was a total BREATH OF FRESH AIR and worked as a recast when I totally thought it would never gel. But, the show is so laser focused on only writing for six or seven people that all of these great actors barely get used. If you watch the classic episodes when the show first started, the stories were balanced. I actually enjoyed the show more during the writer's strike as more than one story was often featured. But, here are back with BB and his seemingly incapability of writing more than one story at once. I wish KA all the best. She deserved FAR MORE than she got. I'm pretty sure the hospital would NOT allow Bridget to work on Eric in the operating room.

I feel like the Hortons actually had a bit of a resurgence for a bit there...Abby, JJ, Will, Allie, Eli were all successful characters in certain ways, but now they're all gone. There's something about that ornament hanging, as cheesy as it is, that gives me a certain sense of comfort. My opinion is that under the current regime the Dimeras have eaten the show. They were better in small does, in my opinion, or just focused on Chad/ EJ. Every now and then, I'll check out part of an episode, but I just can't get back into the show as much as part of me wants to. I'm so tired of the latest Eric/Nicole round. Kristen feels played out. And, don't get me started on Leo. Besides Liam on B&B, he has to be the most irritating character on daytime.

The show has lost SO MANY Hortons the past few years until we're at the point where Sarah is the only one that has the last name. To me, it's a symptom of a larger problem with the show. I stopped watching about a year ago after viewing for many, many years. The ultra-focus on the Dimeras got sooo old. It felt like the show lost it's heart.

And, this is what I just don't understand. How do TPTB think that all of these non-stop corporate "stories" will be interesting to the viewer? I get so, so tired of hearing who will work where. That's when I hit the FF button which means some days I may watch only about five minutes of the show!

I've thought for a long time now that Adam as a character is played out and needs a rest.

Why does Eric's life lie entirely in Ridge's hands? What about his other children?

I thought SH was AMAZING as Patty on Y&R and could have had long-term potential to be a very complex character, but then they wrote her into a corner.

As soon as I saw Finn typing away on his computer, I thought...oh, Lord. Is he going to be the one to save Eric by just running a Google search?

It was weird to not at least get a Marcus mention since Eric is with Donna again, and what are the odds that all of these other people are on SAFARI together at the same time??? That's what makes the idea of a "party" not work because a lot of the people who should be there won't be.

I'm thinking the same which is a shame because she was truly a breath of fresh air when she started. She made Taylor feel relevant again. I hope BB wises up and gives her a story...without Ridge! Good Lord. I wonder what TK's episode guarantee is. He is on every single episode it feels like. They dragged Paris out of the closet for a few episodes of the fashion challenge and then promptly stuffed her back in it. I REALLY hope we keep seeing more of Zende. The show needs someone who is on the "outs" and has to fight their way to the top versus just having it handed to them (cough, cough) RJ.

I ALWAYS love seeing Jess Walton and wish she was back full-time, but MY GOD...I am so sick of hearing people constantly talking about changing jobs, takeovers, mergers, CEOs and COOs...these are NOT stories! I'm enjoying the whole Jordan/Claire story simply because it's not talking about a takeover or merger!

I was thinking the same thing. Y&R the past ten years has done a horrible job of developing the next generation of characters which is why Nick, for example, keeps getting stories that should be for a character Noah's age. It's ironic that there is no "young" on "The Young and the Restless." It should be renamed "The Middle Aged and Still Restless." Much like Rachel on AW who was prematurely aged by the abrupt SORASing of Jamie, the same thing happened to Julie, who went from being in her early 20s to middle-aged all of a sudden. This, of course, impacted her story potential down the road.

It's very strange. I think we're supposed to assume they're a couple, but they don't actually gets scenes together or any scraps of a storyline. I think there's a lot of potential there, but it's not explored at all. Point Heather Tom has turned into a glorified extra at this point. There's no point to the character being there or included in the scenes she's in.

And, now Zende is probably the only person in LA that doesn't know Eric is dying, but Ridge told Carter because he's "family." As most of the attendees have to pretend they don't know he's dying.

I feel like there's zero movement in the Eric storyline at this point. Everyone is just repeating the same lines over and over and over again.

Or when Carly and Maggie were buried alive on DAYS. They had feeding tubes, but, uh, how did they use the restroom??

ITA. I think he was allowed to tell his stories HIS WAY for the most part, so you didn't have twenty cooks in the kitchen trying to have influence, and you're actually getting someone's vision. The same could be said, for better or worse, about the control James Reilly had over Passions. That show was totally bonkers, but it did have a strong point-of-view. I wasn't the biggest fan of Y&R in the 80s/90s. I thought it moved awfully slow at times, but I watched a good bit of the show because my mother did. Looking back though, I appreciate how he took the time to go through every beat in a story and his character development. If you look at B&B now, for example, stories often end or are dropped in a single episode, such as Taylor and Brooke's friendship or the way people switch partners, back and forth, in the blink of an eye. It's like...who cares who's with Ridge or Liam now. It can all change next week. There are often no long-term impacts of a story. The best stories lead the audience to the NEXT story. Whatever happens on B&B is often immediately forgotten. Also, stories will come out of nowhere with no build-up, such as Zende suddenly not liking RJ. It's hard to get emotionally invested in this type of storytelling. If Bell were still writing Y&R, I seriously doubt we'd be getting these non-stop business stories about vague companies, all stories with ZERO emotional impact. Who cares where someone is working this week??? They'll work at another company next week.

This was probably one of the worst and most offensive plot twists ever thought up. If TPTB really wanted to give Erica a son, they could have just said she had twins when she gave birth to Kendall and didn't realize that there was another baby. The whole twist was HORRIBLE. I remember a line where Erica asks Tad how is this even possible. He just shrugs and says, "I don't know, but it did." So stupid.

ITA about Allie. It's like they never even gave the character a chance. Even though I like the actress, Chelsea is the most pointless character on the show.