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The Dani/Hailey drama has me intrigued. It’s about time they start to rev that storyline up. I need Dani and Hailey to HATE each other like Gwen and Theresa on Passions. They can’t just be kind of annoyed with each other they have to build that rivalry up, that’s how you get people interested to watch.

I predicted this before it even happened like a couple months ago. I had the vision in my head that Devon would be on BTG… maybe I’m psychic 👀

I was reading another one of those fake Facebook posts about “so and so is leaving Y&R!” Which is clearly a fake group posting it & the amount of people who buy into it time and time again is astonishing. Today it was “Melody Thomas Scott is leaving Y&R!”. Firstly, if her or Eric were leaving it would be front page news and all the outlets would be picking it up. I honestly don’t know how some people tie their shoes in the morning. I can at least have some understanding about the old folks who believe it, they didn’t grow up with technology and will easily fall for anything but a lot of these people aren’t even elderly, they just look like they live in a trailer park and never left their small town in Kentucky 🤣🥴

Ohhh yes, that’s precisely why I stopped watching for a long time around that time period. Sad to see it’s gotten worst, just in different ways. It’s bad for a plethora of other reasons now, which in a lot of ways feels way more detrimental to the show as a whole.

I have noticed Jean Passanante and Shelly Altman aren’t participated liked here but I enjoyed their run on Y&R (around 2014). They reunited Nick & Sharon so maybe that’s why I’m slightly biased as a Shick fan, but the overall tone of the show was better. It started to really suck when Chuck Pratt came on board and that’s about when I tuned out. I’m pretty sure Tracey Thomson was involved in both of those writing teams so it’s really hard to know what she had a hand in and what she didn’t..

I don’t particularly hate that, as long as the story doesn’t completely drop off the face of the earth and we are still getting some progression in the background while another story is taking centre stage. It’s certainly better than what Y&R is doing anyways. The only real “story” (if you even wanna call it that) is all about Cane and everything else just seems to get backburned completely. The storyline isn’t even good to begin with so when we do get to see some of the vets like Melody, Eric, Tracey, Christian, Jess, Sharon, Joshua, Michelle, Peter, etc.. their characters all seem to be talking about Cane or involved in that story in some kind of way. I guess there is one other story that is kind of front burner which is the Kyle/Audra stuff but other than that it just feels like nothing else is going on.

I wonder why they chose to keep this quiet and how long she’s actually been at the show as a producer? I really haven’t noticed anything different in the way the show looks and feels.

This was also around the time there were two Jacks and Jack was with Kelly. My memories are fuzzy but yeah, I remember thinking to myself.. am I watching Passions or Y&R? These kind of stories don’t belong on this soap. I love the occasional psychopaths (Cameron Kirsten, Tricia Dennison, Veronica Landers) come to mind, but they really started to take it too far.

The introduction to Christian was around the time I stopped watching as a full time viewer (2016ish). It was that awful s/l where Sage’s baby (Christian) was given to Sharon by some psycho therapist lady from Nick’s past and then Sharon went off her meds and decided to keep Christian as her own. If I remember correctly Patty was also somehow involved while Sharon was in Fairview and it was just a big mess. The storylines were BADD back then too but the show still felt like it had some kind of budget atleast. Now it’s just bad and cheap.

Oookay I’ll be watching out for that and see if there is any change in the writing style. it may seem like a weird critique but I would like to see the storylines be a bit more isolated. Not too isolated because that’s not good either, and I get that mostly everyone on the canvas is related but sometimes it feels like they’re all a little too involved in each others business and I don’t need that in order to buy that they’re a close knit family. Keep the stories separate. So, for example if something is going on with Chelsea or Kat I would 100% expect to see scenes with their mom/dads but I don’t need cousins, and aunts and uncles all getting involved. A good example of this is the character of Naomi. She is just all over the place and in everyone else’s orbit but doesn’t seem to have much going on herself. Give her and Jacob something juicy and good and spend the time building momentum. I don’t need endless talking scenes with relatives who are frankly irrelevant to the progression of story. JMO !

Having a back from the dead S/L for such a minor character like Damien who has been on the show for about all of 5 minutes would NOT be entertaining and would certainly add to the ridiculousness that has already taken place. Holden was always the better of the 2 new men they brought in this year anyways. If they were gonna kill any character I’d rather it be Damien. I didn’t feel he added much of anything to the show. I would bring Chance back but I’d give it a couple years. Killing off a legacy character was dumb but I’d rather move on from this BS as soon as possible after we get some good scenes from Nina and Jill.. (who am I kidding, we probably wouldn’t even get that).

Does anyone know when the first episode with the new head writers will air?

Also, did not realize Ashley and the fireman broke up. This date with her and Andre is rather boring. Is Derek still even on the show, anyways? Ooooh I see a triangle brewing here between Kat and Eva or this Tomas guy. I definitely see potential here with continuing to build that rivalry between them. Still. I wish everything wasn’t millennial grey. Sigh. So many of the sets look too similar. Some color would be nice!

Who are these June and Regina characters? I know they’re new cause they weren’t on when I started watching earlier this year. I’m intrigued. Love love love that they’ve decided to expand the cast and showcase different storylines. This is going to keep me watching

I agree and I definitely preferred John Driscoll as well. I just think it’s such a bad move to kill off an important character like Chance. I don’t particularly love or enjoy MO as Abby but I’d be just as p*ssed if they killed her off given how much potential that character could still have.

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It’s pretty dumb that it’s being written that Phyllis is still this huge obstacle for Nick & Sharon all these years later. Faith, Noah and even Summer being obstacles for them? Sure. That would make more sense. Look at all the drama Nick, Adam, Victoria & Abby brought for the Nikki and Victor relationship over the years. I don’t get why the show isn’t tapping into that.

Killing Chance is just stupid. Just because JG doesn’t know how to write for the character doesn’t mean he should have been killed off. What is even the point? Killing Damien was just as dumb although I really had no connection to his character as he just came on in February so that bothers me less, but still.

Decided to tune back in but I did a time jump instead of starting off where I left off (around April). Starting at the July 15th episode. Right off the bat I am wondering why Martin and Smittys children look so old.

Also speaking of Theresa, has there ever been a bigger thirst bucket in soap opera history? There was a scene around 2002 where she was literally clinging onto Ethan’s leg while begging and crying for him not to leave her. That must have been humiliating for Lindsay Hartley to play day in, and day out..

Justin Hartley was always a favourite of mine as Fox. He had chemistry with everyone in the show. Aside from his obvious chemistry with Lindsay Hartley, I also loved the scenes with Ben Masters. The father/son dynamic between Julian and Fox was great to watch because they’re both such good actors that you could almost ignore the ridiculous writing for awhile. It’s too bad JH didnt last long in the show but he went to do bigger and better things so I can’t blame him. .. and speaking of course corrections in the show, I think Theresa and Fox should have been one. They had insane chemistry and we know obviously they ended up being a couple in real life so maybe that had something to do with it, but they really should have pushed Fox & Theresa more instead of making the triangle all about Gwen and Theresa fighting over Ethan. There was really no need to bring in Jared later in the show when Fox and Theresa already had such a strong fan base. Instead they ended up putting Fox with Kay which was a total bore.

Noah and Fancy definitely should have ended up together in the end & Sheridan and Luis of course. Noah and Fancy just made sense as a couple and had obvious chemistry. I also didn’t see the chemistry when Noah was put with Paloma..

Would there be any way for me to access my old account? (Ryanc). I created this new one but I’d love to use my original account except now I need an email to log in and I don’t think I used an email at that time, only a username.

Today’s CDN episode with Nick and Sharon is a tear jerker. As sh*tty as this whole storyline is once again JM & SC are bringing it! Their chemistry is undeniable

So Ron Carlivati is pitching a new soap opera? Consider me out of the loop because I don’t know much about his work but I’d love to know more about this!