Khan

Diane seems almost redundant with Alexis around. Well, if you overlook the toll that years and years of awful writing have taken on Alexis. (They really screwed the pooch when they had Sonny and Alexis hook up.)

I want to love Spencer & Trina. I really do. And maybe I would love them, too, if I had watched more moments with them. (I only got back into GH when I'd Googled Jane Elliot recently and learned she was returning, so I sat myself down and watched what clips I could find online so I would have SOME sense of what was going on in Port Charles). But, so far, for whatever reason, I'm just kinda "meh" about them.

Which is stupid, because that's EXACTLY what they SHOULD be doing: revamping Y&R for a platform like Paramount+. B&B could leave CBS for there tomorrow and probably not even bat an eyelid. I mean, the show is awful, but they've somehow figured out how to produce an okay-looking show on little money, so.... Elizabeth Hubbard is dead?

Malcolm's show, which Mama Khan loves, has been cancelled, and he's got a new mouth to feed. If I were Josh or Steve Kent, I'd be thinking about offering him a sweet deal to return to Y&R and fill the void that KSJ's passing and Victoria Rowell's unceremonious exit has left.

Oh, man. I had no idea.

...Pulls through with what?

It's long past time for the Consumer Cellular Generation to rise up and save network TV. When you say DAYS is doing well on "The Cock," is that really saying much, considering how poorly the rest of its' offerings seem to be doing?

Yeah, except Eric Braeden already says "You got that?" and "I'll be damned!" enough times for it to be the world's longest drinking game. I'd hate to think how much more often we'd hear those phrases (and god knows what else) if he were left to his own devices.

Those aren't the outfits of a lady mob lawyer. Those are the outfits of someone who is determined to make this year's Christmas at the Plaza Hotel the best ever.

Nah, it's better to off her and have Carly not remember she did it until she recalls it at the trial.

I love Jane Elliot, and I wish KL had figured out how to keep her and not saddle her with a dead-end character like Judy Trent, but I guess Donna Mills made too much of an impression on me to see anyone else as Abby. By the way, another actor KL let slip through their fingers? Robin Strasser. Again, you've got an actor who can make you sit up and pay attention; yet, you give her a character that ends up not having much mileage beyond one, rather silly storyline. That was a good choice, as having characters just sitting and talking over issues can be rather static. Having characters do stuff like giving home perms or folding laundry while dropping exposition and exploring emotions really helps the viewers feel connected to the characters onscreen. The only times when sitting-and-talking scenes ever worked for me was David and Maddie on "Moonlighting," and that's because the bantering between the two kept the conversations from becoming dull.

Even worse, Josh decides to be REALLY bold and turn Y&R into the very first, semi-improvised soap opera on television. He provides the actions for the actors through the breakdowns, but the actors themselves have to come up with the actual dialogue for their characters.

Mr. Bacardi is frantic that her daughter not die...so he abducts the doctor who's doing everything he can to keep her alive. Make that make sense for me, Frank & Doris! I can see why GH and THE DOCTORS eventually pivoted away from the "patient of the week" format. For one thing, you always run the risk of running out of new maladies for your patients. But, more importantly, those stories tend to feel plot-driven and don't have a real impact on the major characters' lives either. (I mean, just two weeks after nearly getting killed by Mr. Bacardi, Steve is vacaying at some ski lodge with a thot named Denise. Talk about your speedy recoveries.) Of course, that doesn't mean you have to de-emphasize the hospital element and focus instead on mobsters and the teenaged murderesses who love them. You just dig further into the personal and private lives of the hospital staff and have all the medical stuff play in the background.

Oh my God. Unless Y&R is secretly preparing to cut back to a half-hour, writing five, one-hour (give or take) breakdowns singlehandedly per week is nothing less than insane. What's next, Josh? Are you gonna fire all the dialogue writers, too? As a matter of fact, why stop at the writing? Why not also fire the directors and direct every episode yourself? Even better, you can dump the writers AND the directors and even all the male actors, so you can play all THEIR parts yourself? "The roles of everyone without a vagina will now be played by Josh Griffith." Jesus. Firing one-half of your writing staff. I haven't heard anything so unhinged since I listened to Vicky Lucas on WHERE THE HEART IS say she was glad Mary Hathaway and her "nasty little baby" were dead on YouTube.

I swear this show has no short-term plan for anything, let alone long-term. Ron and his team are simply making this [!@#$%^&*] up, one illogical line of dialogue at a time.

That makes sense -- although, I don't see Joss as just another Carly, even if she's Carly's daughter. Carly might be self-centered like Joss, but at least she's still "root-able." I don't root for Joss; I root for the Mack truck that will eventually run her down (God & Frank & Doris & Gloria Monty willing).

ALL OF THEM!? Did he replace them with new ones, or...?

B&B (or Y&R) doesn't have to be written like a Bell soap. It just has to be decent. But, I do agree, @Liberty City: it would be nice to see Kay Alden back in that HW's chair under any circumstances, strike or no strike. But I also don't blame her one bit if she chose to enjoy her retirement instead. She's more than earned it.

Sorry, @Liberty City, I was joking. Who's the other Carly? There's two Carlys now? Like two Todds? What am I missing?

Wait, what?

No writer outside of William Goldman likes to think they fucked up a show they grew up watching.

Wait, who's Kristina again?

RME. Stay classy, Ron, lol.

Linda Gottlieb and the rest of her producing team at OLTL should feel very grateful that they got away with recasting Blair with a Caucasian woman when they did. That [!@#$%^&*] would never fly today, lol.