Khan

As many have said in this thread and elsewhere, the biggest problem today with THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS is that there's not enough characters on the show who are young and the only ones who are restless are the audience.

He must've read Carlo Rota's new book, "Eat This!: The Actor's Guide to Scenery Chewing."

Wait, what? THE Ellen Foley? Awesome! When? Was she a temp/fill-in? TBH, I never bought that Ross and Vanessa had had a child together.

Somehow, I doubt they'll ever get to the '80's.

IIRC, Tricia was carted off to the sanitarium, because she had delusions that Carter, a.k.a. Matt, was still alive (which he was, I guess, lol) and conspiring with her. If I ALSO recall correctly, too, Tricia raped Victor not TOO long before she shot and killed Ryan. So, there's always a chance that she could show up in GC with another one of Victor's long-lost, illegitimate children. And now that I've written Josh Griffith's story projections for the Summer FOR him, I'm off to take a much-needed vacay.

Don't worry, I'm sure Josh Griffith has THAT on his to-do list, too, lol.

And he'd have to be stingy and crotchety, but not to the point where you couldn't stand him. After all, one of the most endearing things about Andy's Matlock - aside from his brilliant legal mind, of course - was how irritated he could become even with judges who'd overrule him ("Oh, come on!"). I just love how this has turned into a "Matlock" thread, lol.

Yep, we did, lol! The last 35+ years of DAYS have been nothing but bad moves, missed opportunities and broken promises. But ol' man Corday, he just keeps rollin' along.

I think that was the closest Bill Bell ever came to writing an Idiot Plot, because how could anyone not see that he wasn't White?

I could be wrong, but I think that's a very young Bert Remsen playing Ryder. Remsen was one of those actors who'd popped up on all sorts of TV shows BITD (including KL, where he played a con artist who sweet talks Julie Harris' Lilimae into running away with him to Las Vegas).

The trouble with Emma, I find, is that her storyline every season is basically the same: Emma meets a guy (with whom she shares no chemistry whatsoever), Angela thinks the guy is a bum, Emma thinks Angela is wrong and either Angela turns out to be right or (in Dwayne and R.D.'s case) the guy dies a horrible death. The only time Margaret Ladd gets something different to do is in the final season, when Emma owns FC for about 10 minutes and makes such a mess of things that she has to leave town again. Next to Julia, who keeps coming back, even though she had been written into a corner by S3, Emma is the one character from FC who frustrates me the most.

By the final season, the original cast has been whittled down just to Lance and Chao-Li. The others are either dead (Chase and Maggie), in a coma (Angela) or out of town (Cole, Emma, Julia and Vickie). A definite sign that the series had run its' course.

An FC reunion movie would've been okay for me, but only if we got two things: 1) Earl Hamner back and working on the project - if not as writer, then as an EP or consultant; 2) Susan Sullivan back as well - if not as Maggie (whose death "the Thirteen" had faked?), then as a mysterious lookalike (who creates tension within Richard and Lauren's marriage).

I, too, would take SJB back as Carly in a heartbeat.

True. They'd never be able to accept any "new" Ben Matlock who wasn't a silver-haired, banjo-playing Southerner with an affinity for seersucker suits and hot dogs. (Christ, I know too much about that show).

Amen! Instead of reaching out to their constituents of color and trying to win them back over to the GOP and away from the Democratic Party, the GOP would rather just eliminate their right to vote. But, like I said, the GOP can do whatever it wants. We aren't going back.

I could make a Steve Burton fat joke here, but I'll refrain.

Reading an article that @Paul Raven posted in the Y&R Classic thread has me thinking: what about Kay Alden?

I really hope it's not the former. Even if the dialogue doesn't always make sense, the script writers still work very hard on those scripts under the most impossible circumstances. Allowing the actors to ad lib would be insulting.

Thanks for that article, @Paul Raven . Damn, I wish Kay Alden was still involved with Y&R.

Rita Lakin was a wonderful writer. I think she and Rick Edelstein were the best writers TD ever had. If she had been willing to take on GL, I think she would've done amazing work there, too. But I also think she told some interviewer once that writing for soaps was hard work and that it never allowed her to spend enough time with her family.

Exactly. Of course, whether those loose ends were tied up satisfyingly is always a matter for debate. (Personally, I thought "J.R. Returns" was okay enough, but "Dynasty: The Reunion" just reminded me why the series had to die). But I agree: KL's finale brought everything to a nice close. What more needed to be told?

More and more, @marceline 's words keep echoing inside my head: this is going to end in bloodshed.

I don't buy it either. But, boy, am I so glad Frank hasn't thought to bring Trevor St. John onto the show, lol.

That's insane. I mean, you could say a lot about LW, I'm sure, but I'd never in a million years take her for being a diva BTS. If anything, I think she's the ultimate team player, willing to give 100% to the material she's being asked to play, no matter HOW awful that material might be (and let's face it, the poor dear has been handed more than her fair share of crap material over the years). The only time that I know of where she (allegedly) balked was when GL wanted to pair her Cassie with Robert Newman's Josh, who was Cassie's brother-in-law. And even then, she didn't raise holy hell about it; she just quit.