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So they are testing Thomas and Paris?

She definitely left a strong impression on me from that tiny, tiny role when GL was really starting to lose its way. Sad that she hasn’t done much more acting since then, but I’ve seen her work on SaBa and GH, and she’s wonderful.

Eli serving body-oddy-oddy today.

I loved George. She was TERRIFYING to me. SW is really good at fight choreography. There was a great scene of her and Eleni in like a sewer that I’d love to see again. Some really solid dialogue.

An almost-certain No. 1 for Adele in a couple weeks, regardless of quality:

Israeli ninja warrior Gur Arad 🇮🇱

Life Unit, a model from London 🇬🇧

This is sad and tragic.

Is Marilyn McCoo coming back for this Lani/Paulina story?

Seems like Y&R did too lol.

Actor James León 🇺🇸

LOL at this tweet: Lo and behold, they show up next week…

This Potomac episode lol… chaotic. Has Candiace been hanging out with Heavenly Kimes with all the “Yo Mama!” stuff?

Did not expect this scoreline…

Very true.

It’s sad. He’s more than simply an Asian man, although it’s important. He’s Jack’s son. He’s estranged from his father. He’s most certainly lived a life in the years he’s been off screen. He might have a wife and kids or have had several wives (or partners). He might have made some enemies. There are so many fascinating avenues they could take. And there are plenty of HOT talented Asian/biracial actors who would love the opportunity.

It’s super weird, right? And if they really wanted to do away with Keemo, as mentioned, they could have killed him off off screen. But they mention him periodically, as he has board voting powers at Jabot. It’s as if he’s “on ice,” always waiting to be reintroduced but no one has the balls or, more likely, the awareness to do it, even though it’s completely organic diversity. (These shows seem to only see diversity in terms of serving markets, and I’m not certain they see an Asian viewership, who are fragmented into so many different distinct cultures, as a lucrative soap audience. But does diversity have to be viewed solely through that lens? Why not simply have a broader and more interesting idea of humanity, for variety and for its own sake, as we live in a multicultural society? Is that a naive, Pollyanna-ish idea? Perhaps that’s an indictment of the viewers, but the writers also have to make them care. And they often don’t make the investment in fleshing out non-white characters.) Meanwhile, writers have been reaching for Jack’s stories, with addictions and one failed pairing after another.

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Yeah, I mean, soaps reinvent and give new personalities to characters all the time with recasts, especially after years off screen… and that original story had been largely forgotten by the mid-2000s. It would be useful for someone like Jack, who they value, to have his children represented. Beyond just Kyle. Lots of story potential. I think the racism part is likely the biggest issue, in combo with PB’s issues, as I don’t think Y&R would know what to do with an Asian male lead (the obvious answer would be to do whatever they do with the white male ones, which ain’t much, as I’ve said before, tbh. They certainly don’t treat the black men well.) I think they feel an Asian lead wouldn’t have as many story options or wouldn’t be well received by the audience. A total lack of empathy and imagination. If someone over the years really cared, they’d have forced PB’s hand, and I’m sure he’d have sucked it up and played the story like a professional.

It’s insane that they made up a son for Paul and Nikki (yes, to accommodate Steve Burton), dug up Nina’s stolen child, made up a son for Katherine, brought on Theo as an Abbott-Brooks, not to mention ridiculous and implausible stuff like having P3 fake his death to avoid coming out as gay, etc. yet Keemo is *right there* as a living Abbott offspring and they haven’t brought him back in a quarter-century. And PB has agreed to play even more absurd stuff over the years, like Peruvian Marco, Jack’s unrelated doppelgänger down to having the same physique and penis.

Jason, a fitness model from China 🇨🇳

Marci is wonderful.