Paul Raven

If anything some of the BTG cast should be visiting Y&R to give that show an energy boost. The only Y&R cast member I want anywhere near BTG is Sean Dominic in a new role.

Yes and she could have been the first woman on the moon. It isn't in any way necessary to the story or character. There is enough suspension of belief inherent in soaps and other forms of drama w/o adding unnecessary details.

I don't see it as negativity. Just an overreach that takes away from 'reality' Like Anita being an EGOT. I could buy a Grammy for something like 'best group vocal r&b performance' or some such category but an Emmy,Tony and an Oscar?? Really?? As for Alex Alegria-how did he get past the audition? I get that they don't want to recast and let the weaker performers grow into their roles but he is not improving at all. It's spoiling the Kat/Eva storyline.

3 deaths occurring at the same time... But it gives the characters something to talk about for a few episodes. Maybe Josh should go full throttle on this. Bring back Scott, Noah, Anita, Ana etc just to kill them off.

Remember at one point Griffih had Chance join the corporate world so he could be a part of 'The Young and the Business'. But that went nowhere b/c it was dumb move. Maybe have Chance become a PI so that he would have more reason not to be bound to the GCPD. The set issue seems to drive Y&R story decisions so Chance as PI would make more sense if he was always at CL,Society etc. Oh well...too late.

I think one of the problems with the current soaps is that a lot of those involved have the 80's/90's soaps as their experience/reference point. So their vision of what a soap is involves far out plots, back from the dead, big business etc That's not how soaps played earlier on with character based domestic stories. With the shrunken budgets, it would make sense to return to the roots and and once again focus on intimate relationship stories, Instead of pale imitations of the big budget years, As for location shooting, Neighbours had decades long permission to film in a particular suburban street to represent Ramsey St. I'm assuming if you bought in that street you would have to agree to filming taking place. Don't know they could enforce it.

I hate the whole 'man creates romantic fantasy for woman' trope so Andre/Ashley left me cold-even more so b/c I'm not buying for a minute that Andre would be attracted to a wet blanket like Ashley.

Andy was a character that had 2 short runs, under the Dobsons and then Marland. It was good Marland gave the character another go, even if it didn't pan out.

He killed off Mary in the first place!

CBS reinvented themselves with AITD and MTM. They followed up with MASH, Bob Newhart, Rhoda, Maude, Good Times, Jeffersons etc But they failed to replenish the sitcom stockpile. Admittedly that is hard to do when you have so many hits, that available timeslots are few. ABC faced the same problem when they failed to replace the likes of Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Three's Company, Barney Miller etc with new hits. And how did NBC get to #1? On the strength of sitcoms. The network with the most successful sitcoms in the 60's,70's and 80's was always #1.

Please, I don't want anything Y&R to taint BTG. Using the word exciting in association with Devon? Bryton will probably be disoriented to be on a set that's bigger than a shoebox and with extras milling about.

Talk it up any way you can Billy, but you've been handed a poisoned chalice. Hope the money and working conditions are an improvement on Days, cos the role and the writing is a dud.

To be fair he also likes to bring in a psycho every few months eg Martin/Allen, Ian, Jordan, Cameron to kidnap someone or some antagonist that ends up dead eg Jeremy, Ashland.

Again, we had the makings of a potentially interesting story. Who exactly was Carter? What was in his past that created this devotion to Cane? Had we got to know the character over a few months and sense his instability there might be some investment. Instead he is just some random cliched weirdo day player who kills off a promising newcomer and legacy character with no consequences. Chance was only brought back to be offed. I'm sure the funeral will take place out of town. Can't wait to get back to GC. Really missed CL,GCAC, Society and Jazz Lounge. More sitting around discussing big business.

Sex on soaps is usually presented as fantastic, mind blowing etc with both partners totally in sync So to see someone not enthralled by her first time is refreshing. It doesn't make Kat asexual, rather typical of a lot of people's first time experience. This might lead to Kat realizing she likes Tomas as a person, but not necessarily a sexual partner. Or maybe she'll go along with it to hold on to him and avoid awkward conversations, convincing herself that her inexperience means she is at fault and things will get better.

Not the best photo of Eileen out of everything they could choose.

I hardly recognized Colby out of the cutesy clothes and wigs Kat wears. She looks way better IRL.

The teen drama has hardly been essential to the plot. What happened to the girl interested in Tyrell? The actor playing Tyrell is good. Surely they could have found a girl the right age? Or better yet child actors if they needed to have kids at all. I think Smitty and Martin having kids is unnecessary. They could have been applying for adoption which would have given Martin more of a reason to cover up his crime.

There have been way more demands placed on Brandon, acting wise than Alex, and he has been unsteady in some of he more dramatic moments for sure. But Alex has trouble with even the most mundane scenes. Watching him interact with Timon, for example is such a contrast. The latter fully inhabits the character and has all sorts of body language and facial expressions at play, even when not speaking. Whereas Alex just stands there and waits to say his lines. I do feel sorry to be ragging on him. And why hasn't our other great thespian Ben Gavin entered the discussion?

Heather, Cole, Damian, Chance all dead. Will we ever see Nina again? I wonder if Cane will get a home set when he returns to GC.Or is he forever destined to wander through the GCAC,CL, Society and the Jazz Club? The worst thing is the ratings are maintaining, so JG looks like he's staying. I wonder what the actors really feel about the state of the show?

How many TV themes made the charts? Some I recall hitting US Top 40 SWAT Rockford Files Laverne & Shirley Baretta Happy Days Any more? I'm sure there were many released as singles that didn't make the Top 100.

Oh yeah...thanks for the reminder. Guess I'm just hoping hat they don't go down the fake pregnancy route. There's no way that story can work. Yes, if you were a new viewer you wouldn't think Jacob had any connection to Nicole by the way he interacted with her. That whole approach was wrong. I didn't mind the Ted/Leslie scenes as I read it as him not responding to her provocations and trying to just ease her out w.o causing a scene. And it is a soap, they have to have these slightly contrived scenes. Not much drama if Ted slammed the door in her face. Tomas is coming across as incredibly dumb or a total sleaze revealing all this personal stuff to Eva. I just can't with Kat in those baby girl outfits. I hope she grows out of that look. Daphne is def MVP. She must get some of the same awkward lines as other characters but her delivery is flawless and you don't notice them. And Ambyr is another gem.

Back to Hayley for a moment. Maybe the twist is she is pregnant and the writers are leading us,and Dani along. There will be a physical confrontation b/w Hayley/Dani causing Hayley to lose the baby. Thus setting up many ramifications. The mystery phone call from Hayley will turn out to be another issue-long lost relative.

I was thinking that maybe 2 of the lead stories -Bill/Hayley and Martin's accident would have been better told onscreen in the opening weeks. The first Friday reveal- Bill/Hayley are having an affair. Or Dani finding out .We would then see the drama of everyone finding out -the confrontations etc And Martin/Vernon driving home and the ambush occurring- the tension as they decide to go coverup etc. Much more involving than hearing about it 2nd hand, What do you think?