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RSW is just as bad, imo, except he's been on long enough for people to have gotten used to it. I thought Gaston was terrifyingly awful at the time, but RSW's Ben is like a tube of toothpaste.

I (temporarily) stopped watching Days before Griffith made it so dark. I'm sure it wasn't good, but this just leads me to wonder why his Y&R is so insanely bland, dry, colorless, flat, etc. I would enjoy an oppressively dark Y&R in place of what it is right now.

Justin Gaston was a better Ben. His accent and look were absolute hillbilly and he didn't sound Canadian like RSW.

I should have known the Rhodes (Rhoads?) guy would be dead in 5 minutes. He was IMO more interesting than Clyde, Orpheus, or Evan.

Really a pointless marriage. They didn't even show the honeymoon, did they? Zero instances of romance. I like Jordi but the show makes him so wooden.

I don't remember those moments, but the thing that stuck with me the most out of JER's 2003-2004 run was a big tree stump randomly bleeding while John and Marlena were near it. I hope that scene is on YouTube somewhere just so I know I didn't imagine it.

Her delivery is so stilted, Abby comes across as a snotty so-and-so even when she's being nice. Abby and Victoria are so bad now that Lily seems warm and genial. The bitchiness is over the top and cheap. Y&R comes across more like a '90s talk show or post-1993 Roseanne than Dynasty.

Ron is horrible, but is it possible this is Corday's creeping influence? He seems to only let go for short periods, and then when you're just starting to get used to it being almost decent...

I'm out until Ron is fired. I've been enthusiastic about Days for months now, but it's been feeling cheaper lately, and this plants it firmly in absolute trash territory.

Actors don't really even matter much on this show anymore. Half of the scenes now are people just standing around describing something that happened off-screen.

Haiduk is good on prime time, but on soaps she seems to only play desperate and unhinged with a hint of weakness. I actually don't mind her Kristen unless she's waving a gun around or having an anxiety attack.

Sami and EJ were terrible. James Scott was terrible. Sami was just a shadow of herself by then.

That is pretty nuts... although, IMO, Jeanne Cooper looked way younger before the facelift.

Jaime Lyn Bauer was 36 when Emily O'Brien was born. Days just had Kristen DiMera give birth in her actual 50s, so I don't see a problem there. The problem is Laura was institutionalized at the time, but that wouldn't stop Days.

Wasn't Ava originally crazy because her father was drugging her? Then they decided to be lazy and just make her crazy, period. Like Nick Fallon.

If Charlie is the rapist, it's just fast-forwarded shades of Nick Fallon.

Her hair? Look at Bergman's!! Honestly, it looked better than it does now. But, it also looked better then.

Wow. That's insane. I don't know if I even want to look up a current pic of him, as I have no idea what he looks like past the late '90s. I didn't even know Ryan was killed off until just a few years ago.

It's mostly just people openly insulting each other in public.

One of my all-time favorite scenes is David Kimble getting crushed in the trash compacter. That was nuts and impossible to imagine on today's Y&R. I was a really young fan of horror and thrillers, and it definitely stood out to me.

I wasn't referring to SORASing kids. Soaps used to hire a 15 year old, not someone in their twenties, to play a 15 year old's role. Not that they didn't also do that, because they did, but now it's basically all you see. I'm shocked the actor playing Faith is still on Y&R... it's a rarity.

Remember when soaps hired real teenagers, and young-ish ones at that, instead of 20+ year olds to portray 16 year olds who graduate college a year after being introduced?

I would be thrilled to see some '70s episodes. I have seen enough shoulder pads and big hair.

I'm pretty sure Wayne's Roman is at least partly responsible for my love of plaid. Too bad it looks like shite on CM.

Perhaps I'm thick, but doesn't this indicate that they'll tape July around April 2020? That would be huge, but...