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There is much I like about the show...but Nikki being tied to David Chow, the lack of tension at Restless Style...both mentioned upthread...these are BIG problems.

I find each episode entertaining, and it mostly makes sense to me. I didn't understand why the Fisher-Baldwins suddenly got tough-love with Gloria...

The show feels like Y&R again, but it doesn't yet feel like *great* Y&R. With all the LML writers coming back, I think it is safe to say we're still in transition, and I now feel we will be for all of 2008. Later this year, MAB will hit her stride.

Because I still think MAB's mentor is Brad Bell (and maybe Kay Alden and/or Jack Smith), and because I think the show that they're all at...B&B...is an UNHOLY mess...I'm less reassured than ever.

I'm suddenly reminded WHY Sony/CBS/Bell felt the need to impose LML in the first place....

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I'm in the under 34 demo and Jill is my favorite character on Y&R. It pisses me off that she doesn't get used other than as filler for the boring 20 somethings. When they paired Victor and Jill up the first time it was great. In fact it was the only Victor relationship that I did like on this show, because she was his equal. Soaps are dying because they think that the young are only interested in their own age group, but that is not the case, we watch soaps for the multi-decade storytelling and character development.

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Jill and Andy were an item when Deborah Adair played Jill. Jill left Andy for John Abbott.

Could Andy's best friend, who is about the same age, be Jill's new guy? I'm talking about Paul.

I realize the pairing seems VERY unlikely at first blush. But I think the two actors are within 5 years of each other.

There is an opposites attract thing...he's jeans, she's silk...but I think maybe they could bring out opposite sides of each other. He could help her connect with her working class roots and her earthier nature...he could get her in a pair of jeans. And she, maybe, could help him connect with his ambition (he doesn't even have an office anymore, and JT seems to have usurped all his security and detective business--certainly with Newman).

I'm grasping, a little, because Jill and Paul are the two most neglected legacy characters right now.

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I love the idea of Jill/Paul or Victor/Jill, but I'm afraid it wouldn't be handled well. Which would be such a shame, because both of these pairings could be dynamite. Also, I wouldn't want them to be paired just because they're legacy characters--there has to be sufficient build up to it, a reason that it happens. And I think I would feel more comfortable if Alden or Smith handled this. Again, if done well, it would be dynamite, with either one.

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Paul and Jill is a great idea and one that I'd never really thought of...I can see Doug and Jess having fantastic chemistry. And they'd likely have a sweetness to their relationship...I'd like that.

Victor and Jill would be fiery, fantastic and fabulous. They've done it (briefly) once before and it was effing dynamite. Braeden and Walton are equals in every sense of the word. Victor and Jill are heaven...plus it would open up wounds between Nikki and Jill which would then open wounds between Kay and Jill.

My suggestion to Jess Walton would be this: grow your hair out! It would make her even sexier than she is now, she looked fantastic with long hair in the past. Bring back that sexy mane!

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OMG! You've just said what I have been thinking for months! Somehow, Jill and long hair seem to go together and Jill most certainly needs to have that mane back! It just gives her... something that seems to be so Jill! I'm really glad someone else thinks the same. :lol:

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We need to paste this Jill :wub: thread into an e-mail to TPTB. Everytime CBS do that fan panel re: Y&R, I always tick Jill as the character I want to see more of. Mind you, I pushed for Jill & Ji Min on one of those things last year and a lot of good it did me. :lol:

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