Y&R: Week of July 28, 2008

[Queen]

I love the way Nikki just walked into the office all glamorous and declared she's still alive.

[JackPeyton]

Ok.. so this all about Lily & Cane...

I actually like them. On paper. They do have pretty good story, i do buy them in love, and they are a great young rootable romantic couple. The problem here is two things - The first and major being that there is NO chem between CK & DG. They so have a nice friendship chem, but not a romantic one, and far from a sexual one. The second is that CK is underwhelming (sp?) in all her scenes.

[Queen]

CK's Lily needs a Sheila. A character to push her and push her to where she wakes up and becomes "alive". I feel like CK does nothing special in the role. Either that or she needs to become a crazy, psycho bitch.

[Skin]

I think Chole is supposed to be her Shelia. However CK's version of Lily is just so badly acted that it's beyond painful just to watch her. She is just positively dreadful and plain out uncomfortable and bored in the role of Lily.

[JackPeyton]

i agree.

my issue hoenstly isnt even that shes a bad actress. i have said this before - i would honestly rather watch a bad actress TRY to act than one just read lines and not try at all. Thats how i fele with CK. she just reads her lines. thats it. she isnt acting.

[y&r_fan]

When I read things like that I wonder if we're even watching the same Christel Khalil. CK is an excellent actress. I honestly think she is the best younger actress Y&R has ever had.

[Queen]

I don't think she's terrible but I certainly don't think she's the best. She needs Viagra for Acting because she's incredibly limp.

[JackPeyton]

IMHO, when CK actually trys - and its rare - she isnt horrid (shes still not good tho, and def not Y&R good). Like the baby loss and turning down Cane. She was ok. But she def should not be the young heroine of the show.

[Cat]

I don't know whether this is CK's fault or the writing, but Lily is portrayed as this untouchable widdle pwincess who needs to be protected and cosseted by her daddy, adopted brother and fiancé at all costs. The way she puts on her "baby" voice with Neil (and now with Cane), reinforces that. I don't know whether she's been instructed to do that by the EP or director but, for me, it kills any spark in Lily. She's a grown-ass divorcée and budding supermodel, for crying out loud. Plus I sense that CK herself is no pushover. So why play one?

(And, yes, I know Ashley called John "daddy" well into her 40s, but I'm willing to give her a pass, given several nervous breakdowns, etc. Ashley was always a fragile figure who gained strength over the years as she got through various physical and mental traumas).

[JackPeyton]

She has always played Lily that way. She also did the same thing on 'Thats So Raven' (and yes i watch it. so what? lol)

and re the bolded part... EXACTLY!!!

[MarkH]

You have a rare agree-er here . Specifically, when she tore up that ultrasound pic of Chloe's she was fierce. I note that to do that scene, they let her hair have some curl and she was darker. YES, she was darker...I compared it to another episode. It leads me to believe that, stylistically, they want to accentuate her as a woman of color. And, with that fierce contretemps with Chloe, it seems she is showing some signs of her family backbone.

[rhythmchyc]

OMG, F'ing LOVED THAT!! With her hair all side-swept like that!! TOTAL Dynasty-"I'm the Queen B"-esque. Cannot wait to see those scenes today. The other scenes kinda dragged. Once K bumrushed Jill, then Nikki, it was like FIRE bursting on the screen. More please.

And poo poo on the writers switching it up so Victoria and JT picked Nikki up at the hospital. It's time to give Paul some action people!! Why postpone it like that? Just like they did to Paul and Lauren after Out of the Ashes and the Pheila fiasco.

And why make Chloe crazy? Just make her vindictave like Dorian on OLTL. It's again, too bad, that they've based her actions as baseless as a crush on Cane. I really hope they explain why she's so obsessive-compulsive. A rotten daddy? A poor self-image because she had plastic surgery? Or wanted to be a model but couldn't for x,y,z reason? COME ON WRITERS!!!

[rhythmchyc]

When I saw that preview, I was intrigued. And the ripping really accented Lily's ferocity. More please.

Still, seems a bit childish compared to what Dru has had to deal with. Chloe is like a little pesky fly, not as threatening as she could be. Let's get a little danger, shall we?

[rhythmchyc]

Is that on youtube LOL?

[S&BFanForLife]

ITA on the Lily observations. I like Cane&Lily together but I have a problem with Lily. CK's acting is one-note. I don't know if it's the writing that's making her this way or not. However, I have seen a lot of younger soap actors...cough...Kirsten Storms...cough, who can take sh!ty writing or 2 lines on a page and make it Emmy worthy material. I think TPTB just need to make Lily more like her mother.

BTW-I'm lovin' Y&R, right now.