It's not about Rowell wanting to come back, it's the other side that's the problem.

TPTB need to just let all that nonsense go...... Y&R still doesn't feel like Y&R too me without Drucilla.... no character currently on the canvas can bring that type of energy or fire.... for me anyway. Jill is close, but Dru still takes it....

TPTB need to just let all that nonsense go...... Y&R still doesn't feel like Y&R too me without Drucilla.... no character currently on the canvas can bring that type of energy or fire.... for me anyway. Jill is close, but Dru still takes it....

I know, but we have to make peace with the fact that they don't want her there.

I know, but we have to make peace with the fact that they don't want her there.

Rowell clearly has problems with several people there, so it's not going to happen. I bet she doesn't even want to be there, hence why she left. I don't think she's completely faultless for why some people don't like her either, nor do I put full blame on her. She clearly rubs many the wrong way.

Edited March 31, 200916 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

Rowell clearly has problems with several people there, so it's not going to happen. I bet she doesn't even want to be there, hence why she left. I don't think she's completely faultless for why some people don't like her either, nor do I put full blame on her.

Yes, there's definitely a lot of blame on both sides.

If I was Tonya I wouldn't come back to this crap full time either. Olivia is another Neil need a Dru to keep her intertesting. They might as well get rid of all of them & start fresh with a new black family where MAB can put her own stamp on them.

I just don't think these writers are serious about the black people. & i'm sure Tonya probably feels the same way.

Edited April 1, 200916 yr by MoTheGreat

I just don't think these writers are serious about the black people. & i'm sure Tonya probably feels the same way.

Um, I'm pretty sure that Tonya runs her own Film Festival in Canada and is very involved with many outside projects to commit full time to Y&R.

Jack Smith did nothing with her and basically forced her leave anyway. Since her first departure, she's done many things.

And the black character issue isn't Y&R's exclusively. All of daytime, not to mention some parts of primetime, told more compelling and truthful stories with their minority chaacters a deacade ago than they do now.

Edited March 31, 200916 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

If I was Tonya I wouldn't come back to this crap full time either. Olivia is another Neil need a Dru to keep her intertesting. They might as well get rid of all of them & start freah with a new black family where MAB can pot her own stamp on them.

I just don't think these writers are serious about the black people. & i'm sure Tonya probably feels the same way.

It is embarrassing how Olivia has become nothing but the generic "talk-to"...a next-generation Aunt Mamie.

It is embarrassing how Olivia has become nothing but the generic "talk-to"...a next-generation Aunt Mamie.

That's no fault but Tonya's. Maybe she would've gotten more had she accepted the contract they wanted to give her.

Without Dru..... where does Neil go?

Even without Dru Neil has plenty to do & significant chemistry with Nikki, Olivia, Victoria, Nina, Jill, Sharon & Phyllis.

TPTB just refuse to write for him (much like Doug) & keep trying to recreate the magic of Neil/Dru than actually writing for him.

Kristoff's very capable (though not as singular as Braeden or dynamic as Bergman).

I kind of feel Neil as a character has sort of ran his course? Much like Brad Carleton did.... the same can be said about Doug Davidson....

None of them have.

But they all interfere with TPTB's blatant agenda.

Lets face it, one of the main reasons he had leading man status all those years was his ties to "The Bug"

Not at all.

Doug was a Lead LONG before Cricket.

In fact their relationship was more beneficial for HER than him.

They've tried tying him to Nikki, but we only know that was a plot device in the ever going saga that is Nikki and Victor..... they aren't writing any kind of relationship there.

Everyone in Victor/Nikki's orbit is a plot device.

EVERYONE.

I think what Y&R needs to do know is bring in a new anchor african american character, then slowly develop him/her with a family and a background....

Not at all.

What TPTB NEED to do is cast Nate, recast Lily & write for Devon the same way they do their peers.

Yes! If Tonya Lee Williams is interested in front burner status again.....

Jack Smith screwed Tonya.

Horribly.

YAY! Colleen was back today. Glad she had a scene with Billy. I hope they pull her more into this story

It is embarrassing how Olivia has become nothing but the generic "talk-to"...a next-generation Aunt Mamie.

The less we see of that ho, the better

Edited April 1, 200916 yr by Cheap21

YAY! Colleen was back today. Glad she had a scene with Billy. I hope they pull her more into this story

The only thing good about her scenes was Chloe slamming the door in her face.

The only thing good about her scenes was Chloe slamming the door in her face.

:lol:

The only thing good about her scenes was Chloe slamming the door in her face.

she did that? I have 20 minutes left of the show. Bad Chloe, bad...lol

The Sony site added more pics of AFTRA's tribute to Jeanne Cooper.

Heather Tom's dress is hideous.

Eileen Davidson's dress was gorgeous though.

See the pics here: http://www.theyoungandtherestless.com/spec...llery_4443.html

This thread has already severely gone off-topic, screw my rant earlier.

I didn't know Jeanne is old friends with Kathleen Noone...

Edited April 1, 200916 yr by Y&RWorldTurner