Y&R: Week of May 04, 2009

[DeeeDee]

Don't forget the constant fights about the cover

[Khan]

Oh, Lord, yes. All that wailing and gnashing of teeth, and for what? Nick's sister, and some pop-star who, IRL, wouldn't even land the cover of Modern Dogs.

[Adam]

The civil trial in today's USA episode won't disappoint. It was a thing of beauty, especially a very heated exchange between Ashley and Gloria. I am too very confused about Sharon's dream, I don't know how to interpret it.... I've said all along Summer is not Nick's..... for Summer's ultrasound to be going on at the exact same time Jack says goodbye to his father.... I have always read into that as meaning Summer was indeed Jack's. It would go full circle..... putting Phyllis and Jack back together and Sharon and Nick back together. Patty Jane of course would be caught in the cross fire and most likely within a year will be a blip on the radar, but this is Y&R so what maybe 3? LOL.

MAB had pretty much dropped Restless Style.... and here it is dictating things again.,... Hopefully with Nick leaving and Phyllis forecasting the magazine collapsing actually comes true. Its probably the worst thing on this show next to Cane.... who by the way MUST DIE! It hasn't been said for a few pages.... so thought I'd keep that fire going

[DeeeDee]

And skulls on the cover a couple of weeks after Sabrina & David's car crash

[Khan]

I didn't know Kay and B&B's Taylor made the cover of RS!

[lmfan]

Great post and I agree. People act like Tracey would get story if she signed a contract, but Maria Bell has shown little interest in writing for Lauren as a business woman or as a couple with Michael, so I don't think she is beating down Tracey's door to sign her to a contract.

I think it is ridiculous that people claim Tracey has no loyalty to the show because she is recurring and so in some way deserves to get no story. She has been loyal to the Bells for twenty-five years. She wants to spend a few weeks a year with her kids on vacation, but is available for the vast majority of the time to play any story they want to give her. The show hired her back as recurring and she accepted. And it is a better deal for the show because they get a good actress, and she is good, and only have to pay her when she is used. Most of these shows want good actors who would be willing to be recurring but it works both ways. If you expect an actor to stay loyal as recurring and be available then you need to give them something to do. Nobody is talking about Tracey leading a story and some may not like Lauren and Michael as a couple but she is a fan favorite and so Maria needs to figure out how to use these actors and not just play her favorites five days a week.

I don't particularly like Ashley and never have. I can't stand her with Victor, but I don't wish that Eileen gets fired because I know she has her fans. I have always thought Josh Morrow was a mediocre actor but he has his fans so I don't want him written out. I want a show that is balanced. Sure some characters will push more story, but at this point Maria and company need to think about how to utilize talented vets that have been languishing on the backburner too long.

[DeeeDee]

:lol: :lol:

[lmfan]

I don't think the scene was that bad and in fact people were saying on this site that they liked seeing Lauren being bitchy. She is no Drake Hogestyn. That is insulting, but any actor needs decent material to play. Lauren is nowhere so I don't get why that is a good place to be. The only decent scenes she has been written by Maria and company in the last 6 mos were the scenes opposite Beth Maitland and in Michael's dream story on Christmas Eve and most people really enjoyed those scenes.

[lmfan]

I can see MJ really messing with Sharon ala Glen Close in Fatal Attraction, but everybody thinking it was Phyllis. Might be good irony that because of Phyllis' reputation everyone thinks she is the one messing with Sharon when she is innocent and it is MJ. I wonder if Sharon will even have this child.

On one hand Maria seems to be repeating so many aspects of the original Nick and Phyllis affair with Sharon and Nick, but MJ is the wildcard.

[MTSRocks]

No more fatal attraction women PLEASE. This show is going overboard on that. And PLEASE get Jack out of Sharon's orbit. She's no Luan.

Eileen looked great today and tomorrow!

[lmfan]

LML did Lauren no favors, but at least she was used. Jack Smith is the one who liked Lauren and Michael and created them as a smart, fun, snarky couple before Gloria came on and took over the family. I think both Michael and Lauren are hurt by their constant propping of Michael's family. Maria needs to give them a story separate from the family, but she seems to love having Michael be there for the family. He is in far more scenes with his brother and mother than his own wife and son, and her exclusion of Lauren from many family scenes is just poor writing. She goes out of her way to include Katherine, Amber, Daniel, Jeffrey and even Murphy (two recurring actors by the way) in these family scenes and yet people aren't supposed to wonder where Lauren is if they don't mention her name.

[lmfan]

I think the Fatal Attraction is exactly what we are going to get with MJ. As for Jack and Sharon, they love this quad. It will never end even if many of us are sick of it. It is their bread and butter story. The sad thing is Jack looks pitiful and desperate for a child when he tells Sharon it does not matter who the father is. Jack is not a favorite, but I am tired of him getting Nick's scraps. He shouldn't have to settle for a woman who is obviously in love with another man. It's a shame Jack wasn't allowed to raise his own child.

[Khan]

Unfortunately.

Whoever said Patty Jane will one day a blip on the radar had it absolutely right. In a year or two, I believe, she won't even be around. Maybe then, Y&R will have the kind of HW who can (re-)introduce Patty Williams the way she was meant to be.

[dm.]

Yes, most definitely. Always did, always will.

I hope they find a way to change that.

[a2sassy]

I just LMAO everytime someone calls Mary Jane "Patty Jane". It just makes her sound all the more crazy!