Y&R: Week of May 11, 2009

[Y&RWorldTurner]

It says she signed a 3 years contract, but in 5 years, she hopes to be at a good place in her "film career" so she can settle down in Australia and have children.

[rhythmchyc]

I wish someone would just taunt TS into leaving, and every other sorry ass on Y&R who's a waste of [!@#$%^&*] space.

Damn, I don't want to see the episode when everyone bids farewell to Nikki.

And I certainly don't want to see the episode when they replace her with Hickland. BARF and a half!

[MarkH]

oooh, that is cold, cold, cold sh!t

Melody has not paid $200 for a haircut since 1979. How dare you call that cut-and-dye job cheap?!?

[dm.]

Now you're torturing me...

[rhythmchyc]

Ah, Y&RWorldTurner. It's nice to know you got my back.

Aww, we've grown so close now.

[MarkH]

Mark my words, if MTS goes, Hickland will be close to the top of the line to replace her.

The worst thing is, if MTS goes, they won't even honor her with a farewell. It'll be a Bobby Martin/Patch&Kayla style fading away.

[dm.]

My head hurts when I think at how many more "Star refuses to take paycut" stories we will have to go through during the next few months.

[rhythmchyc]

No poisoned pancakes?

Or wedding cake? Someone else should get married over the next few months: Summer and Humphrey?

[Y&RWorldTurner]

No, Nikki will burn to death saving Summer, who will get trapped in a fire at Crimson Lights. MAB will use the death to propel more story.

[MarkH]

Well, if she really HAS something on someone....it's time for that person to face their demons! Out yourself! You're not just hurting yourself, but you're hurting all of us with this power you've given this woman over a show's signature heroine.

Colleen should be one of the MAIN YOUNG FEMALES on this show. Instead....

[dm.]

Haven't you heard? Colleen left Y&R during July 2007 and ever since then was impersonated by someone else.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

The RUMOUR is that she and Steven Kent are a little too close, if you know what I mean...

[MarkH]

I really think we're past the LML era. But, if we're gonna go dark, I'd say that one of Walter Palin's minions...or one of the people who killed Bobby Marsino...comes out of the woodwork and perpetrates a revenge killing against Nikki.

Then, following up in more MAB/HS style, then Victor would go to Mexico to avenge her. Sharon would go klepto because of the bad relationship she had with Nikki--and her guilt for dragging Nikki into the sewers in a fur coat. And Kay would throw herself on Nikki's coffin. And the much-reconstructed Roberta Leighton would come back to the funeral and talk to herself (in voiceover) during the funeral.

No, no. She is horribly disfigured and comatose. JT goes in and carries her out to the strains of orchestral music. (JT's back is permanently wrenched in the process). Then, she undergoes facial reconstruction after the fire...and comes out looking like Catherine Hickland.

But I thought Kent was schtupping Jill Farren Phelps????

[Khan]

<--------- "evil force", eh?

[Cashton]

The thing with the MTS situation is that I am mad. ATWT will never have me again as a loyal watcher after what they did to Martha. But i don't pay to see Y&R, advertisers do. If the advertisers aren't paying what they used to, stars can't make what they used to. As an idealist - having Y&R without MTS makes me sick. As a realist and an actor, I also know the show must go on. But if MTS contends that there's sexisim in the deicisons to cut actresses's pay and not the male actors then something stinks. EB is the only one on the show who is absolutely, without a doubt, irreplaceable. That said he's only as strong as his on-screen partner - MTS. She's aged, she's gained weight and she's never been a knock-us-out actress. But she's been the background to VN's forground for 30 years.

I also contend that Y&R's dominance in the ratings has always been because whether you watch it every day or just when you're at grammas house, you can always see mostly, the same front-burner characters you love. That is a formula - not just one ingredient, that makes the show successful.

PS - Please don't mention Hickland's name in the same sentence/paragraph/post as MTS's. No way in hell...