Jump to content

Y&R: Week of May 25, 2009


Recommended Posts

  • Members

The show could run Jack/Phyllis/Sharon/Nick 4 days a week and they probably should. That would allows them to cut into some of the fluff.

Recast Victoria with Heather Tom, Gina Tognoni or Rebecca Budig. Kill JT off in some heroic fashion. Make Victoria into the next incarnation of Victor Newman so that she takes over the family when EB leaves. Let Victoria be a female Victor, breaking hearts and treating men like property.

Send Abby to boarding school. Send Colleen off to a job in Hong Kong. Bring her back in a few years ready to raise hell.

Put Noah on contract. Send Eden away to college. Give Noah an older woman love interest -- maybe Chloe.

Send Tyra and Anna anyway. Make Neil one of the many men in Victoria's harem.

Send Devon to grad school. Bring him back in a few years when the time is right.

Put Chapman & Shackelford on recurring. Sign Tracy Bregman to contract (tell her take it or else) and make Michael & Lauren the central figures of the F-B family. Only use Glo & Jeff as support. Send Amber to B&B. Put Daniel, Kevin & Jana on recurring/support to Michael/Lauren. Don't give them their own stories.

Put Heather on recurring just to be used as the ADA (once the Adam story ends).

If Raul stays, Mac can stay. If not, send them both back to Africa.

After Victor & Nikki reunite, and you know they will, put Paul on recurring, just as support to Michael.

Am I missing anyone?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 801
  • Created
  • Last Reply
  • Members

Why get rid of Maria?

That's not going to solve anything. What if her replacement is worse? MAB is fine where she's at. She's not the greatest writer, but she's nowhere as bad that we should be calling for her head.

I also don't think Y&R's cast is bloated. All Y&R needs to do is drop some of these actors to recurring, and sure they can write out a few too. Plus, TPTB can't keep writing the same stories for the Abbotts/Newmans all the time. MAB needs to go back to what she was doing in 2008 and that is properly injecting all cast members into stories.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I could get behind all of these, actually, except for the bolded ones:

Where is Adam in your list?

I'd like Noah to have an age-appropriate love interest who can act. Is there anyone his age from a "forbidden family" that could ramp up the drama?

Neil and Victoria didn't work well all those years ago. I'd like more for Neil than "harem" status. I'd like him to play what he is (strong, principled paterfamilias with a stubborn streak), and drive story or at least anchor a strong family.

I don't want Gloria on recurring, but I'm resigned to her in a supporting role. I do think Shackleford needs to go. I don't like his vile dynamic with Chapman. He's sort of hurt her chances at redemption by dragging her into piggishness with him.

Jana needs to die. Daniel needs to play out his current storyline and then I could see him leaving to discover the earth. Amber is fine...they just need to craft a story worthy of her.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

You don't like lil Budig? Heh! That's okay. I was resigned to AH's Victoria when I thought the show was going to make Adam into the next Victor. Since they're not, and since Nick is too goofy for that, I want Victoria to take on that power role. RB is a bit annoying but she can do fierce pretty well.

I'm half-expecting him to be killed off because Victor will want to kill him once the truth comes out. I'm all for TPTB keeping him though if they can find a way to do so.

Not really. Maybe he can find himself a 19-year old blonde stripper just like grandpa did.

Can KSJ handle that? He's so beta if you know what I mean.

I can see that. I might very well like her better without him.

I wish I could care about Amber because I know AF is good. I just don't.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I'm just biased by that snarky way they write the Fusion girls (or at least, did). I don't like any of them, I'm afraid.

Or at least some girl from the other side of the tracks who has already had a baby she's given up for adoption... :)

He is written that way, for sure. I hope they can do differently with him.

As you may know, Andrea Evans played both Patty Williams and Amber's mom, Tawny Moore, on B&B. I wanted them to be the same character, so that Amber would turn out to be a Williams. That could still happen, if we assume that Tawny/Patty is the one who had plastic surgery to become Mary Jane. Linking Amber to the Williams clan would boost her staying power and, if written right, could make us care more.

I don't think it will work anymore, though. Tawny was an uneducated tollbooth operator who lived in a trailer in Furnace Creek, CA. Mary Jane is a skilled, educated PR agent. I don't see how they get from Tawny to Mary Jane. And since Cashton has convinced me Mary Jane is Patty, I think my hopes for linking Amber to the Williams are dashed.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Monday's episode is just the beginning of the fireworks. However baby talking child bride is back on Tuesday to annoy the hell out of us. It is a good thing that there is no danger of me running into CK on the street because I'd be tempted to smack her. There is nothing cute about her "acting" style. The ironic thing is that Chloe comes off as rather cute and endearing without even trying.

Since when did Cassie become a psychic prophet?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

There is a show Monday and a fairly good one.

I thought Nick had the dream. Did he tell Sharon about it because her dream with Cassie also had the daughter, but was referring to Summer. I guess they are just a whole family of prophets or psychics instead of active dreamers. Maybe CBS is just throwing in psychic wishful thinking dreams to ramp up the anticipation for Medium moving over from NBC.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I took that dream to be a sort of prophesy myself (or more like the show's promise to viewers), don't get me wrong. It's the type of thing that needs to go unsaid by the characters though. This isn't Passions. I'd also rather Sharon be having an Abbott baby right now. She and Nick can have another child down the road. This doesn't feel like the right time to me at all.

Thanks!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Exactly. I think if the Shi t reunion is going to succeed he has to go back to her despite the baby, not because of it. Nick is really becoming a waffleman like B&B's Ridge. One week I want Sharon, no wait, I might lose Phyllis, I want her, back to Sharon, back to Phyllis and on and on and on. It would serve him right to wind up alone for a while, with the occasional hook-up, until he grows up.

Isn't it a little soon, how far along is she. If it is bigger than an almond wouldn't it have FAS?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

The show needs to cut it's losses with Tyra/Neil.Talk about Chris Engen-if anybody should storm off the set,it would be Kristoff after what has been done to Neil.

He used and abused Karen,and is now all gaga over Tyra,for no discernable reason.

The basics were there for a good story,but the execution was dreadful.The latest twist with Tyra not being blood to Devon seems equally pointless.

I would get rid of Tyra/Ana-that could be easily accomplished.Devon could go in search of his dad.He is not being used effectively.

Mamie would return recurring and Nate would be the new young male that Devon never was.

Malcolm would be recast.He has so many connections.Father to Lily/brother to Neil/ex to Olivia etc

Give Gil more to do

Neil would be more support for a while to give the character a chance to be refreshed.I would steer him into a more business orientated story.

Seems we are stuck with Lily.The problem is that she is so one dimensional as is her portrayer.Lily is nice-that's it.

The show is rare these days in that the long term families are still represented.

The Newmans,Abbots and Chancellors need to be a major part of the show.MAB has done this and her 'new' characters (Mac,Murphy,Billyetc have been a part of that)

I'm not particularly fond of the Baldwin/Fishers.Because Michael and Lauren are a 'happy couple',his story comes from the wacky antics of his family,which is wearing thin for me.I would rest Gloria/Jeffrey and would happily say goodbye to Kevin/Jana.Eden is awful and the 2nd actress no better than the first.

I hope Paul stays around,but he &Nikki should not marry.Better they realise they are just close friends.

Restless Style should close and those characters should go back to Jabot.

New characters could come from the past.Brooks Prentiss,Chuck(Snappers son,Jills nephew)Perhaps Matt Miller has a child.Keemo Abbott.

Just some random thoughts...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • Well, Josh was a horndog. LOL Yep. It was one of the first really weird things Reva did with her PPD. She became obsessed with the idea that Dylan and Sam should get married. Sam was only 17, and needed her parent's permission. Reva helped them leave town so they could go to a neighboring state where Sam was old enough. Ross, Billy and Josh stopped them, then Sam went to India to try and persaude Justin. Reva followed her and didn't tell Josh she was going. While Reva was gone, Josh advertised for nannies, and Harley applied. He ended up hiring someone else. But when Reva returned, she hired Harley because (in her weird mental state) she wanted someone she could trust with the kids (because she feared Josh was trying to get rid of her and that Vanessa wanted the children.). After Reva starts treatment, she asks Harley to stay until she's stronger because she's good with the kids. At the party, Reva starts going off the rails, insulting Justin and Josh hauls her to a private dining room to ask WTF. Reva starts confronting him about the "affair" with Vanessa, and he realizes she is weird. He locks her in the dining room and frees Mindy and Van from the ladies room (where Reva has locked them in). Van starts telling him that Reva attacked her and needs help.  Reva escapes out the window of the dining room and goes back to the party, climbs onto a table and starts a striptease. Josh gets her to stop, takes her home and after filling Ed in, decides to go to the doctor the next day. Reva then takes off and spends days running around town, coming on to a guy she thinks is Billy, Billy, Hamp, Frank and Roger.  Roger takes her to his apartment and takes nude pictures of her, which he tries to blackmail Billy with. He wants the deed to the land the Towers is on in exchange for them. (Billy had been left the deed by a sweet old lady who lost her home in the 5th street fire. Roger had stolen the deed from her before she died. After Roger took those pics of Reva, she saw him hide them, and took an envelope from the hiding place. She didn't realize she'd taken the deed and not the pictures.)  Anyway, Billy and Vanessa trick Roger into burning the pictures, claim the deed and at the Towers opening reveal that Billy owns the land and therefore the Towers. That's what led to Roger and Alex's breakup and Roger and Mindy's affair.
    • All the time they spent trying to make viewers feel sorry for Chad only for him to not even last that long. I wonder if they knew Richard Burgi was going so quickly. You're right about Josie replacing Cheryl. On paper, this should have made sense, given all the ties Josie had to the canvas, but I did prefer Cheryl. There was something very synthetic about Alexandra Wilson.  I suppose even if she did have some fans they were just so used to getting rid of people left and right, so she was more collateral damage. As you said above I do wonder what the plans were for Peggy Lazarus. I think AWHP mentioned her once telling Peter that Peggy Lazarus wasn't her real name. Maybe she would have been another Carl moll... Rebecca Hollen never did get her due in her soap roles.
    • So true...Hackney might have had a story on FC with Richard being an old lover of his, but reveals herself to be a Cartel member and blackmails Richard with something into doing her dirty work  LOL. But of course Richard had his hands full with the double trouble sisters Ms. Jones and Ms. Braxton that season.

      Please register in order to view this content

    • Cat herself will be a stumbling block all her own as she vowed to Chad to stay away from him, thus redeeming her of her crime morally. Classic DAYS would have them gazing longingly at each other at Doug's Place or Blondie's, while Liz is serenading the room with a song aptly chosen to represent their feelings of emotional turmoil.
    • From what I just recently watched, they were setting her up to go into future stories. She was Emmy nomination worthy in the material I saw. If some viewers did not like her, the character could have been rehabilitated after that sick storyline. It feels like they destroyed a character for fun and then tossed her to the curb. Spencer had chemistry with everyone. I'm just retroactively angry on Spencer's behalf.  You're right about how Cheryl was often forgotten and pushed aside and I would take Cheryl over Josie. I think soaps need characters like Cheryl. Characters like Josie are way too common. Josie always got on my nerves.
    • CBS was back in third place in 1994/95. That was the season CBS lost NFL broadcasting rights which also cost them several established affiliates in major media markets. 1995 CBS was sold to Westinghouse and Les Moonves arrived. 1995/96 CBS was trying to be young and cool to compete with NBC and Fox, but it was an epic failure and CBS was once again in third place.
    • I tend to think that Chad will actually listen to Jen (this time). And that will be the next stumbling block in their relationship, which will open the possibilities for Cat to seek another member of their love triangle... To iterate my earlier thought, I am also not a fan of the person Melissa Reeves, but the character of Jennifer looks so chic this week, especially in comparison to Hope (and Gabi).  That blunt haircut is a winner.   
    • I think Cheryl was essentially replaced by Josie, and it seems likely that Lemay wanted to bring the Frames back into the picture and for a variety of reasons that it would be McKinnons who would make way for them. Cheryl didn't really get many layers -- she was pretty and kind and sweet and faded into the background so that Scott could participate in the AIDS storyline with Dawn. Looking at the AWHP, other than (not very) shockingly being in love with her mother's adopted son Scott, Cheryl apparently went out with Sam and flirted with much-too-old-for-her John Hudson and MJ's ex-boyfriend/pimp Chad. I know MJ told Mary that she had been a prostitute, but did she tell Cheryl and did she tell anyone about Chad's pimping?   
    • I feel the same way about Melissa Reeves' Jennifer. She just makes the show feel like home by her presence alone. I am perfectly okay with them coming in every once and awhile, which probably fits Reeves' schedule better anyway. Their connections to Salem are still there: JJ, the grandkids, Jack still owning half of The Spectator ... they're perfect recurring characters. All this talk of Jennifer being in the wrong regarding Cat is absurd. Jennifer is not being villainized in any way, shape, or form, she's just being allowed to actually be human, which adds odds to the obstacle of Chad and Cat eventually getting together. All inner conflict. Keep it coming!
    • Hahaha. Jean Hackney, Angelica Nero, and the Falcon Crest henchwomen were all straight out of a James Bond movie.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy