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Um... I dunno. It can't be more clear than it already is. How is Jill exactly a mass-appeal character?! blink.gif On what asteroid would that be?! In many ways, she is one of the most lethargic, same-y messes whose patheticness has plagued the show for three decades or whatever. Her big story is: I'm dysfunctional! And I can't keep away from that even when I've achieved something in life! Bla, bla, bla, la, la, la. She fights with Katherinen, then she briefly doesn't, then we're back there, then she's her daughter, then they still b!tch about each other.

You seem to be particularly attracted to a particular kind of messed-up-ness, like this one Jill exhibits or people throwing vodka glasses at mirrors etc. You are hypnotized by boredom-Jikky Jee.

A useless mess that went nowhere in thirty years, yet had a fair share of stories, all unhelped by a man-woman actress with the voice of a transvestite smoker.

I am offended because I introduced the charts. Then my file that had the archives evaporated, I didn't have the time to make it again and MarkH introduced his own, going back to the 1950s.

That is all. smile.gif

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Um...what's all the attitude for? I asked a question because I legitimately wanted an answer.

The one thing I'll speak to is that, yes, I love characters like Katherine and Jill, their brand of dysfunction is what I love to watch because it's internal. I've never found either of them boring.

Love Jess Walton and that voice of hers.

PS: What the hell is Jikky Jee?

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There is no attitude. I just had to choose a way to make you ask yourself and tell me How is Jill (aka Jikky Jee) a mass-appeal character? When was she this superstar soap character everyone loves and can't get enough of? She has her fans, and that's it.

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That gets old. Fast. But people only realize it with a sizable delay. Soaps increasingly over the years tried to tell stories about messed up people when it would've been more effective to make it about normal people with difficulties. People who grown and change. Not bear the mark of inability to mature for half a century.

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I still don't get the Jikky Jee reference, is there some significance? I'm legitimately curious, it's over my head!

Jill is definitely NOT Erica Kane, not in that ballpark at all. And it's very valid to say she isn't a mass appeal character. In the context of Y&R, however, I feel that Jill is an integral part of the show and if the character wasn't there, the show would die a swifter death than it already is.

My response to that is "Whose Normal?" The Katherine's and Jill's of the world exist and are functional and achieve and have families and do good things. But they are totally screwed up.

Everyone has their baggage and some people never get past themselves. I happen to like that.

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I do remember your charts, Sylphy. ;)

I just remember Mark being very persistent with them during Y&R's last big ratings decline in 2008.

Not a bash against either of you, I'm just surprised no one is doing them this time around, but then again, a lot of us have already given up on daytime.

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