Members DRW50 Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 I'd forgotten about Maggie. I guess she probably never would have stayed, since the actress is close to LML and Lechowick, but I liked her. Who was Ben? I guess I see Y&R as being damaged by Smith, and then LML, but to me MAB/Sheffer/Hamner are the ones who did the irreversible damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 I never minded Katharine and Jill as mother and daughter. I never liked Billy or Mac. I would take Megan McTavish - with a strong EP - over any headwriter in daytime today. I don't care about who is or isn't nominated for a Daytime Emmy. They have become such a joke that I think not winning one is almost an honor. Every year we are supposed to be outraged if someone isn't nominated or doesn't win. The latest is Chandler Massey, who, unless there is a Best Drake Hogestyn Impression category, has not done anything all that award worthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 All non Giggly Heffa female Y&R characters need to go to B&B. It's not like Maria/Hogan has any use for them. Amen. Tucker is tolerable but backburnering Jill was a bad move. Joshua Morrow's problem is Joshua Morrow is playing Joshua Morrow. The character would still be on the show but he would be in a backburner relationship with a glorified dayplayer like Chloe or Avery. Maura was indeed miscast. She should have never been cast as Diane. HOWEVER since Y&R was never going to ask Alex or Susan back the LEAST they could have done was write for Maura. She's talented enough that had the show had actually invested in her she would have done well despite the issues with her casting.. Writing her as a slut wasn't the problem. The problem was removing everything that made Diane Diane to unnecessarily prop other characters. She wouldn't be bad on B&B if they wrote her like an adult. She was miscast on Y&R especially when LML tried to sell her as being the same age as Davetta & Adrienne. She wanted to leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 Tammy Lauren was a good actress & she had more chemistry with Doug Davidson than he had with any actress in YEARS. Jack's campaign manager (played by Billy Warlock) Smith's Y&R was definitely heavily damaged but it was light years ahead of anything by LML & Maria/Hogan/Hamner. Maria & Hogan while totally awful have only made LML's mess worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 Oh that's right, I remember Warlock being on the show briefly. Did he have any story or pairing of his own? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DeeeDee Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 Nope. But the character had potential solely due to Warlock (which is why he ended up staying past his initial run) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members VirginiaHamilton Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 That's pretty much it in a nutshell. What's sad is that her firing undid the strides that the character had made and regressed her back into the bubbleheaded Valley girl that we see today. For that, Lily Winters Ashby is a prime example of lost potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 IIRC, Bridget Dobson herself said in an interview with SOD that it would have taken at least two years to get SANTA BARBARA back on-track; two years which, in retrospect, the show didn't have, which is why they ultimately relinquished day-to-day supervision to Paul Rauch and Pam Long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 Here's one of mine: DAYS wouldn't go near Chad/Will as an actual pairing for no other reason than someone at the show probably had a reputation to protect. And that's all I'm going to say about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members JaneAusten Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 Seriously Chad is about as interesting as a dead fish now. They should make him bisexual and do a Gabi/Chad/Will triangle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 At this point, I'd rather ditch Chad and save Gabi for when Will & Sonny decide to have a baby with a surrogate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juniorz1 Posted March 4, 2012 Members Share Posted March 4, 2012 Which I still, to this day, don't understand. They fought their asses off for 4 years in court over creative control and they relinquish it again after 8 months??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 To be fair, Bridget and Jerry did stay on as Senior Executive Producers until the show's end. As much as they wanted to resume full control over their show, however, I think the Dobsons realized things simply were too far gone. The SANTA BARBARA they had regained was not the SANTA BARBARA that was taken from them in '88. Factor in a network that had all but given up on the series, and I think you can understand why the pair were willing to allow another team (albeit, one of THEIR choosing) to take over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juniorz1 Posted March 5, 2012 Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 I can fully agree with that assessment Khan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members y&r_fan Posted March 5, 2012 Author Members Share Posted March 5, 2012 She was completely miscast. I wanted Susan back, but I think I would've accepted Maura as Diane if she had been 10 years older and a brunette. If TPTB wanted to throw Maura at the Newman men, she should've been Grace Turner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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