Y&R: May 2014 Discussion Thread

[YRBB]

Discuss.

[cassadine1991]

Really Amelia Heinle gets a nomination? Ok?

[JONNYSBRO]

Hey everyone guess what Amelia getting her Emmy nod for her amazing work. It's like in her words the longer u talk about me the more I stay relevant. Amelia had an amazing reel episodes for her Emmy she could win. It's likes how is that for u bitaches lol.

[ajsp35801]

I guess the Devon/Hilary/Neil triangle is in full swing.

[rhinohide]

Funny. That didn't work so well for Craptini did it? I know how thrilled you must have been to see Burton's nomination.

[bluejeanbaby3]

I am surprised that Sharon Case and Michael Muhney weren't nominated, but for different reasons. (Thank God MM wasn't).

And isn't it funny that Y&R didn't get a nom for set design? LOL!

And this is not Y&R, but Heather Tom being nominated in any category for B&B with KKL (as was true with Susan Flannery) means that KKL will not win.

(BTW, I like Amelia Heinle so much more as Victoria than HT.)

[DramatistDreamer]

Actually the work SC is doing over the last few months has shown greater ranger than when she was screaming in the board room. She really should get a nod next year but if AH gets a nom, SC damn sure should've gotten one even with some of the bad storylines she was in.

[cassadine1991]

Well

[DramatistDreamer]

Quelle suprise! (*feigns shock).

I swear some of these characters are simply going in circles. (*sings*) cause we've been through the same thing before-oh-aah...

[rhinohide]

The baby rabies is going to do me in. Chloe. Now WTD w/Victoria. You know Ben is going to be obsessive since he lost custody of his son. Even Paul and Chris getting in on the act.

[Khan]

Yep.

[rhinohide]

I'm also getting really tired of these discussions between Ben and Kelly about "what he did". No one talks like that, and if he's not a serial killer, it's overkill. Whatever "he did" that no one can know about is going to be lame, not shocking.

On the other hand, I'm really enjoying Sharon's amnesia and how they are still playing out all the beats of Summer's paternity secret. I think this is masterful. Along the lines of how Phillip Spalding's paternity played out for years on GL.

Did Sharon hurt Phyllis? Cause her coma? Did Phyllis know about Summer's true paternity? I used to hate Sharon. She's the main reason I quit watching YR years ago. But I am rooting for her even though I know she's going to get busted and it's going to be awful.

[Khan]

Here's what I think:

Several years ago, Stitch and Kelly had an affair. Stitch accidentally struck down and killed Kelly's son; and even though Kelly knew he was responsible, she kept quiet (and so did Stitch) for the sake of her marriage. Stitch ended the affair, though, and went off to Afghanistan.

Stitch re-committed himself to Jenna and their child-to-be...as Kelly's marriage fell apart. When Stitch got a job at the hospital, he thought he had another chance at a happy, normal life with Jenna and Max. However, as Jenna was preparing to join him in GC, she found out about his affair (and maybe even the fact that he accidentally killed Kelly's son and colluded with Kelly to cover it up). Jenna promptly filed for divorce, and Stitch blamed Kelly.

Of course, given the fact that Stitch and Kelly and their story has played out in the midst of a HW'ing team change-over, I wouldn't be surprised to learn their secret is something totally out of left field. I mean, something really cray, like he was a controlling, abusive, jealous husband who murdered Kelly's brother, whom he suspected of seducing his wife, and Jenna fled the United States -- and uh-oh, look out, Kelly and Victoria, he's coming after you two with a gun!

[DramatistDreamer]

I am inclined to agree with you Khan. On the other hand, the longer the characters (and writers) dance around the reasons why, I'm inclined to change my opinion to thinking that it will be something out of left field that won't be nearly as earth shattering as they've been building it to be.

The more time passes, I'm inclined to go with rhinohide's theory that the secret will pan out to be quite lame.

This regime seems fond of revising things and backing away from their original story projections.

TPTB seem intent on boosting the status of Stitch, I mean from a marginal character (Dylan's army buddy) to some part of a romantic pairing and today's writers have been hit and miss with writing complicated characters. The hit and run driver, in addition to an unfaithful husband may prove to be one too many complications for their potential 'romantic hero'. That is, if this is the way they intend to go.

[Khan]

I would not be surprised to learn, for example, Stitch, Kelly, and their respective spouses were all members of Ian's cult; and that Ian programmed Stitch to knock Dylan off that camel in Afghanistan so that he could insinuate himself into the life of (surprise!) his half-brother by daddy Ian and slowly bring him into the organization. With Jean Passanante as HW, it could be literally anything.