Just cancel Y&R and let Brad choose and pic who he wants to move over to B&B and make it an hour show. Maybe that way we can get rid of horrible Victoria....

Edited September 22, 201411 yr by Soapsuds

You need not look any further than Generations, her own damn creation to see how inept Sussman Morina was at putting together storylines...

Everything I've seen from Generations was horrible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8VbQ5q5RHQ

Even its opening and closing were horrible...with the trees and all...the music was ok.....

Generations was a show that looked good on paper.. but just didn't translate well on screen.

I was a kid when the show premiered.. and they had great promos leading up to the premiere. However, my babysitter watched the first episode.. and I remember her saying that all of the voice over exposition was boring and she tuned out and never tuned back in. I asked as a kid why she stopped watching mid way through and she said she wanted to be shown, not told, about the characters. I didn't understand what she meant at the time.. but now I think she meant she'd rather see the characters in action rather then being told in voice over all the backstory.

I do think SSM did the killing pool story and the start of Princess Gina.. did she do swamp girl as well?

Yes.

Did the whole "the actors must stay away from work to make change!" idea come from that Comeback episode where Valerie Cherish and the "young cool kids" all boycotted their new co-stars?

Well, let her tell you - Valerie suffered long and hard for that boycott. Everyone else loved the idea and she said no, because she didn't even boycott That's It when they had that episode making light of Rodney King and his brave struggles against...you know. She can't really say it. This isn't the place and she feels uncomfortable. Anyway, the point is, she put the mouths of all her coworkers and the mouths of the crew and the mouths of their family above her own. And she'd tell you that is a LOT of mouths. And some of them had really bad breath, but...that's not the point. The point is, Valerie stayed home from work and those sweet, wonderful little monsters (she doesn't mean that! She loves them! She remembers every birthday so don't you say she doesn't love them, she has the cards to prove it!) went into work and didn't tell her. That was the first and only time she EVER stayed home from work. She got cold stares in the commissary for weeks. She still wakes up in a cold sweat sometimes, because Inga was not the most comforting server in the first place, bless her heart.

Anyway, Valerie would say - let the kids run wild, because when it comes down to it, those wild, wacky kids, adorable and precious as they are, never have your back. And she has the tire tracks on HER back to prove it!

So Eric Braeden - who won third runner up in Most Popular Guest Star in the 2003 That's It Fan Site poll...don't do it! Do. Not. Do. It! Don't trust those crazy kids who don't know anything but how to have parties and ruin their hair. Just take Valerie's word for it.

PS - Valerie has so much respect for Jill. Older women in this industry do not have an easy time. They just do NOT.

And, PS to the PS...is Jill hiring?

Well...I GOT IT!

That's perfect. Brilliant.

I wish they'd done some episodes where she guest-starred on a dying soap. Imagine Valerie asking where Luke and Laura are and most of the people onset have no idea who she's talking about.

I really need to finish those last few episodes soon.

Edited September 22, 201411 yr by DRW50

Reilly first introduced Swamp Girl. It was one of his dumber plots, somewhere between the Jungle Madness and Iraq/Stan sls. I did tune out of DAYS under SSM, though the end of Reilly's run was AWFUL. AMC under Pratt was cold and mean spirited. It was already in a morbid phase with McT and BE though. My guess is that Pratt will go to his Melrose ways. He likes to replicate his earlier work a lot. Taylor McBride spoke volumes in regards to his arrogance and laziness. I don't think YR has many years left because Pratt and SSM are not very good. Yikes.

Edited September 22, 201411 yr by foxhunter

I do think SSM did the killing pool story and the start of Princess Gina..

<3

Horrified.

Yep, she did.

You need not look any further than Generations, her own damn creation to see how inept Sussman Morina was at putting together storylines...

A brand new soap? We are talking about continuing Bell's Y&R. Don't you think there might be a difference?

^ But her last time at Y&R (2005) was pretty bad, even her DAYS time. I do think she would've made more sense than Pratt, but she is hardly Y&R's savior. They need to be contacting Kay Alden, Jack Smith and Ed Scott.

They will not be doing that until the end.

Kay Alden is Facebook friends with Shelly Altman; Kay may have already been consulting behind the scenes.

Someone was tinkering with the stories in the month of August. And there were less breakdowns written by Tracey Thomson and the other head writers and Seidman left her outline editor role. So things have been in the works for a while to change story telling.