I'm usually more tempered with my (sporadic) postings but I'm finding it hard to contain my exasperation with the show, and the suits at Sony and CBS.

I exclude largely Charles Pratt Jr. from this because he has a writing and storytelling style he was specifically and inexplicably hired for. But not completely.

How can a show that is #1 (let's be honest, it's by default now) on the back of a tone, writing style and production style go to so many lengths over a decade (especially in the last 5 years) to distance itself from it?

What little quality the show retained from the previous few regimes has been well and truly been wiped out and I've given up on watching it. This new device of creating a parallel universe of plots when they could have not happened is insulting and dismissive of longer term viewers (or even viewers who existed before January 26th 2015 in the case of Austin). It's appalling.

As for the direction and the production (yes, I mention the background music), it's absolutely dreadful. It's been rejigged again and it's even worse than it was before.

Save for culling the spine of the show, cast wise, Jill Farren Phelps has done EVERY single thing we were warned she would do back in 2012 when she turned up. This is not the Y&R, I mean for goodness sake, when Stefano Di Mera is less of a cartoon character than Victor Newman (and I struggled through Tom Langan's version of Days of Our Lives) you know something needs looking at.

But I don't trust this collection of (weak and ineffective) chimpanzees in suits to do anything before it's way too late to salvage this. And look at how fast the rot has set in.

Whatever the various opinions on Kay Alden and Sally Sussman Morina, they were passed over Charles Pratt Jr. Two women who have history with the show (one of whom was Bill Bell's handpicked successor to carry the show on in his vein).

And even if a change is made (and it WILL happen eventually and the baby would have to go out with the bath water, here's looking at you Jill) do you trust a correct choice to be made? I don't.

They'd probably throw money at Bob Guza, Liza De Cazote, Gary Tomlin Christopher Whitesell, Frank Valentini or Ron Carlivati or any other unsuitable anti-Bell showrunner.

Thank God for Emmerdale.

A big, fat +1. Excellent.

MAB did that, more than anyone else since her tenure.

That stands in the context of within the last 10 years (especially 5) that I mentioned before but within the context of now, I concede that point.

She has a lot to answer for and, save for a corporate change in philosophy, has maybe ensured the Bells will have no say in the show- possibly ever again.

I'm not the only one who thinks Sharon is still acting [!@#$%^&*] crazy most of the time, right?

I wonder if they are writing her this way or they are directing Ms. Case to play it like Sharon is off the rails again. But yes, it's been particularly noticable this week IMO. Sharon's been running around bug-eyed and manic.

I wonder if they are writing her this way or they are directing Ms. Case to play it like Sharon is off the rails again. But yes, it's been particularly noticable this week IMO. Sharon's been running around bug-eyed and manic.

Yes, and even Dylan mentioned it, so I think we are supposed to see her as manic right now.

ETA: I'm watching right now. Damn, JH can fill out a suit.

Edited April 1, 201510 yr by Juliajms

Nice to see that Summer has bounced back from Austin's death and into Kyle's arms. Now that the traditional three week mourning period is over it's time to move on.