The Young and the Restless' New Head Writer Sally Sussman Answers Our Burning Questions

 

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25 minutes ago, jjjg said:

 

With that logic, neither did Sharon. It's not ok to Sharon to lie, when the kid isn't even Nick's and she doesn't know that. But it's ok for Chelsea to not only lie to Nick but let Faith, Noah and her own child be lied to about having/not having a sibling? 

 

BUT SHARON IS EVIL!!!!!!11!! 

 

The show has been telling us this for years.

Edited November 18, 20169 yr by YRBB

1 hour ago, jjjg said:

 

 

 

With that logic, neither did Sharon. It's not ok to Sharon to lie, when the kid isn't even Nick's and she doesn't know that. But it's ok for Chelsea to not only lie to Nick but let Faith, Noah and her own child be lied to about having/not having a sibling? 

Nick is the father

 

That's like comparing Sharon playing WTD with Faiths paternity to Assam kidnapping Faith

21 hours ago, rlj said:

Sharon is the devil, Chelsea ain't keeping a child from anyone

 

SSM lists Phick as one of her great Y&R achievements  

Nope Phyllis is scum, I don't see Sharon having run down someone then smirk about it, then get mad when that person wants her prosecuted like Phyllis did to Cricket. So please let's not try this.

 

Phyllis is filth and always will be.

7 hours ago, rlj said:

Nick is the father

 

That's like comparing Sharon playing WTD with Faiths paternity to Assam kidnapping Faith

LMAO Nick is NOT the father, I haven't watched in month's and even I know that

2 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

Phyllis is filth and always will be.

 

Which is fine.

 

As long as the Show and its writers are honest about it.

 

It's those Phyllis-Is-A-Saintly-Housewife-That-Summons-Nick's-Dick stans that create the problem. They have to tear down everything else to make that abomination work.

 

2 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

LMAO Nick is NOT the father, I haven't watched in months and even I know that

 

On 2016-11-18 at 11:46 AM, rlj said:

Nick is the father

 

And people say Sharon's delusional... 

21 hours ago, YRBB said:

As long as the Show and its writers are honest about it.

 

They never will be.

They show has been whitewashing her by throwing EVERYONE else under the bus for the past 13 years.

On ‎11‎/‎11‎/‎2016 at 3:18 PM, Toups said:

That was a fantastic, honest interview.  You don't see many interviews like that from writers anymore.  You could feel the passion that she was for Y&R.  You also rarely see writers blast other writers' material, but wow, she went after LML!  I loved it! LOL   She has me so excited now. 

 

Speaking of HW interviews, have Dena Higley and Ryan Quan given an interview? 

They did.  In SOD. Around the time their material started to air I want to say.

I really hope the writing stops demonizing many of the female characters the way it has been doing for the better part of a decade now.

I find it insulting that a medium that was originated by a women now is responsible for writing so many women poorly.  

 

You can write a complex character without making her some type of "she-Devil".  You can have characters with characteristics that are not completely likeable and still write them as human beings. 

One of the reasons why I have watched Y&R so infrequently over the past 8-9 years is because I found a lot of the writing to be overly-simplistic. It's done a disservice to the actors and the viewers as well as to the legacy of the show that once wrote complex characters.

 

And these 'Stan-Wars' have become insufferable over the years. They seem to pollute every Y&R thread at some point several times per year, usually when the writing is so bad that there's nothing else to discuss.

Edited November 21, 20168 yr by DramatistDreamer

58 minutes ago, Taoboi said:

They did.  In SOD. Around the time their material started to air I want to say.

Thank you. I'll try to find it. 

1 hour ago, DramatistDreamer said:

I really hope the writing stops demonizing many of the female characters the way it has been doing for the better part of a decade now.

I find it insulting that a medium that was originated by a women now is responsible for writing so many women poorly.  

 

You can write a complex character without making her some type of "she-Devil".  You can have characters with characteristics that are not completely likely and still write them as human beings. 

One of the reasons why I have watched Y&R so infrequently over the past 8-9 years is because I found a lot of the writing to be overly-simplistic. It's done a disservice to the actors and the viewers as well as to the legacy of the show that once wrote complex characters.

 

And these 'Stan-Wars' have become insufferable over the years. They seem to pollute every Y&R thread at some point several times per year, usually when the writing is so bad that there's nothing else to discuss.

So much agree.  Without question, a character like Lauren could be an absolute bitch to Tracy.  And others.  But compared to Sheila, she was not a psychopath.  Nikki was always kind of nasty too.  But it was one part of her being expressed.  Not the only note over and over.  That was part of what made Y&R good.

 

Another example- Jill and Katherine were awful to Nina.  But they weren't villains like David Kimble was.  There were layers.

6 hours ago, Toups said:

Thank you. I'll try to find it. 

Found the issue!!! Yes I have it. lol. The Sept.26  issue with Carrie and Austin on the cover. I think it's under the Supercouple return thread here.

On 11/16/2016 at 7:57 PM, DRW50 said:

 

People trashed her work on DAYS and Generations for quite a while. I hope she will be better (I didn't mind her work on DAYS really), but I think it may be more overhype in the end.

 

I agree. I don't want to be negative before any of her new material airs, but I've never found SSM to be a great writer. Is she better than any of the choices foisted upon the show in the last decade? Maybe. But "less bad" or even "okay" cannot really be classified as "good," IMHO. If I had my druthers, Kay Alden would have been the new headwriter. Anyway, nobody could be worse than Sheffer, Pratt or Jean P. Maybe SSM and KA will work the wonders necessary to revitalize this once-great soap.

On 11/17/2016 at 3:15 PM, DramatistDreamer said:

Is SSM going to find a way to make Jill a Foster again? That entire unFostering is a ridiculous blight on Jill's entire history! 

 

No matter how the show has to do it, I want the writers to repair the damage done to Jill through the awful "Who are her parents NOW?" stories.

 

Even if the details are awkward and hard to swallow, a few scenes explaining that she's a Foster after all could be thrown in, and then none of the rotating-parents garbage would EVER be mentioned again. If SSM fixed this, I would be her biggest supporter for life, LOL.

7 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

 

I agree. I don't want to be negative before any of her new material airs, but I've never found SSM to be a great writer. Is she better than any of the choices foisted upon the show in the last decade? Maybe. But "less bad" or even "okay" cannot really be classified as "good," IMHO. If I had my druthers, Kay Alden would have been the new headwriter. Anyway, nobody could be worse than Sheffer, Pratt or Jean P. Maybe SSM and KA will work the wonders necessary to revitalize this once-great soap.

 

No matter how the show has to do it, I want the writers to repair the damage done to Jill through the awful "Who are her parents NOW?" stories.

 

Even if the details are awkward and hard to swallow, a few scenes explaining that she's a Foster after all could be thrown in, and then none of the rotating-parents garbage would EVER be mentioned again. If SSM fixed this, I would be her biggest supporter for life, LOL.

 

Even if all they do is start writing those people IN character and give them dialogue that makes sense, I will be happy. That's half the battle. Will we get any good stories? We'll see -- and no, we won't see that in December. I expect it'll be a few months before we'll have a clear idea of how the regime works. She did promise to undo the Jill thing eventually, so I hope she does it. Of course, my secret wish is that, eventually, Alden will be promoted to co-HW and then pull a Jabot Takeover and become the HW. LOL There is no other hope for the show.

36 minutes ago, YRBB said:

 

Even if all they do is start writing those people IN character and give them dialogue that makes sense, I will be happy. That's half the battle. Will we get any good stories? We'll see -- and no, we won't see that in December. I expect it'll be a few months before we'll have a clear idea of how the regime works. She did promise to undo the Jill thing eventually, so I hope she does it. Of course, my secret wish is that, eventually, Alden will be promoted to co-HW and then pull a Jabot Takeover and become the HW. LOL There is no other hope for the show.

I kind of have the secret wish that they promote Alden to co HW, or maybe down the line she becomes full HW with Sally as co-writer.

40 minutes ago, YRBB said:

 

Even if all they do is start writing those people IN character and give them dialogue that makes sense, I will be happy. That's half the battle. Will we get any good stories? We'll see -- and no, we won't see that in December. I expect it'll be a few months before we'll have a clear idea of how the regime works. She did promise to undo the Jill thing eventually, so I hope she does it. Of course, my secret wish is that, eventually, Alden will be promoted to co-HW and then pull a Jabot Takeover and become the HW. LOL There is no other hope for the show.

 

Yes, I would be happy just to see a show where the characters act in character, and the dialogue is naturalistic. I realize this is pathetically little to hope for, or settle for, but with all the soaps being in the toilet nowadays, this is what fans have been reduced to: we will be thrilled if the scripts and plots are not heinously dreadful.

 

How I long for the days of Pat Falken Smith, Henry Slesar, Roy Winsor, Claire Labine, Harding Lemay, Agnes Nixon, William J. Bell, Irna Phillips, Rick Edelestien, Douglas Marland, Sam Hall & Gordon Russell, etc., who graced us with their excellent work for so many years. Even with the occasional clunker storylines, these great writers gave the audience wonderful material most of the time. I have said it before and I will say it again: soap fans were very spoiled in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. We took great soaps for granted. Little did we know what would eventually happen to the medium.