I'll never stop complaining about the Joey role on this show. I hate it so much. TEMU Tony Soprano controls everyone and everything. Everyone goes to him for help and everyone is afraid of him. And have I mentioned that he's white? Meanwhile, listen to his dialogue -- it's every bad cliche we've ever heard from a mobster.
I gave them a pass on this for awhile, thinking that pre-emptions wrecked the Friday cliffhanger. Can't do that any longer. I don't need a Friday cliffhanger to tune in on Monday, but I do enjoy them. I think a bigger problem is that daily episodes end on a scene that are just meh.
Can't disagree about the crossover. I don't trust it'll do much. I do know Devon is one of the crossover characters, and if we're just going to get him talking to Anita about an Articulettes recording session....again, meh.
Big agreement here. Y&R is an unmitigated disaster, to the point where it's impossible to get a discussion going on that thread. There's tons of talk here about BTG (and GH) because those are the soaps we care about most right now. B&B has picked up steam, but I don't trust Brad Bell to keep it up. I have NO faith -- none -- in a Y&RR led by Josh Griffith.
Yep.
Try to look at our posts differently. If we didn't care about this show, there wouldn't be dozens of pages with comments every month. Everything I and others offer as criticism is open for discussion, so if you disagree, go for it. And sorry, but as others have pointed out, sets are a problem -- one that I think has grown bigger.
I think that's why so many here are saying Bill Bell didn't care about sweeps. It's because he was ALWAYS building story while something was supercharged. We didn't get weeks and months of lulls masquerading as "This is going to be something good when they get to it."
And I'm just not a fan of story and characters that build and then disappear -- not for days, but for those weeks and months. BTG relies on this pacing far too often. Chelsea and Madison? Who are they? (I could do this for a half dozen stories).
They need to give us something substantial with the Hayley/Bill/Lynette story. I don't want it to disappear again. Get somewhere with this plasma storyline.
The cotillion? I'm worried about that one. We've had this buildup for MONTHS, and I think it's created this feeling that we're going to get a spectacular event. I think it's a mistake to feed the audience those expectations, and I blame the show for that. What's crazy is that they've built this expectation while giving us very few real details about the cotillion or scenes that cover it.
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