15 hours ago, Dylan said:

Susan Walters liked the promo on Instagram. Maybe Diane somehow survived getting her head bashed in. 🤣

Screencap of the "like"  https://i.postimg.cc/qqQgrLd5/fa5f.png

*if* (and only if) Susan Walters is returning....

For the character of Diane on soapcentral,
there are 22 paragraphs about her death investigation plus 12 bullet points.
She was found floating in a river, and they ruled that she died from getting her head bashed in, and then they discovered that she had been injected with a drug that causes shortterm paralysis.  There were two autopsies!
https://www.soapcentral.com/young-and-restless/whoswho/diane.php

Diane's plan was to send Kyle to boarding school in Switzerland, and then to fake her death so that someone would be blamed for it, then she would secretly escape and leave town.  She would secretly find her way to Switzerland and retrieve Kyle and go live with him in secret somewhere.  It was an elaborate plan (detailed in that soapcentral bio).  She had accomplices to help her.

I cannot believe that she would have survived the faking of her death, but never reconnected with Kyle.  She loved Kyle.   Maybe she was sick, injured, had amnesia, etc, and could not get to Kyle?

How are they going to explain her being alive after two autopsies?  Did she pay off the medical examiner to say the body in the river was hers?  Did she have a body double or twin who died in her place?

Another option would be that Diane really did die way back when.  And Susan Walters is playing someone who looks like Diane?

But this is *if* (and only if) Susan Walters is returning.

Edited March 20, 20223 yr by janea4old

Okay, I'll play along. 😂

Perhaps if someone extremely rich and powerful was able to intercept a dying Diane and gradually restore her to health. Bonus points, if that person is a mutual adversary of both Jack and Victor. If Kyle were actually still a factor on this show, they could lure him toward his mother without giving a hint to Jack, Victor or anyone in GC.  If you're going to write an audacious soap opera story, at least give a good payoff by the end.

 

 

 

Does Y&R even write stories? Y&R is a show about nothing.

7 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Does Y&R even write stories? Y&R is a show about nothing.

Which is why I haven't watched an actual episode in ages. I watch vicariously through you all. Still, it's fun for me to speculate.

6 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Which is why I haven't watched an actual episode in ages. I watch vicariously through you all. Still, it's fun for me to speculate.

Not even Robert Newman could get me to watch again. The show is so dull. There is nothing going on.

6 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Not even Robert Newman could get me to watch again. The show is so dull. There is nothing going on.

Yeah, as much as I enjoyed him on GL and am sure he's doing as well as anyone can, I haven't been tempted to tune in either.

52 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

If Kyle were actually still a factor on this show

A casting call went out to recast Summer for a contract position.  Haven't heard anything about Kyle but with Summer returning and Kyle's cousin Allie arriving, it seems likely that we'll get Kyle for a while - either Mealor or someone new.

Edited March 20, 20223 yr by janea4old

Well, I wouldn't mind Diane back.

 

Though AD will always be first choice.  

2 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

Does Y&R even write stories? Y&R is a show about nothing.

It's the "Seinfeld" of daytime.

1 hour ago, Taoboi said:

Well, I wouldn't mind Diane back.

 

Though AD will always be first choice.  

What's she up to these days?

2 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

Not even Robert Newman could get me to watch again. The show is so dull. There is nothing going on.

Agree.  And it doesn't matter if CBS or Sony or both are interfering with Josh Griffith and Tony Morina's plans.  (That is, if they HAVE plans.) Josh and Tony's names are on this crap, so they're the ones who should be held responsible.

1 hour ago, janea4old said:

Haven't heard anything about Kyle but with Summer returning and Kyle's cousin Allie arriving, it seems likely that we'll get Kyle for a while - either Mealor or someone new.

Please let it be someone new.  And please don't let the mystery woman be Patty.  That last one cannot be said enough.

1 minute ago, Dylan said:

What's she up to these days?

You mean, besides making voodoo dolls of everyone at Y&R who hates her?

2 minutes ago, Khan said:

Agree.  And it doesn't matter if CBS or Sony or both are interfering with Josh Griffith and Tony Morina's plans.  (That is, if they HAVE plans.) Josh and Tony's names are on this crap, so they're the ones who should be held responsible.

Please let it be someone new.  And please don't let the mystery woman be Patty.  That last one cannot be said enough.

I don't think they would bring Patty back without Doug Davidson and I doubt he's ever coming back after always taking [!@#$%^&*] on twitter.

11 minutes ago, Khan said:

It's the "Seinfeld" of daytime.

All I see is actors talking to each other.

Why bring Summer back? She has never popped! They won't write for her.

And why do we want fan favorites back when they do nothing with the cast they have already.....

Edited March 21, 20223 yr by Soapsuds

Y&R's current cast isn't nearly as large as GH's, yet it feels just as bloated.

If they're casting for Summer for a return, surely Patty's coming back with the peanut butter.