Y&R October 2022 Discussion Thread

[Taoboi]

 

 

 

DISCUSS!!!

 

 

[Antoyne]

I’m loving having TSJ back on my screen but I don’t like the potential of him ruining things for Diane.

[soapfan770]

LOL no discussion yet? How the mighty has fallen….

I actually like what I’ve been seeing with Nick and Sally. There’s a nice easy chemistry. I doubt they’re long term but should be interesting to see Summer and Phyllis’ reactions. LOL.

Too soon to decide on Tucker 2.0 although I think TSJ played the smugness well.

Noah’s club set continues to look dumb. And why are the main characters in formal attire while the extras are not? 
 

Why is nuttier than a fruitcake Chelsea still this show? The scenes of her screaming (especially that one with Billy) are dumb and corny AF.

[Chris B]

Am I forgetting how Tucker was or are they overplaying it (like they did with Diane) making Tucker seem like this big bad? I seriously don't recall him being a dark character with either of the previous actors in the role. 

[soapfan770]

A bit overplaying but there definitely was some bad blood. Tucker was originally supposed to be a Victor replacement character hence his initial story was deceiving Katherine and a hostile takeover. The character got messy, but overall was pretty much a POS with underhanded tactics ie hostile takeovers of Jabot and Newman, manipulated Sharon into going crazy again, numerous affairs, etc. I do recall Tucker got JT full custody of Reed as JT was working for him, which ended up being a bad thing down the road. 

[Antoyne]

 I think I blacked out Tucker’s entire arc

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. I don’t remember any of this.

[soapfan770]

It’s for the best best lol, Stephen Nichols really gave one of his worst performances in the role it definitely was a career lowlight.

[Faulkner]

I also thought he looked so frou-frou and goofy with that hair. Of course, he had aged since he had played Stefan, but he was so sexy on GH, and he was a charisma void on Y&R.

[Soapsuds]

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[SteelCity]

It looks like the show is still boring.

[BoldRestless]

LMAO same. I re-read his wikipedia article and didn't remember 70% of the stories. I didn't even remember he and Ashley were married, thought they were just dating. And I was definitely watching at the time. They're overplaying him being this big badass villain.

[j swift]

Bill Spencer & Tucker McCall were both described as "Richard-Branson-types", but I think the problem is that Branson is not iconic enough to be a recognizable type.  I mean they both dress casually, they had those zen sand trays in their office, and both characters were involved in media companies, but there aren't a lot of defining character traits that one could pin to the CEO of Virgin Media.

If they were Bill-Gates-types or Steve-Jobs-types, then we could expect certain traits  based on those personalities (or lack there of).  But, Branson is not enough to base a character upon.  So, in the end, Tucker was ill-defined and his motives were ever changing.  Hopefully now that he's back (and wearing a tie) we'll get more insight into the character.  Many will scoff, but hope springs eternal.

Edited October 6, 2022 by j swift

[Faulkner]

I feel like I blacked out a lot of his tenure too. The show was just so bad then. Bleak and burning through stupid story after stupid story. It’s super boring now but MAB and team decided to simply torch the show.

[Broderick]

His only "evil deed" that I remembered vividly was taking Chancellor Industries away from Kay Chancellor, and threatening to sell it piece-by-piece, but it seems like he returned it to her about 3 days later, lol.  

[Antoyne]

Thank god I’m not the only one that doesn’t really remember Tucker doing literally anything

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