2 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

I would love to know what people would do with Nick if they had the power. Fire JM and recast with a more versatile actor who’d be credible as a father to Noah and Summer? Stick him back with Sharon and play him in “Dad to the rescue” stories, maybe with Faith back full time? Drug addiction/traumatic brain injury? Career change? Lean into JM’s fratbro goofiness with more comedic stories? Or just ditch the character entirely or send him away for a while because he’s just not that interesting? 

Y&R doesn’t seem inclined to do any of those options, so they float him in repetitive leading man/business stories are DOA simply to appease JM’s fans. He’s obviously not going anywhere but he feels like dead weight to me. 

An interesting question. 

 

I personally like seeing him in Dad mode, but even I would be hard pressed to think of anything outside of that simply because any time they have tried to do something with him...it gets walked back. 

 

Given that he takes after Nikki like Victoria takes after Victor, I would think there is an idea there where a story could be sprung, too. Outside of that, perhaps if Dad Nick actually took a firm dislike to one of his kids's significant other and trouble starts? 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

I would love to know what people would do with Nick if they had the power. Fire JM and recast with a more versatile actor who’d be credible as a father to Noah and Summer? Stick him back with Sharon and play him in “Dad to the rescue” stories, maybe with Faith back full time? Drug addiction/traumatic brain injury? Career change? Lean into JM’s fratbro goofiness with more comedic stories? Or just ditch the character entirely or send him away for a while because he’s just not that interesting?

I wouldn't necessarily do anything different or drastic with Nick, but I would have others in Nick's life gradually realize what we have known for years: that Nick, as played by JM, is, at best, a manchild; an "overgrown frat boy" who's never gonna be the sort of solid, mature businessman and patriarch that his father is/was, but who nevertheless has qualities that others respect and even admire.

JM would have worked in the Paul Williams hero archetype. He was good fighting off Cameron and Jordan. A career change at this point wouldn't be credible so they're kind of stuck.

2 minutes ago, Khan said:

I wouldn't necessarily do anything different or drastic with Nick, but I would have others in Nick's life gradually realize what we have known for years: that Nick, as played by JM, is, at best, a manchild; an "overgrown frat boy" who's never gonna be the sort of solid, mature businessman and patriarch that his father is/was, but who nevertheless has qualities that others respect and even admire.

That almost sounds like Billy without the low self-esteem issues Billy tends to get...even though Billy is at least a solid businessman.

4 minutes ago, Taoboi said:

An interesting question. 

 

I personally like seeing him in Dad mode, but even I would be hard pressed to think of anything outside of that simply because any time they have tried to do something with him...it gets walked back. 

 

Given that he takes after Nikki like Victoria takes after Victor, I would think there is an idea there where a story could be sprung, too. Outside of that, perhaps if Dad Nick actually took a firm dislike to one of his kids's significant other and trouble starts? 

 

 

So male stripper? Haha.

1 minute ago, BoldRestless said:

JM would have worked in the Paul Williams hero archetype. He was good fighting off Cameron and Jordan. A career change at this point wouldn't be credible so they're kind of stuck.

Yeah, I did like the twist of Nick being in on Victor one-upping Jordan and imprisoning her in that room. 

 

And Genoa City could use the hero type since Chance has left that throne to play work politics. 

Just now, BoldRestless said:

So male stripper? Haha.

Ladies and gentlemen, you've heard of "Magic Mike"?  Well, now, feast your eyes on "Nick the Stick," lol!

1 minute ago, BoldRestless said:

So male stripper? Haha.

LOL!!!! I didn't mean it and I feel like @Khan would have a better joke using that situation than I, but I still hollered all the same.

1 minute ago, Khan said:

Ladies and gentlemen, you've heard of "Magic Mike"?  Well, now, feast your eyes on "Nick the Stick," lol!

I still don't get the hate for Joshua Morrow. At all. 🤷🏻‍♂️

10 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

I still don't get the hate for Joshua Morrow. At all. 🤷🏻‍♂️

My issue is that I don’t think Y&R has any idea of what to do with him and hasn’t for at least a decade. He’s not well suited for the type of stories he gets. He’s not untalented; he’s great-looking; he can be charismatic when he wants.

31 minutes ago, BoldRestless said:

So male stripper? Haha.

He wouldn’t be the first in Genoa City…

33 minutes ago, BoldRestless said:

JM would have worked in the Paul Williams hero archetype. He was good fighting off Cameron and Jordan. A career change at this point wouldn't be credible so they're kind of stuck.

I dunno… we’ve already seen Nick waver quite a bit about his place at Newman, and he started that ill-fated club that Dina burnt down. It wouldn’t surprise me to see him ditch the corporate gig for something more free. But they don’t seem to be able to write for him outside of NE.

55 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

I would love to know what people would do with Nick if they had the power. Fire JM and recast with a more versatile actor who’d be credible as a father to Noah and Summer? Stick him back with Sharon and play him in “Dad to the rescue” stories, maybe with Faith back full time? Drug addiction/traumatic brain injury? Career change? Lean into JM’s fratbro goofiness with more comedic stories? Or just ditch the character entirely or send him away for a while because he’s just not that interesting? 

Y&R doesn’t seem inclined to do any of those options, so they float him in repetitive leading man/business stories are DOA simply to appease JM’s fans. He’s obviously not going anywhere but he feels like dead weight to me. 

I'd make him into a Brock like character. Spiritual awakening of some sort. But with him, he'll wind up opening some holistic type shop with homemade bars of soap, essential oils and things of that nature. Oh, and Tye-dye shirts and dream catchers. If the censors allow it, he'll become a Bob Marley type.

1 hour ago, Faulkner said:

My issue is that I don’t think Y&R has any idea of what to do with him and hasn’t for at least a decade. He’s not well suited for the type of stories he gets. He’s not untalented; he’s great-looking; he can be charismatic when he wants.

He wouldn’t be the first in Genoa City…

I dunno… we’ve already seen Nick waver quite a bit about his place at Newman, and he started that ill-fated club that Dina burnt down. It wouldn’t surprise me to see him ditch the corporate gig for something more free. But they don’t seem to be able to write for him outside of NE.

I think Nick works better when he's the Newman son who's NOT involved in the family business but has other stuff going on. God knows we already have enough "vague, ill-defined corporate drama" going on all the time.

Abby was rocking one of Stephanie Forrester's old pantsuits today.

Question about Monday’s episode, why was Abby dressed in an ugly green pantsuit straight out of 1987? 😅

I’m a few episodes behind due to work playing catch-up now but I will I think the most of the  cast is doing their best with the lackluster material given. The whole Harrison kidnapping story should be a bit more riveting but JG’s writing is so low energy. 
 

Still I appreciate AL, MTS, AH, etc still trying to give it their best at it.
 

7 minutes ago, 1974mdp said:

Abby was rocking one of Stephanie Forrester's old pantsuits today.

LOL you beat me to the punch!

52 minutes ago, 1974mdp said:

I think Nick works better when he's the Newman son who's NOT involved in the family business but has other stuff going on.

Agree. 

Nick had the housing project but that was never dealt with .

Trouble is in addition to Josh's crappy writing they can't afford to bring in sets and characters that might provide an appropriate story for Nick. Maybe some sort of social issue thing where he helps a struggling family etc

He just doesn't work as a NE exec.