Y&R: August 2024 Discussion Thread

[ranger1rg]

I agree. The other problem on YR is that so much of every scene is static. We get a couple at a dining table, or at a bar, or at a Crimson Lights table. Two talking heads, no movement.

I get it -- it's easy to block, easy to film, and it's fast. It's also stifling and boring.

[jasonminer1974]

I like Stash guy and the Lesbians. 

[Paul Raven]

Just thinking that instead of the dreary Connor OCD story, they should have made more of Johhny discovering Chelsea is his bio mom.

He could have begun acting out and you have Chelsea v Victoria, Victoria v Billy and Adam in the mix.

Of course Victor would want his say and it could also contribute to Connor's issues.

A whole lot of drama to be mined there.

[TEdgeofNight]

Y&R is really cutting the budget with the green screen stuff.

[ranger1rg]

Kyle and Jack are again at the GCAC bar? Can't Kyle have a drink at home an spend 20 minutes with that Harrison kid?

 

[Antoyne]

Honestly after picking up GH full time again and the Ashley story ended it, it was so easy to drop Y&R and the lack of sets is a huge part for me. Going from GH that has a million sets to the emptiness of Y&R and its seemingly 5 sets just doesn’t work for me.

[Taoboi]

8-21

 

THANK YOU, VICTOR!!! I loved every moment of him gathering Billy all the way together. Well worth making them the cliffhanger at the end of 8-20 episode. And Nikki playing Lady MacBeth to Victor's MacBeth is just perfection to me. Yes, Nikki is Victor's moral center, but sometimes they are on the same wavelength and watching them scheme together (with two people who know how to act and have chemistry separately and together) to undermine Billy has been the highlight of this week so far. I really enjoyed the Nikki/Lily scenes and how they talked about Katherine. And Nikki having a good pulse on how Lily feels. So the end scene...great stuff. 

 

As for Billy...#TeamLily #TeamVictor #TakeBillyDown. I was shocked to see the preview for this week where Billy just upped and fired Lily. And watching it for real? I was pleasantly surprised to see she's not giving up Chancellor without a fight. GO LILY!!! I wonder if the fact that Jill does not know Billy fired Lily will play into her fighting back. Fingers crossed. 

 

Outside of that, I liked the Jack/Diane scenes. It also continued to show how good they are together as the Abbott patriarch and matriarch. It was just a simple talk, but I liked getting to see Jack's point of view, Diane's point of view, and Diane getting him to talk to her about things he don't often talk about aloud in terms of Billy and Kyle. Cuz to be real...do we want a repeat of Billy vs Kyle when Billy falls on his face again? lol. 

 

I was not feeling Kyle/Claire at all. Their scenes only made me think...what do you all prefer now...the GCAC or Society as the Go-To spot? Cuz we are not getting the Colonnade Room again. 

[ranger1rg]

I harp on the sets problem endlessly, but it really does hurt the show immeasurably. There's no reason for the #1 daytime soap to be so limited.

I'm glad to have the GCAC back, but why have characters go from there to Crimson Lights for coffee? Why have characters eating dinner at the GCAC with nothing on their plates?

Daniel and Heather were at Society today. While we saw a couple extras playing employees, there wasn't a single other customer in the place.

Lucy was in trouble and called Faith for help -- and met her again at the same spot in the park. It all reeks of cost-cutting, and it takes me out of so many scenes.

Don't get me started on the lazy writing. Lucy "walked into a bar and stole a bottle of vodka while the bartender wasn't looking"? Are you kidding me with this?

[Taoboi]

Hehe. Time for Ash to come back. IKTR!!!

[Antoyne]

You know how much I loved that story. Now both Ashley and Tucker are gone. As much as I love Audra and the Abbott’s outside of Kyle, that’s not enough for me right now.

[Taoboi]

I admit I am wondering if that is the end END cuz it seem like a break for an Act II. At least by the dialogue and not the execution. They even kept the Paris sets around and added even more characters for a good minute. ED acted her butt off.

 

I agree. Up until the last week or so, it's been a struggle to watch. A STRUGGLE. And that struggle started once that story ended. 

 

Now...GH is a struggle. lol. But I know what I'm looking forward to seeing so...

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[ranger1rg]

So Traci's crying to Alan. She wants to live in NY because she can't be herself and have her own identity in Genoa City -- because Jack and Ashley are there.

Are you kidding me? This is gagworthy material. This 66-year old woman still hasn't reconciled with her past? She still doesn't know who she is?

[Beachstorm]

And why is Tracy still so self-deprecating about whether Alan will regret being with her, be it in GC, NY or Paris? She acts like she doesn't quite believe he could be interested in her. Still. And we know they're sleeping together since she so eagerly went up to his suite.

I don't like it when Tracy acts like she's letting the guy off the hook if he doesn't really want to be with her. Like you said, she's in a bit too old to act so school-girlish.

One again they are spending too much time on such non-sense. Just send them off-screen as a happy couple and be done with them.

[Bright Eyes]

I read this thinking I was in the GH thread and I was so confused and ... disturbed.

[Beachstorm]

Tracy and Alan. LOL I guess it's Traci with an i.

Edited August 28, 2024 by Beachstorm