17 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Yes, but the stories are all pretty awful

Seeing Victor rehashing his hatred of the Abbotts  when he married one of them and has a daughter that is half Abbott as well as walking around with Traci's daughter's heart keeping him alive makes him look worse than he already is.

And I remember he and Jack chatting amicably in the past few years.

Victor interfering in Kyle/Claire is just repeat of Billy/Victoria.

Sharon, Nick,Phyllis etc are around but again the stories are lacking.

The stories are awful. I'm not enjoying any of them.

All I'm left with is Sally in a plastic dress.

1 hour ago, ranger1rg said:

All I'm left with is Sally in a plastic dress.

You are getting like me. It's getting to the point that without any Damian sightings...it's been the fashion that is holding my interest. And it should not be that way at all. 

I only watch for Sharon and she’s barely on. The only good thing going at the moment is Jack and Diane scenes and they’ve made Diane such a wuss lately which is making that unbearable to watch too 

The fact that there's so little action in the Y&R threads whereas I can barely keep up with the Beyond the Gates threads says a lot right there.

12 minutes ago, kalbir said:

The fact that there's so little action in the Y&R threads whereas I can barely keep up with the Beyond the Gates threads says a lot right there.

The number 1 rated soap, and no one seems to like it.

I don’t remember the last episode I watched. The Damian story was the only thing keeping me watching but I just gave up on the show altogether again.

I'd checked out of Y&R for a couple of years because it was boring as... I returned in August because the Sharon story sounded intriguing. I know some hated it, but let's face at least something was happening! It was a solid use of vets and on-screen history.

I honestly don't get the Dumas storyline at all or the premature end to the Sharon/Phyllis kidnapping. The latter story actually could've gone on for months. Alan playing cat-and-mouse. 

It's like they also did a 180 on Billy/Phyllis - the Valentine's Day dream, Billy *saving* Phyllis and a month later he kicks to the curb! What??? That's completely illogical based on their history.

Please let Mariah's secret be a good one. At least, Daniel/Tessa/Mariah have a non-business related storyline!

1 hour ago, kalbir said:

The fact that there's so little action in the Y&R threads whereas I can barely keep up with the Beyond the Gates threads says a lot right there.

Which has also slowed down from 100 pages a day, but I digress. 😜 

 

1 hour ago, Antoyne said:

The number 1 rated soap, and no one seems to like it.

I don’t remember the last episode I watched. The Damian story was the only thing keeping me watching but I just gave up on the show altogether again.

Yeah. When even I am getting annoyed with it (and still need to catch up on DAYS new team...two weeks behind now grrr) enough to take a break...and B&B holds my interest more for a show where nothing is going on...it's a BAD sign.

 

Seriously thinking about that break until 

Spoiler

Amanda shows up since she's tied into the Dumas reveal IMO

 Then we go from there. I just can't believe JG just went and lost all the momentum that was built up over the last month. And during May Sweeps, too? No, ma'am.

1 hour ago, Antoyne said:

The Damian story was the only thing keeping me watching but I just gave up on the show altogether again.

I would wager that was because it was a new character for the likes of Devon, Lily and Nate to interact with.

Watching the likes of Billy fall in love again-Phyllis, Chelsea,Lily and now Sally is repetitive, especially when he is no prize.

Josh doesn't really do long term couples. So every year or so they swap partners. It diminishes them as characters as they don't seem to grow or learn from the past.

We know those characters so well and they've been through just about everything, so the only solution is to involve them with new characters and have them react to the newbies drama.

They tried with Ashland and the Rosales but Josh dumped the latter and wrote so badly for Ashland who could have been a long term antagonist.

All we got was another short lived marriage for Victoria and another accidental killing.

And Josh thinks having them sit in restaraunts for the whole episode talking business, mergers, takeovers and job switching is interestring. It's not.

I feel sorry for the actors who must know they are serving shite.

And you would be correct re: Damian. I've said the same. And Bonus...he had a story with twists. So I for one got annoyed, but cautious when the Dumas twist happened because it immediately felt like the best current story going on on the canvas was about to be hijack. And...looks like I was right. 

 

 

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only person that thinks this is a boring soap!  I still read the daily spoiler, but I couldn't sit through an hour of watching.  Also, I always wanted to scream when Phyllis was on the screen, and now I don't have put up with her.

I have definitely become a BTG fan.  I record both GH & BTG, but I'm now watching BTG first.

There were lots of spoiler pics for week of May 5-9 of
Devon/Lily/Holden/Damian/Amy/Nate/Audra.
I posted them on the spoiler thread that week because they all looked so pretty.
I was hopeful.  Sorry to read in the recaps that it was mostly discussion of Dumas!

Edited May 14May 14 by janea4old

I'll focus on the positives:

1. VP has been an unexpected addition to the cast. I wasn't thrilled that Amy had been recast simply to eliminate her. Gotta give props that Josh saw more. Amy actually works as the glue for the Winters/Hastings family. The surprise Audra/Amy relationship has added depth to both characters.

2. Victor/Phyllis. It was fun to watch Victor undercut every single Phyllis pitch/bluff. MS played this well. No way Phyllis can get away with histrionics with Victor. It was a nice touch that Victor acknowledged Phyllis' trauma, but that he knows her all to well.

3. Chelsea reading Billy. MCE is being wasted when Chelsea is a victim. Look at how much more interesting Chelsea has been challenging Billy and Adam. Please bring Chelsea back to life. Same with Adam.

4. Anyone else notice that AG sometimes plays this homoerotic vibe with Adam/Billy. Like that look he gave Billy when Adam exited the bar. Since it's neither actor was there during the Delia s/l, it's just a lot tougher to sell the animosity. Since she's always been there, EH's pain with all the Adam's sticks.

All caught up on May 2025, and it was rough. Truly rough. 😑

-- We're getting really bad soap. I honestly couldn't care less about any of it, and I wish the ratings would freefall so we'd get a change in writers.

-- Does anyone believe Victor would spend his evenings walking around the GCAC and looking for people to talk to? Without Nikki on his arm?

-- I'm again left to looking at sets (the few we get each day). Am I right that they moved the bar in at the GCAC to place it more diagonally to the dining room?

-- The last time we saw Crimson Lights the room looked smaller to me, so I Googled images of CL, and yeah, it's smaller. Along the back wall where the booths are, there once was wall area behind the booth on the right. That wall area is now gone.

-- When Phyllis hijacked Billy's phone to get Dumas' number, I gagged when she went to the park in the middle of the night to break into it. Who does that?

-- I feel sorry for these actors. This is all such garbage that I have no words.

1 hour ago, Liberty City said:

All caught up on May 2025, and it was rough. Truly rough. 😑

Same and it’s a [!@#$%^&*] disappointing disaster!!! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫
 

Basically me trying watch each episode 

Edited May 15May 15 by soapfan770