54 minutes ago, Ryanc2 said:

Could all these kidnapping plots be due to the low budget? A way to generate some kind of fan reaction without having to involve any other sets or characters to tell a cohesive story? All you need is a room that a character can be locked in for a couple weeks. Theres really not much else required right?

Budget is a definite factor and desperately needs to be addressed. Day after day of characters roaming around the same restaurants is depressing.

I think I'll watch on the days when Patty isn't on.
It's to crinch worthy. And enough viewers 
complain maybe they will end it sooner than later.

Is it just me or do the characters spend a lot of time at restaurants?

21 minutes ago, jasonminer1974 said:

Is it just me or do the characters spend a lot of time at restaurants?

Not just you. LOL we've been commenting on that for a couple of years or more. There are few home sets and few office sets. So most conversations and meetings are at restaurants.

Edit to add: I could be wrong, but I thought I read that some shows have to pay crew extra to assemble and disassemble sets overnight, so that minimizes the amount of sets used? Not sure.

Edited Thursday at 06:36 PM2 days by janea4old

Yes previous common practice was to have a crew dismantle sets on a day to day basis. To keep budget down certain sets were permanent and writers had to use a certain number on consecutive days but there were day to day changes.

It seems Y&R stopped all that to save money and all the restaurant sets are permanent, as well as Newman Ranch and maybe Abbott house. Other sets like Billy's house, Cane train etc will be put up but then are used at least for that week.

Saves money but badly affects the show.

Did MTS forget how to play someone with an illness? Because what she's doing is LAUGHABLE. It's awful.

-- Michelle Stafford was more amped than usual today. I guess she's pretending they're giving her something to play.

-- The redemption of Matt Clark is as bad as we all thought it would be.

-- Do Adam and Chelsea eat out every night? I guess poor Connor has to eat dinner alone 7 nights a week.

-- Sitting Kyle in the GCAC dining room for the entire show (while Harrison was in the room) was hilarious and pathetic.

-- Cane spent the entire show at Crimson Lights, and so did Phyllis.

-- I think they have a teleprompter propped on the floor for Eric Braeden so he can see his lines. I think his lines are also fed to him on his ever-ubiquitous phone.

-- This show cannot get any worse.

3 hours ago, ranger1rg said:

-- This show cannot get any worse.

Budget mode. Half the cast looks checked out. Yeah, what is this mess?

Saw this on You tube

Today's show was as bad as the rest of the week.

Giving Nikki another illness on top of MS is awful.

Josh wasn't responsible for the MS story and it was a lamebrained decision in the first place. What was the point?

We know Nikki isn't going to get ill, so there will be no honest depiction of that. Which is an insult to people with MS.

Then months(years?) went by without it being referenced.

As for the current illness, again we know it will all be fake drama and a plot point to probably bring Nikki and Victor back together. We won't see doctors, treatment etc.

Psychos, amnesia, kidnappings, illnesses, corporate takeovers.. check. Character based relationship stories...not while Josh is writing.

1 hour ago, Paul Raven said:

Josh wasn't responsible for the MS story and it was a lamebrained decision in the first place. What was the point?

Wait, I thought Josh WAS responsible for the MS storyline?

1 hour ago, Khan said:

Wait, I thought Josh WAS responsible for the MS storyline?

Nikki was diagnosed in Feb. 2013, and Griffith was head writer at the time.

Shelly Altman and Tracey Thompson were listed as co-head/associate writers at the time.

Griffith left the show in mid-2013.

@ranger1rg Thanks. So the MS WAS another Josh fiasco.

Random thought of the day - did they ever explain what happened with Noah and his girlfriend ex Allie? Or why they separated? Also did they ever explain how Matt came back from the dead or didn’t actually die all those years ago? Of course we know any explanation they gave would of been stupid but to just give no explanation at all is wild..