Yeah it does scream common writing sense. But...not so common.

That said...mmmmm Brenda.

6 hours ago, Vee said:

When Wendy Riche had to right the show after Monty II she grabbed for any lifeline she could find, and she started with casting a young hunk and a new girl for the Q boys to fight over/with. And then you had the summer of Jagger, Karen, Jason, etc. which in turn led to Brenda, and that was one of several key tentpoles which helped keep the show afloat in '92 into '93 til Labine came around with Luke and Laura.

That, luring Kristina Wagner back and pairing Felicia with Mac against Ryan and Scotty/Dominique/Lucy are the only things that actually fully worked, although they tried with dark Tiffany and Sean’s affair. But yes, those teens did a lot of heavy lifting.

It’s not like Frank doesn’t know how to do these kinds of stories. There were many successful teen characters on his OLTL. And just a few years ago on GH. As awful as Oscar and Joss was, it was fully told and I knew who Joss, Oscar, Cameron, Spencer, and Trina were. They were fully fleshed out and in their own stories separate from the adults. Charlotte has existed strictly for Valentine, Danny as the softest rebel of all time, Rocco is saddled with this nightmare Britt stupidity, and Scout is in all honesty incredibly, painfully green from what I have seen so far. Poor Rocco and Charlotte, their grandmother was fully a lead and driving major story at their age!

OMG!! Willow did what now??? And Chase jumped in the lake after her!!!

I'm sorry the affair being a result of Chase's organic flaws and Michael's manipulation over any writing that slants Tracy or BLQ writes itself.