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  1. I know it's a long shot, but is there a particular reason Victor cares about Phyllis' recovery or did they just need to fill pages of script?
  2. I get your point. It's not so much her fault as they've been writing the same script and the same undeveloped character for thirty years. Nikki's shown no permanent growth or maturation ever. It's a shame, because life should have taught her something by now.
  3. I liked Clementine Ford as Mac. She was the only Mac I did like. As stated earlier, I also liked Final Departure Colleen. I think it's because I like actors who actually look like people, rather than soap actors, all beautiful Southern California types (or not exactly as shown surgical representations.) I feel sorry as the show is either ending or risking cancellation in the next few years, that the Jill character has descended into such poor definition and irrelevance. I really miss the crazy town hijinks when Patty Haiduk was in town. Those were nuts but good times. I am still puzzling over why they put such emphasis on the degrading sex Ian forced on Nikki, only to have her so love the child that resulted. Granted, I leave all my children on a doorstep immediately, if they're not suited for factory work, but I still struggle to reconcile how you could be wild about a child if a) he was the result of degrading sex and/or b) he was a friend of Jill.
  4. Strangest? Name a place Jack hasn't found love. I'm surprised Mrs. Martinez isn't counting her mutli million dollar settlement.
  5. I liked the last Heather, the original scratchy voiced Heather and I didn't like 3D Heather in the middle. Apparently following my the last Colleen was OK heresy, I liked Maura West as Diane. She made it her own. Yeah, she's a slight scenery chewer but she would have been a formidable rival to any woman. The woman gets the medium. I just think she was inheriting a part that was strongly identified with others and she kind of ate the show (no fault of her own, nor for the first time) but I thought she gave the character a good edge that was lacking previously. Diane under the original wasn't such a bad person she just sort of did stuff. She got softer with Susan Walter who was very pretty. But I never thought Diane mattered until MW took over she was a bit of a bitch. I found her entertaining. Then again oddly my favourite Jill was always Deborah Adair. She was kind of softer and lost and wanting more but not vicious or camp. I think Bill Bell's original vision for the character was the forgotten child, who didn't like being poor, and sort of got in over her head with Phillip Chancellor, but loved him genuinely. Then they did a hey-going-wild-on-prime-time and turned Jill into Alexis Carrington. Jess Walton owns her now and I like Jess a lot, but she shouts too much, or she did when Jill had a major part. If Adair had stayed I could see Jill being tougher but smarter. Adair just couldn't do wrong side of the tracks. I guess Aaron Spelling was determined to make her a night time star, failed, and now she's retired.
  6. This post is to aid people like me, who years ago watched a show called the Young and the Restless. Today we know the show claiming to be The Young and the Restless is, in fact, the equivalent of Patty Williams and the Plastic Surgeon. But no one will believe us when we cry impostor. And yes, on certain days we do feel as if we've been drugged into a paralytic corpse like state and a day player is whirling one of those skull carving electric pizza cutters near our heads. So, I try to follow, without putting myself in harm's way by actually watching an episode. But it leaves me with questions and I ask that you answer them. At present: what's the deal with the necklace? Why does Colin want it? What, in a nutshell, is the Kelly / Stitch story about? Why has she got it in for him? What did he do? Who killed Delia? Is Phyllis stirring? Does she have major but sexay bedsores? Has NuBilly done any scenes with Jess Walton yet and was there any chemistry? Is Mariah really going to try to bed Nick? Or steal him away or something? Because we're talking Nick. Odds favour her. And the creep factor is up there with Victor and Sharon creating the Colonnade Room. I confess am on holiday, it was noon, it was raining, I may have been drinking, I know I needed the diversion, so I watched an episode (the moo episode) without the benefit of FF. Yeah. It's great. I did think new Billy has some potential, though he seems to have aged about twenty years even from Billy Miller (not a word about wee young David Tom.) Kelly seems like an old school soap actress, in a good way, but I can't figure out why we're supposed to like her or if there's anything about her that's likeable. And her up do today made me think of Cousin It doing a handstand.
  7. You forgot the most important plot point, Peach... Kelly has plainly stolen all of Nikki's old hair and is brazenly sporting it all over town, like an enormous golden dunce cap.
  8. For me it was always a combination of the perfection of the character, the limits of the actresss' capabilities, and the fact that despite her limits, even in this world of low bars, her old man not only kept her working but made her front burner for what felt like three hundred years. I bet they don't even know what it is... and when they have to reveal it they will make something up in a panic that is as shocking and menacing as finding out that blue shirt you wanted to wear is in the laundry.
  9. I don't know... it seems to me like Helen Keller wouldn't have cast David Tom in the part again. He looked too young. Physically he was so different than built like a brick shithouse Billy Miller. The contrast was too stark... I don't care whether he played Katherine Chancellor originally.
  10. I still don't think JFP was kidding with her pay for this comment.
  11. https://twitter.com/LightfootInHwd/status/480892534604845056/photo/1 Kathy Griffin can't believe #YR won so she cut JFP off. ;) LOVE! LOVE! Kathy Griffith for interrupting WITCH #JFP (now it was tommy lightfool whatshisname but still) #LOVE YOU #KathyGriffith! She CUT #FIREJFP OFF! could not believe #SaveYR won! LOL LOVE @kathygriffin
  12. I never understood the antipathy toward Tammin Sursok. I thought she was fine. I thought she did quite well in the Crystal Lake scenes. It's Muhneyesque in its proportions.
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