Agree with you, there, Harry. The girl had no charisma whatsoever. I could not warm up to her. Unlike Natalie, who is characterized a a little deceitful witch, but is endearing, nonetheless. Well, at least, for me.

Fair enough. Then, let this soap be what it was in the beginning—a great soap with wonderful writing, clear characters with their own history (that was never changed or messed up), campy, dramatic, sad, and real. What we have now is a disgrace to the show, to the characters, to the characters’ histories, to the actors on it now and especially to the audience. To use and reuse storylines is a DISGRACE. They used to be innovative and captivating. Now they are downright disgraceful. And, I have absolutely no doubt that Downton Abbey could have produced a superb 36 min daily show without flaws. This show that we’re left with is a shadow of what it once was, and it truly is a disgrace to the writers, actors, genre and audience. THAT is real.
Also, think back to Primetime soaps like Dallas, Dynasty, Knot’s Landing… Although they were only on weekly and they had much more to work with, they were very much like our soaps. That’s exactly what we need. We DON’T need these new writers and producers who don’t even know anything about the characters’ histories and they don’t even care. They just throw out the same formula and hope they’ll get viewers. Heck, I even read an article about the Bells living in Europe, not even caring about their own shows, as long as they got the ratings. Even if they got people talking because the show got desperately bad, it equals ratings. They lost their way–everyone related to this show (and B&B) did, and that’s why so many actors exited. It’s a shame!

Thank you, Barbara. That’s just about when I was last interested in the plotlines on Y&R too. From then on it didn’t make much sense, no one seemed to care or voice their opinion (or question things), and they’d hop onto the next story plot. Recycling garbage and now firing people left and right, but hiring some new people only to drop their storylines too. It’s nuts and I wish someone could dive in there and make sense of it because enough of us out here care!

Hi, Mary,
I may not remember this correctly; but, when Sharon was ready to tell Dylan about the miscarriage, at Mariah’s insistence, I think Dr. Anderson(?) told her she was pregnant.
Remember she had been trying to ‘mightily’ conceive again? Sharon was taking her temp during ovulation and doing everything necessary for her body to be ready…..
She didn’t want to hurt Dylan….so she tried her hardest to conceive. When the doctor told her she was, Sharon assumed her hard work had paid off.
The more idiotic assumption, since this was not Sharon’s ‘first’ baby, was that there was no afterbirth bleeding; no breast milk. She should have questioned these things. Her body would have given her signs. Any woman who has given birth knows this, but, we are constantly supposed to accept these unrealistic ‘facts’ of life…pardon the pun.
Then again, she was sedated more often than not, soooo. Later, Mary.

Did anyone else notice in today’s show (Tues, April 19th) that Paul referred to Dylan as “Steve” to Pattycakes??? I paused it, played it again and again and realized that it was a HUGE error. How didn’t anyone pick up on that?? They let it go thru editing that way??? The Patty character is one of my favorites on the show. She seems far too good to be on tv!