What could have been the BEST SL MAB has done since she took over (and Josh left) has, with the Murder of Cane, become one of the WORST ever written, and Y&R Fans are suffering for it. This SL had such potential for so many characters and would have had far reaching effects if JILL had been the one murdered–Katherine, Lily/Cane, Colin, Billy, Tucker, Lauren–hell even Sofia and FauxMalcolm could have been part and parcel of the SL fallout but NO!! MAB did what she has wanted to do since Josh’s firing–DESTROY LANE, completely disregarding what the Fans wanted; prefering to continue to get a handout and free lunch from CBS/Sony. Why WORK for a living and write when you can keep your head up your arse, whine about not wanting to do your JOB and still get paid? Of course it may make you the most hated Woman in America, and provide LANE Fans with the fantasy of borrowing Mr Goddard’s crutch to beat you over the head with it, but Hey….she gets to do what SHE wanted, right? But don’t forget to continue to watch The Yuck and The Ridiculous. Yeah, Right Monkey!

ICAM WF4W!! I think that we’ve dedicated ourselves to this show long enough, while being blatently disrespected in the process. This show has become a joke, and the only reason it has remained at the “top” of the soap world is because of the people that have dedicated so much of their lives to watching, it has pretty much become routine and no matter what happens they will watch. It’s insulting to think as a fan that the people that actually make their living off of your veiwing actually make it painfully obvious they care NOTHING about what you think. Daniel Goddard and Christel Khalil brought LOVE back to what had become a dark and sinister soap, between the baby snatching and switching, Adam’s sleeping with Rafe and Heather and now married to Sharon, Victor setting up his son and now daughter-in-law, the killing of legacy characters, the chipmunk debacle…it has become depressing and the writing is atrocious!! The OBVIOUS preferential treatment has also not gone unnoticed! If you are not a Newman or one of their “Faves” you are not shown nearly as much. I am so confident that this is the case, I will not even mention who the “Faves” are because as soon as I said it several of you started naming them off yourselves!! Sad isn’t it, that they have talent such as Kristoff St. John a 20 year veteran and Emmy Award winning actor, Bryton James a tremendous talent and Emmy Award winning actor, Julie Pinson not that great of an actress, but she is coming into her own, Darius McCrary taking the role of Malcom and making it his own..all that talent and they cumulatively are shown less than any 1 of MAB’s golden children. Were it not for Daniel Goddard/Christel Khalil I fear we’d never see KSJ or Bryton and the others as they for some reason are not worthy of a storyline of their own, so they are enlisted to play bit parts in the Lane storylines. Funny thing is, even with being shown 5-10 minutes in a week, they still grab my attention more than some of the garbage shown on my screen. Daniel Goddard doesn’t deserve what’s happening to him. He is a stand up guy, an AMAZING talent and a fans favorite kind of actor. He’s caring, compassionate, and most of all he is active with his fans and extremely humble. I firmly believe that losing Daniel is losing a GREAT ASSET to the show and needs to be undone as QUICKLY as possible!!

So glad to see you have picked up on this story. Us fans are so hoping Daniel Goddard will still be playing Cane Ashby when all this suspense is said and done. Y&R will be losing a lot of long time viewers, if he in fact is gone.

Thank you, for picking this story up!! We really appreciate it! We want Daniel Goddard back on the show as Cane Ashby alive and well. I also feel like his fans deserve a great story line to back it up but I will take anything except for a ghost/twin/figment of Lily’s imagination. This plot had so much potential with the addition of Tristan Rogers and those Y&R people BLEW it! Anyway, thanks again!

thank you for picking up on this story.

Thank you for picking up on this story! I agree with what everyone has said. Cane’s story line was the best on the show and was getting better and interesting every day. It made no sense to kill off Cane as he was pivotal to the story. Ever since MAB took over, she has been trying to destroy Cane and Lily (Lane)! MAB finally got her opportunity even though Lane is a fan favorite and has been #1 in the various polls in the soap magazines. MAB and the writers don’t care what the fans want. They just write what they want and for their favorites. It has been written that the writers don’t want to write for Lane because the Lane fans don’t want them to break up. If the writers can’t write for a character or a couple, then they need to be fired and new writers brought in. All fans don’t want to see couples breaking up all the time. There are fans that want to see a happy and faithful couple with a family and some drama thrown in. I tune in to the show to see “romance in the afternoon” and that was what I saw with the romantic couple of Lane! Fans don’t always want to see all the cheating, bed hopping, baby kidnapping, chipmunk story line etc. There needs to be more balance and air time on the show for all the characters. MAB’s favorites are shoved down the viewers’ throats every week. MAB and writers need to fix their mistake and bring Daniel Goddard back as Cane in the flesh! I don’t want to see a ghost, twin, or look-a-like. If Daniel Goddard is no longer on Y&R, then I will no longer be watching the show.

Daniel was one of the best things about the show and I looked foward to what looked liked an upcoming story with Tristan. This was a big mistake on the writers part. i don’t know how many more of these big blunders fans are going to take.

Three Questions? Who texted Blake before the shooting? Where is the note? And why did Colin open the casket and say this is not over yet?

thank you michael for writing such a great article i knew i could trust you to do right by the characters of cane and lily and also right by daniel and thank you for putting up the link to the petition i really appreate it.

Please bring Cane back ,Y&R is lost without him ,bring Cane back to Lily and his children. We the fans will not quit until Daniel Goddard is back for good and not as a ghost!
Thankyou Michael for writing this article, We the fans Thank you so much xo

Cane&Lily fan forever

I THINK ALL THE FANS OF CANE SOULD SET A DATE TO BOYCOT THE SHOW AND LET THE WRITERS KNOW HOW UPSET WE ARE.

Who cares. I have never liked the character of Cane. Thought he was a nogood the first time I saw him on the show. Too bad, it took Lily 3 years and 2 babies to find it out.

PLEASE don’t take Cane off Y&R!!!! I LOVE him and he needs to be with Lily and the twins. Theres a few other people that you could take off the show instead of Cane. He’s a good actor and nice to look at!

Bring him back, he and Lily had such charisma and please let Lily find the note he left her about his father. That whole subject needs to come to a head.

I no longer intresting in y&r because cane had gone i miss him so much,i want the writers to bring him back to the show.the show is not the same without him please bring him back.

Come on already…. Bring the character Cane back to the Y&R. Lily needs him to make her life and the show interesting.

Thank you for covering this story. I personally loved the relationship between Cane and Lily, I thought it was a wonderful story line and it was really disturbing how Cane was shot and Lily was left to look after the twins herself. I understand that “stuff” happens in daytime TV drama, however I think it was a really bad decision on the writers part to kill off Cane. When you have people boycotting the show because they want to see DG on it again, the writers have to seriously reevaluate their decisions.
Daniel Goddard is a very talented actor with a lot of potential if they would give him a good story line, he could continue to prove what an asset he is to the Y and R.
Also, I think the people that make comments like “the fans with nothing better to do” that are starting petitions should stop being so judgemental about something they only assume to be true. Im sure the fans of Daniel Goddard have a life, they just feel passionate, like myself and want to see him back on the show. There is absolutely no need to start bashing people for what they believe in and are passionate about.

To TBTB…..please bring Daniel back to the show!!!

Boooo when Cane was killed off, boooooo! I hope what I just saw on Y&R is true, Cane showing up at the gravesite, yippeeee for Lily and the twins and want to see him bring down his father, yeah that sounds like a plan!!

That guy at the cemetery that Lily keeps seeing is not a ghost, but it’s not Cane either… it’s his twin brother. And their mother is coming to Genoa City, too, and together they are going to avenge Cane’s death. Probably by disclosing to everyone who Colin really is- – or forcing him to finally come clean with his identity to Jill and the Chancellor clan. That’s what I am guessing anyway. Oh, and of course Lily is going to establish a relationship with the twin.

The show is not the same without cane and i want him back now please.

Personaly, i don’t think Cane is DEAD there’s somthing going on but i think he’s is still alive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have watched Y&R since the early 80’s. I am having a heard time believing that Cane is no longer on the show. I enjoyed his character with Lily and the fact that the writers make you want to love and hate him at the same time. If a petition came around my way, I would sign it in a heartbeat. I realize this is just one small email/opinion, but I do feel that you have more life left in his character. Bring him back! – if it’s a payroll issue, his role is more worthy than that of Deacon. Christina – L.Valley, NJ

If the ghost Cane is the evil twin, I hope he comes to his senses and sticks it to his dad. Cane always talked of his sister but not a brother. If Cane’s death was faked, I hope he is playing along with his dad to finally crush him once and for all. Lily needs to find the note Cane wrote to her that the wind blew off the desk – was it real or just part of the plan.

Cane has a twin and it was the twin that was shot. The real cain is going to be working
with his mom to put his dad (Colin) away. The Lily will get her Cain back. That’s my
thought on the situation.