exactly NIkki!! no one is every really satisfied. it’s an interesting story that’s keeping everyone guessing and trimming a slightly bloated cast. i especially like the back stories we never heard of. yes the diving accident of Sondra Allen is from out of left field, but it’s character-based AND this is a soap – and like in real life there are buried secrets that sometimes don’t come to life for decades. as long as they don’t kill off Sharon or Mariah i’m fine with it!

Well my answer to that is just because you quit watching something doesn’t mean you can’t read about it with the hope that maybe it might come back around! Right now the new name for the show is Invasion of The Body Snatchers. Nobody is acting like themselves I believe they have. A storyline with Victor threatening to expose a secret concerning Ashley. Which he would never do because she is one of the few people he has always lived and respected . So answer to your comment I still am naive enough to think if they were to lose viewers they might stop the madness.

Loved

Also I have a sister who has only been watching about five years she still loves the show what helps her is she is not a long time viewer she does not own a computer or cell phone lives I a small town total different outlook which helps. Sorry Nikki but to me Pratt is abusing a child of mine Y&R and I can’t stand to watch it so I guess I will take your advice and quit reading about it to! Lol

I never use the word FAN I relate that to the movie Misery and just so you will know I have watched this show on and off mostly on since 1973 I probably know more about it then these so called producers and current writers. When something Sucks I call it for what it is I am not a air head that says gee whiz Wally what a great concept to make someone feel good. The show stinks and anyone who has a brain knows it and all the Twitter comments from the actors will not save it it deserves to drop in the abyss you lay down with dogs you get fleas!

Good Lord! Folks have the right to complain about a story they don’t like without people screaming at them to love it or leave it.
I happen to still love Y&R, albeit, I admit I am frustrated with certain situations, but viewers who do not share my sentiment are not a bone of contention for me.

Courtney didnt have any family on the show. Either did Austin. Its tough to have feeling for their demise. I wont miss either of them but Courtney could have been more than what she was. ONE problem for any soap actor is being cast as a cop. They always look like fools!

Hi Harry 🙂
Thing is..
Austin in twitter has said we will see him again or some such thing..
He did not sound as being let go, he was teasingly saying ”not gone..
But.. ya never know..
Courtney did give her g’bye in twitter..
We will know soon ..

damien..
I do not hate Y&R, never once said hate anything..
I watch Y&R daily.. some stories I like some I dont like as everyone else but I do not rant over it,,
I never have written pages of hate rantes, as some do..
I like many characters and I like Pratt.. I never have said one bad word about JPF or any writer..
I do not like Sharon and want her killed off.. not a complaint,a statement..
If I were to write a complaining rant it would be sensational, spellbinding and captivating, for sure..
but-
I am too lazy to write bitch whine and moan complain rants.. I do not nit pick nor overthink ..
I leave the overkill lengthy complaining rants to the professional complainers LOL 🙂

I think Sharon Case is so underrated. They keep throwing her this crap and bless her heart, she delivers. Lately, she is being made to look like the killer. (I am sure she is not but we viewers are suppose to suspect her at least). The script is calling for her to make these insane facial expressions and she does it.
I think she is consummate professional and needs to be lauded for it.
I want Sharon to win one for a change as I am tired of the Newmans always lording over her. The only time she was in the cat bird position was when she was head of Newman Enterprise. I loved that time in Sharon’s life but of course they had to make her new found assertiveness and confidence a manifestation of her bipolar disease.

Jamesj75..
I never complain about Sharon.. never a hate this or that rant..
I simply hope she gets killed off and eaten by cannibals..
That ^^^ is how ya put it out .. a short and sweet statement ..
no 20 page rant about anything she does I just can not tolerate her 🙂

su0000, I’m just having fun… 🙂
Loved your “eaten by cannibals” line!

Harry, I agree with you regarding Sharon Case. It’s not easy when they take a heroine and turn her into a villain. They tried to do the same thing back in the 1970s on GH with my all-time favorite Valerie Starrett as Diana Taylor. The actress wanted to maintain her heroine status, but the writers tried to make her bitchy, unhinged, and unsympathetic. She was better as the heroin, and I think Sharon Case is better that way, too, but, as you say, she is handling all “this crap” they give her to portray rather well.

Phelps & Pratt are killing off the entire show. Y&R has jumped the shark and is no longer the great soap the Bill Bell grew and nurtured for years. It’s just awful now. Boring, poorly written, bad actors abound, and frankly the show is insulting to its loyal, but abused audience. Why on earth CBS & Sony have these two soap killers running this show into the rocks is the REAL murder mystery.

Suoo, I mean no disrespect to the actor who plays (played?) Austin but if his character really has not been killed off and is going to return from the dead, would it not make that actor dumber than a box of rocks to announce this on Twiiter?
I believe the actor Tweeted that we have not seen the last of Austin. This was followed by a whole swarm of Austin flashbacks.
I am afraid this is to what he was alluding.

+1 G. Y&R has a thing for young blondes with a bland demeanor who can’t act. What is there to miss?

Jill needs to be a badass and Gloria needs to bring some trouble to this very boring and sedate show. And a Neil / Nikki pairing could actually make the lisping former stripper memorable (speaking of minimally talented blondes with a bland demeanor who can’t act).

Do you mean ‘Fire Jill Ferren-Phelps’ group? If so I’m already a member!

GH will take over that spot in May!

And Austin’s lifeless body was dragged all over the place and then identified in the morgue, so I’m pretty sure he’s dead as a doornail too.

Exactly and his dead body was put behind the wheel of a car to make it look like an accident and Summer I.D. the body in the morgue.I guess they could all be on a sleeping drug but then why is Lauren & Michael not concerned that Fen never made it back to school and some dude is lurking outside Sharon’s house ready to kill her for being able to identify him/her? And who hit Abby over the head? The whole town would have to be in on the dream.

We can only HOPE that Summer is the next victim.

I’m sure it will be a long, drawn out, overacted death scene SZima!!!

There is no way in he– their going to kill off Summer. She is a greedy thing. I;m surprised that the other actors/actresses aren’t fed up with her being on every damn day. I wish someone would take her & dump her in a river. I don’t like to hate people but she makes it so easy. Poor Noah lost his girlfriend who he was getting married to but Nick,Kyle, Phyllis all went to see how poor Summer was doing. The only part of this show I really want to see is Adam/Gabriel and Chelsea. The kids at the cabin story are just sickening now. Victor running around with his finger prints that probably belong to Adam Newman. And why the hell is Paul not going after Fen for drugging everyone?

Megan MacTavish wrote the Satin Slayer fiasco which featured Dixie’s death by poisoned peanut butter pancakes.

Pratt gave us the hilariously awful scene where Zachary delivered baby Gabrielle after the tornado and held her up in that embarrassing “Lion King” moment.

Thank you, Alan. Yes, it was the Satin Slayer–thank you for the clarification. Does this murder storyline not remind you a bit of that Satin Slayer storyline? I think I keep blaming Pratt for MacTavish’s horrible mistakes.
The Lion King scene you mention must have transpired after I finally left my beloved soap which I had been watching since I was about ten years old. It just got so bad.
AMC was the first soap I ever watched. Yes, I was one of those latch key kids who embraced the soap characters as family.

about that scene as well… as much as i loved that flashback and appreciate the attention to the past and using old clips is effective, it just reminded me how amazing y n r used to be. the old background music, the relationship between vic and ash and how human she used to make him. vic used to be so vulnerable with ash , more so than with nikki. vic s turned into a cartoon and the music is now unmemorable and plain junk, imo
oh well, hopefully we still keep seeing the occasional flashback to give us hope that y n r could be great again

Hey Nikki,

Girlfriend…I have a feeling that (after you turned off Y&R) you had MORE FUN planting those bulbs in your garden…LOL!!!!!

Later, Nikki. Peace.

Lol, Nikki. About Ashley’s real father? Who is he? Do we know? Imagine if he were Victor! Oh, my!

I’m not sure who Ashley’s real father was Cee Cee but I thought it was just some random guy her mom picked up in a bar. Victor wow that would be awful. That would mean she slept with her dad and what would that make Abby? YUCK

Ashley’s father is a tennis pro who had an affair with her mother this story was played out in the 80,s . Only Victor Jack Katherine &Dina knew. Victor fell in love with Ashley during this time she had a nervous breakdown over it etc. Victor would never hurt Ashley like this NEVER. John never knew it is some more stupid crap that Pratt is doing.

Yes I mean what I said: Lets put the past behind us, not all at once but if Paul Williams was replaced with Mark Harding there’s a great story there Mark had a crush on Courtney who in turn was going to marry Noah. Kyle & Summer can’t act worth a damn and they really are not too popular except with their own friends & family so nobody would miss them. I mean think about it do you really want to wait a few years and see old Victor in his wheelchair ? There going to wait until he dies and then replace him and nobody will like it. Look what happened when Jenny Cooper died we seldom see Jill anymore and it killed a lot of the show. Now that Adam’s alive he could be the next Victor Newman creating trouble in Genoa City and everyone believing he’s Gabriel Bingham. We need to breath fresh air into it.

I will say this again. NEVER kill off legacy characters!

Thank you, Timm and Paul Williams is a classic! Does anyone remember his mother, Bible thumping Mary who hated every woman Paul was involved with?
I loved Mary. I loved Paul’s police sergeant father (his name escapes me) and Patty too before Jack broke her heart and she went crazy. The Williams’ family offered us a glimpse of an Irish Catholic family. Paul Williams is one of those golden people.
You just knew back then that if you visited the Williams’ household that there would be doilies on the furniture, Reader’s Digest on the coffee table, Jesus on a cross plastered on the walls and the smell of boiled cabbage permeating the house.
See, back then all of the soaps served up realistic glimpses of families from various socio-economic demographics. You had the blue bloods and the working class serving as the two core families with various interloping character connecting the two aforementioned families.
Mary Williams reminded me of my best friend’s very judgmental mother while AMC’s Phoebe Tyler Wallingford reminded me of my grandmother. Somehow along the way, possibly after the OJ Simpson trials, the soaps lost their way and hence, lost their core families which grounded them and God I miss them. I guess that is why I continue to watch despite not liking much of what is transpiring -it’s a case of backward longing.
I apologize for the long winded comment.

Billy Miller was great I agree. He has now gone to GH as Jason isn’t that weird. Jason is Dylan and Billy is Jason AND he is doing a great job. It’s like he’s always been there. I miss the old Adam as well however new Adam is pretty good and believable.

Paul’s fathers name was Carl Williams.

I am not a fan of Summer nor of Kyle….I mean, the present Kyle. He unnerves me.
However, young love had been blossoming for the two characters. Then, that relationship came to a halt when it was believed they were siblings.
So, I think their feelings have been dormant all this time and are now starting to stir…to reawaken, per se.
I can’t say I’m sorry for Austin’s exit, but I do wish Courtney were still on the show. I loved her and Noah as a couple.

Summer, Kyle and Abby are all members of core Y&R families – fans would be in uproar is one of them was killed off, ESPECIALLY with Delia’s death last year. Courtney was a minor character with no real ties or history on the show, just like Austin. They were the two easiest selections for the show to kill off.

l saw Kyle interviewed on the show Home and Family. He was very cute. He is from Australia and has a great accent!

Give it up, Su0000, Sharon Newman aint goin anywhere, she’s been on for 20yrs….LOL

hey Timmm ..
We should send Pratt a *kill list …!

I would nominate;
Sharon
Summer

lol 😉

Yeah, I’ve had enough of Stitch myself. I just ‘wanna’ smack him upside the head.

P.S., Timmm.
I find this latest stint having Ben act as Abby’s bodyguard so incredibly pitiful. Could TPTB not think of another bright idea to bring ‘Babby’ together’? We all see the writing on the wall. Abby and Ben will hit the sheets….so what else is new? So predictable. Ni hope I am wrong….sigh!
And, dummy-dumb Victoria is so la-di-da about this guardian angel thing. ‘Gimme’ a break.
I just wish Abby, Kyle, Summer, Dylan and Billy were recast. I cringe each time I see them.

CeeCee, I agree, Victoria is supposed to be this high powered business women, a chip off of Victor’s block and she is stupid enough to let Abby, who is hot and screwed over Summer by sleeping with Austin Alone together in a hotel room with Shabby. Stitch is a slug. He will have slept with Abby, her mother and Abby’s step sister. Eww!

lizzy…’what a bunch of bull stew’…GOOD ONE…LOL!!!!!

Like with all the billions of money the Newmans have old Victor could not hire her a bodyguard ! Another stupid plot!

Hopefully Victor will be downstairs in the Dungeon eating rats like he forced on his first wife Julia’s lover.

In the shower with Paul. LOL

Nikki
Love your narration on Summer – – I agree – – it must be tough to be her.

lizzy, No I don’t think it’s tough on her at all. She’s an attention seeker and the rest of the cast is constantly telling her how wonderful & beautiful she is not to mention her wonderful acting skills. If you watched yesterday again at the Charity event, Nikki hugged her and said “Baby everything you’ve gone through” I wanted to barf. Poor Noah I guess it’s to hell with him & we had to suffer with her whining over Austin for two wks. now she’s hoping in the sack with Kyle. Like father like daughter. & with those amazon arms she shouldn’t wear sleeveless. Did I tell you I can’t stand her LOL!

Hopefully he was washing the gel out of his hair!

I think that’s the key to the whole like or dislike if you are a longtime viewer as myself since the beginning you hate what Pratt & JFP are doing if you are a new viewer you don’t mind as much because you never have known what Bell’s vision for the show was. I am sure he is looking down with our precious Jeanne Cooper and they are both screaming somebody stop this. As of today I have I have been writing letters all day to the head honchos and have signed petitions. I figure I can devote that one hour of my day that I use to spend watching to saving it! I am determined to get this bunch out of there.

And I challenge other viewers who are disappointed to join me why settle for a beer when you can have champagne on ice!! Let’s get it done!!!