Oh really Sage and Chelsea slept with two men in one month Ben slept with three women in about three months. Nick has his zipper open twenty four hours a day! Knock it off about Sharon the only reason they are pushing Dylan with her is because she has twenty one years on this soap and they are trying like hell to get people to accept Steve Burton. Sharon Case has done nothing but step up to the plate for this show after. The last three writing teams have tried to destroy her character!

You’re right, Substitute.
Everybody has slept with everyone else on all soaps. It is a very alien concept for me. I only dated my husband…so, I can’t even relate.
I did mention a few days ago that there will be pandemonium when Chelsea and Sage realize that they are both pregnant with Gabe’s baby.

CeeCee, hi 🙂 nope lol everybody has slept with everybody on Y&R because that is what they do on that soap.. It recycles the same couples over and over again year after year…. They make the rounds sleeping with the same list and then work their way back to whom they started with.. Same cast for decades sleeping with each other.. Bad thing with Y&R- most all the younger cast are related to each other.. If they started hooking up it would be one big pile of insest.. GH has little of exchanging partners/making the rounds.. they usually move on… Read more »

Oh and let us not forgetAbby she slept with Austin off camera brilliant Pratt at work again and then Ben. Oh and Victoria who never saw a hairbrush she did not like the two Daddy storyline. Oh and Phyllis in the days of rolling on a desk and screwing in a dumpster. Oh and then Victoria and Nikki sharing Deacon and Cole. Both of Victoria’s pregnancy’s that she carried to term it was whose the Daddy and let’s not forget who is raising Reed. You wAnt to go there with Sharon bring it on. Oh and Miss Cupcake Avery sleeping… Read more »

You read my mind CeeCee, I was just thinking wouldnt it be nice to have Sharon and Dylan fall in love this summer and do some romantic, playful things on screen. Maybe even a location shoot somewhere? NO couples have a perfect marriage or dating history but with all the BS it would be nice to see two characters have fun for once!

I hope Sharon and Adam get together. I think Chuck Pratt doesn’t know the history of the intense love cant keep hands off the body lust love climb the highest moutain for each other “SHADAM: 🙂 love

Lol, Timmm. Nick and Dylan share the same DNA….they wallow in mud themselves; and fizzle.
This makes me think how Nick’s life keeps using the same revolving door which leads to nowhereland.
Again, Nick is embroiled in another who’s-the-daddy ‘mystery’ ….déjà-vu, much? Brings back memories of Summer’s two daddies…..Nick and Jack. Who’s the daddy?

Fire Fire Fire Chuck Pratt. Sharon does not need to waste her time with Dylan. He is mentally unstable. Let angry Avery have him and they move away. Take Summer who we know is really jacks. Jack should be getting a test as soon as the worst fake Jack story is over.
Why is CBS allowing Chuck to write the worst stories in soap history! The Austin Murder is so ridiculous and the fake Jack. I have been now only following the posts on FB I stopped watching Y&R after 25 years . SAD

Eileen Hargis, hi..
I have never heard/read of a Y&R cast member saying they are playing scenes they don’t believe in..
I could have missed them saying that about Pratt/his scenes but I highly doubt that I have..

Did I say they said it for publication? No, I did not.

And Chuck Pratt can’t be fired because he has an iron clad contract. He’s also Co-Executive Producer, so he can write that a bomb blows up Genoa City and that will happen.

So agree with your ‘take’ on this topic too, Rose. Decent women, like many characters on YR, both male and female have been most often romantic with partners, (as you said above) and certainly weren’t the female sluts as it seems the women now (Abby, Ashley, Sage, Chelsea, Sharon, even Summer just after Austin had been killed) are being portrayed. And the men being turned into that horrible term, ‘dogs’ when previously ‘quickies’ to mend their broken? (doubt it as they are seemingly totally insensitive clods now) hearts with another body, usually the nearest one – e.g.. Sharon, Sage, Abby,… Read more »

Whoops, a few spelling checks to errors.
“with precocious ‘quickies’ to mend…” and
“custody of his daughter is THROWING caution to …”
Hope the above makes sense now…

Oh you are so right with your observations, Laurie. Appreciate your great slant on the weddings issue as it backs up most of the other comments here about the lack of continuity to the ‘old’ YR characters, build up of romance, all the nuances of the male/female characters – remember the old storyline of Sharon and Adam years ago ending up in Paris, such angst during those months. But that is what used to ‘make’ the show. Yes, the planning of a wedding months ahead was really fun to watch. We all remember the Nick Sharon weddings, even Victor Nikki… Read more »

Laurie and Wendy, Your posts gave me hope. You both made some excellent points about how women are being portrayed through the quickies and the completely unrealistic insta-weddings. I was disgusted with Billy’s slut-shaming of Chelsea at the altar. All the language coming out of the mouths of characters is so uncharacteristic but Billy’s continual references to Chelsea as a “slut” were utterly disgusting, especially since he cheated as well! What is WORSE is that they wrote Chelsea all demure and ashamed!!! Since WHEN??? She saw them Billy and Victoria with their tongues down each other’s throats. She has been… Read more »

Laurie…about the insta-weddings. Good observation, especially with all of the hoop-la over Luke and Laura recently, which included reference to their incredible wedding. It was huge at the time. But even GH has digressed with Franco humiliating Carly at their wedding, and now potentially Rick and Nina…and don’t let me get started on this convoluted storyline. I might be off here because I’m not an expert on past soap writers/originators, but I seem to have heard the successful ones from the past were women, when it was more romantic and there was more romance, and stronger female characters. Before Pratt… Read more »

Lol, Marsha…..I don’t know HOW to take that remark…you’re funny with your puns. Well, unless it’s my dirty mind. Lol.

What mystery, we all know fake Jack killed them because Austin got it on tape that there was two Jack’s in the park that night, and then Courtney saw the same thing. We don’t know who fake Jack is right now, but obviously he will be someone really dangerous, acting without Victor say so, if he thought he was discovered. If it isn’t fake Jack I would really be surprised that they actually could have me fall for a red herring, but unless something else turns up, my money is on fake Jack.

Agree. Seems like the sentiment here is really so accurate that the storyline of these 2 murders, aka like the old Hardy Boys only with girls too, is just beyond any intelligent reasoning of plot. Anyway who cheats on an exam doesn’t end up being involved in a crime syndicate and fears for his life without doing their bidding. Come on! That’s like someone in the writing group is living in another world or at least never attended a college or university! It’s at the point now that no one gives a damn about this happening: the deaths, the mystery… Read more »

Yeah, I think it’s Marco AKA Jack. The whole tale is so convoluted. Fen was on the straight and narrow. For him to change a grade (suddenly he became a computer genius?) does not jive with how he is now.

As new Jack would say, Ay Carumba! Es muy mal.

LOL, Mary, that is so apropos….deliciously funny . I love it…!!!!

Absolutely agree.

Sex, just for sex sake has its place in soaps, but not when you are trying to build a couple. I enjoyed Adam and Sage’s romp because they were both desperate. I even enjoyed Adam and Chelsea’s romp because she was hurt and well, he is Adam and this is supposedly the woman he adores so it makes sense.

But I am glad you and others agree that this is not romance. Sometimes I fear I have become too old in my thinking. 🙂 And I wholeheartedly agree about Abby and Ben — just awful.

Well, Mary…I guess I’m a little slow…LOL. What can I say. It just dawned on me that Fake Jack is Marco. I still think this storyline is as stupid as the Fluke’s storyline. I don’t know if I can handle it. I always had a dislike of Jack as it is, now, even more. I loathe him as much as Victor. Jack’s past is not so pristine. Will Victor finally go to jail? He brought Marco back, so , he is just as guilty of the murders. He may not have pulled the trigger….buuuut….. Now that Paul has a clue…Duh….he… Read more »

Yes– for example: Sharon was working for Chelsea– is she going back? Or how about finding her another career? Show the struggles and successes of people who can actually reinvent themselves. When she was introduced as a character in college, I don’t recall if she graduated with a degree. Make her a successful woman!

Whoops, last sentence, meant to read “for the characters known so well to them.”

I’ll chime in as well on the Bill Bell vision– Sharon was always someone we rooted for, a strong woman. I can’t even envision how to turn things around… maybe a political story? What I do know is Y and R NEEDS REFRESHING STORIES. You’d think they’d have the brains to tackle issues like random violence and senseless police brutality in this country, or gun control legislation? How about stories on education– like STEM classes at the high school level or collegiate level? Or excessive state and national testing? Or children and vaccinations and whether or not they cause autism?… Read more »

Ron, excellent points. Goodness knows those issues you outlined are central to the US today. Even the issue of health care, mental health care where so many folks fall through the cracks or else don’t continue with the care they require. Even focus on addictive behaviours such a attention seeking, sex addictions with the never emerging STD’s and on YR only whoops pregnancies. The obvious alcohol addiction is the only one, aside from gambling addiction of Billy’s years back, are the only two seeming to make it into a storyline. There are quite a few characters on YR who were… Read more »

Wendy, hi..

it is a soap, it is entertainment, it is all based on fantasy/make believe..
Soaps are not medical journals nor documentaries..
They are not real life, they are mostly BS .. LOL

Soaps are not PSA’s .. they are simply campy entertainment..
I do not expect too much from a soap outside of soap world entertainment and I would not care to watch soap writers attempting to be Physiatrists, Doctors, Lawyers, and science engineers, they would never get right lol they are best at doing what they do- write make believe stories to entertain.. 🙂

It’s great to see the varied opinions on this comment page. I have to wonder suOOOO how long you’ve been watching YR. This daytime drama for those of us who’ve watched for decades, the essence of YR has completely changed as other have commented very astutely. Of course, it’s entertainment BUT years ago, the story lines were continuous in dealing with various emotional issues. An example would be with Cassie’s death due to drinking and then her driving a car (without a licence) due to Daniel being drunk and the result was she died. The show also explored so well… Read more »

Ron, you make such great points! It seems that the writers are writing for a reality TV audience that watches Real Housewives or the Bachelor where the storyline/script just flatlines at the very basic: catfights, casual sex, lotsa lip gloss! Chelsea was a con artist turned fashion designer. What have they done with Sharon? Nothing. She should be touring the country speaking in high schools about the dangers of driving drunk given how Cassie died. She could be doing so much more. And I’ve said this before, I’ll say it again: why is Faith constantly being plyed with giant cookies… Read more »

We really are pretty well on the same page about this topic. I love the comments as it brings up some great ideas for better writing than we, the viewers, are getting currently on the show. With Sharon’s experiences as both a mom of a young adult, Noah, and Faith, she indeed could be a great spokesperson for school appearances and maybe could even team up with Nikki, as she doesn’t have much of a role these days. It could be a new duo, where in the past, Nikki has been so full of vitriol for Sharon, often without real… Read more »