OMG!!! Y&R has become campier than General Hospital.

Poor Peter Bergman.

This story is ridiculous and only promises to get worse (Bergman says in the full interview that the doppleganger will “find himself very taken with Ashley”).

It is fun watching Cady play crazy and I KNEW her death was faked! The fake Jack is a little TOO convincing for me. But I love seeing PB get to do this arc.

I will be interested to see how this all plays out. I had a feeling their were two Jack’s. I wonder if the fake Jack is dangerous. Maybe the fake Jack is the cabin killer. Will fake Jack become obsessed with Ashley.

It isnt just GH. They did this same with Patty just a few yrs ago. When Patty switched places to marry Jack.

Don’t all soaps eventually do the same storylines? !?! That’s the nature of the business. At some point we have to become supportive of the last few remaining of the genre because if we don’t they will be gone. None of us want that. I think Pratt’s writing has given Y&R the shot of life that it’s needed for so long. Yes, it’s campy and silly and asks a lot of the imagination and for common sense to get tossed out the window but really for me this is all fun. It’s entertainment – it’s not supposed to be real life. That’s why we’re watching it on a box in our living/bed rooms.
Chill. Watch. Enjoy. Repeat!

Chuck Pratt is not copying GH.

As I said in an earlier thread this has all been done before — Katherine and Marge; Shelia disguising herself as Phyllis; Shelia’s sister looking like Lauren; Jack hiring a John look a like to gaslight Gloria; Cane’s twin brother– the last one being Victor paying for Patty to look like Jack’s girlfriend. Did I miss any? As I said deja vu.

And I wouldn’t mind as long it is done well, but right now that Kelly’s has gone all Kathy Bates in Misery on us, she looks like a pale copy cat to both Shelia and Patty. I might have liked it better if CW was still in the role, but Cady works my last nerve. Also it was stated in above that Jack’s double married Phyllis, I don’t he did. While in bed with her he didn’t seem to get the joke she made about the Swedish minister that married them, which leads me to believe, the switch took place after the ceremony while Phyllis was in bathroom.

Goodbye Y&R see it going down with all the other soaps ! Same old story linesover and over two Catherines remember ! Yes, Joe is faking all this with his friend the doctor ..really !!

I dont care what critics say about this twin thing or impostor angle, I love it! Jack and Victor never get old and this is a new trick up the Mustache’s sleeve. No one can pull this off better than Peter Bergman and I knew Kelly was alive and probably will be pregnant by Flack. [Fake Jack!] You heard that nickname here first! Either way, I hope that Kelly, Stitch and MBB all end up falling in a volcano! Dont look for Skye, its Sage!

I was not shock of the two Jack Abbott at all figure it out the night The Underground Collasped and at the Hospital I already knew where Victor was going with this. Always knew Kelly was not dead. If everyone remember at the underground Jack had on a tie and when Jack was under the rubber he had on a tie that was the real Jack. Kelly had sex with the fake Jack in the storage room. Now go back to the hospital when you saw the fake Jack leave the hospital he ad on a sweater and a jacket when the real Jack came home from the hospital he had on a suit. The real Jack was at Billy and Chelsea Party we knew this because Jack was real angry at Adam now this fake Jack don’t get angry because he don’t know how he is a time bomb waiting to explode. Victor has no clue that the fake Jack is an sex addict and TGVN will not beable to handle the fake Jack at all and as always Ashley will be another pond of TGVN games will they find out in time I hope so. I don’t watch GH so to me this storyline is just like the others storyline they have done with double characters. Now we have to see if TGVN knows Gabe is really Adam. Now Sharon is arrested for murder something she didn’t do and I hope Paul put his PI skills to work because we all know Sharon didn’t murder Austin and put him in the closet and she didn’t killed Courtney either there is no way that Sharon is that strong to pick up a dead body by herself and put it in the closet yep she is being setup but by whom. I say detective Harding is behind this because whom ever it is they have to within the police department to just walk in and go by an computer and give it an virous while other cops are there. Is Sharon still in danger I say yes because who ever it is think Sharon knows who they are now does Paul have an clue or he is still blind. Well we have to wait and see how all of this unfold

Quite a shock when the 2nd Jack was revealed but it will be a good story-line. This soap in no way compares to GH, even though GH is a good show. Many soaps over years have had doubles including Y & R on and off. The story-lines have been twisting and turning past weeks! Love catching them recorded. Y & R is indeed a different soap & has continued to prove it is #1 for a reason. Keep up the great writing & still a great cast. The new Adam is very good but do miss the other one. He seems to have moved on to some good projects plus has a wonderful family.
Have a splendid day…..
Sherr

So soon after Victor found Cassie’s twin Mariah? Pratt has never really cared about a shows history

This story is not so much a copy of GH as it is a copy of itself from previous stories. Hmmm…let’s see…Victor secures the services of an emotionally damaged unstable woman to exact his “final” revenge on Jack….is it Patty or Kelly? And doppelganger and twin stories have been far too overdone in recent years on his show…..Katherine/Marge, Patty/Emily, Lauren/Sheila, Cane/his twin, John Abbott, Cassie/Mariah, Jeffrey/William, and I am sure I am missing some. It is especially disgusting when men are posing as someone else and they repeatedly rape the woman. Yes…sex with someone under false pretenses is indeed rape. When do they train these lookalikes to know everything a person would have to know in order to be someone else?? Who pays for the vocal lessons so the fake can sound exactly like someone else? Due to an extreme lack of creativity soaps have become self indulgent parodies of themselves….claiming that the genre is unique and the audience accepts the outlandish conventions. We only accept them because what is the alternative? Having said all that…..I am not as down on Chuck’s work as everyone else is. At least the show is not mind numbingly boring as it was under Griffith. There are shocks and surprises and twists and turns. I am not saying I like every story but the canvas is tightly woven and episodes move with a point and purpose. As a sidenote what does JFP have against characters named Courtney?? Courtney on Another World was murdered. Courtney on GH contracted some sort of virus and died after giving birth. And now Courtney on Y and R was also brutally murdered.

This has been done once too often. I’m sure that the actors will do their best but this is, at best, a gimmick. Give Jack a genuine story that builds out of his past. Involve the other characters, keep your audience interested. Not alienated.

I wanted Jack and Phyllis to have a happy ending for a change. He never have good luck in relationships. Its tune for Adam to be revealed to someone. I am sick of Sharon always getting the bad breaks. I wish you guys send summer to college somewhere she is nerve wrecking. And Victor need to get his for a change. I’m sick of how he is always on top. Let someone bring him down… Let him suffer sometimes.