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by Kelley Jarvis
October 23, 2009
I'm beginning to believe that TPTB at Bell
Productions and CBS may be intent upon performing a
Dr. Kevorkian type killing of Y&R. So many things
are wrong with the writing that it would take
several pages to describe the problems in detail.
When I began writing for GCNews, Jack Smith was
intent on portraying incest or at least keeping the
theme in storylines.
At the time, viewers, GCN readers and I were
outraged and rightly so. Once I'd heard that Smith
was flushed away to the unemployment line, I thought
the incest mindset would be in the past. Not long
ago, it popped up again. I've been trying to give
the writers the benefit of the doubt in the sense of
fairness, but it's just the same old crap. The only
difference is that other people are taking the place
of Smith and Kay All-Done.
One extremely astute person posting at the Genoa
City News bulletin board made the following comment:
"Sometimes I think CBS and Sony want out of the soap
business and to avoid the outcry that would result
from canceling the show they're doing their damndest
to slowly drive viewers away." Think about it, this
makes sense.
Otherwise, why would these idiotic scribes prepare
insipid dialog for teen characters that the majority
of viewers couldn't care less about? More than once,
I've read or heard people's complaints about the
show catering to the teenage characters in Genoa
City. TPTB need to wake up and realize that tales of
sparkling vampires are more appealing to a large
number of their targeted audience as opposed to
watching the antics of the semi-talented young
actors and actresses on Y&R.
When this program began, it did not cater to kids
and it developed a solid fan base because of
well-written, emotionally gripping stories and
dialog. Devoting large amounts of time to teens
probably would have been dismissed as a silly idea
and bad for business. Of course, more women were at
home then but times have changed. Still, that is no
excuse to compromise on quality writing.
Certainly some influential person with either Bell
Productions or CBS has walked away from the
sycophants long enough to see some genuine feedback
from viewers. I would like to think that TPTB still
care about what viewers say and want, but I'm not so
sure. It would be all too easy for Bell Productions
to concentrate solely on "The Bold and the
Beautiful" while CBS filled the time slot previously
occupied by Y&R with another god-awful reality show.
Some of the suits could reassure themselves that
soap operas were merely the Edsels of Daytime TV and
that it was time to send these old clunkers to the
junkyard.
If the suits really gave a damn about Y&R they would
take the time to read comments from actual viewers,
not some praise gushing pod people who say what the
executives want to hear. GCN readers have already
voiced opinions about ditching the teens. One
reader, Antiquefan, asked, "Why aren't TPTB smart
enough to listen to most of us? They need to
recapture the essence of the 80s and early 90s and
run with it."
Perhaps the writers and executives are refusing to
listen to fan feedback because they are simply
following orders from the suits. If their mission is
intended to destroy this long-running daytime drama,
they're doing a damned good job. |
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