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by Kelley Jarvis
October 24, 2009
Well, the news seems to be official. Eric Braeden
has reportedly taken a huge cut in pay and is
remaining in Genoa City as TGVN, The Great Victor
Newman. Either the inmates are running the asylum or
this is a new November sweeps ploy for Y&R that some
deranged, uncreative people at Sony and CBS hatched.
Keep in mind that this could very well be the work
of those behind issuing the ultimatum to Melody
Thomas Scott to go on recurring status or basically
disappear forever from Y&R.
Certainly the sorry scribes' scribblings haven't
disintegrated to such a low level that there is
simply not a decent story line to be found? That
would easily indicate that these so-called writers
are tapped-out in regards to their rather limited
creativity. This premise is almost believable due to
the fact that there seems to have been a rash of
young people or infants dying, a woman is currently
being treated by a look-alike physician and
virtually everything focuses on the actions of only
the teenage set in Genoa City. Even Kevin Fisher has
run out of novel ways to act zany, goofy and
downright crazy. Basically, they appear to be
running out of gas or the writers have their heads
so firmly planted up their posteriors that are
deprived of oxygen.
God forbid that they would have the smallest glimmer
of a thought about involving Katherine Chancellor,
Esther Valentine, the Abbott family, Gina Roma, Paul
Williams minus his batty sibling, Mary Williams and
most of the folks who inspired loyal viewers to tune
in five days per week! Why not bring back Larry
Wharton so he could either help get Nick's and
Sharon's heads on straight? God knows that could be
a full-time job. He could even return as a plaything
for Jill. They had a kind of sordid, sleazy
chemistry that would still work. The priceless
double takes from Jeanne Cooper's Katherine at the
duo's bedroom games would be worth wading through
the sludgy prose that otherwise clogs the airwaves.
Back in the early days of Y&R, the scribes and
producers took the daring chance to change the focus
from the Fosters et al to the Abbott Family.
Recently, Days of Our Lives got rid of some iconic
characters and actually had increased ratings. Right
now, the interest and fan base for this Bell
Productions program is waning and any radical change
of getting rid of key players and replacing them
with, say, a bunch of whiny teens would be suicidal
at best.
A Journalism professor once said that a writer
shouldn't use the term "point out" something because
it implies the readers aren't the sharpest pencils
in the box, so to speak. I am once again pointing
out to the Y&R scribes and suits that the vast
majority of fans want the high-quality, well-written
daytime drama they remembered from the 1980s and
1990s. One of my friends lives in the United
Kingdom. She recently saw an episode of Y&R and
commented, "It makes British soaps look good, and
that's really saying something, isn't it?"
Once the novelty of playing the new game of Guess
Who Is Going to Leave wears out, what's next? I
almost shudder to think what these fools have in
what's left of their minds. |
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