Sometimes I think the writers forget this show
doesn't take place in New York or Los Angeles because celebrities come and
go at will and anyone can catch a flight to any destination in the world
from their airport. Sabrina told Victor she planned on meeting a friend who
was in town to visit other friends, as though people from Paris have friends
who live in Genoa City, Wisconsin. Aside from Sabrina, that is.
On the other hand, maybe Sabrina is just delusional. Naive at best, if she
thinks Victor is so "thoughtful and kind." Let's see how "thoughtful" she
finds Victor the next time he takes off on yet another one of his annual
quests without letting anyone know where he's going, how long he's going to
be gone, and stays out of touch leaving everyone behind to wonder whether
he's alive or dead. Regrettably, it's never the latter.
Poor Lauren has nothing better to do than show up at people's houses with
racks of clothes. Isn't she supposed to be the owner of a big department
store chain? It's like Martha Stewart showing up at your door with a big
stack of bed sheets from K-Mart. I don't think she'd do that for even her
richest clients. Meanwhile Sabrina picks a purse that Victoria swears "must
have cost a mint" and it looks like something my grandmother takes to the
doctor's office every Monday.
Oh, Cassie, why did you have to die? Wait, I know the answer to that. It's
because she was getting too old, which means that Nick and Sharon were
getting too old, and the show didn't want that. Hell, even in death she has
regressed in age. Notice the Cassie's People's Choice Award-shaped tombstone
read January 8, 1991 - May 24, 2005. According to Wikipedia.org, Camryn
Grimes was born January 7, 1990. When she was five, my niece was five. Yet
when she died she was fourteen, while my niece was fifteen. Next year she'll
be three.
This also explains why Noah acts like he's about seven or eight even though
the kid who plays him is just a few months short of starting to shave. I
hope they've got enough room on that strange, grassy plot of land surrounded
by cement sidewalks where Cassie seems to be buried (was she laid to rest in
the courtyard of the athletic club?) for Noah.
I wonder how they choose which actor does the commercial voice-over after
the opening credits. Ever notice only certain actors do them? I've heard
Peter Bergman, Sharon Case, Judith Chapman, and Kristoff St. John shill for
Crest Pro-Health and other such products Y&R is brought to you by, but other
actors never do them. Maybe some of them need the extra cash. Or maybe the
sponsors only want certain ones. I can only imagine no advertiser wants to
hear Eric Braeden saying "Crest Pro-Health mumble mumble mumble YOU GOT
THAT?"
