The Young and the Restless Thoughts
Jun. 3rd, 2009 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaI’ve been in ‘off’ mode as far as watching soaps lately but things I’ve been reading about Y&R got me interested enough to look up clips on YouTube, and I actually found some, and those clips in turn have made me interested enough to start watching the show again. I find myself interested in Jack/Sharon/Nick/Phyllis quadrangle most, as I almost always am, and very interested in where the whole Philip mystery is going and for those two reasons I’m going to start paying more attention to the show. Or at least until it starts to really annoy me again.
Jack/Sharon/Nick/Phyllis
- One issue I have had with the whole Jack/Sharon/Nick/Phyllis relationship quagmire is with Nick’s behaviour and reactions. He is all over the place with regards to Sharon. One moment she will throw herself and he will reject her and the next she’s more important than Phyllis. He’s done it so many times at this point that when he showed that he was all about being with Sharon, now, I couldn’t help but wonder if it was partially because she wasn’t trying to get back together with him again. I keep thinking back to the time around Brad’s death when Sharon was the one wanting to get back together with Nick and he chose instead to be with Phyllis. The back-and-forth just kind of makes me roll my eyes.
The direction I want the show to go is:
1. Sharon/Jack – They stay together, remarry, her child turns out to be Jack’s child and they stay together, happy, for at least a couple years. They are so screwed up, I realise that. There are many reasons why they shouldn’t be together that start with Sharon’s inability to stay away from Nick through to Jack’s apparent inability to stop lying to her. But I can’t seem to help it – I really like them together. I just want Sharon to fall for Jack as much as he has for her and for her to support him and be there for him. I’ve loved their scenes recently and the one where Sharon confesses all and Jack tells her that he knew but wanted to hear it from her and that he still wants them to be a family and they’re both crying was just such an amazing scene and it shows why I love them so much.
2. Phyllis/Nick – They need to break up. It’s just reached the point where it’s sad. It is so clear that Nick doesn’t want to be with her. If they actually keep Nick/Phyllis together after he has said (if only to Sharon) that he wants to be with Sharon, that he wants to end his marriage to Phyllis it would be such a horrible sham. I mean once one character dismisses their marriage in order to be with someone else by saying ‘they’ve come to their senses’ then it is over. I like Nick/Sharon but though I don’t want them to get together again now it doesn’t mean I want Phyllis/Nick to stay together. That relationship, on Nick’s part, is over and watching Phyllis’s desperate attempts to cling to it is just sad. Break them up and send Phyllis off into a new relationship (with Danny perhaps). Let Nick continue to try and win Sharon back for awhile as long as she chooses Jack in the end (like just before they get the DNA results back Sharon tells Jack that regardless of what they say she wants to be with him) and then send Nick off into his own separate romance (Chloe?). But just put the Phick relationship out of its misery already – for Phyllis’s sake if nothing else.
I also don’t really want Jack/Phyllis to get back together though I’m less committed to this point then the two above. These two can’t seem to decide if they’re BFF or hate each other (though they do definitely seem to be BFF more often than not). But when Phyllis burst out with how she loved Nick more than any other man she’s known it really irritated me. In her defence she realised the mistake with what she’d said pretty immediately but it certainly doesn’t take away from the pain it caused Jack and yet he was still there as a friend for her. Considering just how hung up on Nick Phyllis is it just wouldn’t be at all fair for to him for them to be thrown back together.
- Nick had two flashback montages about his relationship with the two women in his heart. Each are little music video about the love affairs of Nick/Phyllis and Nick/Sharon. These are the lyrics for each:
Phyllis: “I made you a promise that I will always keep. I will be forever yours, you’re the best of me. You never need to wonder if anyone is standing by. I will always be there, anytime and anywhere, loving you for the rest of my life. You will never need to wonder if anyone is on your side. I’ll give you my heart and I’ll give the stars and I’ll give the rest of my life.”
Sharon: “Tell me what is in your eyes. You don’t have to say what, I heard it all. Still you know that you caught me by surprise. Isn’t it funny how a heart can fall. Maybe I never knew anything at all. I don’t want to waking up in the night thinking of you and all the things I should have done when I had the chance to. I don’t want to wonder if there is more I could do, I just want to know that I did my best for you when I had the chance to.”
That did not work for me. Specifically I felt like the Phyllis song choice was so wrong and off and it really distracted me. First, it sings about ‘keeping a promise’ and ‘being forever yours’ over shots of Phyllis and Nick at the beginning of their relationship – which just happened to be Nick cheating on his wife with Phyllis. It starts with ‘a promise that I will always keep’ and yet at that time there was no promise between Nick and Phyllis but there was one between Nick and Sharon, which Nick was breaking with Phyllis. So, um, bad choice there. Personally I think the song choice was wrong but they could have made it work a little better if they had just used shots of Phyllis and Nick’s life after he’d broken up with Sharon. As it is I watched Nick and Phyllis being all giggly in the stable as the singer sings about ‘forever yours, you’re the best of me’ and can’t help but put it in context which is Nick and Phyllis being giggly and having sex in the stables, in secret since he was still married with Sharon, and even worse it was on the anniversary of Cassie’s death. It was horrible. Singing about how Phyllis is the best of Nick over that moment is just so wrong. Yuck.
What makes this choice of song even worse is that at the end of the episode we get Nick telling Sharon that he’s leaving Phyllis and kissing her passionately. In the next episode he tells her they belong together and that he’s ‘come to his senses’. The music choice for Phyllis/Nick is just so wrong that it’s kind of ridiculous. ‘You never need to wonder’? That’s all Phyllis has been doing for years! ‘I will always be there, anytime and anywhere’? Seriously?! We had Nick basically say this exactly to Sharon an episode or so before this one. It’s just ridiculous.
Considering Nick’s current decision about Sharon/Phyllis, Nick’s continuing need to be there for Sharon and inability to separate himself from her, Nick always being there to support her and basically saying one of the lines of the song to Sharon recently, and how Phyllis/Nick began I really think this song was so wrong for Phyllis but was perfect for Sharon. It’s basically about a man telling a woman that – he made a promise he will always keep, that he will always be hers, that she’s the best part of him, that he will always be there for her (‘anytime and anywhere’), that he will love her for the rest of my life, that he’ll she’ll never need to wonder if he’s on her side and that he’ll give her the rest of my life. Sharon was the first woman who Nick made a promise to, Sharon is the one who he, especially recently, has always been there for and stated over and over that he will always be there for. Sharon has always had a part of him throughout his whole marriage to Phyllis. I did wonder while watching if perhaps the music was foreshadowing that Nick would chose Nick (because why would you put that music over the woman he isn’t choosing?) but no it wasn’t. So really it was just a bad decision on the part of the PTB.
Then we get Sharon’s song which... is the person who made these montages watching the bloody show? I can see this Nick pov awhile back when he was committed to Phyllis but still guilty about Sharon and nostalgic about what they had and perhaps wishing it hadn’t turned out that way. The song makes great sense then with it’s line about ‘not wanting to wonder if there was more he could do’ and ‘wanting to know he did his best for her when he had the chance’ and basically just a song of not wanting to regret. It works for Nick... for Nick, like, two years ago! This Nick? The one we’re currently watching telling Sharon that he will always be there for her when she needs him, who has slept with her multiple times recently, who keeps talking about them being fate, who seems to think Sharon is his great love and who in the same episode will tell Sharon he wants to be with her, that they’re meant to be and that he’s ‘come to his senses’? Seriously? Are they even paying attention? This is not a song about Sharon/Nick. Not in any way. The Sharon/Nick song is the one played over Phyllis. This song I could see with Phyllis though I don’t think it’s perfect for her either. Phyllis/Nick’s song should be about how she helped him, how much he loves her and how much joy she brings to his life but the one we got? That is the Sharon/Nick song. And clearly from the several paragraphs I’ve devoted to it this bothers me quite a bit.
- “I don’t understand why you love her when she’s hurt you so much. I don’t get it.” – Phyllis. Um... what? Short-term memory loss taken to an extreme like whoa. I mean she just had a breakdown over how Nick has and is hurting her and yet how much she still loves him. So – what?
- “Trust. (crying) Jack, you were an awful husband to me. But you’re also the best friend I’ve ever had.” – Sharon. You know this was a really nice scene between them and in many ways Sharon is completely right he was a bad husband but he has been an excellent and supportive friend. But ‘the’ best friend she’s ever had? Really? A better friend then Brad or Drusilla? Grace is clearly not in the running despite finding Cassie and while I wish they had continued the Sharon/Neil friendship I don’t think they’ve talked in like a year (?) so he’s out too (which is too bad). But I’m kind of sceptical about Jack rating over Brad and Drusilla. That said I really enjoyed these scenes.
- “Now that I’ve finally come to my senses we can be together the way that it was always meant to be.” – Nick to Sharon. Yikes. So I guess despite all his protestations to Phyllis he really has made up his mind. Despite Phyllis not hearing that it was still really harsh and I feel sorry for all Phyllis/Nick shippers cause that has got to feel like a slap in the face.
- “I don’t live in the past. I can’t imagine what it’s like for you to have someone so tied up in every moment of your adult life, to be bound together.” – Phyllis re: Nick and Sharon.
- “Come on if we made a list of everyone we’ve hurt over the years it’d reach Chicago.” – Jack to Phyllis. See this bit of self-awareness is really nice to see but it would be even nicer if he would take it and apply it to Billy. I mean John even brings up Jack sleeping with Jill and Jack just waves it away but it is really a very valid point. It was even worse because Jack had an affair with John’s wife while Billy slept with Jack’s recent ex-wife a couple times. Some understanding towards him would be nice to see.
- “You are my brother and I love you and I don’t think I can ever forgive you for this.” – Jack to Billy. Eh, it’s a soap, he probably will. So does he mean it when he tells Sharon – “Billy and I will be fine. Eventually.” – or is he just trying to set her mind at ease and stop her for worrying? I don’t really have a lot to say about the Jack/Billy confrontation scene beyond that I thought it was amazing work from both actors and was very impressed.
Everything Else
- I found the fact that we had no indication of either Nick or Sharon reaching out to Noah on Cassie’s birthday wrong and sad and appalling. A phone call, a mention of him, something. Instead we have Noah accidentally running into his dad at Cassie’s grave and then later (the next day?) running into Sharon. Neither of his parents appeared to even think about him and it annoyed me.
- When I learnt that Ashley was returning and they were going to be reviving the Ashley/Victor relationship I was excited. I’ve always liked them, I’ve liked them with each other probably more than either of them with their various other love interests and this has been something I’ve wanted for a long time. That said, I find myself very disappointed in their storyline. Sabrina hovering over everything is annoying especially considering how she became this great love after knowing and being with Victor for like six months. It’s just ridiculous. The Ashley/Victor interactions just don’t seem to have the chemistry they used to have. I’m just not loving them and it makes me sad.
- Adam trying to drive Ashley crazy is just so strange. I understand him wanting to get back at Victor because Victor has treated him horribly but Ashley has never been anything but nice and caring with him, and him doing it to her is just so wrong. I read a theory that it’s Adam’s way of getting back at both Victor and Jack which makes sense but doesn’t make what he’s doing to Ashley any better. I don’t know where they’re planning to go with this in the end, where they’re taking the character, because it really seems that they’re writing him into a corner. Rumours/spoilers seem to indicate that things are going to be going darker and not in a redemption route so... *shrugs* I’ve never loved the character and I’m not overly invested in him but he is Victor and Hope’s son and it seems so strange that they’re taking him in this direction.
- Neil has always been a fairly good guy certainly when stacked against other male characters. He’s done stupid things, of course, but generally I like him well enough. He does tend to the boring end of the spectrum except with Drusilla, Sharon and Malcolm and I enjoy his relationship with his kids. But this whole situation with Karen and Tyra is just kind of disgusting on his part and I would prefer boring Neil to one who has an affair on his new wife, then breaks up with her and gets together with the one he had an affair with (huh, that kind of sounds a little familiar). I’ve never really liked Tyra but this whole situation could have played out in ways that didn’t make Neil and her look like horrible people. I’m pleased that Devon at least is not at all happy with what’s going on and is showing it. I’ll probably fast-forward through them.
- I liked the Daniel/Sharon scene at the pool party but then I usually do like their scenes. They have a very interesting relationship and I kind of wish we could see them interact more. I mean Sharon is married to Jack who Daniel is close to maybe we could have a storyline of Daniel moving back to the Abbott estate and getting close to Sharon? That could be interesting. In any case I really liked her comforting him and telling him to forgive himself and that she had.
- The Daniel storyline I envisioned above would also be good because otherwise I just don’t find Daniel all that interesting right now. Not his weird art/murder storyline and not his relationship with Amber.
- Are Michael and Lauren still on the show? I haven’t seen them in any of the clips I watched. Them and Kevin/Jana, and Eden and Gloria are also characters and storylines I’m not really interested in. Kind of whatever really. Gloria being broke should make me happy, and it does, but it’s not enough. She got that way because of bad luck and stupidity when she should have lost it via civil suit on behalf of the Abbotts. Also boring; JT/Victoria.
- The whole Nikki/Paul relationship is nice background and I like that she’s found someone that does respect her and is good to her, it’s a nice change. The investigation into Mary Jane, her true identity (which I am sure is Patty Williams) and her plan for Jack is very interesting and I hope that continues to build and that we might get some forward movement on it.
- I hope the rumours of Christine returning are true. I’ve missed her even if others haven’t and with Nina back, and both Philip III and IV potentially returning, it would be wrong for her not to be involved in the story. They’ve been bringing so many other characters back (Mac, Raul, Nina) it only makes sense to add her.
- Like Mac I also found Billy calling Raul ‘that guy’ weird and for the same reasons that she stated. She says it’s been six years since they’ve seen each other (so long!) so has it been that long since Billy and Raul have seen each other?
Jack/Sharon/Nick/Phyllis
- One issue I have had with the whole Jack/Sharon/Nick/Phyllis relationship quagmire is with Nick’s behaviour and reactions. He is all over the place with regards to Sharon. One moment she will throw herself and he will reject her and the next she’s more important than Phyllis. He’s done it so many times at this point that when he showed that he was all about being with Sharon, now, I couldn’t help but wonder if it was partially because she wasn’t trying to get back together with him again. I keep thinking back to the time around Brad’s death when Sharon was the one wanting to get back together with Nick and he chose instead to be with Phyllis. The back-and-forth just kind of makes me roll my eyes.
The direction I want the show to go is:
1. Sharon/Jack – They stay together, remarry, her child turns out to be Jack’s child and they stay together, happy, for at least a couple years. They are so screwed up, I realise that. There are many reasons why they shouldn’t be together that start with Sharon’s inability to stay away from Nick through to Jack’s apparent inability to stop lying to her. But I can’t seem to help it – I really like them together. I just want Sharon to fall for Jack as much as he has for her and for her to support him and be there for him. I’ve loved their scenes recently and the one where Sharon confesses all and Jack tells her that he knew but wanted to hear it from her and that he still wants them to be a family and they’re both crying was just such an amazing scene and it shows why I love them so much.
2. Phyllis/Nick – They need to break up. It’s just reached the point where it’s sad. It is so clear that Nick doesn’t want to be with her. If they actually keep Nick/Phyllis together after he has said (if only to Sharon) that he wants to be with Sharon, that he wants to end his marriage to Phyllis it would be such a horrible sham. I mean once one character dismisses their marriage in order to be with someone else by saying ‘they’ve come to their senses’ then it is over. I like Nick/Sharon but though I don’t want them to get together again now it doesn’t mean I want Phyllis/Nick to stay together. That relationship, on Nick’s part, is over and watching Phyllis’s desperate attempts to cling to it is just sad. Break them up and send Phyllis off into a new relationship (with Danny perhaps). Let Nick continue to try and win Sharon back for awhile as long as she chooses Jack in the end (like just before they get the DNA results back Sharon tells Jack that regardless of what they say she wants to be with him) and then send Nick off into his own separate romance (Chloe?). But just put the Phick relationship out of its misery already – for Phyllis’s sake if nothing else.
I also don’t really want Jack/Phyllis to get back together though I’m less committed to this point then the two above. These two can’t seem to decide if they’re BFF or hate each other (though they do definitely seem to be BFF more often than not). But when Phyllis burst out with how she loved Nick more than any other man she’s known it really irritated me. In her defence she realised the mistake with what she’d said pretty immediately but it certainly doesn’t take away from the pain it caused Jack and yet he was still there as a friend for her. Considering just how hung up on Nick Phyllis is it just wouldn’t be at all fair for to him for them to be thrown back together.
- Nick had two flashback montages about his relationship with the two women in his heart. Each are little music video about the love affairs of Nick/Phyllis and Nick/Sharon. These are the lyrics for each:
Phyllis: “I made you a promise that I will always keep. I will be forever yours, you’re the best of me. You never need to wonder if anyone is standing by. I will always be there, anytime and anywhere, loving you for the rest of my life. You will never need to wonder if anyone is on your side. I’ll give you my heart and I’ll give the stars and I’ll give the rest of my life.”
Sharon: “Tell me what is in your eyes. You don’t have to say what, I heard it all. Still you know that you caught me by surprise. Isn’t it funny how a heart can fall. Maybe I never knew anything at all. I don’t want to waking up in the night thinking of you and all the things I should have done when I had the chance to. I don’t want to wonder if there is more I could do, I just want to know that I did my best for you when I had the chance to.”
That did not work for me. Specifically I felt like the Phyllis song choice was so wrong and off and it really distracted me. First, it sings about ‘keeping a promise’ and ‘being forever yours’ over shots of Phyllis and Nick at the beginning of their relationship – which just happened to be Nick cheating on his wife with Phyllis. It starts with ‘a promise that I will always keep’ and yet at that time there was no promise between Nick and Phyllis but there was one between Nick and Sharon, which Nick was breaking with Phyllis. So, um, bad choice there. Personally I think the song choice was wrong but they could have made it work a little better if they had just used shots of Phyllis and Nick’s life after he’d broken up with Sharon. As it is I watched Nick and Phyllis being all giggly in the stable as the singer sings about ‘forever yours, you’re the best of me’ and can’t help but put it in context which is Nick and Phyllis being giggly and having sex in the stables, in secret since he was still married with Sharon, and even worse it was on the anniversary of Cassie’s death. It was horrible. Singing about how Phyllis is the best of Nick over that moment is just so wrong. Yuck.
What makes this choice of song even worse is that at the end of the episode we get Nick telling Sharon that he’s leaving Phyllis and kissing her passionately. In the next episode he tells her they belong together and that he’s ‘come to his senses’. The music choice for Phyllis/Nick is just so wrong that it’s kind of ridiculous. ‘You never need to wonder’? That’s all Phyllis has been doing for years! ‘I will always be there, anytime and anywhere’? Seriously?! We had Nick basically say this exactly to Sharon an episode or so before this one. It’s just ridiculous.
Considering Nick’s current decision about Sharon/Phyllis, Nick’s continuing need to be there for Sharon and inability to separate himself from her, Nick always being there to support her and basically saying one of the lines of the song to Sharon recently, and how Phyllis/Nick began I really think this song was so wrong for Phyllis but was perfect for Sharon. It’s basically about a man telling a woman that – he made a promise he will always keep, that he will always be hers, that she’s the best part of him, that he will always be there for her (‘anytime and anywhere’), that he will love her for the rest of my life, that he’ll she’ll never need to wonder if he’s on her side and that he’ll give her the rest of my life. Sharon was the first woman who Nick made a promise to, Sharon is the one who he, especially recently, has always been there for and stated over and over that he will always be there for. Sharon has always had a part of him throughout his whole marriage to Phyllis. I did wonder while watching if perhaps the music was foreshadowing that Nick would chose Nick (because why would you put that music over the woman he isn’t choosing?) but no it wasn’t. So really it was just a bad decision on the part of the PTB.
Then we get Sharon’s song which... is the person who made these montages watching the bloody show? I can see this Nick pov awhile back when he was committed to Phyllis but still guilty about Sharon and nostalgic about what they had and perhaps wishing it hadn’t turned out that way. The song makes great sense then with it’s line about ‘not wanting to wonder if there was more he could do’ and ‘wanting to know he did his best for her when he had the chance’ and basically just a song of not wanting to regret. It works for Nick... for Nick, like, two years ago! This Nick? The one we’re currently watching telling Sharon that he will always be there for her when she needs him, who has slept with her multiple times recently, who keeps talking about them being fate, who seems to think Sharon is his great love and who in the same episode will tell Sharon he wants to be with her, that they’re meant to be and that he’s ‘come to his senses’? Seriously? Are they even paying attention? This is not a song about Sharon/Nick. Not in any way. The Sharon/Nick song is the one played over Phyllis. This song I could see with Phyllis though I don’t think it’s perfect for her either. Phyllis/Nick’s song should be about how she helped him, how much he loves her and how much joy she brings to his life but the one we got? That is the Sharon/Nick song. And clearly from the several paragraphs I’ve devoted to it this bothers me quite a bit.
- “I don’t understand why you love her when she’s hurt you so much. I don’t get it.” – Phyllis. Um... what? Short-term memory loss taken to an extreme like whoa. I mean she just had a breakdown over how Nick has and is hurting her and yet how much she still loves him. So – what?
- “Trust. (crying) Jack, you were an awful husband to me. But you’re also the best friend I’ve ever had.” – Sharon. You know this was a really nice scene between them and in many ways Sharon is completely right he was a bad husband but he has been an excellent and supportive friend. But ‘the’ best friend she’s ever had? Really? A better friend then Brad or Drusilla? Grace is clearly not in the running despite finding Cassie and while I wish they had continued the Sharon/Neil friendship I don’t think they’ve talked in like a year (?) so he’s out too (which is too bad). But I’m kind of sceptical about Jack rating over Brad and Drusilla. That said I really enjoyed these scenes.
- “Now that I’ve finally come to my senses we can be together the way that it was always meant to be.” – Nick to Sharon. Yikes. So I guess despite all his protestations to Phyllis he really has made up his mind. Despite Phyllis not hearing that it was still really harsh and I feel sorry for all Phyllis/Nick shippers cause that has got to feel like a slap in the face.
- “I don’t live in the past. I can’t imagine what it’s like for you to have someone so tied up in every moment of your adult life, to be bound together.” – Phyllis re: Nick and Sharon.
- “Come on if we made a list of everyone we’ve hurt over the years it’d reach Chicago.” – Jack to Phyllis. See this bit of self-awareness is really nice to see but it would be even nicer if he would take it and apply it to Billy. I mean John even brings up Jack sleeping with Jill and Jack just waves it away but it is really a very valid point. It was even worse because Jack had an affair with John’s wife while Billy slept with Jack’s recent ex-wife a couple times. Some understanding towards him would be nice to see.
- “You are my brother and I love you and I don’t think I can ever forgive you for this.” – Jack to Billy. Eh, it’s a soap, he probably will. So does he mean it when he tells Sharon – “Billy and I will be fine. Eventually.” – or is he just trying to set her mind at ease and stop her for worrying? I don’t really have a lot to say about the Jack/Billy confrontation scene beyond that I thought it was amazing work from both actors and was very impressed.
Everything Else
- I found the fact that we had no indication of either Nick or Sharon reaching out to Noah on Cassie’s birthday wrong and sad and appalling. A phone call, a mention of him, something. Instead we have Noah accidentally running into his dad at Cassie’s grave and then later (the next day?) running into Sharon. Neither of his parents appeared to even think about him and it annoyed me.
- When I learnt that Ashley was returning and they were going to be reviving the Ashley/Victor relationship I was excited. I’ve always liked them, I’ve liked them with each other probably more than either of them with their various other love interests and this has been something I’ve wanted for a long time. That said, I find myself very disappointed in their storyline. Sabrina hovering over everything is annoying especially considering how she became this great love after knowing and being with Victor for like six months. It’s just ridiculous. The Ashley/Victor interactions just don’t seem to have the chemistry they used to have. I’m just not loving them and it makes me sad.
- Adam trying to drive Ashley crazy is just so strange. I understand him wanting to get back at Victor because Victor has treated him horribly but Ashley has never been anything but nice and caring with him, and him doing it to her is just so wrong. I read a theory that it’s Adam’s way of getting back at both Victor and Jack which makes sense but doesn’t make what he’s doing to Ashley any better. I don’t know where they’re planning to go with this in the end, where they’re taking the character, because it really seems that they’re writing him into a corner. Rumours/spoilers seem to indicate that things are going to be going darker and not in a redemption route so... *shrugs* I’ve never loved the character and I’m not overly invested in him but he is Victor and Hope’s son and it seems so strange that they’re taking him in this direction.
- Neil has always been a fairly good guy certainly when stacked against other male characters. He’s done stupid things, of course, but generally I like him well enough. He does tend to the boring end of the spectrum except with Drusilla, Sharon and Malcolm and I enjoy his relationship with his kids. But this whole situation with Karen and Tyra is just kind of disgusting on his part and I would prefer boring Neil to one who has an affair on his new wife, then breaks up with her and gets together with the one he had an affair with (huh, that kind of sounds a little familiar). I’ve never really liked Tyra but this whole situation could have played out in ways that didn’t make Neil and her look like horrible people. I’m pleased that Devon at least is not at all happy with what’s going on and is showing it. I’ll probably fast-forward through them.
- I liked the Daniel/Sharon scene at the pool party but then I usually do like their scenes. They have a very interesting relationship and I kind of wish we could see them interact more. I mean Sharon is married to Jack who Daniel is close to maybe we could have a storyline of Daniel moving back to the Abbott estate and getting close to Sharon? That could be interesting. In any case I really liked her comforting him and telling him to forgive himself and that she had.
- The Daniel storyline I envisioned above would also be good because otherwise I just don’t find Daniel all that interesting right now. Not his weird art/murder storyline and not his relationship with Amber.
- Are Michael and Lauren still on the show? I haven’t seen them in any of the clips I watched. Them and Kevin/Jana, and Eden and Gloria are also characters and storylines I’m not really interested in. Kind of whatever really. Gloria being broke should make me happy, and it does, but it’s not enough. She got that way because of bad luck and stupidity when she should have lost it via civil suit on behalf of the Abbotts. Also boring; JT/Victoria.
- The whole Nikki/Paul relationship is nice background and I like that she’s found someone that does respect her and is good to her, it’s a nice change. The investigation into Mary Jane, her true identity (which I am sure is Patty Williams) and her plan for Jack is very interesting and I hope that continues to build and that we might get some forward movement on it.
- I hope the rumours of Christine returning are true. I’ve missed her even if others haven’t and with Nina back, and both Philip III and IV potentially returning, it would be wrong for her not to be involved in the story. They’ve been bringing so many other characters back (Mac, Raul, Nina) it only makes sense to add her.
- Like Mac I also found Billy calling Raul ‘that guy’ weird and for the same reasons that she stated. She says it’s been six years since they’ve seen each other (so long!) so has it been that long since Billy and Raul have seen each other?
