tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2585163331194032530.post6344929957297834999..comments2023-11-02T09:08:08.645-04:00Comments on We Love Soaps: NEWS ROUNDUP: Y&R Reaches New Ratings Lows, Josh Duhamel Visits Flooded HometownKevhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659344675956886092noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2585163331194032530.post-59558355372799120552011-09-04T15:23:56.452-04:002011-09-04T15:23:56.452-04:00It's sad to see Y&R's ratings crater l...It's sad to see Y&R's ratings crater like this. Only last year, it had rating approaching 5 million viewers. What happened? I think it's lost focus by losing sight of characters and basic logic.<br /><br />Too often, Y&R characters over the last 2 years have not acted true to their intelligence, history, or common sense. Instead of telling great stories, Y&R has been going for outlandish stories. <br /><br />Let's look at the character of Jill Foster Abbot Fenmore. Here is a woman who fought her way from the working class to be CEO of Jabot and then co-CEO of her father's company Fenmore's department store. A woman with that kind of ambition would not throw away a CEO position to become a marketing director at another Jabot. How does that make career sense?<br /><br />What about Neil Winters? Would a 40-something man who has been married twice, and have been in conflict with his brother over several women, decide to have unprotected sex with the woman who just broke up with his brother? Why? Why would an intelligent man like Neil have unprotected sex? Why would he sleep with his brother's girlfriend just for sex? <br /><br />Then there's Sharon Newman. Good Lord. How can a woman or a man be as self-destructive as Sharon Newman? Apparently easily as written by Maria Arena Bell. Sharon has married and then returned to the man who stole her baby, convinced her the child was dead, and also committed horrific psychological warfare against another innocent woman that resulted in the death of her unborn child (whose remains he burned in the woman's fireplace!).<br /><br />The list of examples of smart people acting stupidly is long and embarrassing. It speaks volumes to the incompetence of Y&R's leadership.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com