I've Caught Up With Corrie and It Feels So Good!...Kind of

So I did it. Well at least as far as Hulu does it. I'm still behind by a week. Being that a month ago I was watching May's episodes I don't think it's bad.

It was a whirlwind month where I watched almost a year's worth (8 months if you're counting.) of episodes. So I know in more detail what is going down on the street such as why Sophie and Jenna broke up, (She was too immature for Jenna.) how they wrote off Roy's awesome mother Sylvia, (She left to see a relative. According to Roy she tends to leave then things get tough.) how Tina was going to be written out of the show, (She slept with the married Peter and when he didn't chose her she left in secret.) and how Sally and Tim got together (It was mostly physical and sexual.).

With the good there is the bad. Hayley dying is just...there really are no words for it. It's a powerful storyline that you wish wasn't happening. Hayley is really the tentpole of the show, the emotional heart. She's the character that everyone loves and adores, unless you are Tracy Barlow. There are no words to describe Tracy's horribleness played brilliantly by Kate Ford. Hayley is going to be greatly missed. I feel like I know her, as if she is a part of my family. She's the person that isn't perfect but is damn close to it. She's what I wish the world was like. Can you imagine what it would be like if there were more Hayley's in the world?

This is a character that has been written well and perfectly. It's a character that many shows try to have on their show. The truth is that it's quite hard to produce a Hayley Cropper. Just think of the many "good guy" characters that are forced on us. They try to make them perfect but it always seems to saccarine and fake. Steve Burton's Dylan MacAvoy is one example. No matter how perfect he's written, he's never going to be as popular or well loved. You can't force the audience to like a character. It has to be organic. With Hayley it was. Youtube has a variety of Hayley Cropper videos that show her story. There was always chemistry between Julie Hesmondhalgh's Hayley Cropper and David Neilson's Roy Cropper. This really is a once in a generation love story.

Goodbye Hayley Cropper you will be greatly missed!

Do we always have to have hair models?

I was watching this documentary that had to do with one of the worse films ever: Troll II. It made me think about soap operas. A lot of non soap fans would certainly compare soap acting to that of a campy B-movie. It wasn't even scary but funny. It's always in lists of bad films that or looked at as parodies. Showgirls is also in here, a film that I could only watch an hour of before turning off. There are time that this happens. Sometimes it's on purpose but sometimes it's not.

There was a time in the 40s-60s where soap operas were a well respected medium. There was even a time when they were more liberal than prime time. The acting was brilliant, the production values were awesome. Though it was with a 4:3 aspect ratio and didn't have a very elaborate set. It's didn't need it. Actors were chosen for their talents and not their looks. It showed in the quality shows that were produced.

These days it's the opposite. Today looks are more important. While you might win the jackpot with a Crystal Chappell or Dominic Zamprogna, it's quite rare. This all goes to soap operas, especially in the United States, being obsessed with looks over talent. Hiring young actors is going to be a disaster in regards to talent. The good ones such as Billy Miller and Zamprogna that come onto the show with a hell of a lot talent are likely to leave early too. Billy is leaving as is Michael Muhney on Y&R. While there are still some great young actors (anyone under 40 in my books) there are loads that aren't.

For me this all goes down to the idea that looks are what is most important. If they are lucky they will get talent, talent that is rare to be long term. Jacob Young for example is one of the best who has been on soaps since 1997.

The big issue for me if that in going for people with looks we get a lot of models. A lot. Kristen Alfonso started off as a hair model and it shows to this day. She is not the only one. There were quite a lot of models that get to act in soaps even though they are better at pictures than handling complex emotional arcs.

The reason I bring this up is because there is a new character on General Hospital. Detective Nathan West is played by underwear model Ryan Paevey. That's right, an underwear model. So far it has shown. This acting is not anything memorable. The writing is good, but that's not anything he would have to do with. What I have seen is that he's better at smiling then having chemistry with his costars. It was bad. I did not feel much of anything except for boredom.

That of course is what is going to happen when you bring on someone just for their looks. It's annoying when you have to watch someone learn to act on national TV. I don't want to watch a TV show for that. If I wanted that then I would go watch an acting class. If I wanted to see a pretty face then I would go get a magazine.

If there is one thing that I can say to the people that are involved with putting models on soaps it's this: STOP. Seriously stop. I don't want or need to see people that think just because they can take good pictures that they can act. If they want to then take some classes, at least enough to be on national TV. Just because you are good looking does not mean that you can do everything else in the entertainment business.
Here's a clip if you dare watch.

10 Reasons GH Is Not Awesome

There is a lot of talk these days about General Hospital. It's mostly positive and how the ratings are up and how they have gotten better since the dark days that Bob Guza was head writer and executive producer. I personally disagree with how it's great. While it's better than the days of Guza I would not say that it's by much. Many of the reasons that I hated his era seem to be repeating under Carlivati. So I'm here to list ten reasons why it's not the best soap opera that ever existed.

10. Thorsten Kaye isn't on this show.

I just have to start off with this one. Thorsten Kaye is the best ever. The fact that he's not on General Hospital means that this show isn't the best on daytime. Sorry but you should have had him on this show. Sure he wouldn't be able to play Zach Slater. He could play any assortment of awesome characters. Then again with the big screw up that was the OLTL actors being new characters back in May I don't have much faith in anyone at General Hospital.

GH's loss is B&B's win.

9. Crystal Chappell isn't on this show.

Do you see a trend here? I promise that the other eight do have to REALLY do with the show. Any show without the brilliance that is Crystal Chappell cannot be great. She is one of the best out there and it shows in her work. In my opinion Days has a void where she once was when they stupidly got rid of her. I do know that Days existed before and after her but it just feels weird without her on it. She's just so great. I just can't call this show great if you have characters like Carlos and Sabrina but not any characters played by Crystal Chappell. Sorry Carlivati!

If you look into her eyes for too long then you will fall into a spell...of AWESOMENESS!

8. Killing off Helena.

So this is the character they kill off? The delicious Helena played brilliantly by Constance Towers? She should never die. Her one liners, which are usually based on truth, were great. They don't kill off Sonny who has lost his edge around 2006? I loved her. She's the closest to Sylvia Cropper that we will ever get! I was always entertained when I saw her.

This awesomeness now exists only in dream sequences.

7. Sweeps stunts.

All of the stuff that people say is great about this show happened during the sweeps. Except for the Nurses Ball which was a one off. Just because you have the stuff that characters want for a few weeks a year doesn't make the show any better than others. Guza was also prone to this or would create episodes were were only around so that GH would win the Emmy for best show. (ex. The Carnival from August of 2009) It has to happen all of the time not just one week in April and a couple weeks in November. I know that it's done on purpose. It's annoying to think that people are calling General Hospital so great over stuff that happens so occasionally. Sorry but General Hospital has to be great all year long not just for 20 episodes.

So what are we going to do for the 200 other episodes?

6. Characters over 40 don't get a storyline.

Consider this to be an effect of watching Coronation Street. I have been watching June's episodes and have been very into the who is playing pranks on Roy and his diner and Emily spraining her ankle and Norris being jealous because her niece and nephew bring her flowers. All of these characters are over 50! I love Sylvia's quips, she is so awesome in the storyline with Roy's obsession with finding out who has been messing with his business. It all makes sense and is very much about the characters. Unlike on General Hospital where older characters are never on and god help us if there is even anything not plot centric on at all. All of these problems with the characters on Corrie were solved within 2-3 weeks and I loved seeing them. It was real and entertaining stuff. While it might sound boring to someone like Carlivati it actually is a million times more entertaining then what I see on General Hospital in five minutes. Yes it was more entertaining to see an 80 something year old woman recovering from a sprained ankle then most of anything on General Hospital. That's either a statement that Corrie is that awesome or General Hospital is that bad.

I guess I should be lucky for a couple minutes of screentime a month.

5. Boring or unlikable new characters. (Not including ex OLTLers)

These are the Carlos and Sabrina's of General Hospital. One is a 13 year old stuck in a 30 year old's body. The other is a mobster who is supposed to be sexy I guess. As I'm a lesbian I guess I'll never get it. I guess if you give someone can accent then they are awesome. Actually that's probably yes as I'm crushing on both Alison King and Michelle Keegan of Corrie fame. So yeah...but that does not always work. You have to also act. Then there was that random chick that Michael went out with who was blonde and couldn't act either. The new kids are just not doing it for me. It's not like a hate them all. I do love Britt Westbourne and her Liesl Obrecht but most of them have failed badly.

This outfit is certainly appropriate for the character.

4. The LGBT characters suck or don't exist.

General Hospital is very poor when it comes to LGBT characters. Lucas's coming out story was just that. The guy came out, apparently met a guy named...well Guy and then he was never seen from again. I remember joking on a message board at the time that he was watching Noah's Ark. I thought I was funny then. Though he is coming back I am nervous about what is going to happen. I think that what we are going to get is more Jerome crap then dealing with his love life. While we have what could be the first gay love triangle I don't think we will get much screentime.

Soap operas can't wrap their heads about a transgender character if they got knocked over the head. The Zoe stuff just fell short. Looking back at it I felt that the actor was way too campy and not realistic. I don't think that this "great" show is going to even do such a storyline.

As for lesbians? We don't have one on GH. We never have. I don't think that we never will. Being how visible the LGBT community is in the media and pop culture and how that's become positive I find this messed up. I am a lesbian myself and hate that there is not one lesbian character(s) on soaps.

So far all we got for gay men is Brad and Felix. Felix is a walking stereotype that is very annoying. Brad is just Brad. I will say that I like that he isn't written as too perfect and has an edge to him. Him trying to blackmail Michael into sex was not cool at all. So I'm hoping that Lucas will make the gay scene better but I'm not banking any money on it.

This is the closest these characters will get to anything on this show.

3. The obsession with babies.

This seems to be a common theme for all soap operas. It has been happening a lot in recent years. As General Hospital is trying to say that it's better than the other soaps then I get to talk about this. It's not 1954. A woman is not just a body whose only use is having children. She gets to think and feel without having to feel that she is only validated as a person ONLY if she has a child. No it doesn't work that way. You are no less of a woman if you are not a mother. I'm sorry to say this but it doesn't matter. For soaps, which cater to women, to think that it's only to promote this anachronistic and sexist viewpoint is disgusting. What is even worst is that the characters that are doing this are under the age of 30. Lulu has lost all sense of character. She is being written as being obsessed with having the kid in her life. It's completely out of character even before the recast. Soap operas need to stop this as it's messed up.

What this results in is unrealistic characters. Characters that act more like they are 35 then their real age. Being in your twenties is about finding yours and exploring who you are. It's not about settling down. Their are characters that are still in their teens having kids such as Gabi and characters that are in their mid twenties with their own families such as Lily. It is not cool at all.

What is worse is that this obsession with continue until the baby is ignored for who knows how long. The only storylines involve them being sick or a custody storyline. Then there is the fact that they will be SORASed by the time they are four into a pissed off 16 year old.

I hate to tell you this Lulu but it's a real human being NOT a doll.

2. The OLTL actors are playing horrible or boring characters.

I should probably be nice here. If GH had their choice we would still see Todd Manning. John McBain and Starr Manning. Instead we got this dribble. It sucks also because in the case of Roger Howarth's character, he had chemistry with Laura Wright's Carly. Instead they found the worst character he could play. That's the horrible Franco played by James Franco. How many people actually liked the Franco character except for Bob Guza, James Franco, Jill Farren Phelps and Steve Burton. The character was horrible and was just a way for James Franco to do some experimentation. It was fun for him. He didn't care about the people not just cast but crew that worked on this show for decades and how his little fun could have destroyed the show. When he was on SNL around the time he was on the show he made a lot of fun of GH. He pretty much said it was beneath him and how he was "going back" in his career. He showed a highly campy clip between Franco and Kristen Storm's Maxie. I get that it was SNL but we are sick and tired of of the soap opera genre being treated as a low form of entertainment.

When Roger came back it was as this character. They attempted to whitewash all of the horrible things that Franco did but saying that he didn't do it or that it was not his intention for the events to happen. They even went for to typical brain tumor situation. Of course Franco was written before as being always evil, even as a kid. Hell it was written that he looked evil as a newborn! So to say that a tumor was his reason for everything was pretty bad. It was a major fail to have Howarth come back as one of the worst characters in all of GH if not soap opera history.

The other two characters were mostly boring. The Kiki character, along with having a stripper name is just boring and not worth screentime. Her relationship with Michael was rushed too quickly and fell flat. The other one is a doctor with no personality. Silas Clay is not at all interesting. Well even if Sam is the gayest woman on the show not even she can make him interesting. What else can I say about these two? I just can't understand how the show, which had the rare chance of including three good/great actors who have at least ten years experience on a soap opera. and getting to create any character they wanted, could screw this up.

I'm sorry...but no.

1. The mob still exists.

It's kind of laughable that the main reason that Guza was so hated, his obsession with the mob, is now being incorporated into the "new and improved" GH. That's really sad. I'm sorry but you can't really tell me that the show is better if Sonny is front and center killing people and causing mayhem etc. Sonny is a horrible character and should have been quietly written out or killed off. Actually I don't care! I hate the character who is abusive, sexist and all kinds of horrible. I don't want more of it. I don't want the Jerome's on screen even if it means I get to see Maura West everyday. She could have been added on as any character. So far she's killed Connie and almost killed Olivia. All of this sucks and seems to be a validation to Guza and his extreme violence. I hate it so much it makes my blood boil. I just can't stand it. Maybe it means that my super soap opera fan card is revoked. I'm not going to watch a soap opera to see people murdering each other.

For me this is really sad. I guess its the culture we live in where having a lot of violence is supposed to make a show good and interesting. Being that General Hospital is a soap opera that gears towards people who do not want to see the mob it makes no sense. There is no way that people who want to see the mob would watch a soap opera when they can watch other shows that are very violent. When you have a show, it's rare that everyone is going to like it. Shows that are certain subjects are going to attract certain people. You cannot force some desired fanbase because you think that's where the money is. So please stop with the mob GH. It's not working!

Just go away Sonny! For good this time.

The mob should have been killed off with the death of the horrible Jason Morgan who gets more of a shout out then characters who have been on this show for decades. It was their big chance. Sure it would have been better for it to happen slowly then quickly but it should have happened. By now there should be no more mob. For that reason I am very disappointed in Rob Carlivati who I feel has let me down.


That is why General Hospital is not the best soap opera on TV right now.

Let's Try For a Positive Post

Upon looking through all of my posts, including two that have not been published (mystery!) I realized that I am quite negative. It tends to be a thing with anyone that comments about soaps. I bet any non soap people that accidentally came upon this blog thinking it was about bars of soaps, probably wonder why we even try. Lets be honest, soaps are treated as a low brow form of entertainment with a peep show in the back of some local bookstore being treated with respect. (I don't know if such a thing actually exists but I think that you get what I'm trying to say.) Anyway I decided to be most positive on this post. After this paragraph I am only going to list things that are positive about soaps now.

Days of Our Lives

Lets first start off with the fact that EJ (James Scott) and Sami (Alison Sweeney) kicked ass and took names in their scenes this week. James Scott is the Billy Miller of Days. This show is ten times better having him on this show. He is a multi Emmy winner in my mind. His emotions were so raw and powerful as he fought with Sami about her not forgiving him for knowing about Kristen and Eric. While we do know that he knew about the drugging but is keeping it secret, it's no less awesome because of that. Ali Sweeney is also great. This woman has been on this show for 20 years! It shows. When she goes for a scene, she goes for it. The chemistry between these two is undeniable. They are just awesome and I loved watching them on the 11th.

WilSon is just as adorable as usual. I love them together and they continue to make me smile. I love that Days is actually letting them be together and happy and treating them like a couple. I think it's cute that Will thinks that Sami, Kate and Gabi are planning a surprise party together. It's cute that Sonny is going to be his "spy."

I know I should be pissed about Theresa and her blackmail. I have hated the character before. I'm going to be positive here and say that I am thinking differently about her. There are certainly characters on soaps that are all kinds of horrible but that's the point. You can't have all nice characters on soaps all of the time. That's boring. Characters can't be happy all of the time. It's very rare for that to be entertaining. Otalia is the only couple I have ever seen that made going through the motions of normalcy entertaining. Then again Crystal Chappell is that good of an actress. Jessica Leccia isn't that bad either.

I actually loved her blackmail scenes with JJ. They were entertaining and funny. I loved that she wanted him to buy her pot. She wanted to make Jennifer pay. I even saw her point. Jennifer really shouldn't have had a say in Theresa going back to California or not. So I'm not at all upset about Theresa wanting revenge. Like her I appreciate the irony of what Daniel is doing. I'm going to think of Theresa as a bad girl. When she first came on I thought of her as someone who was trying to be good. It's obvious that she doesn't want to do that. So I'm interpreting her as a bad girl.

The mysteriousness of Jordan is great. I love a little mystery in a character. Whether she's Kate's daughter or not I can't wait to find out what she's all about. With the three different identities I'm sure it's good.

Bold and Beautiful

I have been keeping up on B&B which is positive in itself. I have always thought of it as too campy for my tastes. To be honest soaps can be campy at times. Bold and Beautiful thrives on it. While I don't like every storyline I'll put in what I like along with characters who are awesome.

I have always been a fan of a show that doesn't concentrate on just 2-3 characters. Minor characters can be just as great. In the dark days of Bob Guza on GH he did do great with minor characters. Rob Carlivati is continuing with that tradition. Enough about GH. On B&B we have some nice minor characters. My favorite is Pam and Charlie. They are just too cute! I love how they bonded over baking and their scenes before the wedding about Charlie's expertise of Words with Friends? Just awesome. I also love Carter. He seems like the kind of guy who would be the life of the party. The kind of guy who can have fun with and be yourself with.

Wyatt is also great. I like that he is a stand up guy. He could have caused trouble at the wedding. Then again his mother tends to be person. He is emotionally mature enough to know when it's time to end things. I would love to see him get together with someone who can be with him fully and not use him for revenge. It's great to see that there is at least one great guy in Los Angeles.

Eric Forrester is also awesome. He's a playa! He's got two beautiful women that are old enough to be his daughter pursuing him. How does he do it? Can he give me tips? Sure Quinn is crazy and I'm rooting for Donna but that's besides the point. He's great.

I love that Caroline mentions her mothers. I know that her wedding to Rick was supposed to actually be a bigger affair except that Joanna Johnson was not available due to her role on that awesome TV show The Fosters. Her mentioning them and their disappointment etc. was fine for me. Lets hope that at least Crystal Chappell makes an appearance soon as Dani to make up for it.

While Bill and Liam can be both deplorable as characters I love the humor these characters can bring to the show. The stallion video that Bill was sending Brooke was hilarious. Liam having to help him make it was funny. Scott Clifton can bring humor into Liam. I love the little quirky moments that he can have. I love little aspects of characters that make them more human.

Lastly I have to bring up Thorsten Kaye. He is bringing his A game, which he always does, as Ridge. It's still weird to call him Ridge and not Zach but I love it. Thorsten is brilliant. My mother, who has never watched AMC or anything else he was on, loves him. I can't wait to see him go against Bill. Are we going to see RJ soon? Does he get to go out of his closet or boarding school or wherever he's been since 2007? Personally I would love to see Adam Gregory come back as Thomas and RJ get sorased as a teen. I would love to see some sort of rivalry or interaction. Maybe RJ is gay? Maybe bi? Maybe the brothers work together on something such as getting back in power at Forrester?

Lastly I am totally crushing on Jacqueline MacInnes Woods as Steffy. I love how she's vulnerable and confident. I also love that Steffy did the honorable thing and stepped away. Then again there are better guys for her. Yeah she's also quite easy on the eyes. She has a great career ahead and I wish her all of the luck.

Young and Restless

Y&R is hard to find something positive about because most of the stuff on this show is just horrible. I'm going to try.

Billy Miller is still doing brilliantly as Billy. He is always good at whatever he is given. It's still refreshing to see him still mourning his daughter. Usually in soaps it's forgotten. He's supposed to move on. That's not how grief works. It's great to see him truly acting like someone who lost a child. I also love how Amelia Heinle is getting to act. I think that she's doing great herself. She generally doesn't get much great material anyway. She is certainly kicking it out of the park.

Melody Thomas Scott is also doing great. She's awesome and shows what 30+ years on a soap opera does to your skills. I have always felt that she has been very underrated as an actress. I don't even think that she has won a Daytime Emmy. She's a winner in my books. She is the one good thing about this storyline.

General Hospital

Spinelli is leaving/is gone. That's a very positive thing. Also Dr. Liesl Olbrecht is freaking awesome. She is my favorite character on that show right now. Kathleen Gati is comedy gold. I'm not going to deny that I have a little crush on her. Also Lucas is coming back and played by one of his adult portrayers. Ryan Carnes is not the first adult/teen portrayer but he was on when I was in my late teens so yay.

I think I was pretty positive in this post. Maybe I could make this a thing.

Sophie gets a love interest! (Guess what? She's not boring!)

I'm just posting like a storm now!

I haven't posted much about Coronation Street. The truth is that I am behind. May counts as behind right? I was at first trying to read the Coronation Street blog which is awesome. Of course they post so much that I haven't been able to watch. I really wanted to see their comments about Stella and her crap with the rebuilding of The Rovers. That is mostly due to the fact that Stella is the Dylan McAvoy of Coronation Street. The only reason that Stella even exists as a character is because the actress who plays her is friends with the executive producer who was there when she was hired. So mostly like Dylan, Stella only exists because of nepotism. In many ways I finds this funny as it's good to see that it's not just an American thing to have a douchebag executive producer who hires his/her friends and screws over the show and its history because he/she can.

Anyway the main reason that I watch Coronation Street is because of Sophie Webster. I am a lesbian so any show with a gay woman in it is great. Even when Sophie gets into her bratty modes, I personally believe that Brooke Vincent brings in an authentic portrayal. She acts like a real teen and not some idealistic or sensationalist kind of teen that you see today. She acts like a kid with real kid issues. I also love that she's a Christian. I think she's one of the few gay Christians on TV today. Most are athiest or from some new age type of religion. You don't see the LGBTQIA community outside of stereotypes much today. Religion is something that they tend to ignore. I'm assuming they think it will piss off the homophobes even more than they are by seeing someone who is gay on TV. So it's great.

Her love story with Sian was awesome. It's on youtube. The whole thing is actually. This is quite rare for a couple but Sian's first appearance to her last is on there. I saw it and it was great. People were quite dedicated to showing every beat, even before they kissed. I would check it out if you are curious. So those that would like a little inkling of what that was all about, here's a music video to introduce anyone who hasn't seen them.

Sophie and Sian ended when Sian's portrayed Sasha Parkinson decided to leave for greener pastures. They ended in late December 2011. Sophie did almost nothing for most of 2012 until the end when she got hit by a car. Then she got a new love interest by the name of Jenna Kamara who is the lost lost daughter of Lloyd Mullaney. They got to together and there was probably no chemistry at all. I'm surprised that they lasted so long. As I have not seen since May I'm not sure what the circumstances of them breaking up is about.

Here's a clip of them kissing from earlier this year.

I think I almost fell asleep after watching that. I just yawned too. There was never any chemistry between them from what I could see. Jenna was 10 years older than her which isn't 100% a deterrent but was with how it was played.

Now Sophie's got a new love interest. She looked to be about her age and adorable. I'm thinking about watching a whole bunch of Corrie or just skip it for now and get to the good stuff. Either way it looks promising.

You can check out a picture preview here. I would certainly skip Days for this. Then again Coronation Street is the show that makes someone taking their driving test very interesting. So yay.

Sometimes reading the synopsis is better

It really is.

I have gotten to watching "old" episodes of Y&R. I haven't done that much even though I have a whole bunch of episodes that go back to July. With less than 25% of space left I realized that I should get to actually watching them and deleting the ones that I have watched.

I wanted to get to the episode where Dylan finds out the truth. Of course I actually went to a week before that. I'm that awesome after all. *sarcasm*

So within the couple of episodes that I watched I have found out how annoying Nick is. I knew he was a douche before watching the episodes, but now I really know it. In the Friday and Monday episodes I found out that Nick is pretty much a seven year old boy trapped in a grown man's body.

It was quite embarrassing to see him throw a temper tantrum every time he saw Dylan or at least give him that icy stare of his. The most hilarious one was when he went to Crimson Lights with Sharon and the demon child and was pissed that Dylan was there. It's kind of weird that Dylan was there anyway. It's not like he owns the coffee shop or anything.

Oh wait a minute he does!

Then it got more hilarious when Dylan did the horrible thing of wanting to make a dollhouse for the demon child. He went to Sharon who was nice (asldweriuodsfjgkldsg WTF DID I JUST TYPE!) enough to give a donation in the name of his fallen friend Sully. (At least that how I think it's spelled.) He wanted to pay it forward except that his paying it forward meant giving a toy to that demon child. That's another story altogether. What was funny was Nick's reaction. Ignoring the fact that the walls at that house are apparently too thick for demon child to hear, wtf?! Nick literally had a temper tantrum over the fact that someone wanted to make his "daughter" a dollhouse.

It was a temper tantrum that showed how spoiled, privileged, and entitled Nick really was. It was HIS family, HIS coffee shop, HIS town that Dylan came in. Dylan did not have any reason to be there. Nick apparently gets to say who comes and goes in GC. Just Nick.

Nick is certainly all of these things and passed them down to his other daughter Summer who I dislike just as much. To be honest none of his children are on my awesome list. Noah is annoying and useless. Him being in any part of Newman that isn't the mailroom is laughable.

I will say this. I know that Steve Burton, is only on Y&R because the executive producer is his friend. I know that this is being written so that Nick is the bad guy and Dylan is the good guy. Unlike Jason Morgan I can like Dylan McAvoy. He doesn't kill people for a living which is a plus. It was pretty awesome how he doesn't even go down to Nick's level. He literally shoves off Nick's childish antics. It's badass to me. It makes Nick seem even worse. As someone who has not liked Nick since his affair with Phyllis, it's great to see him being written as the spoiled brat he has been since 2005.

Yes Faith Newman is now to be called demon child on this blog.

I appreciate the irony Summer Newman

I really do.

Yesterday I made a post about my opinions about the soaps and their November Sweeps activities. I realized that I forgot to mention one.

Summer was bullied!

OMG STOP THE PRESSES! THIS IS HORRIBLE!

It really is. /end of sarcasm

Apparently Summer who is a model even though she has no experience and isn't really tall. That's nepotism for you! I guess it's the eyes. I can't deny that she has pretty eyes. No. Just no.

The photographer was making her work long hours in the cold. I think she was even shivering. He was mean to her. She didn't want to say anything because she didn't want to pull rank. Sharon *lol* walked into the park and found out what was happening and stopped it. The evil photographer was stopped. I guess there were other models too. Summer was the important one.

The guy was fired and probably blackballed. I'm not saying that it was okay that this guy did this. I did feel sorry for Summer. What got me all sarcastic and all was the comment that someone made in a recent episode. It was either Neil or Jack. They called the guy a bully and said that he was fired.

I wanted to laugh. Summer was bullied! Summer that girl that cruelly and maliciously bullied a poor teen boy from a bad home and never paid for it. A boy who she targeted because Ronan Malloy was mentoring him. A boy who didn't do a thing to this spoiled brat. Karma's a bitch isn't it?

I know that I should probably get past this. My issue is simple. If you have someone do something horrible, have them pay for it. In soaps it's usually not by going to prison though Fen is certainly doing that. Even if it's not for what he did to Jaime, he has been punished above and beyond. Punishment on soaps is usually some form of ostracizing. Adam is a great example. Though he has served time in prison, it was minimal and was all about the fake diary. All of the horrible things that he did which were worst in that have not included jail time. Instead we get more of a psychological punishment such as no relationship and respect with 95% of the town. Sharon has also dealt with that too.

Summer has none of that. There is no punishment. A boy was willing to attempt to kill himself twice due to Summer and Fen and yet Summer has never paid. Some might make the case for this who is her father thing with her thinking her whole life is a lie. I am of course from the school of the Abbotts are way better of a family than the Newman's. Less dysfunctional and more loving. Pretty much their patriarch is not a sociopath.

For me I want to see her actually face the music. Very few know about what she did. I would like to see it exposed and see some shunning. I want to see her truly pay for what she did. None of this pity for poor tortured Summer. All she got was a lecture from Nick. I doubt she has been taking part in the community service that Nick asked her to do. Nope his "punishment" has been having everyone worship the ground she walks on, feel sorry for her, fight to be in her life, talk about her all of the time, start feuds over her and be a model. It sounds like she's been punished pretty badly huh?