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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 434161" data-attributes="member: 27">Y&amp;R can&#039;t help but repeat itself once in a while, but in this case they&#039;re copying a plotline from Knots Landing.Once upon a time in Knots Landing, there was a millionaire/power broker named Greg Sumner.&nbsp; When Greg inherited his father&#039;s shady corporation, he discovered one of the secret projects was a satellite eavesdropping lab built underneath the nearby Empire Valley housing project.&nbsp; The lab was able to intercept satellite transmissions across the globe, essentially listening in on all business and government conversations.&nbsp; With a few keystrokes he could also change what was transmitted if the mood struck him.&nbsp; He explained to his wife Laura that if he wanted to destroy Gary or Abby Ewing, all he had to do was tamper with a few banking transactions and make their credit rating plummet.&nbsp; In essence, the Empire Valley project was his tool to control the world.Fast forward to 2025 and Victor Newman on Y&amp;R is crowing about this shady AI program he acquired through shady means.&nbsp; Apparently it can be fed into computers of any business Victor wants to weaken or destroy using only a few keystrokes on a computer.&nbsp; In this case it&#039;s Jack Abbott and his family&#039;s company that Victor wants to destroy just because he can...and the program is apparently undetectable in any computer system it infects.&nbsp; This AI program is being touted as Victor&#039;s tool to control the world.&nbsp; Sound familiar?On KL, it was up to two people to stop Greg&#039;s effort at controlling the world.&nbsp; Greg&#039;s wife Laura normally handwaved Greg&#039;s business maneuvers but became upset and leaves Greg when it appears that Greg is planning to destroy her friend Gary&#039;s business by &quot;cheating&quot;.&nbsp; Gary discovers Greg&#039;s &quot;Electronic Disneyland&quot; and blows it up before it is completed.&nbsp; Laura returns to console Greg over the loss of his &quot;plaything&quot; despite her being dead-set against his having it, but Greg continues to pout over the loss as his rivalry with Gary continued unabated.So we&#039;ve seen Nikki threaten to leave Victor in the same way (and for the same reason) that Laura left Greg.&nbsp; Jack Abbott is Gary in this scenario, and Jack seemed willing to de-construct Jabot (&quot;blow it up&quot;) in order to keep Victor&#039;s AI program from ruining the company.&nbsp; So if Nikki leaves Victor, will he lose enthusiasm for using his &quot;plaything&quot; in the same way Greg did when Laura left him?&nbsp; In other words, is it all worth it if you lose your wife in the bargain?&nbsp; And will it be up to Jack Abbott to find a way to destroy the AI program in order to remove the threat to the world?&nbsp; If Jack blows up the AI program, will it cause toxic waste to leak into the Genoa City water supply?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 434161, member: 27"] Y&R can't help but repeat itself once in a while, but in this case they're copying a plotline from [I]Knots Landing[/I]. Once upon a time in Knots Landing, there was a millionaire/power broker named Greg Sumner. When Greg inherited his father's shady corporation, he discovered one of the secret projects was a satellite eavesdropping lab built underneath the nearby Empire Valley housing project. The lab was able to intercept satellite transmissions across the globe, essentially listening in on all business and government conversations. With a few keystrokes he could also[I] change what was transmitted [/I]if the mood struck him. He explained to his wife Laura that if he wanted to destroy Gary or Abby Ewing, all he had to do was tamper with a few banking transactions and make their credit rating plummet. In essence, the Empire Valley project was his tool to control the world. Fast forward to 2025 and Victor Newman on Y&R is crowing about this shady AI program he acquired through shady means. Apparently it can be fed into computers of any business Victor wants to weaken or destroy using only a few keystrokes on a computer. In this case it's Jack Abbott and his family's company that Victor wants to destroy just because he can...and the program is apparently undetectable in any computer system it infects. This AI program is being touted as Victor's tool to control the world. Sound familiar? On KL, it was up to two people to stop Greg's effort at controlling the world. Greg's wife Laura normally handwaved Greg's business maneuvers but became upset and leaves Greg when it appears that Greg is planning to destroy her friend Gary's business by "cheating". Gary discovers Greg's "Electronic Disneyland" and blows it up before it is completed. Laura returns to console Greg over the loss of his "plaything" despite her being dead-set against his having it, but Greg continues to pout over the loss as his rivalry with Gary continued unabated. So we've seen Nikki threaten to leave Victor in the same way (and for the same reason) that Laura left Greg. Jack Abbott is Gary in this scenario, and Jack seemed willing to de-construct Jabot ("blow it up") in order to keep Victor's AI program from ruining the company. So if Nikki leaves Victor, will he lose enthusiasm for using his "plaything" in the same way Greg did when Laura left him? In other words, is it all worth it if you lose your wife in the bargain? And will it be up to Jack Abbott to find a way to destroy the AI program in order to remove the threat to the world? If Jack blows up the AI program, will it cause toxic waste to leak into the Genoa City water supply? [/QUOTE]

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