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<blockquote data-quote="Monzo" data-source="post: 435747" data-attributes="member: 19949">For me, the only good addition to the cast in recent months is Lucas Adams. His initial storyline as Noah is pretty weak, but I think he has potential. It certainly hasn&#039;t hurt him as an actor that he had a heroic father in Steven on Days, just as Nick is his heroic father on Y&amp;R. I like that he&#039;s the first Noah who looks more like Sharon than Nick, because it seemed to be a priority in the past that a Noah recast had to look particularly like Nick. The chemistry between Noah and Audra during their brief run-in was promising, and I hope the writers will go there when it comes to Noah&#039;s lovelife.As for Roger Howarth, it seems to me that the director&#039;s instructions to him were &quot;How to play a daytime psycho with every possible cliché.&quot; He does what he&#039;s supposed to, but it&#039;s actually uninteresting.I thought Tamara Braun&#039;s run would be just as limited as Roger Howarth&#039;s, but why give Sienna and Tessa a shared past if they don&#039;t have bigger plans for her? I like that Tamara Braun really gives her all as Sienna, and I see a Daytime Emmy nomination for her, but I&#039;m not sure if I want to see her on Y&amp;R much longer—and if so, certainly not with Noah, but with whom else? Nick, Adam, or Billy don&#039;t sound exciting as romantic partners either.I wonder if it was worth it for Michelle Stafford to leave General Hospital (with so much different material for her as an actress there) to return to Y&amp;R. The only memorable storyline since her return was Phyllis faking her own death, and that wasn&#039;t even a very good storyline.There was a scene on Y&amp;R recently that made me think about how different the daily soap markets around the globe are. In that scene, Cane tried to convince Lily that she should return to him, even though she&nbsp; had just seen him making out with Phyllis and he hadn&#039;t demanded any of her requests (reconciliation with the twins, destruction of the AI program). He told her she should get over all of that because he knew she loved him. If this scene had played out in a daily soap of my home country Germany, the woman would either have ended things for good, because she wouldn&#039;t be so easily manipulated and deserved better, or it would have turned into a stalker storyline. In a US soap, the whole plot is apparently meant to come across as romantic and evoke understanding from the viewer, which is why Cane seeks solace with Phyllis after Lily&#039;s incomprehensible rejection.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Monzo, post: 435747, member: 19949"] For me, the only good addition to the cast in recent months is Lucas Adams. His initial storyline as Noah is pretty weak, but I think he has potential. It certainly hasn't hurt him as an actor that he had a heroic father in Steven on Days, just as Nick is his heroic father on Y&R. I like that he's the first Noah who looks more like Sharon than Nick, because it seemed to be a priority in the past that a Noah recast had to look particularly like Nick. The chemistry between Noah and Audra during their brief run-in was promising, and I hope the writers will go there when it comes to Noah's lovelife. As for Roger Howarth, it seems to me that the director's instructions to him were "How to play a daytime psycho with every possible cliché." He does what he's supposed to, but it's actually uninteresting. I thought Tamara Braun's run would be just as limited as Roger Howarth's, but why give Sienna and Tessa a shared past if they don't have bigger plans for her? I like that Tamara Braun really gives her all as Sienna, and I see a Daytime Emmy nomination for her, but I'm not sure if I want to see her on Y&R much longer—and if so, certainly not with Noah, but with whom else? Nick, Adam, or Billy don't sound exciting as romantic partners either. I wonder if it was worth it for Michelle Stafford to leave General Hospital (with so much different material for her as an actress there) to return to Y&R. The only memorable storyline since her return was Phyllis faking her own death, and that wasn't even a very good storyline. There was a scene on Y&R recently that made me think about how different the daily soap markets around the globe are. In that scene, Cane tried to convince Lily that she should return to him, even though she had just seen him making out with Phyllis and he hadn't demanded any of her requests (reconciliation with the twins, destruction of the AI program). He told her she should get over all of that because he knew she loved him. If this scene had played out in a daily soap of my home country Germany, the woman would either have ended things for good, because she wouldn't be so easily manipulated and deserved better, or it would have turned into a stalker storyline. In a US soap, the whole plot is apparently meant to come across as romantic and evoke understanding from the viewer, which is why Cane seeks solace with Phyllis after Lily's incomprehensible rejection. [/QUOTE]

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