Hey there, thanks for checking out the Genoa City Guy blog. This report is for February 29th, 2008.
I’ve been a fan of Y&R for many, many years… through a lot of ups and downs, thick and thin. I’ve been there through three Colleens… I remember when Heather Stevens was a plastic doll in a seedy playpen…
Last summer I quickly became addicted to the Genoa City Gurlz podcast starring Ms. Amethyst and Ms. Starlet. Listening to their program, I found myself laughing, nodding, snapping, and snorting… usually in agreement with their observations. Somehow though, those two bold women and their sassy commentary seem to have disappeared.
So, I decided that I would try to pick up the baton and carry on with the mission of bringing Genoa City to the world.
First, some news:
I’ve been a fan of Y&R for many, many years… through a lot of ups and downs, thick and thin. I’ve been there through three Colleens… I remember when Heather Stevens was a plastic doll in a seedy playpen…
Last summer I quickly became addicted to the Genoa City Gurlz podcast starring Ms. Amethyst and Ms. Starlet. Listening to their program, I found myself laughing, nodding, snapping, and snorting… usually in agreement with their observations. Somehow though, those two bold women and their sassy commentary seem to have disappeared.
So, I decided that I would try to pick up the baton and carry on with the mission of bringing Genoa City to the world.
First, some news:
According to sources Michael Damian will be bringing the character of rocker Danny Romalotti back to GC in the near future. Not much story information has been released, but rumors abound that Lauralee Bell’s Christine/Cricket is also returning. Seems to me that Danny will figure somehow into the Daniel/Amber story… maybe Danny will recognize the scheming Amber as a junior Phyllis and try warn his adopted son.
Speaking of returns, Victoria Rowell has made it abundantly clear that she is ready to return as Dru. She claims to be waiting for the call. Y&R would be wise, of course, to bring Dru back into the fray. Rowell hints that if Y&R doesn’t make an offer she’ll likely turn up on a New York based soap (OLTL is rumored to be in talks with fan favorite).
Some of the soap magazines and websites have also featured a recent blind item stating that one current Y&R contract character is secretly being recast? My guess would be Colleen, what do you think? I hope that if the show is bringing on a different actor to portray Brad’s and Traci’s daughter that they first look to Adrianne Leon or Lyndsy Fonseca before auditioning yet another young lady.
Okay, so on to what’s happening in Genoa City… remember when Neil and Karen were first kinda groovin’ on one another? Remember how that groovy soft-core porn music lingered under their scenes? Well, that music was back this week. Instead of subtly underscoring Devon’s foster dad and his Texas Ranger, it was played while Grandpa Victor made small talk with the newly arrived Sabrina.
You see, Victoria has apparently, like, had this BFF named Sabrina since her days in Italy. Sabrina, who was a curator at a famous museum in Paris, decided one day to stop emailing Victoria and just drive on over to Genoa City, Wisconsin… hmmmm…. What? Yeah, I don’t much get it either… she showed up at the ranch (by the by, JT and Victoria and Reed are now living in the house owned by Sharon!) to be greeted at the door by Victor. Once Sabrina began speaking to Grandpa Vic, it became clear that she was likely a graduate of the Logan-I-Am-A-Doctor-In-The-Woods School of Acting.
I believe that if the show really wants Victor to have a love interest right now there are better ways to accomplish that than to bring a newbie his daughter’s age. Why not bring back Ashley? How about having Victor decide to fight for Nikki – he can’t be that threatened by ‘that scoundrel David Chow’ (ya’ll can hear my Victor impression, right?) Or… and I’m just saying, why didn’t they think it through before killing off Hope, one of Y&R’s most likable characters of all time? If anyone could’ve gone head to head with The Mustache and help him find the err or his ways, Hope would’ve been a great candidate (my second choice would be the aforementioned Ash).
Okay, so it looks like Victoria and JTs little baby Reed might have a staph infection. I had to laugh when the doctor pronounced M.R.S.A. by its initials. In all the reports I’ve seen it is pronounced as Mersa, at any rate, if that kid’s infected they had better not bring him to work with them (imagine that break room being a breeding ground for the deadly infection --- one way to wipe out most of the cast in an Outbreak like story!)
Victor Jr., whoops... Adam seems to like Phyllis (hey, who wouldn’t, right?) and flirts with her at the gym about donuts and such. Eventually, she figures out who he is and she lets him in on who she is… he still seems to flirt. When not flirting with her, or confronting Victoria about business (yawn!), he seems to be running into Nikki. All of this leads to the climactic (double yawn!) dinner at the G.C.A.C.
Phyllis invites him to eat with her and Nick. Nick isn’t it, but doesn’t stand up to his wife. She raves about her Italian dinner (is Gina really cooking all that stuff?) and tries to get Victor Jr., whoops... Adam to open up about his past. Some of his past is revealed as he admits that he A) grew up on a farm 2) worked in New York and D) is uncomfortable with the thought of Victor as his father. Phyllis practically gasps thinking that he and Nick have a lot in common (well, all except A and 2)
Nikki comes over to the table (oh yeah, she’s having dinner at the G.C.A.C. with David Chow and his loan shark, Walter… wonder if she ordered Italian?) and is finally let in on the secret of who the new mysterious young Genoa City man really is (Victor Jr. Adam). Nonplussed, Nikki returns to her table to find Walter gone and David nursing a black eye (David Chow had a quickie fist fight with Walter in an empty part of the G.C.A.C. – probably prompted by the ghost of Ji Min). While Phyllis and the gang discuss Victor’s taste in women (‘for a man who doesn’t like to be challenged, he sure chooses challenging women!’) David comes clean to Nikki that he is addicted to gambling, owes Walter a quarter of a million dollars, used to go by the name Clark, and has no way of paying. Nikki quickly seems to understand David’s problems and promptly offers him the money. However, in the preview for Monday she seems little pissed that he lied to her… who knew?
Speaking of Victor’s penchant for challenging women, the newly arrived Sabrina (she of the vague European accent) quickly cancels her hotel reservations so that she can stay with Victor in the ‘guest wing’ of his “Ultimate American Baronial Mansion”. (Baronial apparently means that a baron lives there… making Victor the ultimate American Baron… umm… okay). Victor feeds her (from a convenient buffet that’s been laid out in the living room!) and sends her off telling her that there is bottled water in her bedroom fridge… hmmm… again, cue the corny music.
Some other stuff happened in Genoa City too. Gloria and Jeffery tried to or pretended to try to kill one another. Noah trekked to L.A. with Jack and Sharon to meet with Ash and Eric Forrester… Amber and Daniel were given jobs at the new magazine, etc.
The most important thing that happened in Genoa City, though? That’s right… drum roll please… Someone fixed Daniel’s hair.
