Hmmm, realistic expectations in daytime. What I realistically expect from daytime is a depressing thought these days.
I'll go with reasonable optimism instead.
OLTL- Hoping that Viki stays frontburner for a while during this mayoral storyline and that she doesn't just become a background player in the drug ring storyline.
- Hoping Fish and Kyle get more friends and/or relatives in the canvas, and that they still get storylines and screentime beyond this initial coming-out arc.
- More Tea and Blair! Let them have other love interests!
- Less Todd! More to the point, NO Todd, but then I guess that's no longer realistic.
- More Marty. If Thorsten Kaye ends up on OLTL, that will give her a lot more to do, since I don't think her romance with John is going anywhere.
- No more Greg and Rachel.
Y&R- Any excuse to have Doug Davidson and Tricia Cast front and center will make me happy.
- The hopeful repair of the Phillip storyline.
- Phyllis and Sharon BOTH reject Nick; the show explores other love interests for these two much used and abused characters.
- Adam needs to have a comeuppance, but Victor has been just as villainous. Facilitating Mary Jane's crime spree is at least as bad as what Adam has done to Ashley. He needs to be punished in a big way.
- Hoping that Nikki's return will be just as satisfying as her departure.
- Hoping that Maria Arena Bell and company
don't write Christian LeBlanc another baity, eleventh hour Emmy reel at year's end.
"A movie is not good because it arrives at conclusions you share, or bad because it does not. A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it: about the way it considers its subject matter, and about how its real subject may be quite different from the one it seems to provide."
- Roger Ebert, from the introduction to "Awake in the Dark" (2006)
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