Re: Y&R US Tues

On Oct 29, 12:29 pm, Rthrquiet <rthrqu...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 28, 4:43 pm, Shirl <shinn...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

MarkH:
- the new more assertive Ashley

What I would gather from all this is that TPTB are indeed responding,
but they're responding to the symptoms rather than diagnosing and
treating the overall disease. It would appear from the case of Ashley,
for instance, that they've realized, and are responding to, the idea
that viewers weren't happy with the direction Ashley had taken,
without recognizing that that was a symptom of a larger problem, which
is a general abandonment of ideas like plausibility and character
continuity (as well as balance between darker and sunnier elements of
story). So unfortunately, even if the storytelling is shifting in a
new direction, I see no reason to feel any real confidence that the
new direction will necessarily be more successful or more satisfying,
because they have misdiagnosed (or failed to diagnose at all) why the
"old direction" was not working for a number of viewers.

Michael

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