I forgot to elaborate on number four when I did my blog yesterday. I think it’s weird when soap opera writers go back and invent new history for the characters to support a new story line that they want to develop. A few examples of this were when Kendall showed up on All My Children. Kendall is Erica Kane’s daughter, whom she had when she was raped at fourteen, whom she’d given up for adoption. There was no mention of this rape until the writers decided to let Kendall pop into the story.

Another example of this occurs on The Young And The Restless. Cane is an Australian, living in America, searching for his birth mother. It turns out that Jill is supposedly his birth mother. Jill didn’t know she had this son because after she had given birth, Catherine(Jill’s birth mother, whom she didn’t even discover was really her birth mother until a few years ago)had kidnapped Cane and gave him to somebody else. Somehow, Catherine “arranged” for Jill to end up taking a baby home, but it wasn’t hers. So Jill ends up raising a child, that’s not hers, but she thinks it is. So when Cane shows up, she’s floored. Also, the child she did raise, Philip is dead from a car accident.

This whole story line is confusing from the get-go. Just thinking about it almost gives me a headache. Catherine just recently ‘remembers’ that she did this dreadful, not to mention illegal, deed to Jill. (Of course, when she did this to Jill, she had no idea that Jill was her birth daughter, and Jill was going after Catherine’s husband, who happens to be the father of Jill’s baby!) Whew! Now I’m confused for real!

Time for me to blog about a book or something. I’m tired of talking about the soaps for now.

Signing off until next time.

Cecelia Dowdy
www.ceceliadowdy.com