Pulling a Fronsie on CBS

I'm thinking back to my high school days and reading the weekly student magazine that came out of the journalism department.  Every week we'd sit around reading the editor's letter which was usually very witty and well written.  THAT was high school, and the dialogue found inside that magazine was infinitely more interesting than the daily fare doled out on Y&R for some time now.

Anyone who has checked any forum online within the last year knows that most fans spend time rooting for their favorite characters and talking about the storylines they like.  And then there is the back and forth of who's the best on the show.  But these days, most fans seem to be of one mind.  The super majority of fans daily shake their heads and wonder where it all went wrong.  Plots are promised and hyped by the network.  Stories begin and suddenly end without a climax or dénouement (thank you high school literature classes).  Characters are written against type in ways that only confuse history and future growth of that character.  Humor is written in and receives a huge response, and then is only revisited very sparingly.  And the carousel of actors turns and abruptly stops, tossing off someone we have specifically been tuning in to see.  Sounds like a great show, huh?

What happened to the show we loved to watch?  Be it long time fans, or new viewers who tuned in within the past few years, love for the show has turned to disbelief, which turned to anger, which turned to apathy, and that makes one stop watching altogether.  Thanks CBS and Sony, for your great leadership in bringing down yet another dearly loved soap.  We now have a term for that.  It's called a Fronsie. 

But if you maintain that Maria Bell is the best you can do and your hands are tied... (yeah, right) then at least give us back the actors who make the show not so putrid.  Let's begin with Tristan Rogers, whose brilliance shines through the dimness of the script.  Colin and Jill made us find a smile.  Odd feeling that was, finding joy in the show after such a drought.  But even when their scenes were far and few between, they left so many of us with that happy feeling from oh so long ago.  I even stop banging my head against the wall for those moments- a nice relief at that.

So either fix this thing, or go with a full Fronsal attack and put us out of our misery.  I plead for the former... in oh so many ways.