The Redemption of Cane

Remember seeing those movies that do a rewrite at the end so you can have options to choose from on your DVD?  It's your own Burger King edition of a film- you get to have it your own way.  That may work for movies, but not for daytime drama.  I'm convinced that Maria Bell and her team of writers are confused as to the necessity of constantly rewriting The Young and the Restless. They give us one ending, then switch and give us a different one.  First Cane was Philip, then he was blood kin to Katherine, then not, then he was, then he was Cane, then he was Caleb, then he was Cane.  He was a liar, then he was a hero... no a liar... no a hero, no wait, he gaslighted Lily, no wait, he was really a good guy, or not....? 

In a story that is character driven, the character assassinations don't rule the day according to the whims of the writer or the financial concerns of the producers.  Y&R's claims to be character driven are a slap in the face to the fans who clearly know the difference.  Bell has an agenda.  First it was to destroy and get rid of Cane.  And then she was forced to bring Daniel Goddard back.  I was glad to see him back because he was giving us some of his best acting in scenes with Tristan Rogers.  There was a whole new story to tell there of Cane's lingering secrets and his newly revealed family.  Whew! Finally something we can sink out teeth into again.  Finally there was something to get us through the lame re-dos of the other plots MAB was making us sleep though.

But here's the kicker, Bell, a "professional" writer who's modus operandi is to leave stories dangling till they disappear, couldn't figure out a single way to redeem both Cane and Colin.  Neither could Hamner. This is mind boggling that they couldn't summon up a single creative brain wave to give a reasonable explanation that would let us enjoy the Atkinson/Ashby family for years to come.  As a writer, I would be too embarrassed to announce that publicly, but yet they proudly proclaim, "Hey people, we have no imagination and can't write our way out of a paper bag.  Thanks and keep watching." 

Seriously?  Bell kills Cane so dead, so very very dead and puts her brand of an exclamation mark in that whole death scene and follow up.  Yes, we got it, Maria.  The guy is dead.  But wait.  It is a miracle.  That was Caleb.  Really?  A twin?  How inventive.  Not... But then she wastes Cane's reinsertion into Genoa City with more non sequiturial writing.  It is an insult to fans that we are supposed to believe the trite set up and rewrite, lame clues, and the limp twists.  With the lame material Ronan and Chance have in this "investigation" I don't know how they can do theses scenes without laughing.  It is all one stinking mess, and Sony knows it.

Sony could fix this by calling for Tristan's return, which means that they'd need a writer with a sense of logic and imagination, who could write a return, and explain it without going the twin route.  Let us have Colin back and find out that he was framed or some other plausible story.  Sony needs have their own redemptive act to save Y&R.  They need to invite Bell and her undynamic duo to take a break from the daily phoning in of their scripts, and then bring in someone who will simply write a great story that will bring fans back.  Come on Sony, get on the ball.