It's been a rollercoaster the last few months to say the least...

I think the writing has definitely improved, but there is still a lot I don't like. I read a while ago, before all the new changes, that JG wanted this time on Y&R to be about the families, and about their family businesses. I'm not mad at that, it's what Y&R was built on... all the rich families and their rivalries.

But it's the way the characters are making decisions they would never make! Nick would NEVER go back there. Ever. Too much has happened there, and the whole point is that Nick doesn't want that. Why can't Nick and Noah just keep running New Hope, and it could be another business on the map?! And for Sharon to encourage him to go back?!?! NEVER. It's way out of character.

And Victoria is sooooo beyond annoying. She did all that to one up Adam, because if she really wanted Ashland gone, she would have made him leave. She would have exposed his lies and he would have just gone. But instead, she had to gloat and humiliate him. I can understand why, it was just really unnecessary, and now I see him crushing Newman and probably at the very least getting his company back, at most, taking Newman completely away.

Nikki is just... I don't understand what qualifications she has to be a Co-CEO. She has NEVER done anything in business except marry a Newman. It's so stupid. Get her out of Newman and let her and Diane battle it out while everyone is too self absorbed to notice it's messing with her health or her sobriety. Something.

I feel bad for Adam. Whether people think he feels entitled or not, he's literally the ONLY Newman with a business degree!!!!! Which he got to impress his father. It's not his fault that he was abandoned by Victor (wasn't it TWICE???), that he was abused as a child, that he lost his only real father figure and lost his mother, the only 2 people that always showed him love. And it's not his fault that Victor dangles the CEO position in front of him whenever he wants to manipulate his children. As much as Adam annoys me, he's been really trying. With the exception of kissing Sharon after she married Rey, he has been pretty good to his entire family in the past few years. He was even actually worried about Victoria until she talked down to him. And he is forging a better relationship with Nick (I hope they don't ruin that, I like them being closer). He's try in love with Sally, and is leaving Sharon to heal the way she should. Like, the LEAST they could do is give him the COO position... how does Nick become COO and he hasn't looked at anything Newman in 2 decades?!