Naah, Diane wouldn’t take the risk of conspiring with Tucker, since that would permanently destroy her relationship with her son.
Funny, the writers/producers almost treat Lily like she’s a White character. I forgot to mention regarding the clean-sweep out of the Hispanic characters (although Audra is obviously a Latina, her name and character is also treated like she is just another White), the actress that played the cheated-on ex of Kyle’s, Sasha Calle, got hired to play some superhero in the movies (although another example of a non-White being cast as a White character).
Yeah, besides the improbabilities and the like (Sheila’s “trial” in the judge’s chambers), the SORAS thing just is the added cherry on top for confusion and messed-up timelines and forced ret-cons.
Rick Forrester has been MIA since May 2018 (the presumption he is in Paris or Milan), and the last mention of him that his marriage to the tranny ended (and she vanished). They had a child with Maya’s sister, and she also has not been mentioned. You’d think they could’ve recast, but they haven’t. It makes no logical sense that his character wouldn’t have returned even once in all that time. The other ignored character, Ridge Jr (RJ), recently returned, aged and recast with someone in his early 20s. His presence there only serves to reinforce the very incestuous relationships of the Logan/Forrester kids (his half-brother Thomas banging his half-sister Hope). Sure, it’s not technically biologically incestuous, but given that they were all raised together, you’d have thought that might’ve been enough for the kids not wanting to get it on with their step-sibs (although don’t get me wrong, had I been Greg Brady, I’d have hit Marcia like the fist of an angry God. Did I say that aloud ?).
Lily has been a character for maybe 20 years. She always been mixed-race and although she usually ends up in relationships with white guys, my take is that the Y&R writers long ago decided not to portray racial tensions with any character. Neil was just one of the town’s business/personal friends and associates, as have been Devon, Nate and Elena. But in giving Lily mixed-race children when she was married to Cane, and same with Devon’s child Dominic, the producers are not erasing race—they’re accepting, and not making it divisive.
I thought the Audra actress was Iraeli at first—her accent is strange—didn’t register with me as Latina until I looked her up. The character had been in London, so I guess they made her a corporation exec/world citizen instead of an ethnicity-clinger like the Rosales clan from Miami. But it is possibly “whitewashing” that they gave her a European last name, unless it’s part of some yet-to-be revealed back story. I’m not fond of “user” characters, so she hasn’t yet won me over as an actress, as Mishael Morgan eventually did. Morgan was one of the most talented actresses on Y&R from the past decade.
ATWT produced big screen stars Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei and Julianne Moore, and a bunch of Hollywood B-listers and TV stars—Jordana Brewster, Billy Magnussen, Steven Weber, Ming-Na, Jason Biggs, Danny Pintauro, Tamara Tunie, plus lots of other soap players; and they used to have frequent cameos from established stars. As for Y&R and B&B — Braeden had a bit part in Titanic; can’t recall anyone else breaking out. But it does look like budgets have been severely cut.