The Soapbox: Y&R

Nauseating as it is to dwell on, Nice Cane was back today and was very, very nice to Lily, complete with red bed sheets and flowery harp music followed by an instrumental 80s-style power ballad. Unlike me, she seemed to dig that sort of thing, but luckily I was eating my favorite seasonal treat, Cadbury Mini Eggs, which I find impossible to vomit.

Why does Billy keep beating himself up over falling in love with cousin Mac so many years ago? He doesn't actually talk about it much, but anyone who knows the story knows it's the real reason he's so broken and adorable. Every time he talks about screwing things up, you know that's what he's referring to. But we all know it wasn't his fault!

Jack, in the scene with Chloe, reminds me of another empty nest-er -- Nora Walker from Brothers & Sisters. She's always taking in strays and troubled cast-offs (and I don't mean animals) that are marginally related to her family, and really, so does Jack Abbott. As happens in these cases, it's usually just as one tangential relation is going that another is coming (e.g. Ryan Lafferty), and so based on Colleen's sudden exodus I wouldn't be that surprised if Chloe were to take Jack up on his housing offer right away... by Friday, even.

Is Ashley's best chiding advice to Billy really based on an argument of stability? Isn't she the mother who carted Abby from Paris to L.A. to London to Paris to Genoa City, and from Rick Forrester to Ridge Forrester to Rick again and finally to shattered Victor, with an end result of placing herself squarely in the middle of the same bloody Jack-Victor feud she had sought refuge from in the first place? And then she starts freaking out over some (fairly) mild bickering?

And who is this mystery woman with the bandaged head already? A new Victor protege? Sheila, back from the dead (again!), played by a new actress with a new face (again?)? Well, one can dream...

And for anyone who might be missing Professor Adrian Korbel, my hubby tells me you can currently catch actor Eyal Podell on the FOX show 24. Who knew?