Anyone else rooting for Sheila?

Cendrillon, 6/15/2022, 8:31PM(682 days ago) @AnnieO

You make a lot of great points - especially about Sheila's intelligence. She used to be one of the few genuinely FAST THINKERS on the show. I haven't seen this side of her this time around, probably because the writing itself is so dumbed down that it can't believably portray intelligence.

Yes. You can occasionally see TRACES of Sheila being "one of the few genuinely fast thinkers on the show", but the writing overall is too dumbed down like you said to sustain such a characterization anymore.

I actually thought the pairing of Sheila and Deacon had a lot of potential. KB and SK had good on-screen chemistry and their first meeting was very promising. Then, again, the writing happened, and we'd hear these formerly sharp-witted characters uttering dialogue like "You're crazy", "No, you're crazy". Their scenes were killed entirely by the dialogue - with better writing I am confident the actors could have made it work. That being said, Sheila and Mike had more chemistry in their 10-second interaction last week than Sheila and Deacon have had in the past six months.

EXACTLY, Sheila and Mike had so much more going for them in that 10 second interaction than Sheila and Deacon did over 6 months. There were some entertaining moments between KB and SK like you said, but they were so few and far between on account of the writing - to the point where I don't think KB even considered including any of the Deacon stuff in her Emmy reel until she was prompted by others. Also, there should have been AT LEAST one scene where Deacon went to confront Sheila in prison - unless there's a Deacon/Sheila confrontation scene in store, their whole "friendship" over the past 6 months (which was SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS whether we liked it or not) is pointless.

I love how you said "then again, the writing happened" because that is THE STORY OF BRAD BELL'S LIFE. When I think of all the great characters and actors that lost their airtime and their jobs because Brad Bell couldn't make the writing work for them, while lesser characters and lesser actors get to continue on the show for years and even decades (sometimes uninterrupted) simply because their ONE-DIMENSIONAL nature is what Brad Bell can actually get behind.....

I agree about Mary - she was far superior to Finn as a character.

Thank you. I think Courtney Draper was the actress - who was again infinitely more compelling. I don't watch this show for generically attractive actors and actresses who have no real personality and who keep phoning in their performances because they think the audience will drool over them just for appearing onscreen. Courtney Draper was very cute, but it was her acting that endeared her to me - NOT her looks.

They so need to bring her back - or someone with her energy and demeanor, if she herself is no longer available to play Mary/Erica. Also time they introduce Diana to us as an adult. Even if Massimo isn't around anymore, they can simply say that Diana and Ridge share the same biological father for the benefit of viewers who weren't watching back then. Diana would be around Hope's age, and I think it's high time we saw another rival for Hope BESIDES STEFFY. Doesn't even have to be a rival for Liam - could just as easily be a business rival......and who better than one of SHEILA'S DAUGHTERS for that?

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