I have to really give credit to TPTB for investing in the show. Wait did I really say that??? Yep that I did friends and neighbors of the Valley!
Yesterday they brought Ruth back again to visit Jake in the hospital. 
Fantastic! Thank you Ms. Lee Merriweather!!! I’m loving the show for the most part. There are a few revisionist issues that have been stuck in my craw but for the most part I’m on board.
It’s just that I feel for the first time in 5 LONG years that TPTB are finally caring about the fans and our wants. It’s a new day in the Valley my friends. We’ve suffered through the transition of “after strike” writing and now it’s coming together. Old favs coming back from time to time. Opal we’ve missed your humor and of course the wonderful Angie and Jesse. Finally Pine Valley is starting to resemble the rest of America with it’s diversity.
I feel they are getting back to the classics of character driven s/l’s. Tad searching for Kate, Aidan and Greenlee’s struggles as a couple with baggage and secrets. Tad and Kendall surviving betrayal only to become stronger as a couple. Jake’s even got a back story and a future story that, it would appear, is to be character driven. Adam’s mental break that we see isn’t really a mental break but Dixie guilt haunting him and how it is affecting his children. Joe and Ruth and their sons have had interaction as well.
I know to some it is taking forever to rebuild our show but stick with it because I see some light in Pine Valley. Rob’s kind of dangling lost in the transition as is Richie but it’s important to have a really bad guy and just a moderately bad guy (think Adam in his day). Other wise everyone is stepford happy people and who wants to watch that 5 days a week.
Carmen trying to reunite Jack and Erica is also priceless. Really could we see Erica with anyone but Jackson at this point. Injecting a little Carmen and Opal into their relationship dynamic will keep this couple from becoming boring.
Here’s to a great May Sweeps! 
Here Endth My Rant!
