Oh Phyllis

Well it looks like Phyllis' insecutiy rears its ugly head. Granted she has a right to it. Nick and Sharon, who are exes kiss each other in Paris and he decides not to tell her. Phyllis finds out because she sees them. She then hatches a plan to have mortal enemy Brad Carlton woo a now separated Sharon so that the kiss does not blossom into something more. Unfortunately (and we all saw this coming) Brad fesses up and Sharon tells Nick. Nick confronts Phyllis who points out that this was the second time this kiss happened between Nick and his ex wife and he does have a habit of this 'grass looks like it's greener in the other yard' type behaviour-after all that was how they got together. Nick voices concern and frustration at Phyllis' scheming. When Nick and Sharon meet up later, Sharon defends Phyllis (as if she needed it).

My advice to Phyllis-cut your losses. Any guy that has you plotting and scheming to keep him is not worth the time and effort. I admit that this divorce will not be easy. There is a child and a business involved. However you can work out an amicable arrangement regarding visitation and you can do so for your business dealings. Nick does not get it. He does not get that while yes, he and Sharon are forever tied by history and by their children, that he is married to Phyllis and he needs to be mindful her feelings and accept that gee, she may not be cool with him jetting off to places with her that may stir up old feelings. By the way, if the old feelings are stronger than the current feelings, it is definitely time to call it a day.

My annoyance with the road that Phyllis is traveling down is that apparently the writers seem to think that she is more interesting a character when she doing pathetic and crazy things like this. This speaks of lazy writing to me. I also have a problem with 'Sharon the Good.' Sharon is more of a disaster of a character than Phyllis who was and is pretty straightforward and not as hypocritical.

I wonder if the next step for Phyllis is to revive the attraction that existed between she and Adam, Nick's half brother. An attraction that Phyllis deflected and quashed because gee, she loved and respected her husband.

At the other end of the spectrum, Phyllis was engaged in Stephanie Forrester-like machinations, when she found a way to drive a truck through the small hole in the relationship of her son Daniel and that other disaster area known as Amber Moore. Like Phyllis, I was (and still am not a fan of ) the Daniel-Amber pairing. While I now agree that the Daniel-Heather pairing was not as good as the eventual Heather-Adam pairing, I think that he could do better. Really, the reason why I think he could do better because just like Phyllis, apparently Amber is only interesting plotwise if she is hatching pathetic and crazy schemes that ruin...things. I would like to see the writers not do that to them both (Phyllis and Amber) and honestly have them become friends and do cool and positive things. Daniel wasn't crazy about Phyllis' role in his problems with Amber and fortunately, unlike Ridge and his mother, she and Daniel have something of an understanding and thankfully will not pursue this path for now.

Advice to Phyllis regarding Daniel-keep on keeping out of his relationship with Amber-he is grown. Keep on trying to meet him halfway regarding it and try to be a little more open-minded about Amber. Boys usually love women who are like their mums and Amber is more like you than you probably care to admit, especially when she uses her powers for good. Keep nurturing his career and nurturing his relationship with his father. Also try to help maintain his relationships with his stepbrother (Noah) and half sister (Summer) by being a positive force in dealing with their respective 'other' parents.

I sadly know that the gains that Phyllis' character made will be lost as the writers run her into a ditch in order to serve the plot, which will likely result in a Sharon-Nick reunion.

Oh Phyllis...