And when I say Sage was killed off, I mean that literally. After discovering that her son with husband Nick (Joshua Morrow) had in fact been alive, stolen and given to Sharon (Sharon Case) in place of a child she miscarried, Sage confronted Sharon and after she refused to give Sully (actually Christian) to her, Sage fled to tell Nick and everyone else the truth only to drop her cell phone after leaving Nick a message while driving. She bent over to pick it up, lost control of the wheel, crashed and ultimately died of her injuries. Before taking her last breath, Sharon caught up to her and called the police; Sage asked to hold Christian, which Sharon reluctantly let her, only for Sage to die a few moments later.
Everyone is thrilled Sage was killed off because, in all honesty, she did have her moments of being mind numbingly whiny, annoying and crazy (#SageIsDeadParty actually trended on Twitter during Friday's episode of Y&R). Normally, I would be jumping for joy along with every other Y&R fan, but for some strange reason, I'm not.
I both liked and hated Sage. I really liked her when she first started back at the end of 2014, when she helped Adam (Justin Hartley) return to town and assume the identity of Gabriel Bingham, who Sage knew. She had all this potential and mystery, yet the writers through that out the window when they chose to pair her with Nick. Nick had also just come off of being a total prick to Sharon (known to most during that time and still now as Dickolas), so I wasn't too keen on that pairing let alone anything to do with Nick. Not only that, Sage became a completely basic, see-through character that most struggled to care about. Soon after, she became pregnant after sleeping with both Nick and Adam and became pregnant, during which she went completely nuts and developed this irrational fear that Nick's business tycoon father Victor (Eric Braeden) was going to steal her unborn child. Let's just say that from then on, the storyline given to Sullivan did not target her strengths as an actress and didn't exactly make viewers like her any more than they already did, if applicable. The child's paternity was left up in the air and Sage even taunted Nick during an argument that the child was Adam's, but revealed that a paternity test proved the child was Nick's.
By the fall of 2015, Sage gave birth to a premature son (who was delivered by Adam in the park) and wasn't anymore sane during that time. Then, she and Nick are given word that their son died on Halloween night while they were attending a party, but the child was actually stolen by Sharon's doctor at Fairview psychiatric hospital, Dr. Anderson. Sharon had miscarried her own child but was drugged so heavily by Dr. Anderson that she believed herself to still be pregnant, so when she was presented with a baby boy, she had no reason to question it. Not only that, after Christian had "died", Adam revealed to wife Chelsea (Melissa Claire Egan) that he had manipulated the child's paternity test results; he "was" actually Christian's father and manipulated the test because there was too much at stake for him at the time, being Gabriel and all. Patty Williams (Stacy Haiduk) figured out what had actually been conspired and ended up killing Dr. Anderson in self-defense, who was going to tranquilize her during a confrontation. Patty fell mildly catatonic thereafter and did not reveal what had transpired between her and Dr. Anderson until Sharon went to visit her in her new institution, where she helped Sharon realize that she was never pregnant. A DNA test later proved that "Sully" is not her son; meanwhile, Sage had been questioning the nurse that helped Dr. Anderson steal the baby that night (and who was also the nurse that informed her and Nick that their son had died) and had lots of evidence against her. The nurse ultimately cracked and told Sage everything, leading to the fatal confrontation between her and Sharon.
Sage was not the best of characters, and the storyline given to Sullivan certainly did not target her strengths as an actress. I, for one, thought she was amazing as Kate/Connie on General Hospital, who suffered from dissociative identity disorder (DID), and thought she was doing a pretty descent job as Sage when she first started, but it all went downhill from there. That only leads me to the conclusion that it had to be the material. Just like Cady McClain's ill-fated turn as Kelly Andrews on Y&R from 2014 to early last year; I never watched her on All My Children, where several people told me she was a "great actress", but she was absolutely abysmal on Y&R. I wouldn't describe Sullivan as all-bad, but it certainly wasn't all-good during her run at Y&R. Sage had a tendency to annoy the hell out of me at times and then at others I didn't mind her. The months leading up to her death, I didn't mind her. She wasn't great, but she certainly wasn't godawful, in my opinion. I feel like if they had killed her off this time last year, when she was pregnant, irrational and crazy, I would have proudly taken part in the #SageIsDeadParty. but I just wasn't 100% hating her right now. But, will I miss Sage? Probably not.
That being said, if the writers had killed off Avery (Jessica Collins) at the height of when everyone hated her (which was, like, all the time), I would have gladly taken part in the #AveryIsDeadParty, but I was sadly denied one. Catch The Young and the Restless weekdays on CBS.
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