JellicleCat

21 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

Well damn! Welcome to the daily hotness thread @JellicleCat!  Btw are you male or female?

Thank you.  

I was a bit afraid that the picture might be too racy, but I guess not, so.....   (Oh, and I'm male)

This scene comes to mind. After Stephanie's fake heart-attack has been exposed Brooke finally confronts Ridge about his indecisiveness and declares that she's through waiting around for him to make up his mind. It didn't last all that long of course, but it was so refreshing when it happened. I wish Hope and/or Steffy would take a cue from this..... and, unlike Brooke, stick to their decision.

Amazing work!

But I have one question. Shouldn't Josh Taylor's appearances as Roman Brady and Chris Kositchek be combined on the actor's list, thereby giving him 2813 episodes and a 12th place on that list?

B&B:

Sally Spectra (the original): Had both biological family (Macy, C.J) and a sort of surrogate family (Saul, Darla), but all of them left the show and at the end of her run Sally was left alone.

Brooke: a character that has oddly gone full circle. She started out as part of a family, with her mother, two sisters, a brother, a grandmother and later her father on the show. A few years later they were all gone, and for a number of years she was alone. But then her family started coming back again, and even though some has left again, she now has both her sisters firmly in place on the show.

51 minutes ago, MinnaH said:

For B&B, add Thomas Forrester and Sheila Carter to that list.

Thomas I can agree with, but Sheila? 

How do you think that Sheila Carter's character was assassinated? How do you even perform character assassination on a psychopath?  

It's hard to imagine now that B&B, once upon a time, actually was a well-written and competently acted soap opera.

I bet that Susan Flannery, if she's even watching, is breathing a huge sigh of relief that she got out in time. I wonder what John McCook and KKL, who have both been around since the beginning, are thinking. To have gone from what the show used to be to this.... 

Hi! I was just wondering if you had seen the posts made by Manny in the ATWT thread with short recaps for episodes from 1956 and 1957 with episode numbers? It's on page 666 in that thread.

8 minutes ago, Fevuh said:

 Just from reading I used to defend Liam but it’s so worn out now.  Why would Staffy, Hope or anyone put up with him?  They both should have kicked him to the curb years ago.  Reading that still going on gives me no desire to watch.

Steffy/Liam/Hope is such an obvious attempt by Brad Bell to re-create the Taylor/Ridge/Brooke triangle from the 1990s. But that story was written so much better, so Hunter, Ronn and KKL had much better material to work with.

Brooke on B&B, starting with the affair with Deacon. I know that they had sizzling chemistry and many found them hot together, but it was completely out of character for the Brooke we had seen so far. And since that story she has really never been the same. Before that, despite what Stephanie said, Brooke had never been anywhere the slut Stephanie had accused her of being, but since then.... oh dear..... 

6 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

Salem is horrified to hear that Will and Sonny plane crashed on its way to Arizona. Sami finds out that Will is alive but Sonny is dead. Will returns to Salem to start his new better life without Sonny.

However, Will has suffered horrible injuries that require plastic surgery. And when the character returns to Salem he's played by Bryan Craig!   

50 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

No need to try to explain. At least your not bashing others on this board like some do in this thread. And then some wonder why other posters don't like them. 

I fail to see any bashing in this thread, unless you count the one Ron Carlivati and his partner is subjected to. Pointing out that some of the comments made towards them is pushing the envelope a bit is not what I would call bashing.

1 minute ago, divinemotion said:

Ep. 297 - Brooke yelling at Stephanie. Stephanie breaking glass. Katherine Kelly Lang and Susan Flannery have such toxic chemistry. I can just feel by the way Susan is acting... that she doesn't like KKL. I know it's a strech, but even when Stephanie is agressive towards anyone else... it doesn't even come close to the hatred towards Brooke. Maybe I am imagining it, but I can't help but feel this. It's they way she looks at Brooke/KKL, it goes beyond the acting. Maybe the writers picked this up.

You are imagining it. SF and KKL are very good friends in real life.

On 7/6/2020 at 12:34 AM, Soaplovers said:

Brooke in the first few years wasn't sex addicted at all...in fact, she kept ridge at arms length for awhile sexually.  Theories on when she became sex addicted?

On 7/6/2020 at 8:29 AM, Marquise said:

i think at the beginig Brooke was shown as virgin. But after she mooved to live with Ridge and they has sex. Then - boom she become sex addict

I think calling Brooke a sex addict is going a little bit too far. She's made some (very) poor choices when it comes to men, but she's not a sex addict.

9 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

I had forgotten how hot Zac was. I liked Maddie but the writing and acting by Jake was horrible. Noah was Jake. His reunion with Alan was so dull. He pretty much said nothing and it's obvious he didn't want to be there. Agim started flirting with him to loosen him up to no avail. He even left the chat earlier.

That's unfair criticism. He made it clear that he had a prior engagement and had to leave because of that. It's not his fault the technical difficulties meant that the chat was prolonged.

The confrontations between Brooke and the Forresters during the BeLief story (still the best B&B story ever) are some of my favorites. The fact that Brooke came out on top is just icing on the cake.... 

B&B: Brooke's affair with Deacon.

Love her or hate her, Brooke has been an integral part of B&B since the start, and her sordid affair with Deacon was out of character for her and damaged her character in a way that she's never really recovered from. And as if he realized the damage he had done to the character of Brooke, Brad Bell then proceeded to do the same to other characters, Taylor and Stephanie for example. (I'm probably giving him too much credit here, and most likely he just sucks as a writer, but you never know....  )

Now all the characters are ruined beyond repair and B&B is nothing more than an empty shell.

And when you consider that the Brooke/Deacon affair also produced Hope it's even more obvious how damaging that story was......

With Y&R sinking like a stone and B&B finally reaching a climax to the Beth/Phoebe-story could B&B possibly dethrone Y&R from the top spot, albeit briefly?

Good: Brooke/Ridge/Taylor (I was tempted to write Brooke/Ridge/Stephanie instead  )  At least it was good during its first 5-6 years.

10 hours ago, Faulkner said:

Not campy fun or just people you love to hate, but chilling and frightening in a way that haunts your dreams.

 

For me, it’s always going to be Sheila on Y&R. I was a kid when she was torturing Lauren, but when she’d cock that eyebrow and almost coil herself up like a viper, I would feel a shiver.

I agree about Sheila. Kimberlin Brown played her, both on Y&R and on B&B, with such menace barely hidden beneath the surface. And in her scenes with Susan Flannery/Stephanie you could feel the rage threatening to break through her facade. It was mesmerizing.

27 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

 

He's not even Susan Scannell. 

38 minutes ago, Fevuh said:

How could she be brought back as Hilary?  Didn't she die in front of them all after the car accident?  She actually wasn't dead and Nate kidnapped her?  (Why would he do that?)?  That would be similar to how they ruined Neil...kidnapping her to "save" her.  

Taylor Forrester.

That's all I have to say.

8 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

Since when does that stop soaps from bringing someone back from the dead LOL

Exactly. They still haven't found an explanation too ridiculous to use. 

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but if you're going to be that sensitive then you will probably find yourself having to block quite a few posters.

6 minutes ago, Marlenaphan said:

You think Higley or Tomlin were better than Ron? If the answer is yes, I’m going to block you right now.

How very mature of you. 

It's called a different opinion. People do have those on discussion boards.