Vizion

Rarely do I think you can credit a single writer for a couple but I think you can give MVJ almost sole responsibility for Kevin and Lucy.

Usually they submit in the wrong (supporting) category because they feel they have no shot in Lead. Considering how limited the competition is and that there are only 4 soaps left I find category fraud ridiculous now. You're barely competing against anyone now (the great actors have all left and the ones who remain barely and tarely get material), the least you could do is submit in the proper category

Same. I also just liked how stylish Colleen Dion's Felicia looked, down to the haircut. I absolutely believed she worked in fashion.

So nice to see a Spectra-centric episode with Felicia and Stephanie thrown in. The conversation between Sally and Stephanie was so fantastic. The more I see these episodes the more I realize that I will probably not like or watch this show regularly again.

Just great scenes between Nikki and Jack. Incredibly well acted and well written. Jill in this dress and hat is killing me! Great to see Dina as she used to be (the current illness story has gone on entirely too long)

I don't really like commenting on this because it feels very gross to me but I think a lot of the decisions she made regarding plastic surgery were a direct result of some things that happened in her personal life including some mental breaks. She clearly developed some type of body dysmorphic disorder. Anyway, I have to say, I quit being a regular viewer of B&B an eternity ago but I was suprised at how great she looked here in 2008:

Hunter was the reason I started watching too but also loved the Spectras and Flannery. Actually, I realized the other day that I really had no use for the men on the show. I only really tolerated Ridge because of Taylor. But I loved Taylor, Stephanie, Sally, Macy, Sheila, and later Amber - the male characters I could pretty much take or leave.

Has this interview ever been posted? Bill Bell and Claire Labine Interview from 1997 https://www.serialscoop.com/2014/07/bill-bell-claire-labine-on-writing.html?m=1

This episode is positively dreadful.

I feel like the Annie Dutton story definitely helped GL in the ratings. I don't remember what they were but I remember it being pretty big.

Has anyone put the last two episodes on the OneDrive?

LOL this appears to be a clear case of Bill Bell's vision still somewhat being THE vision for the show. Because what is quoted above is NOT Bradley at all. He LOVES and LIVES FOR the trash and sleaze. He clearly says he still gets story direction from his father, it seems as though this interview is more about his father's vision than his IMO. The man who wrote Deacon/Brooke and Ridge/Bridget saying going too far in terms of bad taste and sexually explicit content is not B&B? Didn't the Forrester family listen to Deacon having sex with Bridget and her losing her virginity over the phone?

I thought he was? Aren't both him and Tracey recurring?

Why has Cricket been in every classic episode? And they could have skipped this Isabella episode it mainly focused on characters no longer on the show (Raul, Brittany, Bobby) or ones no longer on contract (Christine, Paul, Michael)

Gotta say, I don't think there is an actress in daytime who sold sex and seduction better than Lynn Herring. It was just effortless. I keep thinking of other actresses that could do this scene justice and deliver it without it coming off as forced or cheesy or cringe and I'm coming up blank. I know one of her Emmy nominations came from a seduction scene - it was deserved.

So no episode from the HIV story from Winters week? Does that seem wrong to anyone else?

Hey everyone, great news! Nikki N got back to me and said she has full episodes that she will put on the Onedrive (I gave her the link). She said she has a ton from 1993 that she will share. The only issue is the episodes are in a vault or stored away somewhere and it might be a month before she can get to it because of COVID-19

Yes it seems so. I assume she has entire episodes because she seems to have almost every Ridge/Taylor scene - especially from 92-97 or so. Unless she found someone who does Taylor and Ridge edits? I sent her a note on YT, sometimes she responds. Hopefully she has some full episodes she's willing to contribute to the vault. I still wish we had dates for those clips. There are so many, would love to see them in some kind of order

I see that all of those Taylor and Ridge clips that were put on You Tube are being put into the OneDrive. Does anyone know the dates of any of those clips (especially the stuff before 1996)? They all seem to be labeled weird as hell but there's a lot of stuff there.

Yes please! I have been looking for 1999 and 2000 especially!

Honestly weddings are boring. Unless someone gets shot at one, I would rather they not. But I agree the Nikki and Victor episodes have largely sucked (still better than anything B&B has done)

The same person who does the Taylor and Ridge clips for B&B is clipping Kevin and Lucy's story from the time they met.

Agree. Also Sandra Nelson never felt like a clown to me the way Stafford often does. Some of her and Michael's antics were OTT but she never felt like a straight up joke. Alex was the only Diane IMO.