I Am A Swede

With B&B in the horrible state it's in, and Brad Bell obviously burned out, the question is, do Bill Bell Jr and/or Lauralee have any kind of influence over the direction of this show? It's their parent's legacy too. If B&B continues down this path, with a new soap looming on the horizon, it's quite possible, maybe even likely, that Brad's incompetence might drive this show to cancellation.

2 hours ago, Althea Davis said:

I wanted to add... the way they are removing Douglas out of Hope's life... with 1 freaking scene in 1 episode... is really mind-bogglingly bad writing. The only thing I can compare it is... to Sheila dying after being gone for weeks... dead in 3 episodes without build up.

What this show now is telling it's viewers is - DON'T BE INVESTED in ANYTHING, darlings, cuz We can UNDO it in 1 scene after 3 months and you'll never hear about it again. Cuz we don't care.

That's the whole vibe I am getting - he, who is in charge, doesn't care what we feel or think or if we are invested or not. It's this... or he has really lost it in a way that makes him completely inadequate to write anymore.

Everyone in this storyline is acting foolishly and completely unrealistic. You don't tear a child from a woman like that. You don't do things like that.

It's so premature and so fast... that your head spins. 

Trust me... soon there will be Finn and Hope in love without build up... and even SOONER it will be Steffy and Liam AGAIN. 

This show reminds me of a bad Sims simulation, where the player has stopped playing and forgotten about the laptop months ago and the laptop is still plugged in and the game plays on auto-pilot.

There is no direction, no atmosphere, no real emotion, besides what the great actors are basically squeezing out of  BAD SCRIPT.

 

 

Totally agree. I don't think I've ever seen B&B be as bad as it is right now. Brad Bell has completely lost the plot.

1 hour ago, YRfan23 said:

Bradley wants Steffy/JMW to be Stephanie/SF so badly….yet it’s just not funny or cute. 

She never will be. Susan was in a different league.

And frankly, if the writing wasn't so lopsided Brooke would eat Steffy alive. She went toe to toe with Stephanie for years, and Steffy is not her grandmother.

I would much have preferred if Belle was the abuser. It would be much harder for Tom to get anyone to believe him if/when he spoke up, and Belle could use the threat of her family to keep him in line. But that would require them to make a Dingle the actual villain for once, and we can't have that, can we....   We're supposed to look upon them as being right all the time, even when they're doing horrible things. 

9 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Rare Emmerdale Farm promo near the start. @I Am A Swede

 

 

Funny, even that small glimpse of Emmerdale Farm brought me more pleasure than a whole month's worth of the current show.  

9 hours ago, Althea Davis said:

Should have done it in the winter when the water is freezing! 

I doubt the Seine is pleasant to fall into regardless of season....  

2 hours ago, NothinButAttitude said:

What have they done to Lisa's ashes, friend? Something vulgar I bet.

Tom kicked the urn and her ashes spread all over the place. Tom then blamed Belle for it because she "upset" him. Go to around 4.10

This is incredible.... One can't help but wonder, is it an accident, or something else?

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-68663071?src_origin=BBCS_BBC

What is it with this show and dead people's ashes? I don't think anyone has forgotten the disgusting way they handled Liv's ashes, and now they're at it again with Lisa's....

I find it really distasteful, and it makes me incredibly grateful that they didn't do anything like this with Annie's ashes.

Today we celebrate waffles here

1 hour ago, dragonflies said:

Oh and who says Hope has to rush into marriage? Has Hope never heard of long engagement's? She can be engaged and plan the wedding 5 years from now. 

One might say that she did just that by accepting the ring from Thomas. He knew (because she told him) that she wasn't ready for anything more than that at the moment, yet he still proposed again, so if she had said yes I doubt he would have been willing to wait 5 years for the actual wedding. He would have started putting pressure on her for that immediately.

33 minutes ago, Althea Davis said:

Don't argue with stupid people. There is no point.

Can't argue with that!

8 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

Then she should NOT Have accepted his ring at all. She sent him major mixed signals even  said her T and Douglas are a family. He thought they were on the same page and they weren't IMO she he loves her more than she loves him

I thought she made her position very clear from the start of the relationship, and she has also been very clear about not being ready for marriage. And you can have a family without being married. My parents didn't marry until I was twelve, but I never doubted that we were a family.

It's honestly quite refreshing for B&B to have a character unwilling to rush into marriage for once. Usually they can hardly wait for the ink to dry on the divorce (or annulment) papers before they marry someone else.