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I think so too.. it was also the last year the show was surprising and over the top in a good way. I myself loved the disgusting Pose sex scandal of 2010. Then I think Thomas and Brooke were really entertaining for a while but... it the story went sour by the end. 2012 really was the beginning of the end. The new Bridged aka Hope and Steffy were eating the shows oxygen... no Stephanie and no Ridge... and Brooke in a repeat 2001 2002 sex scandal with Bill... it just was recycled. I never think of BB after 2011 as BB. It's a different show for me.

Don't overshare about the vault. It will backfire

oh my god yes.

Which do you think ARE THE WORST storylines EVER told on the show... and which are the worst YEARS

10 - Ridge is not Eric's son. I hated that stupid Bradley Bell twist... it just didn't work at all for me.

9 - Taylor comes back for the second time - the scenes in the cemetary... embarassing.

8 - Hope and Liam and Steffy

7 - Brooke and Thomas eat the berries...

6 - Jake MACLAINE

5 - Sheila's 2021-2022 return

4 - Thomas is obsessed with Hope - unwatchable

3 - Brooke goes mad... and talks to dolls

2 - TAYLOR GIVES BIRTH TO BROOKE'S CHILD

1 - every story that starts and they wrap it up after 15 episodes because Bradley Bell decides he doesn't want to continue...

Most beautiful

1. Brooke... in the sense that her beauty has Lasted for 35 years... she was and still is so beautiful

2. Taylor... hunters taylor... but I am placing her second because of the way she looked later years

3. Caroline 

4. Stephanie first 3 4 years 

5. Sheila

6. Macy 

7. Annikas Hope

8. Bridget Jennifer F 

9. Lauren 

10. Jackie 

Nobody asks me but I will tell my Top 10 for me are...

1. STEPHANIE the queen in charge.. with the one exception is that she is better at ice and bully than crying and sadness. Stephanie has hard time crying with tears.

2.BRIDGET 2001 2002 amazing... truly masterpiece of an actress. She could have given so much more to the show.  

3.HEATHER TOM KATIE but she overdoes it sometimes. How many times did she have a heart attack... too much... but again.. pure talent.

4.SALLY icon... not realistic at all.. more like a cartoon character but very unforgettable and unique. 

5. CAROLINE she can be very real and very fake based on the material... the actress was not that consistent but the highest moments were truly special 

6.AMBER very big potential and she drove such great moments of the show... she and Sally have made me laugh more than anyone.

7.BROOKE the biggest storyline driver... not a genius actress but I belive kkl is kkl when she acts like brooke. That's the only way she can act... and it's good. Brooke is irreplaceable. But not the top talent. Nope.

8. SHEILA. She is amazing but only in her 2 3 perfect notes... sheila has never been the most realistic character... there have been a lot of bad acting moments with her... but I blame the material 

9.PAM she could be in top 5 if she got more material.. true psycho... and really superb actress.. I place her here because the show gave the others a lot more opportunity to shine... but I think alley mills needs to be more active as psycho pam. I would kill for sheila vs pam

10.TAYLOR... very beautiful but that's the negative... you can't really see past the beauty sometimes... and after 2005 she acts absurdly bad. That's why I place her last... if I judged her from the early Years.. she would be top 5.... but in the late Years...

Notable mentions

1. Jackie. Had some great moments but in the end ended very boringly 

2. Morgan... not the best actress but I loooved her

3. Macy... again not the best actress... she is too soapy and melodramatic but I love the character... and she can sing that woman

4. The new Hope that is on right now... she us the best for me acting wise

5. Lauren...

Negative top 5 chacters

1. KIM Matula hope... sorry many people like her...but for me she made the character too naive and too sweet... it was like I had eaten too much candy... really really got bored by her... and didn't find her effective at all. That's my opinion many people love her.

2 steffy... I mean.. for me there has been so so much overacting... very bad body language. Too much gesturing.. she just feels off to me... I just don't like the actress at all... I feel vulgarity when I hear her voice... and the character is very copy paste from past bold vixen types.

3. Beth Logan.... ew... the most boring character in history of the show.

4. Margot... I mean... overacting... melodramatic...

5. Donnalogan ... all of them.... have been bad.

Nothing against actresses... just opinion of a fan.

KKL was better at emotion always... and crying a LOT. But she lacked the intelligence and class that Hunter gave Taylor.. She on the other hand... lacked emotion at some points.. and for the first couple of months she couldnt cry like she started later... I will say they are equally good, but no GREAT GREAT like Susan... But in the end I will kinda prefer KKL... because she made me feel more emotion. Taylor a lot of the times is just beautiful. 

Mmm well his abuse story was bearable... with horrific acting by Tippi...  but it was too long and by the end I was bored with it...It was the same conversation with Jake with Donna or Felicia or Taylor for like 150 episodes... Like... really unbearable Bradley type of repeating... And the whole Jake character was badly written... nothing compared to the older characters or some new ones... It really showed when they changed his character couple of times... Let me repeat that moment when he ALL OF A SUDDEN stopped being tennis pro for working at Forrester... NOT REALISTIC. Bad writing. Sorry. I think the show really was amazing these years... but when it comes to Jake... it just fails. For me.

Ive been rewatching some of the episodes because of my partner... and I really want to say that JAKE nearly killed the show... For a show with 1000 episodes of consistency... now all of a sudden MACY wants to sleep with HIM... After meeting him 1 time... After us watching her Romeo and Juliet romance with Thorne... so out of character for Macy... SO RUSHED and so unnatural.... and then this beautiful rich girl Felicia cries all day for this... I'm sorry... boring guy... that continues for 1 year to live in a garage... NOT REALISTIC. And then the forced... decision that ONE DAY Jake just decided he doesn't want to be a tennis coach anymore and Well.. HE WANTS to work at Forrester. Jake has been the biggest FAIL of the Bill Bell era and everything connected to him was unrealistic and forced. My opinion.

She was ok... but nowhere near the star quality that Hunter got back then... I mean... Taylor had to be really special... to get into these war triangles... She was like the most beautiful woman on Earth back then... and with that intellectual vibe... as a bonus... Really think they made A PERFECT cast for Taylor. 

Its just my opinion that the actress doesnt fit the character at all.. When I watched it with my partner... we both cringed at the way she talked and tried to act out the dialogue. Its just not the right cast. Hunter is perfect for Taylor and it was noticed.

Sherilyn was absurd as Taylor... 

1. Brooke taking over 1993

2. Sheila marries Eric 

3. Stephanie and the homeless 

4. Caroline dying

5. Brooke and Thorne - Stephanie wants to kill Brooke

I think Sally s character started very nice... and got really really interesting by the 800s... then after 1200... the writers started slowly losing interest. I could feel it... but she is still very important character... but I think the character peaked between 800... and 1200... 

The only character that deeply started to feel off ... even though she is still the queen in charge is Stephanie... after about 1100 episodes... Stephanie started to become more and more one dimensional... the first 1000 episodes... she was really really multifaced... I guess it was Susan Flannerys new age and look that just changed the character... it was normal I guess. But I would have loved if Stephanie had continued in her prime years beautiful woman in charge... ways... she started to become more and more just obsessed with Brooke and acting as a bully... going around and terorizing people all the time... the character started lacking that warmt that it once had... But she continued to be THE BEST.

Character that improved - Taylor! She started little rocky... yeah beautiful... yeah hair... but she annoyed me a lot with how she was leading Storm and Blake on... all while wanting Ridge. It was very strange... since I would call this behaviour very Slut from the valley vibe Brooke... but then it changed... She showed her smart side and just the character has been non stop getting better ever since coming on. And Hunter is acting so good. Nothing compared to the way she did in the later years... she has facial expressions and is so striking.

I LOVED Blaked and wanted him to be even more psycho...

But of course the cherry of the show in character developedment was BROOKE.

How much she changed from 1 to 1700!

From a very innocent like girl... with dreams and looking out the window... to scheming and lying to Caroline... to manipulating Ridge into dating her... to destroying Stephanie's whole life... from a poor caterer's daughter to CEO in charge. Brooke really is the force of the show... Even if she lacks the actor's abilities of Susan Flannery. Brooke is just fun to watch... she hooks you into her story. I would say that the character till now has evolved perfectly... We all know that soon she will go downhill... but the first Brooke 1700 episodes... is just AMAZING. Perfect story arc.

I agree 10000 about Caroline. She was likeable till she had sex with Ridge and then lied to Thorne. But then her exit story redeemed her and it was one of the best written episodes ever.

I'm amazed that for nearly 2000 episodes... there have been maybe like 10-20 bad episodes... 2-3 bad script decisions and 2-3 bad characters... Everything is SUPERB. I would say that every 450- 500 episodes something very big and amazing happens... the show just continues to grow and grow... I will be interested to see when it starts going dowhnill EXACTLY.

The episodes on YouTube are times worst quality... this is better...

Thaaank youuu you are a God sent

49 minutes ago, Rattlefield said:

Yeah. CBS had them removed from youtube. But they are uploaded in another site. I can post the links if you want.

can you please post them... thank you!

It is Taylor and Bill for sure.

I am sure that Bill Bell pretty much controlled the process till the early 2000s... that's when the show got really bad. Before that they had amazing moments... I am sure that Bill Bell was watching over the process...

The had uploaded a lot of the new episodes in 320p... and now I see it's 480 finally again.

Well let me corect myself... they have started to upload them in better quality. THANK GOD.

The bold and beautiful channel has started to upload the new episodes in miserable quality... I really don't get why... it's very sad to see that they don't care about the fans's opinion. After so many episodes in semi good quality... it's bizarre to see what they are uploading. And we Know they have the episodes in much better quality. I am still grateful but a little sad... people that i recommended to watch the series in youtube have now quit because of the bad quality. And I don't overshare about the vault... I don't want it to be closed some day... it's just that the official channel could do so much better... we live in 2022 and the low quality is unbearable to watch nowadays.

I cried so much re...watching Stephanies homeless final... episodes... What moments did you guys cry at in these classic episodes.