Maxim

I didn't want to engage anymore... but I find it fascinating how... once again you didn't answer the question I asked - Why older characters should not lead in soaps? You said this yesterday and left no arguments to why. I gave you mine in the contrary. I am still listening and waiting to hear why you think older characters have no business leading soaps. Please explain this statement to me. It's funny to me how you chose to skip the issue I was commenting on and prefer to compare fan bases and facebook page likes. Is it so important to you for us to agree that Steffy is the star of the show? What are the criteria for a star of the show?😃 Is it what you just described? Fan awards (🫣), Emmys and facebook pages... and online engagement? Who chose this criteria? You? Then you should probably rephrase your statement to - Steffy is MY star of the show and I will receive it with no issue. Don't get me wrong, I have grown to like and respect JMW as an actress, this has nothing to do with her. I really don't know what else can I say. If it makes you feel good to believe all the things you are writing (especially that older character should not be leading soaps) - I guess... I'm happy for you.

I rest my case.

@Soapsuds 😂

Me and the man saw this last night... it is some sort of a prequel of the original iconic Psycho. It stars the amazing Olivia Hussey as Norma Bates. Well... I wouldn't say it came even close to the magic of the original, but I give it a solid 6.5/10. I loved especially that they used the original Psycho soundtrack at some moments. The story varies in quality from exciting to boring and exciting again. I kinda liked it.

We all know what can save the show and that is if Bradley some day decides to rest from writing his drivel and just gives someone else an opportunity. I don't want to sound cynical, but I think even some amateurs on the internet could write the show better at this point. There are so many talented people just sitting in the shadows. I really don't see how anyone else can out-bottom Bradley's bottom he hit with the last few years. I only see UP. So every day I will light a candle in the hope that Bradley may want to give the show to someone else. And... isn't he bored with it at this point? Brooke is not anymore at an age where she can pregnant and she has already slept with all the men in law, there isn't anything for Bradley to write anymore. So... give it up, sweetheart. We will remember you with warm feelings.

Thankfully for now there are no signs pointing to something similar to the covid19 pandemic.

I still think Kenya will be back and that this is a stunt.

My boss just gave me a huge assignment. I will have to work probably 100 times more than usual, since she wants everything done in couple of weeks and it doesn't sound possible. I am dreading even starting this. I have to talk with like... so many people on the phone which I hateeeee. F-ck.

Thank to the person uploading the 2024 episodes... You are amazing!

I am posting this... just in case my husband reads the boards from time to time. ❤️ 😂

Bold doesn't have a star of the show ever since Susan Flannery left. Sorry, but that's the reality. If you look around the boards, you will find that most characters right now are more or less NOT liked and annoying viewers as hell - including your favorite - Steffy. I also don't understand how anything of what you wrote proves your thesis that older characters shouldn't be leading story. Nobody is saying that 30 to 40 year olds shouldn't be leading, but this is not what you said, was it? You said that older character shouldn't be leading storylines. When they should - not always, nobody says that, but THEY should when the time and storyline is right. It's incredibly ageist in my opinion to say otherwise. And I'm sorry, but no matter how you spin the ratings after Hope/Liam/Steffy began, I know for a fact that countries around the world stopped airing Bold after one or two years of this unbearably boring triangle. I wonder why that was? And nobody is saying this is because the characters were young - my opinion is that people hated this generic copy/paste of the original triangle that nobody wanted to see for the 198289th time. Bradley didn't write it in any different way - he just made Hope into Caroline/Taylor, Steffy into Brooke and Liam - the most basic male character there is. And I haven't seen this GREAT ratings bump you are talking about. What I'm seeing is that after 1-2 years of an increase, the ratings have continuously declined. How do you explain that? Anyways, I wanted to talk more about the issue of older character leading, but seeing how every time the facts are repeated, there is a derailment and shifting the focus, I don't know what else to say. Except that older characters are very very important to soap operas, and history of the genre has proven that hundreds of times. People over 50 or 60 are most interesting to me and to a lot of other viewers and we crave storylines where there is maturity and level of experience in the characters. That's all. I respectfully disagree with the ageist statement that older characters shouldn't lead in soap operas.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. John Dryden

I couldn't even finish yesterday's episode. I fall asleep mid-through. Same old repeated dialogue, boring as hell. Now they are using Paris to prop other characters. Uuuughh.

When jewelry fades.

@Soapsuds

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Touch. If I can't see my husband, dog, or my soaps - I will go mad. God forbid. Would you rather be reborn as a rat or as a fly?

Meryl Streep, age 75! ❤️

This is one of my most favorite meals - fried rice noodles with vegetables and egg!