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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.

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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.

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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!

Selfish people don't deserve your time.

I need to watch these movies! I am loving your reviews.

After a huge pause - mostly, because of work, I am back to binging Edge... and boy oh boy, Raven is a troublemaker! There is no second boring when that girl is around.

Today I am not tolerating the heat outside well... I feel like I'm trapped inside and I'm getting cabin fever in just 3-4 days of heat. I don't want to wait for it to become night to go outside. I am f-cking depressed. I just ordered food, because I don't have energy to go to the grocery store. Complete fail.

Older characters acting like teens or 25 is a completely different topic. The statement that old characters should not be leading story is the one I don't agree with. I not only NOT agree with it, but I find that older characters sometimes are desperately needed and missed. What Bold for example is LACKING right now is that older-matriarch type. I am starving for a character that brings wisdom. Age gives opportunity for experience and that is not a negative - we need characters that have been through it. I am bored with the virgin in distress or the whore of the week, which Bradley always writes. I need some substance. And yes, people don't always watch to see people their own age, but anyone who reads and knows psychology, knows that what you see - you unconsciously associate with or don't. It is not even conscious process. So yes, I do want variety and older characters who people can relate to and which problems and issues are relevant to them. I will quote my mother who watches tv all the time (she is definitely a target audience, since she also watches commercials and buys things) and always says to me, when I try to suggest to her some too-teen or too-hip show. I don't find these shows funny, it's not my type of humor and these are issues that I am long past. Please don't make me watch this. And then she starts watching a show where there are people over 40 in it. People who some may call older. This is a completely normal thing for some people. I myself can't stomach some things anymore and I'm only 29. And that's why shows have target demos and all the world of ads and commercials KNOW who they are selling to. To know the age of your main audience is CRITICAL for success.

Outside it's like literal death. So hot. All I did today was work from home and lie on the couch. I feel freaking depressed.

Absolutely not true. Just an example - Susan Flannery was quite older when she STARTED on Bold (she was if I am not mistaken - nearly 50 years old) and she MADE the show for the next 25 years. Your statement is against all my beliefs and I don't want to say the word ageist, but I said it. Older characters SHOULD lead in soaps, just like younger ones should too. You should also think about the target demos. If anyone here thinks that soaps are being watched by teens or youngsters only.... and not middle aged women primarily, they are horribly mistaken. This genre is not the netflix teen show crowd. A lot of soaps are watched by women and men long past 50 or 60 and these people need the characters to associate with. Older characters ROCK and should not be in the shadows. The typical strong woman matriarch that always leads storylines on soap operas is never a youngster. I can go with examples and examples. They SHOULD be leading soaps.