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.