Everything posted by Maxim
- B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
- B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
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B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
In my continuing appreciation of the Classic episodes, I just realized why it's so interesting to watch - ignore the amazing dialogue, music, set and overall rich and beautiful feeling of the show, that nowadays can't be duplicated by prime time shows even... IT'S THE MULTIPLE storylines. Comparing to today... and the last 15 years actually, when the show could only tell 1, 2 stories at a time, mainly one, which is a triangle... with everyone else being used as a commentary. I remember 2011 or 2012 when there were months of boring, dull episodes, in which Brooke is with Ridge, or Stephanie, or someone else, and she has done something, slept with someone by mistake, and all we hear is CRYING, explaining, re-telling something that happened 2 months ago, with the character in the next room discussing the same thing. IT WAS DEATH. And 15 years before that... in 1987... The show had... I may over-estimate... but 5 to 8 stories, 2,3 of them MAIN, 1 - THE BIGGEST and rest also important... In episodes 60-70-something we have Ridge / Caroline / Thorne - I think it's the main story. Eric/Margo/Stephanie and Beth/Eric - second Rocco with Katie and Donna - third and then... Brooke/Caroline - friendship Brooke/Ridge - beginning - will be main soon. Brooke/Thorne - beginning Donna - new life with some guy... not that important for me. Bill/Margo - interesting Bill VS Ridge - I love it! Stephanie VS Kristen Kristen - job at Forrester Mother Logan attacked by guys and moving with the Logans... The whore ALex and Thorne using her to attack Ridge And... more and more and more. I don't say these are all storylines, but they are all relationships happening simultaneously. AND IT'S BREATHTAKINGLY ENGAGING. Bill Bell was... A MASTER.
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B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
I'm up to episode 90. And let me say. This is the best thing i've seen in my life. Judge me... I like it. And let me be honest with you... for the past couple of days I've been faking the flu, so I can stay home and watch B&B. I've never been so excited... to wait for Brooke arriving at the Forresters mansion, to cry with Beth after she saw Eric for the first time. I feel like a kid again. I snuck into the warm bed, under the covers and I just watch episode after episode. I don't want it to end. I'm happy I have time to catch up to 500 episodes... that are being uploaded to youtube. I feel like I've died and gone to heaven. I've been obsessed with B&B since childhood, and when I was 10 I started collecting. But... I had never seen the beginning. Dream come true. This show is my guilty pleasure.
- B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
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B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
I can't stop watching the classic episodes. I'm just at the beginning still. These first 500 episodes of Bold are... 30 year later SPECTACULAR. The plots are so well written, there is gentle build-up, EVERY character has purpose, there is CONFLICT in every scene, there is subtext. I've been observing everything very closely and I think the writers have used lot's of myths and ancient storyline arcs. I even detect Shakespearian plot-steps, but I guess... every good story has something shakespearian. Every dialogue reminds me of something I've read, heard, seen. It goes on like a good play. And after so many years, I'm reminded why I fell in love with this show, when I was a baby. Why I won't go to school, so I can watch it. My mother was in the hospital, ready to give birth to me, when she would watch Bold every single day. LET ME say... Stephanie Forrester was so powerful and scary! And smart! Every scene she is in, I get goosebumps. She is so manipulative and sharp, and at the same time... aristocratic and beautiful. Ridge is the total JERK and I love it. Caroline is the way a HEROINE should be written. She is not easy and she is constantly striving to change. Brooke is... acting better than she acts today. Smarter and older in her thinking... This show was a DIAMOND. And now it's a cheap roll of toilet paper.
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Bravo's The Real Housewives of....
I am currently watching Vancouver season 1 and may I say - Jody Claman is the scariest, most disgusting villain of all time. She is the meanest psychotic bully I've seen in my entire life. This is by far the darkest housewives season I've seen. It's like watching Mean Girls / Gone Girl on repeat. The viciousness of this woman makes her seem like some kind of animation character. She is like a modern Cruella DeVille. What do you guys think ? Who is it even possible to bully someone on television like that. Mary is not perfect, but what she endures in this show is unbelieavable. LOOK AT HER SLIPPERS!
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B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
My mum and I watched the first episodes yesterday. I would say that if today the show is 2/10, back then it was 8/10. I really love how they write suspence and every scene has some kind of conflict, but it's not cheap. I love it. I think there is. Brooke is always reading on the newspaper about Ridge and Caroline. And I think Brooke is Ridge's karma for doing horrible things to Caroline. He met his match.
- B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
- B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
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B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
The DVDs were up to 250, right? And with the 250+ being uploaded on youtube right now... we have up till 300+. AMAZING. I am a HUGE fan and I've never watched the beginning. It has been a dream of mine for 15 years. https://www.videoland.com/series/1161/the-bold-classics I think this is where the person from youtube is recording from. But in my country I can't watch. And I think you have to pay to watch.
- B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
- B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
- B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
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B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
I only have episodes after 2011. And most of them can already be watched in youtube in the official page. They have the last 10 years available. Once i had all episodes from 2003 to 2016, but my laptop got stolen by a roomate. I still cannot live without thinking about never able to have the episodes back. I had been collecting for years. And I was STUPID for not burning on disc or storing somewhere.
- B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
- B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles
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Bravo's The Real Housewives of....
and I'm so put off by this woman and her behaviour I don't think I'll be able to watch the show anymore if she is on. even her voice makes me cringe now. i guess atl is going to be a pass for me.
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Bravo's The Real Housewives of....
absolutely tacky and showing of her character. a way to make the word charity sound vulgar.
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Bravo's The Real Housewives of....
this.
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Bravo's The Real Housewives of....
nene leakes is the most disgusting vile homophobic piece of [!@#$%^&*]. This coming from a person that loved her on the show. I hope I never see that face ever in my
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Bravo's The Real Housewives of....
Start with Atl, then NY (which is the best) and leave BH for another day lol.
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Bravo's The Real Housewives of....
OK. This season of NY seems to be the most entertaining since seasons 2 and 3 of Jill and Betheny.(I still re-watch them religiously) God bless the mother of all functioning sociopaths for giving us VIVA AVIVA! This basket case is giving the show LIFE. Sonja, what can I say. I love her to death. Atlanta - best season since season 3. It's completely re-freshed with Kenya taking the spotlight and becoming the grand bitch of the show. Love it. Beverly Hills - something was very wrong this season. It was all off. Nothing worked. NOTHING. At the end it all felt so heavy and boring.
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Bravo's The Real Housewives of....
CELEBRITY APPRENTICE WITH KENYA AND BRANDY. I'M DEAD. I'M OFFICIALLY PRONOUNCED DEAD! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU BABY JESUS! This has the potential to be better than the Joan Rivers / Annie Duke season!
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Bravo's The Real Housewives of....
RHONY - When did Kelly Bensimon become a blonde transvestite with intellectual disabilities? RHOA - I think Bravo has struck a gold mine with THAT crazy bitch. Nene - girl, bye. Sonja on the pole!