BoldRestless
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The first two weeks are really exruciatingly slow. I wouldn't judge the whole season by that. It's not until almost episode 40 that Brooke actually meets the Forresters. I wouldn't skip it, but just keep it in mind. What's interesting to me is seeing a B&B with better acting, directing, and music, with a similar feel to Y&R but definitely not as great. However, the show is very... straight. There's really no subtext like there is on Y&R. The characters express their thoughts through talking to themselves and long speeches. It's sort of cheesy that way. Nothing going on beneath the surface, and the storylines are very simplistic (maybe that's why it was popular abroad). I personally did enjoy the rape story. I would say watch everything, because it's fun to catch little details here and there, like how long Eric and Stephanie were married, how Bill Spencer had no other children and no son (lol), and stuff like that. I would get the thought of "oh why don't I just fast forward to the Stephanie scenes" but the show is so short, it's honestly easier to just watch it, it goes by fast and you'll never get this opportunity again to see it for the first time.
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I use jdownloader and it almost always works. I have #397 and 398 in 720p. For some reason I couldn't download ep 392, but it does work on the site from Marquise (thank you!), only in 360p for some reason. Up to ep 330 they were downloading in 1080p but something changed. These are still decent quality though. (If someone happens to have ep 392 in better quality, please do share!) https://www.mediafire.com/file/kbe93tdpatc18ul/B%26B_Classics_S2_E397_(1988)_(720p_30fps_H264-192kbit_AAC).mp4/file https://www.mediafire.com/file/n5udmxtdn11j0ur/B%26B_Classics_S2_E398_(1988)_(720p_30fps_H264-192kbit_AAC).mp4/file I'm still only in the 230s in my viewing... it's certainly nice having all this to look forward to!
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This is amazing, thank you! I have found a work around for the small text, at least in the Chrome browser. I right-click the image and hit "open in new tab." Then I go to the tab and click the image and it is very big. You can adjust even more by hitting CTRL+ to make it bigger or CTRL- to make it smaller. The quality is VERY good.
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I can understand how Traci would feel that way. She was always in Ashley's shadow and hearing her sister called "my beauty" while she was teased for her weight. Brad was the hot guy who actually fell for her, and Ashley dating him hit a sore spot. I don't blame Brad Bell for just hitting reset. The story was too convoluted by that point. We saw Sheila in jail, locked up in chains and heavily medicated, only to hear that was really Sugar whom Sheila forced to have plastic surgery to look like her. No one wants to see Kimberlin Brown as "Sugar" and Michelle Stafford as "Sheila." At that point it made absolutely no sense for Sheila to just be walking around LA free, but I'd rather that than having them go through more cringe-worthy re-writes. At least now the door is open whenever she wants to come back.
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I wish videoland would upload more than one episode a day. I'm only still up to episode 195, so I don't mind Amy Silence being behind, but it seems crazy that they can't drop them in bigger batches for people who are actually watching along with videoland. I wonder why they've released them only in the Netherlands. Now that the episodes are ready, why can't they license them to Netflix or Amazon Prime? They must have already addressed music rights, because there are some scenes where you hear cheesy music and you can only see the characters lips moving and it's obviously been dubbed over.
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MTS' facial expression when she finds out Ashley helped pick the horse was priceless. And Y&R used to be filled with little moments like that in every episode. I've always liked Victor and Ashley's relationship, but seriously - who collaborates with their mistress to buy a gift for their young child? I love the way Bill Bell played it, with the affair being an open secret. So much better than having everyone look dumb as if they never had a clue. This is psychological drama and it's so much more interesting. I can just imagine how cringey this would be today, with two different factions of "Niktor" and "Vashley" fans battling out who was Victor's twue wuv. Y&R had romance, of course, but the relationships weren't so much about making you swoon (a la Calgon take me away) as the way those relationships fit into the canvas, and the reactions of the various characters to them. Nikki going and telling her daughter that story about the wicked witch was terrible parenting, but you couldn't help but feel for her, and it demonstrated how delusional she was thinking that if you just take Ashley out of the equation there's no problem with the marriage. Other than her hair and the way she's dressed, this could have been any wife in America trying to work out her feelings. I was very impressed with Shawn's acting. I don't know a lot about this storyline - who was this Tamara woman and what was the deal with Turk? Unpopular opinion, but I greatly, greatly preferred MS and never liked GT. I certainly concede that MS was overacting by the end and I was very much over her... I just never thought GT did any better. I just think of her as always snarling and angry. I think this is represented well in the clip @ChickenNuggetz92 posted.There's no lightness to her character, it's one note. Sandra Nelson was much better than GT.
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I have a few treats to share! January 31, 1986 Thank you to @ChickenNuggetz92 for helping do an audio swap on this. October 10, 1995 Unfortunately I don't have October 11. Two episodes were aired on October 12, 1995 to catch up due to preemptions: Episode 1 Episode 2 October 13, 1995 October 16, 1995
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