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I think a few more sets would seriously help with this issue on BTG. Did Joey really need a home even if it was just Andre's apartment redressed?

I am confused by everyone's reaction to Chelsea moving to Copanhagen. If the pandemic taught us anything is that for most jobs you can work from anywhere. Also, Anita wants her to keep living her life and not put it on hold for her illness. While I totally get that the timing is difficult with her grandmother having cancer and her father's abnormal test results, my understanding is that this fellowship isn't starting tomorrow. The most frustrating part is that everyone is acting like this move is permanent. It's for a year! Like Kat, how selfish of you to want to prevent your friend from living her best life for a year. The only reason Chelsea should want to stay is because of her grandmother. I used to want Dani and Bill to reignite whatever it was they had, but it was mostly because I wasn't feeling Andre. Now that I have warmed to him, this Bill and Dani thing is not it for me. Dani is looking like a fool, especially the way Bill talked to her at the office. Sounded more manipulative than regretful. Is this the same man that told Vernon he had second thoughts? Maybe it was all part of his game. I have to agree that this show needs another set. It is quite obvious when dinner plans get dropped every time, because clealry there is no set for it. How many times now have characters intended to have dinner at Obekisk that then fell through for one reason or another. Also agree that these private conversations in public places is getting a bit ridiculous.

I did enjoy Izaiah calling Kat out on her hypocrisy. She claims her brand is about empowering women, but she is always tearing one down or being super judgemental. Although she was right about Eva, Kat did come at her hard before she even knew her especially about her style. It seemed like her early interactions with June had a similar disdain. Then when her mother was wearing the dress and dating, she ran to Gran to complain. Like girl! Your mom is a grown woman who is now divorced. Let her live a little. And if she really had an issue with it, she should have talked to her mom, not ran to her grandmother to do something about it. Ashley and Derek have become way more enjoyable apart. I actually don't mind Ashley as of late. I surprisingly didn't mind the episode as much.

I really enjoyed this week. It feels like we are headed somewhere for the first time in a while. Don't want to derail this thread, but I have tried to get into GH as well. It was never my soap but I did have a few periods where I watched. May give it a try.

I can't believe we are approaching the one year anniversary of Beyond the Gates. This is the first time in almost 2 decades that I have watched a soap regularly. I have finally caught up for February sweeps. Around the holidays and when Paramount+ pulled the first season off their platform, I fell a bit behind. I was a bit in limbo as to whether to keep watching or to track down the couple of episodes I missed first. I eventually got to watch the ones I missed, but it led to me falling really behind and binging several episodes at once just wasn't for me. I did miss reading up on everyone's perspectives and takes.

Didn't help that Carlton literally insinuated that he had a thing for Nicole the whole time. I have not been a fan of Carlton from the beginning, so he can go and it wouldn't bother me. I want Nicole with a rough around the edges guy. She is uptight, Type A person, she needs someone that plays contrast to that a bit. Not a Joey...I don't mean a criminal.

Yes, I did not love that moment. The way Andre framed it made no sense to me.

We got a bit of that progressive edge with Chelsea being in a throuple. Essentially, she was just a third that joined in with a couplez but it could have worked its way there. Although they did fail to REALLY go there before turning Allison into a stalker and rushing Chelsea into a stable monogamous relationship. We also had an interracial m/m gay couple. They are quite buttoned up and heteronormative but still major representation for daytime. While I do wish that Chelsea and Martin/Smitty were less "safe." It is what it is at this point. However, I agree that Kat and Eva should be a little more adventurous and young in their sexuality. I feel like the show plays the characters pretty safe. Even the more edgy characters are pretty normal such as Izaiah and Dani. Besides Dani being certifiable in the early episodes, she has been reeled in. Izaiah and Andre are supposed to be bad or playboy-ish and they are nothing of the sort. Not sure if Andre having feelings for Dani and Ashley was supposed to represent this, but it did not work as intended. Ty is a nerd and I say that with love and Samantha has had her ho wings clipped. I don't see writers going down that route again. Ideally, I would have loved for Chelsea to date around a bit. Men, women, couples etc. Until she actually fell in love for real. Kat's saving herself could have been novel for 2025, but they killed that when they had her lose it to boring ass Tomas and didn't even make all that much of a deal for Kat. She was slightly worried she didn't enjoy it, but not at all worried she just lost her V which she wanted to protect to a man she likely doesn't even like that much.

I read that post two ways. Either Crave is going to pick up where CTV left off beginning this Monday or Crave will broadcast on schedule with the US and the episodes that were not aired will be availbe on the Crave streaming platform. I assume it is the former since the Crave streaming platform has all the episodes up until 194. I hope BTG can find a stable home in Canada, but I can't imagine it will be easy especially if it is not being aired alongside another established soap.

I didn't get to watch yesterday's episode, because I only found out about the upload error on here today. I was planning on watching tonight, but then came on here to see it was taken down. I imagine there must be more people who don't watch daily or are further behind. I'm surprised they didn't at least keep this week up longer. Realistically, there should have been some kind of warning for weeks that certain episodes would disappear at a given date. BTG has not done well in communicating with viewers about planned breaks and now this. Really not a smart move.

I assumed there was no episode yesterday, because when I checked late last night I saw 199 as last on the list. I will have to check later. Thanks! It helps having this place to keep me informed.

This is great. There had to be someone on staff that could have been like wait, I can do so much better than what they rolled out.

Yes, I know what moment you are speaking about. I believe it was when Eva learned about a patient who wouldn't have money to pay for his surgery and she asked Leslie for the money. I am all for soaps being educational, but it needs to feel authentic. There have been a few times where characters will just talk like they are reading off a waiting room pamphlet. With Anita and the breast cancer stuff, it works because the character is actually dealing with it. Sometimes, however, it can feel forced and after school special.

He has come a long way, but ChatGPT speeches made me laugh.

Finally catching up on Christmas week's episodes. I found Kat's comment about fasting for 2 days so she can have some of Smitty's eggnog really out of place in 2025. It was a joke I'm sure, but it read like 90s/2000s toxic diet culture - like you didn't eat for two days so you can enjoy a treat around the holidays? It's also not common of Gen Z to support such outdated views. Don't get me wrong girls (and guys) still worry about weight, looks/appearance probably and ironically in a more harmful way than ever before. The way they speak about it though is completely positive and reframed. It's like they all spout body positivity and loving yourself, but then want to look like their favorite influencers and go under the knife or get beauty enchancing procedures on the other hand. Ted is an idiot. Like why in the hell would he go and tell Nicole about Vernon's "affair". Even if he believed it to be true, it wasn't his place. There was no winning for him. He didn't even frame it as I think Vernon might be cheating. He straight up said Vernon was without any concrete proof. Ted just needs to get away from Nicole. There is no redeeming qualities in that pairing at this point. The writing has completely annihilated this. Regina seemed to have no issue referring to Samantha and Tyrell by their new names even though she has hardly seen them since they came back into her life. I wonder if writers just want to completely forget how weird and offensive it would be that Martin and Smitty changed two grown children's names because they preferred other ones - especially when said children were old enough to know and understand their own names. TT did phenomenal work. I have faith she will do an amazing job with this story. I love that we are building some traditions. Like the Dupree women searching for their gifts before Christmas. Of course Naomi had to be nasty about her gift. I feel like this would work well otherwise and in years to come where someone finds a gift early and it causes anger, confusion, mystery, etc. But I am so dang tired of Naomi's hot and cold attitude with Jacob. Like get over it already. Another cute tradition is the competitiveness around who has the best tree. I can see Dani and Martin trying to outdo each other to the point it the trees and decor become ridiculous. These episodes were really nice balance of families, gathering, and drama. It was nice.