BoldKara

Agreed. Caroline would have had to endure what Taylor has (whether Taylor has deserved it or not is another matter altogether). We'd never have got one of the saddest, most permanent death scenes ever on B&B either. So very few characters stay dead on B&B, so whilst I missed JJ being there (and was so excited when she came back for a few years as Karen/Faith), I'm glad of the way Caroline's story ended (and it should never ever be reversed).

It seems 8246 was the only Christmas episode (not a lot of fanfare), and it aired on January 2 2020. There were a number of unscheduled preemptions during November and December which would have pushed the intended airdate out.

The YouTube ones from season 13 onwards are better quality than VL because YT are in HD so should be the benchmark episodes kept in the Vault, however there are many that should be replaced with VL copies due to the YT ones either being faulty in some way (glitches, lacking sound) or because the YT channel simply skipped them. I think the next one due for being replaced is 3361 for which the YT version is glitchy. Hopefully an Angel comes through shortly (@rsclassicfanforever ? 🙏) with replacements for episodes up to the current ones on VL (they are up to 3392). Thanks Angels!

Whether actors are literally “fired” (not offered a new contract, or had a contract terminated) it just boggles my mind why some fans don’t view being hired on soaps as an employment arrangement like any other. It’s like show runners are the devil for their right to hire and fire at will. I just personally don’t understand that mentality that Bell or whoever has no right to let staff go when he decides it’s their time and the character has had their run. It’s his show, he can do what he likes. And we don’t need to make a soap opera out of an employment arrangement being ceased. JMO.

Many fans at the time said she was photoshopped in. If you look closely, it doesn’t look like she’s really there. She wasn’t fired. She just didn’t want to be recurring as offered to her, as she stated in her interview. It’s a job like any other and she chose the door and new adventures in Atlanta.

https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-bold-and-the-beautiful/comings-and-goings/687603/bobbie-eakes-returning-macy/

I'm not being petty, and you are reading way too much into comments made like you know my intent. You spoke like you knew facts, you even capitalised it for emphasis. You can speculate all you like, the same way I can call it out as my view that it's speculation and not fact at all. If it was fact, you'd have had interview comments from Bobbie Eakes, and even then it's her side of things. However, Bobbie and Bell recently spoke together at some event, and Bell said to her something like "you know Macy may still be alive?". That doesn't sound like Bobbie left on bad terms, does it, yet you alluded to some bad behind the scenes drama. I'm just not a fan of this kind of speculation without facts, as it's damaging and hurtful in my opinion, especially if not true at all.

I wouldn't think to put words in your mouth. But you ARE speculating without any facts whatsoever. And they are words coming out of my mouth for the record.

Why does there have to be horrible behind the scenes drama for an actor to leave any soap? It's a job like any other job. Some stay forever, some are there for a while, others are fleeting. Some get their contracts renewed, and some don't. It doesn't mean there was BTS drama if someone leaves after 10-15 years or so. If people couldn't leave whether through resignation or just not getting a new contract, we'd have the same cast as 1987 except for the ones who have died. Departures keep the show fresh and allows new blood to enter. Bell always keeps the main cast at around 20. That means people come, and people go.

You can add 4844 to that list. It's about to be skipped in the coming schedule. 4362 was also skipped on the YouTube channel during the HD run for season 17.

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I have a question for you though. Do you like ramen?

You're looking at around mid-October when 3399 is aired there (early Sept for 3345).

Thank you so much Angel! Curious - did the YouTube versions of 3256, 3264, 3281 and 3283 have issues and that's why you have the VL versions? I couldn't find anything wrong with those YT versions but then again I didn't watch them fully through and just did a quick scan for errors.

And it just skipped 4716 as well.

This kind of tells me the master copy is corrupted and they had to edit it due to the pixelation? Looking forward to your next batch of season 13 episodes @rsclassicfanforever including the missing English version of 3255! Thank you as always. 🙏

Yes please! Looking forward to 3255 in English!

I'm up to January 1996 in my rewatch, where Ridge finds the faked letter from Dr Tracy Peters. It would appear the suspects are both Mike Guthrie and Sheila. Tracy was killed by mugging the night before in the hospital parking lot when Brooke and Ridge go to get her take on the letter. I'm not up to a revisited paternity test yet where Eric's revealed to be the father, and if memory serves from my original viewing, we never got to find out who planted the letter, and who killed Tracy? Does anyone know if there was a common viewer take on who did both (the letter and the killing)? Even though Mike wasn't known to be a killer, his behavior and anger towards Brooke seems to suggest he was the one who did both. Sheila certainly seemed shocked by it all when Ridge came to confront her and throttle her. What does everyone else who has seen this sequence think as to who the culprit was?

The official channel is going straight into Season 19! Let's hope all these episodes are HD because another one today (4628) is 360p - strange given the previous version loaded to the channel in 2020 was 480p. Thankfully the DVD version of this episode is in the vault (Aug 05).

Agreed. A screen recording is never going to be as good as a "backend rip", plus then including commercials to me seems to be (a very nice gesture) a waste of the screen recorder's time and hard drive space when we already have better versions without ads. The secret is someone being able to work out a backend rip!

That's an impressive difference. It's a pity no one seems to know how to snag the episodes from there! Hopefully Shout sticks around so people can watch at their leisure anytime in the future.

Thanks for the jdownloader tip! It worked! Yes it's a recent thing they announced, quite a few audio languages generated in AI it seems. I can only imagine how some of the languages translated back into English might come out! ha ha

Those 360p versions they're uploading for Season 18 "FULL HD" are getting really annoying - worse than their 480p counterparts the channel uploaded years ago with the show clapper and episode timing at the bottom of the screen. Has anyone found the episodes are hard to snag in English now that they are offering lots of languages done with AI? Solutions? Thanks.

It's 360p. It's worse than the original 480p one on YouTube with the counter and clapper. Clearly the intention was to load a 1080p version given the "Full HD" branding, but someone screwed up uploading it to the channel. Like all the other errors on the channel, it's unlikely to ever be fixed. I wonder what version they play during the "live" airing on rotation?

If the new and improved copies that @rsclassicfanforever has uploaded can be manually moved into the "by month, by year" folders, that would be awesome. I personally don't think it's necessary to keep the older versions (which either have Dutch subtitles hard coded on them, or are lesser in picture quality). That's a lot of valuable drive space that could be cleared. Just my view but can appreciate others may feel differently. The structure had been by month by year previously, so I think it would be easier to conform to that, where so much prior work to get it to that format has already been done. Hopefully you can "drag and drop" so the new copies are in the right month/year? Re Clips, I never look at them now we pretty much have the episodes in full. Appreciate others may use, however. Thanks for all your hard work here @BoldRestless!