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i really loved that nicole set aside the antagonism she feels to sympathize — even empathize — with haley’s (unlikely) ‘loss.’ i was hoping that anita could have done the same with bill — genuinely acknowledge the situation at hand.

This is the most interested I have been in Joey since the start of this soap and I do not care for this character at all, so it's working for me i was just coming to say i might be wrong. this episode is really pulling all of the pieces together. particularly loved nicole and haley.

kat going to joey armstrong — how could this possibly going to end well?

it’s not.

That is how I imagine hell. You wake up to find yourself alone in a room with only one TV that has non-stop Bold 24/7 (episodes starting from around 2021 - that's when sh-t REALLY hit the fan in my opinion) and there is no way to turn it off. In the pauses between episodes... you hear snippets from Brad Bell interviews in which he says that these are his best seasons. You cry and you scream and beg someone to stop this misery and open the door, but the only thing you hear is Brooke repeating "destiny" and Sheila laughing in the distance. You find yourself in Kafkaesque nightmare you can't escape. after 13 years away from soaps, i started watching btg. never watched b&b, but a couple of months ago, i turned the television on early and was so mesmerized (and not in good way:) by what i saw i was compelled to watch the next two episodes. recap has always been a part of soaps, but covering the same material at least six times in the same 30-minute episode?! i know that the cbs audience has always skewed old, but not everyone watching has a short-term memory deficit.

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i’m afraid to think who that might be — derek and ashley?

this illustrates perfectly why i continue to have a problem with NuTed. somewhere (not sure if was here or on another board) i said that i felt the recasting ted had damaged the character. someone (again, not sure here or elsewhere) replied that what we’re seeing now is how MVJ originally envisioned. maybe… but that means her original version was simplistic and far less interesting that what viewers saw the first few weeks. so the recast feels like a big bait-and-switch.

So you're quitting too? i’ve seen every episode thus far. but down the road, i’m planning to check recaps and spoilers and watch when something looks interesting — like tomorrow, when vernon goes to bill, i assume about breaking the trust.

i’m still hoping against hope that derek will need longterm rehab and that he and ashley will disappear. weird — and frustrating. it’s been six months, and gotten to the point that the boring — not to mention stupid — is far outweighing the good when it should be other ‘way round. and in the police station? the short answer is no! no one seems to have any filters.

perhaps, but also understandable.

is jacob on vacation? and doesn’t naomi have clients? used to love both these characters until this storyline destroyed them both.

I agree. But they're intentionally writing him this way, right? I don't get it. In the first months of the show, we were given a loving, caring Ted who was all about showing Nicole all levels of love language. Then we get a recast...and nothing. back in the day, that was called ‘taking the character in a new direction.’ but it usually happened after the original actor had been off the canvas for while. why they decided to recast in the middle of a storyline will forever by a mystery. this is the first soap i’ve ever watched from the very beginning. i know it’s been years, but does anyone recall another soap having these kinds of growing pains?

crossed my mind, as well.

so much work needed in how stories proceed. i just looked, and late in thursday’s episode, the kids tell martin and smitty that they made up their minds about seeing june — which felt like kind of a cliffhanger. but nothing — not in the next episode (friday) or today. and what’s going on with bill and haley? instead, we get derek, which, as, as pointed out above, could have waited. i do not understand why they want to have so many stories going on simultaneously. they’re blocking story momentum. i’m finding it frustrating. not sure how much longer i’ll still around. may just take a look after checking the recaps.

woo hoo — looks like i was wrong!

looking like at least part of today’s episode will be preempted.

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and then following up by injecting potassium laura’s. iv. (and where is laura?). all compounded by months of episodes already pre-taped.

i’ve been saying from the beginning: too much happening too quickly to too many characters. simply not enough time to laid a proper groundwork and aftermath for every story.

THANK YOU!!! I loved they read him because it's true. I'm not even on his side now and today's episode with his dialogue did not help at all. Can he not see why he's wrong? Jesus. ‘can he not see why he’s wrong.’ well, he could… if the writers wanted him to.

not to mention that she twice tried to murder laura — not because she had a personal conflict with laura — but because laura stood in the way of her plan. sounds like a sociopath to me, which is, at least for me, hard to forget.

and this is a surprise?

they can’t be serious! the kids are going to meet june TODAY!?

???