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About KKL look - I believe that she had her first botox experience some time in 1998 and then she had the mentioned procedure done in 2001. Of course we all could also see her new breast implants in 1995 - for me that's obvious that she prepared herself for the insanely sexy role in the movie 'Subliminal Seduction' with a lot of nude scenes. Overall I think she had pretty good job done and she didn't overdone anything for a long time. I just didn't like her cheek implants/fillers done in the early 2010s which unnecesary made her eyes look smaller but that's a very common mistake in my opinion. Are there any angels still here to rescue us by uploading next bunch of the 1997 episodes any time soon? In the meantime I've tried few times to watch the next official episodes on the Youtube channell. Unfortunately I had to stop after I couldn't recognize if I was seeing Ridge or maybe Enrique...

Yes, it is. Please check the the first post on the Y&R/B&B/GL Vault Updates. There you will always find the actual link to the vault: https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/61220-yrbbgl-vault-updates/ Maybe someone authorized could remove some old and useless files of the full episodes we have already in the vault? I'm sure that would help saving some extra space for next files (if that's the problem). I have to admit that I have done this on my drive, also applyed my own system to call the files, including short description of each episode to quickly find anything.

Maybe some browser extension like video downloader will help? Unfortunately I can't even open any Videoland files with my VPN, so I can't check this out.

On the Videoland there is already E2030 and we have only E1910 so far. Is there any chance of getting at least some small update soon? I wish any VPN would work in my country, as there are many USA old shows/series I'd like to watch and they're available only on some foreign streaming services which are blocked for many countries. I have no idea why are they blocking these kind of things as many people are willing to pay to see it in good video quality.

Yeah, same problem here. I've been trying to open the vault few times, but obviously something is wrong and since many hours the same problem still exists.

It's not quite true that Eric was madly in love in Sheila all the time before the mariage, because for a very long time he was still hoping that Brooke will come back to him. Actually this thing with Sheila was kind of a rebound thing on his part, but after divorcing Brooke he definitely got very much interested with Sheila and he asked her to marry him right after that.

Oh! I forgot to mention this part ealier! I'm actually a singing person but I have to admit that Thorne & Macy's singing was the most boring part of the show for me (at least in my 1987-2008 era). It was bland, dolorous, theatrical, melancholic, very unreal and veeery boring. I understand there are different kinds of love and ways of presenting it to us in the show, but that was too much for me. It was almost like a musical, because there were singing way too often and too long and I really hated it. I'd rather watch again Ridge & Taylor trying to conceive a baby for like 100 episodes (which was pretty boring to watch as well). After seeing Connor's house for the first time I'm almost certain that's in the Big Bear cabin. There are maybe few additional carpets and some little changes around there but everything looks almost identical. Also James' apartment seems to be Clarke's old place. And I know that many people could have already realized that Sally's apartment is taking place in Nick Preston's apartment. Also I remember the Marone house looked very similar to Sheila's house after her leaving the psychiatric hospital. It's been pretty much renovated, upgraded and decorated but still looks like the same place.

Personally I would probably even stop watching in 1997, as KKL was one of my favourite actress on the show, she had so many important storylines and memories (especialy with Stephanie and Ridge). Basically I hate any replacements in the cast. I remember how much I suffered Jeff Trachta as Thorne - his character changed too much, so badly, he got very self-centered, hypocritical and boring, actually everything about him has changed and turned into a something I really hated to watch. He just wasn't Thorne I remembered and got to used to! KKL's chemistry with others was pretty irreplacealbe, especially in this classic period. Then I was really afraid that she's not going back anymore as Brooke. Sandra was very much different than KKL, with completely different kind of energy and personality. As Brooke she seemed to be very boring to me, with no character and not that kind of chemistry with others, which is obvious - it takes some time to achieve anything good here. Also I believe the timing on the show was very hard for her and Sandra's role was quite transparent. To sum up I think that cutting Brooke's character would be much better than replacing with someone else. The same goes with Ridge, Stephanie or even Taylor. With Thorne's replacement I was very happy only with Winsor Harmon. Maybe he as Thorne became a huge womenizer, but this change was very exciting to watch and produced some great storylines. Also we got used to the replacements here...

I definitely agree. Jeff Trachta as Thorne is definitely my least favorite Thorne. He became just exactly what you've just said, not interested with other people's problems, just letting them leave crying/sad, very selfish, dishonest and with lack of expressing his true feelings about everything. He even stopped being Brooke's friend without a reason (Brooke & Eric coming out was a bit later) and practically turned very much to Taylor in 1992 like she was his best friend (from nowhere, nothing really caused it). I have a distinct feeling that writers didn't really have any good scenario for Thorne's character at that time and they were pushing him to the background. He was not even told about the Belief problem for a very long time, also noone was interested about his life any longer. There were couple of stories, but they were long, boring and not quite interesting like all the others.

@divinemotion Similar problem here! Some countries are really bad for VPN/Paywall things and many of them just don't work or some sites/activities are banned/blocked anyway. Already tried with Netflix and other things and for me it didn't work at all and just wasted my money for nothing... There was no classic episode since 5 weeks, so I guess we all are becoming really hungry for more. If someone could record the episodes I would bother to split them out seperately and upload to the Vault if that's the case. I believe our great uploaders are just busy these days but of course I'm greateful to each one of them as we already have more than 1500 episodes. One of my dreams is having the first 5000 full episodes in good english quality and I believe overall that's the best B&B era all the time.

Thank you very much for the files! However the old files were much better quality than the newer ones. Now it really sucks and causes many issues like lost frames, lags and resolution issues and it happens with all of my video players. The whole material became very laggy, so my eyes are really in pain. Something is wrong with codecs or with the rendering options. I believe we can help you with that. I don't have much experience with rendering, but the perfect size for 1 episode is like 250-350MB if possible and the size of 200MB is absolute minimum to make it at least acceptable to watch. Less than 100MB videos look even worse than the official Youtube uploads. Obviously 1GB is too big to collect all of these episodes, but in the other hand the quality is also important. If someone hasn't enough disk space then should change the video quality to lower by himself or there should be another folder with very low quality episodes.

Unfortunately I cannot change the name of the files uploaded, so could someone change the E1343 and the E1344 to 'Episode 1343' & 'Episode 1344' please?

@rsclassicfanforever Thank you for uploading! I uploaded E1322 & E1323, E1327 & E1328, E1343 & E1344 splitted, so each episode is in a separate file. I will check the older folders soon. I really enjoy these episodes and I think the best ones just only began. Even this small storyline with Sheila & Judy is so fun to watch, Stephanie blasting Brooke every time when she visits her in the lab, Brooke's destiny failure which makes her health in danger and psycho side of Sheila trying to inject her with something. I can't wait to see Sheila & Brooke balcony scene - this must be very soon! The storyline with Jack & Zach is also becoming more interesting. Macy was kind of boring character (she never knew what she wanted), but this time they finally put some fire on her and it won't be this boring any longer. It was really hard to watch her in the past 2 years. Her apperance was on point, but she turned into a calm, stable, right fake ''Maria Magdalena'' character very quickly.

@rsclassicfanforever Thank you very much! If you guys are interested I can upload E1322 & E1323 and E1327 & E1328 to the vault separately, without changing the quality. I always do this to make some order in my folders and usually I add a short description of every single episode to find some different things very quick. I can also upload all the combined episodes separately if you are up for this, please just let me know.

That's Saul from Spectra!