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Such a shame because when this show was good, it was REALLY good.

And, I wonder what the process and cost would be to replacing the background music.

I tuned in today for the first time in a few weeks. Why did I do this to myself? But, anyway... So, Luna has the world's worst luck apparently. Not only will she never ever eat a "mint" again, but everybody used protection and it looks like she STILL got pregnant??? I know why they don't because of their viewership, but it feels so outdated that no one mentions that IF Luna is pregnant, she can have it terminated. She doesn't have to become a mother. This isn't 1958.

Watching the early episodes which I may have seen, but I was too young to remember most of it. M(B)R was soooooo green on SB. She must have take more acting lessons, classes before heading to DAYS. I actually found the guy who played Danny to be kind of entertaining, and he seemed to have a knack for playing the comedy parts. I think when Santana #1 and Rueben disappeared they sort of gave up on the Danny character, too. In an early episode, Rueben has a conversation with Cruz and mentions that he and Rosa had two other daughters. I think one may have been named Gabriela, but they were never mentioned again.

I can't believe that this show is still NOT available for streaming. It feels like everything, the most obscure old TV shows, are available for streaming but not KNOTS. Does anyone have any info on why?

I thought the SAME EXACT THING at the time. That story could have been amazing. It should have played out in beats over a year with Justin eventually taking over the company AND marrying Katie while Bill sat in jail. Then, once Bill got out of jail, the fireworks would have been fantastic. Instead, it all got wrapped up in one episode, and we never saw Justin again. B&B just can not write for black characters long-term (or any sort of minority). They really had the chance at something with the Avants and let it disappear. I think the early B&B years with Bill Bell writing wasn't the most earth shattering, but I agree it was well-written solid soap. A bit slow, of course, but the 30 minute format worked well with that at the time. It's hard to top Sally Spectra and her introduction which really made the show click IMO. Early Brooke/Stephanie as was Caroline. If only the show now was a fraction of that well-written. As someone mentioned Lumina on AW...HORRIBLE. Remember Amanda and the secret garden? I assume they got a mandate to make the show more DAYS like, but that was never what AW was meant to be. The show shined when it focused on friendships, IMO. But, I'm not sure anything can top Erica's "unabortion" on AMC. Who the hell approved that????

I started watching as kid when Lau played Jamie, so I didn't have any reference for the actors before him. But, it always seemed that they didn't quite know what to do with the character. Russell Todd's version, even though he was quite handsome, never really took, either. Just reading about the history of the show, IMO, TPTB aged Jamie way too quickly, too, and it prematurely aged the character of Rachel.

I wonder what the point is to being "secretly recurring" especially in a non-legacy character like Elena.

Not that they'd ever let the show get this complex, but, I've always thought B&B had the potential to explore the Upstairs/Downstairs aspect with Forrester Creations. You'd have all the execs and creatives "upstairs" and all the lower-income, not so glamourous underlings in the basement where Thorne once worked. Of course, there would be the classic character trying to claw their way up. Sigh. But, instead we just get constant conversations about mints, toes, and dialogue that goes in circles and has an amount of depth that even my betta fish could follow the show.

ITA...for example, on Y&R, almost all the characters are already super rich and successful. There's not the class conflict or the person clawing their way up to provide conflict. Not to mention, it's hard to believe people are billionaires when their home is only about ten feet wide...cough...the Newmans..cough.

How many of Steffy's 20 appearances were just her repeating the same dialogue about how Sheila is "dead" and they "don't have to worry about her anymore." How is Paris possibly still on contract???

Between a doctor not taking someone who has been chained to a wall for days to the hospital to women acting like Liam is some gift from the Gods again... I think I'm done. I just can't even hate watch the show anymore.

Me, either. Great to see them get a stand alone!

Final Draft is the buggiest software I've ever used. It makes me want to throw my computer out the window sometimes!

ITA...I was looking forward to a more developed Lily/Daniel/Heather story. MG and CK have such great chemistry.

Wait...did Billy and Abby actually meet and NOT ONCE talk about what the hell is going on with Ashley???

I thought the same thing!!! Like, CALL AN AMBULANCE AND THE POLICE! Don't just smile all googly-eyed at her. And, God knows what was in that random sports drink bottle. While God was giving out brains, Finn and Deacon were busy Googling "What is sugar?"

I'm so excited about Liam meeting up with Ivy and Steffy and Hope being jealous and....wait...no...I'm literally not excited about ANY of that. Happy nine toes, mints, and staplers to you all!! I really miss when random people would tell Carter he was "just like family" all the time. We don't get that anymore.

It's so funny that no one in the Abbott family has bothered to tell Abby that her mom is losing her marbles. Has no one thought to call her??? I could care less who runs Chancellor-Winters...snore.

Unfortunately, the show would never be that creative.

What a random character to bring back. The show needs more characters that AREN'T Forresters at this point. It's all so incestuous as it is.

And one thing that drives me nuts is that besides Jabot, we have NO IDEA what the hell any of these companies even do. There are so many companies talked about I'm not sure even the writers know. Like...what the hell was the point of Sharon inheriting that random company from the psycho? There was no purprose.

Deacon looks so thrown by computers and how to use them. I'm waiting for him to type "What is the internet?" into a search engine next.

This show turns into a snoozefest anytime people starting talking about mergers, takeovers, yada yada yada.

Besides Sheila/Deacon, the rest of the show was just FF. We did not need, in the least, for Liam and Steffy to basically repeat the same tired dialogue they said on Friday to each other. Write a "B-story" for God's sake!!