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I realized I have been watching, so. But I love Beyond the Gates - very P&G and I’ll take it. I like several of the characters. Daphne Duplaix over there has been excellent, as has about 5 or 6 others - I can’t say the same for Bold but I did realize I’ve been interested enough to look for it on CBS app.

So Logan got the Hope for the Future diamond because now they also have jewelry in one week (this Shauna??). And they have a perfume sniffer too in one week? Was any of the magical time slip explained? Maybe you could explain having a clothes line that Deke and Hope already had a stack of designs that Forrester put the Kabbash on - but the rest is silly. I’ve missed it this week but I really hope they don’t just go the route of Forrester always wins with their prom dress designs.

They finally got gay characters and ditched the gay hairdressers,

I saw a part of the Forrester preview - do all of the current “it” clothes look like 1980s business wear? Because that’s what it looked like. Or are they setting up a total fail of Forrester’s line so that it comes off as OK/average where Logan’s will look young and new? I still think it would be funny if Hope just were to blow the whole thing up - right in Steffy’s face. “Yep it’s CRAZY! I went and GOT A NEW JOB STEFF! What are you gonna do about it?” Just have her throw it in her face. “No different than the other few people you tossed out of here or drove them away. Tired of you people feeling like you deserve loyalty when you freely piss all over us. BYE FELICIA” and announce the name of the new line “Hope is Here”. Or “Real Hope”. And flat out say it. Hope is here, not the future. And it’s at Logan. Smoke on that sister. Lol. And I agree - Brooke, Donna - they’re women for men, for the purpose of propping up their men. It’s crusty.

I’m not going to confirm one way or the other, but a pint of Gelato and half a pie a day - may indeed be the cause of my fattening ass. Take that for what you will. I have over celebrated my improved blood work.

I have watched 3 episodes. B&B could actually be doing something brilliant. The show was always about 2 warring fashion houses. Only now the same family is the real rival. How delicious would it be for Electra also to quit? Katie could easily throw it in their faces that they alienate good employees - bad business. Making Will more like Bill is smart; Wyatt was more of a clown and Liam is milktoast. Hope’s new line could be something with a slightly smartass name to get a dig back in. Logan brings you the “Real Hope” line or “Hope is Here”; there’s no more waiting for the future. It’s here, at Logan - a new fresh start just like many of our employees are finding. And to show our appreciation, we are giving employees a generous bonus plan based on our market share growth. Drop it in bits and pieces - and have Katie’s PR experience be a noticeable dagger that Forrester keeps running into. You could milk this for years and even turn Katie into a constant villainess and thorn in the Forrester side like Sally used to be. Give her some teeth - how funny would it be for her to get haughty at both Brooke and Ridge? Have her recite Love’s Philosophy” and remind her how she sapped Ridge right away from her. Lol The show is more watchable at least for me right now than it has been in years.

I was about to say; it was nice to see him - and I didn’t care for Wyatt, but it’s familiar. And gasp, I hear “history” - I’ll take it. More than they usually do, and I still think Bill should blab about how Sally actually beat Steffy, and what a dagger to Forrester: for Hope LOGAN to call in a Spectra.

Why doesn’t anyone say - Forrester now has a habit of kicking good talent to the curb. So you know what you do? Like Eric. Go prove your worth elsewhere and make them regret their decision. But we all have a right to work where we want. Why is Forrester a “family” but then when you get passed over and have your work battered - you’re just supposed to stay and says”oh well”. ?? It’s been a long time but I’d still mine history. When Donna, Ridge and Forrester continue to beat the Steffy is CEO drum and all of her talent - have Bill pipe up. Well actually Steffy herself has had a habit of being less than talented and a penchant for bad decisions. True for example her “fashion showdown” with Sally Spectra several years ago. What people don’t know is that “I covered for her inadequacy. Sally won that runoff fair and square and I covered for Steffy. So she’s not had the talent for a very very long time. She has just been constantly lucky with having everyone cover for her. Hope doesn’t need it. Katie didn’t need it. And ERIC proved he didn’t need it before the old man came crawling back to you.” Have him show the social media reports where Sally kicked her ass. and maybe it’s time for a special line designed by Sally again in a crossover from Y&R. But have Bill bite back. “Why are the whiniest loudest Forresters the ones who aren’t even Forresters?”

Why is - who Katie hires -everyone’s business and somehow the person being hired has nothing to do with it?? And why is it Donna’s business. Hun your husband is old and got kicked to the curb and your sister gave home a job and respect. Then the coot got amnesia and pretended his retirement never happened and so did everyone else. Now “it’s business” but Hope can’t go find new employment if her company treats her like crap? You’re just required to sit and take it? on the other hand - what is it with Brooke now and suddenly a CEO change must happen RIGHT NOW! ? this show. I really do hope that Brooke runs groveling to Katie for a job after Hope goes over there.

Hey, I have gotten some good stuff at Chico’s and I’m a guy lol. A big jeans shirt is a big jeans shirt. Baggy jeans are baggy jeans and I like that I’m a 1 lollll.

How many times is Hope for the Future on the line? Every 6 months it’s either in trouble, needs a change or something else. The obvious angle after what I heard today - when Steffy and Ridge flip out over Hope leaving - I really wish it would be Brooke: “I don’t understand the issue? Like you said, it’s just business. So you have the right to table her fashion line. She has the right to make a decision. It’s a business decision. Buck up”. The best thing that could happen is for Ridge and Steffy both laugh in Brooke’s face or fall out over the suggestion that Brooke run the company. And BOTH Hope and Brooke go to Logan. “It’s just a business decision”.

Careful, she might come at ya with a Tie - Uhhh Eye-unnnnnn

I was thinking - Bill and Katie enforce an employee agreement and Eric concocts a plan to design what he has to do for Katie/Bill/Logan - and agrees on the side to do designs for Forrester. When the designs are complete, have someone switch them so that Logan/Katie - get the real ones; Forrester gets his second-rate ones. Ridge and Brooke, excited to review the designs, open them at home. Over the course of the next day, they decide to then have to revert to telling Eric he no longer has “it” for designing; that maybe retirement was the way to go. They will scramble to get good designs in time. At an internal Logan show run-through - Eric sees his good designs on the runway that same day, and either starts to tell them the truth or must remain silent because he would be admitting his under the table deal with Forrester. Katie and Bill both pretend not to know what’s going on. Eric goes to Forrester for their run-through, and Ridge cuts him off (and doesn’t let him speak, the way that they do), talks over him, so does Brooke - and before Eric can say that the designs got swapped, they bring up retirement again. Eric now has not second thoughts but THIRD thoughts. “You were….ready to get rid of me again because I just had an average set of designs? You were already jumping at the chance again?” Bill and Katie have snuck in the back listening in. They walk into the back of the room, still unseen. Eric tells Brooke and Ridhe that he was at the Logan run through and THOSE were his real designs, that somehow someone switched them out. Katie and Bill step forward - “switched what designs, Eric?” Regardless of what you were trying to do, the designs are still ours. You were under an agreement and were using the company laptop and email to communicate. They’re ours and will remain so. Eric doesn’t know how to feel because Bridge once again showed their true colors about his aging, and that has nothing to do with switching designs. They are ready not to believe in him regardless of the situation. You could get years of story out of this. It may be a good time to kill Eric off. Not usually a fan of it but, given the character, no one else can play the role. Keep him on the show as ghostly memories or advice from time to time like YR did with John Abbott. The very last designs that Eric Forrester created - were for Logan because Bridge repeatedly confirmed they didn’t believe in him. Donna agrees and she sides with Katie.

Has any character uttered “employee agreement”? Eric signed an employee agreement that says the same thing every employee agreement says. The work you do and present is the property of the company. It’s that simple.