B&B: Week of Jan 14th

[YRBB]

lol

I like the episodes, bUut I just hate the fact that it's been four episodes in a row dealing with a single storyline! I mean, it's enough!

The scene with Taylor wanting to drink and ending with a cliffhanger of will she or won't she is an exact copy of Macy's scene in 2003, right after finding out about Thorne and Darla. Only Macy's scene was exquisite, this was just meh.

[sheilaforever]

Hmm, maybe those viewers who watched back in the early 90s!? LOL! Jake always had A LOT shirtless scenes, shower scenes, post-tennis-match-scenes - you get the gist.

Interestingly enough, Miss Donna had a major thing for Jake back in the day - which remained a dream.

Nah, I don’t get the Tylo criticism either, Chris. I also think she did a stellar job so far and I like this story a lot because I find it consistent. I mean, seriously, your (fr)enemy of 15 years is suddenly the mother of your lovechild with your latest hubby!? A woman who repeatedly threatened to ruin your marriage, to take away your children at the same instance in the past, is suddenly eternally linked to your presumed idle life...

I liked that we didn't get a reveal whether Taylor has been drinking altough it is far from being the most original twist since - as YRBB mentioned - we've been there and done that with Macy. More than once.

[JamesF]

I don't mind the predictability of the "twist" with Taylor's drinking. I think it would be wholly unrealistic if the character was losing her mind over her baby and they didn't have her toying with turning back to the bottle. She is an alcoholic after all.

I've never been a huge fan of HT's acting but I'm fairly happy with what she's bringing to the story if a little uncomfortable given the death of her son so recently. Her meltdown with Brooke on Thursday's ep was quite well done and I could feel her desperation when she was just screaming "I hate you" after throwing her out. I'm not enjoying Jackie turning into a British Stephanie for this story -- completely two faced and I'm bored to tears of the same old scenes repeating. It began to happen with Stephanie's shooting and seems to be a problem Brad has when he's only focusing on one story strand at a time. Even more reason to get back to multiple stories per episode/week.

I'm not sure what to make of Katie pushing Donna into feigning sex but whatev. Jake looked amazing sans shirt so I'll cast my story doubts aside.

Wonder what's behind Stephanie's little trip and whether SF's not 100% again but nothing's been reported. Perhaps she just needed a break in continuity for a haircut or something.

[sheilaforever]

It's her annual Xmas break (which she apparently got into her contract after her extension in fall 2003...).

The break as it seems will be much shorter than usually when she is off-screen 3-4 weeks... Either B&B was down longer over the holidays or La Flannery was asked to return to work earlier than in the past few years

[JamesF]

Ah okay thanks. I was beginning to worry we were heading into Tony Geary territory. I'm not sure how I feel about them constantly using Pam and Ann for the excuse. There's so much unfinished business with those women that I want to see it played out onscreen.