B&B: Week of June 16, 2008

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June 16, 200817 yr

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I'm really hoping that B&B steps it up this week. The Nick and Katie show isn't catching my interest at all.

June 16, 200817 yr

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Remember how we were all in awe of B&B's "Storm's Heart" SL? With the bleeding heart on the operating table and everybody kicking ass in all their scenes? Well, B&B just about erased all memory of that with this Katie/Nick ish last week.

I love campy as much as the next B&B fan, but really. Bridget discovering a cure on Google? Shouting about the "protocol"? WTF? What does that even mean?

And couldn't B&B bust out the hospital set again? Or are we meant to believe that obscure 80s ballads and Mr. Ed's tender wuv cured Katie?

Seriously, when Grampa Frisco lifted Katie in his Big, Strong Arms and carried her upstairs, I was LMAO. Was it meant to be so cheesily bad? It's like Brad wanted to do a wink-wink tribute to Jack Wagner's Frisco days on GH, but then realized that the heart-transplant thing is actually sorta serious. So we got some tearful crap and the show just fell between two stools. Honestly, William deVry was written off the show for this?

Don't get me started on Sanctimonious Plank o' Wood intoning about the scandal and bad press that Donna brings to FC. Funny how Donna managed to succeed where Ridge's shooting of Grant and tongue hockey with once-daughter Bridget failed. :blink:

I did laugh when Marcus walked in on the "family emergency meeting" and everybody sat there looking guilty as hell.

Edited June 16, 200817 yr by Cat

June 16, 200817 yr

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Remember how we were all in awe of B&B's "Storm's Heart" SL? With the bleeding heart on the operating table and everybody kicking ass in all their scenes? Well, B&B just about erased all memory of that with this Katie/Nick ish last week.

I love campy as much as the next B&B fan, but really. Bridget discovering a cure on Google? Shouting about the "protocol"? WTF? What does that even mean?

And couldn't B&B bust out the hospital set again? Or are we meant to believe that obscure 80s ballads and Mr. Ed's tender wuv cured Katie?

Seriously, when Grampa Frisco lifted Katie in his Big, Strong Arms and carried her upstairs, I was LMAO. Was it meant to be so cheesily bad? It's like Brad wanted to do a wink-wink tribute to Jack Wagner's Frisco days on GH, but then realized that the heart-transplant thing is actually sorta serious. So we got some tearful crap and the show just fell between two stools. Honestly, William deVry was written off the show for this?

Don't get me started on Sanctimonious Plank o' Wood intoning about the scandal and bad press that Donna brings to FC. Funny how Donna managed to succeed where Ridge's shooting of Grant and tongue hockey with once-daughter Bridget failed.

I did laugh when Marcus walked in on the "family emergency meeting" and everybody sat there looking guilty as hell.

Amen.

And in case this wasn't clear enough: Amen !!!

I thought last week was pretty enjoyable but this doesn't erase the fact of how awful and illogic all this stories have been and still are.

June 16, 200817 yr

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I thought last week was pretty enjoyable but this doesn't erase the fact of how awful and illogic all this stories have been and still are.

LOL, not just illogical. It was the cheesetastic crapness of it all!

I suspect part of it was dictated by Operation Nick is Not a Manwhore. Because the Frisco-love was overwelming. When Katie opened her eyes and saw those horse teeth braying at her and breathed "Have I gone to heaven?", I was :blink:

June 16, 200817 yr

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I suspect part of it was dictated by Operation Nick is Not a Manwhore. Because the Frisco-love was overwelming. When Katie opened her eyes and saw those horse teeth braying at her and breathed "Have I gone to heaven?", I was

Speaking of which (srtaing 30 seconds into it...): http://www.myvideo.de/watch/4439931/MnS_3877_2 :lol:

June 17, 200817 yr

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I did laugh when Marcus walked in on the "family emergency meeting" and everybody sat there looking guilty as hell.

what did they say to him when he came in?

June 17, 200817 yr

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Cat is right on point! I don't have anything else to add.

Is it that time of the year again that Brad Bell takes a fiesta and put the stories on auto-pilot?

June 17, 200817 yr

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Shoot me for saying it, if you must...but I don't like Heather Tom in the role. If I ever hear Brooke launch into another "beloved baby sister" speech, I might not survive the diabetic coma. It's a damn shame Felicia didn't get this much story after she nearly died.

June 17, 200817 yr

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I did like HT in the role, but I can't take much more Kick. It's going to be interesting when Brooke realizes that she has some real competition on her hands for a member of her harem though.

June 17, 200817 yr

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Katie is a waste of space, dragging Nick even further into the gutter. HTom is Bell and Alden's pet and will continue to shove her down our throats until HE tires of her or writes her into a corner (Felicia). Bell doesn't care what the viewers want, it's his show and and as he's said in the past, if we don't like it, change the channel. I don't think he thought that many of us would, but as the ratings have proven, we have.

June 17, 200817 yr

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i FLOVE Heather Tom. She *Is* perfection.

I like katie. She is at her ebst when she is the moral Logan trying to steer her crazed family in the correct direction and bonding with Stephanie.

I *HATE* this storyline and what they have done to Katie.

Hi, Thorne. Meet katie. Yeah ya alkready did but go do it again and make it work this time BB!

June 17, 200817 yr

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^ Seriously, what did Winsor Harmon do to piss off TPTB over at B&B? That guy can't get a SL or pairing for love or money. I adore the Meddling Siblings chemistry he's got with Felicia, but that's just filler.

WH stands out from his two predeccessors by the fact that he has chemistry with nearly all the female actresses he's been paired with (Bobbie Eakes being a notable exception). I mean, seriously, Hunter Tylo? KKL? Schae Harrison? Jennifer Gareis? Heather Tom? Dude shmoozes them big-time.

June 17, 200817 yr

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I think once they FF Kick storyline & backburn them. Maybe they will go up. Because I believe they made the right decision in hiring Texas Battle & the girl that plays Steffy. But this Kick stuff is really being forced upon us.

Edited June 17, 200817 yr by MoTheGreat

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I was enjoying Kate before, but this whole storyline has ruined her for me. And it all couldn't be any more obvious if they tried.

Now Steffy and Marcus...I'm ALL about them! I think if they started to put them together as a pairing, there's some good stories from all different angles

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Agreed, I think Blake became a woman who learned from her mistakes and grew up. I too wanted them to be the core couple after the Tori thing, as a matter of fact, around Wheeler after Simon left I wanted them to move into the Bauer house..( I would have Blake say that this is the closet thing she knew as a home )SORAS the kids, and bring Sam back..Dinah would have a very contentious relationship with her, as she would be jealous of Ross and Sam's relationship, and Blake and Dinah would have that tension (ya, know cause she killed his brother) it would be a core family that had some fissures leading to good drama. But now, Wheeler and company though the Coopers should be the core.

By Mitch64 · 56 minutes ago56 min
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Agree that great minds can think alike :)
In terms of Derek, I see the show doing one of two things based on the most recent episodes that featured him.
1) They do the gradual fade-out of the character until he stops appearing and is occasionally mentioned by Jacob (i.e. still living and existing in town, just not being seen). We saw some evidence with him having a group of co workers he's friends with, plus a female co worker interested in him... so possibly we see him regain his walking and go back to his life with the Fire crew and eventually we stop seeing them on air.
2) His mentioning to Jacob that he hopes to win Ashley back signals that perhaps the dark side we saw glimpses of has been hidden and will rear itself if she appears to be moving on with a new guy.
In terms of Ashley, the show seems committed to keeping her character on the show especially since she was shown in the Thanksgiving episode having a quiet day with Jan and Mona as they discuss Black Friday shopping, food, and other day to day matters... so I think delving into her backstory in terms of who her father is would be a good place for the show to go while keeping her as a good friend to Naomi, Shanice, and a good nurse during medical stories.
Perhaps one of the children of the handsome new doctor could be her love interest down the line.

By Soaplovers · 1 hour ago1 hr
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Re: 1978. I'm glad the unedited version of the episode complete with commercials is available. The one that has been posted several years ago had several segments missing. I like Barbara's long hair here. Dr. Steven Farrell didn't last very long I take it since she is re-connecting with Tom (Tom Tammi) by 1979. The actor playing Steven (Phil Peters) was the real-life husband of Lenore Kasdorf (Rita GL).

By SoapDope78 · 1 hour ago1 hr
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Oh, how I wish we'd gotten to see Ross deal with his teenage sons. I loved his relationships with Phillip and Sam, but he really deserved to be seen with his own kids (other than the horror that became Dinah). The boys simply disappeared off canvas after either the Nursery Stalker or the affair with Tori.

By P.J. · 1 hour ago1 hr
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What I liked about Bloss is that I liked how they grew to be the stable couple- the closest to an Ed and Mo in their prime. Especially after the Tori story when their extra-marital exploits were in the past. I wanted them to SORAS the three kids, along with Dinah and with Phillip's family as Ross's extended family would really be solid core family material.
With that said, I was rooting against Bloss in 1999 as I really liked the Ross/India pairing-- but that just turned out to be a waste of MKA.

By Spoon · 2 hours ago2 hr
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They did reveal Austin's shooter...about a year and a half later.

By DRW50 · 2 hours ago2 hr
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My Queen Kylie is always trying to get a Christmas hit, so spin it:

By te. · 2 hours ago2 hr
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They did actually resolve who shot Austin over a year later (it was Cyrus, as part of his hasty exit story). That was a last minute save though clearly when they forgot lol.

By Vee · 2 hours ago2 hr
Talkin' 'Bout TV Movies

I love those old TV movies, especially the ones from the 70's and 80's. The ABC movie of the week had a ton of them. Like
Satan's School for Girls (1973)
All My Darling Daughter's (1972)
Gidget Gets Married (1972)
The Girl Who Came Gift Wrapped (1974)
The Two Worlds of Jenny Logan (1979)
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)
Death Cruise (1974)
Here is the 70's ABC opening. The theme music "Nikki" was composed by Burt Bacharach and named for his daughter with Angie Dickinson.

By SoapDope78 · 2 hours ago2 hr
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The return of sitcoms' popularity in the mid-'80s was a real thing, but the crash of the wealth-based nighttime soap genre was resonate and self-induced.

There was an effectively grim finality to the mood of the cliffhangers in the Spring of 1985: Bobby's death, the Moldavian massacre, the return of Val's babies... and they felt as if they could have ended right there (and perhaps they should have, although I would have sorely missed S10 of Dallas, S6 of FC, and Season 9 of Dynasty , and the next five years of KNOTS as they singularly maintained quality).

But, wow, these shows just fell apart post-Spring 1985. They stopped being character dramas after a while, and just started trying to "impress" viewers in some superficial way and to "fake it" somehow.

What a painful, unnecessary slide it was. But once these shows seemed to lose their identities, their sense of self, their momentum into the dung heap couldn't be slowed.

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