1. Put Susan Flannery back in a major SL

2. Reduce the focus on Katie and Donna, indeed a lot less of the Logans in general, with the exception of Brooke

3. Brooke/Ridge remarry and they start up their own company or take over Forrester

4. Give Felicia, Thorne, Clarke, Jackie and Pam much more airtime

5. Bring back Deacon, either rehire Sean Kanan or recast the character

6. Hang on to Brandon Beemer, Owen has a lot of potential to be a bad boy, maybe pair him with Felicia instead of Donna?

7. Return the focus to the fashion business, fashion houses going to war with each other etc.

8. Enough with the depressing deaths and medical stuff, more fun romance, sex and scandal is required!

Spectra hasn't contributing anything in a fashion sense since, let's see.... CJ sabotaging Kimberly's runway. They have been dead in the water for ages. And they haven't been a viable oponent for Forrester since the early or mid 90s. At some point they ended up as nothing but a bunch of odd amusing characters who never really did anything. Some time ago they still did the yearly amount of blustering that never amounted to anything. There's just no point in beating the dead horse. If they want to do fashion rivalry it needs to be a new house that actually seems like it could take out Forrester.

Jackie? Yeah right. Isn't that what they tried to do when they tried to give her that boutique storyline? She sucked in that too. She just isn't believable as a real foe and the character is a joke. She barely is a character. Her support of Brooke always barely made any sense (they surely never developed a believable rapport between those two), her dislike of Bridget just plain odd and her support of Katie again worthless and with no emotional resonance. Nick always comes across like he doesn't even take her seriously. I don't buy for a second that she could ever be a Stephanie like character who can control her children and daugther in laws.

How often has her characterisation flip flopped? Classy lady. In love with Eric. In love with Massimo. Ex-prostitute. Loser alcoholic diddling Deacon. Again, years no the show, contribution zero. At least Clarke used to be interesting and fun ages ago. Even if those ages were 10-15 years ago. But with Jackie? How long does a character be bland and uninteresting for them to get rid of her?

Again, I don't care if the actress did on other shows. On B&B she isn't working. If they really want somebody to play Nick's mother, go an recast her with some cheap no-name.

Rick & Taylor... gosh, I don't know why but I like them. I'd like to see them as a viable May/December couple. Brooke scheming to keep them apart. Crossed wires, misunderstandings, the whole soapy gamut.

That I like. Only that again we run into the problem of just way too many storylines for a half hour soap. I still say that three storylines (alternating two frontburner, one minor each week) is the optimum number for B&B.

^^ LOL, well obviously I'm not suggesting that my 20 billion random SL ideas by introduced all in one go! Balance, rotation of SLs, rotation of characters.

I still think Jackie can be reinvented into a Willamina-type (from Ugly Betty), but that's only because, once again, I feel B&B needs balance. The doom and gloom needs some light and comedy. And Forrester Creations needs a counter-balance in the fashion world. However, I wouldn't shed many tears if the Marones were written out of the show completely.

Re: the Spectras, I would not compromise on my idea to give Darlene Conley the send-off she deserved. I want to see her contribution to the show properly acknowledged at the very least.

Cat, I loved all your ideas. And I love the notion of Sally's death being what revitalizes and refocuses the show, and Spectra Fashions, much like Asa Buchanan's death revitalized and refocused OLTL, the Buchanans, and B.E.

For a show called Bold and Beautiful, they really don't make any BOLD choices with the cast, and I think the sentimentality of leaving Sally off on a cruise somewhere is diminishing her value to the show and viewers more than it's honoring or enhancing her value.

And Patrika Darbo as sister Irene! Love it to pieces!!! I'd kill for it.

Cast Heather Locklear as Nicks new love interest. She brought Melrose Places ratings up maybe she can do same thing 15 years later for B&B.

I have a feeling my ideas are going to be unpopular here.

Bottom line, Spectra needs a second wind. Starting with a proper, two-episode send-off to Sally Spectra (and by extension, the magnificent Darlene Conley). I want a full-on Irish funeral with Adam and Kimberly showing up as special guests. I want Mae West on stereo belting out "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have" as Sally's flower-draped silver coffin is carried down the aisle of the church (pallbearers: CJ, Clarke, Thorne, Rick).

Great ideas...but why would C.J. be a pallbearer at his own mother's funeral. Who does that? LOL

Or, heck, just give Nelson Branco the HW position.

All of a sudden I'm Brad Bell's biggest fan.

I have a feeling my ideas are going to be unpopular here.

Bottom line, Spectra needs a second wind. Starting with a proper, two-episode send-off to Sally Spectra (and by extension, the magnificent Darlene Conley). I want a full-on Irish funeral with Adam and Kimberly showing up as special guests. I want Mae West on stereo belting out "See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have" as Sally's flower-draped silver coffin is carried down the aisle of the church (pallbearers: CJ, Clarke, Thorne, Rick).

Great ideas...but why would C.J. be a pallbearer at his own mother's funeral. Who does that? LOL