B&B: Cast pictures 2007

[sheilaforever]

You beat me by the punch pointing that out.

@ Sylph: I should be preparing for sth. way more important tomorrow but can't/don't want to focus on it so I do different things. Ever heard of it?

[SeanM]

This is the most beautiful soap photo shot I've ever seen. These picture should be all over the soap mag covers. But the truth is B&B is not the darling of the mags and of the readers. It's a shame. On the other hand B&B is probably the soap with the least amount of die-hard fans in the states off all the soaps. I think it is the other way around internationally. Is there even one user on SON who considers B&B his #1 soap, just to prove me wrong?

[JackPeyton]

I *know* of at least... 4.

[SeanM]

Really? I can't think of anyone.

[Cat]

*raises hand*

Viewer since 1987.

The couple of years have been a clusterf*ck, though.

[MarkH]

#2 soap here...but I can't believe I'm typing that. For the reasons that Cat stated....

[Sylph]

I might be considered one...

[PAsoapfan]

Awesome Photo's

Thanks for posting.

[MarkH]

The man who champions international "bespoke" tailoring (yeah, I had to look it up) says B&B might be his #1?

Sylph, and you wonder why you are such a mystery to all of us.

B&B???????

Is this because it is the best of a bad pack?

Well, let me ask you (and others) this instead: Do you watch regularly, but find yourself feeling all dirty and debased and stupid the second it is over? (Or even WHILE watching, as I do this week when Owen plays Donna...'cause if he is sincere this is the sappiest sh*t since maple trees...and if he is playing her, she is the dumbest post since oaks).

So many times I say to myself "Well, that is 21 minutes I am never getting back".

ETA: Mykel Shannon Jenkins has THE smoking-est body...but why does his face look like CGI animation? Too much makeup? The face is matte, while the rest of the body shines.

[Cat]

Uh, not answering for Sylph here, but out of all the Daytime soaps out there, surely B&B and Y&R make a better stab at referencing fashion than others? Sabrina was gifted a Birkin bag by her amour -- something I've never seen on soaps before but would fully expect to see cited on Gossip Girl or Sex and the City reruns.

Sure, Eric designs outfits like it's 1988 and Ridge thinks porn-star PVC is the way to go. But at least they make the odd effort at putting on a "fashion show."

(And, yes, Sylph is a mystery wrapped in a puzzle wrapped in an enigma).

I tend to watch here and there, maybe while preparing dinner or over a late Sunday breakfast. You know, it's actually 19 minutes excluding ads. And when the show is a bore, that'll be 3 minutes on the FF button or nothing at all.

I don't feel dirty or debased like I used to with GH, which was so agenda-propping and misogynistic and nasty that I finally quit a few months ago and haven't looked back. As far as B&B is concerned, Owen's eye-candy potential so far distracts from the dumb SL. So far. I think he's playing Donna, who never was the brightest bulb anyway -- but then, I haven't watched much much of this week's shows.

[Sylph]

No, it's definitely not the best of the pack. When it's really good, it is the best; but that happens once in a blue moon. I don't know what it is... Allegiance, loyalty, habit, realisation of the potential the show has (which it constantly undermines)... And P. S. I had to use bespoke since Ozwald is British (although born in Ghana).

I don't feel stupid. I feel mega-disappointed. It is like seeing a train falling off a bridge into a deep ravine. And I totally agree about Owen/Donna.

And if you wondered what I thought about B&B's fashion - it's dreadful. Ever since I became a member of SON I've been calling for Birgit Müller to be fired. The costumes are a total farce.

Birkin is so yesterday.

[Cat]

They are -- gaudy and somehow very unreal. As if the evening gowns were constructed from heavy kitchen foil, like prototypes made for dolls. Brooke's day wardrobe is interchangeable with the one she wore in the mid-90s, all too-short skirts, thick, flesh-colored tights and clumpy-heeled shoes. Susan Flannery's wardrobe is a disgrace.

A Birkin -- a real Hermes one -- is timeless. Although now that it's been on Y&R...

[Sylph]

I completely agree!

To me, it has become a synonym for trash, tasteless fashion. "You have a Birkin? Ewww!" It's a disgrace to have one because every insignificant starlet with no brain has one. Same goes for Louis Vuitton.

[Cat]

Not to go OT but... ITA about Louis Vuitton and those LV handbags.

But a Hermes Birkin... I once had the privilege of seeing how one of those bags is hand-made by the tanner. It's a work of real skill and precision and, in some cases, a dying craft. When you see the effort and care put into one of those bags, effort honed from generations of artisanship, well, it changed my perception.

Maybe one day it will fall out of favor with the starlets. Perhaps this will coincide with my actually being able to afford one.

[bandbfan]

I'm betting that SF wears what she wants and isn't going to change. Although I think she's lost some weight so I was hoping that might change a little.

As far as too-short skirts for Brooke...I agree, but I think Y&R has some trouble with that kind of stuff as well. My mom was a big Y&R viewer and it always bugged her how the women would have practically nothing on and it was supposedly winter time.