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B&B: Week of October 06, 2008

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;) It's that I'm impatient for it. You know I can't wait to watch this crap. :lol:

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;) It's that I'm impatient for it. You know I can't wait to watch this crap. :lol:

Same here! :lol:

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There are several things I don't understand about this show:

1. Why did Brad never step down as a HW (apart from the obvious, money & control issues)? To me, he has no "chemistry" with this show and I never actually got the idea that he is interested in writing all that much?

2. Why hasn't he ever hired a respected, top-notch story consultant or a co-HW to help him helm this show? He's not blind, he has contacts in the industry, knows the reputations... In that light, if he truly wanted his show to do well, he should have done something about it.

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There are several things I don't understand about this show:

1. Why did Brad never step down as a HW (apart from the obvious, money & control issues)? To me, he has no "chemistry" with this show and I never actually got the idea that he is interested in writing all that much?

He needs to step back and just be EP. He should make Jack Smith the HW and Kay Alden the co-HW.

2. Why hasn't he ever hired [...] a co-HW to help him helm this show?

Jack Smith (2002-2004)

Kay Alden (2008-present)

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This show has so much potential if it would just move from the family side to the business fashion side. As it stands now, they're just a carousel of the same plot points over and over. The foundation of this soap is crumbling. How many times can you-know-who reunite and break up. How many new family members are there to switch? i've given up on ATWT and GL for good - I really would hate to cancel my season pass to B&B too. But all the plots seem like lost Passions episodes without magic and hermaphrodites.

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He needs to step back and just be EP. He should make Jack Smith the HW and Kay Alden the co-HW.

Jack Smith (2002-2004)

Kay Alden (2008-present)

But look, Jack Smith is there NOW, writing scripts. They are among the WORST scripts (see last Friday as an example). Kay is presumably master-crafting all this bullsh*t.

It is the WORST B&B has been in 21 years.

So, something is seriously wrong..... He is either not letting those two do their stuff, OR they have no "mojo" outside of Genoa City and Bill Bell's legacy. But something is horribly awry.

The thing is...Y&R (IMO) was mostly pretty good under the Alden and Smith pens. Yes, there were lame spots...but that was also true under Bill Bell. So I'm not understanding how it can go from "pretty good" to "utter dreck", unless Alden and Smith are not being allowed to ply their trade.

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This show has so much potential if it would just move from the family side to the business fashion side. As it stands now, they're just a carousel of the same plot points over and over. The foundation of this soap is crumbling. How many times can you-know-who reunite and break up. How many new family members are there to switch? i've given up on ATWT and GL for good - I really would hate to cancel my season pass to B&B too. But all the plots seem like lost Passions episodes without magic and hermaphrodites.

Great post. LMAO at the B&B = Passions without magic and hermaphrodites. Just give Bell time. I expect Donna to start talking about her XY chromosomes any day now.

Seriously, though, if that were to happen, i would actually watch. As B&B currently stands, I cannot bear to watch the characters I once loved turn into mere plot points. Because that is what they are now. No character motivation or evolution or sense of consistency. Everything they do turns on a dime.

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The hospital set is getting as much air time as the houses these days.

And now Jack has three moms, lol.

What happened to Steffy?! I didn't even recognize her.

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The thing is, it's not too late to turn this show around. The characters aren't *that* far gone - bar Katie. The repetitiveness seems to be locking the characters in a Groundhog Day-esque scenario; maybe it's the familiarity of some of these plots, who knows? But, with the right writing, they can be saved.

Saying that, I can't wait around for ever for someone to wake up and realize how cr*ppy, B&B is. I've given it till 2009, and I'm done. ATM, I can't even be called a casual viewer!

I have zero faith, so, can anyone recommend another show? :lol:

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What happened to Steffy?! I didn't even recognize her.

Her hair is a lot darker now.......

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Her hair is a lot darker now.......

It's been that way since we last saw her around the 17th...

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This show is a mess. I wanted Pam to fall over that damn railing and die so bad. Someone please kill that bitch!

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Her hair is a lot darker now.......

Has it been that short and straight? I guess I haven't seen her since it's been longer and wavier.

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