B&B: Week of May 25, 2009

May 31, 200916 yr

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No, totally bland and useless is how LAD/Jackie comes off to me.

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June 1, 200916 yr

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Bridget is way too young and sexy to be in love scenes with Grandpa Nick. Someone, make it stop! Maybe Bridget is the one who should end up with Bill Jr.

June 1, 200916 yr

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Bridget is way too young and sexy to be in love scenes with Grandpa Nick. Someone, make it stop! Maybe Bridget is the one who should end up with Bill Jr.

No, Bill Jr. isn't much younger than Nick.

Ridge, Thorne, Nick, Bill Jr.,

Whip

are all in the Brooke, Taylor, Felicia, Kristen age group. (Because Kristen still exists, and Tony's HIV might catch up with someday).

Bridget has no one in her age group but Rick. Yech. Amber, Deacon, CJ -- if they ever return -- all work in this agegroup. I guess Owen is in this agegroup.

Steffy and Marcus are alone in their age group. I guess Thomas fits there too, since Bridget babysat him as a baby.

Then we have Hope, RJ, Felicia's kid (Dino?), and Thorne's daughter. Am I missing anyone from that group?

June 1, 200916 yr

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It's hard to remember that Thomas is supposed to be older than Steffy. The writers do such a great job of emasculating their male 'leads' and making them helpless mindless children. They did the same thing to Storm with William DeVry in the role.

It wouldn't be so offensive if it weren't for the fact that the female siblings become dumbed-down, and are as dumbed down as the brothers are emasculated. They take the lead and then make things worse.

June 1, 200916 yr

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No, Bill Jr. isn't much younger than Nick.

Really? I see Nick as being around 60 and Bill Jr. as 45. Still too old for Bridgett, I agree, but sometimes you have to take what you can get.

June 1, 200916 yr

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It's hard to remember that Thomas is supposed to be older than Steffy. The writers do such a great job of emasculating their male 'leads' and making them helpless mindless children. They did the same thing to Storm with William DeVry in the role.

It wouldn't be so offensive if it weren't for the fact that the female siblings become dumbed-down, and are as dumbed down as the brothers are emasculated. They take the lead and then make things worse.

How about Jackie yelling at Nick "I won't let you bully him (Owen)"!! :lol: :lol:

June 1, 200916 yr

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I thought last week was the worst but leave it to BB to prove me wrong. Ok - now Eric has been hiring illegal immigrants and faking their ID'S??? How convenient that Bill can find out in one scene.

June 1, 200916 yr

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I thought last week was the worst but leave it to BB to prove me wrong. Ok - now Eric has been hiring illegal immigrants and faking their ID'S??? How convenient that Bill can find out in one scene.

Sigh. Really? Eric has been doing this? Really?

So, the plot twist coming out of the blue is one thing. But the assassination of Eric's character (I haven't seen the episode yet to comment on context) is outrageous.

How can you take the patriarch of your family and have him do stuff like this?????

All of which affirms my basic point...they dynamic of B&B is that we hate the core family. Therefore, we enjoy all the outsiders who come in and knock them down a peg. The one saving grace of the show is that they seem to be casting a few interesting outsiders these days.

June 1, 200916 yr

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Sigh. Really? Eric has been doing this? Really?

So, the plot twist coming out of the blue is one thing. But the assassination of Eric's character (I haven't seen the episode yet to comment on context) is outrageous.

How can you take the patriarch of your family and have him do stuff like this?????

All of which affirms my basic point...they dynamic of B&B is that we hate the core family. Therefore, we enjoy all the outsiders who come in and knock them down a peg. The one saving grace of the show is that they seem to be casting a few interesting outsiders these days.

I wonder if it's going to be a case where Eric didn't know it was happening? He's the CEO.Head designer. Surely he's not involved in employee paper work? :huh:

June 1, 200916 yr

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I wonder if it's going to be a case where Eric didn't know it was happening? He's the CEO.Head designer. Surely he's not involved in employee paper work?

True. Like Kathy Lee Gifford at the time.

June 1, 200916 yr

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I wonder if it's going to be a case where Eric didn't know it was happening? He's the CEO.Head designer. Surely he's not involved in employee paper work?

It's Thorne. He did this in order to bring Claudia Cortez back to the States. She was the love of his life.

I have never watched a soap as plot driven as B&B. None of the characters owns a personality, everything can happen to everybody, everybody can do everything. Vixen? Tortured heroine? Matriarch? Psycho? The same character does it all...

I agree with Toups. LAD gets younger and hotter all the time. It's a sin that she is playing "Nicky's" mother. They could bring a young daughter/niece for her (Macy 2: The Colbys) and have her fall in love with a Forrester boy.

June 2, 200916 yr

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Yawn, what a boring episode

June 2, 200916 yr

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Yawn, what a boring episode

Except, though he is a total pig, I really enjoy Brill. He's having so much fun, and so we get to experience it with him.

June 2, 200916 yr

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Except, though he is a total pig, I really enjoy Brill. He's having so much fun, and so we get to experience it with him.

today completely turned me off from him. He has absolutely no rooting value. At least when he was working with Stephanie, I could root for him via rooting for her and her pain, but Bill on his own is coming on way too strong with no motivation to back it up

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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
As The World Turns Discussion Thread

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
Guiding Light Discussion Thread

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
Guiding Light Discussion Thread

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
GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

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
GH: December 2025 Discussion Thread

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
Looking back...Primetime Ratings from the 80's

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.

By soapfan770 · 2 hours ago2 hr

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