B&B: Week of May 25, 2009

[DeeeDee]

:lol:

[Juliajms]

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.

[MarkH]

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

Ridge, Thorne, Nick, Bill Jr.,

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?

[NorrthCafe]

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.

[Juliajms]

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.

[Juliajms]

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

[Cashton]

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.

[MarkH]

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.

[Juliajms]

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?

[MarkH]

True. Like Kathy Lee Gifford at the time.

[Sapounopera]

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.

[Cheap21]

Yawn, what a boring episode

[MarkH]

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.

[Cheap21]

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