B&B: October Thread

[MarkH]

I'm not at all sure he's dead.

Seeing what Bill Jr. DOES with his legacy seems to me like the kind of evil test BS Sr. would do.

[Cat]

Oooooooo! Like it!

[BadZoe]

Great idea Mark H, I really like the idea of Bill Spencer SR not being dead but faking his death and sending Dollar Bill to do his bidding. Then he can sweep in and sweep Stuffers off her flats if he wants to spend the rest of his life with that hag. Maybe Stuff should go like Sally and be written off as still alive, but gone forever.

[quartermainefan]

Hi B&B thread, I thought you guys might be interested in this. Hot off the heels of his photos in Vanity Fair, Brandon Beemer is now in the UK Cosmo. Just the one photo I believe, not sure.

If you knew this already, please disregard.

[Juliajms]

Thanks QFan. I've never been a Brandon Beemer fan, but there is no denying that he has an amazing body.

[sheilaforever]

I too love this idea. It's great and would make an awesome story. Hopefully, you're right on this one, Mark!

[MarkH]

Why can we so easily accept back-from-the-dead on this show, but rake Y&R writers over the coals for same??

Watching today for the first time in weeks. Owen wants a baby. Sigh. Boring. Why does Stephanie want to hide her stroke from the Jackie M. group?

I'm worried that Hearst is already deeply in the backburner supporting (i.e., Clarke Garrison) role.

ETA: I have such a hard time seeing Taylor in that sensible supporting psychiatrist role. Basically that's the role I want to see her in...but I can't shake my feeling that NOBODY should be listening to this train-wreck of a woman.

[y&r_fan]

Truer words never spoken.

[Juliajms]

I think it very much depends on the situation. I'm not one to hate on back to the dead stories in any case, but there is a big difference between Bill Spencer faking his death (something that would be very in character) and Phillip III faking his death...in a hospital...because he's gay.

[y&r_fan]

Actually, I'm okay with back-from-the-dead stories as long as we didn't see a body.

[Juliajms]

But we pretty much did see Phillip's body. I'm the type of view that actually likes back from the dead stories because I hate letting characters go. But I also understand when the writers have cheated just a little bit, even if I'm willing to go with it. If Bill turns out to be dead, I won't feel like the writer's cheated, but with Philip III (much like Taylor) I feel like it was a definite rewrite of something that was meant to be a real death at the time and the retcon doesn't quite make sense if you were watching when it originally happened. Some people object to that and I think that's legitimate, especially when it keeps happening.

[DRW50]

It was stupid to kill off Bill in the first place.

[Juliajms]

I just wish more people would leave town or be presumed missing, instead of killing off popular characters. I know they love the drama of death though, that's the problem.

[y&r_fan]

I wasn't talking about the Phillip story. Make no mistake - the Phillip story was MAB's absolute WORST.

[BadZoe]

B&B has been off the rails since JJ was brought back as Karen and Brooke slept with Deascome. Another back from the dead stretch is nothing. I had higher hopes for Y&R because Bill Bell kept it fairly classy, but B&B has always been the trashy twisted sister.

WTF was Taylor wearing? Is she a part time dominatrix on the side? That would be an interesting storyline actually, Taylor uses her psychiatric skills in a different way. Unfortunately this show is just interested in making Hunter look bad and won't go in an interesting direction.