19 hours ago, Chris B said:

I found the show to be difficult to watch most of 1993.

Brooke taking over Forrester was Bill Bell's last hurrah before he passed the reins to Bradley. The lull starts after the Catalina crossover and goes until Ridge/Brooke beach wedding.

5 minutes ago, kalbir said:

Brooke taking over Forrester was Bill Bell's last hurrah before he passed the reins to Bradley. The lull starts after the Catalina crossover and goes until Ridge/Brooke beach wedding.

What a way to go out, in a blaze of glory..... 🥰

Edited June 20Jun 20 by I Am A Swede

Jumping back into "season four" tomorrow.

This forum was a lifeline for me back in 2020-2025.

Episodes S4 E131 – 169

• Ronn Moss with facial hair definitely makes me see him... differently and really has him resembling John McCook, especially in recent years. Shame he did not feel it in later years.

• Clarke is lost; William J. Bell really tied him in tightly to Kristen, and once she left, it felt like he was lost. But both Margo and Stephanie were right there for the taking, and it never happened.

• Not surprised by everyone's disdain for Thorne's engagement to Macy. Sucks, because it just showed how much of a "red-headed stepchild" that Thorne was in that family in comparison to star child Ridge. Moving too fast? He spent less time with Caroline before they got married. 🤣 Should just be honest; it is the fact she is connected to Spectra.

• I like the idea of Storm and Taylor, and it is a shame that it is a pairing they did not really develop more into, especially in later years. It could have been considerably viable. Brian Patrick Clarke and Hunter Tylo do spark onscreen, but I cannot help but feel like Ethan Wayne's chemistry with Tylo would have been more electric, but Bell loved pairing a blond(e) with a brunette. 😉

• No matter how much they try and dress Felicia like a Forrester, she is still the free-spirited child of the group, and I do love that about her. Again, I am more familiar with Lesli Kay's portrayal, but Collen Dion is solid and was perfectly cast. Wonder if she, at some point, would be open to reprising the role again if it were asked of her. Would be interesting to see.

• Bill and Margo are really just... non-entities it feels like, which is a shame, because they could really have been a frontrunning power couple.

• Jake is a poor man's substitute for Rocco where Donna is concerned. It feels like Bell was trying to recreate Laken and Ted on Bold and it does not work.

• We have got temp. Taylor with Sherilyn Wolter, and honestly, she is not half bad. Better than Elena Nikolas on Santa Barbara; perhaps returning her in a different role would have been cool. Honestly, if she dyed her hair blonde, I could have seen her as nü Caroline. She does slightly resemble Joanna Johnson.

• If I have to endure years of Macy and Thorne singing to each other... I may cry bloody tears from the pain. I will say it is sweet of Ridge and Eric to show up for Thorne, despite their initial objections.

• Hearing Ridge in modern times talk about Eric leaving Forrester, and yet in 1990, he talks about it needing to be Eric's vision where Felicia is concerned.

• The Spectra fashion show is ten times more luxurious and classic than anything this soap produces now. Even the tacky, fake wigs look better than what is done today.

• Katherine Kelly Lang's maternity leave was handled so well that it often felt like Brooke was barely absent from the canvas. If only maternity leaves could be handled like that in modern soaps.

• Nearly whole episodes dedicated to fashion shows? Imagine that today... that would be incredible!

• The supreme fact of Stephanie begged Brooke to take Ridge so she could keep Eric. That is hilarious.🤣 And it's the way it should be? That is hilarious to me.

• Ah! The introduction of the penthouse! What a lush and lavish set. Kind of wish it were still around somehow!

Episodes S4 E170 – 205

• This Jake storyline is very interesting, especially for 1990. And it also makes me sad at how flippant and tasteless Bradley Bell has been with them in recent years. He was part of the writing team by this point, so he should know how it should be done. Very Bold story. Very. And I am glad that Todd McKee was able to play this material after being wasted at Santa Barbara during his time there as Ted Capwell. Again, between his time as Ted and his beginning as Jake, he looked so much more "grown up", which I adore. And the McKee home does remind me of the Perkins' home, which is also very interesting.

• Glad we are back in the courtroom. Feels like the last time we were genuinely in a court proceeding was Caroline's rape case, and this really drives home the Sally vs Stephanie rivalry. And good on Thorne for being in lawyer mode.

• Made it to Marla Adams' debut as Beth! Again, good idea on paper for a recast, but... I do not buy her in the role. At all. Her casting, in my eyes, completely undermined why I believe Judith Baldwin was recast with Nancy Burnett. She feels like an equal to Stephanie, and it always kind of felt like they wanted Beth to be the opposite of what Stephanie was, and therefore, both Baldwin and Adams do not fit that role.

• Ridge asking Brooke to marry him? C'mon now... my goodness, this is insufferable. Oh, it was a dream. Wow. Signs of things to come, uh-oh.

Not going to lie, this selection of episodes did not do much for me until the come-up to the wedding.

Marla Adams run as Beth was only a few episodes. Perhaps Nancy Burnett was not available.

I really enjoyed your recap :) @Liberty City ! Thanks a lot! At that time i liked Macy and Thorne together, and tought that them singing was a good idea. I even have the Duet CD's at home. Jake's story was a good one. And Felicia is my favourite Forrester child! And the wedding yes the wedding :) the daydream was good!

10 hours ago, kalbir said:

Marla Adams run as Beth was only a few episodes. Perhaps Nancy Burnett was not available.

Oh, I know that. But it still did not feel like Beth at all, and that has nothing to do with Marla Adams' talent. She was just poorly recast in the role.

3 hours ago, Marquise said:

I really enjoyed your recap :) @Liberty City ! Thanks a lot! At that time i liked Macy and Thorne together, and tought that them singing was a good idea. I even have the Duet CD's at home. Jake's story was a good one. And Felicia is my favourite Forrester child! And the wedding yes the wedding :) the daydream was good!

Yes, I just saw the wedding for the first time (right now) since it reaired during 2020. What an event. And I like the idea of Macy and Thorne together, but the constant 1990s infomercial music videos they kept getting were a bit too much for my liking. And I do like Colleen Dion as Felicia (my first time really experiencing her); I just wish her arrival didn't come at the expense at losing Kristen.

Episodes S4 E206 – 240

• The infamous Brooke and Eric wedding; I did see this episode in 2020, when we had the classic reairings of episodes during the summer months. And taking off in a hot air balloon? I would be sh***ing my pants, as the highest I can go is rollercoasters. I would have to get on a plane first, lmao. And the honeymoon spot is very cute. Eric really did go all-out to make sure it was as romantic as it possibly could be for Brooke... while she is busy dreaming about his son/her stepson.

• Onto the infamous 1991 memory loss/Skid Row storyline; the person in Stephanie's driver's window was terrifying. William J. Bell knew how to produce some jump-worthy moments, matched with appropriate musical cues. Heard so much about it but have never seen it, as it was before my time. I am ready for this one!

• Again, do not understand why Maria needed to be recast. Easily could have just said the Forresters have a new housemaid for themselves after Maria decided to retire. Rita Gomez just does not have the same warmth that Olga López had in the role.

• Maria? At Forrester? Something I never thought I would see, but it is nice to see her outside of the Forrester mansion.

• Damn, those men are encroaching on Stephanie's car like she is about to do something. ☠️

• Sorry, but did Stephanie really think someone would help her in that moment? They would take the money and RUN to get more booze. Come on, Stephanie. And does she really think these houseless individuals give even a single f**k that her car is being stolen? I do not think so.

• Life going on without anyone knowing what's going on with Stephanie is hilarious. 🤣 Blissfully unaware.

• Felicia going to Spectra? What news... and Felicia vs Sally is not something I had on my bingo card. She really does have Stephanie's spitfire personality, doesn't she?

• Damn... these folks are just manhandling Stephanie and abusing the f**k out of her. How petrifying. That is scary as f**k. Omg. Praying they don't do... more. Susan Flannery played the Hell out of those scenes. Wow. Terrifying.

• I will say it is cool seeing Brooke and Felicia kind of get along, as I feel like Kristen was more aligned with Caroline. And knowing what I know about later years, Bold, that kind of "get along" no longer exists in the same way.

• Damn, even when someone is trying to help her, Stephanie is snobbishly insufferable. Her belief in her class really speaks for itself.

• Damn... Jake's uncle approaching him is creepy as f**k. And it's how it comes across in today's world in 4K television... imagine this s**t on box televisions during the afternoon hours. Whew. Bell knew what he was doing. The whole storyline just turned into a true horror story.

Such a better batch of episodes compared to the previous batch. Much, much better.

Stephanie being homeless is one of the best written stories I think. And Susan is amasing. I wonder why she did not gett Emmy then?

4 hours ago, Marquise said:

Stephanie being homeless is one of the best written stories I think. And Susan is amasing. I wonder why she did not gett Emmy then?

I cried my eyes out when she

couldn't recognize her children... and she was standing by the door of the mansion. Still probably the most powerful soap moment in my life.

On 6/27/2026 at 2:18 AM, Marquise said:

Stephanie being homeless is one of the best written stories I think. And Susan is amasing. I wonder why she did not gett Emmy then?

It's very compelling thus far.

1991 was when the Logans were pretty much phased out and the Spectra gang became the second family so to speak.

It was funny to me that in 1991 Bill Bell had Taylor's ex-husband Blake Hayes be a Texas oil millionaire. Bill Bell was like a decade late to the party with that one 😄