B&B: Old/Classic Discussion & Articles

[BoldKara]

The Logans never being able to sling back mud at those women has grown very old to this day. If you're still watching, today's is the perfect example with Taylor calling Hope "Brooke's daughter" etc, while Hope and Brooke just take it.

[kalbir]

Because as far as we know, Stephanie had willingly loved only two men in her entire life, Eric and Massimo. I don't believe we saw Stephanie becoming involved with Clarke, Jack, James.

[BoldKara]

Jack and Stephanie skinny dipped. They saw each other's bits and bobs. It was pretty much implied they were intimate IMO. You don't need a sex scene (especially with the older cast) to prove intimacy.

That she must have slept with Massimo and Eric within days of each other back in the day should have been enough ammunition for Brooke to have been able to sling "S* from Chicago" at her.

[Troppo]

One thing that always irked me about Stephanie was her constant resorting to physical violence (slapping is a form of assault). She punched down on Brooke because Brooke never faught back. Yet when Sheila did it, it was "abnormal behaviour, pathological". REALLY?!

No, that was you getting your ass handed to you from someone who wasn't afraid to fight you back you old windbag.

Don't get me wrong, I loved when Stephanie would stand up for the underdog. But too many times she also used excessive force on people physically weaker than her (women especially) and that wasn't fair.

[Maxim]

I understand you guys, but Brooke calling Stephanie a slut would have been cringe. Really cringe. For me. I mean... compared to Brooke, Stephanie is Mary of Nazareth. Brooke earned that title - it belongs to her and nobody else. LOL. And let's not forget that what happened with Massimo and Stephanie was a stupid rewrite done in 2002 after 15 years of story - the basis of which Stephanie was calling Brooke a whore, a bitch in heat, a slut, a tramp, a prostitute and etc. We can have another re-write in 2 years revealing that Stephanie was a hooker for a year, but that won't change the fact that the characters were meant to be opposites and on the different ends of the spectrum.  

And that storyline was completely in contrary to couple of DNA tests done in the 90s, especially the one where Brooke was testing if Ridge or Eric was the father of her baby. It would be quite hard to conceal that these two men are not related at all. AT ALL. That they don't have any DNA likeness. 

2002's reveal was one of Bradley cheap tricks to scandalize and turn the tables. Some people loved it, I myself have a mixed opinion about it. 

 

Yes, Stephanie was a bully and she resulted to violence. I kind of liked that they explored that aspect when it was revealed she was actually a child victim of abuse at the hands of her father. It closed up the cycle of abuser-abused-abuser. And proved the point that abuse ignites abuse. 

I also have mixed opinions about this, I get that it's disturbing to some people, especially in 2024, and it should be. Violence is never the path. But it did provide us some great, great campy classic moments. The slaps I mean. I liked when Brooke returned the slap! Or even initiate it.

I think the moments where Stephanie went too far were in 1999 when she beat Brooke like a dog - this was really too much and that scene looks disturbing to me. The other slaps don't have nothing on it. It was too much. And in 2007 when Stephanie pretty much planned someone to abuse Brooke - again, crossed a line. 

 

[Troppo]

I remember the storyline. It was nice to see a softer, more vulnerable side to Stephanie. But as soon as therapy was over, she was back to her old ways, if not meaner and nastier than before. She didn't learn anything. She just made excuses for her abusive behaviour and carried on being abusive towards others.

I agree the first time Brooke slapped her was the best one. It came out of nowhere and it rattled Stephanie. The next two slaps didn't have the same effect. In fact Stephanie came back swinging and nearly snapped her neck in half! Poor KKL lol

The campy moments of B&B are fun, but they haven't aged all that well IMO. Calling Brooke derogatory names and sl*t shaming? It starts to sound like a broken record. Yes we know what Brooke is. Tell us something we don't know?!

[Maxim]

I know I shouldn't be laughing, but the way you phrased it made me scream laughing! 

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[YRfan23]

I hate it so much

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I mean despite Brookes actions in the past, I feel Hope has always been unfairly attacked just because she’s Brooke’s daughter! I couldn’t believe Taylor’s gull to tell Hope to her face today that “you were the only Logan that had any dignity left” when all the did back then when Steffy and Hope were fighting over Liam, was compare Hope to Brooke and saw no problem with Steffy using Brooke like tactics to get him….it makes me sick and I just wish for once, it would all get thrown back in their faces.! 

[Maxim]

I agree that Taylor and Steffy acting like Hope's been this slut is... absurd. Especially Steffy. HOPE is nowhere near Brooke. And never will be. 

[YRfan23]

Taylor, slept her way through two families!! TWO!! Including Rick! One could argue Brooke slept with both Forrester and Marone men, but Brooke’s never crossed any line with the younger men….Taylor would be more willing to sleep with both Liam and Finn, if Thudley would own up that she’s just as much of a pathetic s*ut as she always accused Brooke of being…

[Maxim]

 

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[YRfan23]

Stephanie deserved all those slaps IMO! Just like she deserved Sheila’s physical assaults and Morgan’s Punch too! lol 

[BoldKara]

When I recently watched this paternity test sequence after some 30 years, knowing Massimo was later retconned as Ridge's father, the Tracy Peters explanation as to how Eric could not be the father of Bridget had so many holes in it. I mean we didn't know that at the time, but still, for people like me who likes to have storyline consistency, and followthrough, it just doesn't work with hindsight in mind. It would have been even more jaw-dropping at the time had that DNA test revealed that Ridge and Eric could not possibly be related. Can you imagine? The could have beens!

[YRfan23]

To quote something Brooke said to Taylor in 1993 after Taylor slapped her: 

“the truth hurts, doesn’t it sweetie!”

[Maxim]

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When Sheila had all her toes. 

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