B&B: July 2012 - Discussion Thread

[DRW50]

She's usually right, written as a sage counsel, etc. If they were going to have her booze it up and kill Darla it should have at least changed the character.

[Cheap21]

No Taylor is usually written as she thinks she is right, only to be revealed to be wrong. How many times has she cluelessly defended both her kids,not knowing they are lying and realizing how much of an idiot she is making herself out to look like in the process? Brooke is the one generally written as right as she seems to be a lot more perceptive and aware of what really goes on. Taylor is rarely spot on when it comes to interpreting the relationships around her

[DRW50]

Brooke mostly just says Hope and Liam should be together and Rick should stay away from Amber. Then they blame her for Hope's problems.

Thomas has no real story, but with Steffy they seem to write Taylor as generally being on the right path - she didn't approve of Bill/Steffy, she just went along with what Steffy wanted. She sees Steffy and Liam as true love.

[Cheap21]

Thomas has nothing now. I was referring to Taboo. Taylor made an ass out of herself with Berrygate

Wasn't Brooke right about Amber and her schemes? Wasn't she right about Steffy and her lies?

[DRW50]

Amber, yes. Steffy, I think they wrote Brooke as blaming Steffy instead of the real problems (Liam, Bill). Only lately has she put more blame on Liam.

[edgeofnik]

Well, yeah, when the writers stack the deck... BTW - Brooke is totally wrong about Steffy now....

[bardgirl]

I'm in shock. Today's episode didn't have Hope or Liam in it. I wish they'd bring Thorne out of the basement.

[edgeofnik]

It's been so great seeing JG this week. I'm glad she was able to be involved with the wedding. I liked the emotion she showed about Marcus, but seeing her with Eric displayed just how wrong that relationship was --- almost as bad as Victor/Sharon. (Of course, the irony that both JG, JMcC being Y&R vets.)

As if it weren't obvious, B&B needs to keep KL on the frontburner - she is such a lovely actress and Dayzee's scenes with Stephanie are fantastic. They are certainly not forced or odd and, frankly, they are full of angst or drama. I loved Stephanie's "night before her first wedding" confession. Of course, SF sets the acting standard on B&B, so I judge all the actors who are in her scenes based on comfort, ease and connection. KL meets it.

[Cheap21]

I hated the history rewrite yesterday. Now Stephanie knew all along that Ridge was Massimo's son and used that to trick Eric into marriage? Thats not how it was portrayed when the truth came out. Stephanie had no clue who her baby's father was. She had assumed it was Eric's and went with that.

[edgeofnik]

I believe what Stephanie meant was that she was using her pregnancy to manipulate a marriage. I gathered that she said it was the worst night because she knew she was keeping a potential secret because she didn't know the truth (even if she decided odds were Ridge was Eric's). Regardless, still one of the worst paternity switch stories. It was pretty pointless.

[AllMyDaysatGH]

Marcus to Thomas: "Anthony was the homie" LMAO. Awful.

Love that Clarence was the minister at the wedding!! Dayzee looked stunning.

Did Beverly's invitation get lost in the mail? LOL.

Great to see Jacob Young! He's back to being wasted

I was convinced they were bringing that doctor back for a pregnant Steffy storyline! I was wrong Damn.

[Chris B]

I wish they'd continued the Y&R crossover by having Olivia or maybe even Neil or Lily at the wedding since they're related to Marcus and Justin. That would be a nice tie to keep going in a mellow fashion just in case they want to pursue it in the future. You could easily spin Amber, Marcus & Dayzee off to Y&R so it would be nice to develop those ties now.

[JSROCKS]

MAB and TOIIC at Y&R don't know how to write a compelling s/l for the AA characters they have now, so adding two more wouldn't make much sense. Amber has already been there repeating much of her B&B s/l so there's not much for her to do now except stir up trouble for Marcus using Rosie.

[JaneAusten]

I'm going to give B&B credit. I loved the wedding and thought despite everything it was well done.

On the flip side I am just not feeling this texting storyline at all. Granted it just started. But putting Thomas and Marcus at the forefront bad idea. They need a strong vet in that story to help it along.

[soapfave06]

I couldn't help but think that Amber and Olivia should've been there as well. They already set it up a few months ago where Amber expected to be invited and Amber and Dayzee made a good dynamic. Olivia may have only aired once, but she fit in well and I was thinking of how nice it would've been for her to attend the wedding.