B&B: Transgender actor Scott Turner Schofield lands role

[dragonflies]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3059130/Transgender-performer-Scott-Turner-Schofield-lands-major-role-Bold-Beautiful.html

also more here

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/transgender-actot-scott-turner-schofield-soap-article-1.2200776

[ChitHappens]

YAWN! The Story was botched on day 2!

[dragonflies]

NO it wasn't

[wingwalker]

Awesome. Looking forward to this character's debut.

[GMac]

This is good news. A lot of people, including some on this board, wanted to see the show employ a transgender for this story.

[AllMyDaysatGH]

The description of his character & the way he helps Maya sounds absolutely beautiful! Looking forward!

[Soapsuds]

It hasnt been written the way I thought it would be. The they got a big secret lets find out and scheme to get Forrester reeks of awful writing. I really wish they hadnt done this story because so far BB is doing a poor job of writing it.

[ChitHappens]

The biggest reveal on a soap in about a decade, and no one is talking about it besides us?! Flop!!!!!

[Soapsuds]

It last 2 days on Twitter and now there is no talk at all about it. I read somewhere that there were rumors they wanted Bruce Jenner to be on the show.....yikes...

[dragonflies]

The story hasn't been written well, cause Maya is no longer a sympathetic character due to her ass kissing of Rick and her helping him bully other people.

[ReddFoxx]

As I said before, I don't believe the writers thought about anything else, save for a big cliffhanger moment they were seeking.

[Soapsuds]

Maya's story should have been written when she first met Rick and then they should have done the big takeover story.....they did the whole Rick takeover story and then jumbled it with Maya's story.....and both stories lost steam real fast.

[Gray Bunny]

I'm a supporter of this story, but here are some of the problems:

1. Maya should've been made more sympathetic and an underdog who innocently became the victor in her longing for Rick, rather than being underhanded re: Caroline/Ridge. Lots of viewers have no sympathy for her.

2. The Charlie/Pam scenes this week were horrendous. It made a joke of the whole subject matter. And who really deduces, "Maya... is... transgender...." as the father from Small Wonder stammered, as they tried to guess why Maya would be taking estrogen. Wouldn't menopausal Pammy have a clue about women needing estrogen? I would've sooner accepted Charlie saying, "Maya was born a man!" rather than transgender. At least that statement would be a normal reaction.

3. It's not making as big of headline news because it's The Bold and the Beautiful. The Bold and the Beautiful has never been relevant in U.S. pop culture. Never. If it were Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, or even The Young and the Restless, then yes. ABC and NBC (well, DAYS) were always the buzz-worthy soaps, not CBS. And certainly not B&B.

I will say this, that the build-up and the fake-outs and the private conversations with doors wide open is reminiscent of James Reilly's style of writing. I fully expect Maya to start having daytime nightmares of Rick's angry, fiery reaction to finding out the news, only for her to snap out of her daydream or wake up from her nightmare after the commercial break.

[QueenOfHearts]

This whole story is too JR for me and I have no problem with them wanting a transender character. I have a problem with them passing off a biological woman as one and making MAya the twofer minority in a poorly thought out story.