Time to list his many many horrid storylines and dropped characters.  He deserves this treatment.  I stopped watching this nonsense of a soap.

 

Discuss!

8 hours ago, Fevuh said:

People Bi*tch about Liam but don't about Rena Sofer.  The ridiculous stories that have been written around her are the most awful of all.  Anything QUINN has been AWFUL. 

She pushes people off bridges,  She KIDNAPS people and has SEX with ADAM/LIAM -  but she's a woman and DRAGS a MAN into a CAR.  SHE SHOVES DEACON off a cliff.  SHE's QUINN!  SHE's WONDERFUL.  She MARRIES ERIC!  She DESIGNS BROOKE'S WEDDING RING! 

 

The ridiculousness of Quinn is well documented, but like many Bell things, she's here today, gone tomorrow. Look at Rena's eppy count. It's like the Spectras and Thorne. No real long term plans. 

 

However, we get small breaks from Liam but then Brad overcompensates by having Liam on 32 days a month and EVERYONE is talking about how wonderful he is. Bell's fascination with Liam/Scott is ridiculous!  Quinn will no doubt go wacko again and eat up loads of airtime but it will pass and we are back to Liam. 

 

I loather trash Quinn and love that she's been reduced to nothing, but Bold is definitely the Liam Half Hour. 

7 minutes ago, ChitHappens said:

 

The ridiculousness of Quinn is well documented, but like many Bell things, she's here today, gone tomorrow. Look at Rena's eppy count. It's like the Spectras and Thorne. No real long term plans. 

 

However, we get small breaks from Liam but then Brad overcompensates by having Liam on 32 days a month and EVERYONE is talking about how wonderful he is. Bell's fascination with Liam/Scott is ridiculous!  Quinn will no doubt go wacko again and eat up loads of airtime but it will pass and we are back to Liam. 

 

I loather trash Quinn and love that she's been reduced to nothing, but Bold is definitely the Liam Half Hour. 

+1

On 2018-02-14 at 7:42 PM, AllMyDaysatGH said:

Sorry but this is still my favorite scene and storyline EVER. I was HOOKED!!

I love how they sorta played Daddy Yankee's music in slow motion at the end to make it even more dramatic when Oliver sees Brooke.

 

Seeing that clip reminded me of how I miss B&B pre Liam and Wyatt.

20 hours ago, ChitHappens said:

[...] but Bold is definitely the Liam Half Hour.

 

In the late 90s to the mid-00s, it was the Amber Half Hour. Too many characters were thrown under the bus to make room for her repetitive storylines.

 

I will never forgive Bell for treating Sarah Buxton like crap and wasting her talent. Two times!

1 hour ago, Huntress said:

 

In the late 90s to the mid-00s, it was the Amber Half Hour. Too many characters were thrown under the bus to make room for her repetitive storylines.

 

I will never forgive Bell for treating Sarah Buxton like crap and wasting her talent. Two times!

 

Same. Sarah Buxton literally kept Sunset Beach afloat the last few months, she is an effervescent actress made for soaps. I wish she were still on a soap somewhere.

 

Amber half-hour, oy, don't get me started. Becky was killed off for this character!

10 hours ago, Sindacco said:

I love how they sorta played Daddy Yankee's music in slow motion at the end to make it even more dramatic when Oliver sees Brooke.

 

Seeing that clip reminded me of how I miss B&B pre Liam and Wyatt.

 

That was epic! And then she slo-mo pulled the mask off and had that smug little smile like the cat that got the cream! And the song went slightly distorted and nightmarish and you could tell Oliver's stomach was dropping out of his body lol.

 

Poussay poussay poussay was literally the last pre-Liam hurrah, because literally a week or two later, Liam showed up as the IT guy who fell for Hope.

 

Still don't understand how Darin Brooks as Wyatt has lasted so long on the show. Probably has to do with Rena Sofer playing his mom. 

Edited February 16, 20187 yr by Cat

20 hours ago, Cat said:

Amber half-hour, oy, don't get me started. Becky was killed off for this character!

 

I guess AF felt threatened by Becky's popularity (and to be honest, she was much prettier than Amber).

 

I just remembered that the show wanted to sell AF and Brian Gaskill's Oscar Marone as the new "hot" couple for a second in 2003. 

 

And what about the Taylor replacement Tricia Quick who lasted 3 months? She only had one memorable scene (see below). I still wonder why Bell simply didn't recast Taylor back then instead of bringing in that boring clone, considering he recast so many other characters (with actors who don't resemble their predecessors at all).

 

 

On 2/12/2018 at 4:36 AM, DRW50 said:

B&B has been poorly written since 1996 or so, with a few years here or there of quality. I just assume that people get used to it.

 

This is true. But for many years he was able to get away with it because he had Susan Flannery. Once she left, there was nobody able to make Brad's [!@#$%^&*] smell like roses anymore.

4 minutes ago, juppiter said:

 

This is true. But for many years he was able to get away with it because he had Susan Flannery. Once she left, there was nobody able to make Brad's [!@#$%^&*] smell like roses anymore.

Yeah, the show lost any luster it had when SF left the show.

19 minutes ago, juppiter said:

 

This is true. But for many years he was able to get away with it because he had Susan Flannery. Once she left, there was nobody able to make Brad's [!@#$%^&*] smell like roses anymore.

 

For me it was more Darlene Conley than Susan Flannery as I think she became pretty one-note by the early '00s. But I see your point.

On 17/02/2018 at 8:31 AM, Huntress said:

 

I guess AF felt threatened by Becky's popularity (and to be honest, she was much prettier than Amber).

 

I just remembered that the show wanted to sell AF and Brian Gaskill's Oscar Marone as the new "hot" couple for a second in 2003. 

 

And what about the Taylor replacement Tricia Quick who lasted 3 months? She only had one memorable scene (see below). I still wonder why Bell simply didn't recast Taylor back then instead of bringing in that boring clone, considering he recast so many other characters (with actors who don't resemble their predecessors at all).

 

 

Yeah, I definitely felt that Becky was sidelined so as to not overshadow Bell's pet, AF. Personally I resented the hell out of AF during her entire run.

 

Brain Gaskill! Tricia Quick! All these people I blocked from my memory!  Oh, and remember Bell's two-minute lesbian SL involving Joanna Johnson as Karen and Crystal Chappell? Bell trying to jump on the coattails of Chappell's mediatised web-soap.

 

Honestly, I feel so bad for anybody who is hired by Bradley Bell in hopes of a great new part and SL. It's not fan apathy which does them in, it's head-writer apathy. Bottom line, Bell has no ideas. And a lot of talented actors (and not-so-talented ones) have been wasted as a result.

Tricia Quick? Someone do tell what that was about and the red sauce thing with Brooke? My viewing was very sporadic during that time. Was this around the same time they had a Bridget recast for a hot minute that didn't work out? 

36 minutes ago, Gray Bunny said:

Tricia Quick? Someone do tell what that was about and the red sauce thing with Brooke? My viewing was very sporadic during that time. Was this around the same time they had a Bridget recast for a hot minute that didn't work out? 

 

As mentioned above, she was a Taylor replacement. I think she drifted between Ridge and Thorne (?). She was played by a very wan actress from PC. 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 19, 20187 yr by DRW50

On 2/15/2018 at 6:24 AM, Cat said:

 

It was amazingly put together, and pure enjoyable trash. There is nothing Bell loves more than titillating the audience and watch them clutch their pearls. He had Hope's birthday party in a club (and not the usual Forrester mansion), it was to be the night she lost her virginity, everybody was in creepy white masks, and he partnered with Daddy Yankee and a very catchy song. 

 

However, the LEAP OF FAITH to make this SL happen... Why would Oliver think Princess Touch-Me-Not would want to lose her v in a sweaty nightclub up against a wall? How did he not guess that Brooke's entryway after +4 kids might not be Hope's? And how did Brooke not wonder from Oliver's different scent and, uh, technique that, gee, this might not be Ridge? So many questions. So many inconsistencies to make that Friday cliffhanger happen! It was a good one, but the fallout was over within a week and Oliver was written off soon afterwards so... Bell got bored.

 

At least Ridge's response was hilariously understanding and forgiving of it. I forget the exact dialogue but Ridge came off as unphased, just smiled and basically said "Only could something like this happen to you Logan." 

 

Somebody at CBS had the hots for Brian Gaskill as he later popped up again at ATWT and GL and failed both times. Tricia Quick I remember her more memorable scene was with Sally in disguise as a hot tub repairman other than that, I just remember SOD naming Tricia as Worst New Character of 2002 because she was a Taylor clone.  

 

I suppose it was because recasting like that wasn't that easy at the time like it has been this past decade. 

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

 

As mentioned above, she was a Taylor replacement. I think she drifted between Ridge and Thorne (?). She was played by a very wan actress from PC. 

 

 

Oh!! I didn't realize they recasted Taylor. Was Hunter too busy being demonically attacked again? 

1 hour ago, soapfan770 said:

 

 

Somebody at CBS had the hots for Brian Gaskill as he later popped up again at ATWT and GL and failed both times. Tricia Quick I remember her more memorable scene was with Sally in disguise as a hot tub repairman other than that, I just remember SOD naming Tricia as Worst New Character of 2002 because she was a Taylor clone.  

 

 

Oh wait, nevermind. I'll just look it up. Must've been after Taylor "died." 

1 minute ago, Gray Bunny said:

 

Oh!! I didn't realize they recasted Taylor. Was Hunter too busy being demonically attacked again? 

 

She wasn't a recast, just a similar character. Taylor was still "dead" at this time. 

 

Considering how poor her return was maybe they should have stuck with Tricia.