29 minutes ago, Elsa said:

These numbers are insane. At some point you have to rest some characters, if the only thing you can write is marriage and divorce. Or start telling a different kind of story. 

Way back to Bill Bell,they should have held up on the marriages.

Since his departure, it only got worse. 

The pointless remarriages are equally damaging.

What was gained from Nikki/Jack, Phyllis/Jack and Nick/ Phyllis round 2?

They have been holding off on weddings in recent years for a lot of characters because of those short sighted decisions.

But they are making the same mistakes with younger viable characters eg Kyle/Summer/Abby.

Bringing on Ana, Fen, recast Scott and Reed, maybe Daniel etc would keep older characters onscreen involved in their  lives and could 'rest' them somewhat

12 hours ago, David_Vickers said:

   Until Josh Griffith came back, Sharon hadn't had anything to do with Adam for years.  Sharon and Justin Hartley's Adam NEVER acted like they were obsessed like now.   

I always found this annoying. Like viewers forgot she had nothing to do with that Adam and now they can’t stay out of each other’s orbit. 
I wanted to like Rey with Sharon he’s been rather dull. I think the Rosales family could have been written better instead of all in and now almost all out.

7 hours ago, Elsa said:

 

These numbers are insane. At some point you have to rest some characters, if the only thing you can write is marriage and divorce. Or start telling a different kind of story. 

 

There are no definitive comparison between soaps that I can find but looking at legendary long-time characters, Victor's 14 so far is the male record (Adam Chandler was 13), at least among the long-running characters I could think of as candidates.
Record-holder so far, to noone's surprise, is B&B's Brooke who has been married 15 times but only to 7 men (she has married Ridge eight times which IS the record I can find of repeats). Erica Kane was "only" 11 times to 9 men

 

Edited May 12, 20215 yr by FrenchBug82

2 minutes ago, FrenchBug82 said:

 

(she has married Ridge eight times).

 

And that's why I haven't considered B&B a soap opera in years. It is a cartoon show where nobody remembers what happened in the previous episode. 

1 minute ago, Elsa said:

And that's why I haven't considered B&B a soap opera in years. It is a cartoon show where nobody remembers what happened in the previous episode. 

To be entirely fair - and I have issues with the plotting at B&B and indeed the short-term memory - the show is INTENDED to be camp. I don't think Bell Jr ever hid that. You don't create a show with a character like Sally Spectra (the original) without knowing what you are doing.

2 minutes ago, FrenchBug82 said:

To be entirely fair - and I have issues with the plotting at B&B and indeed the short-term memory - the show is INTENDED to be camp. I don't think Bell Jr ever hid that. You don't create a show with a character like Sally Spectra (the original) without knowing what you are doing.

 

I know but there should be a difference between camp and a joke.
(I have to admit that I liked pre-Sally B&B much better. I was (the only one?) sad to see the Logans leave lol)

 

Alan Locher will welcome Y&R’s Tricia Cast (Nina), Michael Corbett (ex-David) and Jess Walton (Jill) to his YouTube show, The Locher Room. The trio will participate in a live interview on Wednesday, May 20 at 3 p.m. ET,

 

Josh Griffith needs to stop with these stand alone crappy episodes.  Whether it's Billy or Adam, they always stink.

I like Grossman, but they need to rest him for a bit for recovery and

longer.

 

Boy they really don't like JV or Rey, making the character , a detective, look this stupid.

10 minutes ago, slick jones said:

Josh Griffith needs to stop with these crappy episodes.

 

Fixed the sentence. 😇

1 hour ago, Faulkner said:

 

He is obviously right but this is particularly stupid because this is the SAME TRICK they used back when they first wanted to pair Sharon and Adam together in 2010 and they had Adam save Faith from a falling barn beam.
The SAME trick with the SAME character to sell the SAME couple. How lazy. 

 

EB is pretty handy with this social media stuff, lol.

Adam is eating this show. And I refuse to watch on days I know Melissa Ordway will be on. Her Abby is cringe. Bring back Emme Rylan.

The little boy playing role of Harrison is absolutely darling!