7 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:

We'll be lucky if Brad even remembers that he wrote that 😂

Surprisingly, that was referenced during one of her first scenes back. Eric listed it among many of her other crimes, and Sheila said something along the lines of “You took that seriously?”

Zende is conveniently a “Forrester” for this Grace blackmail when he’s had little to no involvement with his family other than working for their company in isolation.

6 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

Zende is conveniently a “Forrester” for this Grace blackmail when he’s had little to no involvement with his family other than working for their company in isolation.

He hardly had any one-on-one scenes with Eric. Let alone the rest of the family. It's maddening. 

Wasn't Zende actually living with Eric and Quinn?

Speaking of Forresters and family, the lacking of additional Forrester family members beyond Ridge’s family for the current Ridge/Brooke situation is both outright glaring and appalling. No Kristen to give both motherly and sisterly advice? No Bridget to be completely stunned/floored by Brooke & Deacon’s night together while harboring old feelings for Deacon herself? No RJ to beg his parents to stay together? No Rick, Thorne, and Felicia to conspire together to throw push Ridge & Brooke out of Forrester because of all the drama, with Rick especially tearing Ridge a new one? No Eric III, Dino, and Logan Knight to start the next generation of Forresters? Yeesh. 
 

I enjoy Grace though; a recast Zoe could make this story more whole though. 

2 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

Speaking of Forresters and family, the lacking of additional Forrester family members beyond Ridge’s family for the current Ridge/Brooke situation is both outright glaring and appalling. No Kristen to give both motherly and sisterly advice? No Bridget to be completely stunned/floored by Brooke & Deacon’s night together while harboring old feelings for Deacon herself? No RJ to beg his parents to stay together? No Rick, Thorne, and Felicia to conspire together to throw push Ridge & Brooke out of Forrester because of all the drama, with Rick especially tearing Ridge a new one? No Eric III, Dino, and Logan Knight to start the next generation of Forresters? Yeesh. 
 

I enjoy Grace though; a recast Zoe could make this story more whole though. 

All of this, and it gulls me that the elephant in the room is that Steffy and Thomas are not even Forresters. When is this show going to use that to get them kicked out of the company?? Thorne can do that in a minute if they ever revisited how Ally really died, and This would be his ultimate payback for all the times Ridge caused him grief too. 

30 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:

All of this, and it gulls me that the elephant in the room is that Steffy and Thomas are not even Forresters. When is this show going to use that to get them kicked out of the company?? Thorne can do that in a minute if they ever revisited how Ally really died, and This would be his ultimate payback for all the times Ridge caused him grief too. 

LMAO it’s so easy to forget. I think the last time the Marone connection was stated was a few years ago when I can’t remember if it was either Rick or Bill (I’m 75% sure it was Bill) who said it while mocking Ridge. One of Thudley’s first “big shocking plot twists” that was a total dud; Ridge, like Phillip on GL remains the favorite golden boy of the family. Maybe if Stephanie was revealed to be Nick’s mother instead of Ridge being Massimo’s son and Jackie being Nick’s wife instead of mother it might have worked out better? 
 

But on the flip side I’ve seen a few people here and other places suggest the upcoming  “big shocking plot twist” is that Ridge is Eric’s bio son after all. 🤣
 

And what became of Diana Marone anyways? 

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12 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

But on the flip side I’ve seen a few people here and other places suggest the upcoming  “big shocking plot twist” is that Ridge is Eric’s bio son after all. 🤣

People speculate about a lot of things but none of them are "unheard of" in daytime.
Ridge being Eric's son - besides being pointless if Stephanie is not around to react to it and pointless because the fact he isn't hasn't mattered for story at all for more than a decade - would be well within the bounds of having been done tons of time, even on this very show.

The only speculation I saw that doesn't read as something as having been done before was

Spoiler

having a plot where current Steffy has been Phoebe for a period of time

but I would be confused where this would be coming from and what they would achieve with it other than

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undoing the untwinning and giving JMW a double role since they love her so much over there. However starting this right before a pregnancy leave would be weird.

So I don't believe that rumor either.
I'll admit though they got me curious. It'd better be something fun AND actually shocking if they want to live up to their own hype.

 

14 hours ago, soapfan770 said:

No Bridget to be completely stunned/floored by Brooke & Deacon’s night together while harboring old feelings for Deacon herself?

Yes. I understand why Bell thinks Bridget has run her course but her absence during the current story is a HUGE missed opportunity. Hoping the upcoming cameo gives us a chance of a conversation between Bridget and Hope.
B&B has flaws but it has a fun history it could do a lot to write good dramatic soap scenes with heart for if it tried. I am all for camp but give us some character-building bones from time to time!

 

14 minutes ago, FrenchBug82 said:

People speculate about a lot of things but none of them are "unheard of" in daytime.
Ridge being Eric's son - besides being pointless if Stephanie is not around to react to it and pointless because the fact he isn't hasn't mattered for story at all for more than a decade - would be well within the bounds of having been done tons of time, even on this very show.

The only speculation I saw that doesn't read as something as having been done before was

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having a plot where current Steffy has been Phoebe for a period of time

but I would be confused where this would be coming from and what they would achieve with it other than

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undoing the untwinning and giving JMW a double role since they love her so much over there. However starting this right before a pregnancy leave would be weird.

So I don't believe that rumor either.
I'll admit though they got me curious. It'd better be something fun AND actually shocking if they want to live up to their own hype.

 

Yes. I understand why Bell thinks Bridget has run her course but her absence during the current story is a HUGE missed opportunity. Hoping the upcoming cameo gives us a chance of a conversation between Bridget and Hope.
B&B has flaws but it has a fun history it could do a lot to write good dramatic soap scenes with heart for if it tried. I am all for camp but give us some character-building bones from time to time!

Is this supposed to be a  "daytime first" sort of thing, or something that will turn B&B around "forever" again?

BTW the Thomas actor doesn't look like a Forrester at all.

26 minutes ago, Orea Mou Kiria said:

Is this supposed to be a  "daytime first" sort of thing, or something that will turn B&B around "forever" again?

We have had it teased both ways

41 minutes ago, Orea Mou Kiria said:

BTW the Thomas actor doesn't look like a Forrester at all.

Strange, I've always thought that Matthew Atkinson could easily pass off as Ronn Moss' son on-screen more so than Pierson Fode.

13 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

All of this, and it gulls me that the elephant in the room is that Steffy and Thomas are not even Forresters. When is this show going to use that to get them kicked out of the company?? Thorne can do that in a minute if they ever revisited how Ally really died, and This would be his ultimate payback for all the times Ridge caused him grief too. 

I think most of us are glad they are ignoring the retcon of Ridge not being Eric's son (and I wasn't even watching back then and before that).

49 minutes ago, Orea Mou Kiria said:

 

Is this supposed to be a  "daytime first" sort of thing, or something that will turn B&B around "forever" again?

BTW the Thomas actor doesn't look like a Forrester at all.

Cause he’s a Marone!  

Annika Noelle/Hope looks fierce today. Come through, eyeliner!

1 hour ago, YRfan23 said:

Cause he’s a Marone!  

LMAO good point!