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Did anyone else find the way Li kept referring to Finn odd? And why did B&B skip any attempted revival scenes in the hospital?

Then, again, Aly's 'MUH-DAH' went straight to the following morning with an announcement that she was dead. It was jarring and felt like they had skipped an episode.

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My point is that they just killed him right in the alley instead of the 'he's barely alive' and having him die in the hospital with Bridget, Ridge, Taylor, etc. Perhaps, that was intentional or B&B just wanted to begin erasing the Finn era. And if he is in a morgue, why hasn't Sheila made an attempt to go there? It's not like she hasn't broken into places before, etc. Of all the things Sheila has risked, you're telling me, she wouldn't at least TRY to see him. Li says 'no' and Sheila just accepts it? It's very odd.

B&B has spent 3 months talking about New Year's Eve - you figure they could've Finn's demise span a few more episodes. 

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This was not the twist. 

This was not even A twist. A twist is something that challenges what the audience believed or thought they knew until now.

Finn dying was just something that happened - good or bad, depending on your take. And then there will be a twist. Imminently but we don't know when. 

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Has someone fallen off of or been pushed off of a balcony or outside terrace or similar place recently?  To land and have the camera shot show them laying there with a carefully placed shoe next to the body?  That always looks nice, maybe they'll do that.  

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So Brad has pushed Sheila into major screentime with some really interesting dramatic scenes, but after what Sheila did, it really a bad watch because: 1) no mystery - we saw what happened; and 2) it's just a matter of time before she's exposed.

If Brad wanted Sheila to be front and center and salvageable, he could've done this:

1) Steffy grabs the gun and it accidentally goes off shooting Finn;

2) Steffy in her shock at what happened, slips hits her head on the dumpster;

3) Sheila does the same thing - cleans it up, but instead of covering for herself, she's protecting Steffy. Now that would've at least been more twisty - Steffy killed Finn and Sheila covers for her.

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He is perfectly capable of writing like this. He has in the past.

But current-day Brad Bell suffers from terrible ADD AND obsessiveness.
He gets one idea that is super enthusiastic about, shifts ALL his writing towards arriving there at the risk going extremely fast and then... he gets bored quickly when no new idea comes, drags the first story because he had thought about how exciting the climax would be without planning the aftermath and stops caring until he gets a new bright idea and wash, rinse, repeat. There is no smooth story rolling into each other; it is a succession of plots. Plots that are often fine on the merits but not integrated in a narrative.
It is what he does with stunt-casting and new characters. It is what he does with big moments ("Sheila is Finn's mother! Never mind we killed him off because I have a new great idea for a twist!")
Maybe he doesn't have the people around him able to channel his energy and ideas anymore or noone willing to tell him to discipline his writing. And he clearly doesn't have the right structure around him to balance the show and pace things properly, presumably because once he gets an idea he is super excited about, that's all he is focused on and he pressures his team to get there.

I actually don't hate most of his ideas on paper, which is more than what I can say for every other HW right now. But the execution is insane and completely ADD.

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