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Yeah even Thomas is getting in on the Finn praise, you know the guy who’s accusing him of murder? RJ/Luna - please, can we just stop ? I actually like Luna but this pairing is a bust. Move on writers move on..they lack a basic ingredient - chemistry!!! I enjoyed the Steffy/Finn scenes today and the flashbacks. I will say one thing, I give the writers credit for having Steffy truly fall in love with another man and move on from Liam. Liam is clearly in her rear view as he should be. I’m not even a Steffy fan like that but she’s not repeating her mother’s mistake. I wonder if something changed in this story because we had all those Steffy/Liam flashbacks a few months ago and it looked like they were going for a possible reunion but now I feel like they’re solidifying Steffy/Finn? On the flip side though all the talk of “together forever” usually means trouble. Who knows?? I’m just spitballing. I still think the Hope/Finn thing 🤢 is a horrendous possibility but it will just be another Liam with Finn loving Steffy and sharing a child.

Oh the show was on today ..

Thanks for the info.

🤔 I'm thinking Carter needs a kid...

Those offices should be fumigated on a daily basis. Ridges comment to Brooke about showing them how it’s really done - calling RM, calling RM - because that’s the only way Bridge will have any steam 👀

Hope has no intention of giving up that “good good” 😂 RJ Luna had me cringing with that dialogue 😬

How many Thomas’s have we been through. MA is #5 I think. Previously plastic (love it) Thomas got fired and I think I read that PF left because he was unhappy with the writing for Thomas ??

🤣 Plastic mannequin... 😂 I will never not drag AG, he was TERRIBLE!! MA made me a Thomas fan-but I have always said that I was shallow lol. Didn't care about Thomas before that. I am of the opinion that Bell is not a Thomas fan, why else does he write him so evil and terribly - that boy has never been happy and will never be happy on this soap.

I really wish they would stop this narrative. Thomas changed after he got kicked out FC and lost his job and Douglas after the CPS fiasco. He did whatever he did and came back with an attitude that he would never be with Hope. He didn’t do anything until she kissed him in Rome. That’s a much healthier narrative than I changed because of Hope. On another note. Thomas couldn’t squeeze out a tear ? I know MA can cry, I wanted to see tears of regret dammit! Hope is PISSED..

“Popeye” 🤣 🤣 ooh that’s a good one and oh so appropriate!! Yes when Steffy was grieving Finn and Lame stayed by overnight to comfort her. I betcha if Finn hadn’t liberty bibertied his way back in town Liam would’ve given Steffy a grief f**k.. Speaking of “collaborating” Thomas should’ve gotten it in one last time cuz you just know he isn’t getting any for a while if ever…May as well become a eunuch if Hope never sleeps with him again.. ETA- apparently there is a bonus scene out there from Friday where Hope tells Liam "Maybe if you didn’t waste so much energy trying to talk some sense into me & redirected that toward yourself, it could work right? Invest that energy in u, our daughter, Spencer Publications. I don't know. get a hobby, download a dating app. Whatever works for u"..😂 I love a snarky Hope - Brooke in all her years never dragged Ridge the way Hope is dragging Liam these days..

I will say this, Matt and Annika did a good job today. I have always thought they didn't do so well with the dramatic scenes. They're great with hot sex and the fun and flirty stuff. But the deep drama, I have found them to be a bit meh. Cue when Hope left Thomas after Beth's party and he let her go. I didn't feel the gravitas of that scene. Today was a completely different reaction. Kudos to them both - the atmosphere change from when Thomas came through the door to the end of his confession was stark. The setup, the music and the facial expressions. I felt the gravitas. I re-watched the scenes - you could see the anger in Hope's eyes - I kind of hope she slaps him across the face and curses him out. I ultimately want her to forgive him but for now he should be on her 💩 list.. As much as I hate the Xander return, Thomas/Hope cannot move forward without addressing the elephant in the room that is invisi-Beth. Lame the douche as always was prophetic... RJ/Luna - so saccharine sweet they will give you diabetes!

You know what. Katie should just adopt those kids!!

I think if memory serves me right he had a crush on Brooke. Stephanie senior bribed him to lie about hooking up with Brooke for shares in FC. I know she screwed him somehow and he didn’t get the shares but I can’t recall how. I remember a scene when he told Ridge that he was suddenly into Hope and Ridge was like umm.. That was the Ken doll can’t act stiff Thomas (AG I think). TBH at the time I thought tptb were trying to recreate Bridge since Thope v1.0 physically resembled Bridge v1.0. However they just didn’t have chemistry like that and that Thomas was STIFF. 😂 can you imagine THIS Thomas (MA) having a crush on Brooke 🤢

Sooo…whatever happened to Deacon and that judge connection. The one he got to let Sheila out?? Inquiring minds would like to know 🤔

Honestly with all this talk of Thomas has changed I feel like I’m watching AN’s Hope v2.0 and MA’s Thomas v2.0 So Thomas has been in love with Hope forever ever “ever ever” but wasn’t that v1.0, so how come he’s loves v2.0 so much when she seems like a completely different person. Seriously v2.0 is acting like she never had good “collaborating” before .. Thomas keeps crediting Hope for his change but that’s not actually true. He was changed prior to coming back to work on HFTF, Hope got involved with Thomas v2.0 - she went to him AFTER he stopped chasing after her so how is she responsible for Thomas v2.0 Hope and Liam work really well as opposing forces, not as a romantic pairing. Liam is a dick agreed but I thoroughly enjoyed him today. He was doing his usual “doom and gloom”..but he looked very gleeful that Xander was around. Steffy knows something is up. Liberty bibberty need to listen to mommy Li..

Hope’s necklace is magic - it’s lengthens and shortens all on its own

RJ is a terrible actor WHY is he scrunching up his face!! Lord forgive me but I look at him and think

Observations from today, 1. I see Thomas found the burgundy version of the black shirt he was wearing this past week. I’m trying to decide if I like it or not, it’s kind of ugly but then it’s not… 2. RJ and Luna snooze 😴 💤 3. It was creepy of Zende to set that dinner up even though I think they’re all boring. 4. So Thomas came across as delusional before but today I’m like 🤔 . Is he delusional or just being led on? Hope did not look uncomfortable at all today when he was discussing, the non-engagement. She seemed quite happy and contented. She was smiling, giggling and giving him warm looks. So how would the average person interpret her body language and her actions. She’s also wearing the necklace ring. The same necklace seems to have miraculously gotten much longer so now the ring is in her cleavage. But all intense purposes, the signals she’s sending to Thomas isn’t what she’s really feeling. I can’t say she’s doing it because she’s scared of how he would react, she looked quite contented. She was Cheshire Cat grinning 5. They’re still cute 🥰..loved the little joke about the first marriage 6. Things are totally going to blow up in Thomas’s face aren’t they? 😭 7. Steffy is conflicted, which means she doesn’t fully believe Thomas. 8. Thomas keeps saying he’s a different different person, are we making a case for disassociative personality disorder lol. Joking. ETA 9. I like Thope but can we get a break from Thomas blowing all that smoke up Hope’s ass, it’s tedious and she shouldn’t have told him she appreciated his proposal..mixed signals !!

*breathe* It’s Zende not Xander lol .. names are confusing me I think the actor Delon is in his mid thirties but looks younger. Hence why he’s in the kiddie pool. The Runa actors are both in their early 20’s. Zende (not Xander) is really contemporaries with Hope and Thomas and should really be involved there. I think he’s okay with nepo Taytots because unlike RJ they have formal training. If I recall correctly Steffy went to business school and didn’t start at the top and I know Ridge sent Thomas’s ass to design school vs just having him design for the company.

I’m sorry when Thomas imitated Finn’s proclamation I was 😂 😂 . I just had to watch that again. I wonder if that was ad-libbed. Thank you Thomas - Hope isn’t a damsel in distress. Last time I checked she can make up her own mind. Runa/Zende 🛌 😴

That was Senior Bell who made Bridget Eric's, I was. HUGE Bridge fan and I still remember how pissed I was that Bridget was Eric's child. Out of nowhere Eric slept with Brooke who was too sleepy or altered at the time (can't recall). I was steaming mad LOL.. I think Thomas needs to be a dark gray..not a goody two shoes and not a straight up villain. He does do underhanded very well.

Bell said RJ is the next Ridge and the “what’s coming in 2024” says I put the above in spoilers, not sure if it counts as such but wanted to be safe. Hence my assumption about Runa, even though she has better chemistry with Zende. I know chemistry is subjective, but you can’t just stick people together. I remember reading something about Michael Park (Jack) on ATWT, he mentioned that when he first started, they kept putting him in scenes with different women on the show, but nothing caught. He said something along the lines that there was a joke they were going to make his character gay then he had a scene with Maura West, (Carly) and a super couple was born. The controversial Luke and Laura. Luke’s character was supposed to die after raping Laura. But they changed the story, given the chemistry between the actors and how popular they were. Not saying what the show did was right, but the change resulted in the most popular supercouple of all time. I guess my point is the show has to be willing to change things based on which characters work well together romantically. It’s a soap opera, we want romance, angst and well told stories. The current version of Bridge and Lope just don’t compare to their predecessors with romantic chemistry. Just my opinion not fact 😏

And there is the crux of it all..those romantic sparks are very present with Hope/Thomas (AN/MA) and Steffy/Liam (JMW/SC). The writers wrote Thomas into a corner with the shenanigans of 2019 and essentially took out a viable romantic option for Hope. Which is odd because I read they chemistry tested MA/AN, if that’s true then the pairing was bound to happen sometime. They also killed Steam in 2018/2019 (Steffy on her knees anyone, what a bothersome scene) and so who really wants that pairing back, a lot of Steam fans are burnt I think. I wasn’t a big Steam fan but I can’t get past that scene when Liam told her he hated her. The woman in me rebels at the thought of Steam again. Again the writers went too far. As someone said they need to fix Thomas and move him forward. RJ/Luna and current Bridge have no spark at all, not even a twinkle just lifeless and Finn and Hope have sibling chemistry. Do they still do chem testing or just push two people together. RJ/Luna is supposed to be the next best thing but they have NO super couple potential. I don’t really see any hot chemistry with Finn and Steffy either, I just liked the pairing because he wasn’t Liam. Finn isn’t going to get killed, they already did that once but there may be an attempt on his life. As for Thomas putting in the work - there’s a bonus scene from a few months ago where Thomas was talking about going to see his therapist or seeing his therapist and staying on track. I really wish they had left that scene in. The most recent bonus scene has Hope/Ridge, Ridge straight up said Thomas kept Beth from you and Hope essentially said she’s gotten past that. Her words were very similar to what a Thomas told Steffy about not living in the past. That scene also showed Hope saying that her and Thomas haven’t really defined what they are when Ridge asked if they’re in a relationship. I find that odd because she uses the word relationship in other conversations and doesn’t correct Thomas when he uses it. I read these bonus scenes air overseas but not here in USA. On a funny note - did anyone find it odd then when Hope came looking for Thomas she looked at the door up and down and then turned before Steffy called out. Don’t know if anyone noticed. I thought it was funny - like she thought Thomas was in the door.

So while Thomas came across as delusional earlier this week, he seemed quite tame today. I also didn’t think he was threatening Finn or Steffy. Finn on the other hand 👀 *cue crazy music* Is Xander coming back, he just came and bounced ?? I am very confused about bringing up the Emma death, only because it seems like everyone knew Thomas was following her and it was investigated by the police. Hope’s reaction to the news was kind like “and your point is “.. she also seemed quite annoyed that Finn was bringing this up and ran to tell Thomas, but came across Steffy instead. Steffy also didn’t seem too pleased that Finn texted Hope to tell her about Thomas I think Finn is gonna be sleeping on the couch tonight lol. Also, what was with Finn telling Thomas as long as he’s alive that he will never be with Hope ?? WTF.. Dude.. this isn’t your fight! I wanted Thomas a deck him. According to Finn, Hope can’t make their her own decision, it seems. How misogynistic. I’m also happy to say I’m glad things didn’t drag out Steffy, Hope and Thomas found out about accusations right away. Thomas and Finn had it out and now I’m sure we’re going to see if Finn and Steffy get into it. It also looked like Hope was running to tell Thomas so she wasn’t gonna hide it either. If I didn’t know any better, I would say they’re trying to destroy Steffy/Finn and make way for Lame.