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Hummm.... So, I see Dr. Buckingham is trying to keep pace with our multi specialized doctoring staff. Did Steffy have all Liam's medical details at her fingertips to register him at the hospital? In my neck of the woods when someone is taken to the ER the next of kin is notified. Also, in my neck of the woods, random people are not allowed in the room when life saving procedures are being carried out. Why is it these rich young people are unable to get their own apartments? Deacon busted Cater's ass and said "Ouch!" What is going on with Bill? He has become some type of unofficial parole officer/jailer, whose home is a stopover for wayward criminals. Is anyone going to tell Jack that he has a granddaughter? Finding someone collapsed on the ground does not make you a hero. I don't watch any scenes with Ridge so I cannot comment on him.

After reading some of my fellow poster’s comments, I had to rewatch/rethink that Friday episode. I believe I rushed to judgement out of anger and disappointment. I now appreciate the juxtaposition of a mother and daughter acting like a pair of high school mean girls and a mother and daughter being brutally honest with each other. And after tearing each other apart, being able to hug it out and declare their love for each other without dancing on anyone else’s grave. Having said that, I still want this to mean something. Please, don’t let us have Hope rejoining the Bridge gravy train, supporting her mother in her never ending struggle to keep that loser's attention. Let Hope’s words sink in and resonant with Brooke, and allow them to free her of the fucking Destiny albatross she has carried for three decades. I want to see Hope and Brooke rid themselves from the Forrester toxicity. Let Hope step out and start her own thing, supported and backed by her parents. Deacon can use the restaurant as collateral, and Brooke is loaded. Do away with the whole HFTF thing, let Forrester twist in the wind with that. Have a new message that is current, and more relevant to someone Hope’s age. Hit on hot topics, the homeless, animal welfare, disabled vets, hungry children, something that actually matters and could make a difference. And no couture. Nuh Uh. Just beautiful clothes for the average person, while across town Forrester continues to cater to the rich and elite. Now comes the really freaky, deaky shit. In an effort to promote forgiveness, retribution, and second chances, let Hope embrace Luna, and make Luna her personal assistant. For me, that would be so reminiscent of when Brooke took over FC’s and named Sheila as her personal liaison. Have Sheila and Luna be sassy little manipulators, but no poisoning, or murder, or kidnapping, or bees. Dark and twisted, but ultimately harmless. I know I said in a prior post that I would like to see Brooke and Deacon reconcile. I have also rethought that. I think I like them so much better as friends, let them stay that way and co-parent Hope. I want to see Brooke and Hope standing on their own with no men in their lives. Have Brooke remind Deacon who he is married to, and all the risks he has taken to keep Sheila in his life. Have her encourage him to make peace with Luna, and reconcile with Sheila, thus creating a whole new faction to challenge those raging hypocrites. Outside of that, just watching the massive explosion of their collective heads would be worth it. Oh, and before I forget, let Finn finally collect his balls and tell his jailer to fuck off, and let him and Katie start commiserating…….

For me it is pretty simple. If Hope is going to forgive Brooke, I will only accept it on certain terms. The first being the permanent end of Bridge. The second being Brooke and Deacon finding their way back to each other. It has been a problem my whole life you know? I like nice things. But I won't get it. Brooke, Ridge and Taylor will be swapping beds into the next century.

I have only been grazing on Show lately because I find it 90% unwatchable. That percentage decreased to 80% unwatchable today, with the watchability breakdown looking like this: 10% Finn is Luna's daddy 10% Hope drags Brooke through her Destiny love puddle Although I was hella disappointed to see Hope caving at the end there. What I want to see is Hope embracing her inner Sharpeness; she is already a foul Logan, so why not let the Sharpe shine too? Give those worthless, backstabbing fuckers something to really talk about. And that includes Brooke. God, I have stood by this character through thick and thin. Always, always, having her back. But mother fucker not this time. And if Hope forgives her mother I may have to be permanently done with Show. Hope needs to pull back from her mother and say "Yeah, I love you mom, but you know what? You can fuck the fucking hell right off. The worthless slob you love above all else is across town laughing and gloating about my demise. You remember me right mom? Your daughter? The fucking family stain? Your actions today proved that so absolutely correct. Bye mom. Enjoy your empty bed." Maybe it's time for a new gang in town? The Sharpe, Carter, Nozawa faction. That ought to successfully get those Marone heifer's tongues a wagging.

That was abrupt; Luna really has no place to go except to Grandmom's place. Is someone going to let Jack know he has a granddaughter? The scenario in my head, which of course would never play out, goes like this: Jack comes back to take charge of Luna and Sheila, while Deacon pours out his broken heart to Brooke, who is going through filthy scum, no good hobo withdrawals. Eventually, leading to a reconnection. Finn becomes self-aware, realizing he is nothing but Steffy's puppet, and that nothing will ever be good enough for his wife. No matter how hard he tries, he is simply not gonna be able to make the sun shine up her hypocritical, elitist ass. So, he decides that he will be better off with people that see all the grey areas of life, and not just their own needs and desires. Hobo and Beige continue to wobble along until Deacon and Brooke become a thing. Hobo will start his old shenanigans, and Beige will stand by her Hobo until he kicks her to the curb again and reconciles with his Destiny. Beige and Steffy will throw in together and double down on their anti-Logan war, now with the addition of the Carter-Nozawa campaign. But honestly, I will take anything that squashes Steffy and the gang. Where the hell is Ivy?

It's like a psychedelic trip man............ One convict makes you tremble But two convicts make you bawl And when one is your stepdaughter It really sticks in your crawl Go ask Steffy Cause she’s itchin to brawl And if you go chasing convicts And you know your’re going to fall Tell ‘em a hot bodied billionaire Well, he made the call To the Po Po To set Luna up in his four walls Then the Marone Mafia barge in And going to tell you where to go And they get Lt. Hot Dog to the mansion As their fears begin to grow Go ask Steffy I think she’ll know Well logic and reason Have fallen sloppy dead Cause Poppy’s to blame, it seems they got it backwards As the Lt. takes a call and looks at them with dread And says as he shakes his head Set Luna free Set Luna free

You tell her Steffy, you big baddie you. UGH, I hate when I find myself rooting for a double murderer, but I just hate Steffy that much. As she stood there wailing about how she begged for her life and that Luna belongs "behind bars", all I could see was Alley's face. Maybe that was not intentional, but happened afterward sure was. To this day Thorne has no idea what really happened to his daughter. And when you consider what drove Alley over the edge and how that all went down, it is really hard to drum up any sympathy for Steffy or Taylor without even the mention of Ivy or Bill. I guess it was ok that Bill chose to let that little matter about a bullet in his back drop and didn't press charges. Because to Steffy, killing Darla and shooting Bill in the back and leaving him to die doesn't warrant a life "behind bars", well, unless your last name is Logan, Sharpe, Carter or Nozawa. Now, Taylor is the absolute worst. Telling Steffy to run from her marriage again? Saying how Finn was wrong to "put this on her?" Huh? So, then, it would have been better to conceal the truth? Wrong to tell and wrong to lie; Finn never had a chance. And I know Sheila has always been a loose cannon, and she can spin on a dime, but she has kept herself on the downlow. Seems like she is enjoying things right now. In any event, she certainly hasn't been bothering the Crown Princess. Yet, there is Tayor telling Steffy "she comin for you girl, you need to run!" No different than the way Taylor has lived her own life right? I feel this is going to come between Sheila and Deacon and Brooke is still free from that asshat's grasp. Let it remain so, may he and his beige dishrag find true and lasting happiness under his daddy's roof.

I have hardly been watching and still find myself in a prolonged rage blackout. Finn is an asshole. He is going to stand there and scream at Poppy that she raised a murderer and if he had been in Luna's life she would be ok? What? You arrogant prick. I think Poppy did you the biggest favor of your life. If she had told you that you were the father would you be where you are today? And just think of the fallout from that. Your entire family would probably have imploded. Sometimes people have to make tough choices. I'm sure Poppy would have preferred to have a father figure for Luna but chose not to lie to another man in order to achieve that. I see what you are doing Show, but it is not working for this viewer. You can have Luna and Bill having their daily pow wow's about how horrible Poppy was. You can have Finn screaming all manner of accusations. You can just keep demonizing Poppy all you want, but the fact remains that Luna is the one who killed two people and tried to frame her mother for it. Poppy may have been a misguided mom, she may have been a free spirit who experienced life her own way, but she is not evil, and she is not responsible for her daughter's actions. Which brings me to Steffy. The fuck? Girlfriend didn't wait a hot minute to start the pity party. Of course it is all about you sweetie. I mean, your husband is standing there with his glowing red eyes, telling you how he hasn't slept or ate because of his stress, and how do you respond? By asking him how much more you are expected to take, or something like that. What about him? Has your pea brain given one thought to what Finn is processing? And now we also have Steffy piling on Poppy. Did she actually call her a sociopath? Why, because she had sex with an eighteen year old? Seriously, watching Steffy stand there slack jawed at the thought was rich because you know.......um........Rick and um........Bill. No, they were not eighteen, but one was her uncle and the other was her father-in-law. So, on those facts Steffy can shut the fuck up about anyone else's sexual choices. I haven't watched any of Ridge and the wet dishrag. They make me want to hurl.

@Snaporaz you just won the internet

Gonna step out on a limb here because something has been circling around in my overactive brain. Maybe Poppy didn't do or give anything to Finn. Maybe Finn's latent crazy momma Sheila genes kicked in once when he was younger? I can see Finn coming home after a night out with his friends, maybe a little high, maybe a little drunk, and he starts to put the moves on hot Aunt Poppy who is not interested in reciprocating. Sheila never liked it when she didn't get her way, so all those psycho genes got stirred up in Finn that night, and he let Aunt Poppy know who was crazy boss, and Poppy has hid Luna's paternity to protect Finn, not herself. I know that is ugly and dark, but it would really create a pretty massive fault line in Steffy's perfect little world.

DAYUM Li! Jab, jab, jab..... Oh, did I miss a vein? AH! Li, what are you doing!! I was absolutely undone with that scene. I bet those three actors were fighting the urge to bust out laughing. Comedy gold.

I did not see that coming. I think I have watched that ending about ten times because as @KerleyQ said, that was so very satisfying. As usual Ridge did not know when to shut his big mouth and this time he went a step too far. The remark that sticks out for me was after Brooke said that he needed two women to stroke his ego, and he responded that he only needed one that was completely devoted to him and no one else. HA! This coming from the father that has mollycoddled his two brats for years, effectively hand waving away all their horribleness. So, it is ok for him to support and love his kids, but Brooke can't? Yeah, MF'er you can step lively away with that nonsense. Now Brooke OTOH was letting stingers fly like a nest of hornets. I squeed when she turned Ridge's words back on him and reminded him that he turned to Taylor in "break neck speed." I also enjoyed Brooke reminding Ridge that she is his family, best of all though, was when Brooke said she wished she had never set foot in that house. Man, that was saying a lot. And her parting shove of that limp, brown, dishrag was positively epic, so much better than Steffy's petulant shoulder slam of Hope a few weeks ago. But that is how it is with Brooke; it takes a lot to get her to the point of physical violence, but once she is there, she is no holds barred. I am sure Ridge will rush to Taylor's aid, I mean, Brooke may have exacerbated Taylor's BHS. I know it won't last, but I am going to enjoy the ride regardless.

Merry Christmas to all my fellow posters! And just like that, my excitement has evaporated. It looks like we will have a retread, of a retread, of another retread, that was a retread of a prior retread. SHOW, we have seen this so many times before. How long will we be subjected to Brooke weeping and moping about this time? And once Zende spills the beans, Ridge will not be able to get to Brooke quick enough to say how sorry he is, and Brooke will cry out of both eyes and fall into his arms. Good God woman, this man called your daughter, a person he raised as his own for many years, a bitch and a slut. Outside of him being fully aware of how that word affects you, is the fact he used it against your child. Then he went on to essentially tell you that you, and your entire family are trash. I guess that would include his son and his father’s wife. He compounded those insults by bellowing how you have betrayed him, as he had just come down from sexing up his Jock Rider. That is bad enough, but worse is his automatic assumption that you have gone to the dark side. Why won’t Brooke see that every time something happens, Ridge always jumps to the wrong conclusion and runs to Steffy and JR to be reassured that he is right about her? And if Zende does come clean and Ridge believes him, that will also be a slap in Brooke’s face because she tried to tell him herself, but he was so full of man pain and butt hurt, that he couldn’t be bothered to listen or believe her. And don't get me started on how Ridge dressed Brooke down, acting as if she was some upstart intern, that he and his vaunted family had "helped" become a success. This is when I would have spun his greasy head around with the slap heard around the world. Forrester Creations would not be the fashion house it is today without BeLief. Nuff fucking said. I don’t care who’s side you are on, this writing sets women back 1000 years. Neither woman has a shred of self-respect or dignity. They have been fighting this battle for over thirty years, and no one ever comes out the winner except Ridge. It’s insulting and appalling. On a lighter note, I was shopping for some thermals for Mr. R and came across this:

I thought KKL did a good job of balancing her horror at Ridge's words and her need to please him. She was clearly getting worked up as he berated and insulted her but seeing the little Jock Rider appear from upstairs sealed it. I absolutely loved how she simply looked at her greasy hobo with disdain and disgust and walked out without a word. For me, that silence puts an exclamation point on things. I am actually excited to see where we are going. I haven't been able to say that in long time. Why was Steffy's husband talking like he had a mouth full of marbles? Yes Steffy, a Christmas day miracle of your mom glowing in her "victory" over Brooke. Except, once again, JR is only in Ridge's bed because he is pissed off at Brooke. If it was my mother, I would tell her to run away as fast as she can, and to stop putting herself in this position. JR will once again be living her daily life looking over her shoulder, questioning Ridge every time he is five minutes late, and always stressing if he has been with Brooke. This has been JR's whole entire adult life, you would think as a WRP she would see the vicious cycle she keeps subjecting herself to, but winning over Brooke takes precedent over everything else. Such a sad, pitiful, and pathetic way to live one's life.

So, Ridge heads upstairs with some kind of booze, and the Jock Rider swans in with two empty glasses? Is JR officially off the wagon? Has the California Highway Patrol been notified? But then, JR isn't going to be driving anything but Ridge's dick. It is kind of hilarious that Ridge's parting words to Brooke were something about how he couldn't do this because he loved her too much. Yes, he loves her sooooooooooo much that he falls into bed with his ex-wife in less than a week. I think that is a record for Ridge. Oh man, could I ever get behind this. Not that Eric has any wiggle room when it comes to keeping his pants zipped, but in this instance the stakes were really high. Ridge was reeling with man pain that superseded his need to get the company back. JR is very well versed in how to stroke Ridge's ego, more importantly, she knows how to push his buttons regarding Brooke. And coming upstairs when she should have been going home? So, so calculated, but Brooke is the manipulator. Yes, it is well beyond time for Brooke to step out of that useless waffler's shadow.