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18 hours ago, Waldo13 said:
TIIC have taken this show in a complete different direction. All Bold but no longer Beautiful. All dark drama all day everyday. It’s time to bring back the fashion shows, photoshoots, and fantastic locations.
Well, I'd disagree that it's even Bold anymore. Even the "shock twist" of a parent killing their own son has already played out, albeit in different circumstances, on Y&R a few years ago when Paul Williams had to shoot his own son Ricky (whose mother had been played by Eva Longoria!) to protect the young woman he was trying to kill, and Ricky crashed through the window and fell to his death.
The only remotely "daring" story B&B have done in recent years was Maya being revealed to be trans, marrying the son of the show's veteran couple, and having an active sex life onscreen. Even that was tempered by the fact that they cast a cis actress in the role. IMO, they were bolder in the '90s when we had stories like Jake having been molested by his uncle, Dylan trying to pay for college by working as a stripper (and getting propositioned for sex), Caroline's rape which gave her lasting trauma, Stephanie inducing Morgan's abortion, young toddler Steffy "dying" (really kidnapped by a deranged Morgan), and many more.
On 4/16/2022 at 3:48 PM, Anna Yolei said:Do you really think Taylor would care anyway?
There was Bianca from one of the ABC shows, but IIRC, it was less an intentionally bisexual character and more a 2000s typical revision to wipe the gay awat. I'm only aware from 3rd hand knowledge that came up in discussion in the ATWT circle when Luke/Noah were a thing, so I'm not up on the details.
Regardless, I continue to be stunned that RJ, the literal namesake for the show's leading man and the only Bridge child, continues to have less story than even poor Emma did. I wouldn't hold my breath on him being made queer in any way, but you'd think at the bare minimum he'd had been the one at the apex of a triangle over, say, Liam.
And speaking of bold storylines, who can forget the infamous AMC threesome. This was about 20 years ago. And more recently they toyed with the idea of a gay threesome on GH but never went through with it. So clearly, soaps in general are less daring now.
It's funny you mention Luke/Noah on ATWT, because the show/CBS was so terrified of having them be intimate on screen due to a pressure campaign by a conservative group. They finally gave in, but here we are years later and a soap on the same network, set in a fashion world doesn't even have gay men, let alone sexually active ones! (Also an amusing side note: Kim Zimmer's son was playing Luke when they wanted to have the character come out. She put her foot down, and the role was recast. Flash forward, Kim's son is playing gay on Animal Kingdom, with way more explicit sex scenes than anything CBS would've permitted on ATWT.)
But yeah, I cannot understand why they don't at least feature RJ in some capacity, instead of the umpteenth retread of Steffy/Hope/Liam. Obviously those three are not going anywhere, they are being positioned as the young leads. But let them settle into some level of maturity (who am I kidding, their parents have not after 30+ years). The possibilities are there though. Give Steffy a health-based issue, perhaps a consequence of the shooting (paralysis? PTSD?). Give Liam and Hope a story about their children - Beth being autistic? Another baby that has some genetic disorder discovered in-utero? Not everything needs to be a love triangle. The most recent memorable storylines for me were Stephanie's cancer/return to Skid Row, Maya being trans, Katie's heart transplant/PPD, to a lesser extent the baby switch. None of those were romantic stories (save Maya's). Clearly they can do good work when they're not bogged down with flogging the love triangles of Bridge or Lope/Steam.
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22 hours ago, CharlizeCat said:
What happened to KKL's son? I hope he's OK.
He seems to be doing much better now, behind the camera, but I suspect the incident came as a shock - frankly more dramatic than any soap opera plot Brad Bell has churned out. If it didn't hit too close to home, I would've said it was ripe for a soap opera interpretation (albeit more PG-rated).
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I figured when they cast Nicholas Chavez, who's noticeably older than the genuine teens playing the rest of his peer group, that he was intended for a romance with an older woman. I suppose the only real candidates are Britt (who he sees as a mother) and Ava (who's already been with his father, uncle and cousin). Pity, because I think that would have potential for Nikolas and Laura. Guess we'll get that May-December romance instead with Trina and the new cop (who looks way older than her) that no core character will ever care about.
Meanwhile the LGBTQ+ characters get non-entities like Chet as their love interest (why not match Teri with someone like Drew, and have the relationship, and people's reactions to it, play out onscreen?) or have a totally non-existent love life like Brad (who's more interested in sorting out a new BF for his BFF, who hasn't gone without for nearly as long as he himself has!)
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12 hours ago, Frozendiva said:
Arianna and Parker are due to be SORASed.
How much can they SORAS Arianna? Her parents all look so young, surely they don't intend to make her a teen. As it is, Sonny has a stupid mustache in some transparent but failed attempt to make him look older than Will (as he should be, though the actor clearly is not).
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I've long said that RJ should be bisexual, which to my knowledge none of the soaps have done with a legacy character. But the internet backlash (by a very vocal group) against Brad Bell's only attempt to cast a queer character probably put paid to that. It's not just a B&B problem, all the soaps seem to have backed away from gay characters in recent years. I guess they decided that appealing to a younger, more accepting audience is a lost cause so they will just try holding onto their established conservative fanbase. (I've also seen speculation that it might hit a bit too close to home for KKL given the incident involving her RL son, so perhaps Bell wants to be sensitive to his veteran actress.)
When you think about it, RJ is really the most wasted legacy character - considering he's the only child of a supercouple that has been in the making since Day 1 of this show. No one else on this show can claim that. So it's a mystery why their one and only attempt to give him an "adult" storyline was so lame (the forbidden romance with Coco Spectra). If it had been with Sally's great-nephew Cole then maybe it'd be something. (Ironically, the actor who played teen RJ is on Love, Victor - doing a pretty good job as the dorky, straight BFF of the title character. They've announced its upcoming third season will be its last, so maybe they can get him back and bring over some of the LV fans who'd probably want to see him in a gay romance?)
Actually, if you think about it, with the current returnees (Deacon and Sheila), the time is ripe for the return of two other legacy kids: his son Little E/D and her daughter (allegedly by Massimo, and therefore Ridge's little sister) Diana. And instead of violence, there could be good old-fashioned seduction for revenge: perhaps Little E sets his sights on former stepmom/aunt, Bridget. Or Steffy. Or RJ. A good old-fashioned mystery: Massimo disappears, presumed dead. Diana wants her share of her father's fortune. That could bring back Nick and Jack. The presence of Jack, the child Brooke completely ditched, could be the spoiler to her attempts to rekindle Bridge. Remember, Ridge actually forced Brooke to choose between him and the boy. (And she, like the putz she is, chose Ridge.)
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Maybe he'll be the middle of a triangle between Brad and Britt, straining their friendship and winning GH diversity accolades for having the first bi male regular on daytime.
(Frankly, Brad needs a new love interest more than Britt, he has literally no one to date.)
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On 3/27/2022 at 5:19 AM, Anna Yolei said:
I won't lie,Clayton Norcross as Thorne was damn beautiful and I'm mad we were robbed of a Brooke/Thorne pairing between those two.
Thorne #2 hasn't done much for me,but I admit I've only seen a few scattered clips of him.
I've memory holed IR's blessedly short tenure.
I didn't start watching until after Clayton's tenure so I only "discovered" him in the classic episodes they've been uploading for the past few months. And wow, he was beautiful. I cannot believe Caroline, to whom he was devoted during their marriage, actually left him for his cheating, rapist brother. He and Brooke colluding should've been the lead-up to a romance between them.
One funny thing I observed from the Winsor Harmon interview for his return - he talks about wearing Speedos, and I do remember his Thorne wearing them, but Clayton's Thorne hasn't, despite numerous pool scenes. I figured it was meant to showcase Ridge as this sexually confident uber playboy in contrast to his little brother, but maybe it was Clayton's personal choice. (Not sure why, the man looks damn good in and out of clothes.)
The less said about IR (in every aspect, not just his short stint on this show), the better.
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I guess a mother killing her own son is ground-breaking for this soap, but the loss of Finn (a character who was never fleshed out, and one of Sheila's FIVE children) is not. He never really met his potential as a character, and the most interesting member of his family is the one the show never bothered with: Li. I wonder if she will return for his funeral or be relegated offscreen, too heartbroken by grief at losing her only child in such a violent manner.
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What do people think this big game-changer that's supposedly coming up next month will be? A load of hot air over nothing, or something genuinely ground-breaking?
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15 hours ago, methodwriter85 said:
Uh, no thanks. It'd be awkward for both a mother and son to have had sex with the same person.
Well, I'd have thought it was awkward enough that Allie had sex with Tripp after his brother raped her and she falsely accused him of the crime and threatened to shoot his balls off.
Anyway, on this show having sex with someone and then their parent is practically a rite of passage. I'd say Nicole with both grandfather and grandson (Victor and Brady) was far more egregious, or JJ with Paige and THREE of her relatives (her mother, aunt and half-sister). That's probably the record, but Gabi's worked her way through four Horton men (Will, Nick, JJ, Eli) and at one point I honestly feared she was going to land Lucas too.
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So the infamous "love in the afternoon" softcore scene returns after two years of the pandemic - maybe even longer - and it's Carter and Paris?! Seriously. Still think Katie/Carter had so much more potential.
Please don't let Brooke take Ridge back this time. Let him beg forgiveness once he finds out the truth about Sheila's crime, but let her firmly shut him down. I know, I know - it'll never happen. If Brooke has a new man by then, she'll drop him so fast once Ridge comes crawling back. I want Bridge over and done with, for good this time. TK obviously has no interest in the pairing and there is no history there with him in the role instead of Ridge. They don't even have their son RJ, an actual child (or at least he was still only 17-18 the last we saw him), onscreen to root for their reunion the way the grown-ass Taytots, both parents themselves, are for their parents'.
Next, I want Sheila to find out about Taylor being Bill's shooter. Let her torment Taylor and the Taytots with that knowledge.
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I think Tripp should bang JoDevil - who seems up for it if his antics with Craig were anything to go by - and then tell Allie, "well, we've both gotten same-sex dalliances with people we don't love out of the way, now let's get married". And watch Allie's head explode. Because we all know she would never accept a boyfriend who's had sex with other men (her own twin brother!).
Failing that, there's always Grandma Kate.
In all seriousness, I think this should be Tripp's opening to a darker path instead of being all goodness and light which has made him an incredibly dull doormat. This is not what one would expect of Ava's son or, for that matter, Steve's. I think they should have more clueless idiots - including Steve and Kayla - take Allie's side in her latest transgression against him. Maybe that'll be his tipping point. Can he get with Kristen? Bonus points for riling up Ava.
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6 hours ago, cmahorror said:
Ooh - that could be a fun running theme! Gwen takes up with a man recently dumped or widowed and convinces them to marry her only for the lost love to interrupt their wedding and reclaim their man. It could start with Xander and continue on with Chad after Abby "dies". Then maybe Brady or Tripp...
Well, hopefully not Tripp ... last I checked, his and Gwen's fathers were brothers.
I think it was a missed opportunity to not have Tripp respond to Allie's confusion over her feelings for Chanel with - "oh, that's okay, I'm bi too." And have Allie deal with that since bi men are always suspected of being secretly gay. That might just have made Tripp more interesting than this vanilla dude who simply exists to be cheated on. They could even have tied it into why he fought with his adoptive dad, if Silas had walked in on him and another boy. And when Allie dumps him for Chanel, he can unleash his Ava side on her and target her brother Will for seduction. (They'd make a gorgeous couple.)
Abby's murder is going to be awful. I've grown to like MM in the part (far more than KM). And then neither her parents nor her brother will be a big part of the story - seriously? I wish the show wouldn't be so shortsighted. It's the one thing I thought Ron was smart enough to steer clear of. Previous showrunners did this before, killing off legacy Hortons like Nick and Will - it's always a poor decision. (At least Ron resurrected Will, although he gets to live offscreen because someone *cough* Ken *cough* has it in for him since he came out.)
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Personally, I think it would have been better to make Craig bi so as to not invalidate his entire love story with Nancy. A couple married for 20+ years who fall out of love and the husband eventually realizes he has feelings for another man would have been a good story. Although having most of those story beats play out offscreen does not do it justice.
I also assumed Abby's reaction (or lack thereof) to Kristen pulling a gun on her was due to the sedatives she was on.
Is the big twist that Sarah has had a baby? Because the shocking! reveal that she was on the island would be no surprise to anyone since we were told upfront, months ago, that she was being shipped to the island? I was sure that was why they filmed her from the back and then when she turned around she would be sporting an enormous baby bump, but nope.
Can someone remind me why JoDevil wants Gabi? Does he not know she cannot carry a child to term? He would've been better off taking the guise of Chad (who's fathered 4 kids) and impregnating Abby (who's given birth to 2 kids). For that matter, why not have imitated Ben and impregnated Ciara in the first place?
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8 hours ago, dubbel zout said:
And I'm still bored with the teens. A sex tape won't change that for me. And of course Esmé will be suspect number one. She hasn't thought this through at all.
The driver of Esmé and Spencer's car was rather sinister-looking; I wonder if Esmé has something planned for that.
Chase in his underwear standing in an open-door room was something. I have get a lot of medical procedures and have pretty much no modesty left, but I still wouldn't give all of GH an eyeful of me in my skivvies.
I agree with Esme's schemes lacking proper planning and follow-through; is she just another incompetent villain or are we supposed to attribute it to some mental illness that she seems to be medicating (obviously without much success!)?
She's the obvious candidate for the leak of any Cam-Joss sex tape even if she is using a burner phone, so you have to wonder about her motivations. Arranging for Cam and Trina to end up in a compromising position would have made a lot more sense, or even - as some have suggested - seducing Cam herself, getting pregnant and passing off his baby as Spencer's. Instead we get high-and-mighty Joss coming down hard on Esme. OF COURSE mini-Carly found bitching out another woman to be sexier than foreplay so she boinked Cam immediately after.
Chase was changing out of his gown with the door closed when Brook Lynn barged in and he got his clothes on almost immediately as soon as she came through the door (too quickly for my tastes!). It was less gratuitous than the scene some years ago when I remember Tracy barging in on Nikolas (then played by TC) who, for some reason, was lying around in his skivvies rather than a gown. And let's face it, if someone had JS's body, I don't think embarrassment and immediate cover-ups are really necessary. I'm more surprised Epiphany didn't walk by and recruit him for the next Nurses' Ball strip act.
Speaking of which, is the Nurses' Ball extinct? We never got to see one last year.
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On 12/9/2021 at 1:32 AM, Anna Yolei said:
Bridge is like herpes....it never goes away and flairs up at the worst times. TIIC had a golden opportunity to move Brooke and Taylor both into new stories following Ronn Moss' departure but that was squandered big time with making Taylor commit criminal and professionally negligent acts to bust Brooke and Bill out of spite. Even Katie, angry as she was at those two, called her out on it and didn't give her the satisfaction of a public Brooke bashing.
The show's been so consistent on this revisionist history on the last decade that I'm certain the mandate is coming from Bell and not a lack of knowledge from it's writers. I'm sure they're as frustrated as we are to not do a truly bold storyline or anything beyond boring love triangles. And I don't consider myself anal retentive or to expect the show to remember every detail over 8500 episodes (I'm a Trek fan as well and I take a hard nope on that level of minutiae).
But these are like....really key elements. The Forresters being a dysfunctional family with their clear favorite son, Stephanie's interference in their lives (particularly Kristen's in the beginning who I think the writers wanted to make gay but couldn't because 1987) and Eric's indifference towards the wife he married out of social obligation--one that wasn't his, as it turned out--was the freaking point. The Logans existed as a direct contrast to this and after they were all written out, the Spectras and then later Nick and Jackie took over that role.
But now? Who's their foil? Bill is MIA and his two episodes a yr are all about him trying to woo Katie back. He may snark a few words with Ridge here and there but he hasn't put any real heat on that lot in years. His two oldest sons are feckless losers in their on right and there's no Forrester children close enough in age for Will to have a rivalry with and he's related to Lizzie and Beth, so nothing's gonna be cooking on that front either way in the future. This show is truly unbalanced in its narrative and is in need of perspective.
I'm watching some of the 1987-88 episodes now. It was a totally different show back then. I've always felt more affinity for Brooke and the Logans (although when I started watching, only Brooke was left as a regular) but jeez, the Forresters were really terrible people. I'm amazed how much of a jackass Ridge was, yet somehow still manages to be more appealing than Thorsten Kaye's version. As for Stephanie - well! Far from her nastiness being brought out by those evil Logans, she was already quite a piece of work. And the sainted Caroline, ping ponging between two brothers and flirting with Ridge even after marrying Thorne - oy vey! The Logans, on the other hand, really convey a sense of family - it's a shame that was lost and not really recovered when the show eventually brought back all of the Logans as recasts.
Also, in one of the 1988 episodes, Ridge is overseeing a swimsuit collection (including a leopard-print number) which puts paid to Stephanie and Taylor's repeated assertions over the years that Brooke, through her Bedroom line, was solely responsible for lowering the dignity of the Forrester brand from classy evening gowns to lingerie that, frankly, was less revealing than some of those bikinis Ridge and Margo were working on!
I never knew that about Bill Bell, Sr toying with Kristen potentially being a lesbian but I don't think we can solely fault 1987 for the lack of follow-through when it's 2021 and B&B still has not a single gay man in the fashion industry. I guess they are still running scared of the backlash prompted by that casting call for a bisexual Latino named Christian a couple of years ago, when certain quarters took issue with the character's name. All Brad Bell had to do was rename the character Chris or Carl, but instead he dropped his one opportunity to introduce both a queer male and a Latino - you know, who make up half of LA's population and are still totally unrepresented on the show set in the same city?
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On 12/21/2021 at 1:50 PM, movingtargetgal said:
Laura helped bring down Victor and his brother way back in the late 70s/early 80s Ice Princess story line. The Cassidines had built a weather machine and froze Port Charles in August. Victor was the only one of the 3 brothers to survive and spent decades in prison. He has been planning his revenge for 40 years. Victor's pride had to be hurt when Laura, dressed in a pink evening gown and high heels, held him at bay with a machine gun. Here is a link to the video. The Laura/Victor scene starts at 1:35.
I watch this stuff and laugh helplessly. I just cannot reconcile this being held up as the golden heyday of the show, yet any time writers go in for camp today, they're met with endless criticism for camping it up too much. Certainly nothing Ron Carlivati ever did matched up to the ridiculous level of camp in this clip!
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On 11/3/2021 at 4:45 AM, lgprimes said:
I’m surprised not to see a bit more support for Quinn on this one. As a wife I don’t think it’s too much to ask for my husband to fire a receptionist who admits she’s in love with him and invites him to lick honey off of her finger!
(Although truth be told I think Donna would be a sweet wife for Eric in his golden years)
I have zero sympathy for Quinn. She boinked Carter, multiple times, and he's still employed by FC, but she wants Donna fired for some flirtation? Girl, take several seats.
Donna, unfortunately, is a doormat. She deserves better than Eric. Has she forgotten how badly Eric treated her after moving Stephanie into their guesthouse, handwaving her role in drowning Donna's Alzheimer's-stricken mother in their pool, and then falling out of love with her because she put on weight? Quinn is getting away with a LOT.
5 hours ago, Waldo13 said:Stuffy tells Hope not to interfere with her marriage but how many times did Stuffy interfere with Hope’s marriage. I’m wondering if Stuffy is a Logan and not a Forester.
Taylor made interference in someone else's relationship her mission since day one, so Steffy doesn't fall from the tree in that sense. Nor is there any need to attribute her antics to the Logans. The Forrester name is hardly a badge of honor. Every single one of them has lied and/or cheated on their partners. Eric and Ridge started the show as playboys, despite one being married and the other engaged, while Stephanie was passing off Ridge as Eric's child despite knowing there was a chance he was Massimo's.
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15 hours ago, Waldo13 said:
How many times have Brooke and Ridge been married? That’s right 8 times. 8 times married and 7 times divorced. I guess those divorces were just for the heck of it.
How many times has Quinn and Eric been married? That’s right once.
I’m not saying that either Quinn or Brooke are paragons of virtue but neither one can cast the first stone or any stones for that matter.
And how many of those divorces were due to Brooke actually cheating? Heck, one time Ridge ditched her because she exchanged text messages with Deacon about their own daughter (although I'm not sure that counts as a divorce since they didn't file their marriage certificate).
Eric has had PLENTY of reason to divorce Quinn; he just hasn't taken them, not even this time when she repeatedly boinked his 'friend' Carter. It speaks to how desperate he is, rather than being an indicator of how strong and stable their marriage is; it certainly does not say anything about Brooke's faithfulness to Ridge.
Like I said before, it's Brooke's other husbands (Eric, Thorne, Grant, Nick) who can complain about her faithlessness. Not Ridge. Is it intensely hypocritical of Brooke to cast stones at Quinn for her adultery on Eric? Yes. But Brooke's affair happened literally decades ago - and ultimately, Eric was Bridget's father. Since then, Brooke and Eric have achieved the kind of amicable relationship most divorcees would dream of. They are parents and grandparents together, Brooke is now his DIL, and Quinn is a truly evil person. It isn't wrong of her to be concerned for Eric and to want Quinn out of his and their family's lives. It should be a similar dynamic to how the Forresters and Logans responded to Sheila.
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9 hours ago, Waldo13 said:
As far as I’m concerned, Brooke has cheated on Ridge far more than Quinn has cheated on Eric. It’s not even close. Besides Ridge, how many times has Brooke disappointed and betrayed you?
When were all the times Brooke cheated on Ridge? Brooke's affairs, numerous as they are, usually have Ridge as the "other man", not the victim. In the three and a half decades since Bridge became a thing, I can only recall three instances when Brooke cheated on Ridge: when she thought he was dead in the furnace, when she somehow mistook Hope's masked boyfriend Oliver for him, and when Bill randomly kissed her. None of those situations really fall into the same boat of Quinn carrying on with Ridge, her adultery with Carter, or her thirsting after that hot gardener/masseur, all of which occurred in the course of a 5-year marriage. You're right: it's not even close. Quinn has been stepping out on Eric at a practically annual rate, whereas Brooke and Ridge has been once a decade.
And frankly, until Brooke repeatedly rapes someone like Quinn did to Liam, she will always be morally superior to Quinn.
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On 9/4/2021 at 3:39 AM, TenaciousWarrior said:
Thursday 16 September 2021
Johnny reaches out to Will about his film project.Any idea if it's an onscreen appearance for Chandler Massey, or just an offscreen phone call? I really wish he and nuSonny were part of the main show (or had their own spin-off).
On 9/3/2021 at 8:42 AM, WendyCR72 said:Stepson. Addie is mother to Julie, Steve, and Hope.
Addie died almost half a century ago in real time. And since then, Doug has, for the most part, been with Julie. And I doubt Doug considers Steve to be his "son" in any way, shape or form, because that would mean he's spent much of the last half-century married to his own "daughter".
14 hours ago, Chellfairy said:And I know they tape way in advance ..but because of everything going on in New Orleans..you’d think show would just delete the whole thing!
There IS enough going on where they don’t have to be featured in this scenario
Quick.. everyone go on Twitter,FB , or whatever people do to get a petition to get the CIN shit cancelled!! (I’m not savvy on all that stuff)I can see where people are going with the tone-deafness of the Oak Alley visit, but it makes zero sense to cancel the entire New Orleans storyline because of the damage from Hurricane Ida. By the same token, no shows should film or set any stories in New York either.
On 9/4/2021 at 7:34 AM, CanaryFan98 said:I think they would've had they not been written out in 2008 and aged Claire as much as they did reducing them to occasional visits. I rather see them have another kid than a lot of these other couples/characters they give kids to and adds nothing to these characters/storylines at all.
One thing they could still try today is Shawn and Belle having empty nest syndrome since Claire left, and deciding to become foster parents. That's a great way to bring in a revolving cast of teens, do something topical (which was well-received on The Fosters), potentially inject some diversity into the cast, and expand the Brady clan by having them formally apply to adopt one or more of the kids down the line.
If they hadn't left it so late, it would've been interesting to have the kid be Tyler Kiriakis, and instigate a battle for the boy's custody with Philip. (Of course, they would only learn this later on, after they've bonded with the boy.) It could still be Philip's kids from a one-night stand, whose mother abandoned him. Or Lucas's son by Autumn, his one-time fiancee from Hong Kong. Or Eric's from his pre-priesthood days. So many possibilities.
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8 hours ago, rur said:
I think the writers think it's an inside joke, going back to the party where Milo was more or less forced to strip. Why they think seeing uncomfortable men taking their clothes off is funny beats me.
I didn't see Brando looking uncomfortable once he started stripping. Yes he was nervous beforehand about performing in front of Carly and other people he knew, but once the strip act started he seemed fine (although his dance moves were not). Same with Milo - the actor didn't convey any discomfort once he started stripping; rather he was enjoying the attention, and what he didn't enjoy was Kate (or rather, her alter) cornering him afterward while he was still half-naked and trying to seduce him, on the eve of her wedding to his mob boss.
Personally I thought it was a fun little scene, loved the comedic setup with Dante, and the pay-off, plus Brando looks great in his undies. Too bad it's probably just a one-off - unless they can arrange monthly bachelorette parties for the women of Port Charles. Or if they develop it into a male escort storyline (but who would be Brando's clients?) or have Sasha wrangle a modeling contract for him.
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18 hours ago, Pearson80 said:
The show has forgotten that Doug has two sons, so Hope has brothers. They could still keep Susan as Julie if she still wants to work. Julie could make periodic visits to Doug..
No surprise they have forgotten that since, as far as I know, Doug only has one son, Douglas LeClaire. (I'm not sure how much of a role Doug has in Douglas's life, anyway - wasn't he raised by his stepfather?) Unless you're counting his late stepson David. Hope does have another brother Steven, but he is Doug's brother-in-law.
27 minutes ago, bunnyblue said:Once the babies are born they are either completely forgotten (Rachel, Charlotte, Thomas) or they stay forever wrapped in blankets (Henry, Jules, Carver). The Westons do not need a baby and certainly not one named "Bo Brady Weston". 🤮
Well, the whole blanket baby thing is due to Covid. We can hardly blame the show for that. Most parents wouldn't want to expose their infants to that kind of risk. Agreed that Thomas and Charlotte have been underused, but Rachel has been a part of a major plot involving her parents in the past year, albeit offscreen - again due to Covid.
Babies help set up the next generation. That's their primary purpose, and they rarely drive story themselves until they are older (except to be the subject of a kidnapping, baby swap, paternity debate, custody suit, childhood illness or accident). That's always been the case. If characters like Ciara, Will, Claire, Theo, Abby - heck, even Sami or Hope - hadn't been babies at one time, they wouldn't be driving stories years later. Of course, we can question whether or not the show will last long enough for these babies to turn into tearaway teens. But that doesn't negate their necessity.
That being said, I would prefer to have Shawn and Belle expand their family, either through a messy surrogacy (imagine Sami as the carrier!) or adoption of a kid they met on their travels in Asia (which would increase the diversity of the Horton-Brady clan). Bo Brady III - Trey? - would make more sense as Shawn and Belle's son than as Ben and Ciara's.
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On 8/15/2021 at 12:34 AM, CanaryFan98 said:
A petition will do squat and even if you do get rid of Ron the problems of a lack of budget and Ken's interference regardless of writer still remain. The show is the point of no return which is why characters I enjoyed that have left should never come back unless its Days swan song.
Yeah, I think Ken's proven to be the major obstacle to this show ever improving. Through multiple changes of head writers, he's always stuck his oar in and seems to have very set ideas of what the audience (and his long-dead parents) want for the show. For evidence, look no further than the mistreatment of Will Horton, a popular, ground-breaking, legacy character. That is ALL Ken.
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I suspect they could've amped up the interest in Tripp considerably if only they'd made him bi from the start. The setup was already there - the fallout with his adoptive dad could've been about him being caught with another boy. That would've given a good story for Steve, Kayla and Joey, a new love interest for Paul Narita, a reason for Dr Snyder to always target him, even play into his status as heir to the Vitali crime family. Even now - they could handwave Tripp being cool with Allie's same-sex attraction to Chanel because he's experienced it himself. And with cousin Sonny back on the scene to play gay guru, what better time to explore that angle?
Johnny though - a bit much for one character to have 3 LGBTQ+ children? I do know families with more than one queer child, but never more than two. Although if any parent were to, it would be Sami.