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Am I the only one who thinks that Deacon doesn't look so good? One of his eyes is noticeably bigger than the other. Or is that just a squinty "acting" choice?
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I too thought he was leaving for primetime. Seems like an injustice. GH gives Y&R one of its most craptacular actors, and Y&R gives GH back one of its best.
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Why would Brooke even be interested at all in Deacon? Her fling with Deacon severely damaged her relationship with her daughter. Wouldn't any thought of Deacon recall the pain that she caused Bridget? Why would she even entertain the thought? Surely there are plenty of other men in Bell A if she isn't interested in Ridge or Bill anymore.
The show is also doing a huge disservice to longtime viewers by not bringing back Ashley Jones, now that Deacon is permanently in the cast again. I bet most people would rather see her than the Continually Amazing Adventures of Hopeless, Chicken and Beady Eyes.
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Jesse appears to be a tool and a douchebag, but I don't get the point of those women standing around and crying about it and then getting angry and determining that he "wasn't going to get away with it". That whole "I'm standing up for womankind" crap was bizarre. They are on a show called "Bachelor in Paradise". They willingly choose to come onto this crapfest and have "relationships" with strangers or semi-strangers, knowing that they are going to be on public display in TVs all across America, and then get all self-righteous about everything? Whatevs. I wish he had just slammed the door on her arm and told the driver to drive off. No doubt the driver was instructed to wait for these three harpies who were intent on giving him a piece of their mind.
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Tough to see Genie Bouchard lose, but she got outplayed. In that last game she looked completely out of gas. Now it is time for me to be mean. Ekaterina Makarova is one of the oldest looking 25 year olds on the tour. And wow, that huge unfortunate looking nose. It kind of looks like it has been broken multiple times
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He hates Asians, blacks and gays. How awesome that he's going to be on a tribe with one of each. I hope he gets voted off first.
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AJ seemed like a decent dude. Too bad he picked Liddy. Liddy was messed up, she is so clearly passive aggressive and I can understand why she is single. She got jealous at the drop of a hat because he was talking to Meg. AJ and Liddy had decided the previous night that they weren't right for each other. So he talks to Meg to get to know her better, and Liddy gets all jealous. She announces she is going to bed and then cries when he doesn't knock on her door? WTF.
That second guy Joe was so clearly out of place. Whereas most of the guys on this show have been very fit, here we had an extremely pale and slightly overweight guy. It was painfully obvious that Liddy didn't like him at all, and it was so pathetic when after not talking with him all night, he still tried multiple times to invite himself into her room.
The only thing interesting about Meg was her enormous fake bosoms. I was a bit surprised she didn't do a pole dance after Liddy did, I'm sure she would have put her to shame.
Steve was a complete jerk, and it didn't help that he said at the final rose ceremony that he was more interested in dating the girl with the big cans than Liddy. Again, obvious why he's still single. He has a very high opinion of himself.
I really liked Xandra a lot. I thought she was perhaps the coolest contestants we've seen on this show. Witty and sassy and comfortable in her skin. Seemed like she and AJ had a good connection. Not sure at all what happened between the time their date ended in the afternoon and when they all met by the pool post-dinner. She turned into a complete grumpnoid. Acted really cold to him, and then outright refused to get naked and get in the pool. Too bad, I think he matched better with her than he did with Liddy.
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Thorne and Taylor decided to stay in L.A., right? During the "Aly forgives Taylor" story, I thought Taylor was going leave town and go back to Paris, but Aly said she wanted her dad to be happy. So presumably, Thorne and Taylor are still in town, but just offscreen? As seems to happen with many characters?
If Bradley has been content to largely shove Thorne "in town but offscreen", why is he so committed to cramming Ridge down our throats? I always thought that Bradley had some kind of weird fixation with Ridge, like he saw Ridge as his alter ego, or that he had some mancrush on Ronnnnnnn Mosssssssss and that's why Ridge always got treated with kid gloves. But now Stephanie is gone, and Ronnnnnnnnn is gone, so what's up with the continued fixation on Ridge? He used to be a complete mama's boy. Has he even said anything about his mother's death? The two of them were very close, almost unnaturally so, and he couldn't be bothered to explain why he didn't come to her funeral or even call. Now he flies helicopters and recites poetry and has forgotten how to bathe. It's very evident that he's a completely different character.
So I say, it's time to let go of Ridge. Keep him "in town but offscreen" like what happens with so many others. What is the current on-show explanation for where these characters are: Thorne? Taylor? Thomas? Mushmouth and Daisy? RJ? Jack? Donna? Caroline? I'm glad we saw Felicia in Paris, I thought she got lost in the supermarket or something. And it was nice that there was at least a reference to Steffy still being in Paris.
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I've always liked Amber. Back in her younger days (when Rick was Jacob Young's first run and then Justin Torkildsen) they treated her as a classic young soap heroine. She had some really good stories. I always wondered what became of her twin, April Knight, who was in a porno and everyone thought it was Amber and that she had shamed the Forrester family. Later wondered if there was some connection between April and Owen Knight. Then they made her a little crazy and had her leave town.
She was completely wasted on Y&R. Y&R treated her as the comic relief. They also made her into this poor struggling designer just hoping to get noticed. She was married to a Forrester. She should have had plenty of money from the divorce settlement and she should have had plenty of connections that would have made her career. Really odd.
When she came back on B&B for a bit they acted like she and Rick barely even knew each other. The two of them hardly interacted, which was ridiculously odd, but then again, on this show, that happens a lot with exes. Oliver hardly ever talks to Hope.
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Hunter Tylo is no longer on the show. She played Taylor Hayes and for many years was generally the second choice in the Ridge waffling sweepstakes between Brooke and Taylor. She is the mother of Thomas (not currently on the show), Steffy (of the Liam/Steffy/Hope waffling, also not currently on the show), and the dead Phoebe (of "What the hell's going on here, you already took Phoebe away from me! Now you're taking Steffy?! It's not gonna happen, Rick! NOT GONNA HAPPEN!) fame. (Memo to Ridge, since he seems to have lost his memory.... it happened.)
She used to be really beautiful and then she got plastic surgery and jacked her face. Hunter Tylo claims it was her decision to leave the show, but I think what happened is that they took her off contract and offered her a recurring role (essentially a firing), so she "quit". They had hired The Great Heather Tom and I think they found Taylor to be extraneous. They no longer had a need for Taylor to be the third wheel in the Great Love Story of Ridge and Brooke because they now had Katie. Around the same time, the actress who played Steffy decided to take a break (hence Steffy finding out she was barren and fleeing to Paris). The actor who played Thomas had seemingly been fired again. So Taylor no longer had any real ties to anyone. She was perhaps Stephanie's closest friend, and once Steph died and all of her children left town, I guess they couldn't figure out what to do with her anymore.
As for Amber and Little D. Little D was the son of Deacon and Amber's cousin Becky. Becky was dying or dead and gave him to Amber to raise as her own. Amber and Rick raised him as Little Eric, until Deacon came in and said he wanted him back. Amber freaked out, fled with the child, and I believe she jumped off a cliff with him, but was saved. Her mental instability caused Rick to dump her. Deacon took the child. Then Deacon went to prison. Little D went to live with Becky's family. And Deacon has never thought about him again. (I think that's briefly how it went, someone correct me if I made any errors.)
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Yes, the link to the website is very helpful, thanks!
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I finally got around to watching this episode, and I agree that she just wasn't right for the show. However, I don't think she was necessarily mean-spirited about it. She said she was a free spirit, and that this was something she thought she could do, but I guess when it actually came time to do it and she saw penis that it all got too real for her. I didn't think her comment about his butt was that bad (it did look blindingly white compared to the rest of him), it seemed to be good-natured ribbing, like a defence mechanism to help her get over her own self-consciousness about being naked. I thought the comment from Ashley that Greg's penis was really small compared to the rest of his body was way worse. I get that she didn't say it to his face, but it was worse, she said it to all the TV viewers and he doesn't hear it until months later.Everything about that girl rubbed me the wrong way. She treated Greg like a gigolo, and then wondered why he wasn't erect. Angelica's worst behavior was saying that Greg's butt needed tanning. So rude.As far as 6 couples matched and still being together, I thought that was good, until I figured that 1) it's only been 2 months, and 2) there's up to 20 potential couples if the guy and the girl choose other people. Now in the first episode they picked each other, and then in the one with Mike the accountant he picked her but she picked someone else, so I know there's not 20, but still. All of the "and they lived happily ever after" lines at the end of each episode always make it sound like the couple is still together, but they can't all be.
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Fantastic, thanks so much to all of you, this is very helpful. I remember Caleb (who I had called Beard Guy) escaping in the boat in the previous episode and didn't really follow what was going on. I know Simcoe because of his unusually high voice.
The ones I now am not sure of are John Andre and Robert Rodgers. Is Andre the guy that was caught with the "prostitute" who pretended she was being tortured? Is Rodgers the guy I have been calling Funny Hat Guy?
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Just watched today's. I thought Wyatt was spot on today during his convo with Beady Eyes.
1) Everything always happens TO Liam. Liam is such a victim, he's always playing the victim card and never takes any responsibility for his own contributions to his woes.
2) Did he even call Steffy when he was in Paris? They're supposed to be friends.
3) Ivy probably wouldn't have drowned. Hah.
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I am watching these for the first time as they are airing. I am glad to read that others had had issues with the characters. The only characters I know are Abe, his wife, the barmaid that is in the spy ring with him, and his dad (the judge?). I'm embarrassed to say that I don't really even know who is on which side. And if you take them out of their wigs and fancy uniforms, forget it. No hope.
They referred to the guy getting whipped as Baker. That was actually a name I recognised from an earlier episode, but I couldn't recall him or what he did. All I know is that I really could have done without seeing his extremely hairy armpits in HD.
I hope this show gets better and easier to follow?
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Thanks again for the book recommendations, I will have to check some of them out when I have time.
Missing this show a lot, I thought it was very well done for a historical drama. I shouldn't have raced through the disks so quickly! Probably one my favourites in recent years. Much better than the Borgias and the Tudors.
Currently watching the re-airing of Turn: Washington's Spies on AMC. Wow, talk about confusing. Way too many characters. Four episodes in and I don't know some of the characters names, can't tell them apart, and can't tell who is on which side. Didn't have any issues at all like that with the White Queen. Sniff.
Looking forward to seeing Rebecca Ferguson in the next Mission Impossible. Not really sure what Max Irons is doing next, but I think it's great that this son of two famous actors is making a name for himself.
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I had to laugh today at Liam's "it's easy to be the bigger man when you've won" (I'm paraphrasing here, but that was the gist of it). Well, yeah, just like you were Mr. Magnanimous when you were the one who had Hope. Liam has literally zero self-awareness, doesn't he? He doesn't see himself in the actions of either Hope or Wyatt, despite the rather blatant similarities. He seems so genuinely dumbfounded and pissed that people would act exactly how he would act in their shoes.
Exactly. He's the biggest hypocrite. Back in Italy, the shenanigans of Bill and Deacon made Hope late, he thinks she has rejected him and immediately flies home with Steffy. Now in Paris, the shenanigans of Quinn made Liam late, she thinks he has rejected her and marries Wyatt. How can he be so upset with her when he did the exact same thing? They are both at fault. She at least seems aware that a misunderstanding has occurred. Whereas he just seems to blame her 100%. He's an ass.[
She's dead. That's what graced us with Liam in the first place, she died and told Liam his father was in L.A. so he came looking for him.Is Liam's mother on the canvas?-
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In the spirit of watching this dreck as a comedy, I'm going to submit these top 5 unintentionally funny scenes.
5. "Stephanie" gets shot. You can clearly see that it's actually a stunt man in a bad wig stumbling and falling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrbGftw8Ygc
4. "Say hello to.... Taylor Hayes!" Taylor gets drunk and dances for Hector. The funniest part is around the 3 minute mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laJ73GnpO3M
3. "RIIIIIIICCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!" The extreme closeup of the Skeletor Ginsu cheekbones is the best part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGp0UEINfsI
2. The Fall. I can't find a clip from the actual episode, just this promo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byvwFPURGoQ
1. The granddaddy of them all. What more can be said? Brooke's dramatic head turn and gaping mouth. Ridge's stabby finger that turns into a sort-of gun. Gorilla Rick's wrinkling nose. So classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jEsshy26N4
Any other favourites? I left off some that were funny ("I now pronounce you man and.... horse?!", Donna getting doused with gold paint, etc.) because I think those were supposed to be campy and played for laughs. These 5 here are supposed to be very dramatic but were so bad they were hilarious.
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I've decided that this show is so much better when you view it as a comedy. Hope going "whyyyyyy didn't you come to me". OMG I couldn't stop laughing. Beady Eyes flatly intoning he was there. Lolololololol serves him right for being all pissy about that stupid diamond.
These are supposed to be intensely dramatic and tragic scenes. But I couldn't stop cackling.
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I think Hope's perspective is correct, because he was too stupid to call her. He could have called her from the plane or when he landed. He could have called her on his way to the park. He has no one to blame but himself for his idiocy, especially given their history of "missed connections".
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When are his eyes NOT beady and blank? He has the same exact look all the time. Hate that he secreted himself into Hope's room and that Ivy and Aly were in on "the plan" to put Liam and Hope back together. Don't these two have anything better to do?I really don't feel very sorry for Liam. At that party he reminded me of a wooden marionette with Bill pulling the strings. His eyes got all beady and had that blank look he sported back in the days of ToD 2.0. I think the fact that Hope instantly married Wyatt is fitting karma for Liam pulling the insta-engagement to Steffy.So of course, spin cycle repeats. Hope will feel bad, and upset, and waffle. But by the time she decides it's Liam she really wants, he'll have married Ivy. Then his turn to waffle. This entire show should be filmed at Waffle House. It's so ridiculously repetitive and has gotten so uninteresting and irritating.
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I know this forum isn't that active, but thought I'd indicate that I think tonight is the episode with the couple that is going to get married. Check out this link: http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/08/05/dating-naked-wedding-special/ Warning, semi-spoiler, it doesn't show the faces but it shows the tattoos on the guy, shouldn't be too hard to match up.
Interesting bits: it says the identity of the couple will be revealed on tonight's show, so it makes sense that the couple is one of the couples from tonight. There are 10 episodes, and they claim to have matched successful couples on 6 of the 10 shows. All of these couples who have managed to stay together for all of 2 or 3 months (show taped in June) will be shown on this wedding airing in September.
How.... awkward. Imagine telling your kids that mommy and daddy met while filming a TV show together naked.
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How does Liam do it? What is it about this guy that draws females to him? I am just so over Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb chirping his praises, and encouraging his delusions. How could Hope just go and marry Wyatt the same day? I don't know pal; how could you put Hope's engagement ring on Steffy's finger five minutes after taking it off Hope's and marry her straightaway? How could you waffle between these two girls for years?
So much word. I especially can't stand Aly, I don't understand why she is so invested in what Hope does or who Hope marries. She should be thinking about her own life.
I don't understand how Hope is this internationally famous woman. In Monte Carlo, in Paris, in Aspen, everywhere people are recognising her and will be telling their grandchildren about the day they met Hope Logan. She's not a model. Even if she were, I don't think there's any model but maybe 5 or so that I would actually recognise on the street. She's a spokesperson / designer / something. Again, I don't think there's but 3 designers that I would actually recognise on the street. If Hope is as famous and as huge of a celebrity as we are purportedly supposed to believe she is, she shouldn't be able to go anywhere at all in public without being attacked and trailed by papparazzi. The show should be hiring 5 or 6 actors to accost her every time she appears onscreen outside. Because she is apparently one of the most famous faces on the planet. Why didn't they shut the Eiffel Tower down? She should have gotten private use of it, she's Hope Logan, international sensation. She inspires girls all over the world!
Speaking of Sheila Carter.... it's about high time someone undid the Lynn Marie Troll Latham fiasco of having her take Phyllis Newman's face. Especially since Michelle Stafford is thankfully gone. Bring back Kimberlin Brown with Sheila's restored face. Then have her go on an L.A. killing spree. I would seriously love for her to kill just about everyone on this show. The only people I would leave alive are Oliver, Rick, Caroline, and Donna. Maybe Brooke.
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Yes, I agree, this show is often boring. It's absolutely not fun to watch people sitting around doing nothing but talk about how tired, cold, sick, and/or hungry they are. I want to see them DO stuff. Each location should have a set of five or so tasks that they have to complete, and the tasks should be unique.
So far, every episode is the same thing but with different butts and different levels of animosity. Meet. Walk. Build shelter. Build fire. Get water. Look for food. Fail. Look again. Sit around. Grouse and whine and bitch. Oh finally, Day 21!
S01.E05: Epiphany
in Turn: Washington's Spies [V]
I was confused as to why the one guy (I think it was Ben Tallmadge) fell out of the boat. Obviously it was an accident, but why him and not anyone else? And what was the point of it from a plot perspective? Was it really so production wouldn't have to show an actual battle? So they could just talk about Washington being successful?
I am also still confused about Charles Lee and Philomena. And the visit by Rogers, who I formerly called Funny Hat Guy. Philomena is working with Andre. Is Charles Lee on the side of the Americans or the British? Rogers is British. Are they trying to get American secrets out of Lee?
Not all of those slaves belonged to Sela and Anna Strong, did they? They were all cheering and dancing, but did she really own all of them? Seemed like a lot. So her slaves got freed by the Attainder (thank you, helpful AMC explanations during the commercials!). Then some British guy says the men have to fight in a regiment to get their freedom. And Abigail gets sent to be a slave for Andre. What happened to all the rest of the women? And what was supposed to happen to that boy, who I think is Abigail's son? Wouldn't it have made more sense to send him to Andre with Abigail to help out? They were leaving him behind with Anna, and I thought the whole point was to punish Anna by taking away all of her slaves.
I agree that the varying accents is odd. I've always wondered when and how the American accent developed. People who had recently come over from England would sound like English. But colonists had been in America for 100 years so maybe the accent had already changed? It is distracting that some Americans (Abe, Anna) have English accents while others don't. And the soldier Baker who lives in Abe's house is supposed to be British but he has a very strange sounding accent too, it didn't exactly sound English but didn't sound American either.