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Another unpopular opinion: I thought it was kind of gross for Brooke to kiss Nick when they clearly haven't been part of each other's lives for years, e.g., he "keeps tabs on people he cares about" and she's "followed his career". Nevermind that these two co-parent a heretofore-barely-spoken-of child, but they don't communicate with each other?!
But kissing Nick minutes after pining for Ridge, to Ridge, just feels really off.
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On UK Season 5, Anna's guy Sherif was booted after accidentally kicking Molly-Mae in the groin. The consensus is that it was completely accidental but he jokingly used a derogatory term for that area and that's what got him jettisoned.
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Whenever Beige calls Ridge “pretty” or “One of the Most Handsome Men in LA”, it just feels as if TPTB are recycling scripts from the RM days.
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Maybe now that Hope knows, we've seen the last of sage-because-he-sees-the-end Liam speaking like a fortune cookie about life and love.
I can only hope.
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On 4/23/2025 at 5:43 PM, Cool Breeze said:
How great would it be if Steffy denied Liam's request to keep his condition just between them? If she showed up to Hope's cabin unexpectedly, and Hope started reading her the riot act (which would be well-deserved) but Steffy remained completely silent. No rebuttal. And Hope actually looked at Steffy and saw the pain and tears in her eyes, prompting Hope to switch gears immediately to ask, with great empathy, what was wrong. Steffy tells her and then they cry. Together. And hug each other as would any two people about to lose a person they both love very much.
That would be great.
They're reading this forum!
I do think they were both very good. JMW showed real emotion yesterday and her softly asking Hope "Are we alone?" was really well done. And AN's tremulous questions to Steffy set the stage for her crushing it tomorrow.
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Here's the thing about FC's "life blood" that is couture. It almost always refers to one-of-a-kind, custom gowns and dresses. (Weren't Marie Osmond and Esther from Y&R fighting for one of the FC "couture" designs?)
Some of the "couture" seen on runways are never even available for purchase or intended for the public. They're loss-leaders designed to make the public want something, anything, with that fashion house's label on it. But couture on its own, without lower-priced (but still very expensive) pieces is not enough to sustain any fashion house.
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18 hours ago, CountryGirl said:
It also warms my heart to think of these Core Two actors who have been on the show since the very first episode.
For those who saw this in real time and those who've never seen it, the first scenes of Thursday's episode were an homage to the show's premiere in 1987.
ETA, TK is no RM.
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How great would it be if Steffy denied Liam's request to keep his condition just between them? If she showed up to Hope's cabin unexpectedly, and Hope started reading her the riot act (which would be well-deserved) but Steffy remained completely silent. No rebuttal. And Hope actually looked at Steffy and saw the pain and tears in her eyes, prompting Hope to switch gears immediately to ask, with great empathy, what was wrong. Steffy tells her and then they cry. Together. And hug each other as would any two people about to lose a person they both love very much.
That would be great.
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On 4/12/2025 at 7:18 AM, Snazzy Daisy said:
Lu is an interesting character. She’s smart to run a background on Coop.
What? Mel is not happy with her current life with Mr. NBA? It serves her right. 😆
My speculation is that Coop and Mel sleep together at the end of Season 1 and, if there's a Season 2, Mr. NBA goes the way of the dodo. And in Season 2, Mel is brought into Coop's robbery racket as a not-particularly-unwilling participant.
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9 hours ago, CountryGirl said:
I don't think it's Brooke condemning her for chasing Ridge, so much as the hypocrisy where Taylor acts as if she's some little innocent miss and Ridge just happens upon her.
I was actually talking about Brooke condemning Daphne for chasing Carter, not Taylor for chasing Ridge. The latter is a wash as to who has put the moves on him more when he was with the other. And I have nothing close to your encyclopedic memory.
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2 hours ago, KerleyQ said:
KA's run as Taylor was literally all about her coming on to married Ridge, with the help of her kids. And even this time around, she may not have started kissing Ridge while he was with Brooke, but she absolutely followed him around pathetically. Just because she was protesting that she was not trying to get him back, doesn't mean she wasn't doing exactly that.
True. Good point. But Brooke needs to take several seats before condemning another woman for doing things she's done ten times over.
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I think Brooke, not Taylor, has actually occupied the space Daphne is in now. Coming on to a man who's involved with another woman? Kissing him? Pushing up on him? I don't know that Taylor has ever done that, while that behavior is pretty much Brooke's stock-in-trade.
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This show's preoccupation with young women's virginity is just too much. Started with Caroline I, then Brooke was supposedly deflowered by Ridge (I saw it and didn't get that but others did), then Hope, now Electra. And I'm sure I'm missing some. Can we not have a story that involves a couple agreeing to have sex in a committed, loving way without resorting to these outdated notions of "purity"? Or how about a young man waiting until he's ready? That'd be something different. But, no. We're stuck in 1950's BellLA.
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I’m actually glad Carter called Deacon out on his ridiculous vendetta against him really being about Deacon’s own failings as a father. What grown man is going to fight another man because his thirty-five year-old daughter got her feelings hurt? That’s an outsize reaction that is about more than it appears. And, yes, when Hope was a baby, Brooke was the one who woke up one day and decided Deacon had to leave town. But that was a singular act. Deacon staying away for much of the three decades since is all on him.
And I feel we should all be grateful the soap trope of keeping a secret from your spouse seems not to be present here. Wasn’t when Poppy begged Finn not to tell Steffy (or Li) he was Luna’s real father and it didn’t happen when Liam asked Steffy to tell no one about his condition (brain surgery?!). Thank heaven for small favors.
ETA, and what FoghornLeghorn said too. Another small favor.
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So, Ridge calls Hope a "bitch" and a "slut", Thomas steals Hope's baby denying her a year of her life, and Liam with his accumulation of infidelities and waffling, but it's Carter who catches Deacon's hands?
Can't say I love that.
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Speculation only:
SpoilerWonder if Bill was sexually abused, maybe by one of his mother's many lovers? Or something close to that. That would explain his instabonding with Luna and his OTT response to Liam. A self-described "alpha male" would bury that kind of traumatic experience of victimization in a very deep hole.
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Ridge's line (family, not designs) runs the company, for sure. But the actual shares in the company have bounced around so often, it's hard to keep track who has what.
BTW, I have to say I'm finding Hope's complaining about Ridge's control of FC and "I'm tired of Ridge having the last word on everything at the company" more than tedious. It's Ridge's company. His name is on the building, the door, the stationery, etc.
Don't like it? Quit. Same choices everyone else in the world has at work.
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I am so tired of Bell's predilection for feminine "purity". it seemed antiquated and archaic decades ago. Why we still have these virginal (not necessarilty virgin) characters and storylines, in the year 2025, I'll never know.
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On 3/28/2025 at 5:46 PM, ScoobieDoobs said:
Just to add a little bit more analysis to the terrific recap, I actually think BOTH Brooke & Hope missed the mark. I mean, they both got some points right & then veered off.
Look, Brooke was right that Carter’s plan was morally wrong — and she warned Hope about it from the start. Hope really never acknowledges this — and she should.
Now, where Brooke gets it wrong is she never seems to acknowledge the absolutely wrong narrative being pushed by Steffy & Ridge that Hope was the “bad” influence on Carter & the reason this company takeover plan was initiated. And she doesn’t respond at all when Hope reminds her of the vile names Ridge called her.
Hope said quite a few dead-on facts about Brooke that were probably just too cruel to say out loud. Katie wasn’t wrong to shut her down. Idk, I liked them hugging it out at the end. Look, neither of these 2 are anything like the horrible other 2, which Heather’s script cleverly tried to contrast. To me, it made sense they’d realize how much they need each other, & want to support each other during an especially difficult time in both of their lives. Bell should let Heather do more writing!
And back to stupidity & general ickiness today — Lunatic’s hitting on Will was really nauseating!
100% agree.
I'd also say Brooke got it wrong blaming Hope for the coup. Hope was an innocent bystander to Carter's machinations. He's the attorney. He's the one who conceived of the plan and he's the one who executed the plan. That said, Hope cannot completely dodge responsibility here. She has been a true partner to Carter at work and everything was a "we" decision. Even in this argument, she said "we" multiple time, e.g., "We took over Forrester . . . ." So, she has to own that.
I'd also add that where Hope got it very wrong was her saying Brooke never supported/was there for her. That could not be further from the truth. Hope might want to ask Rick and Bridget about their experiences. Both of them were pushed aside for "Destiny" or Deacon or something to the point where Rick shot a guy and Bridget thought she was in love with her father/brother Ridge. Those two were the ones who really suffered under Brooke's parenting.
On the other hand, Brooke has always acted as though the sun shone right out of Hope's butt. Hope had a very annoying princess phase with multiple parties in her honor, etc., but I always felt Brooke was overcompensating for the circumstances of Hope's birth so it made sense to me. The idea Brooke was never there for her is ridiculous. But, IRL, people say ridiculous, untrue things in the heat of an argument so this actually felt natural.
And if Heather wrote that scene, good on her. Very well done. And I think her self-insert was totally organic. Those two needed a third-party mediator.
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11 hours ago, ScoobieDoobs said:
Yeah, but the notion that Hope pulled Carter's strings & manipulated him like a puppet is outright false. It was his plan to start with & he went full-steam ahead with it, knowing it was shady. He seemed fine & dandy with it & and had none of this wimpy guilty sh*t he's whining about now.
So that said, Hope doesn't even acknowledge that it was shady. And in spite of the entitled, nasty bunch involved here, it really was a shady move. Hope feels justified cuz of the way the awful bunch humiliated her, but sorry, Hopie, it was shady, shady, shady.
But the entitled nasty bunch have got the story wrong, making Hope the villain -- to start with. But Show is starting to morph her into the villain they keep referring to her as
I hear you. You're right, the takeover was Carter's idea all on his own.
But I don't think the show is morphing Hope into a villain. Ever since the takeover, she's been standing beside or behind Carter, holding court and meetings with Carter. They've been a duo with Carter, the titular head of the company, making very few moves on his own. She owns her fair share of post-coup behavior.
And you're quite right about the shadiness. Hope has never acknowledged how deceitful and underhanded Carter's subterfuge really was. And the writing has never supported her proposition that FC employees felt downtrodden and belittled so the Forresters needed to have FC wrested away. What's more, it's really only been Brooke, on only a handful of occasions, who makes the point that this is a private family company and leadership is in no way obligated to implement an employee's plan/vision. Carter.
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It was Carter's plan to take over FC by slipping himself in as manager of the LLC. 100%. But once he presented that plan to Hope, she became an accomplice. She was all for it. And I don't think we can ignore the fact that she was aware HFTF would be returned to her. Not saying she was manipulative or using Carter but she knew she would directly benefit from this takeover. And ever since he sat in the big chair, it's been "we". Hope actually said to Daphne today: "When we took over FC."
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Ah. Gotcha. Thank you very much.
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What did Echo do to Fisk? (I couldn't make it through that show.)
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I actually don't think Hope is Lady MacBeth yet but, to be fair, while Carter did conceive of the LLC plan all by his lonesome, as soon as that plan was executed, it became "we". Both Hope and Carter immediately started using the plural when talking about FC's new leadership. With Steffy (and presumably other executives) reporting to her. Even though Hope has no title other than being Carter's Main Squeeze.
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B&B: What's Up Today at Forrester Creations? - Daily Chat
in The Bold And The Beautiful
Maybe that routine is his kink?