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Hmmmmm. There was a mention of in the last couple episodes so could be him.

Convinced the shadowy figure coming to Sheila is

Late to post this but when Charlie said there's "another" Ridge Forrester trying to get into the building, I held out hope there was going to be a very meta switch with Ronn Moss walking into the office telling TK "I'll take it from here." Can't believe TK's been in this role for ten years and he's still not Ridge.

He has little kid teeth.

I like Li as a character generally but as a romantic partner, she feels very cold. She certainly doesn't have the warmth and chemistry-creating ability of Brooke or Taylor. I'd rather see Bill with Taylor than Li. And we can keep Katie with Carter if only so we don't have to hear him do his mopey, forlorn, loser-at-love bit again.

Is Roman's nickname "Romulus" after the founder of ancient Rome? Also, had Marcia and Logan divorced, she would have made out very well, like Jerry Hall did with proto-Logan Rupert Murdoch, but no way would she get anywhere near $1B. Doesn't seem they were married for a terribly long time so, she'd likely get, at most, a couple hundred million. Nothing to sneeze at, by the way, I'd marry Logan Roy for just $100M.

My memory may be hazy but in the early episodes of the Series, the siblings believed Marcia's background to be quite murky and they were certain she was a grifter. There was even the early storyline where she wanted her son to be part of the company. She was portrayed as wanting to grasp as much "territory" as she could.

D.I.D. or no, I'm not mad about Hope giving her mother a hard time. Even if a lot of it is misplaced*. Anything that puts daylight between Brooke and her most wonderfulest child ever is fine with me. Their tooclose relationship has always rankled me as Brooke was never this over-involved in her other kids' lives. I imagine it's an overcorrection based on Hope's scandalous conception but still. It's gross and Bridget, Rick and RJ should be giving her the side-eye for her fixation on this one child. *Brooke only went for the "bad boy" once. And that was Hope's own father. Can't even say Hope is channeling Stephanie either as this "bad boy" nonsense was never part of Stephanie's screed against Brooke. Brooke was a "slut from the Valley", sure, but there was never a mention of her having a fatal attraction to "bad boys". This is just dumb retconning.

Totally agree. If you forgive someone, you forgive them. It's like that old joke about a "forgiven" husband making a random, wholly unrelated request of his wife like "Hey, honey, let's watch Star Trek tonight" and she responds "Oh, did you watch Star Trek with that b@#$%!" Also, if you've been cheated on, knowing how badly that hurts, and you willingly and with premeditation decide to inflict that pain on your spouse/partner who cheated on you? You are an asshole. YMMV of course.

This? This she gets straight from her mother. Brooke is the queen of "are you sure you don't still have feelings for me? Hmmmm?" She can't help herself. I guess we finally see a trait of Brooke's in her daughter?

I may be at a table for one, but I am getting dizzy trying to decipher the HFTF's "message". Is it "empowerment", "sustainability", "accessibility"? What? This is such a loose, amorphous "concept" that it is all but meaningless. And HFTF dresses are indistinguishable from the couture line. And why just dresses? No casual wear or pants for HFTF? Are those not "empowering" and "accessible"? Nevermind that the designers, the ones who bring actual talent to the table, have to get the approval of Hope, the untrained non-designer, for their creations. Even assuming Hope is some socialite with name recognition who slaps her name on a line that brings in big $, like, say, Jessica Simpson, designers who work for those celebrity lines are nameless and faceless. Thomas and Zende and Eric are Forresters, members of fashion's First Family. Eric is supposed to be one of the premier designers in the world. It's like Ralph Lauren working on Paris Hilton's line and asking for her approval. So stupid.

$Bill's responding to Ridge's "What are you doing back here?!" with a chirpy "I missed you!" was comedy gold.

$Bill doesn't know Sheila is faithless and has feelings for Deacon. So, in the absence of that knowledge, he just threatens Sheila, a woman he supposedly loves, the only woman who understands him, with "You know what happens when people cross me"? And "You're dancing with The Devil"? That sounds very abusive. Is Show turning him into a full-on villain? Because if not, yuck.

I'm kind of surprised they're making $Bill a cuckold and a laughingstock. Sheila can't stand to be around him and confirmed Deacon's got more going on between the sheets than Bill, the (former) Stallion. That's a pretty harsh rebuke against one of the show's leading men.

I'm thinking Zane and his wife's miscegenation storyline will have greater impact in Season 2. Timothy Dalton may use Mrs. Zane's incarceration as leverage to get Zane to spy on and/or turn against the Duttons. That's the only thing I can think of that would make the Season finale introduction of Zane's family life at all meaningful or relevant.

And they're also both so headstrong and "plucky". And yet, like you, I like them. I think Taylor Sheridan is great at cinematography. I remember the first few seasons of "Yellowstone", I was totally enamored of the "land porn". But, I also like his writing. Not his storytelling because I think his storylines are, at best, average. But some of the dialogue, soaring ideas and pictures he creates with words, words frequently strung together in unanticipated and uncommon ways, really sets his stuff apart. I'm thinking, e.g., of Rainwater in the first episode of "Yellowstone" saying he was raised to believe he was Mexican: "As a Mexican, I would face discrimination. But as an Indian, I would know a hatred that had to be endured to be fully understood." From that to Sam Elliott's "1883" speech about a piece of his late wife's soul living inside him, enabling her to finally see the beach for the first time through his eyes all the way to HF telling HM that he's holding on to the land for children not yet born. Before the opening credits, I can almost always tell when Sheridan's written an episode himself. Those episodes have words that stay with me.

Brooke is likley overreacting. Taylor isn't trying to commit suicide. Probably just a single Xanax or something generically similar. And she and Brooke are almost certainly making out before the end of the week.

Dwight gave Stacy a million dollars? I must've missed that.

They are for sure going to kiss at some point. (Well, maybe just my speculation. But still.) What would be really interesting would be to see a full-fledged romantic relationship between them, as opposed to a one-night stand or fling. Give a showcase for a same-sex relationship and give everyone an opportunity to have their reactions, e.g., initial head explosions that these two enemies are not only friends but lovers, with the emphasis placed on their adversarial past and not the same-sex aspect.

$Bill is also Kelly's grandparent and, given his horrifically bad judgment hooking up with Sheila, he should be banned from seeing Kelly too. That little girl isn't safe anywhere.

Interesting. Also, "Harry" is a nickname for "Henry". Which, apparently, even Prince Harry didn't know when he was asked about his birth name, so go figure.

The State brings the case, not the individual victims. This is why it's "The People of The State of California v. Sheila Carter" not "Steffy and Finn v. Sheila Carter". But the State still needs testimony and evidence from the victims. Without that, the case falls apart. So, if Steffy and Finn don't cooperate with the authorities, the prosecutor, who only takes cases to trial they have a very good chance of winning, won't pursue the case. And Sheila goes free. Snore.

Ugh. "Jack" is a nickname. Like "Tripp" or "Trey" or "Chip". And it's a nickname for "John". So, they gave two kids the same name?! No way that would've happened, especially a century ago in much more formal times.

When KA and KKL hugged, said how much they enjoyed being in each other's arms and slowly pulled back from one another? I jumped up and ran into the bathroom to close the door partially as I could not believe TPTB were going there with them. And I think they are.

This feels like the first time I've seen Kelly and Beth together. Ever. For all practical purposes, Kelly is Steffy's child with a soupcon of Finn (who's had infinitely more scenes with her than her actual father has). And her half-sister Beth is exclusively Liam and Hope's. Hope and Liam only care about Beth and Douglas. It's almost as if those girls aren't related at all. This show can be so stupid sometimes.