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What I would really love to see, in addition to the smug wiped off of Steffy's face, is for Finn to dance with the dark side of his gene pool. Tanner is much better when he has something else to play besides Steffy's Lapdog, ahem, Husband. And far more interesting...like when he hugged Sheila for the first time and you could see so many emotions playing across his face other than "Ruh roh!" "Go fetch!" or "Who's Steffy's Good Little Doggie?" Elsewhere, I hope that it is revealed that Carter and Hope have been suspicious of Steffy and Daphne LaPew all along but have been giving her just enough rope to hang herself and Steffy. Hope definitely seems to know something is arot in FC and not just the scent emanating from DLP. And Carter seems to not even be remotely aware that she's coming onto him, which is typical for some men, and all of her touching and teasing and "oo la lang" is lost on him.

I know I have been salivating this for some time but seeing it actually start to unfold is a thing of beauty. I cannot WAIT for Steffy to find out and have all the nastiness she's unleased upon on anyone named Logan and even several named Forrester come crashing down upon her because Karma...is a bitch. It did make me a little "ew" to learn that Poppy and Finn willingly jumped in the sack and she was his first vs them both being intoxicated, but I'm shruggy guy about it now. Also, Tanner, you brought and served the derp face that I thought only Scott could do justice to. The sweat and the tears and the snot running down his face that he swiped away with the back of his hand were just chef's kiss.

I would love it if it were more true to the books. As we know, some of the pilot and a handful of S1 episodes were as close as ML would ever get to capturing the books. I also don't want to see another retread of the other LH shows out there as they were both really lacking in staying close to the books, although I watched both, because it's LHOTP. Even bad LHOTP is still good. For those not in the know, one is 2000's two-part TV movie, Beyond the Prairie with John Boy as Pa, where Laura consummates her marriage to Almanzo in the middle of a field mid-day as pioneer girls do, and most egregious of all, Mary is a redhead. There is also the 2005 six-part LHOTP where Mary is sassy and talking back to adults, Laura spends most of the time in a daze, listening to a new age soundtrack, Ma runs around with her hair down instead of that being saved for VSEs, but at least Pa had a beard and almost as purty as ML as played by Cameron Bancroft. Beyond the Prairie is on Youtube. There are snippets I've found of the 2005 series, including this one:

They really are. He did so much without saying a word. TPTB, why are you wasting this man with a bickering sisters storyline when Brooke is right there? I think TK and KKL would have amazing chemistry.

I find a lot more truth in the raw footage in a video where several of BL’s allegations have already been disproven than cherry-picked, edited texts and other specious evidence that is being posited as fact. Things like the video cannot lie, but people often do and if she’s lying about these things, what else is she lying about? She’s not credible at all, not because of her problematic past or her being an imperfect victim, but because of her actions during and after filming. And bringing up a serial killer as a comparison to JB? If it wasn’t meant as a comparison, why mention Bundy at all? As an actual victim of sexual abuse and sexual harassment, such hyperbole and speculation and rendering someone guilty before being proven so in a court of law vs the court of opinion are so incredibly dangerous and make it that much harder for actual victims to be believed, much less come forward.

I think we agree. I want Sinner to win and the abuser Zverev to go down in flames.

Other than the slightest of kisses on her forehead, his lips never touch her lips. Everything I heard and saw was in line with what they are both discussing during the scene where they are basically saying it’s a tease. Just like it was written in the book (although BL admitted she never read the book and it's clear that she hasn't when she keeps trying to direct the scene by having them talking when, again, the scene never called for dialogue, and JB is THE director after all. This was a scene for a movie. A slo-mo romantic scene with characters that were supposed to be shown falling in love where Ryle is wanting to kiss Lily but doesn't. JB tried several times to get her to stop talking, but she wouldn't. She didn't say she was uncomfortable with kissing. She said she didn't like eye contact and she kept insisting that non-stop talking would make for a better scene because apparently that's what she and Ryan do, but that's not the scene in the book or what JB, the actual director, was going for. Nevertheless, he tried to go along with it and I think he was trying to help her. But at the end of the day, all he's trying to do is capture the essence of the scene with the characters dancing and falling in love. Also, they both made comments about "restraint" and "not giving them (the audience) want they want." At the 21:34 mark of the video, he says he is taking off the hat (ballcap) and will try to kiss her (to pretend). If this is supposed to be the scene where all the unwanted kissing and touching occurs, I'm not seeing it or hearing it. As for her being uncomfortable, I guess I missed it with all of the touching she did, wrapping her arms, several times, around his neck, he's not putting them there, she's intertwining her fingers with his, touching his face, touching his chest. It also disproves her complaint where she said HE was the one who wanted all the talking when it's clear, it was her. She also claims he body shamed her yet that's what she did to him with this exchange: JB: ."..and my nose is so big." BL: "Yes, I was hoping we could address this. It's not too late. Just gotta shut down, gotta call an insurance month and just deal with that." No wonder she asked for a gag order.

So Jack is NOT the father and Li cannot apologize and grovel enough. I forgive you, Li. After all, your ex-husband is still a dirty liar and cheater and your sister is still a flake. Who very likely got knocked up by your barely-legal child. But all her self-flagellation is going to make the reveal that much more delicious. I just want to see Steffy poop a ring around herself when she realizes the same woman who orchestrated Bitch in a Box is her stepdaughter. Finn cutting (mostly) his biological mother out of his life is one thing. His child? Raised by flaky Poppy? I don't think it will be quite so simple.

It was about as sexy as Phoebe dancing for Chandler, trying to get him to fess up to being with Monica.

I am rooting for Maddie all the way as sorry, I cannot stand Sabalenka and her constant grunting and shrieking on (almost) every.single.point. So glad Joker is out as he would have been more insufferable than we thought possible if he had managed to get to the final and win #25. Clearly, rooting for Sinner vs Zverev for the final.

That would be all kinds of awesome. Or Carter playing along and her thinking she's got him where she wants him and he reveals he knows she's been playing him all along and Hope is the only woman for him. And then fires Steffy. Again.

I think she hates that Poppy exists and I think she blames Poppy for how Luna turned out. My backstory for the sisters is that Poppy was the fun one, the baby of the family, and the favorite, while Li was seen as too serious, with her nose always in a book, trying to make their parents proud but they were too busy fawning over Poppy to notice. Poppy got all their attention and that of boys/men until Jack came along and Li thought she had finally had one over on her sister. She had her career as a doctor and an attractive husband at her side. Only he wasn't faithful and most of their marriage has been a lie as he not only had an affair, that affair produced the child she thought they both adopted. Even if Li is unhinged (maybe that's where Luna gets it from or possibly also from grandma Sheila along with auntie Li), I honestly can almost understand it with what she's been through. When you throw in her bringing Finn back from the dead and responsible for him being alive (yet where has anyone shown her any gratitude, Finn included, but certainly not snotty entitled Steffy), Sheila swoops in and Finn softens to his biological mother. The woman who nearly killed him and would have killed him, if not for Li, along with his slattern wife. Sheila also tried to kill Li, forcing her car off a pier, and who know what would have happened to her had Bill not found her. Finn may be Steffy's lapdog but he still has some tender emotions about Sheila. He hugged her, multiple times. He attended her wedding to Deacon when he could have walked away. He's called her mom. What a slap in Li's face.

Here is the video, if anyone is interested: BL alleged that there was no sound for the video. That's clearly wrong or perhaps she didn't think audio of them was being picked up? She even says at the end that "no one will ever know what we are saying." Got that one wrong. Then she alleged that this was the scene where she claimed he kept talking out of character when it's clear she is the one pushing for them to be talking when it's supposed to just be a slow-mo romantic scene of them dancing with only the music in the background and where she claimed he ran his lips down her neck and whispered that she "smelled so good." Except that is not what happened. She was the one to bring up her spray tan and he merely reassured her by saying, it "smells good." How offended she was when he called her and Ryan "cute." Yet she could refer to him and his wife, whom he brought up, as being "sociopaths." Then the dig about his nose before he calls cut the first time. I could say more but the video speaks for itself and refutes so many of BL's claims and if she could lie like this, why, again, should I believe her? She is the type of woman that makes it hard for other women to come forward and report harassment, abuse, and/or rape. I've long thought Blake was trash since she thought it was fine and dandy to have a wedding at a plantation with her reception tables parked right in front of the slave quarters so they could be prominently featured in the background of her photos. Ryan is trash, too, for going right along with it. That they apologized after the fact and threw some money at the "problem" later doesn't excuse or negate what they did. Neither does calling it the "biggest mistake of her life" when there's her joking about her blackface incident that clearly she learned nothing from, thus the plantation wedding, and also dedicating a fashion spread on her now-defunct website to the "Antebellum." She defended known pedophile and rapist Woody Allen, who sexually abused his own daughter, Dylan, and groomed his now-wife Soon Yi, crowing about how he is "empowering to women." As a survivor of sexual abuse, I find her praise of this predator absolutely disgusting and despicable. JB may very well be a terrible person. I don't know enough about him and I don't think any of us do to know for certain, at this point. If he did harass BL, then that was absolutely not okay, no matter how terrible she is, she did not deserve that, and he deserves whatever ramifications come his way, personally and professionally. That having said, even if he did harass her, which I am questioning the veracity of her claims and not unreasonably so, given she's already been caught out in several discrepancies in this video alone, but even if she was a victim in this instance, which again, I acknowledge, she could have been, that will never erase that she is a garbage human being who has said and done some truly horrific things. Her being proven to be victimized here, which remains to be seen, isn't going to whitewash her previous racist, misogynistic behavior. I will be sorry that this happened to her but I'm not going to handwave all that's come before, which I feel is happening, to some extent, whether consciously or unconsciously, and that is also not okay. I actually hope this does go to trial so that all of the evidence and, hopefully, the truth can come out. But from what I've seen of that, I don't see it coming out in her favor. Time will tell.

Or looking guilty because she's thinking back to a certain night when she gave a stressed out Finn "mints" to help him relax for his upcoming finals but thinking that Jack will unwittingly take the fall because the DNA would show Luna and Jack share a relationship. I'm sure Li won't bother to see that it's not enough for him to be the father but a grandfather. And Jack is already a proven cheater, having produced Finn with Sheila, and Li hates Poppy for...existing...and the possibility that her son has a child with his aunt would be too much for Li and she would drive herself off the closest pier sans assistant from Sheila this time. I don't know what was fuglier. Steffy's mismatched get up. Or Luna's denim track suit. The latter was giving me BS and JT vibes.

Both?