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Monzo

Monzo

Telly Talk Enthusiast
Spelling Bee Liam and Hope should be more worried about Douglas roaming unsafe terrain in the dark than talking to him about Brooke's latest stunt. It's not the first time she's kissed a man other than her husband.

If you were to ask me who the biggest spoiled brat in US soap operas is, the obvious answer would be GH's Charlotte, but actually it's Douglas. I'm curious how he will be as an adult.
 
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DallasFanForever

Telly Talk Supreme
Monzo said:
It's not the first time she's kissed a man other than her husband
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Someone should really go back and count from the very beginning cause I am curious to know just exactly how many times this makes now.
 
Emelee

Emelee

Telly Talk Warrior
Poor Douglas will be so screwed up as an adult. He's got multiple mothers, fathers, grandmas and grandpas. His daddy Ridge was actually his grandpa Ridge. His cousin Phoebe is now his sister Beth. He's allowed to wander around on the properties without anyone knowing where he is. He's told to lie by Thomas and tell the truth by Brooke, Hope & Liam. But then suddenly when Brooke has a secret, he no longer should always tell the truth. But now Steffy, Thomas and Ridge wants him to tell the truth.

Can they possibly screw him up more?
 
Monzo

Monzo

Telly Talk Enthusiast
Does anyone remember Amber and Becky? The actresses who played cousins at the time have become best friends. Recently Adrienne Frantz told a sad story including Marissa Tait:

"...I had to have emergency surgery and my kidneys had already shut down, plus other organs were shutting down as well. I went into congestive heart failure and I spent 10 days in ICU. I remember lying in the hospital room and thinking, ‘I’m never going to see my kids again.’ I knew if I fell asleep that night, I would never wake up. So in the middle of the night I called my best friend, Marissa Tait, who lives in New York, and I told her she needed to be on the phone with me so I wouldn’t fall asleep, and she was, for the rest of the night. I finally started to feel better and I’m lucky to be alive. It took a while for me to recover from all of that but I’m better now.”
 
Monzo

Monzo

Telly Talk Enthusiast
I hope there isn't a single B&B viewer who thinks "I need to do something about my alcoholism, but if I have to take my partner to the AA meeting, I won't go". Why can't B&B tell an addiction realistically for just one time? I remember with horror Steffy's addiction to pills, which ended sooner than it started.

I don't like Grace, but now I get why she was married to Reese. And I still don't like Sheila's flashbacks, Sheila should move forward and finally do something.
 
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DallasFanForever

Telly Talk Supreme
Monzo said:
I hope there isn't a single B&B viewer who thinks "I need to do something about my alcoholism, but if I have to take my partner to the AA meeting, I won't go". Why can't B&B tell an addiction realistically for just one time? I remember with horror Steffy's addiction to pills, which ended sooner than it started.

I don't like Grace, but now I get why she was married to Reese. And I still don't like Sheila's flashbacks, Sheila should move forward and finally do something.
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This show sure loves its flashbacks now, doesn’t it? I’m not sure why that is but they love to show the same scenes again and again. I always thought flashbacks should be done sparingly and when necessary but they seem to flashback to scenes that really don’t even warrant one.
 
Monzo

Monzo

Telly Talk Enthusiast
I get that Days sometimes airs flashbacks for minutes to save money, but do short flashbacks on B&B also save money? Or do writers actually assume that viewers need the flashbacks to remember what's going on in Sheila's, Brooke's or Carter's mind?
 
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DallasFanForever

Telly Talk Supreme
Monzo said:
I get that Days sometimes airs flashbacks for minutes to save money, but do short flashbacks on B&B also save money? Or do writers actually assume that viewers need the flashbacks to remember what's going on in Sheila's, Brooke's or Carter's mind?
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Not sure about Carter but there’s no way humanly possible to know what goes on in the minds of Sheila and Brooke
 
Daniel Avery

Daniel Avery

Admin
I used to think an over-reliance on flashbacks was a sign that the production team thought the viewers were stupid, or at least forgetful. They felt they had to spoon-feed every detail of the story to the viewer because otherwise they would be lost. As people shifted to more sporadic viewing I thought it was their effort to show the viewer something important they may have missed. There is also the very probable idea that padding out the episodes with flashbacks can save them a few dollars. If the episode runs a bit short they can just drop in a few flashbacks rather than filming an extra scene. If the episode runs long, they can just leave out a flashback they originally planned to employ.

As the only half-hour soap, you'd think B&B would rely on flashbacks the least. One of the main reasons Bill Bell always preferred the half-hour format was because he knew an hour-long show would have to employ a lot of padding techniques--as we see on flashback-dependent Days and annoyingly repetitive scenes/dialogue on GH/Y&R.
 
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