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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Torrance" data-source="post: 217066" data-attributes="member: 719"><p>I loved Susan Flannery. But Kim Matula's Hope and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood's Steffy fighting over Scott Clifton's Liam is a gazillion times better, for me, than the Brooke-Ridge-Taylor triangle. First, all three actors in the younger triangle are very good, and the characters are much more complicated than the old triangle. Brooke (whom I loved in the Bill Bell years) was the sex kitten who kept hoping Ridge would dump his wife even though he never ever suggested he was tempted, Taylor was the preaching hypocrite who accused Brooke of sleeping with all the Forrester men while she herself went through all the Forresters <em>and</em> all the Logans (and had cheated on Ridge with James), and Ridge was just a moron who loved to stare at the camera with his mouth open: "Logaaaan...Tayyylor....Moooother..."</p><p></p><p>I appreciate how they gave Hope all these insecurities and hang-ups about sex because of her mother's history, how Steffy was willing to fight dirty, use sex, and not be a hypocrite like her mother, and jump into the bedroom line as if she were Brooke's daughter--who was her stepmother for years after all. Also how Liam managed to be non-committal to both without actually dumping either one hurtfully (Stephy and Bill's fling was the exception).</p><p></p><p>My biggest problem with B&B is how it burns through both talent and characters. I was watching the Spectra/Forrester competition in Monte Carlo, and the actor who played Thomas was amazing, as was the role. Why turn him into a whiny psychopath? Not to mention Rome Flynn as Zende who was quite a great pairing of role and actor. Sure, the actor decided to leave, but why get rid of a core character? </p><p></p><p>Also, the show is incapable of moving some characters to more age-appropriate plots. Brooke is a mother and a grandmother. Surely she can be involved in their lives more (hello, Rick and Bridget?) and not be in yet another triangle with Ridge (and currently Shauna). Even Pythagoras would have cried, "enough." </p><p></p><p>Not to mention, with everything that Thomas went through, and before with Steffy and her fling with Bill, how did their mother not appear? Even recast, Taylor should have showed up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Michael Torrance, post: 217066, member: 719"] I loved Susan Flannery. But Kim Matula's Hope and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood's Steffy fighting over Scott Clifton's Liam is a gazillion times better, for me, than the Brooke-Ridge-Taylor triangle. First, all three actors in the younger triangle are very good, and the characters are much more complicated than the old triangle. Brooke (whom I loved in the Bill Bell years) was the sex kitten who kept hoping Ridge would dump his wife even though he never ever suggested he was tempted, Taylor was the preaching hypocrite who accused Brooke of sleeping with all the Forrester men while she herself went through all the Forresters [I]and[/I] all the Logans (and had cheated on Ridge with James), and Ridge was just a moron who loved to stare at the camera with his mouth open: "Logaaaan...Tayyylor....Moooother..." I appreciate how they gave Hope all these insecurities and hang-ups about sex because of her mother's history, how Steffy was willing to fight dirty, use sex, and not be a hypocrite like her mother, and jump into the bedroom line as if she were Brooke's daughter--who was her stepmother for years after all. Also how Liam managed to be non-committal to both without actually dumping either one hurtfully (Stephy and Bill's fling was the exception). My biggest problem with B&B is how it burns through both talent and characters. I was watching the Spectra/Forrester competition in Monte Carlo, and the actor who played Thomas was amazing, as was the role. Why turn him into a whiny psychopath? Not to mention Rome Flynn as Zende who was quite a great pairing of role and actor. Sure, the actor decided to leave, but why get rid of a core character? Also, the show is incapable of moving some characters to more age-appropriate plots. Brooke is a mother and a grandmother. Surely she can be involved in their lives more (hello, Rick and Bridget?) and not be in yet another triangle with Ridge (and currently Shauna). Even Pythagoras would have cried, "enough." Not to mention, with everything that Thomas went through, and before with Steffy and her fling with Bill, how did their mother not appear? Even recast, Taylor should have showed up. [/QUOTE]
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