Agreed 100% with this article. This is why no one should be surprised that B&B received no writing nominations this year, and with stories like this, shouldn't receive any next year either. Do better B&B.
I knew Audra's dismissive comments about "little miss Claire" would come back to bite her. Forget wolf, Claire is a tigress in sheep's clothing, and people will continue to take her lightly at their own peril...yes, even TGVN.
Let's just be real here: the Waffle King, a.k.a. Ridge Forrester, is a pretty rotten human being when it comes to relationships, and always has been. It was just somewhat more endearing in the Ronn Moss days because he portrayed Ridge as a charmer, and he was young enough that you could kind of excuse it to a degree. Ridge since being played by Thorsten Kaye, on the other hand, is typically gruff and has little of that charm, and is old enough that Ridge should have matured out of this nonsense. However, being a momma's.boy all his.life and now having the rest of his family ohsess over his love life makes him a waffling, indecisive manchild. It has long stopped being charming, and the best thing both Brooke and Taylor could do is cut all romantic ties with this guy forever. But of course they won't, because Ridge is a frontline B&B character whom the writers seem to love and who stories must revolve around.
Apologies for the rant, I am just so sick of this guy and his toxicity, not to mention the toxicity of his many enablers such as Eric, Steffy, Katie, etc. B&B could be so much better if they would just end this tired love triangle once and for all.
They did it this way because they know viewers were bored with "sweet Luna" but have found the Luna-tic very entertaining (or at least I have, lol) so they're milking a good thing despite the fact that they keep writing themselves into a corner with her antics. By all rights, there's no way in real life she would have gotten off the hook for her FIRST round of unhinged villainy, and now they're even more desperate to get her back on the scene after this second one. I tend to agree that amnesia would have been the way to go, at least at first, but for that to be plausible she probably would have needed to be shot in the head. But even with an amnesia angle, I still would have wanted her to eventually secretly remember and go back to her Luna-tic ways after several months, because Lisa Yamada really does play a great psycho and deserved her award nomination this year (and IMHO should easily win, on a show which got VERY few noms outside of Yamada).
I hope I'm wrong, because this feels really predictable, but I'm guessing with this being a masquerade ball and all, that it will end up with Will sleeping with the Luna-tic while thinking she's Electra.
No weirder than when Steffy used to do the exact same kind of undermining to Brooke. The blond just happens to have a larger cheerleading section these days. Is there really no other hope for a plot for these people than to shill for their partner of choice for the Waffle King? I've said it before and I'll keep saying it: DUMP THE WAFFLE KING, LADIES.
Does Taylor truly, TRULY not realize that all these accusations of Brooke and Ridge having an unhealthy, co-dependent relationship...apply just as much to HERSELF and Ridge? Holy crap, it's painful trying to decide whether Taylor or Brooke is the more self-deluded one. Let's just call it a tie. DUMP THE WAFFLE KING, LADIES.
Because if Willow got therapy, she might actually get better...which would be great for her if she was a real person, but in soapland it just means she'd be boring again.
The convo with Daniel and Danny is almost certainly about Tessa. It would be deplorable for Daniel to spill the tea that Phyllis already spilled to him when she made it clear that she probably shouldn't have told him as much as she did. I would hope Daniel wouldn't betray a confidence that easily.
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