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Its an entertaining TV Show, but not as good as when Stephanie was in it

posted 8 years ago by filmcritic-16538
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I'm British and they used to put this show on a British cable channel back in 2007 / 2008 / 2009 around that time, but they took it off the air eventually and now i just stream brand new episodes of 2016 on my Chromebook. The latest scenarios are okay, but the show overall isn't as entertaining as when Stephanie Forrester was in it. All those years ago that whole Stephanie VS Brooke circumstance was entertaining, and that Bridget / Ridge / Brooke love triangle at one point was interesting as well - i think that was around 2008 or maybe 2010.

This show isn't the same without Stephanie, i did like it when she and Brooke started to get along and Stephanie started to treat Brooke like a daughter, but the fights were intriguing as well though.

[–] cheldove 8 years ago

I've watched from Day 1 in 1987, and Stephanie was at her best in those early days. While I know a lot of people loved Stephanie, over the years she became nothing but a meddling, pathetic busy-body..A weak woman who did nothing but pine and beg for a man who truly never seemed to want her. (Eric). a man who she claimed to love so much, but didn't have desire to give him intimacy.. It wasn't until later years up to her death that the writers tried to rewrite their history, to make them seem like some great love story. I feel it was past time to get her off the show, because they didn't seem to know what to do with her anymore, other than make her an angry, frigid old woman, who often condemned women who had normal desires, especially to a man she claimed to love, but rejected. In the early days though, she was a great cast for the role, but not in the latter days. A part of me wishes they had recast her with a strong beautiful older actress who could have pulled it off. (Donna Mills comes to mind) Mills is only 2 years younger than Susan Flannery. There could have been endless possibilities with her and Eric, along with Brooke, and now Quinn.

[–] filmcritic-16538 8 years ago

Wow, you've been watching since 87, i'm glad that you told me about how the character Stephanie was before she became a troublemaker. I guess the TV Network needed to keep viewers interested, and they needed someone to bring in a lot of negativity and since Stephanie was a stable character that wasn't going anywhere for a long time, they used her to mix things up.

[–] cheldove 8 years ago

YEP.....that's exactly what they did with her. The dynamic between her and Eric worked less and less over the years, with him always being with other women like Brooke, who he married and had 2 children with, the notorious Sheila Carter from Y&R, who he married, Jackie Marone, and then Brook's Sister Donna, who he married also. I loved Eric with Jackie, and hate they took her off the show. Eric went over to her house one night to get sex, after Stephanie had refused him, telling him "that time had passed for them", and Ridge went over there and made him go home, but he had had prior history with Jackie, and they had great chemistry. For a while Stephanie was involved with Mausemo, Ridge's biological Father, but mostly they just had her dumped over and over again by Eric, until they tried to rewrite the relationship, which has always kind of bugged me. When the show started from the very beginning, he wasn't happy with her, and he was reunited with his first love from college, Beth Logan, Brooke's Mother, and he romanced Beth, and wined and dined her, and served Stephanie with divorce papers, and from that point on, all the drama began, and Stephanie was always pulling tricks and using manipulation to keep Eric with her. Not hard to see where Steffy got that from with all she did to manipulate Hope and Liam. Stephanie was not much better than Quinn, when it came to using manipulation, bribes and blackmail to get what she wanted. She had a very dark and ruthless side, that wasn't always likeable at times, but only longtime viewers will remember that and her for who she truly was!!

[–] lennonforeveragain 8 years ago

I wasn't watching when Stephanie was in her heydey. I came on board when she had just passed. I never liked the actress. She was always too cold.

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