Take Two 9/24/2013 By Alwayshuntress Today was alternate reality world on The Bold and the Beautiful, which these days is feeling more and more like The Blah and the Boring. In this reality, Liam and Hope are blissfully happy and excitedly planning to have their wedding immediately, if not sooner, as though a judge doesn’t actually have to even receive the signed annulment papers, much less sign off on them. This is also the new reality where Quinn has magically shifted from despising the very air that Hope breathes and thinking she’s a nosy waste of space to being her biggest fan. Apparently, after Googling Hope, Quinn found nothing to give her pause and every reason to believe she’s an amazing role model with fantastic morals. I don’t know about you, but I know women with sugar daddies who have more principles than Hope… although it looks more and more like Quinn’s going down that path herself. I have come to the conclusion that, while Quinn may have reasons to despise Mr ex-$Bill Spencer, she and their son are far more like him than she wants to admit. Every time she mentions being kicked out of Forrester, I swear I see desperation and dollar signs flash in her eyes as her hands curl up into grasping little claws – all the better to hook herself the most gullible Forrester of them all. I’d feel sorry for Eric if it wasn’t all so predictable and, after the way he treated Taylor, well-deserved. With all the yammering Brooke, Hope and Liam (and even Wyatt and Quinn) have been doing about how Liam’s never had any competition, I guess we’re also living in the alternate reality where Oliver never existed. The one where Oliver never got Hope’s top off while Lope were still together. The one where Oliver never lied about Amber’s pregnancy and never whisked Hope off to a cabin to propose to her… all while Lope were together. Of course, I guess the rewrite of that history shouldn’t surprise me since that entire, entitled, whiny, self obsessed era has been glossed over completely in favor of the new reality where everything bad happened TO Hope and she was never responsible or a willing participant in any of it. This world has lately become known as the Blame It On Liam reality, which used to be known as the Blame It On Steffy-verse. In this alternate reality world, Hope once again puts Hope for the Future ahead of her wedding plans to Liam (apparently never learning is a key character trait) without ever considering that just maybe that could end poorly. After all, isn’t putting off the wedding after promising otherwise what gave Steam their chance to bond? You’d think Hope would, at the very least, insist her fiance come along – after all, what could be a more romantic mini-break than Mexico? But no – that would require neurons firing at a slightly faster rate of speed than comatose. So instead of marrying Liam ASAP like she told him she would, she gets set to put off the wedding and hop a plane with the one person he absolutely wants no where near her – Brother Dearest. In this version of LA, Liam also apparently has absolutely no deep or lingering feelings to resolve about his wife, their dead child or being summarily given away like a two-day old Christmas toy that suddenly just isn’t that much fun. In fact, this Liam lives in the alternate reality where all of these things are good things that have landed him exactly where he actually WANTS to be – with the woman he has always wanted (even, apparently, when he happily chose someone else), who is coincidentally also the only option left and who feels like the death of his child was a gift just for her (sounds remarkably like another older Blonde Morality Free Zone). Regifted Liam has done more back-flips and about faces on the topic of which woman he wants to spend his life with that I’m beginning to get a case of severe vertigo. We get to experience yet another round of this when he sits down in Brooke’s living room and begins discussing all the ways he’s let down his perfect dream woman. His desperation to convince Brooke (or himself?) of his utter and total commitment to Hope and subsequent complete recovery from a second failed marriage and the death of his child is almost comical if it wasn’t such a disservice to Steam’s fans and an obvious rewrite. We’ve gone around the merry-go-round and down the rabbit hole while watching the gears turn in all of their itty bitty little brains, but honestly, it’s all I can do just to watch in awe at the mental gymnastics that seem to be required just to buy into any of this… even a little. Of course, there is some solace to be had because whenever anyone on a soap is as determined to ignore reality (and I think it’s safe to say everyone on the show is currently doing just that) as this group is… it invariably comes back to bite them in the butt – hard. I’m seriously looking forward to reality catching up with each and every one of them. How about you? bbuniverse.net/2013/09/25/take-two-9242013/
Posted on: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:16:57 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015