It makes me really sad to say this, but this show has gone so downhill. I really hope it can be renewed for many more years to come, but with writing like this lately I am starting to lose hope.
Just to make myself perfectly clear, I am not surprised whatsoever that Brooke and Bill do the deed and betray Katie. Not surprised at all. Brooke is even more weak without a man in her life. We get it. She always gets what she wants and steals unavailable men. She has slept through her children's men more than once - betraying Bridgette by sleeping with Deacon, betraying Hope by sleeping with Oliver, and now betraying her own sister by sleeping with her husband. She's starting to run out of family members to screw with (pun intended). This comes as no surprise at all, and I'm glad Taylor called her out what and who she is.
What really disappoints me is that the writers would go down this road. You can clearly tell they're running out of fresh, exciting, new ideas because they keep rehashing history over and over again. Brooke's Bedroom? Again? Been there done that. Brooke breaking up ANOTHER marriage *Gasp!* Been there done that. Brooke's holier-than-thou attitude? Still there, and done that. Brooke playing the victim and justifying that she has done "nothing wrong"? Definitely been there and done that. No one is surprised or cares who Brooke sleeps with and betrays, it's way too played out. Writers are you taking notes? You need to listen to the fans, as the fans determine the fate of your show.
And that brings me on to my next point. Who's writing this crap? Apparently Katherine Kelly Lang is behind the BRILL (Brooke+Bill) storyline. Ummm.... who put her in charge of writing and what writing credentials does she have? No wonder this storyline sucks and nobody likes it. Can you not come up with a more original idea?
This show is severely lacking the PASSION and LUSTRE it once used to have. Everybody is so sick of Brooke/Bill, Steffy/Liam, Hope/Liam. These storylines are so recycled I wonder how the actors themselves don't get bored replaying the same lines over and over again? Why is Katherine Kelly Lang, a non-Emmy winner, getting all the attention and calling all the shots? Yes there are Brooke fans. But fan bases of every OTHER character on this show way outnumber her.
Heather Tom is a phenominal and multi-winner of several Emmy's. Her talents are not being used on this 17 minute show. She has stated herself in interviews that she has loved the Katie/Bill/Steffy triangle. STILL was a goldmine and had ratings through the roof. If it is true that Katherine Kelly Lang and Ronn Moss' jealously of STILL's popularity and potential super couple status is what forced Brad Bell to cut the ropes....then that alone says a lot.
Writer's if you're readying this - please listen to what you're loyal and long time view fans are trying to tell you. We don't want to see anymore of BRILL, STEAM, or LOPE. Give us something exciting and different then repeated storylines. The relationships between Rick/Maya/Caroline and Taylor/Eric are growing on me and I'm curious to see where it goes. But the other actors noted above need to be given some justice as they dominate a good portion of screen time and a lot of fans are disappointed. If you don't believe me, then just pick one of the many soap boards out there and you will easily find on the first page a thread about how someone threw up watching the afterglow of Brooke & Bills affair, or how someone FF button is wearing out because all they do is skip through STEAM or LOPE scenes.
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What are you thoughts about the current storylines? The direction the show is taking? The influence Katherine Kelly Lang has in writing her own storylines?
