Brooke Logan returns to B&B

Katherine Kelly Lang tweeted a picture of her B&B scripts and welcome back flowers she received from the show. Katherine took a small break to do Dancing with the Stars Italy. She began filming in December and her episodes are set to air in February.

Does Ridge Stop Brooke and Bill From Getting Married in Abu Dhabi?

In this week’s B&B, Brooke, Bill, and Ridge travel to Dubai and Abu Dhabi!

It feels like we’ve been waiting forever to watch these scenes air, and so far it has well been worth the wait. The aerial shots that were shown on the show were absolutely amazing and beautiful. I enjoyed the part where Brooke and Bill take a helicopter tour of Dubai to see the various sites and attractions Dubai has to offer. We briefly saw the tallest building in Dubai, which Bill jokingly said was one of his gifts to Brooke, a man-made island in the shape of a palm tree, and various other architecturally beautiful buildings throughout. It was nice to also include a few brief facts about Dubai, such as how almost everything in Dubai is man-made. It was short and sweet – just enough to give us a bit of taste and insight and not too long to bore us or lose interest. Just watching the scenes that were filmed in Dubai and Abu Dhabi was enough to make us wish we could visit!

Bill plans a surprise wedding for Brooke and whisks her away to Abu Dhabi to get married. Ridge is very upset that Brooke actually goes ahead with marrying Bill (see Ridge and Bill Fight Over Brooke ). He wants to stop Brooke from making a huge mistake but doesn’t know how to convince her- but Quinn does…

Leave it to crazy Quinn to always have tricks up her sleeve (after all Quinn Fuller is Certifiably Crazy). She doesn’t want Brooke and Bill to get married just as much as Ridge does. She is always manipulating situations and people’s emotions in order to get what she wants.  Quinn “accidently” sends Ridge a selfie of her and Bill, taken shortly after they had slept together, fully knowing this will engage Ridge and give him the ammunition he needs to stop the wedding. After a few words with Quinn, he races off on the Forrester jet to Abu Dhabi to stop the wedding, hoping that he’s not too late.

These scenes with Thorsten Kaye as Ridge running around Abu Dhabi trying to find Brooke are one of my favorites. I loved when he was on the speed boat in the water searching for Brooke and also when he was running throughout Abu Dhabi. It kind of gave me a soapy James Bond/007 feel, Ridge Forrester style! And I loved every minute of it!

The episode ends in a cliffhanger when Ridge finally finds Brooke and Bill while they are in the middle of exchanging their vows and he yells “Logan!” Brooke and Bill turn around and look shocked to see Ridge there. By the way, where was Justin Barber throughout all of this? Bill brought Justin along on purpose, to be on the lookout for any interferences or disruptions. If he was doing his job he would have known Ridge was on his way or already there! Maybe Justin was jet lagged and still in LA time, and therefore was sleeping on the job? He better have a good excuse because Bill is going to be pissed.

In traditional soap fashion, we knew Ridge was going to find Brooke and Bill, the writing was on the wall; Bill saw Brooke the day of the wedding. Bill, how many weddings have you had and been to? You should know by now that it is always bad luck to see the bride before the wedding!

What did you think of this week’s episodes that were filmed in Dubai and Abu Dhabi? Do you think Ridge will be able to stop the wedding and convince Brooke that Bill is not the man she thinks he is? What do you think Brooke’s reaction will be when Ridge shows her the photo of Bill and Quinn?

Ridge and Bill Fight Over Brooke

Looks like Ridge is still the pompous ass we all know and love.

On this week’s B&B Ridge had the nerve to take off Brooke’s engagement ring right off her finger! He took it off because he didn’t approve of Brooke and Bill’s relationship and of Bill being a bigger presence in RJ’s life by being his step-dad.

Last time I checked, I don’t remember anyone asking for Ridge’s opinion?

Ridge then has the nerve to go to Bill’s office where he repeats himself all over again on how he doesn’t want Bill anywhere near Brooke and RJ. He pretty much tells Bill that he is not good enough for Brooke and RJ and to stay far away from them, and that he and Brooke will always be connected. Bill also shared his two cents with Ridge about how he has always mistreated Brooke over the years and that he cannot dictate anymore what she can and cannot do. Bill loved pointing out the fact that Ridge ran away to Paris over a text message Brooke sent to Deacon, and conveniently decided to come back to LA over a year later as he pleased, in which Ridge said something along the line of “it’s more complicated than that”.  These scenes between Ridge and Bill I find entertaining and pretty funny. Bill has a lot of one- liners to Ridge that are funny, like “go sketch another dress to make yourself feel better.” Both actors play very well against each other. Things then start to get really heated when Ridge takes a swing at Bill and they start fighting, right as Brooke walks in the door (Really now Ridge, why don’t you tell Bill how you really feel?). Brooke starts screaming for them to stop but they don’t listen. Brooke pulls Ridge off Bill and she steps in between them to stop the fight. 

I’m sure deep down Brooke loves all this attention that she’s getting from both Bill and Ridge. It’s still unclear at this point if she’s marrying Bill on the rebound of Ridge and Katie’s engagement, or because Bill is her destiny. I have a feeling that the one who is going to be hurt the most out of this situation is Katie. Poor Katie – she is always the third wheel in any relationship. If you recall, there was Bill and Steffy’s relationship, Bill and Brooke’s affair, Bill and Brooke’s lovechild, now Bill and Brooke’s engagement and spur of the moment wedding out of the country, and also Ridge trying to protect Brooke from Bill. Even now, with Katie being engaged to Ridge, he is still going out of his way to protect Brooke.  That last point has to bother Katie.

Do you think Ridge was out of line to take Brooke’s engagement ring? Does Ridge have a say on Bill being a bigger presence in RJ’s life? Did he have the right to confront Bill and to tell him to back off? Do you think Katie will get hurt from Ridge trying to protect Brooke?

B&B Dubai and Abu Dhabi 2014 Update: Katherine Kelly Lang tweets pics!

B&B travels to Dubai and Abu Dhabi! Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan) tweeted some pictures on her Twitter of her and fellow Bold and the Beautiful cast members filming on location in UAE! Scenes have been filmed in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, and are set to air May 23rd to June 6th! I'm incredibly excited to see these episodes and can only imagine what happens between Brooke/Bill/Ridge!

Katherine Kelly Lang's first day of shooting

Beautiful mosque in Abu Dhabi

Ridge, Brooke, and Bill

Palace in Abu Dhabi

Katherine Kelly Lang on a beach in Abu Dhabi

Are you excited to see Bold and the Beautiful on location in the Emirates? What do you think happens between Brooke/Bill/Ridge? State your opinions in the comments below! 

Brooke's Bedroom aka Brooke's Brothel

I have returned from a long hiatus after seeing today's cringe-worthy, vomit-inducing, fast-forwarding episode of today's B&B....

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. 

Brooke and Bill lying to themselves and trying to fool Katie into thinking that there is "nothing going on between us"

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?