Steffy’s Return a Big Disappointment

I have to say I was very disappointed in JMW’s return as Steffy. It’s been so long since we last saw Steffy on our screens and so much has changed story wise on the show. This was a great opportunity to bring back a strong, integral, central character to shake things up. After all she is Stephanie Forrester’s namesake. I was excited to see the spunky, savy, outgoing, confident, and beautiful Steffy we have all grown to love. I knew I shouldn’t get my hopes up and assume she’ll have an interesting storyline, because she didn’t.

What did we get?

The same doormat that is still pining away for Liam. I don’t understand what Steffy still see’s in Liam. Liam is no prize whatsoever. She was never his first choice to begin with and he has made it abundantly clear he is not leaving Ivy, matter how new their relationship is.

I’m really disappointed that the writer’s gave JMW the same type of material to work with. They always write her as a desperate, pathetic woman, constantly trying to seduce Liam back to her by using their “history” as a justifiable excuse. JMW has stated there was a specific writer she did not want writing for the character of Steffy. I can only assume that this writer is the one who keeps making her act like a desperate fool. No wonder she left the show to persue other opportunities.

The FC takeover storyline Steffy was involved in was also lame from the start. Steffy worked so hard to get her family’s company back from Bill Spencer. She would never betray her family by putting the company back into Spencer hands, whether Liam was at the helm of the company or not. The fact that she put a condition that she and Liam must be an item in order to make the deal is even more ridiculous. She should not be placing the future of her family’s business based on the sole condition that she and Liam must be romantic and business partners. It really makes her look desperate and foolish. Not to mention the proposition has no business fundamentals whatsoever, but this is soap land after all.

For a moment it seemed like Steffy had an epiphany when she was in Liam’s office and professed she still loved him. Afterwards she then said something along the lines of “maybe it’s time for me to move on then” YES STEFFY IT IS FINALLY TIME! Yet the next time we saw her she was at Liam’s in a bikini. Go figure.

The highlight of Steffy’s return was her confrontation with Rick. She made him sweat. She sat in his chair like a boss and put her feet up on the table like she owned it. She said she does love this chair, maybe she’ll want to sit in it someday. I think Rick’s black heart may have skipped a beat.

Dear writers: This actress has talent. Give her something to work with! It’s literally been years that she’s been written as a weak character constantly chasing after Liam. It’s time for her to go into a new direction and finally put Liam and their past behind her.

What do you think about JMW’s short return as Steffy? Were you happy to see her back or were you disappointed by the same recycled storyline? Do you think there is a specific writer on the show who writes her character in a certain way? What direction would you like to see Steffy go in professionally and personally? Share your comments below. 

Hope And Liam Are NOT Meant To Be!

Why does Brad Bell keep trying to make Hope and Liam out to be these long lost, star crossed lovers?! There probably aren’t two people on any soap that are more mismatched and clearly NOT meant to be!

Hope is always too quick to give up on Liam. Couldn’t she have waited a few more minutes in Paris for Liam to get there?! Couldn’t she have tried calling him? This is 2014, everyone has cell phones!

Of course, it’s always ABOUT FREAKIN HOPE. I’m tired of hearing Hope whining how “embarrassed” she was while waiting for Liam at Paris at their special spot (since when do they have a special spot in Paris anyways? This was never mentioned before). Quinn was spot on when she confronted Hope at Wyatt’s; the decision was all Hope’s to run off with Wyatt. Whether Liam got stuck in traffic, had a flight delay, or Quinn pushed Ivy into the Seine, ultimately it was HOPE who decided to leave and marry Wyatt. No one held a gun to her head and forced her to do anything she didn’t want to. She didn’t give Liam the benefit of the doubt, she didn’t believe that Liam would show. So much for their “undying love” for each other (insert eye roll here). Quinn knows Hope is “a person of morals” and thinks she will honour her marriage to Wyatt. This is why Quinn is so smug and is gloating to Liam. All opinions aside, why would someone like Quinn, want a little girl like Hope with her son? Clearly she has a divided heart for both Spencer brothers.

Liam has waffled for years between Hope and Steffy. Now Hope is waffling between Liam and Wyatt – what a freaking hypocrite. If Hope and Liam were clearly meant to be together, then they wouldn’t keep facing one obstacle after another.

If I hear someone say ‘we were robbed’ ONE MORE TIME!

Do you think Hope and Liam are star crossed lovers and deserve to be together? Which Spencer brother should Hope be with? Would love to hear your comments below!

Is Hope Logan Her Own Worst Enemy?

I am a firm believer that Hope is way too young and immature for marriage, let alone a serious relationship with Liam. Her actions as of lately have proved this. She is young, naive, childish, and living in a fairytale.

The first time Hope ran away from her problems was when she caught Liam kissing Steffy on the night of his bachelor party. Instead of confronting the situation, Hope overreacted and left Liam’s engagement ring on the mantle and ran home crying. Of course the next day she came to her senses and realized what a huge mistake breaking off the engagement was, but it was too late as Liam already turned around and proposed to Steffy on the rebound(see ‘L’ is for Loser…and Liam Spencer). By then it was already too late as he and Steffy were on their way to Aspen.

After the huge disappointment of Hope realizing she cannot marry the man of her dreams (insert eye roll here) because Steffy didn’t sign the annulment papers, is when Hope starts to crumble. She becomes paranoid that if she cannot marry Liam right away and be romantic with him, that Liam will go back to Steffy because of needs. This paranoia was encouraged by Hopes mother Brooke and Aunt Katie, who advised Hope that you do not have to be married in order to be with Liam, and that they were “already married in their hearts”, so everything and everyone else didn’t matter. Brooke and Katie despise Steffy so much, that they overlooked what the consequences of this action might do to Hope, and later both admitted they might have given Hope bad advice.

As a result of sleeping with a married man, Hope begins to see a psychiatrist, which there is nothing wrong with, but Hope should have stopped pretending to be okay around Liam and be honest with him about what is bothering her. After all, Liam left Steffy because she wasn’t honest with him and lied to him. So Hope should know better.

Then there is the whole pill situation. After promising Liam she was done with the pills and wouldn’t take anymore in order to cope with her problems, she does. While skiing in Aspen, Hope crashes into Steffy and Steffy sprains her knee. Later that day Hope and Liam have an argument because Hope took a pill due to paparazzi following her to the house and trying to take pictures of her through the blinds. I have to give credit to Liam here, because he actually stood his ground for once. He told Hope, “Since when does the opinion of strangers matter?” Why wouldn’t she tell the paparazzi to stop trespassing on private property? Why didn’t she call the police, or call him? He tells her that if she can’t take a little negativity from strangers, then how is she going to handle being Mrs. William Spencer the Third? Is he going to come home one day and find her self-medicated? All of this really hit home for Hope. Afterwards Liam goes back to the hospital to check on Steffy, and when he arrives back, there is a note on the door from Hope saying that she’s sorry that he’s disappointed in her and that she went back to LA.

Seriously Hope?!

Why are you running away from your problems again? I get that you’re disappointed in that you let Liam down. I get that you want to be on your own to think for a bit and clear your head. That’s fine. But you leave a note on the door? Why couldn’t you call him? Why couldn’t you leave him a message? Why couldn’t you wait for him to come home?

The last time Hope ran away from her problems, rather then work through it with Liam, was when she broke off her engagement with him. That resulted in Liam being with Steffy. I have a feeling there will another consequence of Hope’s recent actions in Aspen as well. After all, Liam did rip up the annulment papers after Steffy signed them, so maybe they reconciled? Maybe Liam is having second thoughts about Hope and marrying her?

What are your opinions on this matter? Do you think Hope is digging her own grave? Is she responsible for the actions that have taken place so far? Is any, or all of this, Hopes fault? I would love to hear what you think! 

'L' is for Loser….and Liam Spencer

For the life of me I can not understand what Hope and Steffy see in Liam.

Liam Spencer is far from anything special. Sure, he’s a sweet, sensitive, and down to earth kinda guy. He’s exactly the opposite of his father, Bill Spencer. Liam pretty much has both girls worshipping the ground he walks on (how he does it is anyones guess). What frustrates me is Liam’s wishy-washiness. When he’s with Hope, he is thinking about Steffy and stealing kisses behind Hope’s back. Fast forward a few months and Liam and Steffy are married. What does Liam do? Pine over Hope and steal kisses with her behind Steffy’s back. Few months after that, Liam and Hope are back together again, and he’s reflecting about his time with Steffy, and of course having a kiss or two with her behind Hope’s back.

There is no shadow of a doubt that either Hope or Steffy are entirely innocent. Both girls have flaws, have lied, and done things that they have regretted afterwards, all in the name of love to try and hold onto Liam from leaving them for the other woman. However, I feel that Liam always gets a free pass in these situations. Everyone is so bent out of shape defending either Hope or Steffy and why in fact they’re innocent. What about Liam? Most of this mess is because of him! I laugh out loud when I hear Liam talk about honesty and how he hates lies. Liam, is being completely dishonest with both of these women! He has no idea what he wants or who, and is playing with both of their emotions.

Seriously Hope, five minutes after breaking off your engagement with Liam, Liam takes your ring and proposes to Steffy! Who does that?! Why do you want to be with someone who can turn around so quickly and propose to someone else, especially when that person is Steffy?

And Steffy, pretty much the whole time you and Liam were married, he was thinking about Hope. Your husband talks about honesty, but he can’t even be honest with his own feelings. Even in Cabo, his mind kept wandering towards Hope. And even when you saw Hope in Cabo with Thomas, you tried so hard to keep Hope and Liam from bumping into each other for the fear that he would run to her. Of course that backfired horribly. Not only did he see her and start running after her (via an ATV chase) but afterwards kissed her romantically on the beach. So Liam… what were you saying about honesty again?

And not to mention, Liam was going to leave Steffy for Hope and was planning to tell her as soon as she woke up! How cold-hearted is that?! Your wife has an accident, and as soon as she opens her eyes you plan on telling her that you’re leaving her for another woman. Bill obviously caught wind of this which is why he went to such drastic measures to try and save their marriage. 

Ladies! Liam is no prize!!

Liam clearly can not stay entirely faithful to either woman. In my honest opinion, whether you are a Hope or Steffy fan, both girls deserve way better then Liam (I personally think Steffy and Bill were so hot and charismatic together, and should be the next supercouple…) What I don’t want seeing is this triangle going on for the next twenty years like with Ridge, Brooke, and Taylor! I pray to the soap gods that this won’t happen! There is so much potential with these characters exploring different avenues, both professionally and romantically. These three already take up most of the air time in an already pretty short show, so why the need of history repeating itself?

Liam (Scott Clifton) and Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) on the plane on their way to Aspen

 for Aspen Fashion Week.

What are your opinions on this matter? Do you think Liam deserves either of these two women? Do you want to see this triangle continue for the long term? 

Hope Logan in the Middle of a Public Scandal

You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

This weeks Bold and the Beautiful had Hope the centre of attention, but in a very bad way…

While on a surprised request by Marcus to meet him at Dayzee’s, Hope and Liam arrive separately and agree to keep their hands off each other while in public. Marcus proposes to Dayzee and she accepts. Hope and Liam are swept away by the sweet and romantic proposal and filled with happiness, that they without thinking share a kiss. What they don’t know is that they are seen by a mother and her young daughter Maggie, who has supported and believed in Hopes message for her HFTF line.

The mother, visibly upset, actually goes up to Hope and brings her back to reality. She calls out Hope for being with a married man while Liam is in the process of going through a divorce. She calls Hope a hypocrite for preaching about morals and values in her campaign, while in reality she does the exact opposite. The conversation gets pretty heated with Liam stepping in and defending Hope, and the mother calls out Liam for being just as guilty as Hope in this whole mess.  The woman leaves with her daughter, but not before saying that Hope is a fraud and committing adultery…

This really hits home for Hope and she becomes very upset. She excuses herself and takes one of her anti-anxiety pills.

Later on that night Hope’s attitude has done a complete 180 and she is seen as giggly and calm when talking to Liam about that nights altercation. Liam is baffled and amazed at Hope’s calm demeanor and positive attitude, and even admitted he was worried that she would be very upset and emotional. However, Hope’s calm take on the whole situation doesn’t have Stephanie fooled, because how could someone be so calm after such a verbal attack, in a matter of only an hour after it happened? Stephanie advises Brooke to keep an eye on Hope.

What Hope and Liam don’t know is that while they were at Dayzee’s, Maggie took a picture of Hope and Liam kissing. The next day the pictures and story is leaked that Hope is with a married man and now Hope finds herself in a worse position then she was in before.  I wonder how the public and all of Hope’s loyal fans will feel if Hope tries to justify her actions because her and Liam are “married in their hearts” and therefore what she’s doing is okay?

What’s hypocritical (and there are many) is that just a few weeks ago she had the nerve to go to Steffy and demand her to sign the annulment papers, because it’s what was best for “everyone” and Forrester. For FORRESTER. Um hello Hope…you don’t think sleeping with Steffy’s husband won’t come out, and won’t have a negative impact on Forrester?!

Suddenly waiting 6 months to be with Liam seems like a fair tradeoff then being in the spotlight of a public scandal, while being labeled a hypocrite and adulteress. Don’t you think Hope? 

I would love to hear your comments on this issue. Was Maggie's mother way out of line to insult Hope in public and publish those pictures? Or is karma beginning to catch up with Hope?

‘H’ is for Hypocrite, err I mean, Hope Logan

Oh Hope Logan.

If you were to look up the word ‘hypocrite’ in the dictionary, you would see a picture of Hope Logan beside it. This weeks Bold and the Beautiful had Hope commit adultery. For the past 2 years, Hope has been a  spokesperson for her Hope for the Future line, a line that’s about sending a message to young girls that it is okay to hold out in abstinence, that it is okay to follow your own beliefs and values, and that you shouldn’t let other people pressure you into something you’re not ready for.

However, in typical Logan fashion, they’re mantra is, “Do as I say, and not as I do.”

Hope let her insecurities get the best of her. Her aunt Katie and her mother Brooke let their hatred for Steffy overpower their love for Hope. They told her what she wanted to hear, that she and Liam were married in their hearts and that nothing else mattered. When Hope asked Katie, “What about my fans?? I can’t betray them.” Katie replied with a “They don’t have to know what happens behind closed doors”. What a great aunt she is! Remind me to never go to her for advice!

But before Hope goes off to sleep with Steffy’s husband, she tries one more time to get Steffy to sign the annulment papers. Of course Steffy said no again, for the hundredth time. That was when Hope decided to add salt to the wound, by casually telling Steffy that she and Liam were going to spend their first night together. Steffy held her ground by telling Hope that if she went ahead with this that she would be committing adultery. Of course Hope tried to justify that what she was going to do wasn’t wrong, that she and Liam love each other and would have been married already if it weren’t for Steffy, and that they were married in their hearts already. Long story short, Hope goes to Liam’s and they have sex that night.

Sorry Hope. You can try and beat around the bush all you want, but the fact is, Liam IS STILL MARRIED and you slept with a MARRIED MAN. Not only did you sleep with a married man, your FIRST TIME was with a married man! You can NEVER go back in time to change that! You can try and sugar coat it all you want, but the fact is you slept with a married man, and you weren’t ready. You tried to be everything your mother is not. You tried so hard to be the exact opposite of her and to do something good for yourself. But in the end, you listened to her bad advice and you ended up doing something typical Brooke would do. It’s sad to see because the morning after Hope is torn up with guilt for sleeping with a married man, and when Brooke asks her what she wanted to tell Liam last night, it was “To stop.” Maybe Brooke will realize what she has done? Nah, that’s wishful thinking.

Hope sleeping with Liam was a horrible way for her to lose her virginity. She listened to her aunt and mother, who were pressuring Hope into sleeping with Liam as a way to stick it to Steffy. Hope should have followed her heart and done what was right for HER, not what everyone else THOUGHT was right for her. It was bad enough that she was going around telling everyone and bragging to Steffy, that she was going to sleep with Liam, and when it actually happened, it was nothing like she thought it would be and now she is full of guilt and remorse.

Can’t say I pity her, she got exactly what she wanted. 

What are your opinions on this subject matter? I would love to hear what you think. Do you think Hope is innocent in this mess or not?