Like the Logan tramps, Brad is putting his money on the next generation.

Well I, like hundreds of thousands of other viewers, sat back and bided our time to see just how Hope was going to be introduced and if it's going to be done right. Yeah, the Nick/Sandy/Bridget story is great, watching Ridge squirm is fantastic, and we have Taylor back on the set, but tell the truth, didn't we all want to see just how this Hope introduction was going to be handled? If Hope was going to be a huge rebel or be a soft little sweetie that Ridge just adored?

A little background on Hope for those who only know part of the story or bits and pieces. Hope is the bastard child of a nasty affair Brooke had with Bridget's husband, Deacon. She couldn't keep her hands off of her son-in-law, told Bridget to her face that her baby's father was her soul mate and that he was the only man who ever truly understood her, and that she was deeply in love with him. Ridge who??? She carried on an affair with Deacon for months and months right in the halls of Forrester Creations and even gave him a job there as a high up executive to cover her sins. Married Whip Jones for the same reason. Bridget found out via baby monitor and lowered the boom on her mother. I will still never forget the pitiful, pathetic sight of Brooke sitting on the floor after pushing out her love child, begging it's stepmother (her daughter) to forgive her. Called her “Hope”, thinking this child was finally going to be the one thing that matured Brooke and helped her focus on her children for once in her life. That, of course, was Stephanie's idea. She even offered to HELP Brooke with it. So did we see any of that in Hope's introduction? Nope.

I was a little disappointed. All I saw was “Dad” this and “Dad” that and Hope thinking she's entitled to walk the halls of Forrester Creations because her Mom and “Dad” work there. No hint or even tiniest bit of a rebel Hope should be after finding out how she was conceived. She's the product of a disgusting affair her mother had with her sister's husband and I'm sorry, Brad, but WE NEED TO SEE THAT. We need to see some bitterness between Hope and Brooke. We need to see some rebellion in Hope. You're missing a HUGE HUGE opportunity to bring some sass into this show, some real conflict, some decent stories. This whitewashing of Brooke's past has gone too far!!!!!!!. I'm hoping you're just waiting until the proper time to show some kind of tension between Brooke and Hope, or Hope and Bridget, and I'm damned sure hoping the writers are going to have Steffy REMIND Hope of just who her parents really are and how disgusting their actions were as well as how Hope just really doesn't belong at Forresters.

I KNOW, I KNOW, I'm going to get tons of angry emails telling me Hope is just as much entitled to be at the company as Steffy is. Wrong. Steffy was right on the money, the Logans are flocking in like cockroaches and slowly shoving the rightful heirs of the company out. Forrester Creations is Thomas and Steffy's legacy, even RJ's, not Hope's. I can see how bringing Hope in to the company to continue the Brooke/Taylor hate-diatribe is obviously working, but the writers are NOT going to get away with wiping out Hope's conception or making us believe that Hope and Brooke are so lovey dovey. I want to see Ridge turn on Hope to protect his daughter, I want to see Ridge side with Steffy because she's his flesh and blood, and I want to see Brooke FINALLY, FINALLY get kicked in the teeth. WHEN DOES BROOKE PAY FOR THE CRAP SHE'S PULLED????? More on that later.

So Hope's now in the company, Katie's using her to get at Steffy and we have a possible triangle happening. I'm actually enjoying the hell out of the show lately, and the ratings have even gone up proving that most of the viewers are also sick and tired of the Logan crapola running around. Did you notice that ratings were shooting up on the days Bill and Steffy were trash-talking the Logans??? Somebody at writers headquarters better remember that. If Hope and Steffy are the new Brooke and Taylor, then somebody better make sure history is remembered because us old dogs aren't going to buy into it if we're not placated with at least some kind of memories about the past. We're not going to stand by and watch Hope be turned into this loving, sweet little Taylor-ite and not give a darn about her mother screwing her sister's man to conceive her, nor are we going to accept Ridge's so-called 'love' for his stepdaughter after the disgust he had for Brooke when he found out how Hope was brought in the world. Somebody up there better remember history or the future isn't going to HAVE any hope in it.

Here's some random thoughts about last week....

1. 1. I love I love I love I LOVE watching Nick and Sandy. Those two actors play so brilliantly off of each other, it's amazing. Too bad the writers have decided to keep Bridget with Nick, a triangle there would be so exciting as well as Sandy being a much better partner for Nick chemistry-wise. I like Nicket, but I sure wouldn't mind seeing Sanick. Those two sizzle on my screen.

2. Uh...can someone give me a valid reason on why Owen and Jackie are still together, and why they've reduced Brandon Beamer to a boy toy and his character to a poodle-walker for a sixtyish year old woman? Owen has absolutely no future. None. No chance of fatherhood, no possible stories except for a possible affair, nothing. It seems the writers want nothing out of Brandon Beamer except for body shots and eye candy, and he's too good of an actor to be so wasted. Bust up Jowen already. BB is wasted.

3. All hail the new princess royal, Steffy Forrester. MAN, is she ever her grandmother's spitting image, or what??? I love what they've done to the character of Steffy, and I also enjoy the hell out of the fact that she says she's NOT a Logan, but she's considering possibly hitting on Bill Spencer sometime soon to try to bust up his marriage. There's a little bit of Brooke in Steffy, more than she's willing to admit.

4. Just WHO in the hell does Brooke think she is, anyway, throwing the word 'impulsive' down on Steffy???? That trash has no business even breathing the same air as Steffy after the way Hope was brought in the world, after she mounted her other son in law before even checking on her own kids straight from the airport, and after the egg dropping scandal. HEY BRAD, WHEN is Brooke going to lose something? When is she going to go through heart ache and pain she's caused other people???? I'm sure hoping you got some trouble coming up for Bridge, because this is really grating the nerves of your long time viewers who are sick of continuously seeing Brooke Logan trash people and end up getting what she wants every time. The only way most of us will accept this new Hope garbage is if Hope fully knows how she got put here and she holds even a small grudge against her mother. Does Hope know about the egg drop crap? Does she know her mother was kissing her uncle Nick just hours before hitting her knees begging her 'daddy' to marry her? READ IT ONE MORE TIME, BRAD. WE'RE NOT GOING TO ACCEPT THIS LOVEY DOVEY RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BROOKE AND HOPE. Isn't going to happen. Brooke may have turned out to be the most loving mother ever now that she got her WidgeyPoop, but there's no way us mothers across the nation are going to put up with the total whitewashing of Brooke Logan over the egg drop crap and Hope's birth. Someone better fix those fast or the ratings are going to start dropping AGAIN.

5. 5. That being said, I LIKE the introduction of Hope vs Steffy. I think it's great for the future of the show to have another round of Logan vs Forrester. That's why I'm hoping Brad knows he has to address the Hope Conception thing and the Egg Drop crap to cause Brooke SOME pain or Hope's future on the show is going to end up like the other Logans, despised, and trashed. I like Hope. But I want to see Brooke's daughter, not a mousy little luuuv everyone twit. I want to see rebel, I want to see what we all know Hope should be like knowing her mother is trash even if she HAS reformed.

6. Ok, I finally figured out that I liked Bill and Katie together because I simply adore Bill Spencer. I guess THAT little fantasy has been shot to hell, because I cringe every single time the hypocritical, smug, pathetic Katie crosses my screen. I can honestly say there's a tie right now on which Logan I despise the most, Donna or Katie. Notice I didn't put Brooke in that mix. Well, I didn't because right now I'm actually liking watching Brooke because she's no longer chasing married men or hurting other people. BORING, but at least she's not turning my stomach watching her anymore. I do admit also that I loved watching Brooke Vs Taylor in the Matriarch modes, Brooke the Logan matriarch and Taylor the Forrester matriarch both protecting their cubs. Too bad Brooke is a laughing stock and her daughter is a bastard child whereas Taylor has always put her kids first and her daughter Steffy and son Thomas are the rightful heirs of Forrester Creations. Pitiful, isn't it, that the two families, the Logans and Forresters, are headed by Brooke and Taylor and that the entire Logan family has done nothing but infiltrate the Forrester family like a bunch of cockroaches? At any rate, at least we know Brad's playing on the next generation of Logan/Forrester hatred. If the Queen ever DOES come back to Forresters, Hope better look out.

7. Speaking of the Queen, HEY BRAD, her butting into Ridge's love life is getting kinda old. DON'T EVEN go there to try to throw Tridge fans a bone, we're done with Tridge. We want no more Tridge. You had a good chance to bring back passion, romance and real love in Tridge and you blew it. You wanted Bridge, KEEP IT. Keep Stephanie out of Ridge's love life, too.

I'm waiting, Brad. I'm watching. I'm putting faith in the fact that the writers are going to make sure us old dogs are well fed because the future of the show IS NOT in Hope, it's with us old dogs who have vested years into the soap. The new generation isn't as loyal and dedicated as us, the newer viewing generation doesn't have any history involvement in the show. I realize you want to bring in new viewers and a new generation of Bold fans, but if you keep shoving us older ones to the side to do it, you're going to be left with a bunch of fickle fans who will dump the show the minute Sex in the City gets even hotter. We're watching. And Waiting

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