Ironically, Ridge has never seemed as benevolently fraternal as he does here. He is so sweet and understanding with Bridget as he gently tries to see how confused she is, without hurting what is clearly a very vulnerable girl. Of course, they’re going to ruin it all by having him reciprocate those feelings soon enough. . .🙄
I agree! If only the storyline could have ended here, with Ridge giving Bridget brotherly advice and making her see that her confused feelings were really only a reaction to everything she had been through, and that they would always be brother and sister to each other. Then it would actually have worked.
@@FayeIL Ridge still came across a little ick sometimes.. Always touching her hair and face.. But I think that's just his natural way, bc he isn't an actor really so he interacts will all adult females the same, whether they are supposed to be related or not. Even calling bridgit "princess", which I don't recall him ever doing when she was growing up, seems ick. But I do appreciate him saying the right things to help Bridgit's obviously crazy mixed up mind. They really should have ended it here and had him help bridgit pack for coppenhagen (take 2). I hope someone at least calls the school and tells them to give the scholarship to someone else who actually wants to be a doctor more than they are in love wit their former father /stepfather / half bro
😂 there was a comic quartet in Italy in the early 90's which mocked Ridge and Thorne characters. (The first ) Thorne was dumb and slow always the last to know, and Ridge conceited and self absorbed. The sketch ended always with Ridge saying: "perché so' troppo figo" in the Roman accent; something like "because I'm so cool" 😂 Edit Bold was aired for the first time in Italy in 1990
Ridge's explanation to Bridget about her feelings for him, and how they are a result of turmoil and confusion she has experienced lately, actually makes a lot of sense (and validates *@Faye's* theory about Bridget's state of mind).
@@TriniT21 I’m seeing that too. Turns out Bridget has become her mother…😮 First there was Deacon and now Ridge…where Bridget falls head over heels for someone out of the blue? 😬
Thanks for noting that! Although once again I want to emphasize I loathed this storyline - as an adult, I can see how they could build a narrative for Bridget being so screwed up by her crazy childhood, then by her mother sleeping with Deacon, then by finding out Ridge is not her brother - combined with her finding a close family tableau for the first time in Ridge and Taylor’s home - you can almost see how she arrived where she did, sick as it was. But of course, the point of the story never was to explore Bridget’s psychology, it’s to degrade Bridget and Ridge down below Brooke’s level. Hence the story we’re about to get.
Susan is such a good actress. When she first entered Eric’s home thinking he knew the truth about Ridge, you can see the grief not only etched in her face, but somehow carried in her body, the way she moved, even the way she poured her drink. Yet she didn’t overdramatize or oversell it. Really well done. Her wistful, somewhat sad smile when she told Eric she loved him was equally poignant. On the other hand, this budding retcon of Eric being the strong supportive paterfamilias upon whose shoulders the entire family wellbeing rests is one of Brad’s most obnoxious and aggravating examples of lazy writing yet.
That's exactly what makes a good actor. You have to be able to feel and believe in the respective situation. And Susan can do that like no one else on this show. That's why I often compare it to John McCook, who is unable to make pain or disappointment believable. For me she was the heart and soul of the show.
@@FayeIL yes yes yes to SF. One can react without over reacting. And then there's RM who never knows how to react so he doesn't lol. I esp like the scene of Steph sitting on the couch with the fireplace in the foreground, like she knows her whole life is about to go up in flames. And well.. You know how I feel about Eric... He's literally been the worst father on the show so I don't know why they try to portray him as some kind of cornerstone. It would have been a more devastating storyline if they'd said Ridge was switched as a baby at birth and Steph wasn't really his mother
@@TriniT21This is another of Brad’s awful writing tics. He completely retcons something at the 11th hour to make a new storyline more ironic or impactful. Only it doesn’t work because Brad, *we all actually watch this show* and so we *saw* that the things you’re trying to tell us happened, never actually happened.
@@TriniT21 it probably goes to Thorne's old apartment, the one he left in 1997, and Stephanie doesn't know it's the wrong number because she hasn't tried to call him since he moved to the beach house.
Stephanie was wrong hiding that secret for months. But she is the one shocked about that reveal. Ridge is very rude at the phone. I would like to remember that Eric too was dating someone else the same time. But I guess there's anything else we can say about Ridge's paternity.
I think bridget spent her life after deacon falling for men who had something to do with brooke hoping that they would choose her... this stopped only with Owen... this is the trauma of what Deacon choosing her mother over her...
With Owen it was just a one night stand, when Nick and Agnes hurt her. Jackie is the one that told them to be in a relationship for baby Logan's sake, it didn't even last. Oscar could've been the one.
i hate when they have stephanie idolize eric he's a two timing loser. he fantasizes about brooke. goes to see her behind stephanie's back. worries about her to the point of trying to clean up her messes. he also hugs brooke right in front of her and let brooke have forrester. this is sickening to listen to stephanie kiss his ass and build him up. he doesn't deserve it. he also had more concern for brooke when she slept with his daughter's husband and had a baby by him then he did for his own daughter. he didn't even go see bridget. not saying i agree with bridget and ridge but massimo has shown more concern for ridge in the year he has known ridge was his son then eric has in a long time.
@@donnaharris2192 amen to all of this! I absolutely despise the rewrite of who is Ridge's real father. But, If I was Steph I was gleefully telling that loser Eric all about how Ridge wasn't his son. Let his while world fall apart for a change and let him go cry on Brooke's shoulder.. She wouldn't care about him and his problems anyway.
@ yup. I don’t know why these writers do this Eric is a loser. How much you want to bet this will be unforgivable even though Stephanie didn’t know till recently and didn’t say anything cause she didn’t want to hurt him. But Brooke having an affair with her son in law is forgivable to that loser Eric.
I'm still waiting on Ridge to have any other facial expression than Ridge face 😐... And to at least act like his whole world is supposedly turned upside down. Currently he's behaving as if someone told him it was Thorne who wasn't really a Forrester (meh.. 😐)
We did get a little Bitchy Ridge at the end of the episode today, and Bitchy Ridge is my favorite Ridge: Stephanie, cheerily answering her phone: “Hello!” Ridge: “Damn you, Mother.” Ridge: “Are you alone?” Stephanie: “I’m with your father.” Ridge, snarking: “Actually, you’re not.” (I admit it, I laughed! Ridge can do sarcasm!)
To me, the best part of this entire paternity reveal was the cliffhanger where Massimo went "Ridge, I'm your... (unnaturally long pause)". I was _so_ hoping for 11yo CJ to stage whisper "brother? uncle? grandma?"
@@annieo6527 😂😂😂 We needed 11 yo CJ for that moment since Ridge basically had zero reaction 😂 @Thorne is a Forrester?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sometimes when the story calls for it, like when they need to throw Macy in jail for corporate espionage, or when they need Brooke to be running after him (have you noticed Brooke has not ONCE visited the basement since she and Thorne broke up?) ...
To be fair on RM, he hasn't been given much material to work with here. We should have been getting plenty of emotional, weighty scenes with Ridge wrestling with the reality of losing his connection to the only father he has ever known. But no, speeding up the incest storyline is far more important😵💫.
Yep Eventually Deacon & Macy gets together in a little bit Thorn, much later on after Macy dies for good this time. He will get drunk and sleep with Darla. She gets pregnant. Side note Darla & CJ are married in real life. And have been since approximately 2003.
If I remember correctly Macy is very much alive when Thorne sleeps with Macy? She slaps him and demands a divorce immediately, then she moves on to Deacon?
Her not telling Eric about ridge is no where near as destructive and cruel as what Brooke did to her own daughter, and will do again. By the way, Steph was not dragging Brooke at all once hope was born. She was actually her biggest supporter and was friendly with Brooke until she once again was trying to ruin tridges marriage. Maybe you wasn’t watching those episodes.
@@blackblake3658 who was dragging Brooke about the paternity of her child? Not Bridgit, who basically delivered that child and then went off on her own, only to start defending her mother once again. And def not Steph, who was taking care of Brooke and that child like she was responsible for them, much to my annoyance. If anything, I don't find Brooke was dragged *enough* over the paternity of that child. Ppl are so pressed over Steph doing whatever she thinks is best to keep her family together, but are a-OK with Brooke doing whatever she can do tear families apart. This rewrite BTW, is clearly an attempt to bring everyone to a semblance of level with Brooke, so it doesn't make what she's done so bad and therefore forgiveable.
@@babs4848 If it's free, I will be here because I like the comment section. ❤ But I will _not_ be paying money to watch Stephanie give Brooke and Ridge her bIessing, Macy get unalived by a chandelier, and Sally lose her company to Brooke. I am hoping we'll get back to S9 soon, because I am really not that interested in watching S17 and beyond. But there are some must watch scenes right at the beginning of S17 that I wouldn't want to miss talking about with all of you, including the (unintentionally) funniest scene in the history of the show (Ridge and the furnace).
Ironically, Ridge has never seemed as benevolently fraternal as he does here. He is so sweet and understanding with Bridget as he gently tries to see how confused she is, without hurting what is clearly a very vulnerable girl.
Of course, they’re going to ruin it all by having him reciprocate those feelings soon enough. . .🙄
I agree! If only the storyline could have ended here, with Ridge giving Bridget brotherly advice and making her see that her confused feelings were really only a reaction to everything she had been through, and that they would always be brother and sister to each other. Then it would actually have worked.
I agree, Ridge should have been again a father figure for her. Becasue clearly her real father can't be dependable and he mother, well, is Brooke
@@FayeIL Ridge still came across a little ick sometimes.. Always touching her hair and face.. But I think that's just his natural way, bc he isn't an actor really so he interacts will all adult females the same, whether they are supposed to be related or not. Even calling bridgit "princess", which I don't recall him ever doing when she was growing up, seems ick.
But I do appreciate him saying the right things to help Bridgit's obviously crazy mixed up mind.
They really should have ended it here and had him help bridgit pack for coppenhagen (take 2).
I hope someone at least calls the school and tells them to give the scholarship to someone else who actually wants to be a doctor more than they are in love wit their former father /stepfather / half bro
_"I know exactly what you're feeling Bridget... because I love me too."_
😂 there was a comic quartet in Italy in the early 90's which mocked Ridge and Thorne characters. (The first ) Thorne was dumb and slow always the last to know, and Ridge conceited and self absorbed. The sketch ended always with Ridge saying: "perché so' troppo figo" in the Roman accent; something like "because I'm so cool" 😂
Edit Bold was aired for the first time in Italy in 1990
@@annieo6527 he def is Gaston!! (@Nick) 😂😂
😂 that wldve been the most true line for Ridge
First Ridget were faughter (father and daughter), then hiblings (half siblings) and now they're becoming dovers (as in disgusting lovers).
lol
Ridge's explanation to Bridget about her feelings for him, and how they are a result of turmoil and confusion she has experienced lately, actually makes a lot of sense (and validates *@Faye's* theory about Bridget's state of mind).
I actually thought that bridgit inherited some of her mother's traits when it comes to love...
@@TriniT21
I’m seeing that too. Turns out Bridget has become her mother…😮
First there was Deacon and now Ridge…where Bridget falls head over heels for someone out of the blue? 😬
Thanks for noting that! Although once again I want to emphasize I loathed this storyline - as an adult, I can see how they could build a narrative for Bridget being so screwed up by her crazy childhood, then by her mother sleeping with Deacon, then by finding out Ridge is not her brother - combined with her finding a close family tableau for the first time in Ridge and Taylor’s home - you can almost see how she arrived where she did, sick as it was.
But of course, the point of the story never was to explore Bridget’s psychology, it’s to degrade Bridget and Ridge down below Brooke’s level. Hence the story we’re about to get.
Susan is such a good actress. When she first entered Eric’s home thinking he knew the truth about Ridge, you can see the grief not only etched in her face, but somehow carried in her body, the way she moved, even the way she poured her drink. Yet she didn’t overdramatize or oversell it. Really well done. Her wistful, somewhat sad smile when she told Eric she loved him was equally poignant.
On the other hand, this budding retcon of Eric being the strong supportive paterfamilias upon whose shoulders the entire family wellbeing rests is one of Brad’s most obnoxious and aggravating examples of lazy writing yet.
The best of all time. Eric is one of Brad's favorite characters, aggravating is the right word.
That's exactly what makes a good actor. You have to be able to feel and believe in the respective situation. And Susan can do that like no one else on this show. That's why I often compare it to John McCook, who is unable to make pain or disappointment believable. For me she was the heart and soul of the show.
Yes, it was so subtle and poignant. Susan is indeed in a cIass of her own on this show.
@@FayeIL yes yes yes to SF. One can react without over reacting.
And then there's RM who never knows how to react so he doesn't lol.
I esp like the scene of Steph sitting on the couch with the fireplace in the foreground, like she knows her whole life is about to go up in flames.
And well.. You know how I feel about Eric... He's literally been the worst father on the show so I don't know why they try to portray him as some kind of cornerstone. It would have been a more devastating storyline if they'd said Ridge was switched as a baby at birth and Steph wasn't really his mother
@@TriniT21This is another of Brad’s awful writing tics. He completely retcons something at the 11th hour to make a new storyline more ironic or impactful. Only it doesn’t work because Brad, *we all actually watch this show* and so we *saw* that the things you’re trying to tell us happened, never actually happened.
LOVE Stephanie! ❤
I honestly don't get Bridget. She has CJ and Mark !!!!
I almost thought that was Tricia's last scene when she sees Thorne and Macy embrace
You mean it isn't?? 🙄
Oh joy there are more Tricia scenes
I wish it was. Her character is so pointless
why is tricia acting so upset. they had a couple of kisses, it's ridiculous.
I know, they weren't even in a relationship.
Yes she is acting really weird😵💫!!
I swear it's soo stupid
Of course Ridges phone number is at the top of the list
☎️
She has him on speed dial 😂😂
Surprised Thorne is even there 😂
@ Yes Surprisingly Thorne is next ,but not Kristen she’s not on the list 😂
@@TriniT21 it probably goes to Thorne's old apartment, the one he left in 1997, and Stephanie doesn't know it's the wrong number because she hasn't tried to call him since he moved to the beach house.
@@annieo6527 that makes the most sense 😂
Stephanie was wrong hiding that secret for months. But she is the one shocked about that reveal. Ridge is very rude at the phone.
I would like to remember that Eric too was dating someone else the same time. But I guess there's anything else we can say about Ridge's paternity.
i dont think that taylor ever said to tricia to take forrester family
I think bridget spent her life after deacon falling for men who had something to do with brooke hoping that they would choose her... this stopped only with Owen... this is the trauma of what Deacon choosing her mother over her...
Bridgette got on w Owen? I missed that
With Owen it was just a one night stand, when Nick and Agnes hurt her. Jackie is the one that told them to be in a relationship for baby Logan's sake, it didn't even last. Oscar could've been the one.
@@tiroyaonejustinphologolo9763Oscar was on long before Owen.
@@stromaefan8646 yes, before Bridget was portrayed by Ashley Jones. I'm saying it was the Brooke free relationship she needed.
i hate when they have stephanie idolize eric he's a two timing loser. he fantasizes about brooke. goes to see her behind stephanie's back. worries about her to the point of trying to clean up her messes. he also hugs brooke right in front of her and let brooke have forrester. this is sickening to listen to stephanie kiss his ass and build him up. he doesn't deserve it. he also had more concern for brooke when she slept with his daughter's husband and had a baby by him then he did for his own daughter. he didn't even go see bridget. not saying i agree with bridget and ridge but massimo has shown more concern for ridge in the year he has known ridge was his son then eric has in a long time.
Agree with you. 100%
@@donnaharris2192 amen to all of this!
I absolutely despise the rewrite of who is Ridge's real father. But, If I was Steph I was gleefully telling that loser Eric all about how Ridge wasn't his son. Let his while world fall apart for a change and let him go cry on Brooke's shoulder.. She wouldn't care about him and his problems anyway.
@ yup. I don’t know why these writers do this Eric is a loser. How much you want to bet this will be unforgivable even though Stephanie didn’t know till recently and didn’t say anything cause she didn’t want to hurt him. But Brooke having an affair with her son in law is forgivable to that loser Eric.
Stephanie and Brooke are alike in this idolization of Eric/Ridge when both are not a good fit
I remember when Rick got picked on because Brooke wanted Ridge to play daddy, when they were little.
The only time when Ric was likable and actually held his mother accountable
I'm still waiting on Ridge to have any other facial expression than Ridge face 😐...
And to at least act like his whole world is supposedly turned upside down. Currently he's behaving as if someone told him it was Thorne who wasn't really a Forrester (meh.. 😐)
We did get a little Bitchy Ridge at the end of the episode today, and Bitchy Ridge is my favorite Ridge:
Stephanie, cheerily answering her phone: “Hello!”
Ridge: “Damn you, Mother.”
Ridge: “Are you alone?”
Stephanie: “I’m with your father.”
Ridge, snarking: “Actually, you’re not.” (I admit it, I laughed! Ridge can do sarcasm!)
Thorne is a Forrester? 😂
To me, the best part of this entire paternity reveal was the cliffhanger where Massimo went "Ridge, I'm your... (unnaturally long pause)". I was _so_ hoping for 11yo CJ to stage whisper "brother? uncle? grandma?"
@@annieo6527 😂😂😂
We needed 11 yo CJ for that moment since Ridge basically had zero reaction 😂
@Thorne is a Forrester?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sometimes when the story calls for it, like when they need to throw Macy in jail for corporate espionage, or when they need Brooke to be running after him (have you noticed Brooke has not ONCE visited the basement since she and Thorne broke up?) ...
To be fair on RM, he hasn't been given much material to work with here. We should have been getting plenty of emotional, weighty scenes with Ridge wrestling with the reality of losing his connection to the only father he has ever known. But no, speeding up the incest storyline is far more important😵💫.
What a wild era for BB. We getting close to Eric throwing something into the mirror?
Queen Stephanie is in big trouble
Doesn't Thorne get with Darla and Macy get with Deacon
Yep
Eventually
Deacon & Macy gets together in a little bit
Thorn, much later on after Macy dies for good this time. He will get drunk and sleep with Darla.
She gets pregnant.
Side note Darla & CJ are married in real life.
And have been since approximately 2003.
If I remember correctly Macy is very much alive when Thorne sleeps with Macy? She slaps him and demands a divorce immediately, then she moves on to Deacon?
Ooooooooooh Gotcha 😮
Bridget thinks she's in love with ridge,but ridge is not in love with her ,he loves her like a sista that's it....
After months of dragging Brooke about the paternity of her child, Stephanie must face her own day of reckoning.
Her not telling Eric about ridge is no where near as destructive and cruel as what Brooke did to her own daughter, and will do again. By the way, Steph was not dragging Brooke at all once hope was born. She was actually her biggest supporter and was friendly with Brooke until she once again was trying to ruin tridges marriage. Maybe you wasn’t watching those episodes.
Stephanie wasn't hounding Brooke. Instead she kept her secret and helped her raise Deacon's baby.
@@lil_jon411Oh, it's another one of those people who is desperately looking for the "bad" actions of others so that Brooke doesn't look so bad.
How conveniently you forget how kind Stephanie was to that undeserving wretch Brooke!
@@blackblake3658 who was dragging Brooke about the paternity of her child?
Not Bridgit, who basically delivered that child and then went off on her own, only to start defending her mother once again.
And def not Steph, who was taking care of Brooke and that child like she was responsible for them, much to my annoyance.
If anything, I don't find Brooke was dragged *enough* over the paternity of that child.
Ppl are so pressed over Steph doing whatever she thinks is best to keep her family together, but are a-OK with Brooke doing whatever she can do tear families apart.
This rewrite BTW, is clearly an attempt to bring everyone to a semblance of level with Brooke, so it doesn't make what she's done so bad and therefore forgiveable.
Bridget were half siblings like what's going on here now they about to become lovers disgusting incestuous behavior
😭😭😭😭😭 season 17 is streaming for paying member
Hopefully when we get to that season with the daily premieres it won't be.
@@annieo6527not that I'm interested in season 17 or, worse, the ones again with Taylor. But if people like you are still here, I will be too.
@@babs4848 If it's free, I will be here because I like the comment section. ❤
But I will _not_ be paying money to watch Stephanie give Brooke and Ridge her bIessing, Macy get unalived by a chandelier, and Sally lose her company to Brooke.
I am hoping we'll get back to S9 soon, because I am really not that interested in watching S17 and beyond. But there are some must watch scenes right at the beginning of S17 that I wouldn't want to miss talking about with all of you, including the (unintentionally) funniest scene in the history of the show (Ridge and the furnace).
@@annieo6527 Ridge and the furnace😂
Ridge is being ridiculous and disgusting
Where does writers on Epstein Iland😅