The past has to always inform the present for soap stories to work, yet some characters are walking around like they just fell off a turnip truck.

I’m looking at you, Taylor Hayes. Even the remake of this Bold and Beautiful granny into a younger, naive waif does not explain why she thought she could talk her way into a fifth marriage to Ridge when all he has ever done is love Brooke Logan.

 

 

Yes, because a wedding is always “final” on B&B. Taylor went on to “reminisce” about the treasure chest in St. Thomas, giving birth to the twins, and how Stephanie was always Taylor’s biggest supporter… and here’s me: That wasn’t you. Rebecca Budig’s Taylor might as well have been describing a play she saw when she rattled off all the things that happened to Hunter Tylo’s Taylor — and Thorsten Kaye’s Ridge never shared one scene with Susan Flannery’s Stephanie. It rings false when soaps pretend that recasts, rapidly aged kids, etc., didn’t happen. It’s so much better when they acknowledge the change with a line like “I feel like I was a different person back then!” and move on.

 

 

That said, Thomas’s sole focus is getting his parents married (again), which sets the stage for him to lose it (again), and that’s a believable obstacle for Ridge and Brooke (again). Or will Taylor be the one to lose it? She’s supposed to be a shrink, but her marriage speech to Ridge was completely unhinged.

Taylor: “Why are we waiting? We can get married tomorrow! We can start fresh! We can just love each other. I don’t want to wait; tell me you don’t either. [music plays] Oh, I love this song! Let’s dance. It feels so good in your arms. We don’t need a big wedding, we don’t have to prove anything to anyone. I’m all about these arms; there’s no place I feel safer.”

Ridge’s face was like, get me out of here. He stopped dancing and said he couldn’t marry her. Taylor responded that she won’t let him go without a fight because he’s letting Brooke get into his head, where, as all B&B historians know, she’s always been.

Days of Our Lives characters Gwen, Cat, and Doug III came on the scene with the sole purpose of hurting people we love, so it boggles the mind that the show thought it could later make us like them. They cut their losses on Doug III, and Cat is circling the drain (when you’ve lost Jack and Jenn…), but Gwen walks around like a poor innocent who didn’t do anything to the Deveraux family.