The Bold and the Beautiful - MESSAGE BOARDS

If you think that Taylor is too weak to deserve a man then you probably should feel the same way about Brooke. Until her return, Taylor was the strength and Brooke was the weak. No lie and no bashing. It's just how it was. Brooke always envied/hated Taylor and there are episodes that attest to that. Additionally there are episodes where Brooke confessed that Ridge's love for Taylor was real and undeniable. Unfortunately, Taylor is now getting ripped apart by the writers and the bloggers. Which is unfortunate. Redemption is around the corner for her.

Ridge will see her again. Brooke will envy her again. Taylor will be a challenge again. If these things don't happen then she'll be written off again to the delight of many. But really how can you have a show where there isn't a moral character who doesn't make the show better or at least add food for thought or perhaps a bit of romance. Like her or or hate her, you should get to know Taylor before you cast her aside. She is refreshing when you think about all of the nonsense that Brooke has done to her in the past. Unfortunately, there isn't a laundry list of things that Taylor has done to Brooke. Think you know Taylor... I don't think so.

I'm loving your post already my friend,Welcome to the Taylor fanbase support club.

If you think that Brooke is weak, think again. After all, a weak person could not have stood up to, survived all the brutal attacks, from Stephanie and still live to talk about it. For me, that shows the strength of Brooke's character and I think she has shown too much patience, grace and stamina over the years of abuse she suffered at Stephanie's hands.

It is also common knowledge that Ridge is a playboy, which is how the character was written, so if in the future, he chooses to go back to Taylor, he will do so to escape the realities of life with Brooke. Taylor will always be second choice in Ridge's eyes because ever since the day he discovered that she is not the angel he thought she was, his love for her changed and nothing she does or says is going to let him feel differently. The difference is - Brooke is still the same person Ridge fell in love with over 20 years ago. She is without pretense, she is who she is, faults and all. I.e. she is the real deal, nothing fake about her at all.

In fact, when a woman needs the help of a crisis, drugs, alcohol, or her children, or her mother-in-law to pull a man into her corner, that my friend speaks volumes and if that is not a sure sign of weakness, then I do not know what is.

:) - Hard to not like and root for the Taylor of old especially when they keep feeding us glimpses of her old persona. I'm wondering what they plan on doing with her now? I have an idea and it ain't good but it will draw a man from her past back into her life.

If only she was not so phony and deranged. No one wants to spend the rest of their life sitting on pins and needles wondering when to expect the unexpected. Just too stressful IMO.

I think that your dislike is more of Steffers than Taylor. It is fine to dislike Taylor but remember Taylor was held accountable by Ridge for her transgression of adultry and that is fine. However when has he ever held Brooke accountable for let's say sleeping and bearing the child of her daughter's husband or sleeping yet again with her daughter's husband or let's say determining if she was fertile enough at her age to become pregnant to give said brother a baby and so on?

I'm not going to bash the Brooke character because there aren't enough brooms in the world. My position is and was that if you bash Taylor because she is weak today or since her return, you never knew the character in the past as a strong and independent woman. Nothing against Brooke's strength. That sounds just odd saying it. Brooke wasn't written to be a strong character but a smoldering and captivating light. Nothing wrong with that except... the writers have turned her into Taylor, word for word from yesteryear which is unfortunate because I don't think Brooke fans want Brooke to be Taylor but the spitfire of her original character with a little bit of polish yet with a touch of her old vulnerability.

Brooke's strength and perserverance is to be applauded. I just say not at the expense of the Taylor character as it has been for the past few years. Take a look at the character that you really dislike, Steffers and I'm sure that you will find that even Steffers has concrete and valid reasons for being disgusted and insensitive to Brooke.

Brooke doesn't have one friend on the show. At least Taylor has that in Steffers and as a friend Steffers is standing up and supporting her friend. Can't hate her for that now can we.

? I thought you were a Brooke fan? Why are you putting her down all of a sudden? Deranged?? I'm not even putting her down.

Food for thought - it was said that Brooke has no friends on the show, so who are Taylor's friends - you mean the person that uses her at her will. Moreover, why would a true and loyal friend be having an affair with her supposed best friend's husband?

Here are some of my definitions of a true friend -

1. Someone who does not use you when it is convenient for him or her to do so.

2. Someone who does not burden you with his or her secrets.

3. Someone who does not drain you psychologically.

4. Someone who does not try to harm you by doing something morally questionable they know you may not like.

5. Someone who does not malleable turn you into his or her doormat.

I happen to be a Taylor fan and I just want the writers to let her finally find some happiness.If their is a man from her past that resurfaces back into her life.I'm hoping that he was a good one.I wish that they would bring back Peirce Omar or Hector they were some men that really loved and cared about her.I think going after Ridge was a mistake this time around because eventhough she has always loved him he really is no good for her now....though he isn't any good for Brooke either and I'm not a fan of her's but she does deserve better then Ridge.