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Think you know Taylor now...

Started by BetchaDidntKnow at 2009/09/20 04:59PM
Latest post: 2009/09/23 10:34AM, Views: 1797, Replies: 78
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#21   2009/09/21 07:44PM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
michaelee
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[quote][quote]Quote BetchaDidntKnow: [quote]Quote michaelee: [quote]Quote BetchaDidntKnow: [quote]Quote michaelee: [quote]Quote BetchaDidntKnow:

[quote]You argument is with Steffers not Taylor. Judge all of the characters harshly and when you talk about ethics or unethically behavior it can be reserved for everyone on the show.
The pills story line was poorly executed and again allowed characters to judge one character harshly while not placing the true blame on another character. In reality Ridge brought his own troubles on...if not pills it could easily have been written that he turned to alcohol. Horse beaten and dead.

The point in my original comments was not to bash any specific character simply state that the writers have done a flip flop on the character who took the moral high road. To have the scripts from the 90's infused with a different character today is a travesty and wrong.

Brooke does not shine in her current role. There is no fun or spontaniety about her. She's now the dull character. As said earlier they can now write a hundred different scenarios with Taylor because she is more unexplored than Brooke and they will eventually. If not, she's off the show to NYC.

As a fan of this show the story lines are rushed and biased. I haven't watched the show daily in over 3 weeks because the current story line is weak, flawed and inappropriate. There was a different way to bring Justice into the story... just not enough thought processing. Bring on the fights, insults and spontaneity. Jackie and Owen can't carry it unless you have a desire to see them in the sack![/quote][/quote][/quote]




You are absolutely right; but my argument is not only with Stephanie but Taylor too because sometimes I have trouble separating one from the other. Their lives are so intertwined that it is hard to tell them apart these days. None is better than the other – what can I say, two peas in a pod. Actually, the obsessive/compulsive behaviour of these women has taken friendship to a completely new level.

If I had to choose a character on this soap that is not only interesting, but also fun and spontaneous, I would say Brooke is the one. She is so charismatic and alluring. B&B has survived Taylor’s absence before but the same cannot be said of Brooke. If you need proof of that – one would be this very board. Whenever there is no Brooke s/l’s, the boards have an eerie silence that makes you wonder what happened. Start comparing or bashing Brooke and the boards are alive again. By the way – I am starting to now wonder if that is the reason for this thread. I mean, the boards were very quite these past few days until this thread surfaced.

Hmm! I am sorry but I have to disagree that Taylor without Stephanie or Brooke can carry this show. The long and short of it is, Taylor does not have what it takes to stand on her own. She is not only boring but is painfully weak and lacks self esteem.

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#22   2009/09/21 07:49PM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
michaelee
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Quote Ginger2: Now let me get this right. You are accusing Taylor of sleeping with Eric. Fact she didn't. She did kiss him and immediately thought better of allowing anything to happen. That's call restraint. That didn't happen with any other women on the show. They all slept with him. All of them except Taylor and I guess Katie as she was a minor when this happened.

You know.......this isn't accurate at all. Taylor didn't use any restraint with Eric. You can go back and watch the whole thing from archives, or read the script, but it didn't happen the way you describe at all. She was with Eric, kissing and carrying on several episodes. It wasn't a one time slip up! She even let Stephanie confide in her how she (Stephanie) thought Eric was going to come back to her and how much she still loved him. Taylor just sat there and listened, knowing that she had been kissing him just a short while before. Taylor then told Eric about how Stephanie was still in love with him and if they (Taylor and ERic) were going to be together, that he needed to make sure that Stephanie knew that getting back together wasn't going to happen. Eric gave Taylor a key to his apartment and told her to use it to let herself in and they'd be together that night. Taylor went shopping for a new sexy nightie! She put it in her overnight bag and took off for Eric's apartment. She let herself in and what do you suppose she found? She found Eric passed out in bed and Stephanie snuggled up right beside him! LOL OMG!!!!! I laughed myself silly! The look on Taylor's face was p r i c e l e s s !!!
She ran out of the apartment crying her eyes out....."why, why does this keep happening to meeeeeee!!" I'd like to have given her a hint.......it's because you sneak around behind people's backs and try to be with their man! LOL Yeah, yea.......say what you want about Brooke, but she announces her intentions right up front and there are no surprises. Really, this was one of my favorite episodes and I DO remember it pretty well. That plus the fact that I viewed it not that many months ago when I ran across it on another site. The way you described it above isn't the whole story.



There you go! Thanks Ginger, I just did not have to desire to go into the explanation of that whole saga but I was trying to find the videos to prove that point.

#23   2009/09/21 07:55PM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
Ginger2
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Quote BetchaDidntKnow:
Quote Ginger2: Now let me get this right. You are accusing Taylor of sleeping with Eric. Fact she didn't. She did kiss him and immediately thought better of allowing anything to happen. That's call restraint. That didn't happen with any other women on the show. They all slept with him. All of them except Taylor and I guess Katie as she was a minor when this happened.

You know.......this isn't accurate at all. Taylor didn't use any restraint with Eric. You can go back and watch the whole thing from archives, or read the script, but it didn't happen the way you describe at all. She was with Eric, kissing and carrying on several episodes. It wasn't a one time slip up! She even let Stephanie confide in her how she (Stephanie) thought Eric was going to come back to her and how much she still loved him. Taylor just sat there and listened, knowing that she had been kissing him just a short while before. Taylor then told Eric about how Stephanie was still in love with him and if they (Taylor and ERic) were going to be together, that he needed to make sure that Stephanie knew that getting back together wasn't going to happen. Eric gave Taylor a key to his apartment and told her to use it to let herself in and they'd be together that night. Taylor went shopping for a new sexy nightie! She put it in her overnight bag and took off for Eric's apartment. She let herself in and what do you suppose she found? She found Eric passed out in bed and Stephanie snuggled up right beside him! LOL OMG!!!!! I laughed myself silly! The look on Taylor's face was p r i c e l e s s !!!
She ran out of the apartment crying her eyes out....."why, why does this keep happening to meeeeeee!!" I'd like to have given her a hint.......it's because you sneak around behind people's backs and try to be with their man! LOL Yeah, yea.......say what you want about Brooke, but she announces her intentions right up front and there are no surprises. Really, this was one of my favorite episodes and I DO remember it pretty well. That plus the fact that I viewed it not that many months ago when I ran across it on another site. The way you described it above isn't the whole story.


OMGoodness.. thanks for the memories. I couldn't have laughed any harder during those episodes back then but I still like Taylor and won't bash Brooke so keep bringing up the fun stuff and I'll keep laughing!!!


Oh, so I guess you admit, then, that what you wrote earlier was pretty far off from what was actually shown! LOL Well, some people just have better memories than others....no problem! I tend to remember certain things that strike me as odd, and I always thought it was odd that Taylor especially, (and many of the other characters on the show) portrayed herself as a virtue of honesty and honor and I didn't see those traits in her...ever! From day one she took advantage of her position as a Dr to manipulate Ridge (her patient) and it just went downhill for her character after that. I caught on to her act from the start!

#24   2009/09/21 08:00PM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
hookedonmick
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Quote michaelee:
Quote BetchaDidntKnow:
Quote hookedonmick: I will never be a Taylor fan. It has nothing to do with Bridge. Actually I wish the writers had left Nick and Brooke together from the first time they got together. My problem has always been the way the writers have written Taylor. She has always come across as being a snob and thinking she is better than everyone else on the show. My opinion of her was sealed the minute she slept with James. But I am not a big fan of Hunter Tylo either.


I think you may be closing in on an abuse. We are not talking about Tylo personally, simply a role she plays. Our likes and dislikes of each individual should not come into play even if you personally know one or all of the actors.


I would not call that abuse. She was simply stating a fact by saying that she does not like the character Taylor or the actor Tylo. I totally understand where she is coming from because I am of the same opinion.

Frankly, my dislike of the character has more to do with how she is being portrayed. I see her as being spineless, weak, lifeless and uninteresting. I just do not understand why is it that she always need Stephanie’s approval to go after Ridge. I do not care how close they are but I would like to think that for once there is some privacy in her love life. For heaven’s sake, why does Taylor find it necessary to discuss the details of her sex life with Stephanie? Moreover, like a champion, whenever she does the deed with Ridge, Stephanie is her biggest cheerleader.

Come on now, this has been happening for years, so at what point is Taylor going to be woman enough to live her own life without the influence and approval of Stephanie and her kids. That is just too pathetic and this does not show any strength in her character. She has had the opportunity of living her dream life with Prince Omar, Hector, Nick, to name a few. Instead, she just places herself in the position to be used by Stephanie and cause herself more hurt and pain. Quite simply, IMO the woman lacks common sense.


If I had called her a name then it would have been abuse. I did not bash but simply voiced my opinion. Which I thought we were still allowed to do.

#25   2009/09/21 10:02PM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
PelphreyPosse
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If everyone would just post their new opinion and quit dragging someone else's quote into their post, they would be a lot shorter! We've already read the post once, it's not necessary to keep posting the quote each time you post another comment. We can figure out who you are replying to with out it.

#26   2009/09/22 01:41AM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
BetchaDidntKnow
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Quote Ginger2:
Quote BetchaDidntKnow:
Quote Ginger2: Now let me get this right. You are accusing Taylor of sleeping with Eric. Fact she didn't. She did kiss him and immediately thought better of allowing anything to happen. That's call restraint. That didn't happen with any other women on the show. They all slept with him. All of them except Taylor and I guess Katie as she was a minor when this happened.

You know.......this isn't accurate at all. Taylor didn't use any restraint with Eric. You can go back and watch the whole thing from archives, or read the script, but it didn't happen the way you describe at all. She was with Eric, kissing and carrying on several episodes. It wasn't a one time slip up! She even let Stephanie confide in her how she (Stephanie) thought Eric was going to come back to her and how much she still loved him. Taylor just sat there and listened, knowing that she had been kissing him just a short while before. Taylor then told Eric about how Stephanie was still in love with him and if they (Taylor and ERic) were going to be together, that he needed to make sure that Stephanie knew that getting back together wasn't going to happen. Eric gave Taylor a key to his apartment and told her to use it to let herself in and they'd be together that night. Taylor went shopping for a new sexy nightie! She put it in her overnight bag and took off for Eric's apartment. She let herself in and what do you suppose she found? She found Eric passed out in bed and Stephanie snuggled up right beside him! LOL OMG!!!!! I laughed myself silly! The look on Taylor's face was p r i c e l e s s !!!
She ran out of the apartment crying her eyes out....."why, why does this keep happening to meeeeeee!!" I'd like to have given her a hint.......it's because you sneak around behind people's backs and try to be with their man! LOL Yeah, yea.......say what you want about Brooke, but she announces her intentions right up front and there are no surprises. Really, this was one of my favorite episodes and I DO remember it pretty well. That plus the fact that I viewed it not that many months ago when I ran across it on another site. The way you described it above isn't the whole story.


OMGoodness.. thanks for the memories. I couldn't have laughed any harder during those episodes back then but I still like Taylor and won't bash Brooke so keep bringing up the fun stuff and I'll keep laughing!!!


Oh, so I guess you admit, then, that what you wrote earlier was pretty far off from what was actually shown! LOL Well, some people just have better memories than others....no problem! I tend to remember certain things that strike me as odd, and I always thought it was odd that Taylor especially, (and many of the other characters on the show) portrayed herself as a virtue of honesty and honor and I didn't see those traits in her...ever! From day one she took advantage of her position as a Dr to manipulate Ridge (her patient) and it just went downhill for her character after that. I caught on to her act from the start!


You are wrong in your assumption that what I wrote originally was not true. It is my opinion that Taylor was written as a stand up, classy lady with style and confidence. No matter how many times it is brought up that she indulged in a romp with a male character, it certainly doesn't lessen her appeal to her fans.
Now dare I say that I can laugh at the scenes where a favorite character is disgraced and still enjoy her character. What's wrong with that? Lighten up people!

I recognize that it is easy to tear down the Taylor character because she was written, initially, with so few character flaws, and that whenever it was/is written that she deviates from that path her non-fans are harsh and ready to throw her in the pit of hell! But it is okay for a character that many of you enjoy to be absolved from all because she apologies and professes that she has changed is ridiculous, two-faced, and down right astounding. So simply put, Brooke is the proverbial goose and dare I say to her fans, Taylor is the gander? Equality and fair play are good things.

This is about the Taylor character so I'll say it again, I enjoyed the way the character was written in the past, most of you obviously didn't however my liking the old character traits has nothing to do with Brooke. Of course you die hard Brooke fans will equate my like for Taylor as a dig at Brooke, why is that?

What the writers have done to the Taylor character in the past few years is a travesty but how they redeem themselves with her fans will be interesting to watch. We loyal Taylor fans have watched them redeem Brooke for every transgression against Steffers, Thorne, Macy, Kristen, Taylor, and mostly her own daughter, Bridgette. I won't count Ridge or Eric because they are aliens!

Now if I were to take digs at the Brooke character I wouldn't have to go back nearly two decades to find footage!

Go Taylor and we fans deserve a redemption story for her as other characters on the show have been given. If not, as many of you hope (and I still don't know why) she will be written off (not killed) again.

#27   2009/09/22 03:57AM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
michaelee
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Quote PelphreyPosse: If everyone would just post their new opinion and quit dragging someone else's quote into their post, they would be a lot shorter! We've already read the post once, it's not necessary to keep posting the quote each time you post another comment. We can figure out who you are replying to with out it.




I would agree with you except for the fact that if for whatever reason the moderator decides to remove a whole or part of a post, it changes the sequence #'s. If that were to happen and there is no referenced post included in the response, then sometimes the response will not make any sense.

#28   2009/09/22 06:03AM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
vicc
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Quote-BetchaDidntKnow:
This is about the Taylor character so I'll say it again, I enjoyed the way the character was written in the past, most of you obviously didn't however my liking the old character traits has nothing to do with Brooke. Of course you die hard Brooke fans will equate my like for Taylor as a dig at Brooke, why is that?

Answer to above Quote:
We took your post as a dig at Brooke--because YOU brought Brooke into this thread with a lot of put-down comments (while you tried to build Taylor up).

michaelee--you are right--the Brooke character carries the B&B as well as this Board. When there is not a current Brooke SL--there is much less action on the Board.
More than that if Brooke hasn't been seen on the screen for days--the posters seem to still mainly focus on her. The bashers just keep bringing Brooke up with the same old snarls-- when she hasn't even been on for a while.

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#29   2009/09/22 06:09AM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
Ginger2
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Quote BetchaDidntKnow:
Quote Ginger2:
Quote BetchaDidntKnow:
Quote Ginger2: Now let me get this right. You are accusing Taylor of sleeping with Eric. Fact she didn't. She did kiss him and immediately thought better of allowing anything to happen. That's call restraint. That didn't happen with any other women on the show. They all slept with him. All of them except Taylor and I guess Katie as she was a minor when this happened.

You know.......this isn't accurate at all. Taylor didn't use any restraint with Eric. You can go back and watch the whole thing from archives, or read the script, but it didn't happen the way you describe at all. She was with Eric, kissing and carrying on several episodes. It wasn't a one time slip up! She even let Stephanie confide in her how she (Stephanie) thought Eric was going to come back to her and how much she still loved him. Taylor just sat there and listened, knowing that she had been kissing him just a short while before. Taylor then told Eric about how Stephanie was still in love with him and if they (Taylor and ERic) were going to be together, that he needed to make sure that Stephanie knew that getting back together wasn't going to happen. Eric gave Taylor a key to his apartment and told her to use it to let herself in and they'd be together that night. Taylor went shopping for a new sexy nightie! She put it in her overnight bag and took off for Eric's apartment. She let herself in and what do you suppose she found? She found Eric passed out in bed and Stephanie snuggled up right beside him! LOL OMG!!!!! I laughed myself silly! The look on Taylor's face was p r i c e l e s s !!!
She ran out of the apartment crying her eyes out....."why, why does this keep happening to meeeeeee!!" I'd like to have given her a hint.......it's because you sneak around behind people's backs and try to be with their man! LOL Yeah, yea.......say what you want about Brooke, but she announces her intentions right up front and there are no surprises. Really, this was one of my favorite episodes and I DO remember it pretty well. That plus the fact that I viewed it not that many months ago when I ran across it on another site. The way you described it above isn't the whole story.


OMGoodness.. thanks for the memories. I couldn't have laughed any harder during those episodes back then but I still like Taylor and won't bash Brooke so keep bringing up the fun stuff and I'll keep laughing!!!


Oh, so I guess you admit, then, that what you wrote earlier was pretty far off from what was actually shown! LOL Well, some people just have better memories than others....no problem! I tend to remember certain things that strike me as odd, and I always thought it was odd that Taylor especially, (and many of the other characters on the show) portrayed herself as a virtue of honesty and honor and I didn't see those traits in her...ever! From day one she took advantage of her position as a Dr to manipulate Ridge (her patient) and it just went downhill for her character after that. I caught on to her act from the start!


You are wrong in your assumption that what I wrote originally was not true. It is my opinion that Taylor was written as a stand up, classy lady with style and confidence. No matter how many times it is brought up that she indulged in a romp with a male character, it certainly doesn't lessen her appeal to her fans.
Now dare I say that I can laugh at the scenes where a favorite character is disgraced and still enjoy her character. What's wrong with that? Lighten up people!

I recognize that it is easy to tear down the Taylor character because she was written, initially, with so few character flaws, and that whenever it was/is written that she deviates from that path her non-fans are harsh and ready to throw her in the pit of hell! But it is okay for a character that many of you enjoy to be absolved from all because she apologies and professes that she has changed is ridiculous, two-faced, and down right astounding. So simply put, Brooke is the proverbial goose and dare I say to her fans, Taylor is the gander? Equality and fair play are good things.

This is about the Taylor character so I'll say it again, I enjoyed the way the character was written in the past, most of you obviously didn't however my liking the old character traits has nothing to do with Brooke. Of course you die hard Brooke fans will equate my like for Taylor as a dig at Brooke, why is that?

What the writers have done to the Taylor character in the past few years is a travesty but how they redeem themselves with her fans will be interesting to watch. We loyal Taylor fans have watched them redeem Brooke for every transgression against Steffers, Thorne, Macy, Kristen, Taylor, and mostly her own daughter, Bridgette. I won't count Ridge or Eric because they are aliens!

Now if I were to take digs at the Brooke character I wouldn't have to go back nearly two decades to find footage!

Go Taylor and we fans deserve a redemption story for her as other characters on the show have been given. If not, as many of you hope (and I still don't know why) she will be written off (not killed) again.


The part that was not true was the part about how Taylor didn't sleep with Eric because she she had an attack of conscious! LOL.......she didn't. Steph simply beat her to his bed! She would have absolutely slept with Eric had he not been passed out with Steph right beside him. Three in the bed would have been a bit crowded, don't you think?
As far as you no bashing Brooke......really no one cares. And I don't have to go back 2 decades to find unsavory footage of Taylor, How about when she gave up her own child because she found out Brooke was the bio mother? She couldn't bond with him? GMAB! A weak pathetic excuse for dumping a baby who is suddenly no longer wanted or needed since her marriage to Nick was breaking up. Or, how about when she decided to pursue Ridge again this last time when he was clearly married to Brooke? She gave him drugs and slept with him...he told her it was a terrible mistake and what does she do? She badgers him to marry her because it's what their dead daughter would want. Are you kidding me? How low can you go to use the loss of a loved one to pressure someone into doing something you want them to do? Really, she's done plenty of dastardly deeds, and I'm talking all through the years... You're certainly entitled to your opinion. If not bashing Brooke is a ploy to get people to not bash Taylor, then it probably won't work. Not with me, anyway...... I'm not impressed with the character and never have been. I have never seen the virtues you claim she has. I see a weak, coniving woman who either turns to Stephanie, her kids, alcohol, or drugs when she can't get what she wants. Not virtues in my book by any means.

#30   2009/09/22 07:29AM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
Touched
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Quote BetchaDidntKnow: 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.


This is based on a hope and a prayer for Taylor. Not much about her past if any, is known before she came to LA! We know that as a psychiatrist, she exhibited hardly any compassion for an ex-husband, whose anger management issues were related to a brain tumor! We also know she has a propensity to pursue her male patients, romantically! We know there was obviously something passionate between her and Grant Chambers that she chose to keep secret! The same goes for Dante Damiano! We know practically nothing about the years she spent with Prince Omar, other than she remember her family! We know that her mother was killed by mobsters, her father was involved with! Her father is a recluse....meaning weird! He and her brother do not get along! There is very little substance to Taylor except that she married Ridge and had three children! She is far from perfect and she has never been morally sound!

#31   2009/09/22 08:22AM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
BKLYN
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Quote BetchaDidntKnow: 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.


Okay so let me get this straight please! Strenght in your book is someone that drinks and sets fire to the beach house simply because of a misunderstanding w/her fiancee, someone that turns to alcahol, sleep w/countless of stranger in bars and runs over innocent victims? Okay got it, I never realized these are the fine ingredients to strenght!

#32   2009/09/22 12:23PM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
BKLYN
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Quote BetchaDidntKnow:
Quote Ginger2:
Quote BetchaDidntKnow:
Quote Ginger2: Now let me get this right. You are accusing Taylor of sleeping with Eric. Fact she didn't. She did kiss him and immediately thought better of allowing anything to happen. That's call restraint. That didn't happen with any other women on the show. They all slept with him. All of them except Taylor and I guess Katie as she was a minor when this happened.

You know.......this isn't accurate at all. Taylor didn't use any restraint with Eric. You can go back and watch the whole thing from archives, or read the script, but it didn't happen the way you describe at all. She was with Eric, kissing and carrying on several episodes. It wasn't a one time slip up! She even let Stephanie confide in her how she (Stephanie) thought Eric was going to come back to her and how much she still loved him. Taylor just sat there and listened, knowing that she had been kissing him just a short while before. Taylor then told Eric about how Stephanie was still in love with him and if they (Taylor and ERic) were going to be together, that he needed to make sure that Stephanie knew that getting back together wasn't going to happen. Eric gave Taylor a key to his apartment and told her to use it to let herself in and they'd be together that night. Taylor went shopping for a new sexy nightie! She put it in her overnight bag and took off for Eric's apartment. She let herself in and what do you suppose she found? She found Eric passed out in bed and Stephanie snuggled up right beside him! LOL OMG!!!!! I laughed myself silly! The look on Taylor's face was p r i c e l e s s !!!
She ran out of the apartment crying her eyes out....."why, why does this keep happening to meeeeeee!!" I'd like to have given her a hint.......it's because you sneak around behind people's backs and try to be with their man! LOL Yeah, yea.......say what you want about Brooke, but she announces her intentions right up front and there are no surprises. Really, this was one of my favorite episodes and I DO remember it pretty well. That plus the fact that I viewed it not that many months ago when I ran across it on another site. The way you described it above isn't the whole story.


OMGoodness.. thanks for the memories. I couldn't have laughed any harder during those episodes back then but I still like Taylor and won't bash Brooke so keep bringing up the fun stuff and I'll keep laughing!!!


Oh, so I guess you admit, then, that what you wrote earlier was pretty far off from what was actually shown! LOL Well, some people just have better memories than others....no problem! I tend to remember certain things that strike me as odd, and I always thought it was odd that Taylor especially, (and many of the other characters on the show) portrayed herself as a virtue of honesty and honor and I didn't see those traits in her...ever! From day one she took advantage of her position as a Dr to manipulate Ridge (her patient) and it just went downhill for her character after that. I caught on to her act from the start!


You are wrong in your assumption that what I wrote originally was not true. It is my opinion that Taylor was written as a stand up, classy lady with style and confidence. No matter how many times it is brought up that she indulged in a romp with a male character, it certainly doesn't lessen her appeal to her fans.
Now dare I say that I can laugh at the scenes where a favorite character is disgraced and still enjoy her character. What's wrong with that? Lighten up people!

I recognize that it is easy to tear down the Taylor character because she was written, initially, with so few character flaws, and that whenever it was/is written that she deviates from that path her non-fans are harsh and ready to throw her in the pit of hell! But it is okay for a character that many of you enjoy to be absolved from all because she apologies and professes that she has changed is ridiculous, two-faced, and down right astounding. So simply put, Brooke is the proverbial goose and dare I say to her fans, Taylor is the gander? Equality and fair play are good things.

This is about the Taylor character so I'll say it again, I enjoyed the way the character was written in the past, most of you obviously didn't however my liking the old character traits has nothing to do with Brooke. Of course you die hard Brooke fans will equate my like for Taylor as a dig at Brooke, why is that?

What the writers have done to the Taylor character in the past few years is a travesty but how they redeem themselves with her fans will be interesting to watch. We loyal Taylor fans have watched them redeem Brooke for every transgression against Steffers, Thorne, Macy, Kristen, Taylor, and mostly her own daughter, Bridgette. I won't count Ridge or Eric because they are aliens!

Now if I were to take digs at the Brooke character I wouldn't have to go back nearly two decades to find footage!

Go Taylor and we fans deserve a redemption story for her as other characters on the show have been given. If not, as many of you hope (and I still don't know why) she will be written off (not killed) again.



About two year's ago JM (Eric) and ED (Ashley Abbott) were interviewed and they both commented that Mr. Bell wants to concentrate on the Logan Family.
JM went on to say that he was happy his character was involved with Donna because this would give his character a SL. ED was let go because Ashley was not a Logan nor did she have any ties to them. ED was approached by Mr. Bell and he advised her he wanted to concentrate on the Logan Family. (Hey they won the Emmy because of this)!
He is taking this show back to it's original roots the Forrester's and the Logan's, unless a character is involved w/either family eventually they will fade away.

#33   2009/09/22 12:27PM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
OspreyGirl
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When did this turn into a bash Taylor thread?

But isn't it just like the soap...the moment Taylor is independent of the drama, someone has to do a compare/contrast of Brooke or Stephanie. Taylor is not in a pool of drool and tears, she clearly is okay.

Taylor is strong and intelligent enough to stand on her own two feet. Her friendship with Stephanie is based out of mutual respect and they are completely different people. Just because you are friends with someone doesn't mean you become their clone...

Is it possible for this thread to just talk about Taylor and her moving on from Ridge, rather than bringing up Brooke like this is some kind of high school competition on who's the best cheerleader?

Geez...this crap gets old, get over it already. Brooke is with Ridge...hooray, she can have the weasel. Taylor is moving on, taking a trip, making decisions for her happiness that doesn't include Ridge. She didn't call Ridge to tell him that she was leaving town to demand he "think about" what he lost with her, now is she?

Strength, dignity and character all the way.

#34   2009/09/22 12:46PM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
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he I have seen the episode from september 21 on ciacil.blogspot.com. I wonder what marcus will do when he find out who is his father or have I missing that episode. I hope that stephanie also if she is somethimes not so nice not has perminent healthdamage (sorry for that word I diden't know the good word) . O and I have seen ridge and brooke and where in the bedroom as always suprise ???

#35   2009/09/22 01:43PM
Re: Think you know Taylor now...
BoldMama
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Quote BetchaDidntKnow: 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 do know Taylor. The Taylor that you're describing is not the same person that she once was. IMO, once she crossed that line and got romantically involved with one of her patients, I was done with her. You are talking about someone that doesn't exists anylonger. Everyone evolves as a person, and her character is no longer the flawed person she once was. She may not have said that she was flawed, but that's the way she was portrayed. Taylor has made many, many, mistakes and unfortunately, I don't think she has learned anything from them. She has gotten worse since her last return from the great beyond. No one on this board has said that "Taylor is too weak to deserve a man". We have said that she shouldn't be with Ridge. He has and will always belong to his "Logan".

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