Soap Opera Digest – August 05, 2019

My

Opinion

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It’s

Only

Daytime’s

most

outs poken

columnist!

instincts have led you here.

Douglas is your child now.

You can be a mother. A

mother! Take this ring. Be

my wife. Say yes.”

Hope looked in the mir-

ror like she was being held

captive by Kathy Bates in

Misery. Blink twice, Hope!

Someone will rescue you!

I hope it’s Liam.

Liam: “I’m not going to let

this happen.”

Brooke: “There’s some-

thing off about Thomas.”

Those two teaming up

give me hope, and I did

enjoy Ridge calling Brooke

“Stephanie” to remind her

they said they’d never inter-

fere in the lives of their kids.

Those kids need interfer-

ence. Hope jumped from

Oliver to Liam to Thomas to

Wyatt to Liam and back to

Thomas without blinking.

She’s on her fourth mar-

riage and can only be alone

when she’s living in Europe.

What’s up with that?

nEvery soap needs bad

guys and jerks, but if no

one calls them on their

crimes, it’s no fun.

nI’m looking at you,

Thomas Forrester. What’s

worse than that B&B dad

coaching his young son

— whose mother just died

— to “propose” to Hope?

Douglas (handing Hope a

ring): “I love you so much.

Will you be my mommy?

Can we be a family?”

Hope (to Thomas): “Did you

have any idea about this?”

No, Hope. The 3-year-

old sneaked out to his

local jeweler in an Uber

at nap time to buy a huge

diamond ring without his

father knowing.

Thomas: “I hope that didn’t

put you on the spot!”

I can’t with this story.

First of all, it’s the only

one they’re telling so if

we don’t like it, too bad.

Second, it makes no sense

to turn this formerly funny,

hunky legacy character into

a humorless psychopath.

Thomas is not funny like

Bill Spencer (who “dated”

a building) or clever like

Sheila Carter (who hood-

winked Eric into marrying

her) or tricky like Amber

Moore (who stole a baby

and passed it off as Rick’s).

Thomas is just evil and

smarmy.

Why aren’t his father

and grandfather (Ridge

and Eric) calling him on

his B.S.? He can’t be get-

ting much work done at

Forrester when he’s slipping

out during the day to kill

people (bye Emma!). And

where’s his mother, Taylor?

The only explanation for

her absence is if she lost her

memory again and is back

living with Prince Omar.

And don’t get me start-

ed on Thomas’s marriage

proposal, which looked

more like a hostage video.

Thomas: “Liam and Steffy

made love. They’re on

their path. I know that you

love Douglas. We can be

a family. Your maternal

Every soap needs bad guys and jerks.

By
Carolyn
Hinsey