theboldandthebeautiful

You know, there is a common problem among writers of serials and series, whether they be writers for television, film, comic books, books or magazines.  That problem is allowing your audience to disconnect from your hero and/or heroine.

That’s my problem.

I do not see Brooke as a heroine.  I do not see Ridge as a hero.

Brooke is nothing but a cheap little Valley Girl who has slept and married her way through an entire family and yet it is never called what it really is: incest.  She betrayed her daughter by sleeping with her son in law and conceiving a child with him.  She betrayed her son by always choosing Ridge over him.  He was always second place and knew it.

Ridge is a pampered, spoiled, self-involved, self-serving rich kid who never grew up.  He never matured and he never learned to see life the way it really is.  He still believes the world and all that is in it revolves around him.

I don’t know why I’ve watched the show for all these years.  Maybe because it played during my lunch break when I was in college.  Maybe because it is sandwiched between two excellent soaps: As the World Turns and The Young and the Restless.  Maybe because I loved Sally Spectra and her antics.  Maybe because I loved Macy and Thorne together.  Maybe because I loved Darla and Thorne together even more.  Maybe because I loved Massimo.

I stopped connecting with Ridge and Brooke back in 1988.  If that’s all they’re going to keep doing, maybe it is time for me to stop watching.