Bold And The Beautiful Discussion Group -- Brava B&B, Brava

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Topic: Brava B&B, Brava

Topic Posted by: rotiandrice
Date Posted: Tue Apr 29 14:11:12 2008
Additional Comments: Yesterday's and today's episodes of B&B are truly the most amazing episodes of not only the show but of all of daytime. I was never a Storm fan although I did like William DeVry but the situation of it all was just very sad and I had to ask myself if I would have done what Storm did. Usually I find people that take their own lives are cowards but not in this case. I believe that Storm gave his sister the most precious gift of life. He did not do it because he would have been carted off to jail, when he very well could have. This what a true soap opera is, it evokes emotion in all of us, it gets us thinking. I for one am glad that for once it wasn't about who's the daddy/mommy or seeing two women fighting over an idiotic man. It was about love of family and life. And this is how I choose to remember Storm as the man who laid down his life for his family. So Brava B&B, job well done.

Posted by: fee
Date posted: Wed Apr 30 10:16:32 2008
Message:
ITA! I thought it was beautifully done! It was gutwrenching. This is not reality TV! It's a show, and except for that heart that looked straight out of Sci-Fi, I thought it was brilliant!

Posted by: Wren
Date posted: Wed Apr 30 6:46:38 2008
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I agree. I can't remember the last time I actually cried when watching a soap.........until yesterday. Great show.

Posted by: old and restless
Date posted: Tue Apr 29 19:41:42 2008
Message:

I'm afraid I have to disagree. It wasn't about love of family and love of life. (Where was the love for Stephanie's life and her family?)

Storm was clearly mentally ill. His actions were that of a man who was not thinking rationally. The entire tragedy could have been prevented if the Logan family had allowed justice to take place after Stephanie's shooting. Then Storm would, hopefully, have gotten the treatment he needed and Katie would never have been shot. This is what happens when people decide that the laws that govern the rest of us do not apply to them and their loved ones. It is a very sad ending to a sad story but it is not heroic in my opinion.

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Exactly. Crooke and the rest of the Logan twits ought to be ashamed. It's like someone said yesterday, Storm supposedly took care of them all their lives and they repaid him by failing miserably when he needed them most. ~i&b

The Logan girls should have turned him in after Steph for his own protection. But they've never been an upstanding individuals. Why start now?

Posted by: mo
Date posted: Tue Apr 29 17:25:30 2008
Message:
Well I for one am in complete agreement with you. This was the best story I have ever seen on daytime T.V. I know this show can be pretty twisted and this story was no exception but I thought it was great!

Posted by: ingyandbert
Date posted: Tue Apr 29 17:18:41 2008
Message:

Sorry, but I found this whole storyline to be

Posted by: Edward
Date posted: Tue Apr 29 16:37:31 2008
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And yet it all goes back to if Storm was in prison where he belongs, none of this would be taking place. Katie would be alive and he would be alive, and would someday be a free man. I feel just the opposite about this turn of events: It represents not only a low point for B&B, but the worst of daytime. It reminds me of when Y&R turned that psycho Kevin into a martyr.

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Edward, I am right there with you on both counts. eom VeeJay

Posted by: csd
Date posted: Tue Apr 29 15:39:28 2008
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I haven't seen today's show yet, but it's just unbelievable that Katie needs a heart, and Storms is just a perfect match. He could not possibly have known that before he killed himself. Honestly, I think he was a bit of a coward. He couldn't handle what he had done and face the consequences, just like he never said one word of thanks to Stephanie when she dropped all the charges. I'm not saying he doesn't love his family, but he's kind of wimpy in a lot of ways. That and mentally ill.

Also, I have to say this, Katie was really stupid for trying to pull a gun out of someone's hand. Anyone with half a brain would never do that! Not only that, if she wasn't such a buttinsky in everyone else's life, she would never have gone over to Ashley's house in the first place. She's over at Nick's butting into his child custody thing, lives at Brooke's and gets involved in her life, tells Bridgett and Donna what to do, works at the company and has her nose into everything. If she was that concerned, she should have called the police or asked Nick to go over to Ashley's with her. She just charges over, of course. I really don't like her character and would not have minded if she died.

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He did know he was a match--or at least thought he was. Did you miss the conversation he had with Ashley when he told her he had once tested to give Katie a kidney, and he learned he was a perfect match? She didn't end up needing it, but that was foreshadowing blasted in our faces.--Beezil

That had nothing to do with whether his heart would match. ~i&b

i&b, you can smatter us with all the dull medical information you want to. However, Storm believed, because of the past kidney issue, that his heart could possibly help Katie. I watched the last part of the show again, and I was still moved by it. WD did a great job, as did KKL.

Sorry reality is so dull to you but I still think this storyline was crap. ~i&b

medical info may seem dull to you ... but i would hope that a soap would at least bother to do some research into the subject before making it a big sweeps storyline. and while i don't expect everything to do true to life ... this was beyond stupid. even if he was fairly sure his heart was a match ... what about the timeframe? the doctor said katie had less than 30 minutes on that machine. there's no way storm had time to shoot himself - write a letter about it ... get his heart harvested and then prep katie for the transplant ... all in 30 minutes.

Actually, being family has nothing to do with being a match for a transplant. Often, perfect strangers are a match and family members are not. In Storm's case, he was said to be a match as far as kidneys but that is not the same thing as matching the heart. There was no way Storm could tell whether his heart was a match for Katie. ~i&b

Sure, I tune into soaps for the reality, i&b. heck

Posted by: katiesbeach
Date posted: Tue Apr 29 14:29:41 2008
Message:
Yes, I guess it was the ultimate sacrifice, but it was still selfish. Did he think about the pain he would cause his sisters by doing that? Would he have done it if he hadn't been on the path to destruction (jail) anyway?

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Exactly. ~i&b

How can it be the ultimate sacrifice, and be selfish? Storm was neither cowardly nor selfish. He was mentally unhinged and out of touch with reality. It was an incredibly moving episode, whether you love or hate the Logans. heck