Can Zoe please stop the gust fest?
You want to gush over your significant other when you’re in love. But you want to rip your eyeballs out and plug your ears when said person is a character on an over-the-top Soap Opera. Take Zoe Buckingham from The Bold and the Beautiful as a prime example. Since she and her beau, Carter Walton, have gotten back together, she has been beginning to get on our nerves.
Every episode since Carter re-proposed to her, all she has done is show off her massive diamond engagement ring. She also gushes about how he put the ring back on her finger and blah, blah, blah. We GET it! Now, the writers of The Bold and the Beautiful have done this for years, and it is beginning to wear thin. Look at the Baby Beth swap storyline a couple of years back. Every day for MONTHS, it was the same dialogue being slung around. Finally, it took nine months for the truth to come out, and things started to heat up when Thomas’ fixation on Hope worsened.
Zoe’s overloaded gush fest is beginning to make us wonder if the actors are conscious of the fact the writers are simply rephrasing dialogue that they’ve said previously. But, of course, it isn’t easy to think they WOULDN’T notice. Especially the cast who have been on the show for YEARS. How many times can Katherine Kelly Lang deliver lines about Brooke’s attractiveness to Ridge differently?
Returning to the Zoe thing, we feel so sorry for Kiara Barnes, who would’ve had to do the same lines repeatedly. She has since left the show to do the Fantasy Island reboot/anthology series.
We’re Tempted To Stop Watching, But We Love A Good Trainwreck
So, we love a good soap opera trainwreck as it makes us feel like life isn’t so crap after all. Yes, everything in the show is milked for entertainment value. But it’s over-the-top cringe-worthy, and we’re so tempted not to watch. However, it is worth blogging about, which is why The Bold and the Beautiful is such fun to write about.
What makes a good trainwreck in a show like B&B is how it drags on. In saying this, when the truth about Carter and Quinn’s affair explodes, it will destroy the two relationships. The whole Forrester family will turn on the jewellery designer. They never liked Quinn then, but they’ve come to accept her for Eric’s sake, and she makes a point of how much she loves him but doing the gush fest to Shauna.
Eric will be livid and, hopefully, kick Quinn to the curb for good. As for Zoe, it would not surprise us if this becomes Zoe’s exit storyline, and the aftermath would play out without her there. It may lead Eric to shun Carter because of his involvement with his wife. We will have to wait and see.
