SHOCKING TWIST: Bill's Emotional Clash with Liam and the Return of the Steffy/Liam/Hope Drama!

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Well, I definitely didn’t have “Liam collapses” or “Bill reverts to being a total jerk” on my Bold & Beautiful Bingo card… did you? But we should have all been able to predict that they’d go down the Hope/Liam/Steffy route again, right? Oh, and we also need to talk about Electra, who easily won the “Stupid Move of the Week” award. Why? Read on, friends… 

The Return of Dollar Bill

While I can’t begin to understand what the hell is going on with Bill, I was thrilled to see him huffing and puffing and generally be the character we know and… is love the right word? Yeah, I think it is. Because heaven knows I haven’t been particularly enamored with the dude who was being empathetic toward serial killer Luna.

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I’ve watched the scenes in which Liam and his dad clashed a few times, and I can’t help wondering what was actually going on with Bill. While he puffs up his chest and is huffy during much of their intense confrontation, there are moments where the Spencer patriarch seems on the verge of getting emotional. I can’t decide if this was a choice made by portrayer Don Diamont, the writers, the directors or all three. But watch the scenes again… there’s definitely more going on than first meets the eye.

Here We Go Again

It seems impossible to imagine the show going the Steffy/Liam/Hope route again, right? Steffy has spent the past few years making it perfectly clear that she’s hopelessly devoted to Finn, through thick and thin, through sick and sin. (Bonus points if you can name the old-school mini-series in which that line was uttered.) And Hope hasn’t so much as mentioned Liam in ages. And yet…

… there was Hope, talking to Deacon about how her life went off the rails when she and Liam divorced. Meanwhile, Steffy was at the hospital, shouting about how she couldn’t lose him. So… yeah, they’re pretty clearly going to be revisiting that triangle again.

If I had to guess, Liam’s brain injury will cause him to wake up believing himself still married to Steffy. You know, the way she woke up thinking she was still married to him a few years back. Steffy will be warned against “shocking” him with a truth that could prove fatal, and Hope will realize that she never should have let him go. Throw in a gondola, and it’s like it’s 2011 all over again.

Meanwhile, poor Ivy will remain trapped at Forrester, having been made into a glorified talk-to for Electra. Speaking of whom…

Luna vs. Electra

I don’t even begin to understand why Luna is walking around free, but she is. And I’m not really sure why she’s throwing herself at Will as opposed to, say, Zende, whom she went out of her way to seduce for no good reason not that long ago. Or someone completely unfamiliar with her past. But she’s become just the latest female on this show to demean herself for a guy who has no interest.

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Oh, and yeah, I think we all know that one way or another, she’ll land him in bed. I’m not sure which I want to happen less: Will buying into her offer of no-strings attached sex or her somehow “tricking” him into bed, so that she can be not only a serial killer but serial rapist. One thing I do know is that Electra made the dumbest move possible by going to confront her supposed rival.

Riddle me this: Who gets into a shoving match — the world’s lamest shoving match, by the way — with a woman who has killed two people and, as an added bonus, is the newly-revealed grandchild of a woman who cooks up deadly schemes as casually as she arches one eyebrow?

Random Thoughts…

• Where is Remy? What was the point of throwing him into Luna’s orbit again, only to have him vanish?

• It’s nice that Deacon’s there to support Hope during her latest crisis, but in what world would she need to even consider living with him? The girl is rich and has had no actual expenses for years, what with living in a cabin on her mom’s property. Check into a hotel, like a “normal” soap opera character!

• Speaking of which… where, exactly, is Luna living? Bill kicked her out, and she’s clearly not staying with Deacon and Sheila.

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