Or any one of Ridge's women, really. He had their attention when he went after Caroline. He certainly had Steph's attention when he went after Taylor. This is just an extension of that strategy
*Brooke:* "You have to tell Macy about us! Now's a good a time as any." *Thorne:* "OK I'll start with dad." *Brooke:* 😳 "You know maybe now's not the best time."
I see this as Brooke trying to "control the narrative" - even in this situation, her main focus is not Stephanie's health, but how she is going to navigate the situation in order to achieve her goals. Brooke is now Super Brooke - she is no longer just a "fauxmantic heroine" but is written as if she actually has some kind of personality di s o r der. Her lack of empathy is a trait that was always there, but it is magnified here, in a way that is quite unsettling. So far, I'd say Stephanie's version of the truth is still in place (all the camera angles of Brooke looking through the window into Stephanie's hospital room indicate that she is an "outside thre at") and the narrative has not yet fully shifted to Brooke's perspective.
I just find it interesting that when Brooke was visiting Stephanie, they had the blinds closed, and now with Eric, they are open again. Brooke calls Thomas obsessed, Brooke was the queen obsessor with the Forrester family Brooke was only using Thorne as Ridge wasn't available.
Brooke: "Thorne, I can understand the guilt that you're feeling." Somehow I doubt it. And then she tries to ease his guilt by telling him that it was Stephanie's _choice_ to "react like that".
I feel like Macy took over Steph's role.. "Brooke what are you still doing here?" "Why don't you just go home b4 you do more damage?" 😂 Sounds like Steph lines if I ever heard them😂.. In fact, Steph was telling Brooke that same thing just hours b4 when she was circling Taylor's room
That is a _great_ point! This storyline actually has Macy in the Stephanie role quite a lot! Macy confronting Brooke, Macy being the Cassandra, and ultimately Macy "dying" _in Stephanie's place_ (Macy's death being indirectly caused by an attempt to save Stephanie's life).
These seagulls know a witch when they see one. Like the ones in the Little Mermaid when they saw Ursula the sea witch pretending to be a beautiful damsel to get the Prince...
Even as Brooke is watching Stephanie unconscious in a hospital bed, she is thinking "you can't stop Thorne and me from being together". This is _not_ what any human being with a heart would be thinking at a moment like this.
@@TriniT21I think she should have been, but not as a friend but as someone that Stephanie felt she needed one last chance to control. Stephanie might have chosen to die with Brooke by her side if she felt it could be useful as a way to make sure Brooke wouldn't be a thre at to her family once she was gone. Sadly, it wasn't written this way.
@@annieo6527 really I do not think she should have been there in the actual end with Steph alone, in any capacity. As opposed to her beloved no. 1 son. Maybe during the course of her dying, yes.. They could have that convo. But not the final moments is Steph dying in Brooke's arms. I know Brooke really craved Steph's acceptance (and really admired her more than she hated her which is why she wanted that acceptance so badly from Steph), but, it really does not ring true to the course of the show. Even Steph dying in Sally's arms would have been a better choice. Sally and steph were actually best frenemies throughout. Could never be Brooke for me in that scenario (and I watched that scene on you tube last year and it still didn't make sense to me how it was written).
@@TriniT21 well, I thought Stephanie's death storyline in its entirety was poorly written (especially how Stephanie suddenly became Irish on her deathbed). It felt more like a tribute to the actress than the character. But I think since the Brooke/Stephanie rivalry was such an important part of the structure of the show, it does make sense that the final scene would be between the two of them (I think Eric or Ridge are too weak as characters to carry such a significant scene). For me it was just the emotional tone that was off. Especially with Brooke holding Stephanie and singing to her. Stephanie doesn't strike me as the person who would want a "sentimental" death. She would like to go out controlling the story.
@@babs4848 as I keep saying, everything Brooke possesses is for her to manipulate to her advantage. That includes her kids and that company. She never really cared about Forrester other than a tool to get revenge and keep control.
What a split screen between Ridge and his loving wife and Thorne and his side piece. Between Taylor risking her life to give birth, and Brooke giving Stephanie a stroke. 😬
Eric is no better then Brooke He had the mother and the daughter( Beth,Brooke) And will have the other daughter too( Donna) And he was after Taylor at one point as well.
Macy looked *amazing* in this episode. How could anyone prefer dowdy, greasy-haired Brooke over her?! Ridge running all over the hospital playing Nancy Drew trying to figure out who stroke-d Stephanie is oddly funny. Of course Brooke has no qualms talking to Stephanie about the news that put her in a coma, but flips out at the idea of Ridge finding out and being upset 🙄.
I remember this episode, well in the French version of B&B. That Ridge witness Thorne and Brooke making out and they were the reason Stephanie suffered a stroke.
Brooke and Thorne are selfish they only care about themselves. Thorne and Brooke don't love each other it only lust. I hope Ridge find out why his mother in hospital he will get angry at Thorne and Brooke having a relationship. Macy deserve a decent guy better than Thorne. It Thorne and Brooke fault his mother had a stroke and she in hospital and in a coma. Brooke think she irresistible to all the Forrester men. Thorne and Brooke deserve to suffer they hurt his mother and Macy. Taylor nearly die giving birth to her twin baby daughters and I glad she doing okay and she got to see her twin baby daughters.
Brooke and Thorne was one thing, but after finding out that Brooke had a baby with Deacon I can't believe Ridge ever gave Brooke another look. That should've been the final straw. But yet he left Taylor after finding out about her and James in '94. Make it make sense.
For me the breaking point should have been her hiding Ridge Thomas's pregnancy. And it was a little bit, in fact he never looked at her as he did before, till Taylor's second death.
@@hopeaiden6639 it was a shame she was unfaithful. But given the circumstances their situation was pretty extreme- they thought they were about to die in that blizzard. Brooke did cheat years later in 2010 with Oliver at Hope's graduation party. She claimed she "didn't know" that wasn't Ridge but that's absurd.
@@brendanbressler9807not to mention she was in that situation because Ridge left her alone again to chase after Brooke. She gave a close friend a dying wish as they both thought they were gonna perish. I mean the plot is ridiculous but if you compare it to all the conniving insidious things Brooke has done it’s insane how Taylor got scrutinized while Brooke gets away with everything.
Brooke wants Thorne to leave the hospital so he can focus on _her_ and not on his mother. She senses that the longer he stays with Stephanie and sees the effects of his choice, the more likely he is to regret it. Meanwhile, Ridge is reassuring his mother that Thorne is "not going to leave her side", when he _already did._
I mean, Brooke had to put her clothes back on and everything... She must have been so disappointed that entire time feigning interest in steph at the hospital
Brooke has blinded Eric with a bookcase falling on his head, she blinded Ridge with an explosion in the lab, and apparently she has blinded Thorne with all that hair gel she's using...
I am willing to sus pend my disbelief on this one. We all know that in real life, strokes are mainly caused by other factors. But in the fictional world of this show, it is clearly written that Stephanie had the stroke as a reaction to Thorne and Brooke.
Taylor never fought over a Forrester Brother. Ridge was madly in love with Taylor. Brooke is the one always fighting to get Ridge even when he was married with children.
Ridge told Taylor she just did a physical and had a clean bill of health a month ago apparently. That said, anyone, even a seemingly healthy person, can have a stroke at any time, esp if they have had a history of a stroke b4, which Steph has had.
Not common, but it is Stephanie's third health issue. She was hospitalized during her marriage to Eric because of an *_arterial occlusion_* (and in ep. 716 the doctor warned them that she has to reduce the stress, has to exercise...). In ep 1008 Stephanie turned up at the Mansion with amnesia. The doctor diagnosed that she had had a *_small stroke_* and she got hospitalized for the second time.
Brooke is really having to put some effort into latching onto Thorne. She's been to the coffee house, to Thorne's house, and to the hospital. Now she wants to go back to Thorne's house. She forgot she has kids at her house?
Macy is too confident for her own good she should know that this Thorne is not the other Thorne he always prefered other women to her first Taylor now Brooke this Thorne is bad he does not deserve his mother concern
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Thorne figured out that the best way to get his family's attention is to get involved with Brooke.
The only way
@@-Lily7415 Trying to k ill Ridge worked that one time too 😂
I think unconsciously, that is the number one reason he is doing it (no joke).
@@annieo6527 Oh I do too. It's all about competing with Ridge and getting Stephanie's attention (or competing with Ridge _for_ Stephanie's attention).
Or any one of Ridge's women, really.
He had their attention when he went after Caroline. He certainly had Steph's attention when he went after Taylor.
This is just an extension of that strategy
*Brooke:* "You have to tell Macy about us! Now's a good a time as any."
*Thorne:* "OK I'll start with dad."
*Brooke:* 😳 "You know maybe now's not the best time."
😂😂 they should have started with Ridge
I see this as Brooke trying to "control the narrative" - even in this situation, her main focus is not Stephanie's health, but how she is going to navigate the situation in order to achieve her goals.
Brooke is now Super Brooke - she is no longer just a "fauxmantic heroine" but is written as if she actually has some kind of personality di s o r der. Her lack of empathy is a trait that was always there, but it is magnified here, in a way that is quite unsettling. So far, I'd say Stephanie's version of the truth is still in place (all the camera angles of Brooke looking through the window into Stephanie's hospital room indicate that she is an "outside thre at") and the narrative has not yet fully shifted to Brooke's perspective.
I just find it interesting that when Brooke was visiting Stephanie, they had the blinds closed, and now with Eric, they are open again. Brooke calls Thomas obsessed, Brooke was the queen obsessor with the Forrester family Brooke was only using Thorne as Ridge wasn't available.
I know. She got desperate with Thorne after the reality check in the hospital.
Brooke wants to give Thorne "support." Like a b r a or a jock strap.
Or the seed cup cricketers wear 😂😂
😂😂😂
Brooke was just easy
“Brook and Thorne ! I don’t beeeeeeileavvvvvveeeee it!!!!!!!!!”
Oh Ron he tries 😂
He really goes for it! 😂
Brooke: "Thorne, I can understand the guilt that you're feeling."
Somehow I doubt it.
And then she tries to ease his guilt by telling him that it was Stephanie's _choice_ to "react like that".
Oh how things have changed. Now _Ridge_ is the one spying through the window on _Brooke._ 😂
Your so right about that
This isn't the first time, either. Lol! Ridge did this when he caught Thorne and Caroline kissing back in 1987.
😂😂
At least he had a facial expression...
I really think they didn't tell Ronn moss the script and left him to be surprised...
They should've had Ridge in the bushes to complete the circle 😂😂😂
Well of course he had to find out what really happened that caused his mother to have a stroke lol
I feel like Macy took over Steph's role..
"Brooke what are you still doing here?" "Why don't you just go home b4 you do more damage?"
😂
Sounds like Steph lines if I ever heard them😂.. In fact, Steph was telling Brooke that same thing just hours b4 when she was circling Taylor's room
That is a _great_ point! This storyline actually has Macy in the Stephanie role quite a lot! Macy confronting Brooke, Macy being the Cassandra, and ultimately Macy "dying" _in Stephanie's place_ (Macy's death being indirectly caused by an attempt to save Stephanie's life).
Anyone thought about calling Stephanie's daughters. Felicia and Kristen don't know their mother could die.
Kristen and Felicia should be nervous. When Brooke gets bored with Thorne, she will try hooking up with them next. The ARE Forrester's, after all.
This hairstyle gives Brooke a very strong face 😂
😂😂😂 not a pretty sight.
@Esi @Sharon - hear those seagulls? Connor said they always start squawking when they see Brooke. 😂😂
😂😂😂
😂😂 I remember! During the beach wedding. 🤣🤣 Oh how I miss him.
These seagulls know a witch when they see one. Like the ones in the Little Mermaid when they saw Ursula the sea witch pretending to be a beautiful damsel to get the Prince...
@@TriniT21 😂😂 And old pretending to be young too! 🤣🤣
They wanna drop lil’ white presents on her!
Even as Brooke is watching Stephanie unconscious in a hospital bed, she is thinking "you can't stop Thorne and me from being together". This is _not_ what any human being with a heart would be thinking at a moment like this.
Which is why, at the actual end of Steph's life, there is NO WAY that I could believe Brooke was the appropriate person to be there with her.
@@TriniT21I think she should have been, but not as a friend but as someone that Stephanie felt she needed one last chance to control. Stephanie might have chosen to die with Brooke by her side if she felt it could be useful as a way to make sure Brooke wouldn't be a thre at to her family once she was gone. Sadly, it wasn't written this way.
@@TriniT21Should have been Eric,Ridge,or Taylor
@@annieo6527 really I do not think she should have been there in the actual end with Steph alone, in any capacity. As opposed to her beloved no. 1 son. Maybe during the course of her dying, yes.. They could have that convo. But not the final moments is Steph dying in Brooke's arms.
I know Brooke really craved Steph's acceptance (and really admired her more than she hated her which is why she wanted that acceptance so badly from Steph), but, it really does not ring true to the course of the show.
Even Steph dying in Sally's arms would have been a better choice. Sally and steph were actually best frenemies throughout.
Could never be Brooke for me in that scenario (and I watched that scene on you tube last year and it still didn't make sense to me how it was written).
@@TriniT21 well, I thought Stephanie's death storyline in its entirety was poorly written (especially how Stephanie suddenly became Irish on her deathbed). It felt more like a tribute to the actress than the character. But I think since the Brooke/Stephanie rivalry was such an important part of the structure of the show, it does make sense that the final scene would be between the two of them (I think Eric or Ridge are too weak as characters to carry such a significant scene). For me it was just the emotional tone that was off. Especially with Brooke holding Stephanie and singing to her. Stephanie doesn't strike me as the person who would want a "sentimental" death. She would like to go out controlling the story.
Macy to Brooke: "Go home before you do any more damage." And she doesn't even _know_ the damage Brooke has _already_ done.
Poor Macy😢
@@-Lily7415 yes, it's quite sad watching her in this storyline knowing how it will end. She does not deserve what's coming to her.
Thorne Rick and Bridget have-been born in confusion 😂😂
Aww.. Listen to Brooke NOT caring about her children being confused by the crazy family dynamic as usual, bc she wants what she wants.
Brooke has only wanted men until she got them. I actually loathe her character 😂
Yeah, she was just "oh, they'll be okay, they'll be happy for us because _I am happy._
@@Tikaboo27She got worse after Grant kiss and the way she messed up FC and her son marrying Grant as a complete revenge towards Ridge.
@@babs4848 as I keep saying, everything Brooke possesses is for her to manipulate to her advantage.
That includes her kids and that company. She never really cared about Forrester other than a tool to get revenge and keep control.
Ridges hair gets higher with every episode.
What a split screen between Ridge and his loving wife and Thorne and his side piece.
Between Taylor risking her life to give birth, and Brooke giving Stephanie a stroke. 😬
Indeed! Suddenly Ridge is the good brother!
Brooke was always an evil character
Eric is no better then Brooke
He had the mother and the daughter( Beth,Brooke)
And will have the other daughter too( Donna)
And he was after Taylor at one point as well.
Yes. Eric and Brooke should've stayed together. They look similar in age too.
@@elr6169😂😂😂
@@elr6169😂😂😂 indeed they do.
Ridge trew up in his mouth a little bit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Macy looked *amazing* in this episode. How could anyone prefer dowdy, greasy-haired Brooke over her?!
Ridge running all over the hospital playing Nancy Drew trying to figure out who stroke-d Stephanie is oddly funny.
Of course Brooke has no qualms talking to Stephanie about the news that put her in a coma, but flips out at the idea of Ridge finding out and being upset 🙄.
I remember this episode, well in the French version of B&B. That Ridge witness Thorne and Brooke making out and they were the reason Stephanie suffered a stroke.
No Ridge..your mother was not in perfect health...
Nope
Oh Brooke Just like Caroline and Taylor you won't get Thorne to marry you until Macy is "dead"
🤔Taylor never loved Throne. She never wanted to marry him. It was Throne that wanted Taylor.
Brooke and Thorne are selfish they only care about themselves. Thorne and Brooke don't love each other it only lust. I hope Ridge find out why his mother in hospital he will get angry at Thorne and Brooke having a relationship. Macy deserve a decent guy better than Thorne. It Thorne and Brooke fault his mother had a stroke and she in hospital and in a coma. Brooke think she irresistible to all the Forrester men. Thorne and Brooke deserve to suffer they hurt his mother and Macy. Taylor nearly die giving birth to her twin baby daughters and I glad she doing okay and she got to see her twin baby daughters.
Brooke and Thorne was one thing, but after finding out that Brooke had a baby with Deacon I can't believe Ridge ever gave Brooke another look. That should've been the final straw. But yet he left Taylor after finding out about her and James in '94. Make it make sense.
They way they give Brooke a pass for EVERYTHING and nobody else a pass for ANYTHING is madness.
For me the breaking point should have been her hiding Ridge Thomas's pregnancy. And it was a little bit, in fact he never looked at her as he did before, till Taylor's second death.
Yeah because Taylor CHEATED on ridge with James like she SLEPT with James while being married to ridge. Brooke never cheated on him
@@hopeaiden6639 it was a shame she was unfaithful. But given the circumstances their situation was pretty extreme- they thought they were about to die in that blizzard. Brooke did cheat years later in 2010 with Oliver at Hope's graduation party. She claimed she "didn't know" that wasn't Ridge but that's absurd.
@@brendanbressler9807not to mention she was in that situation because Ridge left her alone again to chase after Brooke. She gave a close friend a dying wish as they both thought they were gonna perish. I mean the plot is ridiculous but if you compare it to all the conniving insidious things Brooke has done it’s insane how Taylor got scrutinized while Brooke gets away with everything.
Oh oh Ridge is going to get to the bottom of things 🔍
Lol
Brooke wants Thorne to leave the hospital so he can focus on _her_ and not on his mother. She senses that the longer he stays with Stephanie and sees the effects of his choice, the more likely he is to regret it.
Meanwhile, Ridge is reassuring his mother that Thorne is "not going to leave her side", when he _already did._
You can't say shes not selfless 🤣
No one can accuse Brooke of caring about anyone else.
What I can't believe, is that Thorne WENT HOME WITH HER.
@@TriniT21it again proves Stephanie right when, just before her stroke, she said that if Thorne gave in to Brooke he would become just like her.
What Brooke means is we need to back to your house to finish what the stroke interrupted😂😂 stay classy kween T Hot🙄
I mean, Brooke had to put her clothes back on and everything... She must have been so disappointed that entire time feigning interest in steph at the hospital
Has Brooke ever did any unselfish thing in the 30 years she’s been on the show? Hell No!
For Brooke supporters: Ridge is not jelous here😂
😂 For I second I thought he might be, but his next sentence dashed all their hopes 🤣
Brooke decides that the best way to win Thorne’s heart is to look just like him.
great comment
Thank you so much for this episode
When was the last time Brooke saw her children?
She's looking after her two step-sons at the hospital 😆
many, many months ago😅
Did Brooke ever really care about Bridget that much after finding out she's really Eric's daughter? She used poor Bridget as a weapon to get Ridge.
She has her nose in Ricks business
She mentioned Amber and indicated her dislike for her
@@-Lily7415so she treats Amber like she hates Stephanie treating her? How two faced.
What (straight dude) would choose a man in a dress over Macy 😝
Hes curious 🤗
@@ministryofwrongthink9847 😂🤣 🤣
Brooke has blinded Eric with a bookcase falling on his head, she blinded Ridge with an explosion in the lab, and apparently she has blinded Thorne with all that hair gel she's using...
@@TriniT21 💀💀
@@TriniT21 Yes what is that hair? 😂 Brooke's whole look this season is giving Euro t rash.
Ridge should have busted them right away..
Can someone educate Ridge what ACTUALLY causes a stroke!
I wonder if they did a PSA at the end of the episode??
I am willing to sus pend my disbelief on this one. We all know that in real life, strokes are mainly caused by other factors. But in the fictional world of this show, it is clearly written that Stephanie had the stroke as a reaction to Thorne and Brooke.
Macy has traded places with Taylor.... fighting over a Forrester brother, this time Thorne.
Taylor never fought over a Forrester Brother. Ridge was madly in love with Taylor. Brooke is the one always fighting to get Ridge even when he was married with children.
Brooke the lurker/stalker
Ridge looked like he got punched in the stomach when he saw Brooke and Thorne kiss
What a shock, Ridge!!😅😅😅
Why is everyone reacting as if it is unusual for someone who’s up there in age, to have a stroke! 🙄
Or that something has to "cause" it. 🤨
She had a stroke during Brooke marriage to Eric
_Brooke_ had a stroke? 🤔
Ridge told Taylor she just did a physical and had a clean bill of health a month ago apparently.
That said, anyone, even a seemingly healthy person, can have a stroke at any time, esp if they have had a history of a stroke b4, which Steph has had.
Not common, but it is Stephanie's third health issue.
She was hospitalized during her marriage to Eric because of an *_arterial occlusion_* (and in ep. 716 the doctor warned them that she has to reduce the stress, has to exercise...). In ep 1008 Stephanie turned up at the Mansion with amnesia. The doctor diagnosed that she had had a *_small stroke_* and she got hospitalized for the second time.
Thanks for the upload !!
Brooke is my fav y’all is hating for no reason lol
That’s an insane thing to say it boggles my mind how Brooke’s character has fans like who raised ya’ll😭
@@singularitinyyea no reason omg 😂😂
Brooke is really having to put some effort into latching onto Thorne. She's been to the coffee house, to Thorne's house, and to the hospital. Now she wants to go back to Thorne's house. She forgot she has kids at her house?
Tridge and babies able to go home! ❤
Macy is too confident for her own good she should know that this Thorne is not the other Thorne he always prefered other women to her first Taylor now Brooke this Thorne is bad he does not deserve his mother concern
How is it like reliving the end of the 1990s?
I wish I could go back
Brooke's hairstyle's not the happiest in these episodes...
Ridge being boring af with Taylor like damn they have ZERO chemistry