On “The Bold and the Beautiful,” Ridge Forrester (Thorsten Kaye) has always been a hothead, pretty much since the show started way back in 1987, when the character was played by original portrayer Ronn Moss. But even though his daughter, Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood), is now older than he was when the show began, Ridge is still throwing his weight around and making demands he wouldn’t have put up with from his own smothering mother, Stephanie! Does Ridge need to dial it back, or was he justified in his being upset on today’s episode regarding the news of Steffy’s “surrogacy”?
My Baby’s Got A Secret
The Forresters, Logans, Spencers, and all who have orbited them the past four decades should know darn well from experience that their secrets never remain so. Which is why one has to question why Carter (Lawrence Saint-Victor) and Steffy, who, in their dismay over their respective spouses Daphne (Murielle Hilaire) and Finn (Tanner Novlan) got busy on that Forrester CEO office couch (that needed Scotchgard before the 1900s were even over), are trying to lay down subterfuge about Steffy’s unexpected knock-up by Carter is anybody’s guess. Sure enough, Li (Naomi Matsuda), Finn, and now Taylor (Rebecca Budig) are scratching their heads about Steffy’s stork timeline.
All That She Wants Is Another Baby
This isn’t even Steffy’s first who’s-the-daddy dilemma! So much for all that smack talked about the ever-fertile Brooke over the years, Miss Co-CEO! Of course, folks, the show’s rich and powerful rarely remember their own history, so that wasn’t what Ridge was on about when he learned that Steffy and Carter had quietly decided to borrow her uterus so they could give Daphne (the child she couldn’t have. No, Ridge thought that he and Taylor should have been consulted first!
Be My Baby
Say what, now? When Steffy was SORASed and returned from London in 2008, she was eighteen. That means that, even in real time – which, of course, soaps never play by – she’s 38. Thirty-eight! And Ridge wanted Steffy to come to him first and ask his opinion on whether or not she should donate a child to Carter? The one thing Ridge is right about is smelling a rat, but come on. Was Ridge going to Gangsta Granny Stephanie about his myriad romantic choices when he was Steffy’s age?
Sure, Stephanie offered her free advice at every turn, but plenty of times Ridge told his overbearing diva mom to keep her viewpoints to herself. How Ridge blew his stack about basically having the right to greenlight Steffy’s decisions – and how Steffy just sat there like a cowed little girl – is just mind-blowing. No wonder Steffy was still crying that she shouldn’t have to share her dad with Hope when she was well into her 20s!
Baby One More Time
Not buying Daphne’s gushing litany about how Steffy had provided her and Carter with a miracle – and for real, even Hallmark would have been telling The Nose to tone it down if they’d heard it – Ridge then took Steffy aside like she was facing expulsion from high school and asked her if she were being forced to carry his best friend’s baby! Wow, Ridge! It was talk like that – specifically Ridge and Taylor whining that Bill (Don Diamont) had “violated” the very willing Steffy when Still (their coupling fan name) got their freak on (the smart money “still” say Kelly is Bill’s daughter; you wait) – that inspired Taylor to grab a golden gun and use Bill for target practice. Do these people never learn anything from talking in absolutes?
Baby I’m A Star
Finally, Carter co-signed Ridge’s insanity by apologizing for not having consulted him about matters seemingly pertaining to his own marriage! Maybe Carter was just trying to scrape Ridge off the ceiling and get him onto any other subject, but his actions just gave King Ridge even more power. Even Taylor did nothing but stand there while Ridge ranted and raved. Is it any wonder Ridge continues to think he can treat everybody else like children while he acts like the biggest child of all?
Do you think Ridge deserved to be consulted about Steffy and Carter’s “decision” to enter into a surrogacy agreement? Or did it seem to you that he overstepped his bounds? Let us know in the comments below!
