I just want Patrick Muldoon, the real Austin, to come back!

I watch sometimes while I eat lunch when I work from home, often enough that I have a vague sense of the plot outline.

I cannot stand the new Belle, probably for the same reason that somebody else already mention: she is a horrible actor, even by the standards of soap opera acting (and I'm not trying to slam all day time actors because many of them do a fine job).

The strange aging of these characters always gets under my skin. How old is Bonnie supposed to be? How much of an age gap is there between Patrick and Mimi? It just seems strange that Bonnie, Patrick, and Mimi would all be of such an age that Mimi could marry Shawn (the two of them are supposedly the same age) yet Patrick is an appropriately-aged love interest for Hope, Shawn's mother --- yet Bonnie is supposedly a contemporary of Bo and Hope, despite her former interest in the much-older Mickey (or, at least, his money). Plus, doesn't Bonnie have other children that are younger than Mimi? I know that some families space them out, but this just defies belief. (Yeah, I know, when did I start looking for reality in daytime soaps...?)

Re-casting is always fun! Do you remember that goofy little weiner who used to play Shawn D back when he was still Shawn instead of Shawn? I wonder what that goober looks like now. It was obvious that buck-toothed little varmint wasn't going to turn into a hottie so when they decided it was time for Shawn's teen angst and high school drama, well, bye bye weiner kid!

Sigs by Syren. Bouncie by IceCat. One and Only WeinerGuy.

Don't even get me started on the timeline and ages for Passions...