The sore spot between Hope and Brooke has always been the elder Logan’s sexuality and romances on The Bold and the Beautiful. In recent years, it hasn’t been an issue. But learning that Brooke slept with Ridge the night he refused to make his wife co-CEO reminded Hope of what she considers to be her mom’s weakness. Her inability to choose family over love and lust.
Key Takeaways
- How Hope flipped the script on Brooke.
- Where her hurt is coming from.
- What Hope’s sense of betrayal could mean for her relationship with her mom.
Hope’s True Intentions Are Revealed
Hope (Annika Noelle) was fully supportive of Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) pursuing the co-CEO position. She paid little mind to how it might affect Ridge (Thorsten Kaye) and Steffy’s (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) relationship. Hope was focused on getting her line back into production. She felt her mom’s promotion would secure that goal.
What Brooke didn’t know was that Hope wanted to be chosen. There is no one with a position of power at Forrester who will put Hope first. But she knew that her mother would if she replaced Steffy as co-CEO.
Hope was counting on Brooke to take a stand. She thought she’d fight for herself and, in turn, fight for HFTF. That if Ridge didn’t give Brooke the answer she wanted, she’d keep pushing until she wore him down.
Instead, Brooke made her case but accepted Ridge’s decision not to demote his daughter. She saw the hurt the situation had caused him and didn’t want to hurt him further. For Hope, this was unacceptable. Ridge had turned her mother down. He hadn’t chosen his wife over his daughter. But his decision didn’t upset Brooke. She was more concerned about his feelings.
The only thing Brooke wanted was for Ridge to promise her he’d speak to Steffy about HFTF. Once he assured her that he would, Brooke felt she’d still done right by her daughter. She could then refocus on their marriage and spent a passionate night with her husband.
But Hope didn’t see that as her mother choosing her. She saw it as Brooke getting walked over and placated, leaving Hope to fend for herself.
Brooke Didn’t Betray Hope But She Didn’t Prioritize Her
Hope didn’t mince words with Brooke. She accused her mother of failing her and towing the Forrester party line about HFTF. It was a turn that ultimately showed Hope’s hand.
Brooke getting the co-CEO position wasn’t about her own empowerment; it was about Hope’s. But Brooke had been clear with her daughter before she pitched a changing of the guard to Ridge. She understood the decision to put the line on the back burner.
The elder Logan’s position didn’t change on that front. She simply thought she could get Ridge to have Steffy reconsider. Or, presumably, at least provide a start window for production.
Hope didn’t tell Brooke that fighting to become co-CEO was really a choice between siding with the Forresters or siding with her own daughter. But that’s what it ultimately was. Without knowing Hope’s true intentions, Brooke didn’t have all the information. She thought she’d made a choice for herself that she could accept and didn’t see how it would look to Hope.
In this situation, Brooke hasn’t exactly been aligned with her daughter. Waging a war to get HFTF back wasn’t on her mind. But, to be fair, she didn’t know Hope wanted that to be an option. What Brooke failed to realize is that Hope wants to come first in her life, no matter the circumstances. That when the chips are on the line, even if it costs Brooke, she’ll choose her daughter.
Brooke does tend to do this. She weathered the storm of Hope and Carter’s (Lawrence Saint-Victor) takeover of Forrester. For a time, she lost Ridge in the process. But it’s never been enough for Hope.
The Hurt Between a Mother and Daughter
Hope is the product of an affair between her mom and her sister’s husband. That’s a truth she’s had to carry her whole life. She’s a walking reminder of Brooke following her heart and the pain she’s put her family through to do it. Hope has even lived it herself.
Brooke chose Bill (Don Diamont) over her, despite his years of interference in Hope’s relationship with Liam (Scott Clifton). In spite of Bill being her aunt Katie’s (Heather Tom) husband. Brooke continues to choose “destiny” with Ridge, though she knows her husband doesn’t respect or like Hope. Neither does Steffy, but they have been in and out of each other’s lives since they were children because of their parents.
Hope sees Brooke as someone who puts her romantic and intimate needs above all else. It’s a trait she despises in her mother. One that she believes leads Brooke to make poor decisions. That causes her to disregard her family’s feelings, including her children’s, for the sake of having love and affection.
But Hope thinks that the way for Brooke to rise above that tendency is to choose family, to choose her. In her mind, that’s what Ridge did. He chose his daughter, so Brooke should have chosen hers. Though the situations weren’t analogous, Hope saw them as such. To her, the line in the sand is herself.
If the Forresters won’t choose her, then Brooke has to. The fact that Brooke didn’t put the mother-daughter duo on a track to ruin. Hope, feeling like she no longer has an ally in her mom, could be the very thing that pushes her to go to Logan.
She has done everything she can to avoid going to her aunt’s company. But if no one in power at Forrester is on her side, it’s the only choice that doesn’t leave her career in limbo. It’s also the choice that’s going to hurt Brooke immensely.
