Perhaps a rewrite is in the works (General)

OMG Gracie.
I've thought the same stuff. I just couldn't figure out how to say it without putting the recast on blast. She's fine but this character is no saint and it's time to blow that halo off. With Stephanie gone she's got no protection so maybe we can open that closet full of skeletons. I hurt for Deacon here. He's going to see her as that saint and she's not. I hope that Hope stays in his head about Taylor. She's got to be his voice of reason somehow.

I actually thought Deacon was smarter than to be snowed by this witch. He's been around the block more than a few times. I hope Deacon plays her then walks out like Ridge did because that's all she deserves.

I'm hoping the same thing.

I agree that in actuality Brooke has a good heart. I know she’s made terrible choices. She’s slept around no more than men but as she’s a female, women expect women to do better. She betrayed her mother, daughter and sister, but men on this show have betrayed their fathers, sons, and brothers. Brooke has allowed Ridge to control her reaction to his betrayals and rejection. I would give anything if this character never had to communicate with Ridge again..

Actually, Taylor slept around a lot more, especially when she was picking up anonymous men at the docks and bedding them in a drunken stupor.

What good heart?Brooke is heartless.She walks all over her mother, daugther , sister,...to get what she wants.And lope have proven to be as heartless as she is

I have seen the argument that Brooke is forgiving. But IMO from what I have seen Brooke has often been very vindictive. We saw her swear revenge on Stephanie on Caroline's wedding day (after she blamed Stephanie for Ridge's choice). We saw her and Donna keep blaming Stephanie for their family "falling apart" (and telling Eric all about it) when leaving town was Beth's choice, and Stephanie singlehandedly turned Stephen from an absentee failure of a father to a successful man. The whole BeLieF storyline and Brooke's takeover of FC was entirely motivated by revenge. Stephanie pleaded with her and even offered to give her her own shares of FC if she would just let Eric keep control of the company, but Brooke refused. Brooke received a good counter offer that even Connor advised her to take, but she refused. And after she took over, she did everything she could to humiliate Stephanie (throwing her out of her office, rejecting Stephanie's idea for a fashion show simply because Stephanie didn't "go through the proper channels" and then accepting once Stephanie asked again "respectfully") and display her power (hiring Sheila as her liaison, standing over Ridge while he designed and making him design in her office, forcing new deadlines on Eric and Ridge causing Eric to suffer creative block).

The only thing I can think of that might show Brooke as being forgiving is that she and Stephanie became friends at the end. But that was a two way street based on mutual forgiveness.

Brooke and Ridge also tend to forgive each other, but that is also a two way street because they take turns needing the other's forgiveness.

Other than that, I am not sure when Brooke has displayed forgiveness. She is usually in a position to need other people's forgiveness more than she is in a position to forgive, because she has usually been the one causing others to be hurt.

As for Brooke's goodness, I really struggle to remember any selfless or good-hearted deeds that Brooke has done. Most of her actions are motivated by her own selfish desires. And she has always systematically disrespected other people's marriages.

Being forgiving doesn't mean Brooke had to be a martyr and tolerate ALL of Stephanie's crimes and manipulations against her or her family without ever striking back. The list of Stephanie's misdeeds against Brooke and her family is so much longer and much more cruel than what Brooke has ever done in return. And Brooke only ever decided that it was time to give Stephanie a taste of her own medicine after giving her countless chances for a new beginning between them, but sooner or later Stephanie always stabbed her in the back again until they finally made peace in 2011.

The fact alone that Brooke always kept believing that there was something good inside Stephanie, despite the way she kept making Brooke's life hell for selfish reasons, already makes her a forgiving person. And she hasn't only given Stephanie that benefit of the doubt, she has given almost everyone who has ever done her wrong a second or even third and fourth chance because she's always trying to see the best in people until they're absolutely irredeemable like Sheila is right now for example.
Also, when Bridget and Katie were going behind her back with Ridge and when Bridget was cheating with Nick, Brooke only blamed the men and didn't hold any grudges against her daughter or her sister, given the way she had hurt both of them herself in the past.

And she has been selfless a lot of times in her life. Especially when it came to choosing between her kids' needs and her relationship with Ridge she has had her kids' backs almost every time, even when it meant alienating and eventually losing the love of her life. This was already the case back in the early 90s when she agreed with Taylor's suggestion that Eric should move back in with her for little Rick's sake, even though she knew how this would drive Ridge back into Taylor's direction. And the latest of many examples is the way she was willing to give Deacon another chance for Hope's sake, even though she knew this would make Ridge freak out. If she was a selfish person, she would never have put her children's happiness before her own marriage. And she even put Thomas' happiness before her own in the Taboo storyline, taking the risk of losing Ridge to Taylor when she thought Ridge was treating Thomas unfairly by scrapping his line. Or how about her donating all of her fortune to Stephanie's foundation and gifting Ridge to Taylor when she thought she had slept with Thomas?

Sure Brooke has needed other people's forgiveness too plenty of times. But that's even more reason why she's so forgiving herself and why it takes an awful lot of viciousness against her to bring out her vindictive side.