The show makes less sense with each episode (General)

I have always found it weird that they were raised together as sister and brother yet this relationship stuff keeps coming up. It's gross. I wish Hope would have said that to Paris.

And yes, the show is making less and less sense.

MA has to be sick and tired of this stuff. They need to either make him an Adam Newman type bad guy, or figure a way to get him back to good guy status. But this psycho stuff is making him male Sheila, and he will have to be written in and out of the show, if that is where they are going. The guy freaking killed someone, and many other psycho things, they cannot let him skate forever with his mommy and daddy covering everything he does, up. It makes them look like what they are, rich idiots that think their pooh does not smell and their kids should get off the hook for murder, attempted murder, and everything else, but everyone else should fry. If some guy was doing this to Steffy, Taylor would have shot him by now, and thought she had the right. This makes the whole Hamilton family look really bad.

The Tridge Mafia is a crime family. The writer's have taken them well past the point of redemption,without major suffering on the characters parts. The only thing that might make his idiot parents realize just how out of control he is...is if he nearly kills Steffy on purpose. Let his resentment towards her over her getting all of Taylor's stock boil over.

Now that would be great. I would cheer him on over that one. I remember when he lost it in the office that day, Brooke and Ridge were there, along with Steffy, Eric and Taylor. He tore Taylor a new one for her favoritism, and he called Steffy a brat that blackmailed Bill and used her body to get the stock. That it was dirty.

Yep. That was a Thomas I could root for. Seems being around his sister and mother rotted his brain completely.

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"What Pine Cone has brought together...let no one put asunder."

I really hoped that happened already with the Vinnie story when Tom actually seemed to have changed, helping to get Liam out of jail. Why in heavens they suddenly decided to go back to "bad Tom" I will never understand...why make up a whole story to redeem him if they make him a villain again with his next story?
I also think that Tom is more disturbed than just plain bad...it may have to do with his mother, we know Taylor is very unstable too.
I remember after she returned and she and Ridge were living with Tom and the twins, all teenagers already, that she once freaked out over finding a condome among Tom´s things. Instead of being glad her son is a responsible young man she said what he was thinking having a thing like that in the same house where his teenage sisters live and what if Steffy and Phoebe found it?
When he was in love with Gaby she called the authorities on her and wanted her deported...the story ended amicably, Tom´s marriage to Gaby was annulled but Gaby allowed to stay and study in the US, but for some time Tom certainly hated his mother for her behaviour.

I agree with your post, Lizzy, though I didn't see the show during that time period.

I agree that Thomas is mentally ill, and at his core, he's really a good person who wants to be a good person and a good father. He seemed well on the road to redemption until Taylor's return. I think Taylor and Steffy (who involves Thomas in her schemes and manipulations) are bad influences on Thomas and drag him down. He doesn't have the overbearing personality of his sister, thank goodness, but it does allow her to bully him. I hope Thomas manages to overcome his trouble and act like the good man he really is and be a good father to Douglas. But, for that to happen, I really think he needs to separate himself from Taylor and Steffy.