Soaps - Brandon Barash [Stefan | Jake Lambert] #1: B/c there couldn't be a better Dimera replacement than him.

**eternalfate** · 06-14-2019, 01:38 PM

Brandon Barash | Stefan Dimera #1

**SuitUp** · 06-15-2019, 01:48 AM

Thanks for opening.

Love the set you used.

**eternalfate** · 06-16-2019, 04:10 PM

^ You are welcomed! Thought it was fitting!
I was happy they finally had Stefan sharing scenes with other characters last week.

**SuitUp** · 06-17-2019, 08:30 AM

Really is. I was pleased too. They need to continue that and make him more menacing IMO. If you're a Dimera, you need to be a Dimera. I hope that was his last scene with Chloe.

**eternalfate** · 06-17-2019, 03:29 PM

^ I agree because I feel they just sort of made him one dimensional since BB took over and it wasn't really working for me so I like that now it seems he will finally be getting layers and we can see him interact with the other characters.

**SuitUp** · 06-18-2019, 10:05 AM

It took me a little while to notice that he was veering into one dimensional territory but they were. I don't like seeing him docile or clueless with Nicole/Kristen or others. EJ was manipulative and on top of the game. So was Stefano. Don't make Stefan like Chad.

I'm sorry but they should've just revealed Chad wasn't a Dimera because the lengths to strip him of all the family traits.

**eternalfate** · 06-18-2019, 06:23 PM

^ I noticed that during the second week of Brandon's version... it seems they were trying to write him as too much of a nice guy, that they were erasing everything about his character and it was sort of making his character irrelevant however it feels like the recent month that things with his character has turned back around for the better.

For me, I find it believable for him to be clueless of Nicole/Kristen because he didn't know either one of them... he never knew Nicole and he only spent like one week with Kristen so it wouldn't be believable if he did know something was up.

If anything, Brady and Eric should catch on quicker than Stefan would.

**SuitUp** · 06-20-2019, 05:02 PM

True.

I forgot that was their only interaction. Let's talk about Brady and Eric not knowing. Make it make sense.

I wouldn't have minded him wanting to be with Chloe but forcing the good guy narrative is exhausting. Why does every soap character wanna be good so badly? He was being pushed into one dimesional territory, I hope he's coming out of it.

**eternalfate** · 06-23-2019, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by SuitUp (View Post)

True.

I forgot that was their only interaction. Let's talk about Brady and Eric not knowing. Make it make sense.

I wouldn't have minded him wanting to be with Chloe but forcing the good guy narrative is exhausting. Why does every soap character wanna be good so badly? He was being pushed into one dimesional territory, I hope he's coming out of it.

Yeah... so to me it would had been odd for him to really know... he doesn't know Nicole and he rarely knows Kristen so he can't grasps the difference. Eric and Brady needs to get it together.

Yup and that was the issue with the Chloe/Stefan relationship is that it really just made Stefan character so out of character in a way because he was too much of a good guy that it was strange to watch...