u/ChannelHopper_99

Early Kelly was such a sunbeam to me 😭 she was funny, sweet, goofy and honestly very relatable. I really liked her character because she just had this good energy about her. Even when she was being messy, I could still understand where she was coming from.

Then the BET seasons came and they turned her into a whole reality TV star 😭😭. I was like what happened to Kelly??? The Ballers Wives stuff just did not feel like her to me. The cameras, the attitude, all the extra stuff. I know the divorce changed her and she was going through a lot, but they really took her character in a direction I didn’t like.

And when she came back in Season 7, I was happy because I did miss Kelly, but even then it still wasn’t the same Kelly IMO. And then they put her back with cheap ass Jason 😭 like WHY??? After everything that happened between them, I did not want them back together. I wanted Kelly to come back and actually have her own life instead of going right back to Jason.

I know people change, but I feel like they changed way too much about her. She was still Kelly, but that old bubbly, goofy Kelly was just gone. Early Kelly was one of my favorites and I honestly just wanted that version of her back.

I’m saying Helena 😭 because she stayed popping up out of nowhere when I would watch GH with my grandma. I remember her always threatening people in Port Charles and putting curses on people, especially the Quartermaines. That’s actually one of the first things I remember seeing from GH as a kid since I was born in 1999.

But Helena stayed cursing them people lmao. Did anybody ever actually break one of her curses?? 😭

I’m not gonna lie tho, I do miss Helena being on my screen.

I’ll say Harley, especially during those last few years. They really put this woman through EVERYTHING 😭. She went from divorcing Gus, dealing with the whole Daisy/Rafe/Natalia mess, getting involved with Cyrus, and then her finances got so bad that she was taking out a second mortgage and struggling to feed her kids.

And then after everything with Gus and Cyrus, she eventually just leaves Springfield and ends up in Greece. Like what happened to Harley??? 😭

I just hated how they wrote her during the show’s final years. She deserved so much better than the material they were giving her.

I’m rewatching “Good Vibrations?” and girl was really making this whole situation worse for herself 😭 She convinced herself that her boss was trying to sleep with her, confronted him about it, and then his WIFE shows up 💀

Moesha really had a habit of jumping to conclusions and then making everything ten times more awkward than it needed to be. Like girl, PLEASE 😭

I’m rewatching One on One and got to the episode where Breanna and Spirit go to that party and omg I HATED this episode 😭

The whole situation with Derrick and Spirit was so uncomfortable. Like he was really planning on having sex with her when she clearly didn’t want that, and Breanna and Arnaz had to step in.

And the crazy part is this started because Spirit was jealous that Breanna got on the Hottie List 😭 Like girl went to a party and ended up in THAT situation. I know it’s an early 2000s sitcom, but that whole storyline was way too uncomfortable for me.

For me, it’s Brooke and Deacon 😭 I was waiting for somebody to catch their asses, or hear them like Bridget did. I still haven’t forgiven either one of them for that mess, even after 24 years. Brooke really slept with her daughter’s husband and then got pregnant with Hope by him. Like girl??? And Deacon knew exactly what he was doing too. That whole situation was so wrong on so many levels.

And how did they really think they were gonna keep this a secret when Brooke was literally pregnant with her son-in-law’s baby? 😭 I just wanna thank the baby monitor for exposing that truth because somebody finally caught them! Bridget should’ve never forgiven her mom for doing that.

Honorable mention: Katie from ATWT. She was messy as hell too, and when she finally got exposed at the Endicott Awards… 😭 Yeah, I was waiting for that too. She deserved that one. I was watching that storyline on YT.

I was thinking about BET’s old music programming and started wondering what year y’all think they were at their best. Between the shows, music videos, countdowns and everything else, what year had the best lineup to y’all?

I can’t believe it’s been 20 years since 2006. I was only 5 going on 6 at the time, so I didn’t really know who was having the biggest year in R&B. I was just a kid listening to the radio and enjoying all the songs that came out that year.

Looking back now, 2006 was a really good year for R&B. A lot of artists were dropping hits and having moments that people still remember today.

For me, I think the conversation comes down to Beyoncé and Ciara. Beyoncé had B’Day, which was a huge era for her (and she was screaming a lot in that era 😆), while Ciara had The Evolution, which showed her growth and gave us some of her biggest songs.

But there were a lot of great artists that year, so I want to hear everyone’s opinions. Who do y’all think had the best year in R&B in 2006? What songs or albums from that year still stand out to you?

Every time Mona was brought up on Half & Half, it felt like she was always getting criticized. People were always judging her hair, her personality, and even questioning whether she was “Black enough.”

I hated seeing that because Mona was her own person. She didn’t have to fit into someone else’s idea of what a Black woman should be. She had her own style, her own struggles, and her own identity.