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She's cute and her delivery is so far not stilted, but I don't need another bratty, mouthy kid on this show, even if I completely agree with her point. These people do not know how to write children.

I enjoyed Morgan's rant about his fucked up life, because his life is really fucked up. Mostly , I found him amusing and I appreciated seeing a scene where someone actually is told what is going on with connected characters instead of it being handwaved. It's certainly preferable to hearing repetitive conversations between characters stuck in the same bubble.

I got more of a feeling that the aimless youth (who looked far too worn down to be teens) were more like her usual milieu. Renting a room and partying with what seems like a windfall didn't seem like an unusual impulse, but I think she found it wasn't fun for her anymore. We don't know anything about her background, but I would be surprised if she is the quirky one in a well-off, stable family. She comes off as someone who is used to existing on very little.

Or "Jesus Take The Wheel". Thank goodness that is not in the public domain, because Ron would probably think that choice was "ironic" rather than awful.

I thought last week when we got that parting shot at Joe from the IBM guy along the lines of "They don't know what you are yet" that it was not just in reference to him being a terribly destructive person, but also that we were going to get some sort of reveal along the lines of him being bisexual or bi-polar and I'm still inclined to think we will find out he has mental issues beyond being a mercurial and somewhat mean-spirited guy who has as much concern for the people he damages as he does roadkill. Though I doubt the show will necessarily slap a specific label on him. I do enjoy the three leads overall but they all seem like selfish, at times horrible people and none of them seem to have much of a sense of warmth or humor, (Though Gordon gets a pass on that for the times he forgets to stare at the world with dead eyes) I'm not asking for wacky hijinx, just an occasional flash of wit and Joe's dismissive summing up of Jean Smart's character definitely does not count, it was openly surly and the lines were clunky. Whether he is actually bi-sexual or not, he nailed the boy-toy out of sheer spite, so he seems rather monstrous either way. I really appreciated how well Jean played the character's wordless reaction to observing what had passed between the two men.

Anna should shoot Sonny in both kneecaps when he gets mouthy with her. She needs to kick Duke to the curb for giving Sonny material for his incessant disrespect.

She's a fine singer and Amazing Grace is a beautiful hymn but it is so lyrically inappropriate for an infant's funeral that it completely took me out of the scene and torpedoed any possibility there might be of engaging me emotionally.

Donna has largely been in a bubble reacting to Gordon, but she already feels more fleshed out than the three main characters and I'm more interested in her as a consequence.

I think it's clear that Donna is the one doing all the juggling when it comes to work vs family life, so far he just keeps throwing her more balls to catch.

I'm glad to hear that it goes that way, I bet if The Hippie Wombat Carrot was on the receiving end, he'd waste no time in making Nathan pay for his negativity by pressing charges. As it is, I'm surprised that he hasn't narced to the judge about Nathan's lie during Maxie's custodial access hearing. Though maybe that is pending. This is one of many steps in showing Levi as a hypocritical creep, I'm sure we'll learn that vegan-boy beasts bacon double cheeseburgers when no-one is looking.

Maybe Duke would finally pull his head out of ass after that, though I doubt the possibility after he was such a pissy bitch to her over Julian's release.

In health care especially. I'd like this more if it wasn't the second time to the well with TPTB on this one. I also don't think anyone gets a free pass because they were at the cop-shop to see the ex-husband, not even when he was killed before she had a chance to speak with him. I sympathize with Liz over what she's going through, but not with her skipping out on work without taking leave from a supervisor. I certainly don't feel sorry that her pay has been docked, no matter how "mean" Dr O'was about it. I wonder if we are going to get a temporary plot-point of Liz getting fired or suspended for something that she ought to be fired or suspended over and be expected to see her as the victim. I will feel sorry for her, but as a victim of her own unprofessionalism, not unfair persecution.

I don't have a problem with Ric's death being faked and traumatizing Molly, it's better than him being dead for real or Molly being injured or killed in an attempt by Fluke's minions or Sonny's gang that can't shoot straight trying to get to him. It's certainly preferable than keeping an innocent man in jail for a trial that can't happen or blowing a larger case against Julian's smelly-looking boss.

That would be awesome for Sam, but I pity Neener being stuck with that stinking Silage. If TPTB do put her on the crazy-train, I think it makes more sense that it would be a consequence of getting stuck with that droning waste of black dye than being denied his manly devotion.

I'm glad Ric is alive and that they have not dragged out the reveal of this "shocking twist". At least it was slightly more subtle than the loaf-sized bread-crumbs suggesting that Rafe is totes a hit&run baby-killer. At least he had an appropriate, though clumsily acted emotional reaction to the child's death, unlike Levi who belittled Maxie for being upset and tried to make it all about him and how it was interfering in their yoga practice. Ric's fake death and Sabrina's breakdown are totally soapy and well-worn stories. they are also a contrast in showing effective emotional content. If TPTB had simply allowed Sabirina to have a normal and intense experience with grief, I might have felt for her, despite TeCa's weak chops, instead the nuttiness with thank-you notes and her wedding dress had me snorting in amusement over the ludicrous cheesiness of it and the thing is, I doubt that campmeister Ron was going for camp. I think he thought it would add to the heart-wrenching pathos. Well, it was pathetic, but not in the way intended. On the other hand I felt for Elizabeth, Diane and especially Molly in their reactions to Ric's death (loved Diane hugging Molly) even though I didn't believe for a second that he'd been killed.

Oh my God, perish the thought. I agree that Sonny is more Fredo that Michael but I thought I was going to put my foot through my TV when I re-watched the Godfather movies recently and realized how much MoBe's gestures and verbal tics are things he has borrowed from them with none of the depth that better actors give to a character's mannerisms. John Cazale was an amazing actor, MoBe barely deserves to share the same job title.

I enjoy Britt and Brad separately and together, but I never have and never will enjoy or be especially amused by their juvenlie scheming. It's just puerile and dull-witted, not at all compelling to watch coming from two supposedly smart characters even if it's a given that they are both well behind the curve in terms of emotional maturity. It has the potential to be comedic with a writer with a better flair for comedy than was in evidence today, but even so it regresses the arc we've been shown with both characters trying not to be such spiteful jerks in their dealings with others. It negates what little effort went into making them seem more dimensional and less like the flat, cartoonish plot-point villains they started out as being. I don't entirely understand why TPTB are spending time on them staring at their latest bullying target, whispering in corners and generally acting like sociopathic middle-schoolers. If you like the characters it's quite possibly going to seem annoying and a waste of time, if you can't stand the characters it's quite possibly going to seem annoying and a waste of time. Where is the gain in that? Is it all good because we'll be united in a common cause of being annoyed and feeling like our time has been wasted?

We know that Jordan is staying in town, so it's not as though she is going on to use her undercover identity elsewhere to pursue another case. Even so, the points made by Anna were stupid on so many levels. Jordan and the DEA spent years constructing an elaborate second life and now she's going to drop it after one arrest, before it even produces a case ready for trial, rather than continue to exploit her identity as a supposed criminal? And we are supposed to beieve there would be absolutely no risk to her or her son when she is revealed as undercover? I'm not buying the idea that Jordan would be on board for this beyond the idea that TJ really needs to be let in on the truth and moved anywhere other than under the roof of a mob flunkey who has repeatedly demonstrated that TJ's welfare comes second to his criminal ambitions, but that could be done without publicly revealing her real job. I completely agree that Anna's complaint about Jordan's release making her department look bad was whiny, especially if we consider how bad it is for the image of that same department to have the police commissioner keeping company with a man who has long established and current ties to organized crime.

I found Michelle Stafford was overall more credible today, she'd dialed down the simmering cray-cray from the last show so that Nina was having normal reactions which were somewhat capable of earning sympathy for her character, though it seems obvious that even if Nina isn't totally whack-a-doodle now, she is being set-up to go off the deep end as a consequence of Silage handling her with lies and half-truths. Sam should have dumped his narrow behind as soon as he admitted he'd told Nina nothing about their relationship. Until he does so, they should be on semi-permamnt hiatus, not sneaking around behind comawife's back. Ugh I hate that kind of crap, McBain is alway doing this shit..... whoops I mean Silage. He's nothing like McBain, nothing at all.

Most of the time i find Silas to be a forgettable void and when I have cause to notice him, he really doesn't seem like a pleasant person. Even if he was a character I felt invested in or at least liked I would still have less than zero sympathy for his predicament, he's behaving like a jerk. He's stringing two women along because he won't man up and act like a grown up with either of them. Even if his first instinct was to reconcile with Nina, which it isn't, it would still be the right thing to tell her as soon as possible that they he had been in a serious relationship with someone else until her reappearance. I really don't care that he was interrupted by Kiki when he was finally cornered by Nina about whether there was something going on with Sam, she should not have had to ask.

The skeevey drug-peddler was hotter than half the male cast and I don't even particularly like scrawny guys with lank hair, but at least he's not fug.

They do, and I kind of want the show to go there with Lauren turning out to be the coma-baby. At the very least, it stops TPTB from introducing a new character as coma baby or giving a worse character like Levi a new reason to cling to Port Charles like patchouli stink in a head-shop.

I think it's sadly, depressingly normal for some men and women to be disinterested in the children their partner has with someone else, but Levi is a sick, narcissistic freak to interfere so aggressively with Maxie having any sort of relationship whatsoever with her infant daughter. In fact the only reason I question whether Maxie is doing the right thing in establishing her place in her daughter's life is she is remaining in a relationship with a man who is openly disapproving towards her doing so and masks his hostility behind manipulative talk like "I thought we agreed...." When most people, including myself say "I thought we agreed" it is when someone bulldozed their own viewpoint and assumed agreement or there was a difference of opinion and the other person gave in but changed their mind, it's not something said when there was a true agreement..

Exactly. It's not Sam's place to tell Nina what Silas has been up to since she went into the coma. However Sam accounting for her connection to Silas by handwaving it as beginning and ending with him being Danny's doctor wasn't helpful either. Nina is going to find out (and she totes has no idea) from someone else running their mouth that Silas was dating Sam, if Silas doesn't tell her himself. He needs to drop this on her soon, no matter whether he wants to reconcile, separate or just be ambiguous about it while pursing his lips and rolling his eyes every time one of the wimmins speak. I'm just waiting for high-as-a-kite Rafe to come bumbling into Silas' place asking for sandwich money and have a massive freak-out when Nina rolls up on him and introduces herself.

When Ava is murdered, as she inevitably will be, after stealing the Lante baby/embryo when her own pregnancy fails, Nina will turn out to be the killer.