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Yes watching her play out these scenes (and killing it) in a bedazzled David Byrne suit has been a little silly.

I think the lack of food and drink is more about continuity than cheapness. They probably shoot everything out of order to save on setups. I agree that the modern Nurses Ball pales in comparison to the ones in the 90s. But I am still glad they keep doing them. And this one managed to pack a lot of drama in. I blame Frank for a lot of bad story choices but he is clearly trying to keep the trains running and the show on the air. And once Covid hit and they realized that they could get away with few to no extras, they just kept that budget cut locked in. I don't think Frank is cheap so much as frugal on a limited budget.

I'm marginally on Lulu's side here. But she would have earned some extra points if we had seen her realizing there was no way Brooklyn knew it was Gio and made one of her digs against Lois be what Lois did to her own daughter. I can handwave BL not telling Dante about her pregnancy. They were very young, it was BL's decision to make. But by keeping the baby around the family, Lois planted a bomb that was always going to go off and hurt everyone she loves. Is it too late to go back in time and retroactively declare myself Team Catherine Bell? Lulu has been very Spencer about this but, ultimately she has been proven right. A secret has been kept for 22 years from the man she loves and as he now has a personal relationship with his son, he has every right to know who he is. Had it been a closed adoption to a couple in Saskatchewan or something, then fine, she should keep her mouth shut. But that's not what Lois did. The other villain here, at least to this adopted kid, is the mother who never told her son he was adopted. One of the smartest things my parents did was to make sure I knew the truth as early as I could understand. And because of that, it was never treated as a secret or something shameful, it was something special. And I was a dramatic child. If it had been kept from me and I found out like Gio did, I would have smashed a lot more than a violin.

Have to agree to the hotness. I hope they are using this to make Michael a more dynamic character and less of a milk-drinking cuck

Well Eddie Alderson doesn't act anymore so the only other OLTL dudes in that age range are Jack/Shane or the For...no...can't speak that thought out loud. The only One Life characters who deserved to be cancelled.

I hope Dillon took Tracy's name when his father was revealed to be a serial killer.

That "spoiler" seems to be AI combining Michael's exit info from last year and some random crap it made up. No way would we have an actual final airdate for December, shows which have not been written or even conceived. Google AI also recommends pregnant women smoke 2-3 cigarettes a day. Don't trust anything that isn't capable of saying "I don't know."

I had the same thought since obviously that's where Jason will go. And then I realized that if I were Tracy I would rather talk to Jason than Spin any day of the week. She's at least guaranteed the conversation will be shorter

I'm of two minds here. I think LC and DA both deserve separate tributes. But I would be so tempted to do a "Jefferson lives" and have Monica and Leslie go at the same time like Adams and Jefferson. There's a poetry there. Denise was so great during her original run and I'm still annoyed she was killed off. I always wished they had done more with her after her comeback.

I think Dante's freakout is explainable. In the last year he lost Sam, nearly lost Lulu and his father is currently in a cardiac ward. Going in on Gio is obviously a stupid plot point to set up the reveal but I buy that his anger and terror would bubble up and he would lash out. But that's why this is such a bad story. Both Dante and Gio should easily forgive each other in a few days. The ultimate reveal is going to give us days of stories. The reveal of Carly as Bobbie's daughter gave us years of stories and fundamentally changed the canvas. Sam and Alexis was far less wide ranging but it still had a real impact on both characters going forward. This will be a blip and other than a small dilution of everyone's ELQ shares, the only fallout will be anger at Lois who is so irrelevant to the canvas she's practically a red shirt. BTG is owning GH's ass in the drama department right now. It's tine for a radical change in the writer's room. Korte knows this show but the lack of stakes or conflict is a real problem. A lot of these stories are feeling like fanfic at this point. Gio is so flat and without fault he feels like a Mary Sue. I miss Mulcahey. Hell I miss Guza and Carlivati. Another couple months of this gruel and I'm going to miss McTavish.

I have no problem with Carly talking to Danny. She was Sam's good friend (eyeroll) and is the closest thing Jason has to a spouse. She has also known Danny his entire life and is an experienced parent. And an adult should both talk to him asap and be with him while Rocco is checked out.

The speed of this drugged Drew story has me thinking it's more of a means to an end. Like are those blood tests going to reveal Drew has a different blood type than Jason and thus isn't really Drew? Because I am more and more convinced that is where we are headed.

Gio has been on the show for a year. Other than some banter with Emma and backing up Tracy with Drew, Dante being mad about the Rocco situation is the first bit of meaningful conflict Gio has had with any character, right? What a pointless character.

While I am certainly sympathetic to anyone with Post Babe is Love Stress Disorder, I do think Brooklyn is the one being irrational here. Lulu dislikes and distrusts BLQ for understandable reasons. But she is not blackmailing her with this information or spending all her time needling her. She thinks it was unfair to keep the info from Dante, which is a valid opinion. Should Lulu have this info? No. But she didn't seek it out. Once she knew it, she couldn't unsee it. And since it impacts both Dante and Rocco, she told BLQ that Dante should be told. I think that's fair. But she has not told Dante because that is not her place. The one behaving irrationally is BLQ. That ultimatum to Maxie is way out of line. Too many people know at this point -- most of whom were told by BLQ and Lois, not Lulu. She needs to bite the bullet and go to Dante. Lulu is not forcing her hand here, the sheer number of people in the know and the weight of the secret is. And for the record, I like Lulu in the reporter role. Is it an accurate portrayal of the journalistic profession? No. But neither is Isaiah running tox screens or Sonny being a gangster who doesn't deal in drugs, guns or prostitution. And I have to echo the sentiment that Gio is way too passive here. He's a pawn in the story with no agency. And my guess is that Rocco is going to need something medical and that's how it comes out. That's bog standard soap. But other than Gio being upset to never know he was adopted, the people responsible for that are dead so where is the drama ? Compare that to the drama around Sam's parentage, or Carly's or even Lucas's. At least give us an ELQ story where he becomes the tiebreaker vote. Instead he's an affable guy with no hard edges so this will all be a shrug in the long run.

So someone finally bought and remodeled the Spencer home? Because it sat derelict for 50 years so Luke could have a dramatic scene there during his exit story. One of Ron's weirdest quirks, where all the important places in Luke and Laura's lives (Spencer home, the Diner, the freaking Campus Disco) had been left untouched for decades so there could be a scene there in the future.