Oracle42

Yes but Sabrina was willing to kill Avery.

I didn't really enjoy GV's Lucky with Maxie but YES! to the lamp scenes with JJ's Lucky and Maxie. I thought they had so much potential and watching this boring relationship with sweet, dim-witted Nathan makes me wish that the Lucky/Maxie pairing had been pursued.

I like LW and I can enjoy her Carly but she's not great at generating chemistry with love interests. The fact that she and SK had instant crackling chemistry and the benefit of Carly/AJ's soapy history was completely unexpected. The fact that all of that potential was completely wasted so TIIC could pursue the tepid chem generated by RH/LW in a futile attempt to recreate the infinitely superior Blair/Todd dynamic? One of the most inexplicable, wasteful, painful writing decisions that I've seen on this show

I think BM would would have been much better as Lucky. Helena taking Lucky would make more sense both from a historic viewpoint and in terms of this specific (terrible!!) story line. I also think Lucky's absence is glaring and inexplicable while Jason had a legitimate reason to be off-screen

I just can't with Nathan. RP just cannot act. He can't do his job and I resent the fact that we're all supposed to ignore that and not care because he's got nice abs. I might feel differently if he had amazing chemistry with Maxie or any other character but he doesn't - he's just...there

Maybe he's waiting for RP to learn how to act before putting him in another story?

Because RC is determined to make Plywood into a real boy while ignoring the fact that Carlos has both charisma and chemistry with multiple characters.

They're so incredibly uninteresting together and they're working on some serious anti-chem. If Sabrina absolutely HAS to be on my screen why can't she be in a triangle with Carlos and Nate? I still wouldn't care about her but at least she and Nate would be pretty together and Maxie could find something more interesting to do.

I think a co-head writer who really focused on story structure would be extremely helpful. I think RC does have some good ideas and occasionally he has great soapy moments but his stories don't feel well structured. He seems to write towards a specific pay off point but doesn't do the work to get there in a satisfying soapy way that takes advantage of the strengths of this particular medium. It's really, really frustrating and it feels sloppy

Nope. It bothers me SO much. Helena keeping Lucky hostage/comafied would've made much more sense.

I'm all for freeing Carlos but I'd rather stick Nate with Sabrina because I don't care about either of them. I'm actually enjoying Michael and I'd rather see him with Rosalie with whom he has actual chemistry and unfortunate, ridiculous conflict - WHY is she working for Helena?