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I don’t get the point of the Tom and Alice flashbacks? To tell us Bope are the new Tom and Alice? They aren’t. They aren’t even here. It would have been much more useful to show Shawn as the insert character to see how he’s moving these days with less guilt about shooting Bo. That is something that moves the show forward. the choice not to tailor Bo’s suit made him look feeble and he’s not. He’s just not young anymore. It really added to the feeling of Bo and Hope don’t really have a place here anymore. I like Bo and Hope and the last two returns gave then precious little time together so o guess that’s nice for their fans but they didn’t root their legacy in anything that still exists. So I thought the episode did them a disservice.

I assumed the other way. Sarah was giving Marlena the checkup. Are they going to manage to have a Steve 40th anniversary tribute and Steph and Jack on on the same day and manage to still keep them from interacting? Because honestly the number of times Jack has been in Salem and not spoken with his brother?!?!?!? So many.

Im pretty cool with Steve retiring but why are they teasing me with Bo and Hope and Steve detectives when Peter and Kristian aren’t staying?!?! I wasn’t expecting such a small crew at the wake but it was nice to have some time at with the flashbacks. When did Matt forget how to act?

No it didn’t feel like acting especially the nod to Drake’s real life baseball career and lifelong love. Paul makes no sense in the timeline but he works so well as John’s son and Christopher Sean clearly bonded with Drake during his time on the show. So do Jack and Jen help Hope get Bo to the funeral? And what other commitments did Chandler Massey have?

I’m back from a long trip on the barge for JJ and honestly I’m ready for a Lucky recast. If JJ can’t or won’t commit to being on the show then why bother?

Yeah I’m going to give Gio some grace here everything he thought he knew about his family was just outed as a lie. He’s feeling all the things. But I don’t think he’s throwing away his adoptive mom on the other hand he went through the pain of losing his adoptive mom and if Brooke hadn’t given him up he wouldn’t have been orphaned so bonus pain. Also something we haven’t talked about in this show is it has been well documented that you shouldn’t lie to adopted kids since I was a kid and I’m well old enough to be Gio’s mom. His mom was an active part of letting this betrayal happening by not being honest about his being adopted, but she had to be because of your cousin turns up with a brand new adopted baby a few weeks after you’ve placed a kid for adoption… When Lois was rounding up money from Sonny to educate the kid she could have gone to Ned. Sure Ned isn’t from the neighborhood but he’s wealthy as hell and a musician. Lois is just trash.

My aunt didn’t change her name when she married in 77. My sister didn’t change her name when she married in 85. Aunt is still married. Sis and bro-in-law divorced for a few years but remarried each other which has always been why I wondered if Georgie and Mandy marry each other several times. I don’t think Conner was sucking up to Georgie, I think he genuinely likes Georgie and tries to be supportive.

Poor Georgie not only will the show not shell out for a parental reaction shot they aren’t even pretending like Georgie has a relationship off screen with Cody who clearly was just cheering on James.

I mean I wouldn’t blame Bronson Pinochet for killing AB for not being moved about being depicted in gingerbread. I laughed so many times during this episode. But I was really invested in the gingerbread saga

TVLine writes Robby in their spots on the show. So I assume it is Robby.

Shonda was a big West Wing fan and had some West Wing references in Scandal. The end of this episode felt very “You’re wearing my shirt, Gordon” from Sports Night. Ken Marino always reads Vinnie Van Lowe to me and reminds me there was a season of Party Down I’ve never seen. Jane Curtis was gold. I always enjoy Randall Park. And Uzo Aduba is brilliant. I’m surprised more of my friends aren’t talking about this one.

I was 20 when my dad had the heart attack that lead to his death when I was 21. I was that young. I lashed out at my virtual grandmother for moving my dad’s hat. No, seriously. I still feel bad about that. my mom died when I was in my 40s. My sister in her 60’s had a family meeting to assess how they were going to deal with me because of how much of a live wire I’d been when my dad died. I was fine. I was 44. My mom had been sick for a decade. I’d been her caretaker. I was relieved she was no longer in pain. Jake really is that young. And he’s had not just the trauma of the day he’s likely lost a parent to death or abandonment already because kids with really supportive biological dads don’t become besties with the guy who dated their mom for a bit and have that relationship persist years after the breakup. kids who have previously been abandoned by a parent often aren’t as emotionally mature as kids who haven’t been. And Robby comes at this kid, this kid who has had this trauma today and in his past and says, “hey, we’ve been friends for a long time”. Robby has told strangers this is virtually his kid but he comes to Jake at that moment and says, “we’ve been friends a long time”. and kids who have had trauma? The people they lash out at are not always but very often the people they trust the most. And on a different day Robby would have handed Leah over to surgery and stayed with Jake. This day is the only day Robby would have been in this position with Leah in the first place.

He’s in denial. He is going to say and do whatever he needs to say or do to make it seem like he’s not in as bad a shape as he is. His drug use isn’t a problem? Oh, okay, well then I’m not the only one with a problem. It so reminded me of my dad coming home from rehab and telling me that the doctors didn’t know what to think of him because he wasn’t an alcoholic he just couldn’t stop drinking when he started. 7 years old and I knew that it was bs. And a few years later being furious when I found a beer at his house and him telling me he wasn’t drinking really he was just seeing if he could drink and stop now. I was so afraid he was going to lose custody and so angry that he’d risk that. Langdon has a problem and he’s is going to lash out at anybody who tries to make him confront that problem until he’s ready to confront it himself. Yes he should just shut up and go to rehab but addicts are can’t see beyond their addiction to see that. That is what makes them addicts. At what age do people begin to be not so young that they can process that kind of trauma in a matter of minutes. Jake’s girlfriend was murdered in front of him. He’s a kid he’s in the car with her bleeding all over him and he’s trying to keep pressure on the wound because he knows that is what he’s supposed to do but he is terrified. Then the girl dies and he’s taken to see the body which is a lot! And Robby is having his breakdown in that moment and lashes out at the kid at the same time as trying to give comfort which is super confusing. And his mom has been there long enough to redirect his feelings? His mom turned up in episode 14. His mom has been there for an hour and change. That’s asking his mom to do a hell of a lot of therapy work in a matter of minutes. He’s a kid and he’s angry and he’s scared and he lashed out at Robby and yes narritively it is to make Robby feel worse and more issolated. And it is something Jake’s gonna feel pretty bad about soon too. But it isn’t weird or unusual behavior or proof that this kid is a bad kid. This kid is just a kid having a trauma response aimed in the direction of another character having a trauma response.

In my experience most of the anti-medicine moms are white. It takes a certain kind of privilege to think little Johnny won’t get sick because you use all organic cleaning supplies and can have an active sourdough starter. I have plenty of friends who are crunchy granola and non-white but the non-white ones are vaccinated.

I’m still a hard no on Santos. She just has to immediately peg the kid is suicidal, that Whittaker is homeless and she happens to have a spare bedroom that she can afford not to collect rent on. I suspect Jake’s mom said something akin to that but Robby walked off immediately and didn’t hear it. Because Robby is the character we are watching struggle today and losing that connection to Jake is part of that struggle.