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Thou shalt not mention the biological children. It is verboten, like the name Voldemort. TPTB have sprayed magic dust over the audience. Eric’s biological children never existed - poof!

Just my speculation based on recent episodes, but it’s looking like we’ll get a “Who Shot JR….er, EJ” storyline. Ava, Kristen, Kate, Johnny will be the suspects.

Is this some long dormant resentment Brooke has for Hope’s existence? We already know Brooke won’t/can’t accept that Ridge keeps bouncing back to Taylor when things don’t go his way but instead of putting the blame squarely on Ridge, Brooke would rather blame her own daughter - a daughter moreover, who is a continuing reminder of Brooke’s biggest betrayal/shame. So blaming Hope in this current situation is a way of “getting back” at Hope for existing, while conveniently gliding over how Hope came to exist. We know Brooke has a blind spot when it comes to Ridge, but this situation is allowing that to merge with some deep, deep hatred/resentment/embarrassment at Hope’s existence.

The bolded part blows my mind. I’m not familiar with Sheila’s entire history, either here or on Y&R. Has Sheila ever backstabbed (um, not literally!) a person she claims to love a la Brooke and Carter? If not, can’t believe I would have to agree with the bolded.

If there IS a god, please, please, please let S13 be the final season! This show has dragged (and I do mean dragged) on long enough. Let E/N get married (they’re practically married anyway, always in each other’s lives - including each other’s kids’ lives) and then The End. Also, as a Nathan/Elizabeth shipper, I’m glad the show made them a couple, but it’s SO DAMN jarring how Lucas and Elizabeth acted towards each other, calling each other “Governor” or “Mrs. Thornton”, even if it was in jest. Felt forced and unnatural for two people who were once engaged to be married. Speaking of Lucas, just because Elizabeth is now romantically involved with Nathan, doesn’t mean Lucas has to stop interacting with Little Jack or showing more care for LJ. If it were real life, LJ must wonder why Lucas just stopped interacting with him cold turkey. (But yeah, yeah, I get why the show stopped those two interacting, as though they have no history with each other.)

If they do, can they retcon Blanket Henry? What’s the point of his existence when the storyline/aftermath regarding his conception fell like a dud?

I really liked this movie! A mark of how much I like a Hallmark movie is remembering the plot without reading up on it either in this forum, or generally on the internet. The plot sorta reminds me of Because I Said So, the movie with Diane Keaton and Mandy Moore.

Legal schmegal! In BellLA, legality is whatever the idiots in charge want.

I know her from Lost, but also from Once Upon a Time. I was always squicked that her “Belle” had a romance with Robert Carlyle. He just looked waaaay to old and grubby for her.

Oh noooooo! Why do I now have this sinking feeling there’s gonna be a THIRD simultaneous pregnancy?! It seems Jada and Rafe are getting back together, and the Shawn/Jada hookup was just a one time thing, with neither of them actually having romantic feelings for the other. Thus, I think they’ll agree to just pretend the hookup never happened (or at least move on from it), and then Bam - pregnancy time.

Ugh! I can’t believe this show really is gonna have TWO simultaneous unplanned pregnancy stories where the baby daddy is involved with another woman. To me, it only makes sense IF there’s a potential baby swap story. Say, Sophia loses her baby and steals Joy’s baby as a way to keep Tate in her (Sophia) orbit. I felt bad for Joy today. She was under no obligation to put Stephanie/Alex’s happiness and relationship above her unplanned pregnancy situation, but that she did so elevated her in my eyes. She’s such a sad figure on this show - no family, no close friends, no support - just a young woman trying to make it on her own.

I really, really, really hope Ava will put herself first, like she said to Brady. I don’t think Ava and Brady have had sex yet, so he must think merely dating him is such a ginormous draw that Ava will do what he wants a second time, when her life continues to be in danger! Ava was telling all kinds of Truth about Young Rachel not being involved in this attempted murder, so the police should be brought into this. Ava should have gone a step further and told Brady that since Older Rachel keeps claiming her family is everything to her, Old Rachel won’t drag Younger Rachel into the attempted murder, when there’s zero need to even mention Younger Rachel. And as I’ve posted before, if justice justice can’t be done, then Ava should resort to Mob Justice. Soooo stupid to continually mention that aspect of Ava’s past yet not actually make use of it.

I thought of this as well, but Ms. Former DA (as Melinda referred to herself) can hide/get rid of the necklace, then no one can prove she’s knowingly in possession of stolen goods. You think a former DA would do the lawful thing now that she knows the necklace was stolen, but hey - when you willfully instigate (IIRC, she had to coax Sloan into the kidnapping) and conspire in kidnapping, what’s a little theft? No biggie…

Alas, if only the bolded is true. Show has zero shame/compunction pretzeling in whatever way they want to suit their current whims.

The only, and I do mean only reason I can think of why Ava acted like such a scaredy cat BEFORE Rachel took out the knife is Ava has PTSD. Ava *thinks* she’s tough (even bringing up her Mafia past again!), but her interaction with Rachel showed how scared she was of an old woman. 🙄 So this time, Ava will press charges against Rachel the Elder, right? Younger Rachel has no hand in the breaking/entering or attempted murder, so Ava should go full throttle making sure Rachel pays for her crimes this time around. Barring the legal route, Ava should sic the Mafia on Rachel. But of course, this show will allow Rachel to go scot free to terrorize Ava some more.