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And Nina thinks *Lulu* is being selfish in regards to Charlotte? The only reason Lulu is being intense and overbearing is because Nina is (probably) egging Valentin on to make it difficult for Lulu to bond with Charlotte and is (more than likely) purposefully damaging the potential bonding between Charlotte and anyone other than her. Nina is acting as if Lulu intentionally abandoned Charlotte at birth. Does Nina even know the story of Charlotte's...creation?

I'd be on board with that just because it makes Nina look extra foolish and keeps Lulu from being forever tied to the Cassadines in that way. But I'd still put her in therapy with Kevin (maybe not Kevin, given his and Laura's relationship) to discuss her single-mindedness that could have cost her Dante/Rocco. Whether or not Lulu is truly the biological mother, Charlotte needs therapy too. Poor kid lost the only mother she ever knew, had three dads in the space of two months, has a new stepmother, and has a biological mother and half-brother* (and step-father). Can Kevin recommend a good child psychologist? *Or full brother. I read a rumor somewhere that Charlotte is actually the thought-to-be-destroyed Dante/Lulu embryo, that Lante are both her full biological parents.

Jesus Christ, that Liz/Franco spoiler makes it sound like Elizabeth was on vacation for months and finally came home to Franco waiting for her. Not the actual truth that Elizabeth emotionally manipulated Sam, Franco's victim, into helping to clear him of a murder charge he very well could have committed.

Why is Nina acting like she's been Charlotte's stepmother for ten years and gets an opinion on whether Lulu gets a chance to be a mother or not? So maybe she did listen to Kevin. Partly. At least Lulu has reasoning for being all intense and "Charlotte is mine!". Nina needs to shut up and take several seats.

And *that's* not classy and elegant?!

But what about at the docks? You can have the added bonus of being locked in a shed or kicked in the harbor! (Probably not classy, either)

Oh, lets not let the MetroCourt be the only place to have THAT credit! There are a whole number of places in Port Charles you could be shot!

Lulu, everyone around you is telling you to take the shared custody hit for now, get to KNOW Charlotte and bond with her, and then maybe revisit the situation in a few months when Charlotte isn't scared of you. Your husband, your mother, your mother's boyfriend - who is a psychiatrist and perhaps the one with the best advice/reasoning in this whole scenario. LISTEN to them.

And he got yelled at for his troubles. I appreciated that Laura attempted to make Lulu behave and respect her boyfriend, but obviously it didn't work. Hopefully Laura chews her out when Lulu calls her later for being rude to Kevin when Kevin ASKED Lulu if he could speak up and she said yes.

Ha, true. It just was a very abrupt and jarring ending.

Did I miss a scene at the end or did Kevin/Laura just have a really abrupt ending to their scene after Lulu got all huffy and stormed off? Kevin apologized for talking out of turn if this wasn't his place, Laura said they needed to hear it but wondered how Kevin could be so impartial / objective about the man that shot him (That's his JOB, Laura, to be objective and impartial), Kevin was all "trust me, I haven't forgotten" and that was it for them for the day?

Kevin was being so much gentler and nicer to Lulu than I would have been and did keep looking at Laura for permission to talk to her daughter that way. And this is the thanks he get. How is it that Dante and Kevin are the only two in this situation even trying to put Charlotte first?

It's not doing any service to Sam's character or Liz's character or Franco's, either. So I don't know what they hope to accomplish besides pissing off Sam's fanbase and pretty much the entire audience that ALREADY hates Franco.

The common denominator seems to be Heather.

What grosses me out the most is that the two people helping Franco that aren't Liz and Kiki are Sam and Dillon, two people that Franco has directly or indirectly victimized.

If the stress of all of this sends Sam into labor when she is ANYWHERE near Franco, I will scream.

I think one of the posters here might have said this before but it's worth bringing up again. All the Corinthii, Franco, Nina, Hayden and the incompetent portion of the PCPD (So Dante gets to stay) should be transferred over to their own show. Leave the good stuff for GH. YES. Can we get at least a minute of Kevin/Laura having a nice, quiet, non-Lulu related lunch/date before Lulu shows up and ruins it with Charlotte drama?

Seriously. I hope Laura knows how lucky she is that he hasn't run away from her family's crazy. (Which started with him being SHOT because he followed her to Greece. And that brings it back to, the Cassadine that shot him is the one that is the father of Lulu's daughter / Laura's granddaughter. Geez.)

Why does Liz think it's appropriate to give Sam bitchface and crap today about helping her because Sam, horror of horrors, is doing this only to exonerate her mom and doesn't give a flying fuck about Franco? "I totally understand why you will always hate Franco, because that is how I feel about Tom Baker." No. No, you don't. Because if you really understood you wouldn't A) be dating him, B) put Sam in the position of having to see Franco when they exchange custody of Jake or C) ask Sam to help prove Franco's innocence of a crime Liz herself doesn't know he didn't commit. And then D) get attitude with Sam while she is helping you because she isn't Team Franco. Lulu is having lunch with her mom and Kevin tomorrow. Kevin and Laura both look (rightfully) concerned that Lulu told Charlotte that she is her mother. Good. If Lulu won't listen to Laura or Dante, there's a remote possibility that Kevin and his professional opinions might get through to her. I know that's too much to ask for.

That would have been lovely. And yes, the "Scenes I Would Have Rather Seen" section could sometimes make up a whole extra episode, couldn't it? *sigh*

And, I'm sorry, but the PCPD can't be that incompetent to think something silly like being confined to his house will stop Sonny from committing any sort of crime or calling for a hit or fleeing the country if he wants to. Sonny does still have minions, doesn't he? Dante should know better.

Especially considering the nine year olds (!!) were encouraged to talk to the recruits the same way Anne, and to a lesser extent Rachel, do. ("Kayla! *screams* Is that how we cut a tomato?")

Why was Helena and the rest of the Cassadine clan scared of THIS guy?

Given that he barely had a reason for killing and/or attacking who he DID kill, it was such a wasted opportunity for the show not to have Paul just take out half the cast. Good for Lulu for admitting today that she and Charlotte are essentially strangers to each other and she probably scared her. I wish she would have thought of that before she told Charlotte she was her real mom and she had a brother named Rocco. Which brings me to, *how* do Lulu and Dante explain it to Rocco that he suddenly has a sister?

Apparently Nina is going after Anna soon enough because of Anna's supposed past with Valentin so I'm on board with Valentin pulling the long con on Nina. Hate it that Lulu would be caught in the crossfire but at least she wouldn't be forever connected to a Cassadine.