Kim0820

I dislike the soap opera law that women with children should never have to go to jail for their crimes because it will be bad for their children. No, it's worse for their children to see their mother get away with crimes. An egregious case was on ATWT years ago, ATWT Carly (played by current Ava with the name Carly, lol) drugged another character. So many of the other characters went on about how Carly's children needed her, and so she should not be arrested! Just stupid. I remember debating online about it, people saying you aren't a mother so you don't understand. I understand that no one has a right to criminally harm another just because they are mothers! And their excuse is "protecting their child." And Donna doesn't even have anything to do with it. Yet if feels like there are no consequences. Carly lives in the same house and there appears to be no lifestyle change. She just doesn't have to work now. lol. Not a word about whether she could afford new dresses for the nurse's ball or the wedding. She took a trip to Florida. Her hair and nails are still done. She must have income from somewhere else and didn't need the job or the ownership.

If Nina had shown she gives up and knows she will never have a relationship with Willow, then it would make more sense. Blaming that on Carly. Also how is Nina the only one who knows this happened? The SEC would never do anything without this tip? In the long run, they are going to end up like Alexis and Sam. Carly being Nina's friend and all that jazz. So it feels like it is ginned up. Maybe the writers realize that the not telling about Sonny isn't enough bad action. And that Carly is guilty isn't even a factor. We're not supposed to notice that.

It occurs to me that there is no mob villain right now - Victor is it. That's been a nice break. I did not even notice it until now. And I guess it's been since the "Mike" days in Nixon Falls (took me a minute to come up with the name of the town lol).

Like degrees and children, it can be rapidly aged. Giant Baby has already been SORAS'd and he was just born. A boat that has not been driven for years zipped up the St. Lawrence out to the coast of Greenland already. (At least Greenland has a coast - don't know what the writers are thinking. It should be the coast of Switzerland).

Would we expect the other person to be able to know about it, so they'd be more considerate or whatever? I guess that's up to the virgin. There are people who claimed they were dumped when they told the other person they were one. Soaps should be for us romantics, anyway. I hated finding out it was not easy, more like a sport than romance, so coldly judged and had nothing to do with romance. If there's none in reality, let me have some on tV! LOL.

I wonder about these writers. Do they really think the audience mostly wants to just root for the Carlys even if they do things that other characters are reprimanded for? Maybe they get that vibe. IMO they pay too much attention to the few obsessed fans, write for the crazies who write them letters begging them to let Carly win or whatever, and thus lose ratings. Most of the audience does not write to them and join crazy fan clubs. Write for them and they'd have higher ratings. What average viewer would be so obsessed with one character? It's almost like Guza's sickness when it came to Sonny. No majority wants a "star" of a soap or a man's POV ( I bet the audience is 98% female) or just one character to dominate. And be always right on top of that. That's not soap.

Yes, what good is a walkie talkie with one person. She could hear Victor's minions over it, perhaps? But only if they don't notice one missing, otherwise they won't use it. Maybe there's more to this plan.

He is sailing it to the Pennsylvania side of the river, all the way to the Pennsylvania beach (that we know exists if we saw AMC) then down the Delaware to the ocean and beyond. Were they doing to swim? In those outfits? LOL.

Esme said the name just came to her, which could mean a leak for the audience to be aware her memory could be starting to come back. None of the characters knew of that name, I think.

12 weeks should be long enough for Cam to graduate. And complete medical school.

It's always dumb the way characters blame themselves for things that happen. Like only he could convince her to go to medical school. And that accident could have happened anywhere.

IMO if the actors are going to be leaving at the end of their contracts, the show needs to be able to do recasts without a lot of complaining. The writing is bad enough but they have excuses for it when they have to keep changing course. If they just recast Cam right now, they could continue the story. The audience resistance to it ought to be resisted. It's not the old days, when a paying acting job was so rare that the actor hung onto it as long as it lasted. With all the extra channels and shows, it seems like quitting an acting job to concentrate on school is a thing. For soaps, that's no good, unless the audience learns to live with recasts.

I was watching old clips of Zander and Emily and have to laugh at young, hot, soap opera men willing to forego a chance at sex because they are so kindly considerate that she is not ready for it and this is not special enough. Zander needed to be redeemed a lot, maybe that is also so for Spencer, with a different twist, but it's hilarious. Male hormones on the soap opera planet aren't what they are on planet earth.

In reality courts bend over backwards to preserve the biological relationship. It takes long years of drug abuse or abandonment. Even pre-amnesia Esme would keep her child over all others. Maybe they did not make Spencer the father because they had no idea to make drama out of an ordinary break up, so that Spencer couldn't be mad at Esme unless she had betrayed him in the way she did by sleeping with his progenitor. Watching old clips for 20+ years ago, you can see today they have no idea of romance, or they think it is boring. They just got Spencer into a romance, and instead concentrating on that, they do this. It's like they cannot conceive of any drama that does not involve a baby, a baby paternity secret, or keeping a fact to oneself being interpreted always as a betrayal and a lie. Then they don't work through it. Shouldn't Liz's current story be about what her mother did to her? Where is her mother and father now? No, Liz has to be in on the baby story. Trina already hugging Curtis? The writers must want to move her into helping Spencer with the giant baby. Was there a sale on twin baby actors?

One would think that Donna and Avery would be told their father is in jail because he broke the law. They can even visit him, to see that he is OK and get some time with him. Instead, it seems the Carlys would encourage them to blame those who put him there. Breaking the law is not the real problem for these Carlys.

Spencer said "my younger brother" there once, so they have some consciousness that they have characters repeat the same phrase too much - a variation from "my baby brother." Yes, you can see they intended this to be funny, but then forgot all about history in order to do it. Lucy seems to a comedic character for them, so maybe the Victor story isn't that serious either.

Does it even do her career any good? She'd be better off doing other things now and then. They've made room for others to do it. She gets more money, perhaps, but what is the good to the show? May as well just give her a raise.

Is there any way it could be via Nikolas? He has been offscreen a few times. Not the last time, when he was "dead," because the kid would be younger. Though I've probably given them an idea for the future. Gregory used a phrase "you are being ridiculous." That is associated with gaslighting.

Too soon for a triangle - they barely started with Spencer and Trina. No triangles! Dex is sort of upstanding (isn't he a war vet who is faking being a mobster to take down Mooby?) so he wouldn't like Esme.

Today's example: For Alexis and Gregory to have their little tiff, they happen to be having breakfast with the sons/daughter in the same restaurant.

I can tell who PSO is, but what does it stand for?

Soap opera plot convenience so people can run into each other at the hospital. There are no clinics or general or special practices. All is done at the hospital.

I recall waiting forever for Zander's story to come out, and when it finally did, Guza was in charge so of course it had to be bloody. And who wouldn't shoot themselves rather than put it on their brother to do it, even accidentally? There was a scene with Zander and Liz where Zander slipped that he had a brother Pete. He talked about living in a huge house on the beach where the AC was on full blast all the time. It caused speculation that it had something Cassidine about it (freezing the world) but in the end that detail apparently came to nothing. Speculations abounded while the story dragged out and you got small bits and pieces over months of time. But there was the hint that he came from big money.

The writing was probably a lot better then. And the redemption played out over enough time to make it believable. Once they did Franco, I think they thought they can do anything.

Because of the detail, the 18 months, yes. Google says Nurseries inside the United States Most prison nurseries in the United States are only open to mothers who give birth to their children while they are serving their sentence; in most states, women who give birth prior to their incarceration are not eligible, though New York is an exception. Prison nursery - Wikipedia Wikipedia So if Esme weren't in NY, she would not be eligible, but NY is an exception. That is interesting to know and that the writers actually went with reality on that. Though it may not be a slam dunk and there could be a hearing about it. If show goes there, I predict Esme's memory loss continues (or she suceessfully fakes through the hearing).