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I'm so frustrated with Sasha. I was meh on her for years. However, her becoming a Scorpio, truly being part of the family, the end of Cody and her (blech) and the potential of her and Jason actually had me lliking her. I watched all her scenes, gung-ho for her, etc. But now, man, she's being soooooo wrong and annoying and I just want to tell her to STAHP. Stop being a stoopyhead! I was rooting for you, girl! I was finally rooting for you! Ugh!

I love the relationship that is building naturally with Ava. @jsbt What you see as a "hambone meltdown," I see as understandable frustrations with the madness that is his assorted family while he is relatively sane. Every once in a while it makes sense that the guy is going to lose it. What's great is that after he loses it, he then has a calm conversation with someone about what happened and he works through it.

Van Hansis is wonderful. After a rocky start where they shoved Lucas into Carly's orbit like they were the bestest besties who ever bff'd, Hansis has been as fantastic as I knew he would be. He's brought the same charm, realism, heart, nuance and depth of character to Lucas just as he did to Luke on ATWT. He works well with and opposite everyone they've placed him against and he's believable as a young doctor who cares. His casting is one of the best recasts the show has done, imo.

I dont think Sasha is leaving. I think Michael's condition is going to be about letting Jason know so that he can help her out. That will make Michael feel OK in letting go of his child, knowing that Jason is keeping an eye out. And, of course, Sasha will say yes because Jason saved her life. And Jason being involved is going to keep her around. Michael will tell Jason, but swear him to secrecy. Jason will agree, probably thinking Michael will change his mind. And until then Jason will know about a Michael spawn that Carly does not. Mwahahaha!!!!

I was thinking about Emma, and right now I'm laying it more on the take by the new actress. She's playing it too hard, too bratty teen. When you actually take the dialogue, it's not that off of the Emma we know. Re: Berkeley. Emma said she only invited 10 students to her room. Just 10. That fits Emma. But then bunches of other students kept showing up and she couldn't stop it. It got so out of hand that the sprinklers went off and destroyed thousands of dollars of furniture & stuff. Because the party started in her room. It was her room, the blame was laid at her feet. Re: Grilling Sasha. I mentioned Peter before, and it makes sense. A few years ago an adult entered their family, a new child of one of her mother's parents. She got to know him, loved him... and he turned out to be an evil mofo. Of course, she's going to grill Sasha. Re: Joss. All of the dialogue with Joss fit their history. Again, I just think the actress is playing it too emo bratty. She needs to find that sunny warmth that BS made an essential tenet of the character. Otherwise, she's not Emma. She can be bratty. She can be emo, upset, more layered, but that underlying Emma-ness needs to be found.

Agreed! I even included them in my list of couples I'm interested in. Actually, three of the couples I mentioned I like were: LL2, Tracy and Martin, and, yup, Jason and Sasha. I think Tracy and Martin showed a nice spark in that scene, and JE and MEK are both amazing, fantastic vets. Sasha has grown on me. We are indeed seeing her as part of the Scorpio family, and I enjoyed the scene with her and Jason. My two fave Jason relationships were Jason and SJB's Carly (and I realize now that was 100% chemistry related) and Robin. Sasha has that same good girl quality with the sense of right, but speaks her mind too that Robin did Yes, she's younger than him, but if they can work well together, I'm OK with that. And I like the full circle story of Jason helping with Michael's baby--esp if he doesn't tell Carly, lol!

They actually have a great reason to explain why Emma is acting different. The whole Peter debacle. Anna allowed this monster into their lives for way too long, defended him way too long, and Emma thought he was her uncle, allowed herself to care for him. That would cause some trust issues. We saw Emma with Peter, her accepting him, etc. and talk here and there about him connecting long distance with her (unless Im misremembering).

Well, when he spoke with him him he was freshly traumatized, and it was two years ago.

That was an amazing first episode. Excellent continuation of last season, beautiful character work, and such an intriguing start with a brilliant final scene. I can't wait to go on!

So, Lucas finally reacts to giving up Wiley, and it coming up now understandably BTW makes sense. Why? Because, Willow, the woman who gave up her Wiley to Lucas and Brad to keep him safe just took him away from Michael, the person that LUCAS gave Wiley up to because it was "the right thing to do." But, for some reason, Lucas reacting to the situation with Wiley, giving his two cents, makes no sense? Not quite seeing that.

OGEmma grew into a beautiful young woman but a not so great actress, but if I recall correctly, she's not acting but was just popping in for visits. My thought was that if they ever planned to have Emma stick around, they'd have to recast with a legit actress, so I'm willing to give this one a chance.

NGL, there are shockingly five potential couples I like on this show now. Two they are clearly actively pushing, two it looks like they might be, and one that they clearly are not, but, hey, they had a fantastic potential scene! 1. Elizabeth and Lucky!!! 2. Dante and Lulu 3. Sasha and Jason 4. Tracy and Martin 5. Molly and Isaiah It's a Christmas miracle!

I guess I'm alone here. I was more on Lulu's side than BLQ's. Sure, Lulu has missed 4 years, but Brooklyn showed exactly zero grace, empathy, sympathy, remorse or understanding for the fact that for Lulu when she last saw Brooklyn the woman had accepted money to seduce her husband and destroy her marriage relationship (in this case, it's pretty much the same difference.) In the interim, Lulu had been in an explosion, lost four years of her life, and missed out on her kids growing up. Of course, Lulu is going to think the worst of her. Of course, Brooklyn telling her like she doesn't know any better that things have changed is going to ruffle Lulu's feathers. TBF, BLQ is high on my list of least liked characters and I'm already really liking AH's Lulu, and totally get her POV. I'm biased.

I thought this was a great ep. I watched every scene which I almost never do. I thought Eden did a fantastic job. She even made me a little weepy. Carly continues to be a massive bitch, and Drew a massive tool. I actually thought CD did a pretty good job, and Michael was a non-garbage person all around. I loved that when Willow, Nina and the kids left, Willow told them to say goodbye to daddy, but, hah!, nothing for grandma Carly. And, yup, they all walked out without the kids acknowledging Carly as they left. Hahahahahaha! Dante and NuLulu continue to work really well for me. In a way that OGLulu and GRLulu never did. I have genuinely enjoyed all of their scenes. And, like, everyone else thus far has mentioned, the Tracy/Lulu scenes were grand. Jane Elliot is a treasure, and truly is one beautiful woman. Every moment with Elizabeth and Lucky just makes my heart squee with joy. I love them so much!! (Not that I've forgotten the bus-runnage-over on Finn. They could've made room for my L&L2 without doing that!) I love, love what they're doing with them, and I hope this is a slow burn way of getting Lucky back onto the police force. Again, good ep!

As long as they finally give us that Carly lied when Silas gave her the paternity information, and that Avery is Morgan's and not Sonny's.