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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.

OK, I will out myself. Like Trina, when in college, I was very smart. And sure, I knew, in the back of my mind, vaguely, about the Super Bowl, but I had never watched it. I had never heard of the Rose Bowl then. I certainly didn't know there were other "bowls." I knew NOTHING about football at all. Now, 3 decades later, sure I know what the Super and Rose Bowls are. I know that there are linebackers and quarterbacks and touchdowns. I know the names of a few teams and players. But that is it. That is literally the extent of my football knowledge. That's it. I was clueless throughout most of that scene. End, defensive enders, wtf?! I have no idea. Bottom line. No, not everyone knows about football, not even the barest basics. Not even the bowls. Some people, like me, just don't care. So, believe it or not, there are people like Trina who realistically are out there.

I think I told Kristina I hated her about a hundred times watching this episode. I know I laughed at her when the verdict came in. I hate KM's version of the character sooooo much. Volumes of notes. A whole plethora. Portia got a few words from me too, but she was nothin' compared to Kristina. I mean, she ain't Carly, but she's dancing in that direction.

Ava has had a clear arc throughout the show, and is rude to everyone. That's just Ava. It's her character. Barbara and Melissa have always had a mean girls kinda clique attitude going towards the younger teachers.

Today was boring. I just kept waiting for Isaiah to leave Jordan (zzzzz) and Molly to leave Alexis, and the two to run into each other. Their one episode worth of scenes on her birthday was a delicious sparkling heap of chemistry! I want more!

Honestly, part of the reason I'm enjoying AH so much is that it's giving clarity to my reason for never agreeing with those who clamored for the return of JMB. I knew that ER wasn't it, but I also knew there had to be a better option. And, indeed, there was. GH found her in Alexa Havins.

Alexa Havins is pitch perfect as Lulu already. No notes. Utterly seamless in the role.

I was today year's old when my dumb brain put together where Ned got the stage name Eddie Maine from. Ned is short for Edward. His name is Edward, thus Eddie. Maine is the second half of Quartermaine. So, yeah, Eddie Maine. Duh!

Except, Lucky was all ready to leave.... until Elizabeth was possibly in trouble. If there was anything he could do for her, be her hero, well, yup, now, he's sticking around. Not his mom, sister, kid, just Elizabeth. Healthy, nah, but it shows that she's still the one for whom he yearns.

But we haven't seen Sasha and Maxie much together since she left Deception, and as I pointed out, Maxie specifically said, I'm not just a friend, I'm family now. And, we saw Sasha with Felicia having a heart to heart. And we saw Sasha with Felicia and Mac. We also saw Felicia and Anna talking about Sasha. The point is that before Gladys was the only "family" that Sasha had for the longest time and she was terrible. Now, she has 5 to 7 ppl she can turn to, ppl who she is sharing scenes with, who are actively concerned about her, embracing her, talking to her, and about her AS FAMILY. And we have actively seen these scenes play out since finding out she is a part of their family. As for what will happen beyond the next few months, we don't know. Many a thing has been said will definitively happen or not happen here and yet such was not the case, so we'll see.

We've literally seen Sasha interacting with Felicia, and Mac and Felicia as family since finding out. The last two episodes were Sasha going to Maxie AS family, not as a friend, spending time not just with her, but her kid as well. When Sasha talked about being alone, Maxie told her she's not. She has Nina, herself, Mac, and Felicia. Felicia and Anna were talking and worrying about Sasha because she is their family now. All of that right there happened in the last month since we found out Sasha was Robert's daughter. I think the show is pretty crap overall, however, making her Robert's daughter has demonstrably so given her stronger ties to the canvas in an already very short time. Gio is a completely unmoored character. We're they to do this, at least it would give him an actual storyline and reason for taking up space and time on our screens.

Yup, that's what I saw. I was never a fan of JMB, but she was Lulu. Yet, in one scene of AH, I saw her Lulu, but what was nice is that I also saw shades of ER's as well. I also agree re: LW vs SJB as Carly. I adored Sarah's Carly. She was my favorite character on the show at the time. LW's Carly is a completely different character and always has been. That grit and vulnerability is just not there. I miss Sarah's Carly so much.