DaphneCat

While I don't think the writers should have totally trashed her character this time around I do like that they are leaving the door open for rehabilitation. Compared to what a lot of other people have done in Salem she ranks pretty far down on the list of "Horrible People Who Have No Redeeming Characteristics."

Well today definitely moved the plot forward - and I agree with you @brisbydog that Alex has thrown away any hope of sympathy he had with his self-imposed pity party. His life isn't really upended - it goes back to EXACTLY what he had before except now he has to deal with the fact that he really IS an asshole. LOVED Eric thinking he was in any position to walk in and demand anything from EJ. He really should know better. So I know that theoretically Nicole and Xander are both in a position where they can throw money away with no concern but apparently BOTH of them just bought plane tickets so they could have a confrontation at the gate. Nicole could at least find out what flight Eric would be on (as there wouldn't be more than one flight a day to France) but since Xander didn't even know where Theresa was going, did he just buy a flight somewhere and wander around the airport until he spotted her? Seriously writers, it's not the 90's you can't just wander around an airport anymore. Yes, if the writers think talking about someone's cholesterol makes the show seem real or relatable I would like to assure them that it does NOT.

I don't think people want Justin to disown Alex, but Alex spending MONTHS basically telling Justin that all the YEARS he spent raising Alex, loving him and being his father meant nothing to him because he was too busy adoring his "father" who didn't exactly treat him well at least deserves SOME hurt feelings on Justin's part. After all, Alex basically disowned Justin, basically dismissing the fact that Justin was, indeed, his father. To think Justin deserves an apology at the VERY least is not being particularly harsh to Alex.

Leo has been mentioning her far too much lately. That probably means she's coming back.

Exactly. And the brat who has spent MONTHS stamping his foot and basically screaming "You can't MAKE me. You're not my REAL dad." Doesn't even have the decency to offer an at least half-way pro forma apology. Bonnie, I don't think discovering that Alex is really Justin's is quite the win you're making it out to be.

Not that I disliked Laura but PLEASE no more back from the dead stories. EVER. It really doesn't matter how well liked the person was. I can take missing, presumed dead, but when we SEE someone die and there is a funeral after the person has been embalmed then NO. They are DEAD. And usually, they don't know what to do with the character anyway after they come back, (Bo was an especially good example of this) so it was a giant waste of time.

Man, Alex's "vows" were REALLY self centered today weren't they? You're supposed to make them about the other person but apparently Alex can only think about himself and how the other person serves HIM. Guessing Justin won't actually file the marriage certificate after what we all know is coming so there won't even need to be a "divorce."

So Jada finds Rafe. As a TRAINED police officer, is her first action to call 911 and assess him while relaying her findings to the operator? No, of course not! She wastes how much time talking to to an obviously unresponsive person and asking him who did it. Um, he was stabbed in the BACK. If he didn't hear the entire confession he would have no way of knowing who did it. I don't really mind ghost Li. I guess I'm SO sick of NOBODY being actually dead I really don't care if half the town goes around talking to dead people as long as they stay DEAD.

Really show? The only time a crew can do an exhumation is in the middle of the night? That is BEYOND stupid. Official exhumations are never done in the middle of the night and there would be SEVERAL officials there along with medical/forensic personnel. Of course, we all know they aren't actually going to find a corpse (even though I REALLY want Abby to be dead dead) but if they did, do they really think they would even know who it is after a year?

I could be WAAAY wrong, but I'm starting to think Gabi already knows about Ava. She gave him far too many opportunities to confess after she got out of prison and I can't think of any other reason why she would betray Stefan like that. I didn't for an INSTANT buy that she was doing it to right the terrible wrong that was done to Eric. They've never really interacted and it doesn't even seem like she particularly even likes him.

So Gabi gets out of prison, and rather than simply being handed back whatever she was wearing when she checked in to Statesville (along with her other personal possessions), she somehow miraculously has access to a designer jumpsuit? First impression is she's a bit stiff/flat. Maybe she'll loosen up with time. So Tate really thinks a couple of kids - with no street smarts whatsoever - can "run away" find a way to survive and NOT get caught when they inevitably try to access their families' money? He REALLY did inherit Brady's smarts, didn't he?

How did Brady EVER get the Salem brain? Of course, because he actually has it now, Alex will be FAR too stupid to actually listen to what he's being told.

And once they find the "treasure" it turns out to be stock in Toys R US

I really believe that if they actually have this be a viable pregnancy that through the "power of their love" or "their faith in goodness" or some such bullshit Johnny and Chanel will have DRAMA about worrying about this child but in the end it will all be fine. Theo's autism was about a differently abled child but it wasn't like they needed to actually hire a differently abled actor or make any kind of special concessions to said disability. If they had a Down's Syndrome story they would have to actually deal with the actor in a sensitive manner. Paulina actually made a good point that it would be nepotism to appoint Abe. Of course, on this show, nepotism is a badge of honor. I'm STILL annoyed that ANY public hospital would allow someone - i.e. Jennifer - to hire her own daughter as a direct report. Nope, never happen in ANY real world situation. As for Paulina being mayor, I think they made reference to some election after she was appointed by Abe. She was running against the vice-mayor who was set up to be really unlikeable so he was guaranteed to lose. I keep hoping that since they are OBVIOUSLY trying to redeem Leo they at least allow him to have a regular, non-innuendo laden, friendship with a heterosexual man. So, are they thinking the time capsule with explode or self destruct or something if they simply took it apart and looked at what was in it? I know, too easy of a solution.

I don't get the point of this story line. Those two are barely old enough to be married - why are they saddling them with a kid already. Show inevitably does this, have two people get married younger than they should and IMMEDIATELY give them a kid. They then have absolutely no idea what to do with them after that and they then fizzle out.

So no one noticed the name of the banker yesterday was Theodore J. Mooney. Gale Gordon AKA Mr. Mooney from the Lucy Show?

So you think Mel Gibson's career shouldn't have suffered (or him be shunned) after he went on a drunken hate filled antisemitic rant? People shouldn't have started giving Woody Allen the side eye when it came out he was having an affair with his STEPDAUGHTER. People in the public eye who say or do heinous things will indeed have their career suffer. That's one of the prices you pay for being an actor or other public figure.

For a lot of us it REALLY isn't about the various actor's political positions (you haven't seen a general outcry to get rid of all the actors who various posters disagree with.) It is about the absolute hypocrisy of a woman who (absolutely correctly) called out an environment rife with sexual harassment and possibly even sexual assault and then supports a PERSON who has literally said the words "I LIKE TO (insert term for sexual assault.)" You can't say it's bad when it's you but OK when it's someone else.

For me personally, it isn't about someone being right-wing or conservative or whatever. I simply cannot see how ANY woman with an ounce of self-respect (or any man who claims to respect women) could EVER support someone who literally thinks that sexually assaulting women is something you should not only do, but BRAG about doing - like it's somehow admirable. That, for me, is the bottom line. People who sexually assault other people should burn in hell, not be elected president.

In her defense, maybe she thought the women being assaulted weren't at WORK. Apparently, it's different if they're just out and about in the world.

Look, just because I publicly endorse a man who BRAGS that he can sexually assault women and face absolutely no consequences doesn't mean that I don't think women deserve to work in an environment free from the threat of sexual assault. I mean, he didn't actually assault ME so I guess it's ok that he brags about doing it to OTHER women, as long as I feel I got some financial benefit from some other thing he did.

That was my first impression as well.

And he doesn't TALK. He just shoots!

Oh PLEASE!

OK Ava has officially lost all credibility as a "mob princess." Any REAL mob princess would have shot first and talked later - possibly over the dead body. But NOOOOOO she had to blather and blather and blather and then finally let herself get "talked out of it" by Harris. And Chad, Clyde was BEGGING you to pull the trigger and you wouldn't. We could have ALL gone on happily still believing Abigail was dead but, NOPE, Clyde was right. You weren't man enough to pull the trigger. Now we're going to be cursed with undead Abigail (who will be worshipped and adored by all and sundry in Salem) and it is BOTH of your faults!