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That Sonny even has sole custody of Avery is ridiculous. Except in Port Charles apparently. As well as being a well-known mobster, Sonny's apartment just got firebombed leading Michael to be almost killed. So instead of being with Sonny, who by the way is currently out of state, Avery is living in Carly's house, who was also out of the country, a woman Avery has no familial ties to. That Sonny, much less Joss or Kristina, has any legal right to keep Ava away from Avery is ridiculous. Do better show. Or at least do more interesting.

I don't get what the problem was with Avery visiting Ava's new apartment. Presumably Sonny has custody which means that Sonny gets to make the big decisions for Avery like school and medical treatment. That doesn't mean that Ava can't take Avery on a trip to her apartment much less visit with her in the park. Unless Ava is prohibited from interacting with Avery, which frankly there is no cause for, Kristina has no legal right to keep Avery from Ava. What is Ric talking about? These writers have no idea what custody is. This so much.

The power differential is an interesting twist here. At this point, Jake is senior enough that as long as Amy treats him with respect it shouldn't be a problem A residency in internal medicine is three or four years depending on the program and IIRC Jake is in year 4 even though technically it was wrong and Amy could be in a lot more trouble with the medical board than she already is. Rules aside, I think the real abuse of power is Richard and Sonya introducing Amy as "Amy" rather than "Dr. Larsen". They should have been in family therapy years ago. Does the older boy know that one of the reasons his mom is pushing the transplants is because she doesn't want her younger son to feel guilty that he could have helped his brother survive and didn't?

From the framed picture of Dr. Adamson on the wall, it seemed to me that he was a POC. So I'm guessing that Jake is Robby's son.

This wasn't one of the best episodes. I can see that they are trying to redeem Sonya now. What @Madding crowd and @topanga said about the DNR. There should have been a very visible notification that he was DNR and I don't see Amy being the kind of person who doesn't check a patient's chart before going in to talk with him. And definitely there should have been a psych consult before approving it. Sonya, Amy and Michael were all projecting on to the case. Sonya especially needs a transference session with a therapist. Miller is desperate to keep Amy from remembering what he did, and as she said, the medicine impedes her recovery. I think that Gina's best argument was that Amy woke up 6 weeks ago in love with her husband. Jake's eagerness to tell her about their relationship is understandable but he is going to be very disappointed in Amy's reaction, which would probably be to push him away since she's still trying to deal with her feelings for soon-to-be-father Michael as well fresh feelings of grief over her son. Jake's best strategy would be to be her friend and wait to see what develops as she adjusts to her new life. Hopefully he's mature enough for that.

Willow/Nelle and Nathan would have been cousins. Wylie and Amelia are second cousins to James. Maxie and Willow don't act like they are family at all, even if by marriage. I miss Liesl.

So Cyrus killed Sam because she was engaged to Lulu's Dante. Yawn. I'm so tired of Lulu's obsessive search for Charlotte. Take a breath, look after the child that you have in Port Charles, and mend fences with the ex you say you're in love with. Okay writers, what Drew did to Willow's marriage is not what Nina did to Carly's. Carly rejected Sonny post Nixon Falls before Nina slept with him. But everyone must bow to Carly. Gio has been on since May 2024, the character having the same name as the actor. I get the feeling that they grabbed the kid, put him on the show, and the retconned backstory came later.

I can see that if Jake grew up visiting his dad in the ER, the older medical staff like the charge nurse would think of him as a member of the family and want to protect him. Even Langdon, who also slipped him a condom, has been there for at least 4 years and would have known Jake since he was a preteen. I don't know what it's like in PA but where I live there aren't enough family physicians and so people who don't have one go to the ER for things that they otherwise should be going to their family doctor for. Re moonlighting in the ER: I was in once and my doctor was Vincent Lam, the author of Blood Letting and Miraculous Cures. I didn't have the courage to talk to him about it. He still practises and writes on the side.

Did Rocco inherit his "I love coffee" gene from Sonny? Brook Lynn was 15 when she got pregnant which would make her 37 now and a geriatric pregnancy were to get pregnant. But what struck me is that at 15 she would till be a camper instead of a counsellor-in-training (which is what I thought). Didn't the camp authorities keep an eye on the older kids? When Lois was talking about who would be affected by finding out that Gio is Brook Lynn's child, did she mention Grandpa Ned at all? I get the feeling that he doesn't care about Cyrus at all, he's just part of the special Joss project. Brennan has 2 purposes in Port Charles: recruit, especially Joss; and romance Carly.

I thought that the best thing about today is the relationship between Danny and Rocco. Glad the writers are still keeping that. Oh, look at Brennan practically drawing Joss a map on how to find Cyrus' hideaway. That's not WSB material, or rather it shouldn't be. How did Joss know that Austin testified on Cyrus' behalf at his parole hearing? Is she allowed access to those files? (I'm preparing to be disappointed when I hear why Cyrus murdered him.) Tracy finding Lois in Martin's hotel room makes me ask yet again, why exactly is Lois on the show? Willow passionately kissing Drew while wearing Michael's rings (nice sapphire there). Have some respect woman. Poor Nina, Carly is the only ally she has. I would forgive the show a lot if it's Dante or Chase or even Molly who saves them. Anyone but Jason saving them as he saved Sasha, Cameron, Trina and everyone else. That trope is so old, it's on life support.

Maybe it bothered me because it was such nothing advice. Maxie went to sit with Emma at Emma's table, basically told her that Anna is too smart to be fooled (which is something that she should have left Emma to find out for herself as that would have been more effective) and then told Emma to go away when Sasha came over. Rude. So Anna is now incompetent so that Joss can be the one to solve the Cyrus-killer mystery. I wonder how Finola feels about that, or if she's just accepted that everyone will be secondary to the Carly/Sonny family

Joss' story may have been credible but now that Cyrus has found that his not-foxglove plant has been moved (does Cyrus have a degree in chemistry that he makes his own digitalis?), he's going to head out and ask everyone who was in his room and then hear that it was the young woman with long blonde hair. Next time Joss, wear a disguise, even Lucy knows that. Although we may get lucky and Cyrus kills her. Maxie, Drew may sound like a good dad but it is very sketchy that he wants a house with five bedrooms. And why are you sticking your nose into Emma's business when she told you to keep out, but keeping out of Drew's when he said you could tell him? Pick a lane. Anna, Lulu just had a transplant. Maybe you heard. She shouldn't be drinking any alcohol at all. With Sam gone and Olivia barely there, Carly really has no one to gossip with. Alexis should have told Kristina "Just because you go off half-cocked and blow things up doesn't mean that Danny will" Although it would have been better to tell her "You know what it's like to do impulsive things and then regret it; think about how you can stop Danny from doing it now." To be fair, Drew with Nina was hate sex of equals and kinda hot. Including with his own son Jake. At least now he's stepping up for Danny. Sort of. Well, almost as much as Dante is.

Did CM have too much chemistry with LW that they recast Brennan? Or did he find somewhere else where the writing was actually good? As much fun as it was to see Carly confront Drew at the Metro Court restaurant, yikes, that was low class. I suppose it was inevitable but it's still disappointing that the WSB's big secret mission was to see how good a spy Joss is and recruit her. Surely they can do better. I was hoping that Cody would agree to the poker game and get out of debt to Selina Wu because as much as Sasha is getting the tragedy porn treatment, so is Cody ETA: One thing that I didn't like was Isaiah implying that the places where Sidwell operates are too primitive to have laws. There are ancient kingdoms in Africa and countries that had codified laws long before the US existed, and just because currently there are wars doesn't mean that they're backward. It's not a good week to push American exceptionalism.

Just for fun, I looked up the actors. Molly Parker was born in 1972 (looks good for 52), Omar Metwally (Michael) in 1974 and Sarah Allan (new wife) in 1980. Jon Ecker, playing Jake, was born in 1983. I don't know how old Anya Banergee (Sonya) is but I found it interesting that she turned her Master's thesis in English into a play about actress-prostitutes in colonial Bengal. It played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

It seems like Cody was more into their relationship than Sasha was because other than the drunken ONS stand with Michael, Sasha has moved on and on. Maybe it's because Sasha had a healthier upbringing from her grandmother or maybe because she's more settled in Port Charles or maybe she's looking forward to her baby but she seems to have been able to move on from Cody while he is still stuck in the anger and regret and the ties to Sasha which could be where the demand that Jason step up and take care of her comes from. There's no reason to keep Avery from Ava other than Sonny's babyhoarding and vindictiveness. Ava loves Avery and Avery loves her back. This plot is so stupid. Exponentially stupid to make Ava broke.

I'm bored with Drew and Curtis squabbling. I'm bored with the Avery custody battle. I feel nothing for Lulu thinking that she's in love with Dante after having been so nasty to him in Prague. And I don't care about Kai and his pain. It's sad when the best thing about the episode was Brad at the gym. Sasha has already kept the kids from Willow first by hiding them in the main house and later not telling Willow where they are. That will jeopardize Michael's court case because an unbiased judge will not look kindly on Willow's kids being kept from her for no good reason at a time when their father is not available. Right now, if Willow takes it to court, she will get sole custody because Michael is not just out of the country, he is in no shape to take custody of them.* Sasha says that Willow's kids should have both parents in their lives but that her own child should have only her. That's very Carly logic. * I don't get the obsession that this show has with shared custody. Unless you're Sonny or Carly, sole custody doesn't mean that the child doesn't get to see or live with the non-custodial parent.. Shared custody can be had hard on the child if the parents are fighting or if one is out of the country and can't be reached for a decision that needs to be made immediately.

It just occurred to me that Michael will have three children from three different mothers and he's still young. Is anyone going to slut-shame him as they do the women on the show? Anyone?

I do think that it's gross that Jason and Diane insist that Michael must be asked about whether he allows Sasha to keep her baby away from his families when she's only 3 months pregnant and he's in a medically-induce coma because of his pain. Sonny and Carly baby-hoarding is bad enough, now Jason and Diane are helping them along. In contrast, poor Dante has no idea that he has a child waiting in the wings for him because Brooke Lynn didn't even tell him that she was pregnant. But that's all going to be okay. The double standard on this show....

I didn't like the first two episodes much. The third one was better. This episode was okay. This was Michael's episode. What I came away with is that he really, really needs to deal with his feelings around Danny and Amy, preferably with a professional. As Amy put her feelings on to him in the flashbacks, he is putting all sorts of feelings on the her now. I really liked the woman academic who insisted on talking to Amy and treated by her peer instead of the "simpering" Richard. The astronaut story left me cold. I'm intellectually intrigued at how hard she was trying to live her father's dream but that's it. I hate how Richard and Sonya keep correcting "Doctor" to "Ms Larsen". Doctor is a title Amy earned when she passed her medical boards and even if she can't practice at the moment, she still should be addressed as "doctor". And she still knows a lot so they should be taking advantage of her, not shutting her out as if she's a bad child. Special guest appearance by the Royal Ontario Museum and the ugly new gallery. I'm getting fed up with Sonya. At first she was only targeting Amy but in this episode she told TJ that "I'm a third year resident and you're an intern rounding with me so ...follow my lead" and cuts him off when he's talking to the patient. Sonya strikes me as someone who thinks that she's marvellous and resents anyone who challenges that. She's angry at Amy because Amy showed her up in the first episode, probably not for the first time, and so she lodged a complaint against her for creating a toxic environment. She wants Jake, who is far above her in both learning and maturity and was in a relationship with Amy, and resents Amy even more for that. This is what we were taught after the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964 in Queens (4 years before the 911 number was created). The original story was that there were 38 bystanders when she was stabbed but no one called the police. (It was later found that some people did call but the police did not come.) There was quite a lot of psychology research around it and what came out is that if someone is in trouble, tell a specific bystander to call 911 because you can't be sure that someone will.

At the risk of repeating myself, I hate how Jason and Carly treat Michael as if he is 3 years old instead of his mid thirties and able to make up his own mind. It's not impressive. Colette took the shot on her own initiative (was she carrying around that rifle for fun?) but Valentin specifically told Brennan that he was choking him because someone from the WSB had tried to kill him. Brennan didn't tell Carly that part, leaving her the impression that Valentin's attempt came out of nowhere and Brennan himself is blameless.

He didn't need to get drunk -- he told Maxie and Lulu in ordinary conversation when he saw Jason leaving after having talked to Diane.

Diane working hard to make sure that Willow's children are taken away from her as Michael remains in his medically-induced coma ... don't you have any other clients you can bother? And even if you get the children taken away, where are they going to live? With Sonny, currently in a hotel because his apartment was bombed? With Carly, currently in Germany banging Brennan? With Uncle Jason who seems to have forgotten that he even has a child of his own who lost his mother? Surely you have other clients you can bother. It took me a while to figure out why Diane would care if Robert was going to have another grandchild. Give up, Diane, he's already lost to you Jason: "I'm just trying to help, Sasha." Really, badgering pregnant Sasha on behalf of Michael when you have no idea of his wishes in not helping. Also Jason to Diane: "So what I have to tell you needs attorney/client privilege." [So let me tell you in the middle of a busy and popular restaurant.] Jason is acting like Michael is 5 years old and needs to be protected. He and Carly both infantalize thirtysomething Michael while telling everyone what a brilliant and strong businessman he is. Lulu tell Maxie that Rocco is mourning losing Sam. Hey Lulu, maybe if you, his actual mother, spent any time with him at all, he wouldn't be feeling so bad. I am no fan of Olivia but I think that she should have been given the opportunity to raise Dante's child with him if he wanted to. Great best friend that Lois is. Brennan is already lying to Carly and hiding things from her (e.g. that he tried to kill Valentin first). Way to pick 'em, Carly. Based on today, you can add Cody/Molly to that list.

Oh, look Dante is suddenly telling Gio to be more polite and nicer to Emma. Why, he's acting like Gio's father! If only she had taken some courses at GH ... oh, wait.

I must have a heart of stone because I felt nothing for Brooke Lynn, crying that she can't carry Chase's baby and phoning her mother to come home and make her feel better. There are people in worse situations, much worse. Portia, it took you this long to tell PCPD that you suspect foul play in the deaths? And Dante still didn't know. Am I supposed to see Martin and Tracy squabbling as sexy and flirtatious? Because all I think is how painful it is and why doesn't Martin leave the salon? Emma's animal cruelty storyline is a step up from her previous ones. But that sweater -- long sleeves and turtleneck is right for New York weather in winter. The half missing back, not so much. Brennan and Carly ... blech 🤢

1909, if I recall correctly. Yes, Oskar and his wife lost a daughter before the series opened. I think that led her his wife leaving him,