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So did Sonny demand Carly apologize to Nina for hiding the fact she was Willow’s mother? Hell did he apologize to Monica for murdering her son? No? Funny how they can both do heinous things, say they aren’t remotely sorry or feel bad they did it, yet people have to suck it up and let it go but the moment a something is done to them (perceived in this case since Carly chose to commit a crime), others are expected to bow down to them.

IA but her anger won’t last. She’ll immediately forget about it the moment she hears about Bobbie. Also, I get CM might not have the same connection to JZ the other cast members do given he recently joined the show but he’s acting was embarrassing today. The inappropriate smiling made the scenes hard to watch. I know they don’t like reshooting scenes but this is one of the times they really should have.

I’m not surprised that Carly is going to take center stage and it does make technically sense but the Carly/Bobbie relationship didn’t interest me in the slightest and I associate it with Bobbie’s end as a main character. Also, her only storyline with Carly was with SJB’s version so I can’t imagine any interesting flashbacks. With LW‘s Carly, she basically got brought out a few times a year to either be a talk to or fill out a room at an event.

Lol they’re really going to have Sonny go after Nina for her “betrayal” when nothing happened to Carly and he doesn’t care about Drew yet he’s not going to find out that Michael plotted for a year to put him in prison, Joss found out and was all for it, and while Carly didn’t support it, she also kept it a secret from him and insisted that said plant still work for Sonny. Something tells me that if he heard both sorrows, one would leave him feeling a million times more betrayed but what do I know?

Lois and Olivia being bffs has never made the slightest bit of sense to me because that would mean she knew about Dante’s existence and never suspected he was Sonny’s.

Michael, the supposed lead of the non middle aged adult age group, is on a date with his mother for NYE. That says it all. I’m ready for Lois to back to Bensonhurst. What a useless return and I’m starting to suspect that they are writing her the way they are to make Olivia seem more likable. Shoot me but I thought Alexis/Gregory were kinda cute and fun today, though I side eye them doing anything romantic with them considering her last LO dying caused her to spiral.

Yeah IA. It could have been decent if the patient was someone we knew or at least related to someone who was a bigger character so we’d have people taking sides. Instead, they went the poor Finn route by telling us over and and over again that he did nothing wrong and the patient was not only someone we didn’t know, we never even saw him handling this case.

I thought those scenes were surprisingly well written, with Alexis knowing this will be a disaster but wishing Sonny would tell her she’s overreacting and Sonny telling her that he has the same concerns but they can’t talk them out of it so they can only hope for the best. I think MB and NLG do a decent job of selling their characters’ connection and that they understand each other despite the fact that they only share scenes once a year. Compared to the show trying to sell Sonny/Anna being super close, it’s like night and day for me. I was wondering if they are wrapping it up because it was a scab storyline that the regular writers aren’t interested in continuing because while they have a tendency to end SLs disappointedly, they also drag them out for eternity. I also felt the same way with the Pikeman reveal. It felt like that SL was supposed to go on for way longer and it ended so abruptly the moment the writers returned.

Carly: “I've invited you to family gatherings and stood there while Wiley gives you a hug and a kiss and I bit my tongue till it bled” First, I don’t recall Carly ever inviting Nina to a family gathering but ignoring that, how miserable is she that Wiley liking his other grandmother makes her that angry? Like she truly thinks it’s normal to expect everyone in her life hate everyone she does. It’s unreal

They’re definitely back. They were in the episode credits yesterday and there weren’t any writers listed during the strike. I’m not sure if that was the first episode or if they’ve been back for longer though but it’s the first time I noticed them

Heavily featured kids on this show have always been a sore spot for me. To be fair, child Robin was before my time so maybe she was better but I’m personally not interested in watching a kid grow up on the show. They should stay in their lane with them and either leave them to their couple episodes a year of holiday scenes or storylines surrounding their parents dealing with an illness or medical emergency. Violet is following in the footsteps of NB’s Spencer who I found incredibly annoying. The other glaring example I recall is the red headed Michael who was not only on contract but had something like 120 episodes a year during his high point. The show thought it was cute to write a preteen as a complete misogynist who was ordering his mother around and trying to pay off his daddy’s gf.

I don’t consider myself the biggest daredevil and I’ve been skydiving. There some risk involved, sure, but not so much that a healthy 20/30 something like Chase couldn’t do it with his dad so I don’t get why Gregory is so adamant that his sons not do it with him. I kind of get Finn not doing it because he’s a stick in the mud but you’d think Chase want that memory with his father. If you’re not experienced, they won’t even let you jump alone. You have to go with an instructor.

It irks me that they continued having Carly essentially be Avery’s 3rd parent and let her use that as an excuse to be in Ava’s business at all times. While it may happen IRL, on soaps, ex step parents usually move out of each others lives after the divorce since they get married so often unless that person adopted the kid, which we know Carly didn’t. It especially annoys me because I think they only do because Carly has so little going on herself that they need to give her an excuse to insert her into other people’s stories. Turning her into the new Ruby hasn’t exactly been all that interesting.

Why is Kristina talked about Iike she’s a perpetual screw-up? She hasn’t done anything questionable since getting involved with Dawn of Day, which was over 4 years ago. Even with DOD, she first involved in it because she thought it was a volunteer group and she wanted to do charity work. Since then, she’s worked at a stable job, manages to support herself, and has been single so she didn’t even have relationship drama unlike the rest of her family.

If TJ is that convinced Kristina is too flaky, then why not just tell Molly that they should look for a different non related surrogate? It’s not like Kristina is the only option. They could also opt to do that later on if Kristina does change her mind because it’s too much for her.

Sam’s place doesn’t seem very festive considering that they have 3 kids living there but perhaps they didn’t bother with holiday set decorations since they never do Christmas Day scenes at the PH. I think Alexis should have related her experience of giving up a baby for adoption and how she struggled with that. While it isn’t a 1:1 with Kristina being a surrogate, she can point out the difficulties she experienced with that and how being part of this child’s life but only as an extended family member might be even more difficult. Carly always looks smug when she’s in her flirting mode and it’s always hilarious to me when she talks about herself as this selfless, mature person. Talk about rose colored glasses.

I like Ned normally but it’s almost a saving grace for me that I know he won’t win so not only will this all be for naught, his so called family (save Tracy) will turn against him for daring to conspire against St. Michael. I won’t feel bad for him when that happens just like I didn’t when he hit his head running to tell Drew that Nina called the SEC.

BL wanting to plan a wedding quickly because Violet doesn’t like long engagement is so stupid. Why are they placating a child? I’m assuming the real reason they are rushing the wedding is so they can do it while Rena Sofer is still around but they could have come up with a better excuse than that. Heck, even saying that they aren’t sure how long Gregory would be around and want to make sure he can attend would make way more sense.

I hope they are reuniting Scott and Lucy. They should have done that years ago rather than hooking them up with Dr. O and Martin. Neither character is on frequently enough to establish a new pairing. I’m pretty sure Lucy and Martin have been together for 2 years yet have only been onscreen together for at most 10 episodes.

I’m never going to like people cringing when Tracy shows up to her family home and why Olivia tried to call her out about not being back for the family when she’s the main one treating her like she doesn’t want her around. She’s right about the decorations being tacky though. Is this the first we’ve heard Dex’s backstory? I’d feel more sorry about his cheating father if he felt a smidgen of guilt about hooking up with Joss while she was dating someone but he didn’t give a crap. He’s as big a hypocrite as his gf. I’m sorry but Violet is annoying and way too old to still be acting like the precocious kid who asks inappropriate questions and puts adults on the spot. She has to be 9 or 10 by now so not sure why they write her like a 4 year old.

I don’t get the point of Lois’ return. She’s hardly even left the Q mansion so she mainly interacts with the same handful of characters and didn’t come between Ned and Olivia. I don’t particularly feel nostalgia towards scenes with her and BL given they were barely onscreen together and even less so with her retconned bff Olivia. Hell I’d rather see her having more friend scenes with Sonny and I can barely stand him.

It sounded like the crux of Finn’s malpractice case was that he didn’t order additional testing during the patient’s first visit and only tested for a tapeworm since the patient said that’s what he thought he had. However, I don’t think that would be in the scope of an infectious disease doctor.

I assumed he was hiding because Robert might recognize him given he’s ex-WSB himself but he did such a poor job of it, maybe not

BL and Cody should have been paired together. With her propensity for dumb schemes and him being a grifter, I think they could have been the fun pairing that age group sorely needed. Instead, BL got watered down to be more parable for goody goody Chase and I see Cody going the same route with Sasha so we’re left with 2 more bland couples to join the even more bland Michael/Willow.

I can never stomach Laura/Cyrus scenes because he was the one who ordered the bombing that put Lulu into a coma. That’s beyond what is acceptable for any mother to look past.