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Sonny and Nina - If anything should convince Nina that the love affair with Sonny was pure fantasy, it would be how Sonny reacted to the SEC whistleblowing. If he blows up his new(!) marriage over Nina telling the SEC that Carly and Drew engaged in insider trading, then he was never really that into it to begin with. It isn't as if she betrayed him, or killed his puppy, or cheated on him with his best friend, which would all be reasons to end a relationship. She should take it as a lesson learned and move on to a more reasonable person - although where she'd find one in Port Charles is a mystery.

I wondered about that, too. I've seen pictures of her before, and her hair was always pouffed up, but the hair on the show was exceptionally high, and IMO not really attractive.

I'm fuzzy on Marshall's history, so thanks for the background. Are they thinking this was some type of retaliation, or was his behavior post arrest so erratic? Protesting alone doesn't seem to be significant to that kind of diagnosis. It does seem odd that someone could continue to get medication for decades without any other doctor's sign-off. I can imagine that in a mental facility there might be a tendency for doctors to see what they expect to see and go along with the original diagnosis, but once he got out at some point, wouldn't he get some re-evaluation? Lately, it is hard to get a prescription renewed constantly without seeing a doctor periodically.

Why does everyone assume this long-ago doctor had some malevolent purpose with his diagnosis? Maybe medical science wasn't that precise 40+ years ago and the diagnosis was just wrong, based on flawed results. RL example: I have two conditions that were diagnosed many years ago (at least as long ago as Marshall's); relatively recently, two of my current doctors told me that they wanted to verify those conditions since the conditions had been frequently misdiagnosed years ago because doctors didn't know then what they know now. As it turns out, both conditions were correctly diagnosed in my case, which is kind of a good news / bad news thing.

The "best" for one issue! It is unclear who is actually working at Crimson for the next issue, because the very, very involved and astute businessman Drew hasn't gotten a replacement for Carly yet as far as we know. We haven't seen Carly showing up at the office and making those fabulous deals since she "quit", so who's driving the bus? (Wouldn't it be ironic if that next issue turned out to be even better than anything Carly or Nina produced?)

The story about Whoopi reading to her great(?) granddaughter's class and talking about dyslexia was fine, but then she had to link it to Donald Trump, and I think that cheapened the nice story about the kids and overcoming reading difficulties by making it look like a set-up instead of a story by itself.

For a great actor, Al didn't put much effort into that announcement. Even if he was just going to say who won, he could have been clearer about that. (I wonder if he colluded with whoever organized the In Memorium segment).

My recollection is that the situation when the sailors were captured was pretty brutal, although being on TV in the 80s, it wasn't as graphic. Blackthorne was humiliated by having someone pee on him, which made him look bad to everyone, the crew and the Japanese. They did boil someone alive, and also threatened the rest with death, while they were kept captive in that pit. Only Blackthorne was taken out and cleaned up, and if I recall correctly, that made a bit of tension between him and rest of the crew. Throughout the book and the previous miniseries, there were plenty of deaths.

I thought that was him! Those eyelashes are his trademark, although the whiskers made me wonder.

I think that would have been more time economical, for sure. However, it would eliminate the conflict Shaw felt about saving a person who later went on to kill someone - if he had known what the guy was going to do, would he still have tried to stop him from killing himself? I didn't think they gave that conundrum enough consideration in the script, although to me it seems central to the policeman's competing imperatives - can (or should) you save more lives by letting one life go, especially since you aren't the one ending it?

My experience is that in situations like that, saying something like, "Maybe it's hard for you to understand because you haven't been there, but haven't you ever had experiences that just wear you down." Just about everyone has felt disregarded at some point for some unfair reason and they can relate to that. It isn't saying that everything is equivalent, but especially when dealing with someone you have to work with and depend on building understanding is important.

I didn't mind Borgia (and her end was the worst, to me) but I think Paul was always my favorite and I also liked Connie, because she seemed to be able to be pragmatic and idealistic when needed and was also very competent without being flawless.

I thought the Shaw / Riley conversation was good until Shaw did that. If someone is trying to understand your perspective, telling them that they don't know what they're talking about is kind of jerky IMO. Maybe it is an understandable impulse, but being a little less strident might help the person understand you better than basically telling them to buzz off; they might not try very hard to understand you if you don't meet them partway.

Maroun makes Serena look like a hard ass.

My goodness! The panel sounded as though they had never heard of "single issue voters" before. There are people who base their votes on a candidate's position on Roe v. Wade, on immigration policies, on the economy, gun control, or just because they can't stand a particular candidate. People who vote for someone based on the totality of their positions even if they don't agree with them all are sometimes accused of selling out by those who only care about one thing.

Sonny - isn't "Reckless and Petty" pretty much the Port Charles' city motto? It applies to just about everyone who lives there. The only difference is the degree. Of course, Sonny has zero self-awareness, and never had any, so it is ridiculous for anyone to take any of his insults seriously (they will, but that's part of their problem).

So Carly has published her "first and last" Crimson issue and she walks out to go back to "Bobbie's"? Very professional. The magazine doesn't stop when an issue goes out - the staff should already be working on the next one, so it can go out on time, and we haven't seen Carly do anything to get that ramped up. IRL, I think there would be a line of people outside her office asking her for information about what the next issue is and making decisions about everything. Instead, she's at the cafe and Drew is following her. I think Nina could just sashay back in and take control and neither Carly nor Drew would even notice. Only downside would be those dreary HR bureaucrats with their W-4 forms and such needed for paychecks.

They were married to each other for a short while, too. I wonder if that made things a bit awkward, or if enough time has passed that it is more like seeing someone you dated in college. I watched part of the Netflix stream, and found this to be one of the most boring awards shows I've seen in years. I don't know whether it was the direction, the lame banter, or the winner interviews, but it was not compelling enough for me to finish watching it. Netflix should have been able to get better pacing for it. It made some of the televised awards show look great in comparison.

Sunny's explanation of how the IVF ruling benefits Republicans and people who are concerned about maintaining racial demographics was unintelligible. I don't think she thought that through before she started talking. It sounded like a mish-mosh of half-baked conspiracy theory and social engineering ideas. I think she should have taken a little longer to figure out how to explain her point better.

I agree with this. I've had friends who've had early miscarriages and they were devastated by the loss. I think after you've gone through the process of IVF, with the physical, mental, and financial toll, the loss of embryos would also be very difficult. It is a bit paradoxical that people have different responses to early stage abortion, early stage miscarriage, and the loss of embryos meant for IVF. I also remember the L&O episode, which made an impression on me.

Sunny is fortunate that she ended up only with 2 children, or she could have been in the same position as the "Octomom", who had so many of her embryos implant and who got a lot of judgement for it. (I don't think she did it for ethical or religious reasons, which also contributed to the judgementalism.) I think that many people choose to ignore the implications of destroying unused embryos, because they don't want to examine the moral or ethical considerations and the analogy to abortion. This case brings the issue to the forefront and may encourage people to think more deeply before making the decision to use IVF.

It does seem out of whack with what the grownups get, but maybe, just maybe, this would help Charlotte develop her character sufficiently that she never needs to hire Diane to get her out of further crimes.

What will be his reason for divorce after less than what- a month? of marriage? I found this online about a no-fault divorce in NY state - I underlined the significant line, which seems that a really short marriage doesn't qualify. "It has now been 10 years, since New York adopted “no fault” divorce. This means that you no longer have to state a reason for your divorce (what is called “grounds” in legal terms). The only requirement is that you simply state that the marriage has irretrievably broken down for six months or more. This is New York’s version of a “no fault divorce.”" If Sonny had to give "grounds", what would they be? That Nina "snitched" on Sonny's ex-wife?

I don't think Whoopi and Sunny should be so sure about what "everyone knows" wrt Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Nothing is static, so what you saw or knew back in 2020 isn't necessarily still the same. And if Biden beat Trump in a debate back in the last election, that doesn't mean he could still do it today. Just because you won a competition once, that doesn't mean that you can win it again.

A little off topic, but this is the second show I've watched lately that was either set in or shot in Iceland. For whatever flaws this show has, it beats A Murder At the End of the World in most ways. For one thing, this show really manages to convey the sense of cold, dark, and isolation and how they affect people in multiple ways. I hope that the resolution to this show is also more gripping than that one.