dubbel zout

I agree, and it didn't seem forced either.

"School is meaningless now." Oh, for god's sake, Trina. You aren't ready to go back to school; fine. Take a semester off. But you're going to throw away the rest of your life over some dipshit 21-year-old boy? What happened to the young woman who had big plans for her life, regardless of how aimless Spencer was? I miss that Trina. Alley Mills was OTT with Heather's grief, I thought. I wished she'd used it to try to escape. That feels more like Heather to me than sobbing on top of Esmé's grave.

It is; it's the ritual of the funeral that's important for a lot of people. Even knowing the BTS stuff about NAC, I can't muster an iota of sorrow for Spencer's death. I find him unpleasant most of the time, and he's been a mediocre boyfriend to Trina. Ugh, Michael whining about having to parent his children. Shut up, you stupid little shit.

And have Carly's actions hurt her super close (/s) friend? Better it's some faceless insurance scammer. Ugh. SMH. "Middle class" is a designation that no one seems to understand, given how IRL people making more than $200,00 in places that aren't especially HCOL consider themselves middle class. And even in a fairly HCOL area, $200,00 is a decent amount for a family to live on as long as you're not trying to keep up with the very rich folks. It would definitely be more interesting to have characters at different levels of wealth, but that would require writing with nuance, which we know the show is deathly allergic to.

Scott and Lucy thought they could bamboozle Tracy into marrying him (as if!) and then he'd wrest control of Deception away from her and give it to Lucy. It was one of the most harebrained schemes they've come up with, and thank Jasus they didn't make Tracy stupid enough to fall for it. Maxie overspent when Deception first went public, thinking she was set for life. For some reason, Felicia and Spin thought him moving in and paying rent would help offset all of that. Considering how in debt Maxie is supposed to be, Spin's rent should barely cover the extra groceries she needs to feed him. The way Anna has been written for so long hasn't been complimentary to the character at all, IMO. All tears and hair shirts and feeling hopeless. That's writing for a favorite? At least with Carly the bias is consistent and clear.

Michael's office at Aurora is extremely ugly. What a boring episode. I know it's setting the table for what's to come, but it was done in such a dull fashion.

That's such an odd way to refer to someone's kid. We know where Cam has been.

Thanks for reminding me about this. I was watching that whole thing enraged that Carly has to be a genius at every. fucking. thing she does. She had the ad contract all ready to go with the exact right numbers? It's ridiculous. Probably, ugh. I am enjoying how inept he is at shooting at Sonny, though. I wasn't around for the original Jagger stuff, so I don't have any feelings about the character returning, but I do agree a recast with a blue-eyed blond is puzzling. Same. Suck on that, Drewfus. How deep is your love for your super special lady now?

I nearly had a stroke when Alexis and Sam laughed off Spencer's vote tampering, WHICH IS A FEDERAL CRIME. And that whole, "What a scamp he was as Phantom of the Opera at the Nurse's Ball that one year." Okay, they don't want to speak ill of the dead, but their cavalier attitude toward his worst behavior is aggravating. Trina is better of without Spencer, IMO. I never felt he was 100 percent behind her going to school and building a career in art. If only Martin had shown as much backbone to Michael about Nina that he showed to Lucy when he broke up with her. Don't care about Sonny's security problems. Relieved the Adam story is over (with a typical deflating-balloon-sound ending). Surprised Nik showed enough character to go through with turning himself in. Paris was remarkably accessible for a man in a wheelchair, especially theboat (which they didn't even try to make look different from the Haunted Star save for slapping on a few signs in French), This might have been my favorite part of the episode. Typical Sonny to play the aggrieved party when he's the instigator. I appreciate that the show still gives us that angle of him.

Wrong thread.

It makes sense (to me) that Nik took Ace, but Spencer shouldn't have handed him over. Ace should have been fussing, Spencer goes out of the room to retrieve his binky or favorite animal toy, and comes back to an empty room. Then we wouldn't have that absurd about-face, as @30 Helens mentioned. It makes Spencer going to Paris with Trina a little awkward story-wise, but maybe Spencer justifies that by convincing himself that Nik is the better parent after all. Then Spencer spends NAC's absence looking for Nik and Ace.

He scuttles out of Port Charles under cloak of darkness because he's so ashamed of bilking people out of their life savings? I can subscribe to this newsletter.

I do a lot with my right hand: some sports, scissors, toothbrush, cutting and peeling in the kitchen...the list goes on. It's what feels comfortable. It's not that weird. Everyone has different degrees of ambidexterity. Perhaps lefties have more because it's a right-handed world, I don't know.

It won't go anywhere, because that would mean that Drew and Carly would have to face facts that someone did get hurt with their insider trading, but I appreciate the show tying this in.

L&O U did not cover this when I attended, so thanks, @lala2. I forgot to mention earlier: What was the deal with the creepy hotel employee barging into Trina and Spencer's room? I thought we might see him get a payoff from Esmé after confirming the pair were in the room, but no, it was just dropped.

It sure did. What a smarm Brick was. He did that when they were in New York City and she was all dreamy about it. Yuck. The only thoughtful thing he did there was arrange the BTS tour at the Met museum. I guess Nik wasn't the anonymous bidder for Windermere? If you already have stage 4 cancer, getting a diagnosis a few months earlier will not significantly affect your rate of survival. Since when can the plaintiff's lawyer call the defendant to the stand? He insisted Ava move into the penthouse, so he can shove his attitude toward her. I think Mo doesn't pay much attention to his tone, because he often sounds threatening when that's not the scene.

My dad wrote so deliberately (the pressure of a pen would go through three or four sheets of paper) that we wondered if he'd originally been a lefty, but neither he nor my grandma could remember/confirm. My elder brother is also a lefty, and when it was time for us to learn to write, my mom went in and told our teachers that she wanted to be sure we turned our paper in the correct direction. She didn't want any claw-handed writers. (Though claw hand mostly happens so we don't smear what we've just written.) The point is that being left-handed in and of itself doesn't mean anything for what hand you use for a task.

I'm a lefty, but I do a lot of things with my right hand. And as it happens, I would use my right hand to hold a gun. Handedness isn't slam-dunk evidence by a long shot. But the idea that the defense wouldn't vehemently object to that video is dumb. Especially after getting the original confession tossed.

LW's Carly is where the character became untouchable for the most part, IMO. I think the adjustments the writers have made with each recast have been fairly logical. It makes sense to me that today's Carly would feel like she was a pillar of Port Charles. But there should still be a tiny bit of insecurity in there; after all, she's gotten everything handed to her. Better writing would have her wondering if it could be taken away just as easily. But instead we get Carly coming out on top every. single. time with little to no effort on her part. It's boring to watch. Carly would be more interesting if she lost a few times and we saw her claw her way back. I don't know who's in charge of character direction, but Carly's needs to change.

Once again, the prosecution gets sandbagged by some evidence they should have found themselves (the partner's emails about pushing the dead guy out of the business). I'm very tired of this happening so frequently. It would be one thing if the defense sprung surprise witnesses or whatever, but it's always something related to a witness the police have talked to. The order side of the show is still the weaker half by a mile.

Which is a pretty good argument to trim the cast. Not every character can have an A story going on at the same time, but when you're shoving people into scenes only to meet their minimums, you probably have too large a cast.

Somewhere we read that he and Sam would be raising teenagers. If that's the sort of story he's to get, I'd rather see him randomly being the only semi-competent cop in the PCPD.

Oh, Robert. Red roses? The most generic flower on the planet? Way to put some thought into things. You can do better. At least find out if Diane even likes red roses. Not every woman does. That said, why is the show continuing to try to make fetch happen? The arguing over whether Sonny should be put in jail is beyond stupid. If Violet is old enough to play obnoxious matchmaker for Finn and Elizabeth, she's old enough to understand that Finn sometimes works late/nights and can't tuck her in all the time. Ugh. Brick. You think you're all that and a bag of chips. You're not. Go away. As always, Molly and TJ are getting way ahead of themselves. Good for TJ for recognizing that. But Kristina is barely pregnant, so everyone needs to keep expectations in check.

Airs 2/6.

Airs 1/30. Hot Priest alert!