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The show is deliberately ignoring all of this so that Nina can continue to be the Evulest Evul Who Ever Evuled. When will Drew suggest the town gather torches and pitchforks and run Nina out of PC?

I've removed a few posts that are starting to rehash the Elizabeth vs. Sam argument. It's been done ad nauseam and does not need to be brought up again. Also, calling women "hoes" is a violation of the Inclusion policy, and those posts have also been removed.

If Chloe was "still a kid," then so was Cam. He deserved to be punished, but why was Chloe given more of an excuse wrt her age? When the professor said she was glad the president had been killed, I thought for sure that would seal her fate and she'd be found guilty. It would have been useful to hear why the jury voted the way it did. And I'm surprised the jury wasn't polled, but that was probably not considered for time issues.

The only person Jason has ever truly fought for is Sonny. The women always do the heavy lifting in relationships. Oh, Jason tells Carly to lay off the sniping and snarking of his girlfriends, but that's barely the least he could do. I'd be more than fine if Jason never has another woman in his life. He won't change his ways for anyone, and even without that, he's no prize. She really isn't all that great at the medical parts of being a doctor, either. It's gross to watch her flail around. She's co-COS, FFS. Write her that way, Show. Yeah, but as a someone who works in print magazines (they still exist!), I wouldn't mind seeing this at all. Heh. If Willow can get her RN in no time, Nina can start up a successful magazine. We have Alexis doing the online thing with the Invader.

That might have raised red flags with Willow. Michael has never taken much interest in Crimson. And Sonny's pea brain might have wondered as well. I feel like Jason and Sam are genuinely dunzo. Carly is the one who will want to get Jason back. But it depends on the writers, of course.

That was addressed: The psych eval was still to come. Though I suspect Adam's father and/or Adam will somehow bully their way out of it.

Has this been established on the show? I can't remember. Was Portia the right person to be talking to him? She didn't treat him; she was just reading what was in his chart. Finn is the one worked on Adam in the ER; does that make him the attending physician? It's all so dumb.

LOL at Nina in her giant sunglasses. For a minute there I thought we might get something similar to Hungover!Liz, but we didn't. Drew is such a petty turd. He fires Nina because she told the truth about the insider trading and he was stupid enough to fall on his sword for Carly. What a douche. And way to totally blow off meeting Sam. I knew Carly would become the new editor. Good grief. Someone needed to tell Spencer that if Esmé remembering makes her a bad mother, what does that make Nik? He's done much worse things, yet Spencer blithely handed over Ace with barely a second thought. (Laura could use a few more smarts when it comes to Esmé, but she's had less experience with her, and Esmé has done a decent job of listening to Laura.) Adam needs more than a good friend, Dex. And when did you get your psych degree? I had to laugh that Portia made things worse with Adam instead of being reassuring. I'm not surprised Portia didn't mention that since Adam is an adult, he can decide who visits him, and he can bar his parents from his room. Of course Adam's father turns out to be as terrible as Adam said he was. Zzzz. So uninteresting.

Making plans for your funeral also saves a ton of time when your actually die, as there's a blueprint for what you want and what is needed. No one has to faff around wondering if you want lilies or gladiolas on the altar. And for people like the BRF, there are so many details that it has to be relief to know what the person wants, even if some of the stuff is preordained when it's the monarch who dies. I wonder if Diana left any sort of plan. Her circumstances were sui generis, but I'd think if she'd made some sort of list, things wouldn't have been so messy.

It's long past time for a female partner, and she needs to be experienced so there's parity between the detectives.

They did that a bit with Jakeson at the very beginning of Miller's tenure, but of course ended it soon enough.

He's always been a Jason placeholder, regardless of who plays him. He already did when he born. Hence why he was cute, huge baby for the first six months of his life. Most shows do that because the rules for filming with infants are so restrictive. Ace is still a baby, so he can go down for another, longer SORAS nap, heh.

Ace can go down for a SORAS nap.

I hate surprise kids, but in the case I would accept it. Michael is completely intolerable. He's a stupid little shit who has no business acumen; is a petty, selfish asshole; and has never lived up to the position his mother, especially, has assigned him. If a long-lost AJ kid can come back and destroy Michael professionally, that would be amazing. But Michael can never lose, especially via a child of the despised AJ. That kid would become another dumping ground for all of the Q and PC ills. We have enough of those the way it is.

How convenient that Drew has forgotten it was HIS CHOICE to make a deal with the SEC and plead guilty. It was so weird how the show abruptly jumped to Kristina having had the implantation and Esmé asking Cyrus to help her find Nik and Ace.

They did this when Ava thought she'd killed Nik: We saw Mason visit Adam Huss's Nik somewhere. Then we saw nothing until they figured out what they wanted to do with Nik. Oh, FFS. My DVR didn't record today's ep—protecting me from the enormity of its stupidity, no doubt!—and reading lines like this makes me glad. I'm mildly surprised Michael hasn't started telling Wiley he can't mention Grandma Nina's name anymore. Michael is that petty and childish.

As well as to stick it to Michael for being such a turd in general. Michael only works with Ned when it suits Michael. I couldn't believe my ears when I heard Tracy praising Michael for "acting like a Quartermaine." Too bad GH doesn't realize that. Everyone always has to be connected to someone on this fakakta show, and it really hampers stories.

And make Sasha her sole heir. You know the Carlys would pillory Nina for giving up on her family. Nina can't win no matter what. We've suffered through months of Nina being piled on one way or another. When Nina is getting blamed for being blackmailed, it's time to change the direction of the story. I'd like to see her do something for the Carlys that's so significantly good they can't deny it, and then have things go from there. They'll still hate her and accuse of acting in her own self-interest, but at least Nina would have something unarguably decent on her scorecard. And speaking of blackmail, I hope Esmé calls Spencer's bluff. I can't believe that turd put his own feelings for revenge ahead of the well-being of his 1-year-old brother.

Airs 1/23. This is an eclectic couch, for sure!

All of this is why I currently have a rage blackout regarding the show. It's all so badly, stupidly, sloppily written.

Willow's expression when Michael called her during work to tell her about a puppet show Wiley was putting on was hilarious. "I know exactly what you're trying to do and I'm not having it." Emotional blackmail much, Michael? You suck. And Willow, yell at your husband for blackmailing Nina, not for Nina getting blackmailed. LOL that Michael thinks Ned should lose ELQ because Michael was stupid enough to hand over his proxy with those dumb caveats. Ned, why did you cave? "Here you are, my birth mother. Petty, vindictive, and selfish to the core." That also perfectly describes your mother-in-law, Willow. Everything that happened with the SEC stuff gave me a rage blackout. The writers are doubling down on the stupidity of it and piling it all on Nina even more. Drewfus, you can't see why parents would put pressure on their kids? You can't make the leap that maybe that's what you did to Scout with private school? Maybe, but I think the bigger point is that Joss is the one claiming a suicide attempt when she has absolutely no experience or training to make that kind of assessment. Not that that would ever stop her, but for the GH staff to run with it is annoying. I don't get why Spencer could hold the idea that Esmé is a good mother to Ace and also have gotten her memories back and might regress before Nik returned, but once Nik started yapping, Spencer thought it was the best thing for Ace for the father who knows nothing about him to take him away from everything he know. I can sum up today's ep like this: UGH. GAH. STAHP.

It's still difficult to make the crossover from soaps to prime time. Talent is only a part of the equation; I think luck and timing play bigger roles. Even if NAC makes a splash in Monster, he has to follow that up with good choices, in terms of both roles and how he sees his career evolving. None of that is a given.

The drama being in Adam's head is the more interesting story, IMO, so of course the show won't write it. Originally we thought the story might have Adam be some sort of stalker, and I think that would have been more interesting than this. But ultimately I don't care what happens. I think JB is adequate as Adam; nothing special.

The little guy playing Ace today was killing me. Nik dramatically says, "Don't you realize, Spencer, your little brother is in danger!" complete with dramatic music sting, and they cut to Ace with his finger on his mouth, looking like he's deciding what he wants for a snack. Later he looks like he's thinking, "Hey, just put me down for a nap and leave me out of all of this, huh?" Hee. "Adam has been struggling for months. How did I not see it coming?" Because for a while you were in a sex haze with your dolt boyfriend, Joss. If Finn has to have all of his treatments approved by a chief of staff, he shouldn't be assigned to the ER.

Mollly seemed to want a harsher sentence for Esmé too—she wasn't all that thrilled to make a deal with Martin. If it had been anyone else besides Esmé, Ava would likely have not insisted on pressing charges. Ava is out for blood for Trina, which, okay, but it's not really her fight. I've been saying this for a while. We have only Adam's version of things, so who knows how strict they really are. If legally the school and hospital can't contact them, Joss certainly could.