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When we saw the guy who delivered the first bomb hanging outside the bodega, I thought, "Here we go, foot chase!" I'm glad the show has made those shorter. The flames were kind of cheesy and blurry, so yes.

He's under the impression he's God. Asshole. That makes me the ultimate evil, then: Whenever I started a new job, I'd bring in pastries sometime during my first week. It was a good icebreaker, and it also made people more willing to deal with my learning curve. How can you be mad at the person who brought in breakfast treats? I don't think Elizabeth was being frosty toward Steven Lars so much as not being able to get a word in edgewise because of Heather. Elizabeth seemed genuinely happy to see him.

Robert's too classy to take out his feelings on Sasha. Holly is the person Robert should be angry with. He was, but I thought he got over that anger too soon. Though maybe "that's just Holly" is the only reasonable way to deal with her if you don't want to drive yourself over the edge. It lets her off the hook way too much, but sometimes you have to protect yourself first. If I found out the guy I was falling in love with turned out to be my first cousin, the ick factor would kick in immediately and I wouldn't have too much trouble ending things. But maybe that's just me. I'd have laughed so hard if Bobbie's didn't serve BLTs any more. "Ever since Ace was a little boy..." He's still a little boy, Heather. Alley Mills is such an overactor as Heather. There's no subtlety. Has Nina forgotten what a horror show her mother is? You'd think she'd have a little historical perspective with Sasha. (Of course she doesn't—the writers can't remember what happened yesterday.) Nina's situation with being estranged from Willow is very different from Sasha's with Holly. I liked that Sasha went to Nina to talk about Holly. That felt right.

Is that what that was? I was thinking it was some sort of "rock on!" gesture. LOL. I'm an idiot. He never gives anything. It always makes me laugh when his costars go on about how he keeps them on their toes when they work together. Are they preparing to run off the set as soon as the scene is over? Because that's the only explanation I can think of for feeling that way. A throwaway line that cracked me up was when Lucas's towel dropped (of course) and Brad said it was nothing he hadn't seen before, but Lucas should get "that mole checked; it's new." PC is excellent with those sorts of asides.

It's also not the same thing as deciding to have an abortion. I didn't like the implication that Riley and his wife mourning a miscarriage was unusual. I'm getting tired of her having some arcane bit of information that just happens to be pertinent to the current case, along with some winking reference to her "misspent youth" (my interpretation). Another thing that annoyed me was Nolan bemoaning setting a precedent for what is death if someone is being kept alive only by mechanical measures and that opens the door for "angels of death" to pull the plug. Does it, though? It's not up to a random hospital employee to make that decision regardless of the condition of the patient. I sort of get what they were going for, but it wasn't persuasive to me at all. There was a lot about this episode that made me scream in frustration.

I wondered about that as well. When was Sonny "so good" to Sam? The bakery gets mentioned every so often. Because it can't be said too often, Curtis sucks.

The show really needs to stop having Ric push himself on Elizabeth after they've had her tell him more than once she's not interested. It's gross. News flash, Curtis: Just because you're a control freak with your family doesn't mean everyone else has to be with theirs. His insistence that Steven Lars has some sort of obligation to take care of Heather is so gross. Curtis has no idea what Heather did to SL. Not that he cares, since his comfort is all that matters. Also, threatening violence against someone's mother in front of them is not a good idea, you clod. At least I have the satisfaction of seeing the smug wiped from Curtis and Portia's faces when they realize Heather won;t go quietly into the night. Ooooh, Jason has a glare now, instead of staring at people with a blank face. I'm shaking with fear!

I'm disappointed Steven Lars didn't enter Curtis's office with a guitar slung across his chest. LOL. Of course he does. The world revolves around his needs. Even if Steven Lars and Heather were on decent terms, that doesn't mean he's able to look out for her, Curtis's money or not. Curtis sucks. Pro tip, Jack: Carly isn't as smart as you think she is.

Bobbie's would be a decent place, as it's a set that already exists and it's an easy place to put a lot of people for interaction. Portia doesn't care about anyone else but Trina.

No, Michael doesn't literally sign her checks, but Sasha works for his family and Michael's own family is at the house a lot and eats her food. If he didn't have as much interaction with Sasha as an employee, then at least she'd be approaching him more as a friend, not as a friend and employee. The whole thing was dumb, since Michael (correctly) turned her down. If Cody wants a giant loan, Cody should be the one to ask for it. It's okay for Sasha to grease the wheel a bit, but he has be the one to do the hard part.

But that was inappropriate. Tracy didn't have to be so snobby about Sasha's "place," but she absolutely right that you don't ask your employer for a large amount of money, especially for someone else. LOL. I figured it came with the apartment. I don't think Joss or Trina cooks at all. Thank you for making me look up that scene again. A OLTL camp classic, for sure. The running flailing down the hall throwing chairs out of the way is etched in my mind forever. Oh, Greg.

Uncut, unpolished diamonds.

Oh God, I forgot that stupid shit. NGL, I loved Jeffrey Vincent Parise's telenovela acting as Carlos, but Joe was ridiculous even by GH standards. (At least JVP went on to teach the world to sing with Don Draper.) @statsgirl, I wish I could give your post more than one like. There is so much wrong with the stories right now. Stupid is as stupid does, but so much of it is completely tone-deaf. The blithe way the show is treating Lucas operating on Sam is ridiculous. It's not an emergency situation, which at least would give him more of a reason to get involved. LOL at Sonny's "I don't even know what this transaction is." But him sneering at Holly that she's not his type? She doesn't want to sleep with him. What a tool. I wish Ric hadn't been so meek while Curtis et al were yelling at him about Heather. Ric doesn't even know the extended Ashford clan, so why is he letting them push him around? So disappointing. A judge letting someone go who killed five people is the bigger problem than the lawyer presenting the case, but whatever, Show. You have a plot point to make. They are SO boring.

LOL. Can you blame Terri? Lulu has been in a coma for years, and her family insists on putting her through a surgery that is iffy at best (as far as they know, of course). I'm sure the casting department is already looking around. The Balkan was a total bore for me, though it was pretty awesome that Adrienne Barbeau killed him in cold blood. Papa Z had his amazing finger puppets, but was kind of a run-of-the-mill loon otherwise, and I didn't appreciate the abuse angle with Johnny and Claudia. I found Manny legit terrifying—Robert LaSardo was fantastic—but of course the show punted and had LaSardo return as Manny's twin priest brother. Way to undercut things. I think the show realized it, as it sent Marco out of town and we've heard nothing about him since. That's the problem the show has with villains. They are used so badly. We know if they're up against Sonny, he will win. If Frank falls in love with the actor, we get Heather's current story. Heavy sigh.

It's so obvious. They are leaning so hard on Lulu not making it and the surgery for Sam being a breeze. Even if we didn't know KeMo was leaving, I'd expect Sam to be in her own coma for a bit. Or she'd leave the hospital feeling fine and then collapse at home. There'd be some complication regardless. It's soap law. Why is Gio? It's not as if the Bensonhurst contingent needs shoring up. We barely see Lois and Olivia the way it is, and when we do, it's for some unnecessary comment.

Shouldn't there have been someone from PC or state district attorney's office to argue for Heather's continued incarceration? Stuff like that isn't one-sided. The plot-point writing is so blatant. The writers don't even try to make any sort of sense.

Besides being Sam's brother, isn't Lucas is a trauma surgeon? That is not the same thing as a transplant surgeon. Lucas should be doing a much better job in dissuading Sam about him operating on her. The only time I'd want a relative operating on me is if they were the only one in the world who could do it. But maybe I'm the idiot here. I liked Portia putting Ric on the spot about Heather—what a weasel he was to want Elizabeth to help him break the news—but I'm not looking forward to her coming completely unhinged.

Marshall leaving spares me a possible romance with Stella, and for that I am profoundly grateful.

We had to sell my mom's silver for scrap! It killed me, but no one wanted it. Storage space was again the issue, even though she had one of those lined boxes. And while you could throw most of it in the dishwasher, you had to wash the knives by hand. I did take two service sets and now use them as my everyday flatware, but I have to handwash everything anyway (no dishwasher in my tiny NYC kitchen) so it's not an additional hassle. Most people don't entertain at home the way they used to, which is a big reason china and silver isn't being passed on.

My mom's fine china was dishwasher safe, but places like Replacements.com weren't interested. It ended up going into the estate sale we had for the other stuff we didn't want or couldn't donate. There's also a space issue with storing china you don't use on a regular basis.

He seemed a bit stiffer than usual, but maybe that was because he was sad to see Violet leave. His comment about her hide-and-seek skills was very funny. Yuri and Terri are the most mature couple on the show, maybe second only to Laura and Kevin.

How pathetic that Sam has to ask the deadbeat dads of her kids to be fathers to them. Way to violate HIPAA by looking at Lulu's chart, Lucas and Elizabeth! Just because you're friends/family doesn't mean you can snoop with abandon. But with Portia as co-CoS, the rules aren't being followed by anyone. I thought Violet's goodbye was handled well. I hate that she's the baby pusher for Chase and BLQ, but whatever. She's leaving. Once they stopped writing her as an obnoxiously precocious kid, I liked her. A Holly/Robert flashback! I did not expect that.

Lulu's blood clot is obviously what puts Isaiah back in the operating room. I don't need RL medical standards for a soap story, but the show should attempt to explain how giving Lulu a new liver will improve the odds of her waking up from her coma. I'd accept "the enzymes a new liver will be able to synthesize will affect her amygdala and stimulate the synapses." And I just made that up without Google! Wow, does Holly suck. Robert wasn't nearly as hard on her as he should have been. Same, and I made sure my health proxy is someone who won't waffle about making sure that happens.

Because she is obviously the mother of Piet's child that he doesn't know about. This story also had a killer who was unhinged by lurve, but at least it wasn't as clichéd as the woman in the last story. It was still a thud of a denouement for me.

That sucks for Sam/KeMo, but if it ends those nimrods' incessant carping at each other, Sam will not have died in vain.