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I thought Julian was being an asshole, too. Expressing your concern once; fine. To keep going on and on as if no one else understood the situation? STFU.

If only Brenda would show up to usher Sonny off the show permanently. None of those "romances" give me much hope for interesting stories. Ron is a worse writer of relationships than he is everything else.

Except when she goes all damsel-in-distress and the chin starts to wobble, which is at least 50 percent of the time. Not a fan of Ava or MW.

Nina will probably take Sam hostage, and Silas will have to choose which woman he wants. Or Rafe goes nuts and kidnaps them both, with the same outcome. Silas will dither until the very last minute then choose Sam, while Nina either goes out in a blaze of bullets or kills herself (and of course she won't really be dead).

Silas doesn't have to tell Nathan about Nina, Sam said something when she saw him at Kelly's. I'm guessing that conversation will continue on Monday. Exactly—someone else told Nathan. Silas has already had a number of opportunities to tell Nina what's up with Sam, but he's punted them all. I get not telling her in the park, I guess—it's really a conversation to be had in private. But the beans could have been spilled and they go home to talk about it. But no, Ron finds it more interesting to have Silas wuss out. IMO, Nina might as well find out everything in one swell foop. Dribbling out the details isn't going to make it any easier to hear. Plus, we all know she's going to go BSC anyway, so it's a way to move that along, too. As with John McBain on OLTL, Ron is writing Silas so the women do all the heavy lifting in the relationship.

I put it in the media thread. Found it; thanks. It would be nice to see her stand up for herself, but I doubt she will. She'll let Silas go on being a coward until the news comes out inadvertently (because that's the "soapiest" way; gag). Silas won't even tell Nathan is sister is alive, which doesn't do Silas any harm. We're in for a long summer of near-misses, I'm sure. UGH.

I hate that nickname. I don't mind it when it's used mockingly, but as a genuine name, ugh. But at least Lauren has stopped calling Morgan "Captain." That was the WORST. Truth. I don't think we'd have loved MW's Kate as much if she hadn't had world-peace-bringing hair. *vomits with more force than during chemo* Nut jobs or not, that's just so, so wrong in so, so many ways. I agree the Daytime Emmys are a joke. That said, I think GH not getting a best-drama nod means the industry, at least, recognizes what crap Ron is serving. I also think it's kind of ironic that Ron writes for the big moments, which are usually Emmy bait, and he doesn't get a nomination. If nothing else, it's very satisfying schadenfreude for me. I wish people would hiss and throw things at him whenever they saw him. Can someone post a link to the Logan exchange, please?

WE NEVER CARED. I agree, mostly. You can't just dump a newbie onscreen without tying him to someone. Remember when Emily's doppelgänger, Rebecca, was skulking around the GH corridors for weeks on end doing and saying nothing? All we knew is that she looked like Emily. She didn't talk to anyone. It was so stupid. She got all this focus for doing absolutely nothing. She was a gimmick from the start, which is something that Franco shares with her, and I think that's a big reason he's going nowhere. It doesn't help that RoHo is completely unengaged. But I don't think connecting a newbie to a vet is necessarily the answer. Nina was talked about by three different newbies, and for me the problem wasn't the newbies, but that she was talked about constantly yet I still had no idea who she was. Ron kept changing the bloody story, probably thinking it was oooh, twisty, but instead it just made me care even less. If he couldn't figure out what was going on with her—she's alive; she was moved; no, she's dead; no, she's really alive—why should I? As you wrote, Nathan's integration has been fairly successful, because he wasn't shoved in our faces. The pacing for him has been pretty good, I think, especially on the Ron scale. Levi is connected to Maxi, a vet, but he's being shoved in our faces as her great savior. No, he's a psychologically abusive creep, and he's terrible. If this is intentional, I need to know why. Most of the problems come down to pacing, I think. The writing will always be a problem, too, of course. I think there are some decent writers on the staff; they just aren't the ones responsible for moving the stories along. Ron gets infatuated with certain actors and characters and drags things out way too long, and other characters and stories suffer because of that. That's still how I'd describe Lauren.

I much preferred that to yet another "bitch/slut/whore."

And ruin the premise of the show? ;-) In all seriousness, the information in the patent might be just that—information—and physically reverse-engineering tells them how it's used in the actual machine. I think they might be allowed to keep certain information proprietary. Maybe there's a patent lawyer out there who can weigh in?

Oh, FFS. Of course it does. The wimmins and their fragile emotions. I mean, I get it, and here it's slightly logical. But still. Is Patrick going to develop another five-minute pill addiction because of Gabriel's death? I doubt it.

Lulu gave Sonny a World's Best Grandpa mug, remember? They're buddies now, alas. Do Dante and Lulu know about Crypt!Sex? They don't know Ava is pregnant. Nutmeg's Dad compared Nina's situation to the movie 13 Going on 30, which kind of works except that Nina was in her mid to late twenties when she went into a coma. If she had that voice when she met Silas, I'm surprised he didn't put her in the coma himself, it's so annoying. It's the thing I hate most about Nina, as well as her wide-eyed fake innocence and constant "Things have changed so much/we're still the same" refrain. I did kind of get a kick out of Rafe and Lauren popping up and Silas having to explain why they lived at his place. Why yes, Nina, things do change in twenty years.

If Levi is working for FakeLuke, that makes him only marginally interesting. If he's not working for FakeLuke, he's utterly pointless. Still.

I don't understand why the only time Nina shows any backbone is around another woman. She can threaten Carly with no problem, but Sonny glares at her and she goes all wobbly-chinned. But then Olivia shows up, and boom! Ava tells her why she's there and what's going on. (Admittedly, that was awesome.) She should know by now that Sonny is all bark and no bite? LOL that Morgan is the one who told Lauren that Ava is pregnant. Also, I don't think he understands how conception works. He's slept with Ava a number of times. It didn't have to happen the day of Crypt!Sex. I have more hate than is healthy for Nina and Levi.

And sometimes the guests are going to/coming from a premiere, and the timing doesn't work otherwise.

OMG. So do I. I'm dying laughing just thinking about it.

I know. Sonny is the least of her worries. Olivia will probably end up killing her with poisoned manicotti.

Poor US, having to watch the awful, unending Nix merry-go-round. Talk about a story having had its day. I guess Nathan's new "friend" is Nina?

Yes. "My friends call me Kiki" was one of KA's first lines. I can't stand her in this role, so I refuse to use the nickname. Plus, I find it an inane name for someone over the age of 10 and not being used ironically.

I love how Sonny always puts his feelings first. He isn't finished with Morgan, so it's inexplicable why Morgan might be finished with him. He's an emotional infant, but it can be very entertaining to me. And use drunk air quotes. Hee.

There are also people who don't keep track of the show's comings and goings regardless of medium. I thought he deliberately chose this approach because he was pretending to be a "real" correspondent, not a fake one. I don't think he'll continue using that. We'll see tonight, if he's on, I guess. ETA: Wyatt's on Maron right now.

Stewart doesn't get into stuff like that with guests. That's not what he does.

I completely disagree. Not that Ron is making mistakes. Oh, boy, is he making mistakes. I disagree that the new characters are brought on with no ties to vets. Sabrina was immediately infatuated with Patrick, a vet. Lauren was immediately connected to Morgan, a (semi-)vet. Franco is connected to Jason, the vettiest vet who ever vetted (in terms of who the show thinks is important). Did that make them more interesting? Not to me. In fact, I resented them being shoved into stories with people without earning their place. Nina's problem isn't that she isn't connected to a vet, it's that she's a nobody no matter what. You can't expect an audience to care about somebody they've never heard of. Connecting her to a vet wouldn't change that. She'd still be someone who appeared after twenty years in a coma. Also, what Sake614 wrote. We have to care about a character. Connections don't do that. Good writing does.

I can't with Nina's good-golly-gee little-girl act. Not at all. I love how she just assumed she'd be able to move in with Silas. Good thing she conveniently had all of her luggage with her! Does MS always slur her "s" or is that a character choice? LOL at the enormous number of cups at the birthday party. There were six people there. It always cracks me up how Ron tries to wring out emotion from scenes (currently: Gabriel's death) when he's done such a terrible job of setting them up in the first place. I thought the Ava/Carly stuff was pretty meh. Typical sniping by both of them. Ava threatening Carly? Zzzz. We'd be lucky if Ava pushes Carly off the curb and Carly sprains her ankle. Killing her? Never. The show doesn't have the guts. It can't even put Sonny in jail for more than a few days.

Wow. That shows how little the networks care about daytime television.