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Isn't that the truth. Ava has some options. She may be inexplicably trapped at Sonny's, but she can fight back. I wish we'd see her do that.

*Waves warmly to Snowprince* I was finishing my junior year of college in 1983, and the big splurge was having one of the word processing services type up your paper instead of using an old-fashioned typewriter. Luddite that I was (and still am, to a certain extent), I kept using my electric typewriter. It didn't even have a separate correction tape—I had to use Wite-Out. Hee. And I still used carbon paper to type my letters to my family. After I graduated, I moved to NYC to work in book publishing, and desktop publishing was just starting to happen. It took a few years for it to become the norm. I moved over to magazines, and that's where I really learned computers. (Makes sense, given the much shorter print deadlines.) We went through practically every Apple, starting with the Mac Plus. It was thrilling to finally get a color monitor, even if the first one bascially a 19-inch television. I also had a few laptops, and remember having to buy a separate modem attachment. I also remember connecting the phone line directly to the computer when I got my clamshell iMac laptop and feeling as if I was on the cutting edge. Hee again.

Guys from IBM. They were trying to hire her away from Cardiff. It was part of the whole undermining they were doing. ETA: Jinx with GaT! Exactly. I don't really care about the technical stuff (and I don't understand even with the explanations here), but there has to be some baseline information so we understand why what these three are doing will be revolutionary. I think talking about a portable computer is a step in the right direction—everyone can grasp that—but if you don't have a comparison point for the innovation side, it's gibberish. They tried a bit to explain BIOS with the secretary who showed Cameron to the clean room, but Cameron was so condescending that I thought it too much about Cameron and negated the exposition. It's kind of fun for me to watch this anyway, because Cameron and I are near contemporaries, and I can remember some of the broader stuff the show touches on. Of course Joe has daddy issues. And a deep dark secret. Sigh.

She is, but she also told James she was frustrated that everyone was lying to her and tap dancing around what's happened. She can't have it both ways (not that she's asking for that). I wish there was more realization on her end that life went on. She's been kind of unrealistic about that. That cracked me up. It was so hilariously awkward. Seriously. Why isn't she doing more to protect herself? This is what makes me nuts about her. She's supposed to be so coldblooded and ruthless, and yet she's a total dumbass when it comes to Sonny. He's really not a big threat. I don't get why vulnerable = stupid for Ron.

I know bringing reality into GH is always problematic, but kidney donations don't have to be from family members. That's exactly what happened, Cindy. From what we've seen afterward, it looks as if FakeLuke was the one who's responsible for the car accident, as he's had a few phone calls that pointed in that direction. But it's Ron, so who knows.

They'll both have legal troubles, definitely. I meant trouble with relationships. Sonny's relationship with Michael will be shattered. It's the central point of his life. Ava and Lauren and Ava and Morgan are already on rocky territory, so it wouldn't be as sudden a split as Michael and Sonny. Sonny's the one who swore he'd never hurt AJ. Ava never made a similar promise. And I doubt Morgan and Dante will be all that happy with Sonny, not to mention any Qs they decide to let react. Ava has a lot fewer people's reactions to worry about. But fallout on this show is always temporary (if it happens at all), so none of it will have lasting effects anyway.

I found the Anna/Jordan scenes disappointing, too, because it was basically Anna telling Jordan how being undercover messed up the PCPD. It sounded so whiny. Oh, Anna, that train sailed way before Jordan got there. I thought it was funny that Sonny threatened Ava with telling Morgan that she shot Olivia and killed Connie. I doubt Morgan would be all that shocked, and I'm not sure how much affection he has for Connie, especially. Not that he hated her or anything, just that they didn't have much to do with each other. And I don't think he really gives Olivia much thought except as one of his brother's mother. There's no way Sonny would have made the call regardless; he has much more to lose than Ava does if anyone's truth comes out.

Is there any woman on the show who has more than one child with just one man? Yet one more way too many characters are too interrelated.

It doesn't matter what his daughters are interested in; the guy is acting like the only reason he's doing it is because he has to, as he's the only parent. Like, it's such a chore to have to be involved in his kids' lives. That's my big problem with the ad.

When Nina goes BSC, can she take out Lauren? I'm not a fan of sins of the fathers and all that, but I'll make an exception in this case. Do we believe Nina miscarried her baby? "I was told..." isn't proof, and it's not as Ron doesn't like to pile on the angst. And it gives Nina another reason to go nuts, since we all know what happens with wimmins and babiez. Loved Sam's "[Nina's] talking, a LOT." Hee. The dramatic music stings this show uses are hysterical. They overdo those as much as they do the wacky-high-jinks and sad-time music. "If Morgan knew what you did, he wouldn't want to have anything to do with you." Sonny, Morgan doesn't want much to do with you these days, and I doubt he would throw you a party if he knew you killed AJ. So, you know, STFU. I was really hoping Jordan would show a little more skepticism about Ric being the Big Bad.

If only it didn't come whisper-shout, barware-throwing Sonny. I've had more than enough of that.

Sonny had a lot of head-scratchers like that; remember "I haven't heard from Morgan since the last time we talked"?

What cracks me up about the situation is that Sonny clearly expects Olivia to be okay with a pregnant Ava living with him. "Look, Olivia, I don't even know if it's my kid! So why can't we keep seeing each other?" Hee. One thing I'll give Ron: He's writing Sonny as the absolute jackass we all know he's been for years. Same here. The only male friends we've seen are Mac and Kevin, and they're on so rarely. (Together or separately.)

An ad that bugs me is the one for insurance or an annuity or whatever and it's sad dad saying he knows the name of ten princesses, has tea parties with, and braids the hair of his two daughters because he's raising them alone. Implying that if his wife were still there, she'd be doing all that stuff—he wouldn't have to. Dude, my brother does all that (maybe not the hair) with his girls because he's an involved father, not because there's no other parent to do it. Ugh. So much hate.

It was so odd. Cruise always tries so hard to be likable. In some ways I feel a little sorry for him. His life is so beyond normal. The Red Chair stories were good.

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?