ZaleaBloom

Right, right, I forgot. This is mildly hilarious because I assume Martin and Smitty's teenagers were adopted late while others are now assuming Martin was adopted late. In my defense, we know for a fact that the twins are adopted and Martin/Brandon actually favors Nicole/Daphne, not that that means anything definitively on a soap opera. It's still early but they really need to clean their timeline continuity up. They're getting full mileage out of the fact that Black people never look their ages right now, lol.

Nicole and Ted can only have a biological son that is 34-35 years old if they are 52-53 and had him at 18. It's not an impossible timeline, it's just tight with no room for error.

I've just realized you're right about that. Eva is definitely younger than Martin and probably younger than Kat by a little in which case Ted has been hiding a secret love child for twenty years. So much for the 'perfect' marriage. Nicole and Dani are about to have a whole lot more in common, except her husband's misdeeds are about to come with much more baggage. Somewhat related note: I have decided that Martin and Smitty married young and adopted their children when they were mid to upper single digits because neither one of them look older than their early thirties and Nicole has to be in her early fifties at best. I still can't figure out old Dani is. Karla is forty three and Naomi is clearly mid to late twenties which is why weirdly enough Dani would have to be at least 46-47 (really going against the habit of actors playing younger versus older but not by much) for the timeline of her and Bill being married thirty years without it being a underage teenage bride/shotgun wedding situation to work.

So Ted has now confirmed that he and Dana/Leslie/Sherry (it's been a week and some change since her intro and this woman already has three aliases, what in the hell, lol) had an affair but what kind of affair is he talking about? The kind that means infidelity affair or a love affair? Leslie claims he left her for Nicole but if it was an actual affair, doesn't that mean he was cheating on Leslie with Nicole? Even Leslie threatening to tell Nicole confused me because if you were in front of her, and not after, then what is the threat here? Cheating on someone and breaking up with them and then getting with someone else is two different things. I would simply put it down to Dana aka Leslie aka Sheila-I mean-Sherry Carter (Show got jokes) being batshit crazy but Ted has already paid off her off once and is now offering to again- why? Now, I'm thinking he does know about Eva. Jacob should not have volunteered to arrest Dani. He could have been entirely uninvolved in that situation. He should know his wife and her family better than that for how they would have felt and responded. I feel little sympathy for him sleeping on the couch, he was so hell-bent on helping fix it that he did the exact opposite. Also yes, plot hole a MILE wild having him and his father work for the DC police when Fairmont Crest and any crimes that happen there are in Maryland. There's still time to change out the signage and words to say/read Fairmont Crest PD, Show, we won't say anything. It's been said more than once but Martin is an asshole and a terrible husband. There's been some discussion of Nicole being naive re: Kat's warnings about Eva but I can't even blame her for swallowing Sherry's traumatic backstory, she was that good of an actress, lol. We're gonna need some fleshing out of Derek and Ashley because I am also sick of hearing about the damn elevator baby. Haley was right, Bill is still caught up in having Dani's attention. The problem with men like Bill is that they always want what they can't have, it's not love, it's ego. Now that he has Haley, you can bet that Dani is going to look enticing to him again. I would enjoy Haley getting her just desserts but I hate that Dani doesn't want better for herself than a man who left her for a woman half her age who was their daughter's best friend, twenty-five year marriage or not. She needs some of those psychiatrist references her sister was handing out earlier. Her "mugshots" had me cackling, though. Also good god, every second of Bill's interactions with Naomi and Chelsea continue to be wildly narcissistic, it was nice of Dani to encourage Chelsea to not feel bad about maintaining a relationship with her father, but he's earned all their disrespect and disgust. I'd say Doug was a complete moron but addiction really does hijack folks' cognitive reasoning abilities. It's only a matter of time before Joey asks/orders him to kill someone on the surgical table.