JMO

Enjoy! For me, it's the oldies: Going My Way, Miracle on 34th Street, Meet Me in St. Louis, It's a Wonderful Life. Although I may or may not watch them year round.

I guess this is the right place for this. Just wanted to wish everyone a happy holiday, no matter which you celebrate, and a happy new year! You've all made it more fun to watch GH (even when the writers haven't).

And there was Neil, but they killed him, too. Maybe Kevin ought to be looking over his shoulder.

Amen to that, but I think Laura said he was home cooking the feast. And watching Ace, of course.

To my eye, Brooklyn doesn't look like she even remembers she had a baby at all. Despite the spoilers, could it be that Gio belongs to Lois?

Leo and Olivia were ice skating. The Gio/Emma scenes would have played differently if they hadn't been with a re-casted Emma. I'd only seen news of the recast a few minutes before, so I figured out who the girl was, but I would otherwise not have known. Had I seen Brooklyn Rae Silzer pilfering a wallet, I would have assumed there was a good reason. Which there semi-was. Emma wasn't conning anyone; she was righting a wrong--the wrong way. I am glad to have Emma back in town, for Anna's sake. I agree that the actors seemed to enjoy the scenes of Alexis and Rick decorating together, and they made it look like the characters might have enjoyed it just a little bit, too. It's interesting that they're choosing to soften Jason a touch. I guess they have to, if they want to believably pair him with someone, but also because they have nowhere else to go with him. Wish they'd done it many years ago. Poor Laura. So close to having both of her kids home for Christmas, and *poof*! Overall, it was nice, a little Christmas gift, to have so many of my favorite characters on screen all on the same day.

Was Liz offered an administrative leave with pay versus doing administrative work in house? I'd assumed that she'd chosen the in house job because she couldn't afford to go without a paycheck for an indefinite length of time.

It's so ironic that they've kind of rebuilt the Quartermaines by centering so much of the character interaction in the Q mansion, and on the Q grounds, and filling the house with a variety of Q-related and non-Q-related kids--and now we may be facing the loss of 2 key Q business magnates, if Drew is to be done in and Michael sent to limbo. That would leave only Tracy and Ned as key ELQ business actors, and weaken the Q presence on the canvas, unless they've got some impressively major storyline "queued" up. Which, of course, is highly doubtful.

MW looked beautiful today. I wish Ava wasn't so murderous, because I completely enjoy everything else about the character. I'm guessing Anna has Robin and/or Emma up her sleeve. I don't think she would be as happy at the prospect of spending Christmas with Robert and Holly. Only Nina's apartment and the Quartermaine foyer are impressively decorated. Maxie's tree was woefully too small for that big space. Willow, Michael and Drew are each good at casting the others as villains while totally exonerating their own behavior. All three deserve each other. Getting ready to throw Curtis into that mix, too. This is the second stock related crime for Aurora. I can't imagine the feds aren't monitoring them, and I hope they will ultimately cause the company to be dissolved. Glad Cody decided to go to Maxie's after all. He has more chemistry with Lulu anyway. Sasha is carrying a noticeable baby bump, and I'm a little surprised she's not trying to hide it at this point. Also surprised that she seems to have almost completely disassociated the pregnancy from her ONS with Michael. Maybe she was going to tell him, maybe not. But even if so, it came across as an afterthought.

We don't even know yet if it was digitalis that killed Dex. It would make things more interesting (to me) if whoever stabbed Dex had put some kind of late-acting poison on the knife.

Especially given the weakness of the rest of the episode, I could have done with much longer scenes between Joss and Cam, and I wish Trina had also been able to reconnect. Will have to settle for those crumbs. I could be remotely intrigued with a Jason/Sasha friendship based on the converse directions of their lives: he, the good boy gone hitman, she the con artist turned legit cook. When SB plays Jason with a little bit of vulnerability, he has chemistry with a number of people, and today I saw some with Sasha. When he plays the iron man, no one penetrates. When she was with Gregory, Tracy was capable of delivering some considered philosophy on life, and death, and she displayed true empathy. I call foul on the writers who have decided now to write her as blind to the suffering going on in her own household. Shame on them. Unbelievable that Michael didn't shrivel away from Chase's calling him a good man, since Michael knows exactly what he did to cheat on Willow. That would have been a good moment for a flashback. Nina is meddlingly nervy to essentially push Willow and Michael into a separation that neither of them have said they wanted. Have they even spoken alone since the video? To my eye, Isaiah has chemistry with several people, but not with Jordan. Jordan has chemistry with no one, save for an occasional spark with Drew. I would like Jordan and Drew to ride off into the sunset together.

I enjoyed today. The outreach services on the waterfront reminded me of old school GH, it was lovely watching pot and kettle calling each other out over how much Carly should be involved in Michael's business and whether Jason should have ratted on Drew and Willow. I thought EM and TA were pitch perfect in their scenes, hitting just the right tone, and even the dialogue was well written. Well done. For me, the most outstanding aspect of the Nina/Ava/Martin scenes was MW's masterful use of the semi-humorous undertone. She's always good at that. I don't know if what Michael's doing with Aurora is technically insider trading or fraud or some other brand of illegal use of communications, but I'm pretty sure it's one of those. Guess it runs in the family. My favorite, of course, was watching Liz and Lucky celebrate an impromptu Christmas with her boys. I fear it may be the most heartwarming Christmas scene we get on GH this year. Cameron and Lucky singing together reminded me of the Jones boys, although the Frisco and Tony knew how to harmonize. Hope we get more than the one day of Cameron. He doesn't really owe anything to Joss, but he's a good enough guy to express his sympathy to her, and I would expect that he'd want to check in on Trina. Love that he's found himself a cellist who actually seems like a normal person.

This is the kind of thing that made me ask in the first place. I have trouble telling who is supposed to be in which generation. And then, of course, in a few years they might actually be in another generation.

Not sure. Don't have a good sense of how long they've been out of school. TJ would have been about 26 by the time he started as a resident, Molly about 25 by the time she graduated law school. But it's soap time, so who knows?

Everybody who is not yet a teenager is a preteen, for the purposes of my classification.