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Oh, thank God. I'd thought I was more lost than usual.

To be clear, I was just speculating, assuming Felicia is in danger at all. The only way I could accept it would be if KW wanted it, but I have no info on that, and I'm hoping it's not the case.

As will I. I'm a bit worried about Felicia, too. I mean, if the actress wants to retire just months after the actor playing her on screen husband returns from a life-threatening illness....well, okay. Real life happens. But GH life? Mac has a brand new son and a brand new niece, and his brother is off gallivanting, and stepdaughter Maxie just reconnected with her previously comatose best friend. Do we really have to give them a tragedy to deal with? Maybe put her in danger and let Mac and Anna save her, so Anna can get out of her own guilt-ridden head.

I knew JE would bring it to the reunion scene, and she exceeded my expectations. Just lovely notes from both characters and actresses throughout. Looking forward to more. Glad Dante spoke a hard truth to Lulu, and I like the relationship the two are establishing between them. Would love to see independent Dante/Rocco and Lulu/Rocco conversations. Also glad Lucky was there for Liz, and that Portia is being more supportive than accusatory, just doing what's required administratively. Good that someone remembered that Mac should have been called, even if that someone was Felicia. Knew Anna would take another useless guilt trip. EM did well with her deathbed scenes, not too dramatic, but clearly emotional. It struck me, in the middle of them, that there's not a lot of difference in animation between boyfriend Dex and corpse Dex, which is probably a big reason why Dex is gone. It will be interesting to see what this does to Joss' relationship with Trina. Can't get interested in the whole Willow/Drew/Michael/Nina/Carly/Sasha thing, except for how it gives Tracy and Ned something to do. PS I had to laugh when Lucky said there would be hundreds of people on the internal GH videos. We've only seen about six actually working there.

Thanks, @absnow54 and @DanaK. I have trouble keeping all of the relationships straight. Sometimes I try to work it through, and miss five lines of dialogue.

Very soapy scene at the Q mansion, but Michael and Willow are so bland that the fireworks had to come from Carly. Will she tell Sonny directly, or call her hero, Jason, and have him spill the beans? I enjoyed Tracy and Ned and their initial reactions. I guess Gio has caught on to Uncle Sonny's real nature. Will Drew resign his congressional position in shame, or will he fit right in when he gets to DC? Don't know what to make of Sasha. Doesn't seem like she's thought this whole thing through. I read that TA helped cast Kai, and for the life of me, I can't figure out why. He doesn't seem to have a personality. I enjoyed the conversation between Lulu and Dante. Glad they got to talk just a little bit about Sam and what he's going through. Poor, bland Dex. Now Anna will feel guilt over his death because she actively recruited him into the PCPD. And then there's Ava and Ric, and their locked accounts. It was actually kind of fun, got diluted by competing with the other scenes. But I don't understand why Ava and Lucas have a connection. What am I missing?

Snoozer holiday party, snoozer episode. Once upon a time, there would have been as many people at a Q holiday party as there are at PC weddings and funerals. The tree in the Q's foyer was nice. So was Ava's blouse, although one might have to be MW to pull it off. I guess Liz taking on that extra shift will put her in the spotlight when the presumed attempted (or successful) poisoning of Dex comes about. Was Felicia present both times, too? I don't see how Michael won't know that Sasha's baby is also his. I guess she could try to make him think she's had more than one ONS, but I can't see him buying it. Can't remember----did she tell him about Cody?

This show would be so much more interesting if the MetroCourt was being sued over the window. Think of all of the players----Carly and Olivia, of course, and by extension, Ned, and they would go after Nina for having owned it for a minute. Maybe the Quartermaine wealth would be threatened in a lawsuit as well, which would bring in the rest of the family. And Sonny, torn between Carly and the cost to that part of his family, and Krissy, who would be pressing the lawsuit. And Ava, cackling over all of them. Not to mention all of the eyewitnesses. They really should do this.

Glad to finally get a Maxie reunion, which was a little more subdued than I'd expected. But I realize that the reunion was really for Maxie. For Lulu, they last saw each other a few days ago. Glad for a Tracy sighting for tomorrow, and hope that means we'll get another reunion. I truly hope Finola gets paid extra money every time she is made to recite such ridiculous dialogue in such ridiculous circumstances. At least Steve gets to just stand there and glower. Somebody on the writing staff must really hate Anna.

I know we're thinking it was Cyrus who stabbed Dex, but that was a pretty ineffective stab wound. If he wanted to kill Dex, he had time to make another thrust or two. If it was only to send a message, wouldn't it have helped for Dex to know who did it, and why? I'm not so sure it was Cyrus. But now I'm worried about Felicia. And I'm as impatient as Maxie is for her to see Lulu. Thinking people will assume Sasha's baby is Cody's, and wondering whether he might step up to claim it if Michael makes some sort of threat against Sasha. On the plus side, it might be a way for Sasha and Cody to stay together and still have a family. Poor Trina. She went from the storyline of "my boyfriend died while raising his ex-girlfriend's baby, the grandchild of two serial killers, which baby she had with my boyfriend's father" to a storyline about a class project. And wet noodle Kai.

This actually makes quite a bit of crazy Cyrus sense. But then we're left with him trying to abscond with Lulu to South Carolina, which would have put greater distance between the two. I am suspicious that Cyrus had something to do with the length of Lulu's coma, and her sudden awakening, but can't tie it to Sam. Does anyone else think that Kai failed the experiment, and will be relegated back to the football field? Or am I just projecting?

Someone please take a scissor to Lucky's hair. Or at least a comb. Loved everything else about his scenes with Elizabeth, and they brought back memories of when they were young. Their love began as friendship in round one, and it looks like we'll be getting that again. I'm in. Still no more reunions with Lulu, and now I'm wondering if we'll get them. I don't care if she wants to go and yell at Nina. I want to see her embrace her best friend, and her stepmother. Then she can go and yell at whomever she likes.

That was my question as well.

Just a word on the grieving thing. Molly needed to grieve largely in silence, and alone, although she did talk it out a bit with Dex (and was there someone else?) TJ needed to grieve it openly, with her. Two inherently different methods, which resulted in Molly being able to do what she needed, while TJ was left unable to do what he needed. One fares a little better, but they both lose, because their child has died. Probably not an uncommon situation between a couple, and maybe one of the contributors to so many marriages being lost to the death of a child. GRRR that we still haven't seen Lulu's reunions with Maxie and Tracy, and they didn't make it to the previews, either.

Mad at the show for making us wait on the Maxie/Lulu and Tracy/Lulu reunions. I don't know why Molly and TJ aren't considering couples counseling, nor why none of the older adults in their lives have asked about it. Krissy still doesn't acknowledge the issues raised in her planning to renege on the surrogacy. It sounds like they are not even on her radar, and I think it will probably have to be Alexis who confronts her on that. Dante's state of confusion was obvious in his holding Sonny up as a model for creating a blended family, this conversation coming just after Sonny has encouraged his daughter in her desire for vengeance. Dante's concern for Scout and Danny in the face of Rocco's being reunited with Lulu tells me that he is the only one who should actually be raising them. I doubt Jason and Drew will see it that way, because they do not have their eyes on the right prize. I think it's appropriate to bring Charlotte back to see Lulu. But I would be very content never to see Valentin again.

This isn't really a GH star in another role, and I may well be the last person to learn this, but----I randomly thought of a TV series I used to watch a few decades ago, Road to Avonlea. It took place in the Anne of Green Gables universe, and one of the leads was a young woman named Felicity. Google tells me she was played by Gema Zamprogna, sister of Dominic.

Re: Anna. I primarily blame the writers for having so completely isolated the character from everyone and everything. Her friendships with Felicia and Mac are rarely on screen; her romance with Valentin, whose portrayer is gone for long swaths of time, is just depressing; they sent her most longstanding relationship out on an off-screen adventure with Holly; Robin and her family are off screen as well. Who and what does she go home to at night? When does she have occasion to smile? I thought her becoming the police commissioner might give her something to do, especially when all of Port Charles suddenly realized that Sonny is a career criminal. But that's washed up as well. I would love for Valentin to disappear permanently, wouldn't mind if they brought back Finn and Violet, or brought in someone new for Anna. Give her some female friends, or at least show her with Felicia and Maxie, and maybe Laura. Bring Emma to town. And maybe bring a new mystery to town for Anna to solve. Something. Finola is a good actress, she's beautiful, and she is currently completely wasted on this show.

I think there's got to be more to play out here. We don't know why Cyrus wanted to take Lulu to South Carolina. And I suspect we're going to find out that he had something to do with her coma lasting as long as it did, and then suddenly reversing.

Like everyone else, I'm really enjoying AH's Lulu. I'm still underwhelmed with the underwhelming response to someone who has essentially awakened from the dead, but I guess, on the scale of things that happen in Port Charles, maybe it's not that unusual. Laura, Rocco and Maxie have brought it for me, though. I'm looking forward to seeing the Lulu/Maxie reunion, and to Tracy's reaction and response. As Lulu is brought up to date on things, I realize how brutal the writers have been to this one family. And she hasn't heard about Bobbie yet. I still want to love Anna, but both she and Jason need a good shot upside the head. At least it looks like Jason plans to try to lure Valentin rather than go after him, else Danny (and everyone else) would have to wonder if he actually meant it when he said he would always be there for his son. Molly and Alexis were good together. Sometimes you just need to be sad, and Alexis seems to get that Molly needs that right now. Maybe they both do. I have come to really like Dante, which means that the show will probably ruin his character by retro-conning the BrookLynn/Gio thing. So unnecessary, and yet another instance of creating a blood relationship where none existed or needed to exist, resulting in everyone having to check the family tree before agreeing to go on a date with anyone else. Stop, already.

I don't know what to make of the Lulu/Dante scenes. They seemed bizarrely subdued to me. I get that she hasn't really experienced the passage of time, but Dante has, and he spent the last portion of it, right up until the transplant, at Lulu's bedside, praying for her life. He had too little surprise, recovered far too quickly, made no attempt at physical contact, and was pretty easily swayed from getting her medical attention as he settled into conversation. Just oddly written, to my mind. Even Lucky wasn't particularly energized about it when he told Laura. She at least had the expected reaction (until she had to go into the office "to do something"). For me, the only believable reaction so far has been Rocco's. And maybe Lulu's, if I pretend she hasn't just come out of a coma. TJ and Molly were the most animated I can recall ever seeing them, ironically as they seem to be moving toward a breakup. Molly needs therapy. She's stifled so much of her emotional reaction to the loss of the baby, and today she's only emotional about not wanting to express/explore her emotions. I don't remember the Alexis/Ric relationship, but saw today why it was probably a thing of beauty. Even when arguing, the actors infuse these characters with intensity. Carly as the voice of reason was nice to see. I don't think anyone else could have said those things to Drew and Jason, and gotten through to them. Poor Danny. I'm intrigued to see what plays out for the kids.

I don't know what to think about this. Part of me wonders if it might not be interesting to see them all in relationships we haven't seen before. But most of me assumes that Lucky/Liz and Lulu/Dante are end game. I think I would get impatient with the interval relationship, and mostly I think I would be sadly disappointed if the writers didn't get around to the end game before the involved actors' contracts ran out. Because I absolutely think that could happen.

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think the majority of grandparents enjoy sneaking their grandchildren a treat or thirty. It's their little secret---until the kids go home and spill the beans. What is unrealistic about the GH scenario is the idea that Dante would be limiting the snacks of the son who is probably taller than he is by now.

I truly thought it would be Tracy who found Lulu at the Q mansion, and was looking forward to that reunion. But I guess it makes sense for it to be Rocco, because his having hit puberty will make Lulu more aware that she's been gone for a long time. Liz and Lucky being thrust into the Lulu situation is smart; it keeps them in each other's orbit, but without the pressure of continuously focusing on his future and his relationship with Aidan, and with her. The preview scene with Laura made me think she hadn't yet reunited with Lulu, which in turn made me wonder if Lulu was planning on checking things out before letting her presence be known beyond Rocco. But then we see Lulu greeting someone else, so who knows? I was impressed with Ric throughout the trial, and Ava made a very sympathetic figure at the end. I was just waiting for either RIc or the DA to call the FBI agent who owned the duffel bag as a witness. Can't help but wonder if the fact that they have now reacknowledged Jagger's existence means we'll get a resolution to that story.

I was ready to throw something at the TV when Liz and Lucky started to rehash the "will he leave" conversation for the umpteenth time. Glad it quickly morphed into worrying about Liz. Not a Ric fan, but I did think his interrogation of Kristina was excellently done. Having not bonded with the previous version of Kristina (wasn't watching), I am impressed with KM's. Can't help but wonder if Sasha will give her baby for adoption and have it end up either with Molly and TJ as a hidden Quartermaine, or with Brook and Chase. I'm liking this version of Lulu so far. Anticipating her realizing the status of her family, and reconnecting with both Dante and Laura/Lucky has me looking forward to the show for the first time in a long time. And I think Laura being "busy with city business" is their version of "oops, we forgot to write her into those Turning Point scenes!"

She's still at Turning Woods, but Cyrus claims Laura is in agreement to move her to that better facility in South Carolina. He was supposed to be off getting Laura's signature, and I can't help but wonder if he's done something to Laura. And Lucky, who is also missing in Lulu action.