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Isaiah was another missed opportunity to bring on Tommy Hardy Jr.

Do you mean Aiden? Having Lucky whisk Aiden away for the summer sounds like a great opportunity for another recast. No offense to the current actor. They’ve made no effort to weave him into the Rocco/Danny teen scene, so I assume we shouldn’t get attached. To me, the way the scene played out, it seemed like Kristina was too self centered to realize she was Gio’s aunt.

What I meant is that they don’t need to share TWO grandchildren to maintain their rivalry, and Wiley has already been crowned the golden child. Amelia is “expendable” as far as soap children go. Kind of like you rarely see Donna and Avery at the same time these days.

I don’t know. Amelia better watch her back. Wiley will forever tie Grandma Carly to Grandma Nina, and Daisy gets the novelty of being a Scorpio/Quartermaine. Amelia may as well joint the ranks of Scout, Donna, Avery, and Maxie’s kids. We’ll see her annually at the nurse’s ball.

She has such great chemistry with Kathleen Gati though and I loved all of Britt’s existing ties to Maxie, Brad, and Jason. But yeah, since they gave her a legitimate and terminal medical condition, it’s difficult to soapify her return in a respectful way.

I think they could have made intermittent Lucky work if they folded him into some international organization (not necessarily WSB.) Then he could pop in and out for storylines for explainable stretches. Elizabeth has enough connections to the canvas that she remains a viable character even without an active love interest. Maybe they’ll pair her off with Jason again since his return has been directionless too (except for being BFFs with Tracy) and whatever they were planning with Sasha never quite clicked.

Sasha must have been reading the boards with her half assed, “I guess I’m kind of a hypocrite for helping Michael steal his kids!” And Jason’s quick, “Oh no, it’s totally fine when you do it!” Girl, Michael is going to take your kid from you too.

Sonny’s reaction to Lois’s lie was hilariously self centered. “Oh, when Gio was born, you didn’t know he was my grandson? What’s the problem, then, if you weren’t lying to me?” Like who cares about Dante and Gio. For some reason, this reveal wasn’t on my radar. I loved Nina’s realization clicking into place.

Probably the gate house, since Willow moved out to live with Drew.

The obvious budget cuts really took me out of the episode. Like both actors were there while you were filming, but no, they can’t pepper in a few reaction shots because then they’d have to be paid! At least Aunt Molly was there!

My favorite part of today’s episode was Jane Elliot forgetting her line and Steve Burton saying it for her. “Ketamine?” “Yeah, that.”

Wow, the recast is significantly younger than Chad Duell. Rory Gibson is almost Michael’s non-SORAS’d age.

I typically love the corniness of the Nurse’s Ball, but all of the numbers dragged, like, a minute too long.

Dante and Sam shared a brother and sister via each of their parents, so this is not that big of a deal to him.

Can he pass those braincells over to Lulu and Cody? Lulu, why are you making this so difficult? You don’t need to prove where a dead woman was 22 years ago. Just get a DNA test. You have an Olympic sized gene pool to swipe a sample from. Have Cody approach Gio, claim he sees a gray hair, and pluck it from him. Done. Moving on.