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So since Eric's actual diagnosis has us and the so-called professionals on the show stumped, any guesses as to Luna's family? She's mentioned a free-spirited mom who had her young and an aunt and grandfather who are decidedly not.

I hope they aren't killing off Eric. Even if JMc is looking to retire. If Sally 1.0 can still be around offscreen with her cabana boys (not that she's been mentioned in ages), so can Eric.

So am I. The heart wants what it wants.

Nick? Nick Newman? They don't call him Nick-Duh-Lus for nothing. Okay, maybe that's just me.

Of late, it’s Nick saying “Picture Adam.” Sally: “I already am.”

...never to be seen or heard from again. 🙏

Jill speaking out about what happened to her with respect to the sexual abuse alone is a tremendous change and may very well give other survivors the courage to voice what happened to them. That is no small thing.

Nodding along to all of this. I haven't read the book - yet - but from the snippets, I have seen the following: Jill calls her abuser a "monster." I repeat, she called him a "monster," which is exactly what he was and is. She calls out her abuser's chief enabler Jim-Boob (although Mechelle is just as complicit) as treating her worse than her "pedophile brother." Calling him by his name. Also sharing how her parents' support for her abuser, especially when it came to guarding his privacy and against public humiliation (unlike her and Jessa on the dog & pony Megyn Kelly event) made her "sick to her core." She calls out Jim-Boob for being "verbally abusive," which he absolutely is as well as emotionally abusive. She also called out his physically intimidating her by showing "aggression." Her revealing her humiliation and pain when Jim-Boob's response to her wearing pants was to give her a book on modesty and how all her life, she had tried to show respect to him but questioning when he was going to show the same to her. Her confirmation that she was using birth control after the near-catastrophic delivery with Samuel and sharing that amidst the devastation that she might never have another child, she was "relieved" and "appreciated the excuse not to have to go through a zillion pregnancies and deliveries." Anyone who has gone through the trauma of abuse knows that speaking aloud the abuse is incredibly difficult. The feelings of shame and that it was somehow your fault. The not wanting to be seen as someone's victim. It's the fear of not being believed. It's the fear of getting your abuser into trouble. It's the fear of them having zero repercussions. It's why so many survivors never tell anyone. It's why I kept silent for more than 20 years. You add in Jill's upbringing where she was taught to be the background to her pedophile abuser's foreground as the "annointed one," where she wasn't believed because "that didn't happen, Jill," which allowed the abuse to continue, to "well, it was nothing really," to rugsweeping and forgiving him because she is a Christian, and you need to tell the world that it was nothing really, and her speaking out, calling out the abuse and her abuser, and his enablers, is HUGE. She has shown tremendous growth in the past several years and if her voicing the truth of what happened to her as a child and more recently, which cannot be overstated, were the limit of her actions? That's leaps and bounds from where she started. Izzy and Sam have attended public school and it appears they are back in public school. Who she is now is not the red-pinafore wearing people pleaser nor the tearful young woman citing chapter and verse of the company line on MK's show (and don't even get me started on knowing now that her abuser was right there on the set with her). Which is not to say she and her husband don't have problematic beliefs but for Jill, especially, for me to expect her to shed 3 + decades of indoctrination overnight is a fool's errand. It's not realistic whatsoever. But who knows what the next 3 decades will bring for her? As a fellow CSAB survivor, I applaud her for the actions she has taken to call her abuse and abuser by their names and also call out those who enabled him. That takes a shitload of courage when everything inside of you is screaming to keep that deep, dark secret and take it to the grave.

RIP Duckie. 🥲

I would love to see any of those scenes but also the iconic episode where Victoria pulled Billy from the gutter on a snowy New Year's Eve and their amazing storyline first began.

I never stopped wishing and hoping he would return as AFAIC, he is the OneTrueBilly in my heart. He brought such an energy and light to the show with that almost-ever-present twinkle in his eye. The chemistry he had with everyone, including Amelia (who had never had chemistry like that before and hasn't since). Pretty sure they are really laughing in this scene, where he recreated the tiki bar from their getaway in their living room. And who could resist that smirk? But he could also bring it in the serious moments like Delia's death. I am just at a loss and completely gutted by this. 💔

As for me, Thope is my sole reason to watch. To be specific, Thope sexy times. Because Annika and Matthew continue to bring it and I have to love a woman who takes what she wants and makes no apologies for it. I also had to smile at the moment where he almost takes things too far for the censors with her dress strap and she pushes her strap back up like "don't show my boob, Matt!", and still makes it sexy.

As creepy as that scene was, nothing will ever top the scene where Stephanie stood outside Ridge's bedroom door, when he was having sex with then-wife Taylor, listening in and smiling at what she heard, like "that's my boy." Of course, this is the same son she professed to love "more than any man."

After seeming to start off with so much promise, even with the eyeroll of Cirie being part of the cast (and this said as a huge fan of Cirie), I'm seriously contemplating not watching the rest of this. Jared has officially worked my last nerve and I wish the house had flipped to vote out Blue and kept Matt's power for another day. Cirie had no business telling him about the invincibility power being used but I get it a little bit as he's her son. You think she could trust him to keep his trap shut but he had to take that news and try to turn it into him having any influence in Jag going. That whole scene with Jag where he came after Jag for sharing a secret Jared himself had no business sharing and for which Jag was right to be skeptical of was really ugly and completely unnecessary. He is a huge liability and Cirie cannot control him, which in fairness, he's an adult, but he is so awful at this game and she has come down several notches in my mastermind book for refusing to see he is her Achilles heel. As for the Red/Cameron dust-up, while I have very few fucks to give about either of them, unless they can cause havoc for Jared...Red, quit with the backstabbing accusations. What, did you expect Cameron to tell Jared, no, don't put up my BFF, Red, put ME up instead? But classic BB where folks expect others to care more about others' lives in the game than their own.

Harriet reuniting with lost love Russell is the only part I like from the Rev gets hitched episode. Seeing Harriet so flustered and tender with him and KM was so good in that moment where, leaving church with her family, she locks eyes with Russell. But I couldn't be invested in Rev getting married when I knew good and well the new Mrs. Alden was destined to be tertiary. And, except for a mention in the women's rights episode, she was. I hate pretty much everything about this two-parter. Pa ignoring Laura because he has A SON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Laura refusing to pray for ailing Baby Freddie. Baby Freddie's death and Caroline choosing to wait outside during her baby's last moments. Laura wanting to die so Freddie can come back to life. Yet another creepy, old man, even if it was Ernest Borgnine, taking care of Half-Pint. The cross that just happens to float down to where Pa and Edwards are watering their horses. Yet when Pa and Laura reunite with Pa shedding the manliest of tears still gets me every time.

I'm shocked Lucky Charms didn't make an appearance.

Because Deacon was married to Quinn previously? And Carter never had the privilege of marrying her or anyone, despite I've lost count how many trips down the aisle? But really? No freaking clue.

I found them cute, too, @RuntheTable. Steffy just lights up around him and it's beyond obvious she is head over heels in love with her husband and wants nothing more than for Liam to leave her the fuck alone. Deacon, Deacon, Deacon...I just cannot with him. Is he really willing to risk everything, including his relationships with his daughter and granddaughter, for Sheila? Even typing that makes me angry. I mean, he is the one that found Steffy and Finn in their own blood in the alley behind the restaurant he worked to own. I know Sheila tricked him into their first encounter (even as I'm rolling my eyes that he fell for her disguise in the first place) but once he KNEW it was her? He should have turned her ass in and been done with her. I don't care how amazing she is in bed and outside of that, what else does this murderess have to offer? I'd like to see a situation where Sheila goes after Steffy again and perhaps tries to kidnap Hayes in the process and Deacon is the one to rescue them and his eyes are finally opened and Sheila is finally carted off to prison. Steffy and Finn leave town with the kids to decompress and perhaps Deacon can reconnect with Taylor? Elsewhere, I am supremely salty that TPTB left us hanging after the Thope hotness the previous day.

Mark this down, folks. Someone actually locked a freaking door! And made it look sexy as hell. I actually appreciated the honest conversation they shared, putting all their cards on the table. Hope, in response to his continued declarations of love: "This is all so much." Thomas: "I know you have conflicted feelings and Liam got in your head about what I did in the past. But I'm reformed...and you know that." Is he? Can he be? He looks and sounds so sincere but who can say? He adds: "Let me love you like no one else can." Hope: "I know my marriage is over and I hear what you're saying, loud and clear..." At his hopeful look, she lowers the boom: "But I'm not in love with you., Thomas" She searches his eyes and notes the tiny bit of disappointment there. "I don't want to take advantage of your feelings for me." Full disclosure with no hint of her leading him on. Thomas hides his being crushed better than I anticipated, nodding as he says: "Yeah, look, I understand. We've moved...pretty fast. But I really think I can make you happy." Happy can have many meanings. Hope raises an eyebrow, teasing him as she says, "Oh yeah?" See what I meant about "happy?" He nods as he says, "Yeah." And it's cute and what is even happening here? Hope: 'Well, I'm not going to pretend you haven't woken something up inside of me." And how... Thomas: "And you've woken up something inside of me, too." They share grins. Thomas: "Look, I want to give you what you need. So, maybe we could go to dinner?" Oh, the look she gives him as she moves closer, huskily whispering "I mean that's not exactly what I'm craving right now." She leans in, her eyes almost closing as she almost kisses him, but then pulls back, letting her hand linger on his for a moment before moving to lock the door and the va-voom in her walk and the look in her eyes when she turns back to face him, biting her lip without actually biting her lip in anticipation of what's about to go down is why I am watching all of this. That she is taking control in a way we've rarely, if ever, seen from her is beautiful to watch. Hope moves over to him, saying: "Thomas, I just need to say one thing. Liam let me down and I'm hurting." She gives him a long look, "And I am going to need some time, buuuut..." She brings her hands to his chest, looking down, envisioning that chest, that body, free from clothing, I'm sure (I know I am!) "... thaaaat doesn't mean...I don't want you." His eyes seeking hers and finding understanding. He smiles and leans in to kiss her but she's very "not yet," holding her lips just out of reach and that is hot as hell. There's a challenge in her eyes as she asks, "Is that...something you can handle?" Is that a rhetorical question, Hope? The "HELL YEAH" is written all over his face as he tells her, unnecessarily, "Yeah...I think I can handle it. Sometimes, we get too caught up in the past or the future. Let's just live in the moment." That little moment where she pulls him to her by his necklace...🔥🔥🔥- I'm amazed my TV didn't burst into flames. And then the devouring and consuming begins in earnest and I should hate this but lord help me, I don't. Maybe it's the undeniable chemistry. But I might just be shipping them and choosing to shelve the past. And not just because of Liam. It's bigger than that. It's the angst and the push and the pull, the saint and the sinner...the Beauty and the Beast of it all. Who am I even?

VWS, @RuntheTable. I am loving this edgier Hope as well. Still wearing her heart on her sleeve but not apologizing for getting what she wants and needs out of life. Including a new 'do and style befitting of her awakening. While I wish that awakening had been at the hands of anyone else, I cannot deny that MA and AN have chemistry for days. More on that in a moment. It also doesn't hurt that he's confronting Liam on her behalf and dropping truth bombs left and right. Thomas, to Liam: "You have messed up...MULTIPLE times. You stepped out on HER. You had a PREGANCY SCARE with another woman. Oh, that's right! That was MY SISTER. Hope messes up ONCE. She kisses ONE guy and what? You're done?" Liam's saying Thomas was his ONE hill to die on is weaksauce as Hope forgave him countless times, most recently for said pregnancy scare, for what should have been her hill - Steffy. Her giving him grace so many times when he has given her none and him cheating with Steffy yet again mere minutes after seeing the Thope kiss, which she still does not know about or the other kiss once they were back in LA, is Exhibit A of why these two need to be done, once and for all. Liam doesn't deserve her. Never has, never will. He has always held her up on some pedestal that she didn't ask to be put on, expecting her to forgive and forgive while he does whatever the fuck his wounded little ego tells him to do. While he himself forgave Steffy for just as bad, if not worse, when she had an affair with Bill, his own father, and a paternity test behind his back. Thomas being the hill when he forgave Flo, who did far worse than Thomas, by posing as Beth's birth mother and helping falsify the adoption that sealed the deal that resulted in a dead baby being placed in Hope's arms and her child being placed in Steffy's. Beth's kidnapping, all of those stolen months, would never have happened but for Flo's involvement. Yet Liam is apparently fine with all of that. Which is not to say Thomas' actions weren't despicable but Liam forgiving Flo but not Thomas doesn't make sense. If he had refused to forgive them both? That would only make sense. Forgiving both and showing grace in the wake of reuniting with Beth would have been all kinds of "wow" for me but to split the difference? And likely because Thomas has a penis and heart eyes for Hope...just no. I also think it's rocking Liam's world that Hope no longer wants to be the perfect little good girl anymore, the antithesis to her "slut from the valley" mother. She's tired of that box with it's good girl behavior and often frumpy clothes. She can be sexy and embrace her sexuality and she is doing exactly that for perhaps the first time in her life. Which has Liam freaked as he's never brought out that side of her. Wyatt did and now Thomas is but what he doesn't get is it's less to do with the man in her life and more about how she is taking control. She's finally emancipated and feeling her freedom and it's amazing to watch. Elsewhere, Steffy's facial expressions had me rolling. It is beyond clear that she doesn't want Lame's ass back. At all. Especially not when she has his number and then some and her own fine-as-hell husband. Brooke? Shut the fuck up and take all the seats. As for Thope, as I said, I wish that it wasn't Thomas, that we'd see Hope alone for a while before starting to cross paths with Wyatt again and they finish what they started when she left town after the painful loss of their child. But for now, it is Thope and their chemistry cannot be denied, so I'm going to pretend Thomas is the guy who let her get away in Milan, come to the states to claim her. Because they are just so damn hot. I mean, just look at her face, and how she hasn't ripped his clothes off by now, I will never know.

I agree, @Black Knight. Budget is a huge factor and a limited canvas because of it being only 30 minutes. Plus, I think they like to recycle storylines thus the constant fixation on both ToDs because it's just easier - the lines write themselves.

A fashion showdown between Eric and Ridge would be a welcome change from the lather-rinse-repeat of the last several weeks. With Jacquie's maternity leave in the very near future, I see Steffy and Finn taking the kids overseas for a while to reconnect and come up with a gameplan for Sheila, who, apparently, hasn't come up for air since visiting Deacon. Which, can't blame her there but I am always going to SMH about Deacon choosing to pair up with her. Elsewhere, I'd like Hope to give Brooke another huge piece of her mind over browbeating her into taking Liam back only for him to reveal he does not and never had any real intentions of reconciling. If Brooke thinks he's such a damn catch, let her be with him.

The more I think about it, the more I think Liam pulled this nostalgia shit to twist the knife even further. File those papers, Hope, so this ass knows he is DONE punishing you. She owes him nothing at this point. Less than that as he’s done nothing but lie and cheat their entire relationship.

I was very careful not to get swept up in the Lope history and the TPTB tugging on my heartstrings with the flashbacks to Liam holding Beth for the first time as father and daughter and Hope doing the same. This asshole doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself. He got Hope asking him for another chance, seizing on her being emotional and vulnerable during and after Beth's birthday party (don't get me started on the fact that she was born in January of 2019, not even close to August, and should be all of 4 years old). It also didn't help that Brooke was in her ear, aiding and abetting the weasly waffle that is her former son-in-law. For him to pulls this shit with Hope, after everything he has done, after the fact that he has done far worse as they were very married when he fucked Steffy on Mannequin night and he told Hope it was over BEFORE she fucked Thomas, someone, anyone needs to put him in a dumpster. Her pouring her heart out to him and admittng she messed up and knows she cannot take it back. Meanwhile, he still hasn't come clean about him kissing Steffy - twice - once within five minutes of seeing her and Thomas kiss. Him snotting, “No, I suppose you can’t. I love you and I loved our life together, but I’m supposed to be honest with myself right now, right? I’m not going to be able to do it. I’m not going to be able to forget and I’m not going to be able to forgive… not you and Thomas." He was willing to forgive Steffy for fucking his father and raising the specter of Kelly being Bill's (show owes us this happening) and yet he can't forgive Hope for a kiss??? He also seemed to forgive Flo, who also helped keep him and Hope from their daughter, took money for doing so, and lied about it for the better part of a year. This is not to say he should forgive Thomas but WTAF to his hypocrisy. I sincerely hope Finn reconciles and Hope's eyes are opened - wide - that she was right to put some of the blame for her involvement with Thomas as Liam's feet. I hope she takes her time before getting involved with another man (I'm still hoping for a Hott reunion) and let Liam be alone, which is what this manipulative, gaslighting motherfucker deserves.

Carlos should have closed out the match in 2 sets. I also think Joker was not struggling with the heat as much as he appeared. Agree that Carlos needs to get revenge at the Open - he'll be looking to defend his title and his ranking.