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Which was during the Tea years... I wasn't watching then... although I did go dig up video of Blair telling Asa to die so she could watch. Wasn't the big hostage thing the primetime episode?

I think you're right. I actually came back to the show after her and Grace. Georgie was after Bo for a bit, wasn't she? And all I know of whichever one it was with Kevin was that she was the love of his life for about five minutes. When I came back to the show, he was with Kelly and five minutes later he was gone. I think he and Kelly interfered with Todd and Blair. It was the Tim Gibbs Kevin, who was hot enough (I remember his one shot on Sex in the City) but he had this really low key manner and I just remember him and Kelly trying to convince Blair not to marry Todd. I was like 'What the hell does Kevin care?' And then the very last scene I remember him being in was on the roof after Todd as 'Officer Starr' had rescued Blair when she was being a bit show offy at Todd and fell off the ledge. Silly Blair. "God, you're heavy!" "Well, why don't you work out?" "Why don't you stop using hand creme?" "It's winter! My hands are dry!" Kevin came up after the excitement was over and Kelly ran interference and then we didn't see a Kevin again until Dan Gauthier.

Ben was part of a much larger problem in that the Rappa-Davidsons were all attached to major characters like parasites in order to Make Them Happen. Will with Jess, Georgie with Kevin, Ben with Viki, Sam with Todd, Sam, Lindsay, Lanie and Colin with Bo/Nora... it was ridiculous. They were an infectious disease that spread to every single part of the canvas. Horrible. Absolutely horrible. I didn't warm up to Ben until the very very end and that's really only because Mark Lawson was on SoapTalk (remember that show on SoapNet?) and he was actually pretty funny especially with the bit where Niki defenestrates Ben. But, again, that's like when he was just about to leave the show. The RappaHorde were what cause my Mom, a lifelong fan, to give up the show completely (the shit with Sam, Bo and Nora did her in) and I came in later only when I discovered that Todd was back and wooing Blair so I wasn't even there from the beginning of their infestation. Ugh. They were awful.

I'm trying like hell to remember when I liked Rex. It's... difficult. Maybe liked is the wrong word... enjoyed, then? I think, possibly, when he and Lindsay were banging. But that was more for the potential rather than the product.

The Germans have a lot of perfect words like that. I've been trying to archive the last of the TWoP OLTL forums... I was able to do most via a script last night but when it shut down I lost a bunch of pages... luckily, the wayback machine as all but the last five or six. I'm at the bit that covers when Todd, John and Starr were on GH before we all got news that PP was coming back. Talk about disheartening... how optimistic was I, insisting that nothing with Todd/Slagbeast would happen (I was getting info from an inside source but that all changed very very quickly as we all know anyway) -- to be honest, I don't mind of those pages were the ones I couldn't save.

I suppose I'd better link it! https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9748078/1/A-Sort-of-Homecoming And, yes, this is 'Dande don't give a shit about what Ron wanted' spilling all over the place.

My favorites are all in the past... Robert Scorpio's apartment: I wasn't even watching at the time but it was cool. I don't know exactly how functional was but as a set I totally dug it. Of course an International Man of Mystery like Robert F'n Scorpio would have an apartment like that. Kevin's Lighthouse: I loved the concept of it being somewhat isolated... even if I couldn't think too hard about what body of water it was sitting on. Still, I liked the idea of Kevin living outside of Port Charles proper, it really seemed to suit him as he was back then. Also, his collection of globes... I would love that for myself if I had the room. Maybe someday.

Will seemed to be bothered at the idea of Lucas getting questioned because it was likely that Lucas was in trouble due to wanting to protect Will but what really seemed to set him off was seeing the texts to EJ from his mole that the Kariakas mansion was being searched due to a warrant. That suggests to me that Will confessed to protect Sonny and I have to assume that he thinks Sonny did it. His insistence that he acted completely alone, no one was in on it with him or any of that, is pretty much a red flag that Things Are Not As They Seem. Hope realizes that... or at least, she really doesn't want it to be Will. I guess she really wanted it to be Lucas for shooting EJ even though Will actually did that. If she only knew!!

The weirdest, most unexpected thing happened to me last night. I was actually interested and investing in Paige/JJ. Guys, I am gobsmacked. I don't understand this at all. I think the turning point was Paige actually recognizing that Bev was fucking with her head. The whole thing actually veered off the predictable as hell route of 'girl tricks other girl into thinking boy is an STD-ridden man-whore!' I was also surprised that JJ said he wasn't a virgin. I haven't been watching all that long but no one who does has told me that JJ is a sexually active young man. (I've seen hopes that Eve would sweep into town and play Dorian Lord to JJ's Joey Buchanan elsewhere, too.) But Paige admitting that her family life isn't all that great, her dad left early her Mom picks guys that aren't good to her was also kind of unexpected. Although I continuously get a kick out of the concept that the Devereaux kids are worldly and well-traveled while still coming off as naive twits 100% of the time. Another weird thing that happened? I actually like Ben/Abby. Aside from her annoying tendency to have to know every single detail about a person right now -- a trait she clearly gets from her mother 'What's going on, Daniel? Tell me what's going on, Daniel! We trust each other, Daniel! Tell me everything immediately!' This may be due to nuBen who I recall enjoying quite a bit on PP/AMC despite the fact that he was in one of the dumbest stories ever. He's also extremely easy to look at. I'm sure Abby is going to get insufferable with him again soon but I was strangely taken by them. I feel dirty. If I start liking Daniel someone needs to send me to an institution because I will clearly have gone insane. Theresa and her 'smooth as glass' monologue was very good... even with dumb but pretty Brady sitting there attempting to look like he gets it and only succeeding at blinking. And, seriously, why is Theresa obsessed with JJ? I don't even get that. Is Eve showing up going to balance this out or make it even more bizarre? Victor's "I'm good at this sort of thing!" was divine. Will, you big, big stupid. O! The sacrifice! I think Hope was pissed because she had Lucas and then Will came in and totally fucked up her game. But even with that, she didn't necessarily have Lucas if the ballistics pointed to a Very Specific Kariakis Gun... which doesn't actually match... because Victor totally did something to it. Or whatever. But none of that matters because Will decided to throw himself on the grenade. So three bullets were missing. Okay. So... clearly Gabi took the gun and shot Nick but Will thinks that Sonny did and Sonny doesn't even know what's going on at this point. Those two crazy kids need to sit down together and actually talk. "Did you shoot Nick?" "No!" "Are you sure?!" "Yes!" "I confessed because I thought I was protecting you!" "So you didn't do it, either?" "NO!" "Well, who else might have gotten the gun that was in our position? We don't hang out with everyone after all..." "We sort of do..." "GABI!!" Mystery solved. This is only lasting for another week, right? Oh Lord, the Sami histrionics when she finds out about this are going to be unbearable. Almost as unbearable will be EJ and his 'Samantha... Samantha... I don't know why William would do this... do you know why William would do this?' And then probably wandering over to Abby to say 'Abigail' to her a few times before wandering off again. So, Brady decided to get drunk after running into Nicole... and then decided to snort coke after running into John giving him The Eyebrow? Well, we can see what the bigger trigger is.

Kelly was a fun ditzy character when she first arrived. She tried to give off this aura of being worldly because she was schooled in Paris but she actually wasn't and it was fairly obvious. She was utterly wowed by Dorian and Blair and her first interaction with Todd is still a favorite for me. They were at the Gold Star Gala (Andrew brought Kelly -- Todd and Blair crashed it) and Blair made a comment about Kelly's look, which was unique, and Kelly was all 'Fashion takes what's expected and turns it on it's ear' and Todd went 'that's always been my philosophy' to which Kelly bubbled happily about her being Blair's cousin which made her and Todd cousins. "Isn't that cool?" And Todd totally mimics her with a 'So cool!' Not long after, Kelly tried to get Blair and Todd to let her move in with them, saying they were the same type of people and Todd totally shut her down. Blair was trying to be diplomatic and Todd just went "No! And make sure she HEARS you!" Kelly was majorly miffed over that. But then she wound up living with Dorian and David, who set about trying to seduce her in order to strike at Dorian... Kelly cracked him over the head with a bust of George Washington. 'I killed David with the Father of our Country!' And her relationship and romance with Joey was building... she was fun back then. Personally, though, I've never been able to get past Kelly leaving Blair by the side of the road. And she lost a lot of her humor and fun into the late 90s. Despite the fact that her accidentally dumping a vase of flowers over her head in '01 remains one of the funniest scenes ever, that was a bright spot in a lot of not so fun things. And I NEVER really understood the bouncing back and forth between Kevin and Joey or that the Buchanan/Lord crew would be remotely okay with that.

He was being sarcastic?! I did not get that at all from his inflection OR the expression on his face.

Sonny's response to killing someone for killing someone else even though the first someone was innocent is to kill another person. Because of course it is. Worst. Vigilante. Ever. Actually, strike that. Sonny is just the Worst. Ever.

That one astounded me. Did he not just spend two episodes backing her into a corner about the evidence while she lied her fucking ass off the whole time? I had to make the assumption that he just got the line completely ass-backwards because that's the only thing that made the tiniest amount of sense.

Team Hater: Tea and John who were set on exposing Todd for 'killing' Victor... even though he wasn't really dead. T&B - Todd and Blair Rapemance/The Grossening -- Not!Todd's wooing of amnesiac Marty Rossening (or: Getting Rossened) -- When Ross Rayburn got torched for daring not to be Todd (who actually wasn't even Todd himself) which turned into a situation where any character go thrown under the bus to make another who was definitely worse look better The One Hat - Dorian's hat that she wore to take over BE. It was epic.

Okay, so... Daniel's lip thing. In Star Wars: The Old Republic, one of the makeup options is the top lip colored and then one stripe down the middle of the bottom lip and that's all I see when I look at Daniel right now. Not only that, quest givers have that look and you can choose how you interact with your quest givers and all I want to do is go Dark Side on Danlel... which would generally result in whatever character just killing him. Which delights me. Also, he is giving Nicole way way WAY too much credit. I get that he's a "good guy" and they tend to give the benefit of the doubt but Nicole has already proven she has absolutely no intention of telling Eric the truth. She refused to own up until Daniel had her back to the wall, then she tried to grab the evidence and run, then she hemmed and hawed and squirmed until Eric and Jennifer were like 'Do you have hemorrhoids? Is that why you and Daniel look so uncomfortable? Is he your general practitioner in this? Should we leave you alone so you can discus this situation privately as doctor and patient?' Then she promised to tell the truth and the next time he saw her... she admitted she hadn't, then she attempted to distract Eric with the Theresa/Mimosa/Brady triangle. Then she got all pissed off when Daniel did the 'Call me after you talk to Nicole!' message which kind of proved her intent to get out of it again. Dude... there's giving someone the benefit of the doubt and then there's being stupid. And I know from stupid... I've been watching everyone else in this town. Yes yes, Gabi totes killed Nick. Moving right along... Hope outright laughing when Jennifer said that Nicole was a friend was awesome. "Oh. ... Really?" Thank you, Hope. I needed that after watching you give Lucas the business (and not in a remotely sexy way -- they're probably related anyway, I don't know, I haven't figured all of that out yet.) Eric telling Sami about his engagement was delightful. First off, it was wonderful for Sami to go off on something other than Nick. And to see her being self-absorbed in a way I can appreciate from her. "OH MY GOD! I so totally don't need this right now!" "You?! Shut up! I'm in love!" "With Satan's favorite daughter!!" "That's not how Satan even works,,, Cripes, Sami! Don't you know anything about theology!" "Don't spew your priestly credentials to ME! Did taking off the collar remove your brain, too?! SHE'S HORRIBLE!!" "Shut up! She's my special snowflake and you don't understand our love!!" "You know who you sound like? BIG, DUMB BRADY!! How'd that turn out?" "YOU DON'T KNOW MY LIFE!" So when this fallout hits, is Eric/Jennifer even a possibility? Because if they get together, they need to be time warped into an 'Anne of Green Gables' type novel where she can wear puffed sleeves and make jam and he can wear straw hats and their courtship can be strolling around the church yard and going on picnics. Their biggest hurdle to deal with will be when her dress gets caught on the carriage and she accidentally shows her ankles for a split-second while the old church biddles call her a 'brazen thing' for about five minutes before someone's cow gets into the barley yard and causes a whole new stir. (To be honest... I might actually watch that show.)

Well! Nicole finally got her some sex! What a relief that must be for her. Although I will give her credit to fully committing to her lies until she's backed up against the wall with the evidence being thrown in her face... and even then she grabs it and makes a run for it. That made me laugh because I was really picturing that chase scene... kind of like the one in Ratatouille but with more high heels and Daniel instead of a likable rat. Theresa goading JJ... okay, whatever. I actually enjoy Theresa the evil pixie. There's legitimate spark to her and, gods above and below, the good girls in Salem are so fucking insipid I can't even deal with them. Kate continues to please me for not having any fucks to give about Nick being dead although I'm guessing she's about to give many fucks indeed when they arrest Lucas... which they're obviously going to do despite the fact that he's obviously innocent. "You deleted a text! You monster! YOU KILLED NICK!!" Marlena seems to watch everyone around her as if she's conducting science/psychological experiments on them. The only thing she's missing is a clipboard. I had to keep reminding myself that she is, in fact, related to Sami and Allie because she just watched them with a Count Rogan type detachment. "So, tell me about the bloody man you saw... and remember, this is for posterity so be honest." Speaking of Sami, shouldn't someone who is well-versed in crossing all of the lines be better at keeping her shit together? She has the constant 'I think I shit my pants' expression that Gabi was wearing before Nick crawled out of the river. For that matter, why are Will and Sonny acting like they're positive that the other person killed Nick? It's bizarre. "You put the gun back, right? Everything's fine!" "The gun that was never shot? Yes, I put it back." I need to go and rewatch 'Murder on the Orient Express' just to see people who kill have the ability to hold it together until someone legitimately intelligent finds them out. Salem is just full of idiots... idiots who commit crimes constantly, it seems, yet remain incapable of pulling it together as well as a police force who can't seem to convict anyone of the crimes they obviously committed unless someone's leaving the show. Brady, you remain very pretty to me but unless you're going to do something other than sulk constantly you're going to bore me. Although I did like it when Maggie was all weepy over Nick and turns to see Brady there standing in the doorway like he's some cover model for one of those modern Harlequin romances like 'The Renegade Rancher' or something. It made me laugh in a good way.

Try Googling 'Map of Westeros' -- that shouldn't spoiler the crap out of you.

Brienne did ask Podrick if he was sure but he said he wasn't. I actually think that's why Brienne chose to go to the Eyrie. She likes honesty like Pod's.

I think my absolute favorite Sansa moment last night was the expression on her face when she stood in the falling snow. I thought that was a kind of beautiful, yet heartbreaking moment... she grew up in Winterfell. She's of the North. King's Landing, it seems, doesn't get much in the way of Winter (although the way Summer and Winter are in Westeros it makes me wonder) so as long as she's been away she's not seen snow. Standing there in falling snow for the first time since everything in her and her family's life went to utter hell was very poignant. It's no wonder that the next thing she did was build a Winterfell of snow. Oberyn's whole story to Tyrion about the first time he saw him as a baby and he wasn't at all the monster people claimed was weirdly beautiful, too. It also clearly demonstrated that Cersei hated Tyrion from jump and Jaime did not since he's the one that made her stop all those years ago. Whenever I talk about the show with my Mom she finds a way to find sympathy for Cersei. She feels bad that Cersei has to do all of these things to get some power because she's a women and I'm sitting there going 'Cersei's a monster, if she were a man, she would have been Joffrey' so that's where we tend to deviate.

I refuse to acknowledge that Rex is a Buchanan. Refuse. It is completely unacceptable to me as well as absolutely unnecessary. The love affair with Rex never made sense to me anyway. I quite enjoyed him as a B-level character but I did not think that JPL came through as an A-level at all. His tics were so histrionic they always took me right out of the scene and his constant whining made me downright apoplectic. I also resented how the Cramer women were basically turned into his bitches, either having to suck up to him, bow and scrape to him, or pay him loads of money to do minimal detective work. Rex Balsom became a blight on Llanview. I'm thrilled he didn't show up in PP's version.

"Chips and dip! How rustic!" -- Dorian

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Kate having no fucks to give about Nick dying was magnificent. It also pretty much wrote her off as a suspect. Everyone else is hugely concerned at how they look, putting in an appearance at the hospital, furtive glances every which way... Kate can't be bothered. She didn't do it, he's dead, she doesn't care. Honey Badger doesn't give a fuck. Will, Sonny, unless one of you shot Nick, which seems unlikely because you were both accounted for (fretting about the willingness of Sonny to take Nick out) then stop freaking out about the gun. The ballistics won't match, dummies. Unless, of course, Gabi stole it and shot Nick and the put the gun back which is highly unlikely but it is a soap so they could totally write that. (Others have written worse.) and if that's the case... Bitch!! Keep your mits off Sonny's beautiful pearl handled pistol!! That's not for you!

Alas, Dorian never actually said the "in place of the dark Lord you shall have a queen" quote that would be a perfect opening if she had.Bo's final "I love you" to Nora was glorious. As far as last days on network, Todd's "It's always been you and me, Blair. I love you." got me right in the feels. But even better was Blair's "You're such an asshole" on PP. I had been waiting years to hear that and never expected to.