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I seriously burst out laughing when I saw the news. Talk about a mismatch of character and actress. And I don't know if I don't like RB or if I just don't like the characters I've seen her play. Greenlee was only tolerable with Leo, and Hayden was never tolerable. Considering how much Taylor sucked the last time around, I'm not optimistic that this will be the role that changes my mind on RB.

OK, I have a new dream now. I want this more than I want him to just die himself.

Lord, TJ is a complete asshole. I'm waiting for Alexis to tell Molly "you know, your sister has a point. Do you want to spend the rest of your life with this controlling asshole?" I so badly want someone to tell him that this is actually all his fault. He knew this was a bad idea. Instead of sticking to his guns and saying they needed to wait and find another surrogate, he just caved so they could get a baby ASAP. And then, immediately after caving and going through the process, he started acting like a complete dick to Kristina (and to Molly sometimes) because he's mad that he agreed to go through with the bad idea. And now he's tearing into Alexis, who also knew this was a bad idea and warned against it, and basically threatening to turn one of her daughters against her if she doesn't condemn the other daughter? Seriously, fuck this guy. Can he get caught in the crossfire of whatever attempt Sonny inevitably makes to take out Ava? If it is Kristina he's blaming in the previews, I hope Alexis or Blaze slap the taste out of his mouth. I feel like I'm probably going to have some unreasonable level of affection for Gio going forward, just for his ridiculous reaction shots during the fall.

I swear, my brain does not function when I have a fever. I read this and thought "but Li isn't Finn's biological mother, so using her own DNA wouldn't work to get a match if he's Luna's father." Then it took me a minute to realize "oh, yeah, but Li is biologically related to Poppy, so..." Also, I'm really starting to get back on the Finn is the daddy train. Li, lately, has been very concerned about Luna. And she's talked about how relieved she is that she has a father like Bill. I think that she rigged the DNA test because it's occurred to her that, if the truth were to ever come out, Sheila would be all over Luna. Li may not be able to claim her grandmother relationship to Luna, but she can still try to protect her from her psycho bio granny. So, from what she knows of Bill, she figures that, if Luna is in his life as his daughter long enough, he'll love her enough to still protect her if the truth ever does come out, especially when it involves Sheila. And she was expressing her concerns about Finn's marriage a week or so ago, when she was telling him to listen to Steffy and focus on his marriage. So, she probably also figures she's helping protect his marriage by not letting it come out that he fathered his aunt's daughter. (This whole theory also includes Finn not remembering that he hooked up with Poppy, for some reason. Maybe he was really drunk, or maybe she was already a "mint" popper back then, and he had some of those. And it would certainly explain exactly why Li hates her sister so much. That's a pretty huge unforgiveable thing.)

God, I love when someone who considers themselves the super smart puppet master gets the boot. Someone dropped Adam on his head as a child. Like, a lot. Damn. But, still Naomi was more annoying, and has been since the first episode. I loved the slow reveal of her downfall. First that Gracie showed Shane the clue before she went home. Then that Hud overheard Shane and Mackenzie talking about it. I was rooting for Hud to feed her to Adam, after she kept talking about having Hud's clue. It was so satisfying to see her recoil in shock during the challenge, when the questions all showed that someone knew exactly who she is. And then again when Adam, of all people, said Molly Ringwald. It would have been equally satisfying to see her smugly guess Hud and get him wrong, but this way we got rid of her sooner, and didn't need to see her smug all over the place over getting Adam booted. He can go next time, though. Expecting everyone to carry him when he knows absolutely nothing and doesn't even try to figure anything out on his own is obnoxious. I laughed out loud at "you guys think it's Carrot Top?" And, dude, it was not cool to sell out Hud like that. He is the only reason you stuck around, and you just told everyone how he sold out Naomi. (Really, everyone should understand, though. If someone is constantly talking about having your clue and you being their ace in the hole, you should do what you can to get rid of them before they can use it.) I feel like this season was catered to me, or something. Danny is the only person I have no guess for. So many of the celebrity relatives have been obvious to me either right off the bat, or the second I saw their clues. Adam looks so much like his celebrity relative, and when he said in the first episode that he didn't want to sing for the talent show because his voice it too similar, I realized that his speaking voice is pretty obvious, too. Hud's clue was super easy. I was pretty sure I knew Mackenzie's relative, and as soon as I saw the first part of her clue, that was confirmed for me. Naomi's clue was beyond obvious. I think I know who Shane's relative is, but I don't think anyone is going to guess that for a while. And, even if they figure out that someone in the house is related to that person, they may not jump to Shane. And, of course, everyone (except Adam) knows who Dedrick's relative is.

At some point, they established that she was born while he was in college, and that Poppy was staying with them for a while right before he went away to college. So he's old enough, and the timeline works.

Steffy's entire demeanor for the rest of those scenes after he dared utter any kind of support for Hope was full on "we will be talking about this when we get home, young man." I especially laughed when Hope said they should hire Finn to be their full time referee, and Steffy gritted out a fake sweet "yeah, he's great." When was the last time Steffy wore something to the office other than shorts or a skort? I never even knew that linen booty shorts were a thing. Will may actually be even more obnoxious than his mother. And I feel like there was definitely some revisionist history going on there. For example, when was the last time that the three of them lived there as a family? And then his "yeah, I knew about them, but give me a second." Dude, you showed up there without any warning. How was your father supposed to give you a second before you met Poppy and Luna if he had no idea that you were coming? I was distracted during that scene where Luna and Poppy got back to their apartment, and at first I thought Luna was pulling the backpack out from where she'd hidden it. I'm bummed that this pretty well rules her out as the killer. I don't think it's Poppy, either. I'm thinking that Li, Jack, or Justin hid the backpack in their apartment figuring nobody would find it there, since they were living over with Bill. I really hope they didn't bring Justin back just to throw him under the bus for this.

"Is Poppy happy? She seems on edge to me." Well, Katie, you keep barging into her home, prying into her personal life, and accusing her of shit. I think I know why she seems on edge whenever you're around. And you think Poppy doesn't seem happy, Katie? Have you checked out a mirror lately? You are the poster child for miserable buttinskies. Get a hobby or something. "Oh, I'm not jealous." Bull-fucking-shit, liar. I wish RJ would have been more forceful in trying to shut Katie up today. She is being so unnecessarily bitchy to Luna, who she doesn't suspect of anything, just because she's jealous of her mother. I was glad RJ called her out a little bit about not wanting to go back to Bill the whole time he was trying to get her back, but now the minute he has someone else, she has all these "concerns." See, Hope, it's fun that Steffy missed out on her big trip because of her own hubris, but it's not so fun that now you're stuck with Steffy without Ridge around to do anything to thwart her vindictive business decisions. You should offer to fly her there yourself, just to have a more pleasant work environment. And I've already bitched, at length, before about the ridiculousness of the timing for their fashion line sales. Thomas hasn't been gone long enough for them to have any kind of significant sales numbers for the line without him. It was ridiculous when they used it as a story line point to force Thomas back into HFTF after the DCFS call debacle. And it's equally ridiculous now. The Will scenes were weird. It was like he knew Poppy and Luna existed, but he was still surprised they existed. It was like different writers wrote alternating lines of those scenes without consulting with each other. Also, where has he been? If he's been away at school, it's not time to just be coming home from school for break, it's almost time to be heading back to school for the fall. And Katie was so over the top concerned about how this would affect Will, but it seems like he was just given one quick heads up "oh, hey, your father has a daughter he didn't know about, and he's in love with her mother. See you in a few weeks." She and Bill haven't had conversations with him to have any kind of idea of how he was reacting to this?

Maybe she got tips on reaction shots from JMW? I wish that, after Steffy found her passport, Hope would have said "oh, yeah, the same passport I saw on your desk and chased you down to the elevator to give you. Remember that? When you wouldn't let me speak? And I even held it up to show you when you wouldn't let me talk? That passport?" Because her not saying anything now is going to come back and bite her in the ass somehow, I'm sure. Oh, how I wish Katie would have walked in and heard Bill sympathizing with Poppy over Tom.

Am I thinking of someone else, or did Rick and Maya get divorced at some point after they left LA?

Li needs to start locking her office door to fend off unwanted drop-ins. I like that Hope got to play the Steffy role at Steffy today, with the faux sympathy for her having a sad over Brooke going on the trip. Complete with "well, since the bedroom line is the focal point, it makes sense for my mom to go, but you don't need to..." I was also glad that the story didn't end up being that Hope took Steffy's passport. In fact, she tried to help Steffy, went running after her and everything, but Steffy had to be bitchy and not let her get a word in edgewise, not even acknowledging when Hope was holding the passport up in front of her to try to get the point across over her ranting. I don't blame Hope for having a gloating moment later when she knew that Steffy was screwing herself over, and wouldn't be able to make the trip.

So, I started the episode laughing at the weirdness of Finn just hanging out to watch his wife's stepmother model lingerie. I ended in cringing in second hand embarrassment for HT having to deliver that "oh my God, Bill! You could be in danger" line. Seriously, Katie, stop. Everything about you is cringeworthy these days. And RJ, shut up. Remember when you decided that you weren't telling anyone what happened to Luna, for her privacy? And not only did you go ahead and tell some of it, but you did so in the least responsible way. Luna is still my dark horse candidate to be the killer. Jesus, KKL, I wish I'd looked that good when I was half the age she is now. She is truly stunning.

They did, but Katie has zero way of knowing that. Poppy was at a music festival where he happened to perform 20 years ago. There were likely thousands of people there. So jumping to "you must have murdered him," over that is flimsy, at best. She may as well accuse Bill of killing him, too, since he was also there, and, as Katie kept saying, Bill frequents the restaurant. I mean, it could be? It was bugged while he was working with the FBI to catch Sheila. Maybe he didn't remove all of the equipment?

You know, I love Heather Tom, but, if Poppy is on a killing spree to keep her secrets, I say go for it, Poppy. Katie is just beyond obnoxious at this point. Any chance the killer can consider Steffy a risk to find out what they're trying to hide? Because she's such a useless fucking whiner. At what point if Finn going to realize that, with all the people Steffy has issues with, maybe Steffy is the problem? Judging from the previews at the end, it looks like she misses her flight? Good. Cry about it, Steffy. DD and SK have such good screen chemistry. I want them to somehow become friends. I had a brief flash of hope today that they were going to team up to solve the murders. That would have been amazing. So, of course, that's not the direction they decided to go in.

Katie going on about how Poppy seems like she's defending her place in Bill's life. Oh, gee, Katie, I wonder why that is? Could it be that Bill's ex-wife keeps walking into their home, un-invited, and slinging accusations (some blatant, some thinly-veiled) at her? Then she goes to Li and says that she had an encounter with Poppy that turned unpleasant. Again, Gee, Katie, I wonder why that was? How could Poppy possibly become unpleasant with you when you walk into her home, tell her significant other that there is something up with her, and then harass her for information about her personal life and decisions that is none of your damn business. And I seriously wish Poppy would have just told her "that is none of your business. It's between me, Bill, and Luna. Just because you're nosy and want to know, it doesn't mean I'm obligated to tell you. Now get out of my house." Bill needs to talk to Katie, too. She keeps using "we need to talk about how your new daughter affects Will" as her excuse to barge in. Bill needs to tell her that they've talked that to death, and it's time for Will to come over and meet his sister. So, the next time she comes by, she needs to bring Will with her, so they can move forward. I loved Ridge finally speaking up to Steffy. He's exactly right - Brooke didn't club him over the head and drag him away. He chose to go to her. So, if she wants to blame someone, she needs to blame him. That talking to was way overdue, but at least it finally happened. I just hope he sticks to it and shuts that shit down every time she tries to fire up her "but the Logans" bitch machine.

This would be amazing. So, of course, it's not what we're getting. I so want Kelly to be the opposite - I want her to cling to Finn as her favorite parent and think Steffy and Liam are complete assholes.

Like a few weeks ago, when Steffy was just ranting away at Hope, and the second Hope started to give even a small portion of that back to her, Ridge was jumping right in to stop it and pretend he was an impartial mediator.

Gee, Katie, I can't imagine why Poppy would be afraid that someone is going to sneak in and take it all away from her. Could it have something to do with Bill's ex-wife who regularly walks into their home without knocking, under flimsy pretenses to have the exact same fucking conversation that she's already had with him multiple times? Who then always launches into questioning his relationship with Poppy? Could that maybe, just maybe, be why she worries? (And fuck you, Katie, for making me defend Poppy). And I know why all of us are questioning the paternity test, because we watch soaps, and we know how this shit works. But why is Katie questioning whether Bill is Luna's father? She knows Li administered the test, and, as far as Katie knows, Li is no fan of her sister. On a related note, if Poppy is the killer, taking out everyone who can fuck up her new life with Bill, I would think someone should be stumbling over Katie's corpse sometime soon. Is Steffy going to run over to Deacon's apartment to get in Sheila's face again? Maybe drag Finn over there with her so she can pull his cord and have him tell Sheila, again, that he can't spend any time with her? Even if Finn sees the light and is in full agreement that he can't have Sheila in his life, is he not just exhausted of listening to Steffy rant about her yet? I know I'm sick of it. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Finn not telling Steffy about Hope hitting on him is going to end up being a huge betrayal to the wife who hasn't told him about her ex kissing her twice last year.

I would have given anything for Steffy to walk in right as Finn was saying he didn't want Sheila to be found guilty. And while he's standing there with Hope, dressed like that. Of course, I also really want Finn to walk in and find Liam with Steffy five minutes after he told him to stay away from his wife. Ridge worshipping Brooke wasn't quite enough to make up for the fact that he didn't tell his bitchass daughter to cut the crap when she was whining about Logans earlier. Also, I wish Brooke would stop just accepting Steffy's shitty behavior towards her as something she is somehow due.

All that smug bullshit she pulled on Brooke near the end of her last run, when Taylor was the one who broke their pact and started throwing herself at Ridge was so infuriating. She knew exactly what she'd done, but she ignored that and kept condescending to Brooke and accusing her of the shit she'd done herself. It was maddening that Ridge, who knew damn well that Taylor was the one to make a play for him first, didn't shut her bullshit down. But Taylor is just like her daughter - nothing ever sticks to her, and she gets to accuse others of doing all the shit she does. Taylor is probably even worse than her daughter, because she hides behind her occupation and expects that everyone has to accept her version of events as the gospel truth, because she's a world renown psychiatrist.

All of this. A good bitchy character can be fun. But a bitchy character who is on a pedestal, who is never called out for her hypocrisy, even by the people it affects the most, is not fun. Hope has been with three guys - Liam, Wyatt, and Thomas. Steffy knocks out three guys if you only count how many Spencers she's had sex with. But Hope can't bring that up, even when Steffy is calling her and her mother sluts. Taylor did the same shit Steffy brings up about Brooke. But nobody is allowed to say that in response to Steffy's regularly scheduled rants about all the evils of Brooke Logan. Steffy bitches about "the Logans" all the damn time, but she also gets to regularly condescend to Hope that "this isn't about Logans vs. Forresters," when L vs. F is, outside of her Sheila anger, the driving force behind almost everything she says and does. Most of Steffy's dialogue is gaslighting other characters and the audience.

Why wouldn't JJ agree to play that? He's a supportive brother, in real life, to his sister, who is a lesbian who has been married to a woman for a long time. He's close to AG, who is openly gay. I didn't watch Nashville, but from what I've heard, his character was close friends with someone who was gay. There is literally nothing in how JJ has conducted himself through the years in his personal or professional lives to suggest that he would refuse to play this.

What the hell is Steffy wearing? (Something I could probably post on any given day.) I notice Finn didn't turn around and close the door when he realized what he walked in on. Steffy, most people would try knocking before hunting down the key. And good Lord does she sound like such a petulant little bratty child. "Another Logan." I wish, just once, Ridge would stand up to her over this shit. Liam is such a condescending ass. Finn has zero interest in getting an "attaboy" from your waffling ass, Liam. I was glad Finn didn't fall for any of that shit. Of course, I would bet that Steffy is going to be annoyed that Finn dared to tell her Waffle to back off. She's the only one in that marriage who gets to do that. Hope may be thirsty, but the idea is in Finn's head now. I hate Sheila, but if they've actually locked her in a cell with no evidence other than the fact that she works where the victims worked, just because Steffy insists she's guilty, I hope she sues the shit out of the LAPD.

If only she didn't come with Spinelli attached to her. Is she even acting anymore? I'd love to have her back as Lulu, especially if they're going to put her back with Dante.

This is what I keep wanting to happen. I'd love for him to happen across the partially open door some day when Steffy thinks it's just her and Hope, so he can hear exactly what a vile demon his wife is. He knows they don't always get along, but I don't think he knows exactly how much of that is on his wife being an aggressively vindictive asshole. Also, I so very much want him to find out about those two kisses with Liam that his wife conveniently never told him about.