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I could buy, too, that she's so far deep in this now that she has to keep telling herself Julian is evil, otherwise, she has to own up a really big fuck up/lie on her part. There is really no graceful way out of this for her.

Hasn't the CDC secured that couch to study it yet?

Maybe Frank has some kind of weird "but you can call me" fixation? Or has he just decided that Morgan is particularly attracted to women who like to be called by another name? Lauren/Kiki, Darby/Dar, Ava/Denise... Almost forgot to add... As much as I love WK/Ned, I'm also kind of annoyed that we apparently just had to have Ned come back and break up with Olivia on screen, to the point where it was necessary to go ask Days to let him come play for a day. Like that is the one story beat that we just could not skimp on playing out onscreen with the real actor.

Or maybe a bed to pose on? Something? I assumed Steffy intentionally didn't give her anything she'd look "hot, hot, hot" in. I thought that, for lingerie, it was rather unflattering in cut/shape. They may as well have just had Liam wrap up with "and that's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."

The worst part is, I don't think he even did it to make a living - he never really seemed to care about the money. He just did it because he believed it was somehow noble and righteous, and to protect the love of his life - Sonny.

All I could think while watching the Steffy/Liam/Ivy/Wyatt scenes was "Aly died for this shit?"

My favorite parts of this one had nothing to do with the triangle. I loved Farkle's "everyone's making a big deal that you rode a bull for 4 seconds. I ate him!" And I loved the whole scene when Zay's ex showed up and Maya and Riley tried to make her jealous, complete with making up middle names for him and Riley's "Cotton Candy Face." I really hope the show doesn't end up bogged down in the triangle instead of giving us more of them all as a goofy group of friends.

They got Michael back, they don't need their stand-in son any more.

Ahem - Zay.

At this point, any friend of Patrick's they introduced, I'd just assume was a predator or criminal of some sort. Did he go to med school at "Isle of Evil Med"?

I kind of wonder if Maya telling her (in the promo for what I assume is part 3), "something happened between me and Lucas" is misdirection on the show's part. Possibly, nothing happened, but she's saying it did to get Riley's reaction to it and force Riley into showing exactly how she really feels about Lucas. It would certainly be payback for Riley forcing Maya's feelings out in the open.

Interesting that they're (so far) selling it as Lucas not being on the same page with Riley, in regards to the whole "we're brother and sister" thing.

Lucky Maxie.

I suppose it's possible that Rick and Maya are both dumb enough to think that Nicole carrying the baby would make it "half Avant" regardless of whose egg they use. But I agree - they want her to use her own egg and carry the baby for them. That's just so much to ask of anyone, but even more to ask of someone who not only hasn't had their own baby yet, but (it appears) who is also a virgin. There's just no reason to think that Nicole is remotely psychologically prepared for what they're asking of her. If she agrees, and we don't get Nicole and Zende having sex right before the procedure because she decides she doesn't want to be a pregnant virgin, I'll be shocked.

Writing it in is one of those decisions the show needs to make pretty much as soon as they know about the pregnancy, both for the visual effect and the timing. We had Olivia birth her baby, conceived on NYE in, what, early summer? And both Olivia and Sabrina looked like they're rounding into the third trimester when they were first wondering "oh, could I be pregnant?" Yes, I'm a firm believer that the viewers can be trusted to deal with things like a pregnant actress playing a non-pregnant character, but once you're actually making the character pregnant, too, the visual aspect is relevant.

I've been saying this for a while now. Just don't throw them in something that makes it distracting, and give us enough credit to separate the two.

I just want to grab Lucas, Joss, Dante, and Lulu and hustle them right on out of this farce. Oh, and Kristina.

I'll let Stephen comment for me: http://giphy.com/gifs/stephen-colbert-emily-blunt-late-show-ncYpllOta6CU8

I would consider that a positive influence on Kiki. Can they influence Sonny, too?

It's sad that I would take scenes of Felix and Olivia hanging out, gossiping about and ripping on everyone in town over pretty much anything this show has shown me in quite some time.

Only twice? The slackers. I think GH has like 2 per year. I would, but, well, I have to drive to my kid's choir concert tonight, and I don't want to kill anyone. Why don't Bill and Steffy just fuck and get it over with? At this point, I don't even think Liam would put up much of a fuss. So they'd just have to deal with the potential for Katie to have another (real or fake) heart incident.

Her leaving town for now with Patrick and Robin would be ideal, letting her come back, at some later date, as a SORASed teen to live with Mac and Felicia.

You just know those two are trying to find someone willing to televise (and fund) their wedding.

I would be surprised if they move this quickly into a Lucas/Maya coupling. It's just too soon after the "Riley thinks of Lucas like a brother" stuff started, that there's no way for it to not look shitty by both Maya and Lucas to go there this soon. I'm sure the "something happened between me and Lucas" thing will be not nearly what they want us to think it's going to be. It would be one thing to eventually get there with the two of them, after Lucas and Riley and long since moved on from the idea of being a couple. But it's just too soon now. They're handling this subject fairly well over on Liv & Maddie. Liv really liked a guy, but her friend didn't know that and asked him to a dance. The two of them dated for a while, but the guy really likes Liv, and he eventually broke up with the other girl and went to Liv to tell her how he felt. She told him that they can't be a couple now, because she can't do that to her friend. We have since had scenes where you can clearly see that the two still like each other, but they're determined to hold off until it's a better time. Given that the friendship in question there isn't nearly as long standing as the Riley/Maya friendship (and certainly not the focus of the show like Riley/Maya), we definitely need at least that same level of caution on the part of Lucas and Maya here, too. We should have a decent chunk of time where neither is even willing to admit that they have feelings for the other, to start with.

I think it's supposed to be a punishment because this is a world where Steffy is the Most! Fun!! Most! Sexy!! woman ever, and where Ivy is just a pale, sad imitation. So, naturally, it would be embarrassing for her to model lingerie when she knows that every man in the world will be looking at her and wishing and praying it was FUN!!!! Steffy modeling it instead.