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I think the reason they keep them in a kind of gray zone between the "good" Paige/Charlotte/Becky and the outright "bad" Naomi/Sasha/Tamina is because of the differing personalities in Brie and Nikki. Nikki sucks at being the "good girl." But, with Brie, as much as she enjoys playing "bad," her ties to Daniel make it hard to make her a full on heel outside of her assisting Nikki in her plots. Because the crowd generally adores Daniel, so she kind of benefits from that glow. And on that note... My son is WWE obsessed, and yesterday he was talking about what he thinks they'll do for Survivor Series matches in November. One of the issues we identified was that, with the way the Divas are set up right now - three teams of three, it makes doing a 5 vs. 5 match difficult. So, if they're going to do a Divas SS match, they're going to have to form a split among at least one of the teams. The Bellas seemed the most likely place for a split, precisely because of that difference in Nikki and Brie. Our theory was that they will have Brie somehow be responsible for Nikki losing the belt to Charlotte Sunday. That leads to yet another split between the twins, leading up to a "Team Bella vs. Team Bella" in November. Nikki ends up with Alicia Fox and Naomi/Sasha/Tamina, and Brie ends up with Paige/Charlotte/Becky and another Diva (whether that's Nattie or maybe someone else they bring up from NXT). On a related note, we realized that WWE may be focusing on too small of a group of guys when we had a really hard time coming up with two potential SS matches aside from that Divas match (I don't even remember if we fully filled out the second potential match, because it was pretty slim pickings).

Reading this, I could still kind of see them going there with Thomas. Write it that nothing happened between him and Caroline, beyond some kisses. His obsession with Caroline could be part wanting to hide or suppress his sexuality, part lashing out at his father. And his generally creepy and inappropriate conduct with women could be him acting how he thinks some big macho man is supposed to act. You could even write in his previous thing for Hope being part of it - she was the virginal princess, so their relationship would never be sexual, and no one would expect it to be. ETA: Still on the TK and CaRidge trains here, too. And I'd listen to TK's voice any time.

Agreed. There are so many directions they could have gone in with this story beyond "the wimmens are crazy!" But, I guess we should no longer be surprised that they didn't go for any kind of complex motivation and layered story where viewers can understand different points of view.

The thing is, Liz did really like Jake before she knew he was Jason. She was really upset when Hayden showed up claiming to be his wife, and when she found out that was a lie, courtesy of Ric, she was already ready to go to him. It was such crappy story telling to have her find out that night. As others have said, it would have been so much better to have her find out after they became engaged. The fact that she really liked Jake, as Jake, is pretty much going to be entirely lost now, because instead of it being a story where she really fell for this guy and then found out he was Jason, it's been swerved over into her being crazy over Jason.

It was months of air time, although I don't know how long in Port Charles time she was actually in there. As I recall, everyone knew she was missing, and Jason strongly suspected Ric had something to do with it, but was never able to prove anything. After Liz discovered her and stroked out, Lorenzo got in and grabbed her, and he took her with him out on his boat. Unless I'm combining two entirely different stories, I believe his boat was on the "coast of Bolivia" which is where Jason and SWMNBN eventually found them (which led to SWMNBN's miscarriage after she jumped into the "frigid waters off the coast of Bolivia"). That was what sparked the Lorenzo/Carly attraction, leading to Sonny shooting Carly in the head while she gave birth (and, apparently, leading to Morgan having only a small portion of an actual brain).

And now I'm crying.

"Oh, Dante, I know the pain of watching a parent in the hospital. I hate that you have to worry about your father like i had to worry about my mother before she died! Do you need sex?"

I do agree it's for the best, after the RH, KA, and ME crap. I don't think there's any way to bring on a former OLTL actor without the viewers resenting it and starting off predisposed to dislike the character. If they didn't so spectacularly botch that whole thing, it wouldn't be an issue, but, since they did, as much as I like JDP, I can also see why, if they brought him on, in any role, he'd be starting not only with his grave dug, but in it and partially covered in dirt.

But forgetting Soily is what the brain bleach was for.

Option 3 - his biggest turn-on is women who are already attached to a member of his family.

I'd be happy with JDP as Ned (even if I put aside that he was my very first soap crush as Max). Just say "no" to Muhney. Aside from the whole sexual harassment issue, I've always felt he was kind of overrated as an actor. The only entertainment I'd get out of his casting would be if he and BC ended up disliking each other and waging a Twitter war.

My son's home sick today, so he's watching with me. And he says this "why don't they just go ahead and kill Sonny off already?" So, clearly, I'm doing something right as a parent.

If Sonny would actually die from this shooting, I'd want the shooter to get the exact same punishment as he got for killing AJ - 10 seconds in prison, an escape, taking the last two steps in someone else's heroic effort, then the mayor all but throwing the shooter a ticker tape parade and declaring them pardoned of shooting the moobster.

Not to mention, it's really easy to feel and act "street smart" when your best friend is Riley. (Not that I don't like Riley, I do, but, she's the opposite of street smart.)

To me it seems like the "street smart" persona was always something put on by Maya, because she wants to be viewed that way. But, she's never truly been shown to be so "street smart." She just wants to be seen as tough because she doesn't like to look vulnerable.

Is their goal for the Thomas character "make viewers' skin crawl"? If so, well done.

I absolutely think he harbored some hope he'd get her in his bed out of the whole deal. Telling her was probably win/win for him. Either she came clean, possibly lost Jake, and ended up in his bed on the rebound, or she keeps quiet and he gets to go on with his plan without any hurdles.

It wouldn't shock me if the show did. This is the network that gave us the "The Real Greenlee Returns!" ads running while her replacement was still in the role.

I laughed along with their speculation that Johnny would have the pictures, because, of course. Johnny's guys know everything that goes down in PC. But their other suggestion, that Maxie saw them and has pictures? If Maxie saw that, at bare minimum, she would have confronted the hell out of Dante and/or Valerie. She would not be just keeping quiet and holding on to those pictures. If she confronted Dante and knew it was the result of the whole ridiculous misunderstanding, and that Dante was miserable and regretted it deeply, I could maybe see her agreeing to keep quiet, but also keeping an eye on them to make sure there was no hint of a repeat. But her just holding on to the pictures and not doing anything at all? Makes zero sense.

I agree it would have been good for the girls to be more supportive. But, on the other hand, I thought that Maya's reaction was perfectly in character for her. She has always been shown to be really uncomfortable with any changes like that. I think her fear was that, somehow, if Farkle got this diagnosis, it was going to change him (which we know it wouldn't, really, but she's young). In the yearbook episode, Maya was the one who was genuinely freaked out by her friends not acting like themselves. Lucas was upset, too, but he was more upset from a standpoint of "you guys don't have to change just because of what someone else says about you." Maya's reaction was more that she really couldn't deal with Riley or Farkle changing, like she needed them to be exactly who they've always been. I love that they "studied" so they'd know more about it if Farkle was diagnosed, and I also loved how easily they acknowledged and accepted that Smackle was the one who has Asperger's. And, of course, I loved the parents interacting.

Clearly you need to download the Roku remote app to your phone or tablet, so you never again have to suffer the horror of this show when you already feel like shit. I don't think Britt was ever going to come clean on her own.

Ric was slipping birth control pills into her drinks, because he didn't want her to get pregnant while he was plotting to steal Carly's baby and give it to her. (This somehow made sense in his mind.) I can't remember if he was giving her too much, or what, but it the combination of the shock at seeing Carly chained up behind a wall in her living room, along with the birth control pills caused a stroke, which is why she can no longer use hormonal birth control. And I agree 100% on the whole "not her secret to tell" thing. Yes, some secrets that don't involve you are none of your business. But, when it comes to someone having their child kept from them, that's a whole different area. There can be mitigating circumstances that would make it shitty to tell the father, like if he was a violent abusive douchebag or something, but that wasn't the case in either story here. AJ had a right to know about his child, and if Robin didn't tell, who knows when he would have found out, if ever. And, while exposure to Helena isn't optimal, living with Nik wasn't going to be any more dangerous than living with Carly, what with her continued connections to the mob and vulnerability to the enemies of Sonny and Jason. Also, Robin had known AJ for a big chunk of her life, and Nik was one of her close friends. What kind of person would know that their friend had a child they didn't know about and just shrug and say "hey, not my secret to tell" and let them go on without knowing their child? I could never live with myself if I kept that kind of information from someone I care about.

Or balance an A story with some B and C stories.

Where are Johnny's guys when you need them?

Does anyone close to him know about his pirouette and shoot attack on a rival mobster at a meeting recently?