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Wanting Sonny to die is never, ever wrong. I wouldn't be super thrilled with an "everyone wants to be a mobster" follow up, but I can forgive just about anything if it's preceded by "Sonny dies."

Oh for fuck's sake...

I'd be happy to have her pop up for a couple weeks to sit on the sidelines and chuck dinner rolls at people every time they're being stupid. I can't imagine that he is. There aren't exactly a whole bunch of "soap EP" positions left out there, and I'd say only one of them would even potentially be open to him - Y&R. He has nothing to gain by sabotaging the show and a steady paycheck to lose.

I'm not letting Sonny off the hook even a little bit. He was happy he finally had a "reason" to kill AJ. But I can't ignore Ava's rather prominent role in the whole thing. She started up that train, and Sonny couldn't wait to jump on board. They're both assholes.

It's not as simple as "she told him to." She killed Connie and let AJ take the fall for it. While Sonny has always hated AJ, what pushed him to become over the top in his desire to kill him at that time was his belief that AJ killed Connie. Her urging Sonny to kill him was her desperate attempt to keep the truth from coming out. So, yeah, Sonny pulled the trigger, but Ava put the whole sequence of events into motion when she killed Connie.

I'm already on record as a Liz fan, but if she did something nefarious to Sonny, I'll love her even more. We may as well get some good out of the trashing the show is doing of her character. If she offs Sonny, then, when Cujo starts sputtering about "you killed Sonny!" Liz just calmly takes her ass out, too, I'll nominate her for sainthood.

He hasn't misplaced them. He eagerly lopped them off and placed them in Steffy's (no doubt hideously over the top) handbag.

Cyber bullying doesn't have to be a faceless nameless person. It just refers to bullying that is primarily taking place via technology - texts, tweets, facebook, etc. Obtaining embarrassing pictures or video and threatening to release it to the rest of the school, via texts or social media, is one of the hallmarks of cyber bullying, along with the other stuff the bully was doing - repeatedly texting or posting to the person all those put downs and threats (kind of vaguely implied in this case, if I remember correctly). Also, I don't remember any indication in the episode that the bully was doing anything face to face. Riley seemed to be talking only about messages (although I don't know if we're talking texts or direct messages via other social media). The closest to something "in person" the bully was doing was filming Riley, but the impression I'm given is that Riley didn't realize she was being filmed until the bully told her they had video of her doing the "Riley Awards" after school and threatened to send it out to everyone.

Well, you know, Brydog probably has a hard enough time remembering where the underwear go when he's sober. Drunk, he has no prayer.

There used to be some end point to stories, in some fashion. We'd get the big splashy "finally!" weddings, the bad guy would lose (at least for a decent stretch of time), things like that. Now, we get quickie weddings with like 4 people in attendance that are only a checked off item on the list of getting to the next plot point. Or the bad guys end up winning, somehow, and everyone in town needs to kiss their asses. The shows themselves never end, but we used to get movement and not just the same shit over and over and over. That Thomas continues to fantasize and obsess over the woman who he now knows would have never knowingly slept with him is beyond creepy.

Looks like a pair of boxers.

Isn't that why God created meat hooks? I still think it would have made more sense for Patrick to find out than Liz. He could have had a more targeted rant to self about people doing horrible shit and living happily ever after - Jason was a fucking killer, Robin "died" trying to save him, she was later forced to go to work reviving him, and that's what led to the death of his son, Sham-wow. Now Robin's gone again, and Jason is alive, right when Patrick has gotten together with Jason's widow and is attached to Jason's son? He has reason to, specifically, be angry at Jason and look at Jason as a big part of the reason he's lost so much (not that any of it was directly Jason's doing). And then he could also rationalize that Liz and Jake are happy (because I'd buy someone viewing Liz and Jake as happy together much more than I'd buy anyone saying "but look how happy Patrick and Sam are!"), and now that little Jake is back, they're raising their son together, etc. For once can't we have it be one of the men who goes a little crazy over losing the object of their affection (you know, other than someone like Faison, who is just crazy, period)? I'm sure that, before he was canned, Ron had plans to tweet that someone threw a rock through Patrick's window with a note tied around it, made of cut and paste magazine letters, saying "Patrick, there's no phone service in (whatever country we're currently supposed to believe Robin is in), so nobody should try to call me. Love, Robin" So, how could Sam possibly call her?

Well, when the other adults in her life are Carly, Sonny, and Ava...

I don't think Riley is any more self-centered than your average 13-14 year old kid. We've seen her do things for others frequently, like Farkle and Smackle. We've seen her acknowledge her own self-centered attitude and recognize the error in that attitude, both in the first episode of this season and in season 1, when she and Maya worked in the kitchen. She wanted to be part of a classroom "business" project that did something for people, once she realized the harm of the sugar bombs Farkle wanted to sell. She always wants to do things to make things better for Maya. Sure, she's "weird," but we need more weird in this world. It's not for the rest of us to decide that someone is too weird or whatever, and her brand of weird certainly isn't hurting anyone. As for her first boyfriend, we've essentially seen that with Lucas, even though they never decided to become an official couple. She was actually the one who initiated a kiss with him on the subway. And she's been grown up enough to realize that getting into romantic relationships at this age isn't worth the risk to ruining her circle of friends. Sure, she's happy and lives a pretty carefree, lucky life. She has no reason not to be as happy and positive as she is. Yeah, we've had the silliness with Pluto and the dead fish, but, for the most part, she's allowed to live, make mistakes, and learn in the world. I have a son in 7th grade who just turned 13 (today), and Riley is far more typical of the kids in his class than Maya is. They're generally still at that age where the world hasn't had a chance to give them a reason to not be happy and goofy yet.

I think they worked in some fan service to both sides of the Riley/Lucas/Maya coin. There was Maya's clearly being into how Lucas busted into Riley's room through their barricade scene. And then we had Lucas, when Riley was talking about her awards show and doing "French Riley" saying "who doesn't love that?" I think they're going to keep playing both sides before ever actually doing anything, since we've seen them all kind of settle into a "we're all friends, and that's what's most important" mindset about any romantic relationships.

That's a huge part of their training - learning to take (and deliver) moves that look like something that would really hurt, but in a way that protects them from injury as much as possible, whether it's a hit, a kick, or using a prop, like a chair, ladder, table, stairs, etc. It's also why people don't want to work with someone who hasn't trained properly (like Eva), because it works best, and injury risk is lowest, when both people know the safest way to do each maneuver. You will also sometimes hear people say that some particular wrestler is known for working "stiff" (I think that's the word), and it basically means that they're not putting in the effort to make the moves less painful (some guys do it intentionally, especially to "break in" new guys or to guys they don't like, sometimes it's just that the wrestler hasn't learned enough yet to cushion the blow). And you'll hear that some of the other wrestlers are basically refusing to work matches with them because they don't want to get injured. That's also why, when you see a "special guest" like Robbie Amell, for example, they're generally only going to do a handful of pretty basic moves, and maybe, depending on what kind of shape they're in and how much time they were available to work on the match with the wrestlers ahead of time, they might have one "big" move they do in the match. In spite of all the training, and all of the effort they put in to avoiding the worst of the pain and impact, they still walk out of there aching, bruised, and, of course, flat out injured. On a related note - is Rusev someone who works stiff? Anyone know? I'm specifically thinking of that injury to Ziggler's throat/neck from that stuff with the Rusev holding the crutch to his throat. Of course, I also saw some rumors that something actually did end up happening between Ziggler and Lana, so that may have been a little payback for that. Of course, it's also possible that that whole little quadrangle is just cursed, since every time one of them comes back from injury, a different one goes down. Summer might want to start living wrapped up in bubble wrap once Lana returns from her injury, because it's her turn next.

I love Zay. I think he fits in nicely as the kid who's friends with them, but still a relative newcomer, so he gets to voice some of the "this shit is ridiculous" reactions that viewers may be having.

People exist who don't hate clowns?

I vote baby manatee. They're adorable, and they can just keep it in the pool and toss in heads of lettuce every day. I think Ridge is just about up to that level of parental responsibility (and when he starts getting lazy, Pam will take over).

Carly is so much her mother that the baby has inherited her mother's red hair. That's the kind of power contained in Sonny's deciding who the mother of his child is.

Ah, yes, that lovely era where no one left town without being in a body bag. Because who ever heard of people just moving away? That's crazy talk!

So, it's not all bad. On an unrelated note - is the whole secret coming out in early November? Liz's part in it and all? Because when that comes out, and Cujo eventually comes at her, frothing at the mouth, I want Liz to very calmly look her in the eye and say "it wasn't my secret to tell, bitch."

Really, Liz's speech to herself at the NB about how everyone in town has done awful shit and been essentially rewarded for it, living happy lives, may as well have been the viewers talking. What Liz is doing is wrong, no question, but on the sliding moral scale that is the town of Port Charles, it's definitely not even in the top 10 of worst things people have done. It still needs to be redeemed in some way, no question, but as long as the various killers in town are still walking around on screen, she doesn't need to be run out of town in shame.

Agreed. The vast majority of NLG's followers are people who know her from her soap roles. So when she tweets, it is going to reflect on the show/network, even though it is her personal account. If your social media account is remotely associated with your job, then you'd be wise to keep that in mind when posting, because if you tweet something offensive, the reaction is inevitably going to be sent your employer's way.

I assume Max isn't there because he's fat? (I kid. I kid.) Poor, dim Milo. Wasn't one of the reasons he got out the danger? So, yes, jump back into duty when there's clearly a new mob war brewing, and stand guard outside the door of the mob boss who was just shot, so you're the last line of defense between him and whoever is trying to kill him. Seems like a smart, and not at all dangerous, move.