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Paige, which part of "taking romantic advice from Rosa, the same woman who thought you were in love with her because you returned her texts within a certain window of time" seemed like a solid idea?

To be clear, I'm not speaking of ALL kids, some kids are mature or aware enough to get it (although I'd imagine it's a bit easier to understand what Mom is doing when you are living a rather comfortable life). Also, I'm not saying that Katy is all about her career. I was saying that her dissatisfaction in life is about her career (and, of course, being abandoned by Kermit). But, to a kid, that may not come across clearly, especially in a situation where a kid has already been abandoned by one parent. It's not unreasonable to think that a kid in that situation might feel like "Mom's life sucks because of me." Of course, it's not true, but emotions aren't always rational. A big reason Maya wants Shawn to be with her mother is because she probably feels like her father left because of her (again, not rational, but fairly common), so if she can bring this new guy into Katy's life, she'll be making it all better for both of them.

Can't wait for the jazz hands.

It would be kind of amazing if this whole thing was a plot by Aly and Ivy. That's why Ivy pulled out her camera to film when she got there instead of getting out right away. Just one big elaborate mind fuck on Steffy.

That bugs me, too. It comes across like he's just saying stuff like that now because his back is against the wall, and he didn't really care, before Ron got fired, how many fans were saying that the show didn't feel like GH. So now that the convenient scapegoat is gone (and, don't get me wrong, Ron bears a LOT of the responsibility for the shit state of the show), he's going to act like he's "one of us" and wants to see the show get back to being GH, as opposed to the reality that he was at the helm for the ridiculous decline in the show's quality and bears just as much responsibility (if not more, because if he really does get that the show wasn't GH for a while, then he did not a fucking thing to change that for too long).

We were at the Raw in Chicago last month, and after the televised show was over (Cena and Cesaro closed the show in a really great match), Cena grabbed a mic and got in the middle of the ring really talking up Cesaro, talking about how he's earned his chance and how good he is. Stuff like that (along with his Make A Wish stuff and the fact that, whenever he's on Total Divas, he's often the only person in the room with any damn sense) is why I can't hate Cena as much as the general crowd does.

Their relationship would almost certainly be more interesting if he pursued her because Robin was off saving Jason.

If the writers are going to use that line of thinking to justify crap like that, I just want to see the characters in town start saying that in response to things like "how could you get involved with him after he had you shot?" "But Luke raped Laura!"

Sigh... If Ivy is going to go "bad," all I wanted was for her and Quinn to team up and be the most interesting characters on this show, as they plot and scheme and look amazing. Why can't I have nice things?

Liz and Sam have been all over the map with how they feel about each other. More often than not, it's a "live and let live" relationship. I don't think encouraging Patrick, if she thinks he seems happy with Sam, is remotely out of bounds for her. And nobody on this show observes normal "waiting periods" for relationships after death/divorce/breakups. In real life, yes, but on a soap, I don't expect to see characters discouraging their friends from "too soon" relationships all that often.

I don't understand how her "pimping Sam and Patrick" before she knew about Jake makes her a terrible friend. As far as she knew, Robin chose to leave, so Patrick was free to move on. Both Robin and Patrick are her friends, so she was being supportive of Patrick finding happiness after his split with Robin. If Patrick and Anna couldn't figure out that Robin was, once again, being held captive, then I don't see how we can expect Liz to have pieced it all together on her own (with a lot less pertinent information to go on, to boot).

I think that, as outside viewers, with more life experience than Maya, we see this. But, I think it's believable that a seventh grade aged girl didn't view it that way. Kids that age can be rather self-centered. She wouldn't necessarily see what her mother was doing and sacrificing so much as she'd see "my mother is never around for the stuff I consider important." And when you add in that her mother had this desire to be an actress and clearly wasn't happy with the life she was living, that can come across to Maya as not being solely about her career (which it is) and more about her whole life, including Maya.

To be fair to Maya (and I do agree that Maya has taken up the focus of the show which should be on the daughter of Cory and Topanga), before the birthday episode, Maya's mother was portrayed that way, to a degree, where it would reasonably seem, from Maya's point of view, like her version of her life was accurate. We had the scene at the diner between Riley and Katy when Riley tried to get her to go to the art show. And we had the birthday episode scenes between Shawn and Katy, where she admitted that she let Maya think the worst of her rather than being honest with her about their situation, leading to Shawn's "she deserves to love the parent who stayed" line. Now we see a good relationship between Maya and Katy, but up until that birthday episode, we saw something entirely different. The show is rushing this Lucas/Maya thing now. You have to put some time between establishing that Lucas and Riley are just friends (or have a brother/sister relaionship) and Lucas suddenly being into Maya. We started the last episode with Lucas still being interested in Riley and now we get this. Neither one of these two would do this to Riley. If we waited a while and saw some natural lead in, or some big moment where their previously unrealized attraction to each other comes out, it would be one thing. But what they're doing right now kind of comes across like we're supposed to just memory wipe everything Lucas/Riley and pretend that we haven't seen Lucas showing up to ask Cory for permission to take Riley on a date, Lucas showing up with a horse for Riley, their first kiss, etc. "Just pretend it didn't happen kids, because some fans on Twitter see a bigger spark between Maya and Lucas."

That's my guess. And they probably told him to request that his parents stop seeking out tweets about him to respond to.

I wonder what kind of shit you could get away with in Port Charles if you were bipolar AND Helena was involved?

I love LLC, but Olivia... I like her when she's not around Sonny. I love her relationship with Dante and her relationship with Lulu. I think I could have really liked Ned/Olivia if the show hadn't let WK slip through their fingers (or written the whole dead baby lie thing). But with Sonny, it's just rage-inducing. If they aren't willing to write her having the appropriate attitude around him, then just keep them out of each other's orbit and let them be polite when family ties dictate they are in the same place at the same time.

The only reason I can remotely think of as to why is that he "got her back" from Michael. (Of course, that was only after Michael dumped her ass, but Morgan's not too swift.) So she's some kind of trophy in the battle of the brothers.

Now it's changed to "WHY WON'T SONNY DIE?????"

I believe that the second JMW signed this contract, we were all supposed to forget that Liam has repeatedly chosen other women over Steffy when given the opportunity. And that their "love story" was her obsessing over him after she couldn't get his father and him accepting her as his backup warm body when Hope wasn't right next to him. It would be almost hilarious (if not annoying to watch) to see how quickly they changed gears on that "love story" if Kim Matula signed back on long term.

On the plus side, Sabrina defending Sonny makes it far less likely that we're getting a retcon where she's ClinkBoom baby. All "surprise" soap offspring start off hating their soon to be revealed bio parent, not kissing their ass.

Sadly, I think that what the show is expecting us to think is "Poor Steffy and Liam have been through so much to be together. Those big meanies Ivy and Wyatt need to leave them alone and stop trying to ruin things for them!!"

Surely some kind of FDA warning exists that advises against that sort of viewing? I was half waiting for Joss to walk into the room five minutes later, and when Carly said "wait, you're supposed to be with your father," she responds "that was a month ago, Mom! You saw me sitting in the living room watching TV when you came home yesterday to pick up more clothes to stay at Sonny's house. We talked! I asked if I could go to the mall, and you said 'ask the nanny to drive you.' Remember?"

If Julian was smart, when Shawn was accused of shooting Greenlee, he should have paid some low level flunky to confess to the crime, keeping Shawn out of jail and free to continue on as Sonny's main hit man. It's just safer for Julian that way.

Sending you cyberhugs, OhioSongbird.

Part of me thinks that the reason they haven't had Lana on is because they don't want to show that she's actually American. I know they obviously don't mind us seeing that some stuff is fake (like whether they're faces or heels), but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't want to completely break her character like that. Although, with Dolph being brought in for this story line with Nikki, Lana may end up on screen, since if I'm getting the timing right, the stuff Total Divas is airing right now was taped right before Dolph started working with Lana. On a side note, I think I came really close to being on screen in this episode (I think it was this episode). We were at Extreme Rules sitting right along the wrestlers' entrance from backstage. When they showed the Divas going to the ring, we were probably a couple feet outside of the camera shot.