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It would be nice if they surprised us and had Ivy say "no thanks" if he comes sniffing around her.

I will be stunned if Nik suffers more consequences than Liz does. It's always the women's fault in Port Charles. (Unless, of course, the woman in question is Carly.) Like you said, the lies started with Nik. Also, Nik is doing all of this for far colder reasons - money and power. I'm not excusing what Liz is doing by any means, but she's clearly mentally off here, and she's operating based on pure emotion (and has enough decency still to at least look like she feels like shit for doing the wrong thing). If I had to guess, Nik will come out of this with people a little angry with him, but he'll get a nice new bed buddy out of it (Greenlee), while Liz will be Satan, and people will probably threaten to take her kids away from her. Although, to be fair, who would really want Spencer? Maybe his punishment should be spending more time with that little shit.

Shh! I could swear I saw a rumor the other day that Higley might be on her way out at Days. I don't even want to contemplate what she'd do to GH.

That just reminded me of one of the little moments that made me laugh (and showed how much Peyton has grown into playing Lucas) - when Charlie mentioned her notebook, and Lucas said to Riley "you showed him the notebook?" It was mostly in his delivery.

They were both asked why their skin looks so much darker in the after shots, and Bryan said "probably the lighting." You can totally tell they're wearing something tinted, though. And I was horrified to see some fan asked him for information on it for her daughter "she has sensitive skin." That won't go well.

It would probably still be Jordan's fault "I wouldn't have been living at Sonny's house to get shot if you hadn't put Shawn in jail!"

"Morgan's surprised by what he learns" - "Over, under, around, and through..." No more velcro for him!

I like the "before and after" photos he and Kelly posted, where they both are clearly wearing tinted moisturizer in the "after" pics, and they both labelled it something like "this stuff really works!"

I did have to laugh that Steffy's so busy running around trying to blackmail and extort everyone to cover up for her that she forgot one tiny little detail - be cool around the cop. I was half expecting her to just start dripping buckets of sweat right there...or her face to just start melting under the stress. Apparently FUN!!! and "badass" don't include "able to keep your cool when speaking to a member of law enforcement."

So help me, if Lucas dies in service of fucking Brad's story line...

Show giveth - Joss is in Australia with Jax; Show taketh away - Sonny plays magnanimous Mr. Drummond to TJ's son scorned, encouraging him to not ruin his relationship with his mother because poor little Sonny would do anything to get his Mommy back. TJ, the man killed his son's bio father, how is that not worse parenting than your mother having the nerve to work for the cops in taking down criminals - criminals who kill without remorse (when they can hit their targets)? I remember when I used to like TJ. Fucking Ron. In "God I'm relieved Ron's out of there so he can't do this" news - if Ron was still around, I'd fear that the Lulu/Dillon convo about the remaining embryo was going to lead to Dillon somehow sharing that information with Valerie and Valerie stealing the embryo, knocking herself up with it, and passing it off as the product of her ONS with Dante.

I thought that was odd, and then we got the post-coital conversation about how they need to give themselves completely to each other, which means he needs to be on her side in this thing and not go deleting the video. So I guess we're supposed to think she screwed him to manipulate him into staying on her side? On a related note, I'll take this as one more woman who seems more satisfied after sex with Wyatt than she was by sex with WafflePong.

And, unless I've missed a throwaway line (or tweet) that he's out, he's been in for a while now. So, killing someone to save others is bad. Killing someone because you hate them, going to prison and breaking out right away is fine as long as, during your breakout, you interrupt someone else who is already in the process of saving a boatload of passengers from the bomb that was planted and grab the bomb to take it the last two feet into the water.

At this point, since most of the explanations and good stuff happen off screen anyway, I'd settle for them just going with "actually, Julian knew all along that the baby was fine. He went along with the lie because he wanted to protect the baby from his mob enemies." End of story. Wrap it up, dig a hole, bury it, and never speak of it again.

Connie was mentally ill. The baby she left in a drawer was the result of her being raped. In contrast, Ava was, as far as we can tell, in complete control of her mental faculties when she offed a woman to keep her brother's identity a secret, a secret that, it turns out, her brother wasn't even half that invested in keeping. And she was well in control of her mental faculties when she essentially egged Sonny on into killing AJ for her crimes. She's also not mentally ill while she's letting her loved ones believe she's dead, impersonating her fake long lost twin, and sleeping with her "beloved" daughter's boyfriend behind her back. And now it's possible that she once again killed someone for essentially the same reason she killed Connie - because Silas knew that "Denise" is really Ava and could have spilled the beans. I'll never like Nina (unless she kills Sonny, then I'll throw her a ticker tape parade and spend a term of no less than 3 weeks and no more than 3 months as president of the MS/Nina Fan Club), but she's clearly unwell, mentally, and her state at the time that she viciously removed Avery from Ava's womb was due, in part, to her mother's manipulations, which were aided by...Ava. Not saying Ava deserved that whole scene, but of the three women - Ava, Connie, and Nina, Ava is, to me, by far, the most cold-blooded and self-interested with the least excuse to be so. I forgot to add to Ava's hit list - shooting Olivia when she was gunning for Franco.

Valerie's mother died? You'd think she would have mentioned it. Yes, Jordan can do better than Sonny (not that I'm setting the bar real high there..), but I will laugh for days if either Carly walks in on them or someone manages to play a secret recording of them at her wedding to Sonny. I'm all for all of Carly's weddings turning into public embarrassments for her from here on out.

One of the reasons I most need Jason to be more Q than Morgan is I don't want Carly to "get" her BFF the hit man back again. She doesn't deserve to be rewarded like that.

They don't have to erase what they've already written to have Riley decide to be friends with Lucas. She can not want to lose his friendship without having to consider him like a brother. We saw the past episodes, we know she's had a crush on him, and we know he has reciprocated. That doesn't need to be ignored to move them out of couple mode. This episode could have had Eric saying Rachel loved him like a friend. And Riley could have looked at Lucas and realized that she wants him in her life long term, not just as the memory of that guy she dated in junior high. It would have made for a much better message for the kids who watch this show than the "you can't have a relationship with someone who you have too much in common with" crap.

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

She doesn't, but you KNOW that, when the truth is revealed, she's going to be slobbering all over him with "deep down, I always knew it was you!"

This is the thing that still annoys me. We know that the reason Liam was open to her this time is because JMW was signed on for a long term stint this time, as opposed to the short return she was here for when she first tried. But the writers gave us exactly no on screen reasons as to why Liam went from "no, how dare you! I love Ivy!" to "Ivy who? Let's get naked!" in about 5 seconds. We were just supposed to accept that Liam was into Steffy again because they were able to get JMW on a long term contract now (not something to be all that proud of, show). And no, show, cheap plastic parachuting army men aren't reasons.

Just wait until the show catches up to TJ's current injury, and we watch Nattie fret about that.

She gets a portrait of Liam over the fireplace. We can only hope it rivals the Maya portrait.

If this doesn't happen sometime, I'm going to be furious. I'm another one who, now that the show has decided to push the "Riley thinks of Lucas as a brother" thing, sees more chemistry between Riley and Lucas. In this ep, Lucas really came across as into Riley, specifically in that hallway scene after Charlie asked her to the dance. If they're going to continue to push that angle, I hope that it's to have all four of the main characters remain as friends for now (because they're young). Because if they're going to try to sell to us that Riley wouldn't date Lucas for fear of not maintaining their friendship long term and then turn around and have Maya date him and risk ruining her friendship with Riley, I'm not going to buy it for even a second. My take on Jack's shock at seeing Riley is that he probably knew about the kids, but they haven't seen each other in years. So, to him, Cory having kids is something that feels like it just happened not too long ago, and all of a sudden he's looking at this teenage girl, old enough to go to dances and date. One of my oldest friends sent us an invitation to her daughter's Sweet 16 party. My response was pretty much "of course we'll be there, but 16?!? Seriously? What the hell?" And I see her and her kids and see pictures of them regularly. So I can imagine being completely taken by surprise like Jack was if I hadn't seen them in a long time (and maybe never saw her after she had the kids), and came across her and her 16 year old daughter one day.

Apparently, in Port Charles, all you need to do for a DNA test is put the kid in a room with some motorcycles and pasta and see what they do.