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Oh, Dillon, don't ask Morgan to read.

I spent that whole montage of speakers in fear that they would. I was so relieved when it didn't happen.

Yes, it was definitely season 1. Riley was noticeably younger looking than she has been in the S2 episodes, as was Auggie. Add in the season 1 opening credits, and it was pretty clearly taped then. I wonder if the whole theme weekend was supposed to happen earlier than it did, because otherwise, it makes little sense for them to have taped this last season for airing after several S2 episodes have already aired. (Of course, I also think it's odd that the mystery episode of Jessie is apparently the series finale. So the timing of the theme weekend already seemed off to me.)

Yep. I started feeling somewhat misty when Oliver tried to talk and just turned his head and cried, and then Thorne got up there, and I was a mess. It's criminal that they're just going to throw Thorne back in the basement after they get done gutting him by killing off his only child. If he had said what he said in a smaller scene with, say, Rick, Maya, Steffy, Ivy, Liam, Caroline, and Eric, outside of the memorial itself, it wouldn't have been so bad, because I do assume that what you're saying was the point - he feels guilty. Maybe his guilt stems from the fact that they all should have known something was up, but they were all so busy fighting over FC that nobody bothered to pay attention to how much the bullshit that went down affected Ally's state of mind. They let their business machinations negatively affect a mentally unhealthy young woman who is a part of their family, and nobody noticed exactly how affected she was until it was too late. Now, I know the start of the damage to Ally came from the bullshit Rick and Maya pulled on her, but everyone else failed to think beyond "Rick and Maya were behaving like assholes and their behavior towards Ally is one example" to realize how much that behavior had affected Ally. To the Ridge/Liam/Steffy side of the equation, she was just one more example of how shitty Rick had behaved to use as justification for a takeover instead of their niece/friend/cousin who was hurting and needed their love, support, and help. Maybe if every character, except, what, 3 or 4, wasn't either a Forrester or a Spencer, we wouldn't have to fear that Thomas being back can only mean that he's going to try to sex up his father's girlfriend. There are literally no age appropriate women on this show who aren't related to him or involved with one of his relatives. I know a half hour show needs to have a leaner cast than an hour soap, but come on, Bell, throw in some women in that age group who aren't part of what are apparently the only two families in all of L.A.

I so wanted this. Right around the time he showed up, there was a spoiler out there about there being an unknown Q hitting town. It would have been easy enough to retcon him as a Q - say Allison was really Alan's daughter, from an affair her mother had with him while married to Amanda Barrington's son. Rafe could have been tied into the Q's, he would have been involved in the ELQ stock story at the time. Instead we got whatever the hell that Rafe story was. As usual, it came across like Ron had a new shiny toy for a while, and then he got bored and threw it in the garbage as soon as someone dangled something else shiny in his face.

This would be easy enough to write, too. Just have Sonny get in some turf war or a battle with Ava, where Avery isn't necessarily hurt at all in a confrontation, but it scares Michael enough that he gets her back. (And if they want to redeem Sonny some, have him decide not to fight it after some soul searching, realizing that he has put his kids in danger too many times and can't protect them as long as they're a part of his life.) As for Liz/Patrick..part of me would be into it, because the two of them have good chemistry and I feel like Patrick might be back to his old self (or at least close to it) with Liz. But, part of me doesn't want to ruin the Patrick/Liz friendship, which I love.

This. That has always bothered me, and is just one of the many examples of how petty and immature Ron could behave. He took some internet comments about how the old Joss actress looked like one of the children of the corn, and he turned it into a running joke with the new actress - a joke at the expense of a little girl. It's just as bad, if not worse, than the "AJ is fat!" jokes at SK's expense. (I say "if not worse" because SK, at least, is an adult. What Ron was doing to him was gross, absolutely, but I feel like it becomes extra gross when you're talking about a grown man writing jokes about the appearance of a young girl.)

I think Nik needs to be raked over the coals a lot more than Liz. Liz is doing this one thing, and it's most likely going to be explained as some kind of mental/emotional breakdown in response to things like Jake's "death." Nik is, so far as we've been shown, just being a selfish, greedy bastard. And he's actually orchestrated a lot of shit, like the takeover of ELQ, where Liz basically had her lie fall into her lap. I don't actually expect Nik to get more shit than Liz (or even as much), because that's not how this show rolls, but I'm going to be pissed when it ends up that he basically gets a "tsk tsk, you naughty boy!" while Liz spends a while having people screaming "Lying Whore!!!" as she walks down the street.

Or "until the world's least accurate hitman tries to take a shot at you and hits me by mistake."

Was it Pratt Falls? https://www.youtube.com/user/grrarrgghh/videos?view=0&sort=dd&shelf_id=1

The only thing I can think of is that she was going to try to film the confrontation to use to show Thorne and/or Aly's therapist to show how out of control she's gotten. But she ended up getting a lot more than she bargained for. I know I should be all "it was self-defense, she's innocent!" But, I hope that Steffy gets her FUN!! ass busted for this. She lied to the police and she threw the weapon away. When the only hardcore evidence they have is what's on Ivy's phone (if she turns it in), Steffy will have lost all credibility to make her self-defense claim believable.

Time to go head over to Costco and buy a vat of brain bleach. When I think of the "God, who's next??" possibilities in Ron's current apparent fascination of mother/daughter triangles, each possible set makes me progressively more grossed out. I won't even name any of them, for fear of putting it out into the universe.

I'm also assuming that he's married already. But, I'd tweet nice things to Ron for a month straight if his secret is that the last time Britt was in town, she spilled wine on his favorite shirt, so he snapped, killed her, and stuffed her in the freezer, and he's afraid Lucas will find her when they go to put the top layer of their wedding cake away for their first anniversary. Yeah. Even though we all know that Liz has more than one reason for wanting to keep Sam at a distance, it makes perfect sense that she isn't ready to throw all this information at Jake two minutes after he's been returned to his family. Throwing another (presumed dead) father into the mix would be confusing for a young kid on top of what he's already been through. Olivia's reaction is the one and only thing I'm looking forward to in that mess of a story line. Only because Ron needs her to still be nice to Liz until she finds out the Jakeson secret. Then she can spout about betrayal and shit and act like Liz owed her any loyalty.

Someone needs to clue Tony in that there is more than one "type" of alcoholic. Just because a guy doesn't wake up trembling for a drink first thing in the morning, doesn't mean he isn't an alcoholic. Unless the ass they're kicking is Ron's, they aren't getting it together.

Let's all just hope they don't bring in Taylor to be her psychiatrist.

I'm completely disappointed in the lack of Ron meltdown over TG's exit interview. Did someone at the network change his Twitter password on him or something?

I remain convinced that Carly already knows this, and is the one who messed with the DNA test. She needed that baby to be Sonny's so she could use her to work her way back into Sonny's life after he shut her out in some lame effort to get Michael to forgive her.

If Ron has anyone wishing people into the cornfield, we all know it will be Joss.

Does she also now think her mother was the backbone of FC or something? She was ranting about how this is not what her mother and grandmother stood for. I'll give her having claim to her grandmother being at the heart of the company (not that I'm saying Stephanie would be on her side), but Darla? Honey, you can bitch about what Mommy would want if someone is doing something you don't approve of at Spectra (if it even still exists).

If he's playing 2 years younger than he is, that gives them about a 4 year window to age him up, although it will work best if they manage to do it right around the time of a growth spurt. But, yes, styling him differently and maturing his dialogue will go a long way.

Clearly he knows how this show works. If you're not in Sonny's world, you're not going to be a leading character for more than a few weeks.

I'm going to put my money on

Yeah, the only way Cory won't somehow still be involved in the girls' school is if Augie's also aged up and he's his teacher. But, I think that's a long shot. The show is about Maya and Riley, so he'll somehow be in the thick of things with them at school. If he's not their teacher, then he's going to have to be Principal or VP. Speaking of Augie, though, if we're time jumping, what are they going to do with him? (Unless the actor is actually older than Augie is supposed to be now?) I don't see them wanting to recast the role. And if they plan on Ava being his Topanga, then they have to age her right along with him.

I won't care if they "Helena" away an explanation, as long as Josslyn's kidneys are evil and somehow make her kill Sonny and Carly in their sleep. I'd be the one sitting in there going "the bears. I know you're not going to actually get bears to eat my family, you don't have that kind of budget. Now, if you asked if I preferred Franco and Carly or my family drowning in cheap gray paint, then I'd have to give it more thought."

So his new excuse is that we just don't want it enough? That's why his show sucks?