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Maybe she and KA can form the "My boyfriend has the same job I do, but I don't like when he does his" club.

At this point, the only rootable couple this show has is Michael/Sabrina. (And who would have thought that last year?) I'd include Dante/Lulu, but they're coated in the "Ron so wants to mess this up" stink.

Can Dr. O then kill herself in grief over the death of her BFF, the Serial Killer?

Why am I not even surprised those rumors proved true? At this point, it's pointless to hope that Ron learns to restrain his worst impulses.

I was going by the previous post stating he was close to 40. I didn't run a background check to determine the exact age. Regardless, people look young for their age, it happens. I'm 42, and I've had a lot of people assume I'm in my 20's. And, again, add in that the character has had plastic surgery, and it makes sense that he doesn't look age appropriate. Hell, he's acting opposite Becky Herbst, who doesn't seem to have aged in God knows how long. Now, when you put him opposite Sonny who (sorry, Mo!) looks every bit of his age, it's really obvious. Has there been any explanation as to why Ric married Nina yet? Or do I need to check Ron's Twitter feed for that?

Watch them have him confide the truth in Valerie, but not Lulu. I did a double take at Jake's claim that he spent 6 months desperate to know who he was. Um, that was desperate? Because I was getting more of an "eh, I really like this nurse, so I'm cool just hanging with her and her kids and get together with Carly for BFF sessions where we braid each other's hair and talk about our love lives" vibe out of his desperation. And when Greenlee showed up claiming to be his wife, he seemed to resent her more than looking to her as a means to get answers for that desperate curiosity. (But, of course, he's SuperJason, so he knew she was really nobody to him.)

I assume sitting somewhere overseas (Paris?) waiting for Liam to show up telling her Ivy means nothing to him and begging her to come home and marry him.

I kind of like the rare times soaps have repeat names. It's "real." I had two different roommates in college who shared my first name. And Nick is a pretty common name. It would be weird if another Thorne or Ridge showed up (unless they were younger generation characters named after Thorne or Ridge), but multiple Nick's, Katie's, or Bill's would seem realistic. So, is all of the fallout for this story going to be everybody getting mad at everybody but the people they should most be mad at?

I think the reason the age thing doesn't bother me is precisely because of something you said here - BM is around 40, but looks young for his age. That's enough, for me to handwave it. Even though SBu looks older, I can roll with it because he had plastic surgery after the accident. (It's far weirder, to me, that plastic surgery changes people's height all the damn time on soaps.) If I remember correctly, Sonny was always supposed to be decently older than Jason. Jason was "legal" but he wasn't that far removed from high school when he had his accident and ended up Sonny's lackey. Sonny was luring all sorts of people who were essentially kids into his clutches back then - Jason, Brenda, Karen, Stone... I think the only thing I enjoyed today (of what I saw before I had to go out) was Dante's moments of "oh, crap, Mom's lost it." He really is too good for this whole damn town.

The problem there, though, is you can't look at what Ron writes and take what any of us see as the obvious and assume that's what he wants to do. And, the more people say it's obvious what he's going to do, the more likely he is to throw a petty tantrum and shift directions, whether it makes sense or not. He lives in his own reality, where he expects people to believe that he doesn't remember OLTL's live week or the "Hell no!" wedding when he goes ahead and does direct ripoffs of them on GH.

Shawn probably confirmed that Carlos Santana is not related to Lily Tomlin.

At this point, nothing Ron does with this story will surprise me. He flat out does not care if his plot points are out of character or even make sense on any level. He wants to do what he wants to do, to hell with logic, history, or a basic level of functioning intelligence. If he wants to have Jake find out who he is and keep the secret, then that is what Jake will do. In Ron's world, anything he writes for these characters is "in character" simply by virtue of "I wrote the character doing it, ergo, the character would do it."

I generally assume that the target audience for any DC show is the tweeners. Some shows skew a little younger or a little older than the rest, but I think that's the channel's general target demographic. Of course, the morning stuff (and now, the Disney Jr. channel itself) are geared towards the preschool age to get those kids locked into the brand before they become tweeners. But the prime time stuff is skewed to tweeners, with enough little moments/jokes to appeal to their parents or older siblings watching with them.

Seriously, it took more show time at the end of last week and start of Monday for Maya to finally spit it out than it did for Rick to process it and ask her to stay.

I've been liking Sabrina/Michael, but I swear to God, if they write Sabrina as the Clink Boom baby, and use her to re-bond Sonny and Michael, I'm throwing bar ware.

Agreed. It's not, to me an issue of "Maya used to be a man," because, as noted, she always felt like a woman. But, the process she had to go through to physically become a woman is something that Rick should have known about before they got to the point in their relationship where a permanent commitment, like marriage, was on the table. Because that does have an effect on them having children, which is something ALL couples should discuss and get on the same page about before entering into marriage. Whether Rick wants kids or not is something Maya should have talked to him about, and then the discussion of "well, having biological children will be impossible for me, because of this, so are you content to adopt or find a surrogate and use a donor egg to have children?" Not giving him the option to thoroughly consider that issue before he was down on one knee, when she knew the proposal was coming, and they'd had conversations about spending their lives together, is dishonest. Plus, this was something major about herself, something that other people knew about her, and the potential was there for Rick to find out from someone other than her. I think it's disrespectful, to someone you love enough to marry, to leave them in the dark about something this important, this central to who you are, and your life's journey, and leave things to potentially come to light via someone else (including the guy you were engaged to before him). That comment was weird. Especially since I don't think there was any indication that Ridge, or anyone at FC was thinking they should fire Maya for being transgender. If Maya lost her job, it would likely be more because she was Rick's hire, Rick's girlfriend, etc, and if Rick loses his place as CEO (I don't know if you were all aware, but Rick is, in fact, CEO), she might get the boot right with him because she's joined in on Rick's abusive treatment of the FC employees. I'll be seriously bummed if we don't get some blow back from Rick, both to Maya and others, over him being pretty much the last person in town to know Maya's secret. I appreciate that he loves her enough for her being transgender to not be a deal breaker for him, and it makes sense that someone who has grown up in the fashion industry in L.A. to be more accepting of this. But, we've been hammered over the head for months with how much Rick hates being lied to. So him finding out that everyone knew and it was still being kept from him until Maya got that ring on her finger should be an issue for him.

Any chance we're not headed for an icky scene where Sonny, upon finding out that Liz knew and kept it secret, lays into her with one of his patented "BetrayingBitchWhoreSlutTramp" bar ware flinging rants? I haven't seen today's show yet. Are you telling me this is an actual thing that happened? Shhh!!! He'll hear you! Take it back! I'm with you, I wouldn't be able to watch that. Buh-bye, Sean Blakemore. Oh how I wish Shawn could have been something better, you beautiful man.

Sonny doesn't believe in business casual for his hitmen.

It looks to me like somewhat in that order.

I'm so happy he's going to be in more episodes. I'm hoping we get at least one with all four of Cory, Topanga, Shawn, and Eric together.

I figure since it's unlikely they ever won't shit on Liz in some way, it's better for Becky to get something she can sink her teeth into like this than being on screen once a week carrying patient charts. I think the original poster meant that Sam saying that stuff to Emma was going to turn Emma into a Maxie type instead of a Robin type, not commenting on whether Sam would be either type.

And ME (as McBain) had a crap ton of chemistry with FH's Anna. GM? None. Not even a glimmer.

Soaps In Depth already bitched for them on Twitter. Something about how disrespectful it was to FrankenRon to cut in. I was dismayed at how many people jumped right in and agreed, but encouraged that a few people, at least, pointed out that it was pretty disrespectful to the victims and their families to piss and moan over the verdict being important enough to interrupt a TV show. Haven't seen the second half yet, but from what I saw of the first half, I kind of wondered if Greenlee was supposed to throw that vase or if RB improvised. Because TC looked kind of surprised (real, not scripted) and RB seemed like she wanted to laugh.

Ron must be ready to spit nails that someone dared to interrupt his epic live masterpiece. Is it me, or did they dye Liz and Greenlee's hair to match each other? If Greenlee's wasn't longer, you wouldn't know for sure who you were looking at from the back and sides.

I think it's less "doesn't remember" and more "refuses to acknowledge that his ideas now are not brand new, entirely created from his own imagination."