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I hope you're right. I'd add in things like Carly whining that Michael would have the baby raised by nannies to the list of "are you fucking kidding me??" bullshit these two have spewed. Not only did it ignore that Carly had nannies raise her kids, but it didn't take long before we saw a scene of Carly handing Avery off to the nanny.

You take that back!!

I so want the Judge to throw his ass in jail if he doesn't produce her immediately. I won't even dignify the Luke/Scottie/Franco/Nina crap. Lord. I'm beyond embarrassed that I watch this shit.

That's what I was wanting to see Leroy point out - if you want a clear path to win, then take out the guy who wins like every single season. I really think Sarah could have been talked into sending in Bananas instead of Leroy. She wants to win. She said she can't be "nice" if she wants to win. And she noted Johnny's lack of loyalty to Leroy. Yeah, Sarah could have possibly come back at him with "but you've already taken Johnny out once, so you might be the bigger threat this season," but at least try, dude.

She slept with Julian on NYE, right? With the way they date pregnancies, that would actually put her now at just over 2 1/2 months. If it is part of the lie, it just highlights how bad the lie is. At this point, Julian should absolutely still believe there is a very real chance he's the father. He hasn't been involved in a pregnancy really before, but just a minor amount of research, or, say, talking to the woman he's involved with who has had 3 kids, would tell him that, at this point in the pregnancy, the aging of the pregnancy is largely an estimate, based on information self-reported by the mother to be.

For me, it's stuff like him losing his shit on Zach for not making Wes/Theresa go first in that challenge. He went on and on to Zach about how being in an alliance with him doesn't just mean he doesn't send him into eliminations, but that he has to stick his neck out for him, blah blah blah. When have we seen Johnny legitimately stick his neck out for anyone? He surrounds himself with layers of people who do his bidding and then become disposable when he runs out of other targets. And, in that specific instance, it would have been ridiculous for Zach to intentionally piss Wes off, just to make Johnny happy. The odds were high that, no matter when Wes went, he was going to win, because everyone is aware that swimming is his strength. Zach singling him out would only serve to potentially move the target Wes had on Johnny's back to Zach's back. We're never going to see Johnny willingly and actively take someone else's hit. As evidenced this week, when Sarah pointed out how readily Johnny let "his boy" Leroy get tossed in to the dome. He wasn't remotely interested in sticking his neck out for Leroy. I get that everyone gets into alliances to serve their own purposes and advance. And that's fine. But he gets so holier than thou with everyone when he doesn't do what he expects everyone else to do. Again back to this week - he ranted and raved at Leroy for aligning with Wes once Johnny and Nany were eliminated. Please. If the situation warranted it and Johnny's other alliance members were gone, he would absolutely try to come to some agreement with Wes to protect his own ass and mutually go after someone else. But Leroy was supposed to...what? Somehow know that the Exile was going on and keep the home fires burning for Bananas until he, fingers crossed, triumphantly returns? Leroy did exactly what Johnny would have done - made deals to protect himself in the game. Yes, Johnny doesn't like Wes, so that means, Leroy isn't allowed to play with him? Johnny expects a whole lot of blind loyalty from anyone in his multi-layered alliances, even though he wouldn't return that same level of loyalty.

Sonny set up a car bomb that went off when his daughter was in the vicinity. Because he didn't like the guy she was hanging around. When there was a hitman shooting at Sonny, Kate, and Michael, Sonny chose to protect Kate over Michael. Michael ended up in a coma for a long time. And, again, when Morgan was being born, Sonny, because he couldn't control his temper, shot Carly in the head. These are a smattering of the instances where Sonny's choices and actions directly damaged his children. There have been countless instances where his kids have been around for his whisper-shouting, bar ware flinging rages. Not to mention, when Carly was taking too long for his liking to get over that whole "Sonny shot her in the head" thing, he used the kids as pawns to punish her. I'd call that emotionally abusive of his kids. And, yes, the Q's had their favorite. So does Sonny. And, yes, AJ sometimes suffered for not being the golden boy. So has Morgan.

Killing her kid was not remotely about her. It was about giving TG a "dark" Luke story and about clearing the decks for a JaSam baby.

AJ didn't get nothing - he got two cold-blooded killers, each responsible in their own way for his death, throwing him a memorial boink over his dead body, literally. What finer tribute can there be than Sonny giving some woman 30 seconds of...whatever in your crypt?

I remain bitter that they ruined the Liz/Matt potential. They had a nice spark, and it wasn't messy or tied up in Liz's past. And Matt was a good character who got trashed for...reasons. Getting thrown in jail for killing someone who was actively trying to kill his brother and sister-in-law. Meanwhile, Jason and Sonny kill all willy-nilly and nothing.

I've said before that I think Lucky's grotesque line about wondering where the girl was he found raped in the snow was pretty much an indication of how this show sees Liz. That was, to them, the last time she was worthy. And even that story line wasn't about her as much as it was about Lucky, Luke, and Laura.

I definitely don't think Carly is someone who "moves on" either. I mean, she was still going back to ride Sonny's dick when she was with Jax and Franco. And she's considered Sonny and Jason her property for decades. When it comes to being shitty about her relationships with men, Liz can't hold a candle to Cujo's grossness.

I can see them having Lulu help Olivia keep the secret - both because she loves Olivia and because Julian is in the whole Fluke mess up to his eyeballs.

I liked Dante and Olivia today. I'm glad we didn't miss seeing her tell him about her pregnancy. I also liked Tracy and Ned with Danny. It was nice to see the Q's acting like a family and Tracy in scenes that weren't at least 95% about Luke/Fluke. Seeing Sam and Liz as somewhat friendly acquaintances works better for me than Sam/Carly.

A large part of it is because the show loves pitting the character against other fan bases, especially Sam's. Liz is the worst thing ever because she dared to have sex with Sam's property. The show knows that RH can act, can generate chemistry with just about anyone, and has a loyal fan base who won't turn on her no matter what they do to the character. So they use that to prop up other characters and pairings.

I think Leroy would have still blown Bananas away. He seriously hauled ass on that thing.

So Sonny's whole strategy is to just swear that Michael only wants the baby to punish him? OK, well, you do realize that Michael's motives have nothing to do with the fact that you have been proven an unfit parent, right? No judge is going to be all "well, all of your kids end up shot, blown up, kidnapped, etc, but since the person who pointed this all out is doing so because he's mad at you, we'll let you keep this baby you haven't even officially established paternity of yet!"

It remains ridiculous that this case hasn't involved Sonny being tested for paternity. He's never been officially established as her father. How is this not an issue in court?

Can we please just make Sarah and Leroy a team? Or Sarah and Wes? I do think there is a huge element of luck to Bananas being in the game at this point. He was eliminated, and he was lucky that the Exile was even a thing. I remain disappointed that we haven't seen Jonna just haul off and kick Zach in the nuts yet. He has been beyond shitty to her this season. I do like that we're seeing the others commenting on it (like Sarah and Leroy). I hope there is a massive Zach pile-on at the reunion, including a host who mercilessly points out his douchebaggery. I was saying after Sarah and Jordan won, if I'm Jenna and Jay, I'm just going to go hide somewhere in the house where no one will notice us until TJ calls everyone together. No need to rock that boat. Even though the spoilers I read indicated it would be Leroy/Nia going in, I was still holding out some hope that Sarah would switch things up and send in Bananas/Nany. When we had her talking head about not being nice any more and doing what she needs to win, and then her taking note of how easily Bananas let "his boy" Leroy go under the bus, I was really hoping it was the build up to her sending him in both because she sees he's not loyal and because he always wins these damn things, so she should consider him the biggest threat to her winning it all. I was also disappointed in how easily Leroy just threw back in with Bananas and discounted Wes. Bananas was being such a smug, demanding ass, berating Leroy for daring to align himself with Wes when Bananas was gone, like he was supposed to remain unaligned, lost in his grief over Bananas' elimination? Bananas was just pissed that Leroy took him out in the first place. Clearly he and Nia were supposed to "stick their necks out" for Bananas and play dead in the dome.

You know, after paying for the installation of a new hot water heater, I was saying today that I should have married a plumber. Clearly I need to add unemployed ex-con to that "should have" list as well.

I thought Thorne sold that house (which was why Ivy was living at Eric's)?

Michael's constant response to anyone who tries this should simply be "no, Sonny killing my father and Carly covering it up and acting like it was a fucking aphrodisiac ruined my relationship with them."

Do they even know what they're doing with Maya anymore? Now she's gone from Rick's gleeful partner in crime to being clearly uncomfortable with his acting the same way she was supporting just a few episodes ago? Make up your mind, show! Lord I hope Steffy is actually gone. Go cha cha cha your ass on back to Paris, honey. I see Ivy got herself a low flow shower head.

I still think it's most likely that she was in the room most of the night, and is just extending the benefit of the doubt to her friends versus Tonya, given her feelings towards her.

And someone needs to point out that the cover up was the logical outcome of raising your kids to believe that cops are evil, essentially encouraging them to skirt the law as the normal order of things.