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I think we're probably safe. Ron seems to have lost interest in Sabrina approximately 8 seconds after TC told him she was pregnant. We may get one tiny little bit about how Patrick is on the other end of what happened with him and Sabrina, but this is definitely about Sam, not Sabrina (and, clearly, not Robin).

I would bet that was TB's portrayal, because she wanted out of mob hell.

In Hope's defense, it seems like the one thing she's seen through her entire life is that men waffle all the damn time. At this point, I'd think she assumes that a man will make two entirely different decisions about the same situation depending on what day it is.

No one deserves any of that mess of a family he's been cursed with.

I'd think it gives a decent increase over whatever rerun would normally be shown at that time on a week night. I know that, in our house, it's pretty rare to have DC on during prime time Mon-Thurs unless they're doing this. I also don't think it's solely about the ratings bump for any given night. It's also just a little publicity move to get kids excited about the new season. Since new episodes airing Mon-Thurs isn't something that normally happens, it makes it more of an "event." I'm not saying that the shows aired the other nights are going to get higher ratings than the Friday night showing, just that it will likely get more viewers than a rerun of a Jessie episode they've seen a dozen or so times or a replay of an old DCOM.

I actually think that Cory and Topanga, as adults and parents, are pretty similar to how I would have imagined them. Cory is a little over the top sometimes, but I would be surprised to see a together fully grown up guy. He seems to be mature/serious when he needs to be, but, at his core, Cory is kind of a goofy guy. But, you can also see how much he cares about these kids (Riley, Auggie, and Maya the most, but even Farkle and, to a lesser extent Lucas). I also do think that Topanga does have fun and her lighthearted moments, but, being married to Cory, she has to be the "serious" one at times. They've always balanced each other out well in that way, even when they were kids. It might have seemed like Topanga was the "wacky" one, but she was always pretty grounded in herself, for the most part. Sure, she was the "hippy chick" and all, but she never really seemed to do anything without thoughtful consideration. And she's always been portrayed as very intelligent and driven, so it's not a shock that she ended up being a "shark" attorney. I think it would be good to see the bakery set more often (with her there), to give her more to do outside of throwing Ava out, but I'm not disappointed in either characterization. They could have Topanga more heavily featured in the main story line, but, since she doesn't work at the school, it would be really bizarre to have her constantly showing up at school for various contrived reasons, when she's supposed to be at her office during the school day. (Even without the angle of her working, how many "Cory, you forgot your lunch again" drop ins at school could they really do?) And, who knows, maybe it's as simple as Danielle having more of a "special guest star" type contract with the show where she gets paid less per season than Ben does but also doesn't film nearly as much as he does. On a related note, I get why so much of the show takes place in the school. A huge chunk of a kid's waking hours during the school year are spent in school. It's a big part of their social lives. It makes sense for a huge part of the show to take place there, because that's where you expect to see kids during the day. (And it gives the kids watching a sort of easy familiarity with the show). It always bugs me when you have a show about kids and those kids are rarely, if ever, shown in school. There should be a happy medium, of course, and I'd love to see season 2 move more towards showing a little more outside the school (which brings us right back to the bakery, which would be a great place to show the kids going after school where they would interact with Topanga more). Danielle does a great job, with very little material, in portraying that Topanga loves Maya as much as Cory does, but she doesn't seem to know Farkle and Lucas much (she knows Farkle better, since Lucas is "new"). Topanga strikes me as the kind of parent who would be very familiar with her kids' friends (especially if her daughter wants to date one of those friends). Showing them in the bakery after school would accomplish that and integrate her character into the show more. Overall, though, I think that, if you're going to get a DC version of a show that originated elsewhere, it's going to be a lot less subtle than the original. Sure, they love that adults are watching, and a big part of the reason they made this particular show was because they knew it would appeal to the kids' parents who have fond memories of BMW, but, overall, their target is kids. So they are going to make the show accessible and understandable to those kids. And it's pretty much a given that they're going to more regularly go for the "silly" because little kids, on average, tend to enjoy that type of thing. I think it will be interesting to see what kind of changes, if any, they make in season 2. It's hard to drastically change things in the first season, and, depending on the filming schedule versus when the first season aired, we may not even see major changes in the early episodes of the upcoming season.

Disney has done the same thing with other shows before. I know they recently did it on XD with Lab Rats (although I think it was just Mon-Thurs, not all 5 days). I don't think it's to shorten the season (especially since each show seems to pretty much have its own season, in an effort to make sure there are a few shows in season on air at any given time of the year). I think it's just a publicity gimmick to get the kids excited about the new season and give the channel a little ratings bump during the week.

Was that a Face Time chat to object to a wedding or a hostage being forced by her captors to film a proof of life video? KM went right past "upset the father I barely know is marrying the woman who was in the same zip code when I took a tumble down those Escher garden stairs and lost my baby" to hostage.

All Felix or Sabrina needed to do was type a description of the pill (size, shape, color, markings) into Google. They could have had this shit solved in seconds.

I don't get what whoever originally wrote the spoiler on about.com was going for here. Nik "knows he slept with Greenlee"? Well, yeah. He was there. And he knew she was a big ass fake before sleeping with her, so it's not like he finds out after sleeping with her that she's the chick who's in town pretending to be Jake's wife.

Please be for Nina's funeral...please be for Nina's funeral...please be for Nina's funeral... I'd also accept her sister's funeral. I'm not unreasonable.

That guy will probably be playing Robin.

I'm not even going to pretend I wouldn't rather watch the whole town serenade Luke in his hospital bed. Couldn't we just watch Duke do the old Purina Cat Chow commercial dance instead?

I'm actually rooting for Dr. O to gut Nina tomorrow. Damn. It's like Sophie's Choice. I love the idea of all three of them dead so damn much. That Sonny/Luke stuff...just stop, show.

I assume that him being the only guy she sees on her romantic horizon bumped him up a whole lot of kindness and goodness points. If Ridge had gone for that finger snapping, Deacon would be coming in a lot lower on the Brooke Scale of Goodness and Light.

Agreed. I know a lot of soap characters cheat, but it just feels so wildly out of character for Dante, especially to cheat with his wife's newly discovered cousin who he barely knows (despite the show trying to sell some instant connection or some such shit). I know it's fairly clearly spelled out that this is where it's headed, but I'm going to hate it. I'll be doubly bummed if they ruin the Lulu/Olivia relationship in the process. Now I want it to be Greenlee. She can show up at Nik's with the baby all "she's totally mine," and Nik will just shrug and accept it, despite having just gone through this with Britt, and despite knowing Greenlee is a liar, because he needs to get laid.

Maxie all but told Spinelli that she was giving it a go because she thought they should be a family for Georgie. They're both idiots. But, I can't dislike Maxie nearly as much as I loathe Spinelli. Passive aggressive douchebag. "Did I interrupt? Were you, just not, comparing his pretty face and hot body to my pasty-faced no chin shlubbiness and finding me lacking? You're soooooo shallow!"

Well now I'm just waiting for Rick to guess that the big secret that Maya has (whenever he gets around to cluing in that there is a big secret from the girl who "never lies") is that she's been lying about her age, is in menopause, and Nicole is her daughter.

Morgan and Kiki standing there staring at the pacifier wondering "where could she have gone" instead of reacting was both hilarious and not surprising. They never fail to bring the dumb.

They really are. "You wouldn't have hurt him. You don't have it in you." You've known her about 15 seconds, Dante. Slow down.

Sadly, I've seen it. Unfortunately, it's no worse than half the shit they have on their network (see, again, the K clan). I could live with knowing it existed out there in the universe (without having to subject myself to it) for the sake of never hearing "cha cha cha" again.

So, E! can keep thrusting the Kardashian clan in our faces, but they couldn't keep JMW so busy globetrotting that she wouldn't be able to sign a contract with B&B? Curse you, E! If Liam even so much as gives Steffy a second glance, I hope Ivy dumps his waffling ass and never looks back.

I thank you for your service.

I really hope Franco does. It's like a double whammy to that idiot, Kiki.

I'm with you. Clowns, ventriloquist's dummies, and mimes. They all must go.