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I honestly don't have a problem with the whole issue of what Cory teaches (versus what he's supposed to be teaching). When you look at the original BMW, honestly, how realistic was it that Feeney followed them through their entire school career? I think the whole main premise of this show is that it's a new take on how Cory (and Shawn, Topanga, and Eric) got life lessons from Feeney (both in school and at home), and now Cory is the one passing those life lessons along to the next generation (again, both in school and at home), and he wants to be like Feeney, it's likely why he got into teaching in the first place. It's not completely realistic for a history teacher to be doing some of these lessons (although why they don't call him a social studies teacher instead, since that seems more common at the junior high/middle school level, is beyond me, it might make the lessons so far seem more plausible as falling under his umbrella), but it's a kid's show, and I don't think their main focus is strict reality to the real world school environment (and, really, not many kids' shows do portray a realistic version of school, so this is hardly a new issue). Also, sometimes, teachers do go with lessons that aren't considered typical for their area. Right now, my 6th grader is in an honors language arts class that is a little non-traditional. It's the only class in his schedule that takes up two periods (even the other honors courses are just one period), and their current project is that they're working on one of those "real world" things, where each kid was given a packet telling them what they do, what they make, what their expenses are, how big their families are, etc, and they get new issues each day that they have to integrate into their lives. It doesn't strike me as very language arts (I'd expect it to be more in a social studies or math class among the classes his grade level has available to them), but it's good for the kids' overall education. Again, I think a lot of the issue would go away if Cory was labelled a social studies teacher and not a history teacher, because social studies gives a bit broader of a range of potential topics. It incorporates history, but not solely history. But, overall, I don't have a problem with it, it works with the show's overall gimmick. Now, having said that, it wouldn't kill them to have another teacher on the show - a friend or rival for Cory, maybe someone the kids feel more comfortable confiding in about certain issues, or a principal for all of them to interact with. Something.

It gets more ridiculous by the minute. Because, of course, Helena hands her a phone once every other day or so to make calls to her police chief mother. Why wouldn't she? I'd have never thought it was possible, but Ron sucks at writing a character offscreen even more than Guza did.

I think they're pretty intent on going the Franco/Nina route once they finish with the Franco/Carly/Sonny and Silas/Nina stuff. I'd bet anything that Ron and/or Frank think they have a new Todd/Blair in Franco/Nina - the two outcasts who start bonding as friends over their schemes and problems. Now, don't get me wrong, I don't think Franco/Nina are worth a pimple on Todd/Blair's ass, but I think that's the show's plan for the immediate future. And since Sam is moved on over into Jason and Patrick story, that leaves ME out in the cold, once they wrap up Silas/Nina and move MS over to RH. I just don't see where they've made even a tiny effort to set Silas up with a future beyond his current situation, where I see the effort that has been made to keep Franco going. Silas has lost his love interest, and his presumed dead ex-wife spends a whole lot of her time bonding with another guy or plotting with her nurse. And Sam has taken up the mantle of researching Rafe's role in the hit and run, with Patrick by her side. Silas has nothing to do onscreen unless it's being on the receiving end of a Nina scene here and there. They may as well have put Silas in a coma and let Nina spout crazy monologues at his bedside in between scenes with Rosalie and Franco.

Except that the devil he knows got him put in prison and raped last time, not for killing Claudia, but for going along with their absurd cover up. This instance is an even more cut and dry self defense case, and he has a non-mob adjacent witness in Rosalie to support that. Add in that he has a brother on the PCPD, and it's just absurd that he didn't think twice about calling in Sonny to hide things versus calling in Dante to do things the right way. If anything is going to get him made an example of or treated harsher for the second offense, it would be the second offense of going along with his idiot father's lying and covering, when it was made explicitly clear to him last time that his punishment was for the cover up, not for braining Claudia. Yes, this is tied to Sonny's business, but it doesn't involve Sonny doing anything illegal until the exact moment that Sonny starts going into cover up mode instead of letting the police handle it. If the devil you know gets you thrown into prison and raped, then how much worse could the devil you don't know be? Add in that it's not the devil he doesn't know - it's his brother, and he knows, from last time, exactly how that devil would handle things. Dante bent over backwards to help Michael while still doing the right thing last time. I don't know, if Days picked him up and there was the potential to see him reunited with KDP onscreen, I could see a decent number of viewers tuning in over there to see how it works. Whether they stayed would depend on how it pans out, but people would go check it out, I have zero doubt.

It wouldn't surprise me if Franco bought it there. I assume he spends most of his down time at amusement parks, carnivals, and the children's museum. As soon as Michael uttered the words "Shawn, call my dad, tell him we have a situation," I was stunned and pissed. This is a guy who went to prison and got raped there because his father (and company) convinced him to lie and cover a justifiable death. This is an even more justifiable death, the guy had a gun held on him, and Michael struggled to get it away from him, to save himself and an innocent bystander, the gun went off. It's beyond ridiculous that, after everything that went down then, after Judge Country's (completely justified) rage against Michael's family covering up Claudia's death, etc, that Michael would even think of calling Sonny instead of Dante here. Even Shawn can plausibly cover knowing about the hit man being there, and just stick with his "I came over to talk to Michael about something, heard some noises that made me feel something was not right, and I grabbed my gun before going in." If Michael and Sonny go forward with covering, I hope Dante finds out and rips everyone involved a new one for being the biggest idiots known to man. Seriously, does Ron even know about this rather major storyline from the not so distant past? It makes NO sense. (I'll buy that Sonny would be stupid enough to go there again, because he's not the brightest bulb in the lamp, but Michael is the one who lived through that prison time, and the rape. He should absolutely be all about avoiding that.)

Agreed. I don't want to see it at this point. I can't imagine how much groveling to Brooke I'd need him to do to get to the point where I wasn't pissed off that she took him back. And I actually thought KKL and TK had chemistry in those initial scenes, but his attitude towards her ruined that for me. I say let her be with Bill and let Katie be stuck with her "win."

That is beautiful and heartbreaking. I think he's putting himself out there like that because it's for her. And he likely has that feeling that there is so little he can do for her, so he's doing what he can do - be there for her and ask others to support her.

This show has given me the impression that there is some kind of law in L.A. limiting the length of time you can remain unmarried. Why do I have the feeling that the Ridge/Caroline mess is just a way to spend time clearing away the Ridge/Katie relationship while KKL is gone, and then they plan on re-uniting Brooke/Ridge when she returns?

He played a couple of guest roles on Disney Channel shows before taking GH, so I can't un-see him as a kid. (He was cheesy good as an evil Wizard on Wizards of Waverly Place, though.) Kiki/Sonny! If I can't get Nina/Sonny, I want Kiki/Sonny. KA did have a lot of chem with EV and, especially, BB. I could have shipped Johnny/Starr. I think she's always been better at chemistry with older guys than her general age range.

That's heartbreaking. The poor girl. I pray she can somehow find it in her to fight this. She's in for a rough haul.

Same here. From what i remember, their refusal to let her out of Sonny's clutches was at least part of why TB didn't stick around. The reason I liked TB's Carly was because of how damn good she was will all three of those guys. The show's refusal to fully go there with even one of them was infuriating.

It doesn't help that my son was watching a Suite Life on Deck rerun the other morning, and LG was on it as the younger sister of one of the main characters. So now I'm really looking at her as being young when I see Caroline on screen. Before I first saw the scene play out, I thought that was what it was going to be - Caroline would be drawing and Ridge would tell her what to draw, suggest changes, etc, while she did all the actual drawing. This shit is just weird and inexplicable.

I remain bitter over the lost opportunity of Matt/Liz. It's second to Ethan/Kristina on my missed opportunity bitter list. With regard to Robin's options - she wasn't even making demands and Victor arranged for her husband and daughter to get into an accident to remind her who was in charge. I somehow doubt her making demands would have worked out well for her or her loved ones.

I'm torn, because while I'd like to see BH and BM together (provided his Jason is going to be at least partially re-Qed), I'm also more than eager to see Patrick left with some Stiletto scars on his back as Sam leaves him like roadkill on her rush back to Jason. I don't want to see Liz play temporary plot point love interest for Jason on the way back to Jasam part 30. Give the poor girl a real relationship already (one that isn't with Nik, because, ewww.)

I don't think it has ever really been clear that she left of her own free will. Quite the opposite, when we had scenes like Victor showing up at her house to remind her he could get to her family any time he wanted, and then, even after he had Robin there doing the work, he arranged for her husband and daughter to get into an accident, just to remind her of his reach. This was not a case of Robin going "yay! Jason!" and leaving skid marks on her family's backs to go revive him. She was in pain and torn, and it was made clear to her that, while it was posed to her as an "offer" she really had no choice but to accept that "offer" if she wanted her family to be safe.

But Patrick knew she wasn't in Africa, so he wouldn't expect that she had her passport with her to be at a clinic in New York.

From what I know of the history there, he'd have to be older. Deacon wasn't around until after his birth, so Hope would have to be younger than him. (Not that chronological birth order really matters to soaps all that much.)

If we get Dillon back, I want him played by someone good, not...that.

I swear, I'm not a violent person, but this? Is going to send me into a violent rage. It would probably be for the best if Ron and I never cross paths. Seriously, could he be more intentionally aggressively clueless? What really pisses me off is that I know Ron is capable of better. I've seen it. So this is even more infuriating. They really, really need to get co-HW in there who can reign him in. He's too far up his own ass to turn things around on his own.

if she does lose the baby, and Liam does another one of those obnoxious "Yes!" fist pumps, I hope she kicks him in the balls, walks away and never looks back.

Since Liam and Hope can never be "at fault" it'd have to be something like Wyatt deciding to take her rock climbing or some other potentially dangerous activity where she can have an accident and lose the baby.

I'd be shocked if he isn't in her bed soon enough...unless she has the backbone to not let herself be his "next available body while I wait for Hope." But if she's willing, he's there.

The producers are clearly thrilled that they now have twice as many Houghs to do vanity numbers for. I don't believe I'm about to take up for Mark, but... I thought it was kind of shitty of the show to decide to include that "Len doesn't know anything about country or jazz" bit in there. I think that it was something off the cuff Mark threw out there to try to make her feel better, and I'd be willing to bet that they could fill an hour long show with clips just like that from the other pros over the years. Sometimes, when someone is feeling down like that, you throw something like that out there to try to make them feel better, whether you believe it or not, especially someone young like Sadie who they've already said is very sensitive. I think her father's tweet was miles worse. Wish Michael would have gone. Fingers crossed for next week.

My gut feeling was that it's being skimpy around Michael that she wasn't comfortable with. He's certainly pinging my creep-dar via TV, so I can only imagine what it's like in person, one on one. Michael is that one dad at the high school who makes all the teenage girls and teachers feel really uncomfortable, and he thinks they all adore him. To give her the benefit of the doubt, I kind of wonder if when they initially approached her to do the show, she maybe even expressed the whole "I'm not a ballroom dancer" issue, and they assured her "oh, no, we want someone to come in and shake things up and bring a fresh perspective," so she felt kind of shocked to be dinged for exactly what she thought she was there to do. I did enjoy the hell out of Carrie Ann's side eye reaction shot, though. Julianne's hair was so, so WTF. Did she let two toddlers style her hair with a hand mixer? It seemed like they were busting out some old story lines all at once - the front runner stresses and gets critiqued by the judges, Derek's partner has an injury, Allison had her "Maks moment", etc.

Could they please, pretty please, photo shop Sam into the purple leotard picture with him? OK, I need this to be how this goes down now. Franco will become a much more palatable character for me when he's full on screwing over Sonny and Carly. Between the time slot change and me needing to leave earlier to pick up my son from school than I did last year, I feel like I'm slowly being weaned off this show. I'm usually out the door right after 2:30, so I'm missing the whole second half, and while it's on my DVR, I only go back and watch it if you guys make it sound like something interesting happened in the second half of the show.