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Those Liz/"Jake" scenes, to me, were fairly standard, classic soap. How often have we seen a character see someone they're becoming interested in come out of the shower not fully clothed? If it wasn't Liz, I'm guessing it wouldn't have been so appalling. As someone who likes Liz and likes both BH and BM (and sees the rather obvious chemistry between the two of them), I liked them. I'll take that kind of thing any day over pretty much anything else on this show that doesn't include Michael telling Carly and Sonny how much they suck. Is he Embalmed Toonces now?

Caroline, at least, seemed sure, from the start, that he'd get over it and want to work things out with her, so I can see her accepting it, because it's what she expected. Add in that she's feeling guilty and confused over her feelings for Ridge, and I can see her not stopping to think that Rick is playing her. Ridge, on the other hand, should smell a rat. I assume it won't be long before Maya arranges for Ridge to find out about Rick's plan. She may pretend to Rick's face that she's fine with whatever he needs to do, but she's not going to be happy with Caroline being in position as Rick's wife, when she thinks that she's entitled to that role. So if she can find some way to make sure Caroline knows Rick's sleeping with her while keeping her own hands clean (and letting Ridge dirty his hands), she'll jump on it.

I think what's dangerous about Sadie (to those of us who want one of the other two to win) is that she not only has what is likely a similar voting base to Bristol's (which got her to the finale, as well), but she can really dance and is winning over fans that way as well. Bristol could not move like Sadie can, so while she rode her fan base to the finale, once it was down to her and two other dancers, she fell off, because the rest of the votes were only split over two other dancers. I think it's generally easier for those big built-in fan bases to get someone to the finale as opposed to winning it, because during the rest of the season, the people voting for other dancers are spread out over a larger number. Just to throw some random numbers together to illustrate - if Dancer A is getting 25% of the total votes all season long, that's great right up until the time there are only 3 left, because then it's less than their "fair share" of the votes, and at least one of the other two is going to get more than she does, possibly both will. The worst Dancer B can do and still beat Dancer C is around 38%, and that is still a big margin over Dancer A's 25%. The issue with Sadie is that her dancing and performance quality has gotten better as the season goes on, so she's likely picked up voters along the way. So if she started out at 25%, she could be up to enough of the fan vote to win it by now. There really is a legit chance she can win. It'll be interesting to see where Janel places. My gut says 3rd. Back when they did the immunity week, I thought it was done to keep her in, because she wasn't pulling the fan votes she needed. Obviously, she picked up enough to make it to the finale, but I wonder how much of her making it through is based on her scores (didn't Tom say she's had the most perfect scores of the cast this season?). My guess is that she pulled in just enough support to squeak into the final 3, but that'll be it.

The cynicism in the comments on that article, yeesh! My first instinct in reading it was that he loved her, he knew she was nearing the end, and the two of them had talked about marriage, so he wanted to be able to give that to her. He also wanted to marry her years ago, and maybe he felt like even if it could only now be a marriage counted in days (or hours), he still wanted to marry her. And I took her turning him down to be that she didn't want to be married like this. The people on there saying if he wanted to marry her he had plenty of time before she got sick - well, we don't know, for sure, how long they were together or whether they were. We know that he wanted to marry her back during their first relationship, and she didn't think they were ready (or, at least, she wasn't ready). this isn't something he came out of the blue with. And it's not like she had been pining and waiting for years for him to marry her and he refused until right this minute. Also, I think it's kind of cute and sweet that when she said "I don't like rubies," he came back the next day with an entirely different ring. I'd imagine that it made her smile, and I'm guessing that was his ultimate goal.

The beginning of their relationship is perfection. Just the way he looks at her... I swear, I was beginning to think I was the only one who loved Ian on PC. (And I even liked Ian/Lucy.) And, yes, I hated Patrick. Damn "Brown Penny" shit. Definitely one of my favorites. I still remember him all flustered and nervous, playing with those straps hanging down her shoulders. Zach could never stop touching Kendall, and TK did so well portraying that. With all the paparazzi and tabloid coverage the Forrester and Logan clans seem to endure (i.e. everyone in creation knowing all about Hope's love life), how is it that we haven't seen things like reporters questioning why Katie doesn't have a real damn engagement ring yet? The man's family business has some in house jewelry designers, and he still can't manage to put an engagement ring on her finger?

I think they mean in terms of viewer votes in the finale, that the freestyle is the deciding factor. And I think that's accurate. You've got a lot of potential voters who were voting for someone who has been eliminated during the season, so if they vote in the finale, it's likely going to be because someones FS wowed them. There are also those who don't vote every week but vote in the finale. Again, those are likely to be for whoever wowed them the most in the FS. Then there might be those who are torn between 2 or more couples, and they wait and see what the FS shows them. There have been a decent number of times in the past season where someone who maybe wasn't the best dancer all season came out and wowed the audience with their FS, or the star who everyone thought was going to win came out with a lackluster FS and lost. This season, possibly more than any other, I've seen a lot of people saying "I like all of the couples left, I'd be happy with any of them winning." I'd imagine that, for those viewers, their votes would likely come down to the FS round. The judges' scores have always generally been fairly equal for the FS round (save a few instances where they had to acknowledge an obvious difference), so it's never been that the FS wins it with the judges, but I think it's always been said that it is what wins it with the fans.

I think part of the reason they kept it brief precisely because it's never been done on the show before - so they couldn't be certain how it would go over. So on the off chance that it turned people off, it was only a segment of their dance, and there was still plenty to love. I think they did a good job of leaving viewers wanting more, in a good way (not in the "I kept waiting for that to become something more and it never happened" way that we've seen in some dances over the years). I didn't watch a lot of the rehearsal footage, but seeing comments here about how this was something Mark had always wanted to do, it reminded me of Chelsea's season. Wasn't it her freestyle that Mark kept talking about how much he'd always wanted to do? At the time I remember thinking "but this isn't about you, Mark, it's about Chelsea!" (I still consider that season Mark's douchiest. There was something so off-putting about him, and I think he really cost her votes as the season went on.) My take on all the freestyles. I found Janel and Val's kind of tame and boring. It had that whole "waiting for more and it never comes" thing going on that I mentioned above. Yes, his brother won last season, and yes, it was doing a contemporary that relied partly on the amazing chemistry Maks and Meryl had. There are a few problems with Val trying to replicate that - first, most of the audience probably identified that as a strategy right off the bat. So it loses a lot of credibility (in terms of it being a genuine, heartfelt moment). Next, the Val/Janel chemistry is nowhere near what his brother had with Meryl. It was authentic (although the show did their best to cheese it up), and Val and Janel have come across as trying too hard at the chemistry thing all season long. Finally, they focused on the wrong thing. Meryl and Maks danced, and the chemistry supported the dance. Val and Janel came across more as "look at our chemistry! And here's some dancing to go along with it." There was certainly nothing wrong with the quality of their dancing, but it didn't have a lot of impact, and right now, 12-ish hours later, I can't point to any particular moves other than the dive off the platform and the really awkwardly done kisses. I kind of wonder, too, if Val was unintentionally revisiting another of his brother's more iconic partnerships in Maks/Mel, with his star's schedule negatively impacting their rehearsal time leading up to the finale, leaving them without the kind of freestyle they could have likely done if they had more time. Bethanny and Sadie suffered from two different versions of the same issue - both of their freestyles came across more as group dance numbers than a couple dancing with some back up dancers. Add in the ridiculously overdone lighting on Bethanny's dance,and it was really hard to focus on her through a large portion of the dance. As soon as the dance started, I thought to myself that it seemed like a good idea for one of Derek's production numbers (either on tour or a Macy's number), but it wasn't the best concept for a free style here, because it really took the focus off his star. Yes there were parts where she was intended to stand out, but, overall, it didn't work for me. For example, that lift, I watched and thought "I assume that's her, because it makes sense that the star would be the one in that lift, but I couldn't swear to you that it is her." He should have done something styling-wise to make sure she stood out. Maybe make her costume a different color? It might not have gone with his concept, but it would have incorporated showing off his star into the concept. Alfonso was just pure fun last night. I thought he did great on both dances, but, especially, the free style. They did a great job of incorporating different styles, and they used the back up dancers appropriately, in my opinion. I know it may have seemed odd to some to have that brief segment of just the background dancers, but it was to accommodate a transition, and it worked within the overall performance. This reminded me of Donny Osmond's free style (although Alfonso is a better dancer), in that Witney took a true good old-fashioned performer and let him be that. Of the four free styles last night, I thought that Witney did the best job of crafting a performance that catered to her star's personality and performance level. And the two of them were so clearly enjoying what they were doing. I think Derek absolutely knew they were going last night. I've long suspected that the show gives the pro a heads up when they're on their way out the door. It became really apparent when it was down to Bethanny and Janel. Janel looked like she was going to cry or puke from nerves while waiting, and Derek and Bethanny just looked kind of calmly resigned to their fate. Maybe they don't tell and it's just that the pros know how things work after doing so many seasons of this show, and they get a gut instinct when it's time to go, but, whatever the case, those two pretty clearly seemed to know they were on the way out. And I've seen that scenario play out many times over the years - where the star who ends up staying looks near a nervous breakdown waiting for Tom and Erin to get to it, while the one going home looks calm and resigned. Last night's judges comments to Alfonso made me nervous. They weren't negative, by any means, but stuff like Len saying that he hopes America gets it right makes me really nervous that the judges know something we don't know. It's not like I can't accept either a Janel or Sadie win, both have had some wonderful performances this season, but Alfonso is just head and shoulders above the rest, and his partnership with Witney has been so damn fun to watch. I'd hate to see them not win it.

"And I'm thankful for the one time my bullet found its mark, because I'm still alive and I have my former friend's family around me."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_General_Hospital_characters_(2000s)#Asher_Thomas That's what I found on the doctor who killed AJ. According to that, it seems like Alan's involvement in the story came after AJ's "death" when Asher tied him up and tried to force Monica to help him escape from town.

Wait, has Ava ever been in the same room as Fluke? Because Fluke mentioning being gone for 6 months opens up the door to Ava being Fluke, and she had to ditch the disguise once she started showing. Not that I think it would matter to Ron if we had all clearly seen Ava and Fluke on screen at the same time if he did want to do that (not that I genuinely think it will be Ava).

While I didn't want AJ dead (then or now), I at least semi-respected that they had the balls to acknowledge how fucked up MyKill was by having him be the one who killed him. That they immediately backtracked and wrote that hot mess instead was absurd.

Considering that "Jake" very clearly wants to be around Liz and has shown no interest in Sam, I don't see how Liz is in their faces. As for the Jake issue - I think Liz paid a far higher price having to have her child killed off so that Sam could have Jason's baby than Sam paid in having to go through fertility issues (that pre-dated Jake) before getting her miracle JaSam baby. Considering that "Jake" very clearly wants to be around Liz and has shown no interest in Sam, I don't see how Liz is in their faces. As for the Jake issue - I think Liz paid a far higher price having to have her child killed off so that Sam could have Jason's baby than Sam paid in having to go through fertility issues (that pre-dated Jake) before getting her miracle JaSam baby.

Wasn't it actually AJ they tried to implicate in that plot - the doctor who ended up being retconned as killing BW's AJ was one of the doctors who treated Jason after his accident. I thought there was some bizarre "twist" where he and AJ had conspired to kill Jason. I want to say that AJ was concerned that Jason would be too permanently brain damaged, and the doctor, for whatever reason, played those fears up. I think that's why he killed AJ - because AJ recognized him and could blab about that. Of course, it's been a while, and that story line was epic levels of stupid, so I may be forgetting some details.

I think that's why they do it - they know she has chemistry with most of her co-stars, and she has a pretty loyal fanbase to go along with that. Add in that they know BH will work her butt off to sell whatever they give her, and the show sees her as a reliable triangle leg for whatever couple they want to prop.

I think KeMo thought she was coming on to be some badass (I even remember her talking to the media about how excited she was to be coming on to GH to play this strong female character). That went to the wayside pretty damn quickly. "Tsunami of tears" sums it up pretty well. Every now and then the writing staff seems to think "oh, wait, wasn't she supposed to be badass?" so she'll get a day or two of not being Jason's tear-soaked accessory who gets victimized by his enemies, but then she's right back to the status quo once they get bored with it. Obviously she hasn't been Jason's accessory for a while now, what with him being "dead" and all, but I fully predict that we'll be right back to the scratchy-voiced tearfest almost immediately after his identity is revealed.

Well, hell, we can say that about anything any character does - Ron shit, Guza shit, same shit, different writer.

I haven't been on since yesterday afternoon. Part of me is disappointed we haven't worked up to Liz climbing 150 flights of stairs in the midst of Hurricane Katrina, while kicking poor faithful, certainly didn't just screw Maxie in their marital bed, Lucky down the stairs so she could force Jason to have sex with her (after she poked multiple holes in the condom), and then taunt Lucky for the next several years with a constant video feed of her sexfest with (a completely unwilling) Jason.

She has zero idea this is Jason.

Agreed. I don't know that he would have posted anything like he did if he wasn't inundated with tweets from fans who were worried about him. So he did one post about her and another essentially thanking everyone for their support and signing off social media for a while. The whole gist of both posts was "I love her, I miss her, and I know I will be OK, but I need some time for myself for a while."

I feel fairly sure it came from someone among her circle of friends and family. It's interesting that whoever it came from isn't identified. Regardless of the source, though, it was really inappropriate of People to publish it. It seems like she tried to keep that aspect of her life relatively private (as much as she could given that their relationship played out on TV at various points), and I can't imagine she would have wanted that kind of thing to be publicly hashed out in the immediate aftermath of her death. Both People and whoever their source was should have taken the high road. Regardless of the official status of their relationship at the time of her death, it's obvious they were still close, he still cared about her, and he's hurting now. And if some fans like the thought of their relationship having endured to the end, what's the real harm? It seems petty to go after him like that.

Most of the time, I view "we have no story for this character" as a polite way of saying "we have zero interest in writing for that actor." I wasn't watching then, but I'm guessing this is the case. I can't imagine they couldn't find story for Rick, given his pedigree and established relationships. When JY was available, after a strong run on AMC, they suddenly decided they had interest in the character again. Side note: having seen him now here, on GH as Lucky, and on AMC as JR, I think JR was definitely his strongest performance (or the character that was the best fit for him). He's miles better here than he was as Lucky, though. Miles.

Isn't this what a lot of people expected though? He's still that character, but he's going to be affected by ALL of his life experiences now - not just Jason Q and not just Jason M. What I want to see, personally, is the guy with Jason Q's mind and heart dealing with the things he did as Jason Morgan. I'm not convinced, by a long shot, that this is what Ron will do (or that he'll do it right if he's trying to do it), but that statement does match up with what I think the character should be at this point. That he's going to go through a transition in figuring out who he is doesn't negate his connections to his family.

I try not to read Ron's interviews. Is he claiming this isn't Jason? Because that would be a flat out lie. My guess would be that Ron is trying to be what he considers "clever" and he thinks that there are actually people who don't know that "Jake" is Jason.

Sadly, that would be a lot better than whatever the hell Ron's doing with this Fluke stuff. Felix better sell that "I'm so excited" shit though. (Although maybe he should get Nina to guest read that part, because I have a feeling that MSt doing the Jessie Spano scenes in that one would break the UCG scale.) Better make it U#GH, just so Ron would be sure to see it when he does his twice daily searches for the GH hashtag. I feel like TG is still capable of really good, quiet work, but he relies on the ham to get him through the bulk of this crap.

The only things I could think of that made sense there (not that I necessarily agree with them completely) would be that it's one or a combination of Eric holding Ridge to a higher standard (both because he's got a lot more age and experience on Caroline and has seniority over Caroline in terms of FC) and also because Eric likely views it as Ridge screwing with Rick (and putting Caroline in the middle of that). Yes, Caroline was an active and willing participant (and the one who is married), but I can kind of see why, from Eric's perspective, what Ridge did bothered him more. I have a feeling we're going to see something like Caroline accepting Rick's apology and resuming her marriage, probably under the belief that Ridge doesn't feel the same way about her. She'll have no idea that Rick came back apologizing because Eric threatened to take his job away if he didn't get back together with her. Ridge will back off, thinking that, despite having feelings for him, what Caroline really wants is to fix her marriage, but down the line, he will somehow find out that Eric laid down that ultimatum moments before Rick came back to Caroline with his tail between his legs, and he'll decide to go for it with her. Meanwhile, as much as I enjoyed watching Eric shoot down Maya's bright-eyed enthusiasm when he came into the office by ordering her ass out of there, I'm going to enjoy even more seeing her reaction when she finds out Rick just went back, hat in hand, to Caroline.