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That's what I thought of the first time I typed it out, dubbel zout.

Sam Diane

And Aly almost literally worshiped Hope when she first came on the scene. I'm cracking up watching Liam tell Hope that accepting the diamond will give Wyatt encouragement to hang in there. Yes, Liam, she should totally back off and make it clear to Wyatt that you are the only one for her. You know, the way you always did with Steffy. The tough stance you always took in shutting down her hopes of getting you back was really a model for all who find themselves in that situation. I swear, I love SC, but Liam finds a way to piss me off at least once a week.

While it seems inevitable that Jason is coming back some time soon, there's been zero confirmation that it's BM playing him. I think the origin of the rumor was speculation that it's something FrankenRon would do, and it kind of took on a life of its own from there.

Lord, please let Knight/Jemmye go home first. Please.

I laughed through the whole scene of him clearly barley able to focus his eyes or form words, and her not remotely getting "um, yeah, something seems to be wrong with Silas here." I get that seeing him on the couch with Nina was upsetting and all, but, seriously, he was so clearly on something.

Same here. His "oh shit!" reaction was delivered perfectly. I liked the rest of the episode, too. I thought he spent the right amount of time on the nuclear weapon issue (he made the point, if he'd gone much longer, it would have been overkill). And moving on the gecko thing was two-fold. First, he needed something to lighten things up. Like he said, it's been a depressing few weeks. Second, as mentioned above, he got to drop the contact info for Putin into that segment. You know he was pretty giddy when he had the chance to put the Putin link out there tied to something like geckos having sex in space. (And, really, who hasn't wondered what kind of sex lives geckos would have in zero-gravity?) Going the extra mile and getting a handful of celebs on tape urging "go get those geckos" was the perfect little extra touch. My 11 year old loves John. I said to my husband the other day "I don't even care how many f-bombs he's hearing during an episode." This is a kid who lists social studies as his least favorite subject in school. So the fact that he's engaged in the topics John covers makes me happy.

The Vickerman premiere is pretty much the story of everything that is wrong and right with Ron. That premiere kicked ass on so many levels, not just the Todd reveal (which was the best part), but the OldManNate porn reveal, the movie itself, etc. But, then things went nowhere. Ron writes a great big splashy moment, but he then loses interest once he gets to the big flashy moment he's been planning, and the stories involved just kind of fizzle out, because he's looking forward to his next big splashy moment in another story. Or he just gets distracted by something shiny. It's like he knows the main big story line points he wants to happen, but he never gets into how you get from big moment to big moment, so the stuff in between falls flat. What he doesn't seem to understand is that you then run the risk of people only tuning in for those big moments and then tuning right back out until the next one. For example, when/if we get a big major reveal to the whole canvas that Sonny killed AJ (and Ava killed Connie), a lot of people who aren't watching on a daily basis might tune in to see the immediate fall out. But, once that big reveal happens, and we get to see the immediate reactions, and then Ron completely tanks that momentum, they'll tune right back out. And, pretty soon, more and more viewers are going to join that group, because it's really easy to watch that way in this day and age. You follow along on message boards, Facebook pages, or Twitter feeds, and you know exactly when those big moments are happening, and you know whether anything that might interest you is going on in between those big moments. And you can watch clips of the few things that interest you instead of watching a whole hour live or on your DVR. I don't doubt that Ron knows that there are people out there who tune in when they see that a big moment is happening, but I don't think he gets that those same people aren't sticking around much once it's over, and that it's probably mostly the same "new" viewers who are tuning in for each of those moments, and not whole new groups of viewers each time.

Sam Diane It's getting harder, I don't think there's anyone left on there that I actively loathe, so now I'm going with characters or actors who annoy me.

As I started reading this, I was thinking "it would have been cool if, instead of this 'did Patrick kill Rafe' thing, Silas and Patrick had become friends while working together at the hospital." Then, I got to the rest of it, and, let's face it, Patrick would have never caught on to Nina. Obviously whack job women are his Kryptonite. They can be wearing a fucking sign, and he'd have still taken that Scotch drink even quicker than Silas did. Of course, after the drugging, Silas and Patrick could have sat at the bar at the Floating Rib going "damn, who could have seen that coming?" I so badly wanted him to go to work with Sam as a PI back before he became the mob flunky. Imagine how much better this would be if Shawn was also undercover (which is another thing I wanted for him back when he wasn't awful). His not wanting her involved with Julian would make sense (and not make him a flaming hypocrite), and we'd have an eventual moment where they find out that they're both working undercover (say for different agencies). Shawn could have been so much more interesting, and, instead, they wiped his personality clean and he imprinted on Sonny. Major character fail. While I'm glad we finally have someone, at least, undercover, there have been multiple characters who just scream for an undercover role, and we never get them. And I hate that Ron decided that the answer to fans wanting to see someone like Julian be revealed to be undercover was to bring on a new female character we're not invested in to play the part instead, so he can have skeevy scenes like her potentially having sex with creepy guys to get information. (Side note: Honey, please, if you're thinking of getting THAT up close and personal to the guy you're trying to bust, invest in better tech. Yeah, he totally won't notice that recorder the size of a small brick on you when he starts groping. Idiot.)

I've been watching so sporadically during the summer, since my son is home, that I just realized, I don't think I've seen Ivy yet. I see her mentioned here sometimes, but I don't think I've actually seen her yet. So, she's basically the Steffy stand-in? Way to be creative, show.

Would not surprise me at all. You had to figure it wouldn't take long before some of these people started trying to create rivalries and romantic relationships to be teamed up with strong partners on Rivals and Exes. And Jordan is certainly mercenary enough to do just that.

So, basically, Jordan will probably get shot.

I suspected him from the start, too. It would fit in with Ron's love of camp, because we all know Anthony was campy as hell. Once TG is back and revealed, I'm sure Ron is going to take advantage of the opportunity to have TG play Anthony pretending to be Luke as the campiest thing ever. (If it is, in fact, Anthony.) And I would't put it past Ron to bring in BW so he can do scenes like Fluke looking in the mirror and seeing Anthony.

If Ron thinks that people having sex with someone, knowing that person has DID and is under the control of an alter (and would not want to have sex with them otherwise), is A-OK, then I'm sure someone's notdead wife trying to get it on with him while he's going under from something she slipped him is just "marital shenanigans, we've all been there, right?" kind of stuff.

God I hope Ron takes this idea and runs with it next time he goes scrolling through message boards. I'd pay to see Nina carrying Sonny up to bed.

The fact that Julian hasn't even attempted to take out Fluke/Mickey by now leaves me a tiny little thread of hope that he is, in fact, undercover. And, as much as he'd like to take them out, he is after something else, and taking them out would compromise his mission. Yeah, I know, leave me to my delusions.

You can only eat so much cheap gray paint before you start to feel queasy.

Exactly. Guza tanked the Dobson story the second he wrote it.

Britt Sam

Your cableguide just made this show WAY more interesting.

What frustrates me most about Ron is that he doesn't get this. Most of the people who complain are complaining because they love this show, and they know what it's capable of, they know what he's capable of, what the actors are capable of. They're not just trying to be mean and pick on him for fun. (And, yes, there are some who are just doing that, but that's not all, or even the majority). People are taking the time to reach out to him because they love this show, and they want to see it at its best. I feel like asking him "isn't there anything you're a fan of? Do you not have shows you watch that are usually good, but sometimes have a lousy episode, a disappointing story arc, etc?" Being a fan isn't about blind devotion.

And that Sexis love scene remains one of the most awkward love scenes I've ever seen. It was awful.

Britt Sam

And I just got an image of Ridge, eyes closed, mid-sex calling out Brooke's name, realizing what he said, and covering with "would really hate that we're doing this!" Which would, naturally, make it even hotter for Katie.