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I perked up when CAI said "why isn't Derek having Amy dance?" And then, of course, we got that "dance with your soul" crap. Should have known she wouldn't really take him to task for that.

I can have convenient soap ethics with the best of them, but I can never get on board with the idea that, if I don't like a soap character, it's cool to steal their baby. It's not OK that Sonny, Carly, and Jason stole AJ's son from him for his entire childhood, and it's not OK that Britt stole Lulu and Dante's baby. That kid is not Britt's. Her wanting him to be, her loving him, her being "good with the baby," doesn't magically make him hers. And Lulu's hands certainly weren't clean in the whole Connie/Georgie mess, but she was on the receiving end of a huge mindfuck there. Maxie chose to lie to Lulu and Dante and not tell them about the miscarriage (thus not allowing them the chance to grieve and process that loss) and not telling them that the baby she ended up carrying was, in fact, not theirs. She handed that baby over, still allowing them to believe it was theirs, and kept her mouth shut until Brad blew her lies out of the water. I don't think anyone would handle it well when the baby they believe is theirs, who they love and bond with, is suddenly revealed to not be their child and the cruel lie perpetrated on them by their best friend, someone they trusted with something so important and personal. Britt was a whole other ball game. She always knew that baby wasn't her own. She wasn't desperate to be a mother, or even all that interested in being a mother, she merely wanted someone else's baby as her pawn to try and get a man back who didn't want her. Yeah, she finally ended up bonding with the baby, but she knew he was never hers, so that's on her and her choices and her pathetic need to have her bitch of a mother's approval so much.

Agreed. I think he'd be the one pro who I'd trust to really be fully impartial and judge on the actual dance. A 10 from him would really mean something.

This! I don't blame Amy for the fact that Derek has her sit on her ass for over half of a dance, because Derek's the one making those decisions. I blame him, and I blame the show (and, especially the 3 fools slobbering all over him every chance they get, week after week, season after season) for getting him to the point where he thinks it's totally fine to shortchange his partner's ability to learn and grow by hiding and masking. Yes, SOME of the jazz dance being done on a table (or chair) would be cool, but I swear, she took, maybe, what, six dance steps down on her feet without her ass or back on that table? That's on Derek. And it's on the judges that they fawned all over it and, even when the out of sync issues was directly mentioned, there was only one of four judges who managed to shake her lips off Derek's ass long enough to drop a point off their score for such a glaring mistake. When CAI is the rational one, the rest of them have a problem. So, yeah, any shade I'm throwing, wondering about whether Amy's freestyle is going to be her sitting on the judges' table while Derek does one of his Macy's dances, that's shade being thrown at Derek and the judges. Although, a moment of contempt for whoever did Amy's makeup for their last dance. Whenever the camera was close up she looked like a rough truck stop waitress about 20 years older than she is. Side note, I REALLY hope we're not getting a guest judge for the finals...unless turnabout is fair play and we're going to get Val sitting in that seat after Julianne doing it twice.

Total bullshit. Of course, Charlie is adorable even in defeat. I can't wait to see what piece of furniture Amy spends 90 percent of her freestyle on next week. The kitchen counter? Maybe she'll just scoot around on the judges' table? I have a question, though, is someone going to get the boot before the finals start next week? Or are this week's scores/votes basically meaningless?

Wow. Peta did a rumba and didn't come out with her in her undies and James in boxer briefs. That may be the shock of the season. CAI might want to grab a hold of her dignity, though. "I've been waiting for you to do a rumba!" and going on about James being a naturally sexual person? Honey, please. Just...stop.

What in the actual hell? If it was anyone other than Derek and Amy who just spent 90 percent of their dance with the star sitting/lying on a table? Oh here go hell come. At least CAI pointed out the beyond blatant out of sync issue (she was, what, 4 beats ahead of him for a bit?) Everyone else got down on their knees and kissed Derek's ass.

For his tween/teen fanbase, it's apparently the shit.

James and Peta were tweeting that they'd give away signed pictures to any fans who could show proof they voted for them 1,000 times last week.

Gee, I guess Maks/Meryl and Charlie/Sharna should have been bribing their fans to game the system, too?

I thought I had some vague memory of Frank saying he wasn't doing it any more, and comparing himself (favorably in his own mind) to the people who do them over and over. Not that I'm shocked he's a huge old fame whore, but I thought I remembered something along those lines.

As soon as Nikki said how much she loved that house, you knew the "big mystery" with John was going to be that he was buying it.

Well Patrick clearly considers them to still be married, since he was well aware she was leaving and told her that he loves her and will wait for her. If he thought her leaving was a deal breaker on being married, he'd have done something about it. It's not like Robin just crept out in the middle of the night with no warning. She told him what was going on, and, while he's not happy about it, he also chose to remain married to her.

We were discussing this last night, and, we were thinking it's best to go either first or last. If you go first, you have a 1 in 6 chance, which is the best odds you'll get. Going last means that you've got 5 chances ahead of you that someone else will pick it and you never even need to pick a card to flip. I think, with 6 flipping, it would be the worst to be in that 4th or 5th spot. Yes, there are chances that one of the first three get it, but if they don't, your odds suck by the time 3 or 4 blank cards have been flipped. As for the order, it should be random (and maybe it was and we just didn't see that process), like production drawing names out of a hat or the cast members drawing numbers from a hat.

I've thought for a long time that it was going to turn out that Maxie was pregnant with twins and only lost one of them when she miscarried.

Britt might want to look into taking responsibility for her own choices. Somehow, in her useless mind, the only person who has done wrong here is Liz, and not, oh, I don't know, the person who stole a baby and lied to the man she "loves" over and over about stealing his sister's baby. Nope, all Liz. Poor widdle victim Britt. Sonny/Britt 2014. I'll keep putting it out in the universe until Ron makes it happen.

I'm just surprised Levi isn't played by the guy who played Ford on OLTL.

There's no way I'd be able to buy Britt as young enough to be Coma Baby. Of course, that just means Ron's more likely to do it. I mean, in a world where RHo and James Franco are the same age...

Also, they have no interest in Robin being a front burner character year round. So it would seem that Robin popping in and out when KMc's availability lines up with potential story would be the best solution to both for the time being.

I can't stand what seem to be the popular new characters - Britt, Dr. O, and Brad. I'll at least give KG (Dr. O) credit for being a better actor than the other two, but all three are nails on a chalkboard or useless to me, depending on what they're doing on any given day. I've never seen Dr. O as "fierce" or anything remotely close. She's pathetic and wasted her entire adult life pulling scheme after pathetic scheme to get Faison to notice her when he's clearly had no interest in her or their daughter. Then she manipulated her daughter into doing her bidding in yet another failed attempt to get Faison's attention. And her daughter has just followed her lead in obsessing over men who want other women (hell, even Nik, who proposed to her after knowing her for 10 minutes only did so because he didn't think things could work with the woman he loves more than her, not that I approve of Niz in the least). Add in that she's become this show's Babe Carey, the baby stealing pig, and I'd be happy if she dropped off the canvas never to return. As for Brad, he's a skeevy sexual harasser who decided he's suddenly in love (twice) and paid lip service to wanting to redeem himself while still keeping huge secrets about illegal/unethical acts he aided and abetted, affecting the family of Insta-Love #2. And, shallow end, neither Britt or Brad are pretty enough to make it worth it to just zone out and enjoy the pretty when they're sucking up my screen. Thank God Britt didn't have a kid with Brad's sperm, that sucker would have had teeth down past it's non-existent chin.

Exactly! Patrick's not around now anyway, so why couldn't he be "not around" with Robin, just living off screen and called into duty when they have something for him to do?

It's really very simple - you bring them back if they are available and you have story that matches up with their availability. If only one of those elements is in place, you don't do a return at that time, because it won't work.

Entirely a matter of opinion. Shows have done good jobs with limited returns in the past, and they could in the future. It just depends on if the writer can be assed to do so. Ron should do his damn job. Regardless, though, the solution is not recasting Robin. KMc is a HUGE part of the reason people are still attached to the character. Throwing someone else in there isn't going to resonate with the audience who still wants to see her. Kimberly isn't the one who is letting the Robin fans down with her availability. Ron's the one letting the audience down with his inability to capitalize on opportunities when they present themselves only to then turn around and try to throw the blame for his crap on the actors.

I actually gave them a bit more leeway to slam Candace for the rhumba, because you have to wonder how much Mark's choreography was affected by her "some things are only for my husband" crap. (Yes, honey, and no one is asking you to go out and fornicate on the dance floor). If the rhumba didn't look like a rhumba because the star refused to go there, then I think it absolutely should be reflected in her critique and scores. From what we saw, though, Charlie had no such hang ups (and I'd be shocked if he did, given his background, I'm sure he gets that it's not about anything other than performing the character of the dance). So if Peta failed to put together a proper rhumba, that's not because of his tying her hands.

Again, that's on crap writing. The writing isn't going to magically get better if they recast, but the performance and connection to the role and audience will suffer. So we'd have crap writing AND no reason to emotionally invest in the character. I'll pass.