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Agreed. IF Jason is going to come back, I think it would be far worse for Sonny and Carly if he full remembers everything about his relationships with them and feels disgusted and hates them than if he just doesn't remember. If he doesn't remember, they can live in hope that they'll get "their" Jason back once he "gets better." If he fully remembers and remembers all of his old feelings but still wants no part of them, what can they do? Knowing Carly, she'd plot to get him in another drunk driving accident and see if she can get "her" Jason back.

Your recovery time from a GSW clearly depends entirely on what would make for more run ins with an ex or future love interest. I'm sure they teach that in med school.

Tell me I did not just see Sonny in the previews in Anna's office demanding details about what happened to "my brother." Do fuck off, Sonny.

If we're going to start holding soap cops to real life cop standards, it's time to close down every soap PD. They pull shit real life cops would never do on a daily basis.

Agreed. Like I said last night, if you're one of the remaining women, you absolutely want Devyn and Cara Maria in the final with you. Maybe not CM before she broke her hand, but now that it's broken, it puts her ability into question. But if you're Nany and you have the chance to potentially take out one of Theresa/Laurel, you go for it. With Laurel drawing the kill card, Nany would have been sitting pretty had she sent Theresa in. Not to mention, considering that it looks like the final is after this elimination, there's no need to worry about who would and would not say your name in a future elimination vote.

Oh, please, no. Besides, I have Nina penciled in for Sonny. The scenery chewing, spastic eyes, and jazz hands will be epic. It's for the best. Patrick's past taste in guy friends was fucking awful. I actually thought it was a pretty solid performance. That shriek reminded me way too much of witnessing my then teenaged cousin react to her mother's sudden death. If Ric escapes, he's alive and well and out there to potentially blow Fluke's whole deal. I'm sure his immediate concern is the safety of his loved ones. If he's alive and on the run, the bad guys may decide to go after Molly and/or Liz to draw him out. If he's dead, he's no longer a threat, so, theoretically, the bad guys would move along. Because I still want to be able to have nice things, I think this can still be swung as Julian being undercover. I know watching Ron's "work" causes hope to die at an alarming rate, but I'm still holding on to this one. Can Rafe please go on a bender and run over Levi? Please?

I agree, Nany was stupid to not stick with Theresa. TJ pretty much threw the ball into her court when he asked her for her vote first on that last vote. You have to figure that, as adamant as he was about voting Cara Maria in, he's not going to throw himself into an elimination to keep Theresa safe, no matter how friendly they might be outside the game. If it had been only Nany who was in jeopardy, then I get her switching her vote. But in that situation, the person who votes first basically holds the cards. And I knew TJ would judge them if Cara Maria's name came out of their mouths. As for strategy, from the women's standpoint, at this point, you want Cara Maria and Devyn to be two of the women in the Final. Yes, CM is tough as hell, but, still, she has an injury, she's not 100 percent. The other girls were probably all doing an internal "Yes!!" fist pump when Devyn turned over a blank card. Meanwhile, you know Bananas is praying CT goes home. He does not want a Final with both CT and Zach in it.

I've been expecting this for a while now. There's some weird subtext in their scenes.

During the Cohutta/LeRoy elimination, my family (yes, my 11 year old is obsessed with this show, please don't call Child Services) was chanting "take the jumper!" when Cohutta had the ball. So we laughed when he actually tried it once. I really think that's your best bet when facing someone who is like twice your size. Yeah, they might block it or you might miss, but it's still a better option than trying to go man to man against someone with that kind of size discrepancy.

Laurel just continues to be the worst this season. She's just so smug. But acting like that to the one person who truly has her back was just way too much. I really do think that she has this idea that she and Jordan are some "power couple" or something, and they're going to reign over all future Challenges (despite his ass already being gone from this one). I'm convinced that Frank's presence is somehow a key variable in the "Zach Douchebag Equation." When he's not around, Zach's likable. It's weird. I was rooting for the guys to vote in Johnny, leaving us with the potential for a Johnny vs. Johnny elimination. (Who wins? America.)

It cracked me up that he was still, while giving her the dress, basically saying "well, I still think he belongs with Brooke, but not my call, so, uh, well, here's your dress."

God, could you imagine the over the top cheesy scenery chewing of that scene?

Ron does love Florencia Lozano. Or, hell, if he did go with Levi as Mac's, he'd probably just go ahead and retcon some affair with Holly. May as well make all the illegitimate Aussie kids who show up in town Holly's with everyone but Robert. Seriously, though, I hate the thought that they could make Levi Mac's kid. If he's finally going to get his own bio kid, I'd prefer that said kid not be a total asshole. Also, I know there would be no biological connection and they weren't raised knowing each other or anything, but ick to Maxie finding out she's sleeping with her father's son.

Yeah, I'll be stunned if Nina isn't fully aware of Sam/Silas and playing the innocent wheelchair bound wife. If she doesn't get up and walk around the second Silas leaves her alone at his place, it'll be truly shocking. It's going to be ridiculous when MS launches into full scenery chewing mode opposite ME and KeMo (where the most we'll get in return to said scenery devouring is a "WTF" face from KeMo).

"Nina" is actually Bill Eckert, and "Luke" is actually Nina.

Did we ever find out who killed him?

I was ready to throttle him when he played the "technically, she's not your daughter" card. Die in a fire, Levi.

Tonight was the first time I've tried voting by phone, and Maks and Meryl's number was busy for quite a while after the show. I'm hoping that's a good sign.

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.