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I'd be good with bringing Matt back for Liz (I loved them and was disappointed the show never fully went there), and resurrecting Cooper for Maxie.

The ring was given back by Hope due to Steffy's manipulations, but Liam is the one who made the choice to give the ring to Steffy instead of trying to find Hope and work things out with her. That's on him. And, yes, Hope has slept with two brothers (although not at the same time), just as Liam slept with two sisters. Honestly, one of the most annoying things about this is that, with JMW leaving the show making it so they couldn't carry on that triangle any further, they decided to essentially re-do the Hope/Liam/Steffy stuff with Wyatt/Hope/Liam, complete with he interfering parent (Quinn) trying to manipulate the situation to get her preferred outcome to the triangle. Had JMW not left, I'm certain we would still be getting Liam waffling. The only difference would likely be the addition of Wyatt to make it a quadrangle, and we maybe would have had Quinn conspiring with Steffy to help get things to a Liam/Steffy and Hope/Wyatt outcome. Yes, Liam told Steffy "no more" but that was written entirely because JMW was out of there. Before she was gone for good, the show seemed intent on writing Liam as having real feelings for Steffy. Not the same feelings he had for Hope, but feelings just the same.

I'm not getting a vibe that Topanga doesn't like Cory. I see a lot of affection there. Even when she's "mad" at him, she's smiling and seems more playful.

Other than "that was then, this is now," I fail to see how Hope accepting a diamond from Liam's half-brother is worse than Liam giving Hope's engagement ring to Hope's stepsister. To me, it's not even as bad as what Liam did. While Hope acknowledges that Wyatt likely thinks this is his in to get her back, she's going into this with the mindset that this is about the line, and she accepted it on behalf of the line, not as a reflection of her relationship with either man. She didn't take off a diamond Liam gave her and replace it with the one Wyatt gave her. Liam isn't waffling at this exact moment, because his other waffle option is out of the country. If Steffy was still in town, as soon as Hope got together with Wyatt before, Liam would have been in Steffy's bed, despite what he told her at his and Hope's botched wedding attempt number 532. Hell, I'd lay decent odds that, if she was still in town, right after Hope accepted the ring at the press conference, Liam would have been letting Steffy "comfort" him over the "betrayal."

But he's really not. If Danny gets sick again, he wouldn't hesitate to donate again. And the storage procedure Silas was talking about doing was something he said was experimental, if I recall correctly. So, if Julian did donate for the storage experiment, and Sonny went ahead and killed him, Sam and Danny would be screwed if that doesn't work, because Julian isn't there to donate any more. And it's not like Julian is saying he won't donate unless Sonny gives him a billion dollars or gives up some of his territory, he's simply reminding Sonny that, if he's dead, he can't help Jason's child in the future. If Sam should be pissed at anybody, it should be Sonny - his business is why Jason is dead, and he's continually threatening to kill her father. That the people in Sonny's circle treat people who want to go on living as the worst is just ridiculous. And I'm counting Sam in there (one of the many reasons I kept voting for her in the Elimination Game thread). I'd love Julian to turn him in for theft. When Anna shows up to question him, he can be all "but he helped his sister escape from my custody!" So Anna can charge Sonny with theft and kidnapping. If he did, I assume Epiphany sang "Danny Boy" during the service. If AJ was still around, I'd love scenes of Morgan deciding to become more a part of the Q family. There'd be some poetic justice in Sonny's biological son deciding to bond with the family of the son Sonny stole. As it is now, though, there is so little of the Q family around that it makes it hard to enjoy it.

Maybe Rafe can be retconned to be the Silas/Nina child, then Nina can off herself in grief.

Kevin Nik (I'm bummed that I didn't even get my Sam vote in on Sam Death Day.)

OK, I'm confused, since I started watching shortly after the whole gondola incident. So, please, someone clear this up? My impression was that Hope saw Steffy and Liam kissing, she got pissed and gave her ring back to Liam (who, if I have read things right in the past, didn't know why she gave back the ring?) Liam then, instead of even remotely trying to clear things up and find out what caused that turnaround in Hope, spitefully handed the ring over to Steffy, figuring "well, since Hope still hasn't slept with me, and she left her ring without telling me why, then I can marry Steffy here and get laid." Steffy and Bill decided to hurry things up so she and Liam could be married before he and Hope had a chance to get together and talk things over, which is why he and Steffy were getting married in Aspen almost immediately after his proposal (again, with Hope's ring). Hope found out they were getting married and tried to get to Liam to talk to him before he married Steffy and stop the wedding. So Steffy and Bill conspired to keep Hope trapped in the gondola, thus Hope ended up watching Liam and Steffy marry from the gondola. Is that not, essentially, how things went down? I never got the impression that Hope was on her way to her wedding with Liam when the gondola thing happened. I thought Steffy already had Hope's engagement ring on her finger, and Hope was on her way to get to Liam and try to stop him from marrying Steffy. He's sure acting pretty damn possessive these days. And I'd call running to Hope's office and barging in on a private moment between Hope and Wyatt to monitor the status of her pregnancy test, when Hope was still only involved with Wyatt, to be pretty possessive.

Speaking of sets, parts of their house are from the Shake It Up sets, right? I swear I've seen Rocky climb in that exact same window. While I do agree with comments on previous episodes that there's more chemistry between Lucas/Maya than Lucas/Riley, I do kind of appreciate what the show is doing with Lucas/Riley. I like that they're portraying the "cute crush" guy as being patient and waiting until he and Riley are both "ready" to date. I get so tired of seeing shows and movies that show girls that relationships have to be all about drama. Here we have the guy making it clear to Riley that he's interested, but he's also content to be her friend while they both grow up a little more. And I still love the Cory/Maya relationship. When we first started hearing about the show, and it was clear that Maya was going to be Riley's "Shawn," I feared that we might have protective Cory fretting about her influence on Riley. And it would have driven me nuts, because of his history with Shawn. So I'm so glad to see that he cares about Maya almost as much as he does his own kids, and that he is happy to step in as a surrogate parent for her, even when she and Riley are in conflict.

I can't believe I'd forgotten the bag of blood and the fur coats. Ron does love a good WTF medical story. Maybe Michael will kill off his old imaginary friend and Alice will get her heart.

That was definitely one of the worst injuries I've seen happen. I'm not a Pacers fan, but as a Bulls fan, I have a lot of sympathy for any team seeing their star go down like that. It's gut-wrenching. The people at ESPN are total assholes, though. I appreciated that the in game announcers, once they realized how bad it was, said they were going to stop showing it. (And kudos to Team USA for deciding to end the scrimmage, it was the right move.) Then Sports Center came on. And those assholes played it multiple times, knowing already exactly how bad it was. Then they even got Kevin Ware on the phone to discuss his similar (so it seems at this time) injury. I turned it off, but it would not surprise me to hear that they decided to run side by side footage of Ware's injury and George's to compare. Seriously, ESPN, if you have to warn your viewers that it will be hard to watch, maybe you should just have some class and not show it. So gross. Colangelo looked like he wanted to smack some of those reporters in the press conference. He and Coach K both say "we're not talking rosters right now, we're not talking about decisions right now, it's disrespectful," and every single reporter asks some variation of "so what will this mean for the final roster?" I was glad they held the players out of the media for the night. You know every single one of those reporters was dying to get in Rose's face and ask him if he is afraid to play now. I also kind of question the ESPN reporter who tweeted about Irving crying in his father's arms afterwards. Yes, we know you want to convey how upset these guys are, but we all saw their faces on the court. Even Coach K looked ready to cry. Stop thinking you need to get into these guys' faces and pick through their emotions to be the "first" to report some reaction. This guy was their colleague, their friend, sometimes their opponent, someone they respect. Let them have some time to react in private and let them decide what of their reactions they want to share with the public. (And I won't even get into the assholes on Twitter making fun of Irving for crying...) Really hope to see George out there next fall, back to form.

I thought he gave Steffy the ring after Hope saw him kissing Steffy and broke things off? He thought she left him at the altar in Italy, right? Am I totally scrambling up my history of the numerous mishaps they've had? Also, Liam runs too. He thought she stood him up at the altar in Italy and, instead of going to find her and see if something was wrong, he went right to Steffy. This is even after they'd already lost time together due to other various misunderstandings. He still lashes out and rebounds to Steffy. He's no saint in all this. Not even close. And I think that things Liam has done - immediately proposing to Steffy with Hope's ring and marrying her within days, going right to Steffy when he thought Hope stood him up in Italy, and spending the night before their wedding out on the town with Steffy, were things that Liam did knowing damn well they would hurt Hope. Neither of these two is my favorite character, but given the choice between the two, I prefer Hope by far. And it's a shame, because I love SC, but Liam is a waffling spiteful hypocritical douchebag.

And if they do try to avoid, you know, dying, they are the worst people to ever live. That's par for the course for Britt. Her mother tells her she wants Patrick, she wants Patrick. Now her mother tells her she needs to go after Nik, she's going after Nik. I think even her initial interest in Nik was because Nik was attracted to her. I don't think we've ever seen her, on her own, decide she's interested in a guy. She's just very suggestible.

I think this show has proven that you can "never say never." I'm sure people thought "oh, they'd never try Ridge/Bridget!" back in more innocent times.

I get what you're thinking, but I don't think it's his contract status that prevents the show from writing good exits when he goes on breaks. They know when he is and isn't available. Actually, they probably have more control now with him under contract and specific times of year he's out than if he was on recurring. There is nothing preventing them from handling his exits better, they just choose not to.

Sam Kevin

Lord, he'll probably be related to Dr. O. At least this would be one O family member who is dead. The best kind of O family member is a dead one, after all. As someone who spends the bulk of her time in severe pain, you do look sick when you're suffering that much. I get a lot of "you look like you don't feel well."

I totally agree. There's no way to interpret that other than him lashing out at Hope. "Oh, yeah, well, then I'm giving Steffy your engagement ring!" He may as well have stuck his tongue out and stomped his foot while he was at it.

OK, I know this is a day or two late, and God knows why this just dawned on me, but... In the conversation about how Nina could tell Nathan's mood by his gestures, did she really imply that she knows him well enough to know what those gestures mean? Wasn't he like still in single digit years when she went into the coma? So he hasn't emotionally progressed in that long? (Forgive me if this was cleared up on air, as I try not to pay attention to the words coming out of Nina's mouth.)

Jax's continued absence is ridiculous. Except, I hate to think of what Ron would do to him if he had him on screen for more than 5 minutes, so I'm kind of OK with it.

I don't think this will do much damage to her career. I'm getting the impression that the bulk of the industry is on Kiefer's side and thinks Freddie was being an asshole. So I doubt anyone is going to start shunning her for tweeting about it. I highly doubt she was the only famous person to throw in their two cents on the issue. I've seen a lot of celebrities posting stuff about wanting to high five Orlando Bloom for taking a swing at Justin Bieber, When someone famous acts like a douche, other famous people comment on it on Twitter. I don't think it's a big deal, and certainly not a career killer. I have zero problem with what Kimberly posted. I saw it and laughed, because it struck me as a very natural, unfiltered reaction.

I assume Tracy will enter into some kind of unholy alliance/pact with the devil with Dr. O to get his heart anyway. I can't see them outright re-casting. If he's really going to be out any longer, though, they should pull some other previous actor in for a short stint, have Fluke have one more conversation with Julian where he says he's coming back to tie up loose ends, Julian says he'll be waiting for him, and, after they disconnect, Fluke says something like "you won't even see me coming." Then we have Fluke back in town in disguise as another character from the past. Cheesy, yes, but, apparently, in the GH universe, it's super duper easy to make yourself look exactly like someone else. Maybe he takes that time to set more of his plan (whatever the hell it is) in motion while no one in town knows suspects a thing. If he doesn't want to do that, then put the story temporarily to sleep - have one more conversation where Fluke tells Julian that they're all going to lie low for a while after Mickey's death, to give things time to settle down. Then you leave the story alone until TG is ready and able to work. Carly's so out of touch with what's going on with her kids that I half expect her to run into Spencer while he's making a toilet run or something, look confused for a moment, and then shrug "Huh, I could have sworn we gave Nik's kid back to him. I guess we didn't." And I guess we should just be grateful he's hiding out with Joss and not Emma. If he managed to rope Emma into this and was hiding in her room, I imagine we'd have all sorts of totally inappropriate innuendo spewing out of Spencer's mouth. When he said it, I thought "why is Julian talking like he's a 15 year old on Twitter?" It was such an odd moment.

One of the few things I got out of today's show. Maybe her face is obscured by the snow globe she's staring into in all the pictures Carly has? If Carly wasn't so busy dealing with all the murdering men in her life, she might notice that her daughter is harboring a runaway. And, if Nik stops to think, he has to know this isn't a kidnapping. Not only would he have gotten a ransom demand by now, but Spencer likely would have been marked down a few times at this point. "OK, how about $100,000, then? If you do it in the next half hour, I'll knock another 10 percent off. Just, please, come get him." Britt's an idiot. Does it surprise her how upset Nik is that his son is missing? Did she think that once Spencer went missing, she and Nik would go on a lighthearted romantic journey through town with all sorts of laughs, kisses, and groping as they figure out where the little scamp went? She gets more useless by the day.

So there's room in the budget for a bedroom set for Joss? (And, of course it's yellow, because Ron will beat that corn thing to death.)

I really, really hope that Hope tells Liam to fuck right off tomorrow. Bonus points if she snarkily tells him, "well, I'll think about it. Give me a week or so, both of you can wait it out, and I'll summon you to a meeting where I announce my decision like I'm announcing the Power Ball numbers to the only two ticket holders."