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This is what I've been thinking. In general, since Covid, it seems like soaps aren't doing a ton of love scenes. So there's no reason for GH to do what they've been doing with BLQ and Chase. Instead of the flower petals on the bed, they could have had the path of petals lead to a cute little romantic table set up with a special dessert and champagne. Instead of a bed set, which a whole lot of couples don't have anyway, they could have a set for like a private sitting room connected to their bedroom, where they could sit and have private conversations. It's just weird to focus so much on them in the bedroom when they're not doing love scenes and BLQ isn't going to be in lingerie. Sure, it's unusual for a soap star to want to be so heavily covered all the time, but it's like the show is going out of its way to show that about her, when it's just not necessary.

That reminds me, I laughed so hard yesterday when Taylor talked about how confident she is in her relationship with Ridge, and cited, as one of the reasons, how he's "living here with me." Don't you mean that the two of you are squatting in his daddy's house? That sentiment would have a lot more weight behind it if you two got off your asses and got your own place. He didn't move in with you, he flopped over to daddy's house after Brooke hurt his fee-fees, and now you've joined him there because you don't have enough self-respect to not be his "safety net."

What was with that bizarre serial killer entry into his own home they gave Finn at the end there? I'm surprised Finn is able to see how manipulative Poppy is so clearly. Identifying women behaving manipulatively is not exactly one of his talents. I predict he still lets Poppy get into his head, though, and he'll just tell Steffy that Luna is missing, not that Luna is her stepdaughter.

Yep. He's already talked about how he feels like if he'd been in her life, she wouldn't have turned into the killer and kidnapper we know and love. He had so many issues turning away from Sheila completely, and he's not responsible for her like he is naturally going to feel for his child. He might initially agree to follow Steffy's "stay away from her orders" out of panic over not wanting to lose his wife/family, but he'll likely get past that quickly, especially since nobody knows where she is. He's not going to be OK with his daughter just being lost in the prison system (which is what he's going to think the issue is). Then she can have Who's The Daddy #3. And she'll still lord her self-imagined superiority and moral righteousness over Hope and Brooke.

And, honestly, it would be one thing if Emma was a little arrogant. But they're writing this shit like she legitimately does not know how to speak to people at all, so Gio has to keep stepping in and instructing her. I keep flashing back to this Parks & Rec scene:

So, am I supposed to believe that the child of Robin Scorpio and Patrick Drake requires Gio to instruct her as to how to socialize with people? What the fuck even is this? BH and JK were both very good in their scenes today, but, damn, I wish that was JJ's Lucky busting in. Now Drew wants Willow and the kids to move into his house? Maybe wait until she's divorced first. I don't like Portia, but I did enjoy her snarky gossiping about them today.

Oh, Hope. Do not waste another moment of your time on that man. Let him go run to the arms of the hobo, so the hobo can kick him in the teeth. Walk out on him and on FC. Just go. Live your life without any of that bullshit. Call your brother and talk to him about starting your own company. Brooke, I'd urge you to do the same thing, but you seem to be too far gone. So, go ahead and keep letting the Hobo kick you in the teeth. Jesus, Finn. Just tell her already. Also, though, where did that happy picture of Li, Poppy, and Luna come from? Because Li wouldn't have been caught dead smiling in their presence.

I think it would be even worse if Jake and/or Cameron were still on screen.

I don't recall off the bat, but, even if they did, it wasn't the characters' first kiss (or first kiss in over a decade), so it wasn't this momentous romantic moment that there was pressure on them to make perfect. It had to be jarring to be reconnecting with JJ as a scene partner and the characters' relationship, only for the big moment they've been building towards to be swapped out to someone else.

I hate to put this out into the universe, but I have a genuine fear that we're getting a Britt/Jason/Carly redux in Anna/Jason/Sasha, with Jason wanting to be with Anna but having to cool things off with her to be honorable, or some such shit, and marry Sasha. There is nothing not icky about that. At least Jason and Britt had chemistry. They couldn't have found some way to delay the first kiss? Maybe have it be a near kiss that Aidan interrupts?

It was cathartic to hear Hope saying all the things we've been yelling at our TVs for months. It was really a thing of beauty. What wasn't a thing of beauty? Any of Brooke's scenes. Sweet Jesus, Brooke. And it culminated in her telling Ridge "I'm the woman you believed in." Um, beg pardon? When has he believed in you? Did he believe in you when Thomas faked the CPS call, and he didn't talk to you about it, instead heading directly to Taylor? Did he believe in you when he assumed the worst about you taking the CEO job and, again, went right to Taylor instead of talking to you about it? Seriously, once that line crossed Brooke's lips, she should have had an "ah-ha" moment, and thought "wait, did he ever believe in me?" Instead, she asks the hobo to "come home" when he probably still hasn't even showered from the last time he fucked his safety net.

Brooke "Ridge and Steffy have made some mistakes, but that doesn't mean you steal their company away from them." For fuck's sake, Hope did not steal their fucking company. Carter came up with the idea. Carter prepared the papers with his own name on them. Carter is the one who runs the company now. Carter. Not Hope. Carter. Steffy "of course she did" (about Hope calling for champagne. Well, yeah. The company just had a really successful launch. It's not unreasonable to celebrate that. Ridge: "The jewelry line had nothing do with you!" Well, except for the fact that it was his idea. And your little Princess Superbitch shot the idea down because of her personal grievances with Ivy. Why is nobody ever allowed to respond with the obvious facts when Ridge or Steffy are on a hypocritical rant? Carter has no morals, Ridge? Hey, by the way, did you happen to tell "your Logan" that you guys were done before your mouth was on your safety net? All Hope has wanted for years is to beat Steffy? Um, let's roll the footage, shall we? Oh, look, there's Steffy repeatedly throwing herself at Hope's fiancé. Look, there she is sliding Hope's still warm engagement ring on her finger after she succeeded in coming between them. And there she is working with Bill to trap Hope in a gondola so Liam wouldn't see Hope and change his mind about marrying Steffy. Now, there Steffy is working with Thomas to keep Liam and Hope apart in Mexico, because she knows Liam really wants Hope and would run back to her if he knew she still wanted him. There she is, in Italy before Liam and Hope's wedding, working with Bill again, so that Hope won't be able to show up for the wedding. Oh, and there she is banging Hope's husband when they had a misunderstanding, and then not knowing if he's the father of her baby or her boyfriend (who she cheated on with Liam) is the father. And here she is repeatedly threatening Hope's line, forcing her to work with Thomas after everything he'd done to her. Then pushing Thomas out of the country to get him away from Hope, ruining the line. And now here's a montage of Steffy whining about "the Logans" 17 million times over the past 10 years or so. Yep, there's a clear, years long pattern, of Hope obsessing over beating Steffy. Jesus, Carter, have some dignity.

Exactly. A commercial shoot isn't a full time role. It's a day or two of filming. Even if B&B didn't alternate shooting weeks, TN could fit the commercial taping into a weekend.

Really? And how long did it take that brain trust to figure out that Brooke wants Ridge back? I mean, she's so super subtle about her feelings. They must be real geniuses to have sniffed that out all on their own. It will be fun to see Carter to pretend to stand his ground when he really wants to hump Ridge's leg and beg for a belly rub. I assume that Ridge will keep tacking Brooke's name onto that to remind everyone that he is the one who has suffered the most, because he was betrayed, betrayed I tell you, by Brooke. Still??? Jesus, Finn. How long are we going to drag this out? The Bitch was in a Box or a shorter amount of time than it's going to take for him to tell her. We're going full speed ahead to the Steam reunion, aren't we? Those two deserve each other. "Yeah, I know a kidnapped a customer while I was on the clock, but you are short staffed, so I was hoping..."

I hope that, if Ava tries to go at Liz and stake her claim to Ric, Liz just laughs and says "oh, don't worry, you can have him. Just be careful if he prepares your drinks or meals." Except Jordan, but, well, that's absolutely not his fault.

I hope that Hope is just done with Carter after that. Wanting her to go apologize to the asshole collective for his plan? After the way they've treated her? No, fuck that. He put the full court press on romancing her, promising to have her back against them. He also had his own issues with them not agreeing with his ideas for the company. He came up with this scorched earth plan to take over the company. Now, he has a sad because Brooke has been in his ear about missing the the hobo, and he expects Hope to join in him in dropping to kiss their feet & beg forgiveness for what he did? Fuck all of that. And Brooke? We get it, you're a masochist who still wants that hobo back. But that whole "it's Valentine's Day, and we're both missing someone we love" shtick was pretty bizarre. I really hope that the two of you go crawling over there to beg forgiveness and hand the company back over, and that the asshole collective takes the company back and kicks you both to the curb, professionally and personally. Maybe then at least one of the two of you will finally have your eyes opened as to who Ridge really is. Is Ashleigh Brewer also filming something else now that she wasn't available to film yesterday's show? Because, otherwise, it's a really weird choice to film the launch of Ivy's jewelry line without Ivy.

And Jason being arrested for murder should be the thing that rattles Sasha to think that the hazards of letting everyone think the hitman is her baby's father are exactly the kind of thing she was trying to protect her baby from. Instead, I'm betting it will somehow lead to them falling in love while she cries about how unfair it is that such a good man is being wrongly accused of murder, and Cyrus is the bad man who almost killed her with his evil drug, so Jason would be a hero if he did kill him, anyway.

Oh, Brooke. I just can't. I hope that, if she and Carter go ahead and crawl to Eric's house to kiss Ridge's ass, he decides to stay with the beige dishrag and boots both of them from FC. And Hope can tell all of them to go fuck themselves and start hooking up with Finn after Steffy finds out about Luna. How is Carter's idea which made Carter the head of the company, Hope's fault? Steffy is going to need to work on her poker face. She could not have looked more busted when Hope asked if Pepe had just been in there with her.

If they're committed to making him as skeevy as possible, and to Willow continuing to hero worship him and think he can do no wrong, they should definitely have him say she should keep it as an engagement ring from him, and have her happily go along with that. I mean, if they're going to go trashy with no nuance at all, then let's really go for it.

Are they chem testing Kristina and Isaiah? Loved Liz and Lucky. I was surprised that Jason and Sasha went ahead with letting Danny in on their secret, given that he just went off half-cocked after Cyrus. I like that they're keeping up (so far) the Rocco/Danny bond. I'm always a sucker for the found family kind of storylines, so the two of them and Scout considering each other family, and going back and forth between Dante and Jason for parental talks/advice works for me. They're definitely giving Tracy shitty writing, but I did let out a little laugh at "can't I just write you a check?"

Lord, Steffy is dumb. Still talking about how her marriage is the same kind of love as her parents? Does she not remember like any of their story? Does she not remember the part where her father told her that he's with her mother now because she's his backup plan? You can want mommy and daddy together until the cows come home, but those two are simply not a grand love story, and your father has not treated your mother like the great love of his life by any stretch of the imagination. Advantage Hope on this one, because she's at least smart enough to say she wants better than what her mother has had with Ridge and thinks her mother should want better, too. But Steffy is definitely trying hard to pretend that her parents share this great love for the ages. Talking about their unspoken love language and all that shit? She's as desperate as her mother. And Ridge is so clearly uncomfortable with it, which just makes it even more desperate and hilarious. TN is much better at playing anger than he is at playing anything else. Although I did laugh at his reaction when Li said she knows all about him and Poppy back then. So, is Bill's game plan really that Poppy is just, for the rest of her life, never going to know where her daughter is? Never get to see or speak to her again? How does he think that's going to work? I know we're in the "Poppy was a shitty mother" phase of the story and all, but does he really think she's just going to shrug it off and give up? On the plus side, nobody was sniffing anyone today. So we had that going for us.

You know, if, whenever the truth comes out, it actually drives a wedge between Carly and Jason, I'd be up for that, despite how stupid this all is. I don't hold out high hopes that it will, but it would be great if, instead of her being all "of course you had to protect Michael's baby and his reputation," she's pissed that he kept her from knowing about her new possession grandchild.

Maybe if you just say "permanent" enough times, you can will it into being, Dishrag. Lord, the desperation wafting off of her... Hey, hobo, since, as you guys mentioned, you're not working now and don't have anywhere to be during the day, why don't you get on finding that place of your own you keep mentioning? And stop groping each other on your father's living room couch like two teenagers who snuck out of 7th period to fool around while their parents are at work. Steffy, do you really want to compare your marriage to your parents' fucked up relationship? I mean if their love is really want you want for yourself, then it's about time for Finn to ditch you, keep picking Hope over and over again for the next 15-20 years, periodically tossing you a fuck or two every few years when they have a fight. But, I mean, that's already your relationship with Liam. Do you need a second? So, now, when Steffy finds out that Luna is Finn's daughter, do we think she'll finally put him first and be there to help him deal with his pain over it all? Or will she just go right to where we always go on this show, and she will be the victim here, demanding that Finn forget all about his daughter, and expecting him to kiss her ass ten different ways from Sunday to make it all up to her? At the end there, after Steffy sent Finn that text, why did JMW go with a plotting face instead of some kind of happily in love look? It was so odd, especially combined with the scene Finn was in as it happened. If you just popped in and watched today, without knowing everything that was going on, you'd think that Steffy had done something to usher Luna away from Finn and Poppy.

I saw a spoiler that Charlie and Pepe LePew have some scenes coming up soon. Dear Lord. No. The cringe level is going to be through the roof.

I hate to ever be on Carly's side, but after today's Carly/Nina scenes, where Nina was laying it on so thick to manipulate Carly into helping her get Willow away from Drew, once the truth comes out about Nina and Drew having sex, I fully support Carly tearing into her. Nina has the ammunition to bust that pairing up, but she refuses to use it. Yes, her relationship with Willow will take a hit, but if she's the one who tells Willow, she has the chance to spin it as best she can. If it comes out because she and Carly do split Willow and Drew up, and Drew decides to go scorched earth, it will be way worse for Nina. (And she should be able to figure out that the odds are that Drew will spill it if he thinks he's lost Willow due to Nina's influence). Her standing there asking Carly "are you willing to do whatever it takes?" is so hypocritical, when she's not "willing to do whatever it takes." Speaking of hypocrites, oh, look, there's Sasha sticking her nose into Willow's life while hiding the fact that she's carrying Willow's children's half-sibling. And then Sasha gets all pissed in her later scenes about people sticking their nose into her life. She has less than zero self-awareness. It's a shame she and Cody are related and can't be together, because they've become the same self-righteous busybodies about other people's lives while their own lives are a big old mess. So, what, in another 20 years, will Jason be pretending to be the father of Wiley's affair baby? Liz telling Ric she has Lucky was, by far, the best part of this episode.