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When Molly walked outside to get fresh air, I honestly half expected someone they were chem testing her with to randomly be walking past Alexis's house. Instead we got Ric pretending he was there solely for her when we all know he wanted to kick Alexis while she's down. And even TJ forgot Molly's birthday? Damn. That couple is so done, aren't they? I really can't wait until we get to the part where Nina and Willow both find out exactly what Drew has been doing with both of them. I'm surprised they were restrained enough to simply have Lulu's eyes pop open during Sam's funeral. It's almost too subtle for this show. She's not going to walk into the funeral and collapse right as Dante is speaking? Or, alternately, her eyes didn't pop open the instant they called Sam's time of death? They had better not fuck up Liz/Lucky. RH and JJ have more chemistry catching each other's eye across a room without speaking than any couple this show has going now.

Right after that press release comes out, Hope should call up an industry reporter and give them the real story, including a heavy dose of how Steffy rules the company based on her personal grudges. Spill it all - how she told Hope she had to work with Thomas, despite the many past issues that would more than qualify that as a hostile work environment, and then, when that didn't cause Hope to quit and actually worked well, how she pushed Thomas out of the country to sabotage their relationship and the line, how she pushed back on anything involving Brooke, despite her multiple positive accomplishments for the company, over her own leftover childhood hurt feelings, how she held the line over Hope's head to keep her in line over personal issues, etc. Dump it all out there so that all the fashion world is talking about is why FC still has Steffy in the CEO's office. Finn Steffy's Husband, is still missing the key point - how did Hope know he'd be arriving at all that day, let alone right then, and even if she could magically figure out he was on his way, why would she expect him to walk into the design office instead of his wife's owner's office? And Ridge is a dumbass for not asking that obvious question. Of course, he's not really there doing due diligence as a businessman, he's there because he thinks he might not get some for a few nights if he doesn't put up a token resistance to Hope's firing. Never fear, Ridge, your beige limp dishrag of an ex is lingering around desperate to put out as second choice. Then, later, when you're done with her again, you can tell her you were only fucking her to cure her BHS, not because you want to be with her forever. Steffy so wants it to be known that she fired Hope, but she's at least aware enough that Katie and Eric aren't the audience she can air that thought out to. And she didn't tell Katie to send that to Hope as a heads up so she wouldn't be taken by surprise when it's out there. She did it because she wanted Hope to know "it's fully over," and it was extra fun to make Hope's aunt be the one to deliver that message.

WSB agent just feels like a miles better fit for Lucky than the PCPD ever did.

We are just full speed ahead with Will & Electra, aren't we? No need to let us get to know either one of them or see them have some interactions getting to know each other. And from what little we do know about both of them, full speed ahead feels wrong. Will was just horn dogging over every single pretty woman he encountered minutes before he met Electra. And Electra is seemingly haunted by a stalker and freaked out about anyone in L.A. finding out about it all. None of that spells two people who are going to instantly fall in love. We should be seeing him changing from the wannabe player, and her being reluctant to get close to anyone, but slowly being won over by Will. Instead, it's like they forgot the stalker story was starting so soon, and now they're taking shortcuts to get the setup in place. I'm laughing at the wording on that first one. By "Steffy's conflicted," I assume they mean "Steffy is a raging bitch vomiting up her daddy issues to manipulate her father again." And Finn Steffy's Husband is going to keep carrying Steffy's water, even though he should know that Hope had no way of knowing he was going to be at FC at all, let alone walking into that room right then. So, wait, is Ridge finally going to listen to his best friend? Carter must manage to get him out from under Steffy's thumb for a few minutes so he can listen to Carter without Steffy yammering into one ear, demanding his loyalty to her above all else. Is Ridge going to catch a clue, when Steffy undoubtedly starts clamoring to fire Carter, that this is all her personal bullshit running roughshod over the company? On one hand, it's nice that we're not going to be stuck with months of Remy sitting in a dark room staring at pictures of Electra. On the other hand, as I've already complained, this story has gone warp speed, before we have reason to care about anyone in it. Of course, if they give Bill some more airtime as part of this story, I'll probably be willing to overlook a lot.

OK, so she followed it up with running over to the Q mansion to try to fix things for Jason, but did I actually see her, before that, telling Jason he was wrong (for fighting Drew when the kids were upstairs right after their mother died)? I didn't realize Carly was allowed to disagree with St. Jasus. Felicia, I get that you just want to see everyone be a happy family and all, but maybe give Sasha and Cody a few minutes to adjust to the rather unpleasant surprise of being cousins before you start trying to push everyone into weekly family dinners, or whatever? Please, show, don't stick Isiah with Jordan. He's had more chemistry with damn near everyone else he's shared screen time with. They seemed like they might have some chemistry in their initial scenes, when we hadn't really had a chance to see him with others. But now that he's been interacting with other people, the difference is obvious. Speaking of chemistry, Mo and Eva are trying their asses off. You can literally see them trying. But it's just not there. The Sonny/Lucky discussion about Lucky's job brought to mind what I want to see happen - him and Jason working at the PC WSB office with Brennan. I don't know if I'll ever like Ric again, but RH is so good. He and SBu were both good portraying how much Jason and Ric hate each other.

This. When Electra was going on about how she's never met anyone like Will, it just seemed ridiculous to me, because we haven't seen a single characteristic of Will beyond petulance when daddy had a new girlfriend and horndog when he got to FC and got an eyeful of the pretty women working there.

Hey, if Sam could have a successful pregnancy when she'd been shot in the uterus, what's a little endometriosis?

Steffy is one of those people who simultaneously sees herself as this tough badass, but also as a perpetual victim. She's the CEO of her family's business. She's married to a man who, for some insane reason, worships the ground she walks on and is willing to follow all of her orders, his own interests be damned. She has two adorable children, a beautiful home, and financial security. She has a loving family. But none of that fills that void in her soul. She needs to be a victim, she needs to be angry about something, and she needs everyone around her to worship at her feet at all times.

I honestly had the thought during today's show that they could pair them up romantically.

Is poor delicate Princess SuperBitch going to have to ban all FC employees from uttering Hope's name while in the office? I love how she doesn't even try to pretend that firing Hope wasn't personal, but then alongside detailing exactly how personal it was, she always throws in a "the line was failing," and Eric and Ridge just allow themselves to be placated with that bullshit. I assume that, at some point, Luna is going to be free. I really hope she blames Steffy and Finn Steffy's Husband for her getting busted and has plans to fuck with them for revenge. If the story is that Electra has a stalker, I really hate how they're having her act like it's something she needs to be ashamed of like this. I'm going to laugh for days if letting their bitchass daughter/granddaughter run things by her personal whims costs Ridge and Eric control of FC.

A couple months ago, BLQ and Dante had some odd scenes at the Q mansion where they seemed like they had some kind of secret between them from back when they both lived in Brooklyn. I can't even remember the specifics, but I walked away from those scenes thinking Gio was their kid. But then nothing beyond that happened for a while, so I figured I either read it wrong or the show was up to something but dropped it. But, Lois's reaction shots yesterday (or Wednesday, I watched both yesterday) made me think it's still a thing. Gio originally came on to play the violin at the BLQ/Chase wedding, because he's allegedly her cousin. But then ended up sticking around, but I can't even remember what the storyline reason was for him sticking around.

They're just chem testing Molly with everyone, aren't they? For just a second or two, when Michael was talking to Jason about Willow, and saying how they keep lying to each other, I was thinking that maybe we were going to get a surprise, and he was just going to realize that maybe their marriage isn't a good one, they've both lied to each other over time, and they need to split up. Instead, I don't even know what the fuck he ended up doing. He went back home to try to manipulate Willow into telling him the truth about fucking Drew while he had zero intention of reciprocating with the truth about his night with Sasha? Meanwhile, he was aware that he'd probably wound up the hitman and sent him in Drew's direction? And I cracked up when Jason suggested that, like Michael/Sasha, maybe Drew/Willow only happened the one time, and Michael's reply was that "no, Willow isn't the type to do a one night stand." So, she's the type to repeatedly fuck her husband's uncle behind his back, but only fucking him once would be beneath her? What a weird semi-pedestal to have her on. I called it a couple months or so ago that Gio is going to end up being a BLQ/Dante baby that was given up for adoption. Lois looking all concerned when Gio walked in the room right as the issue of whether she could keep a secret came up made me think I was probably right on that one. I'm assuming that weird Jason/Kristina thing at the end was her seeing his hands all bruised up and assuming he was out carrying out a beatdown or hit for her father, or something. I'm not sure entirely what the purpose is of that, but that's what I'm guessing was going on there.

All I could think during Steffy's scenes at FC, other than how fucking annoying she is, was how uncomfortable JMW must have been with the way that top was cutting into her chest. And I will keep beating this dead horse, but the meditation scenes would have been a great time for Steffy to end up reliving some memory where she's young and Taylor is gone, leading to Taylor having to actually own up to her bullshit and get off that fraudulent pedestal she's been perched on. If Steffy is going to keep reliving her childhood and the disappointment that her parents weren't together, then she should also relive the fact that her mother may have been taken away initially the times she left, but she eventually hit a point where she chose to stay gone. And she still does that now. If Ridge's dick isn't an option, she decides to be all philanthropical and hit the road. I'm very confused as to how time has worked in the past two episodes. Carter is over at the cabin to see Hope, but he has to get to the office. He goes in, has one meeting, and then he's right back to the cabin? Did the entirety of one day pass in minutes? And Ridge and Steffy treat him shittier and shittier by the day. Finn Steffy's Husband clearly even knows that he is required to offer up daily (at least) affirmations of his love for her. "Hey, I just talked to Deacon, and he wanted me to help Hope, but don't you worry, I didn't do it. I was a good boy. And I came running right over here to tell you. Did I do good? Did I?"

And, at least Ridge has given Brooke many reasons to be insecure. When has Finn Steffy's Husband given her even a moment to be insecure about where his heart is? Didn't Steffy and Ridge already have this exact same conversation about breaking up their family when she was a kid like a year ago? It really bugs me that nobody on this show draws the obvious parallel between Steffy firing Hope for "going after my husband," and Taylor repeatedly, with Steffy's assistance, going after Ridge. Like when Brooke reminded Taylor today that she and Ridge are in a committed relationship, it would have been the right time to say "and since you and your daughter have been up in arms thinking Hope is going after Finn Steffy's Husband, to the point of Steffy firing her, I know you're not going to be hypocrites and mess with my relationship." I laughed out loud when Taylor started going on about her wonderful full life. So wonderful and full that she skulked around stalking her ex in Europe and then followed him home with her Broken Heart Syndrome, then just settled in to die.

I was wondering why Carter hasn't explicitly pointed the potential legal issues out to them. Then I realized that that if part of his plan to get back at them involves those issues, he's not going to give them the heads up on what those legal issues are. (Which isn't really ethical and all, but this whole storyline has thrown any kind of ethical standards out the window, so...)

I was really hoping that, when Brooke was saying "oh, yes, what was that yoga pose called again?" she'd say "I believe it was the hypocrite?" Because Brooke shouldn't have been upset by seeing Dishrag in Ridge's lap because they were just doing a yoga pose, and she just needed to listen to what was really happening, but Dishrag's bitchass daughter gets to end Hope's career without stopping to listen to what actually happened? And Dishrag's "I don't want Hope to be shamed." Oh, the fuck you don't. You practically orgasmed when Ridge co-signed Hope being fired and marched out of the office in front of everyone. Electra, just tell your family that you have an obsessive ex, and you'd rather not be made a public face of the company, for fear of attracting his attention to your whereabouts. Yes, this is a business, but this is also your family. You just know that the whole reason Princess SuperBitch is so on board with the jewelry line is so she can point to Ivy and say "if I was making business decisions on my personal feelings, would Ivy work here?" Whenever it comes out that Hope was waiting for Carter, I hope Brooke, Hope, and Carter all tell Ridge to go fuck himself if he tries to act like, "if I'd only known the truth..."

Drew, yes, but I'm trying to imagine Jason raising Danny on his own, and I can't picture it. I guess he'd move back into his old apartment, once Dante moves somewhere? Or he'll end up moving into the Q mansion with Danny? The only kid Jason has ever seemed remotely interested in raising was Michael. I think he's at a stage now where he loves his kids, but he doesn't think his life is something they should be around 24/7. Of course, if this leads to him finally being fully mob free and getting a more legal job, that could be interesting. Brennan landing Carly and Jason could really piss off Sonny. (This is all provided, of course, that SBu will actually put the effort into that storyline). Dante is, by far, the best option out of the three fathers, and he's been the only consistent father figure in their lives. I agree he's going to have a lot on his plate, but also the story of all the kids adjusting to Lulu being back in his life (and, therefore, theirs) could be interesting family drama, along with Rocco and Danny maybe being at odds for a while because of the circumstances.

I feel like every "planned" soap pregnancy ends up becoming a fertility issue storyline. It's like as soon as a couple actually says on screen that they want to have a baby and are going to start trying, you know you're getting a storyline about fertility issues. In this case, I'd bet money that we're going to end up with BLQ, blaming herself and saying that their fertility issues are her karma for faking a pregnancy, or some such shit like that.

Carter really should have paid attention a long time ago to how Ridge treats his brothers. Fingers crossed he doesn't try to steal Carter's SO, because I am definitely not up for watching that level of ick.

If Sasha does end up pregnant, that's one baby they have to let live and be healthy. I am not up for watching Sasha go through more loss. Let the poor woman have some positivity in her life for once. Of course, I also don't want her to end up with Michael. I'm hoping that, if they do even head that way, she eventually uncovers some evil revenge plot he's been working against Willow and Drew and dumps his ass. (We all know he's going to have some elaborate revenge plot, because it's what he does every time someone displeases him.) I think they very well may go the Sasha/Jason route, though. His only romantic options now are her or Anna. We're definitely getting a BLQ/Chase fertility issues storyline, aren't we? I loved the Cody/Tracy scenes. I don't give this regime credit for much, but I do appreciate that they keep Tracy involved in storylines instead of shoving her off to the side to only be seen for holidays, weddings, and funerals. Because Tracy just makes everything better. Also, I really need to know JE's skincare routine.

Oh how I wish Hope would have immediately told Steffy "you can't just walk into my mother's house uninvited. This is a Logan house." And if Steffy dared to raise "my father lives here," the response could be "and my mother is an executive at Forrester. I guess we both have to figure out other ways to see our parents." Ridge was such an asshole to Carter today. And his indignant "apologize? My daughter?!?" He was so indignant that someone would expect Princess SuperBitch to lower herself and apologize for something. And, hey, Carter, now you know exactly how much that whole "we're like brothers" thing really means to Ridge. I really do hope that we get a storyline with everyone other than Ridge and Steffy leaving FC to go start a new company.

Is the question "I can leave Ridge's shit on the front step, when would you like to pick it up?" "Finally"? "Finally"?? They've known each other for 2 1/2 minutes. And "undeniable"? Ah I see the rush now. They've got their storyline in mind for her, and they must go full speed ahead instead of giving us time to get to know her first. Go Deacon! Tell him that, to facilitate his compliance with his owner's directives that he not be in the presence of your wife or daughter, you're banning him from your restaurant. From the way that Carter line is worded, I definitely think they're setting him up to be the bad guy against poor, put upon Steffy instead of allowing the story to be that Princess SuperBitch is a bully who uses her position at FC to "win" the rivalries she creates.

Every episode, the first time he's on screen, I have to remind myself "that's Lucas." I thought she and Ingo had chemistry, and I, so far, think she and CM have chemistry. But that is probably largely him, since he seems to have chemistry with everyone they've thrown Brennan in scenes with so far.

What the hell is Steffy wearing?? Eric "The firing was personal." Steffy "Some people might see it that way." Then she proceeds to lay out exactly how personal it was "I warned her to stay away from my husband. She has to have consequences." I was mad that Eric didn't respond "that's the definition of personal!" Then we had Ridge bitching about how Eric is close to Brooke and cares about Hope. Well, at least someone fits that description, because God knows the so called love of her life, her "destiny," doesn't. As always, Hope is only Ridge's family when it's convenient for him. I kind of like Electra, just for her obviously snarky comment to the hostile models about how nice and helpful everyone has been. Everyone throwing themselves at Will is too much, though. Rein it in, show.

She is one of the people Mo always seems to up his game a little for. The bulk of the time I find Sonny tolerable, he's in scenes with NLG.