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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.

If she says anything at all to them, it should be something like "this was Carter's idea, but I don't regret encouraging him at all."

Are Brooke and the dishrag having a contest to see who can be more pathetic over this hobosexual asshole? First, Brooke begs him to come back. Then the dishrag comes in, and Ridge says to her that he was hoping Brooke would express remorse. So, in other words, he was hoping she'd say just the right thing to get him back? And the dishrag clearly caught that implication, because then she started desperately reminding him how much Brooke "betrayed" him and how he doesn't need her. Then, in the next scene, she's talking about how, in the past, she would have gotten insecure seeing him with Brooke. Like she didn't just get all frantic to refocus him on her two minutes ago. Well, if you're not going to tell her about Luna tonight, Finn, then you march in there, whisper into her ear that her parents are probably fucking right now, and give her that night of anniversary passion. I can't even figure out what they're trying to do with Luna. When she's there alone, she seems like she's enjoying the good life and there's this air about her that she's pulling one over on anyone. But when they show her reacting to people talking about all she's done, she looks remorseful. So, which is it, show?

At first, I thought this said "That grubby ho." And it still worked.

Bold & Beautiful Preview: Steffy Questions Her Marriage’s Future — and Carter’s Request Stuns Hope! Carter wants Hope to apologize to Ridge and Steffy? For...? It was his freaking plan. After they fired her, humiliated her in front of the whole company, called her all manner of nasty names, he wants her to apologize to them? I hope she tells him to go fuck himself. If he's feeling bad about his plan, then he can go apologize to them. It's not her responsibility.

So, we should be expecting lots of Finn's constipated facial expressions on Monday, then? I'm guessing her doesn't manage to get the truth out Monday, then, because I doubt the holier than thou trinity of suck would be calmly talking about how glad they are she's locked away if they'd just found out she's family. They'd be having a shit fit over how Finn "betrayed" Steffy by having sex almost 20 years before he met her. So, still hasn't told her by Wednesday, huh? Although, can we blame him? He's afraid she's going to flip her shit and go take off for a spoiled bitch mental health spa break. Jesus, Carter. Nothing gets by you, does it? I swear to God, if Brooke doesn't tell Hope and/or Carter what she overhears, after she went running to bust the two of them to Ridge, I hope that Hope cuts her out. This is a Friday? Kind of a yawn.

So, did they change Steffy and Finn's anniversary date specifically so they could have the symmetry of him finding out Sheila is his bio mother on their wedding day and finding out Luna is his daughter on their anniversary? As always, any combination of Steffy/Ridge/Taylor makes for an obnoxiously smug, self-serving, and dishonest conversation. Today was no exception. Brooke. Please. No. He's not remotely worth it. Let the dishrag have him.

Ugh, I did not miss the beige dishrag. And just sitting around on the couch in his father's living room, making out? For fuck's sake, get your own place. Steffy is happy to walk in on that, but probably sad that she walked in too early. We all know she'd be fucking giddy if she walked in on them fucking on that couch. Then we had to endure those three smug assholes tearing down Hope again. Meanwhile, Brooke is over there mourning her relationship with Ridge, acting like the only thing that went wrong was her taking the CEO job. Never mind the horrid shit he said about her daughter, the one he helped raise as his own, and the horrid shit he sat there and allowed his bitchass daughter to say about both Brooke and Hope. No, Brooke, it's all on you taking the CEO job to try to save the company for his worthless ass. Please stop pining over him. He is not worth a moment of your time. They really are going to set up the story that Poppy is at fault for Luna's crime spree, aren't they? Of all the ways they could have played all of this, that's what they decided on?

All I could think was how, leaning in to smell scents she has on each side of her neck, you're going to be getting some mixture of both scents, since the sides of her neck are not exactly far apart. Hope seems like she totally gets that Pepe LePew is hitting on Carter, but she's not threatened by it. Carter, on the other hand, seems like he's at least semi interested in picking up what Pepe's throwing down. Finn and Poppy had basically the exact same conversation they had before he did the DNA test, just that this time, he knew he was the father. But the content of the conversation? Essentially the same up until he snapped on her. Do the writers know their show is only a half hour long? Because they waste so much of that time on repeats of conversations we've already seen.

Carly. I'm not defending Drew, but he knows that Carly will forever be obsessed with Jason. And he knows that, if he wants to hurt her, that's how you do it.

I want Hope to figure this out. All she needs to do is look at Steffy's smugness, the timing of her comeback alongside Pepe LePew just showing up at FC wanting to work with them, and the way she's behaving around Carter, and it doesn't take a genius to make some connections. Poppy should have said "do you have covid?" when Finn pulled that test out of his desk. I wonder whose head is going to explode more - Li or Steffy - when the truth comes out.

I think that's why she just went to ranting about it not being anyone's business instead of going into denial mode. Probably figures that as long as people are focused on the idea of Jason, she's not lying to anyone she's close to as long as she doesn't directly say he is the father, and it's stopping people from trying to guess any other potential fathers and hitting on the truth.

I don't know. For one, he did a pretty good job of promoting the pairing on social media. But, also, Brennan still had a decent number of irons in the fire, storyline wise, beyond the Carly pairing. Yes, obviously, it was a major focus, being a soap and all, and the fact that they're still in the build-up phase of the relationship, which always gets a lot of focus. But there are a lot of other characters and storylines he's been involved with (Valentin, Jason, Joss, Anna, Sidwell), and with his role running the WSB office, that lends itself to the potential for a lot of involvement in other plots.

I can't say for sure it's a stalker situation, and I hope that it's not. But if it is, yes, I hope they find them and prosecute them. Nobody should have to deal with that. It just seems super odd to me that they didn't announce it until now, when they've clearly had to know for weeks, since he's last aired Friday and the new guy will be on this week. It makes it seem like they were intentionally keeping it quiet for some reason, and recasts aren't usually something they need to be so hush-hush about. And the storyline timing makes me think that this was something that happened really fast.

I could not stop laughing at Finn's sweaty, snotty reaction faces as he read his covid paternity test results. I can't believe I accurately called this so long ago. I had lost hope it was going to actually happen, but they came through. I cannot wait for Princess Superbitch to get the news. She was in full on smug mode today, so this will be fun. Speaking of here smugness, when she tried lording over Hope with the whole "this arrangement isn't going to work..." I so wanted Hope to say "oh, well, too bad then, I'll let Carter know you don't think this will work." For fuck's sake, Hope, stop letting her posture all over you. I have no real interest in Hope/Carter as a couple, so I don't really give a shit, from that angle, whether he succumbs to Pepe LePew. But, I do think it would be hilarious if he'd lean in, like he's going to kiss her, and then whisper "you can go tell your friend this obvious ploy isn't working."