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This show, I swear... What got me to wondering that was the whole idea of people showing up to be there for Michael after Sabrina's death thing. I remembered Jax sneaking back into town to see him after Abby died. That, of course, had me thinking "if they'd worked out the timing better, or pre-taped, they could have had him be there for Michael again, to deal with losing her and Teddy." And it dawned on me that I don't remember him having scenes with the boys on this return. Especially with all Morgan's had going on recently, you'd think he'd make a point to spend a little time with him, so he can see for himself how he's doing. He was planning on adopting that child, and he had a big hand in raising him. Jax may no longer be with Carly, but he built strong relationships with her sons. He was not the kind of character who would let those relationships fall to the wayside. When he came back for Michael he was risking his safety, but he came back because he loves those boys. I swear, if they ever get back around to revealing whatever part Jax played in the kidney thing, if we get scenes of Morgan trashing him like all he's ever been to him is one of his father's enemies, I'm going to lose it.

I wasn't sure where to put this, so I went with History. I honestly can't remember, on this most recent return, for the kidney drama, did Jax even have a scene with Morgan? The man was, essentially, his father for years, and they were very close (side note: kid Morgan had much better taste in people than BryDog Morgan). You'd think someone would remember to mine that history when Jax returns to town to deal with the mystery revolving around Morgan's little sister's kidney transplant. Maybe a scene where Jax asks him how his treatment is going, how he's feeling? Maybe in those recent conversations between Morgan and Kiki (and her hilarious disbelief that Morgan was going to college), Morgan could have mentioned that spending some time with Jax during his visit to PC reminded him of how, when he was younger, he wanted to get an education so he could be a successful businessman like Jax? The whole point of soaps is the decades of history between characters. How do you not use that in little ways like that? Obviously the Jax/Morgan conversation requires Ingo to be there, but Morgan talking to Kiki about Jax's influence on his childhood doesn't require Ingo's presence at all or take away from the limited time they had to film with Ingo that they wanted to devote to the kidney scenes. And Morgan talking about how Jax raised him and what an influence he had on him during those years could help make Morgan (who is mostly an unrelenting douchetool) a little more human in his desire to start back up with college instead of the butt of a bunch of "Morgan's an illiterate dumbass" jokes. (Not that I don't appreciate those jokes, but I can't help wondering if they were written after BryDog decided to leave.)

What? You don't think "we're so happy! Aren't we so happy? We're so happy!" to be substantive conversations?

All I could think through those scenes of the hospital closing was "cut your hair! Cut your hair!! Cut your hair!!! Cut!Your!!Hair!!!" I'm sure RoHo is probably one of those "oh, I never watch myself on TV" kind of actors, but someone needs to stick him front of a monitor and make him watch those scenes where he's wandering the hospital, trying to keep Liz from finding out about Sabrina. Then say "now, what was it that stuck out most to you in your scenes? Was it, perhaps, your hair?" while brandishing a pair of scissors.

That may just be the screen shot they had of Paul and Tracy, but not necessarily the scene where what they're previewing happens. I know that, when I used to read SID regularly, in the section where they listed the "highlights" of each day's episodes in the coming week, they would often use screen shots of the characters involved that were from scenes that had already aired, and not of the scene they were talking about. So they could have been previewing "Sonny and Alexis plot to take down Julian," with a picture that is clearly from a scene the two of them had a week prior where they were discussing Kristina's Parker mess.

I still think they should give Liam/Katie a try.

I lost it at "complicated." Is that what they think they've been writing?

I still laugh at Claudette carrying a framed 8x10 around in her purse instead of just having a picture of the two of them together on her phone. Or a wallet size.

I would LOVE to see Quinn and Wyatt running FC while Eric's incapacitated.

That would not stop them from ToD 2.0. This is exactly what would happen: Hope returns to town with a hot guy (played by someone who can act circles around the rest of that generation in the cast), they'll have oodles of chemistry, and the audience will almost universally adore him. Then, he'll rape someone like Katie. Next, he'll try to rape Steffy, but she'll kill him in self defense. This puts a crimp in Waffles' love life, as he has recently decided (but not told either woman) that he loves Hope and wants to leave Steffy to be with her. But, of course, he can't leave Steffy now, while she's recovering from the trauma of the attack and killing the guy, so he'll martyr himself and stay with Steffy while making cow eyes at Hope and having flashback montages of their relationship 10 times a day. Proud I. Hate. Steffy. member here!

I'm just imagining Lucas waking up in the on call room and wondering where everyone went. "Here, we have like a dozen of these in our freezer." I don't know how people don't just randomly punch Morgan every single day.

On AMC, Maria returned from the dead with amnesia, and she had zero fucks to give about Edmund (or her kids) for a while. (Of course, to be fair, I would have focused on Aidan, too, over Edmund). She started gradually spending some time trying to bond with her kids until she eventually regained all of her memories in a rush when her daughter fell off a boat and she dove in to save her.

Like I said, it was lazy propping, but it was propping.

Michael can stay, as long as he recommits to being a Q.

The second they made the decision to have Liz find out and keep the truth hidden, it was about making her the villain to their eventual reunion. They may not be writing them any substance, but they are writing them as this eternally happy couple with their over the top "look, dammit, we're happy and in love!!!!!....even though one of us may or may not remember a damn thing about our history at any given moment of the day...." They basically trashed Liz to add some "drama" to the JaSam reunion. Instead of addressing the inherent drama in a man returning from the dead with no memory of his wife and son (who had started to form a family with a new man) and a general distaste for his former life style, they saddled Liz with the drama and left the two of them as pure and wonderful beings. To me, that's propping. It's shittier than usual propping, it's lazier than usual propping, but it's propping.

Well, of course, we all knew he was Jason. But, Liz had no idea, and BH and BM had good chemistry. I knew they were't end game, but I enjoyed them for what they were, before the show decided that it couldn't just be a story of this couple who really liked each other having it all blown up when they found out who he was, and it had to be Liz being the big bad evil to prop the twuest wuv that ever wuved.

Like dubbel zout, my initial reaction to this was "Jax would't do that to his own child." But, then I realized that this show would throw Jax under any bus, any time, anywhere, to prop Sonny and Carly.

I do love her face in the background of the shot at Kelly's, where Kiki is trying to stop Morgan from being a complete Morgan to someone. Most of us look at Morgan like that, Claudette.

So did I! Looking after reading it was Sarah, I can clearly see it's her, but I totally thought it was Tamara at first sight. I didn't realize they resembled each other that strongly.

This makes me wonder if we're going to have suspicion pointed back at Hayden. Obviously, they know that a man was actually committing at least some of these killings/attacks, but I'd imagine that the connection between Hayden and the diamonds might arouse some suspicions that she had something to do with Sabrina's death because she took them to the PCPD. At minimum, Liz will probably raise hell about it so the show has a reason to keep the newly discovered sisters at each other's throats for a while. Then, Liz will, of course, have to kiss Hayden's ass once it's discovered that she had nothing to do with Sabrina's death.

I fully expect to see more items for sale on his Twitter account. He probably thinks he can get a premium from fans who want to own something Bryan Craig owned.

I can buy that Riley had no idea to this point. I remember doing a similar project in high school, and I had no idea how many nationalities I am before I did it. (For the record - Native American, Lithuanian, Irish, German, French-Canadian). I think, before that, I basically knew "German and some other stuff." So, Riley, I can buy her having no idea, but it definitely struck me as odd that Topanga had no idea. The only thing I can think of is that their families have been in the U.S. so many generations that somewhere, along the way, someone dropped the ball in passing along their background to the next generation, and it just became lost. In my case, it was easy to find out, because 7 of my great-grandparents were the first generation born here, and the other great-grandmother was raised on a reservation. So the history was still relatively new. But I can see there being some families who go back so many generations in the U.S. that the information got lost at some point. (Of course, personally, at this point in my life, if I didn't know, I'd take advantage of the resources on-line to try and piece something together, if at all possible.) When he first seemed upset, I was thinking we would find out his family owned slaves. Then, when he mentioned Denmark and no birth records, I was thinking he'd turn out to be a Nazi war criminal who escaped here and changed his identity to avoid being caught. The reveal did seem off with the reactions he was having. I was really reading "shame" in his demeanor all episode long. I agree with those who feel like they went a little light on all of the back stories, in terms of the horrors some of them came from. I know you have to temper it for the younger audience, but I don't think there would have been any harm in outright stating that Zay's family were brought here as slaves. I think most kids have some general awareness there. I mean, if they can mention that Farkle's grandfather was adopted by a Christian family to keep him alive, then I think they can say that Zay's family was brought here, originally, as slaves. It seemed like they went out of their way to play it down, even while hinting at it ('we were brought," instead of saying "we came"), and there was such a non-reaction to that revelation, but, at the same time, they wanted to have that moment with Zay and Farkle where they both realize that their families went through hell. Like I said, I get that they have to temper it for younger viewers, but I think they went too far. Zay's story was the one that felt like it had most of the impact drained out of it because of that. In terms of just pure stupid laughs (hey, I enjoy a pointless laugh here and there), I laughed at Cory's "no, I want one," when Riley was throwing cheese, and Lucas and Zay's Texas ensembles. And I know most dislike Ava (and I can see why), but I do love Topanga's reactions to her most of the time. I actually thought Maya was the weak link in this episode. Other than their moment with the woman from Cambodia, she just seemed to be annoyed and resent having to do anything. The rest of the kids seemed at least interested in learning their history (even if Riley was obnoxious and helpless in her interest). Although I did laugh at "I didn't even know you could talk and you speak two languages?" along with "I'm surprised whenever any of those people talk."

As far as I'm concerned, the best Jason is a dead Jason, but I just had a vision of how this would go down. Michael renews his disgust with Sonny and/or Carly as Sabrina's death brings back the traumatic time he suffered through at AJ's death. We get a few glorious weeks of Michael hating those two assholes, and then Jason dies, and he goes back to them, because he feels their pain. I'm loving everything up to and including "Jason dies," and then it just all goes to hell. Although if they went another way with it, and had Michael marry Sam after Jason dies, to make sure Jason's kids are kept away from the mob completely - no Carly, no Sonny, no Julian, I could get into that.

And it's so obvious and fake looking to boot. Ivy is a clearly natural, youthful, healthy beauty. I think JMW could have possibly been that before she took that first fateful trip to her TV Mom's doctor. (You just know they see the same doc, the work is very similar.)

I could see it being something she's not super thrilled about, given that she doesn't have a steady job, and now he likely chose to leave his steady job. Maybe that's why he had to sell the 'Vette? Can't have a car payment like that when you don't have a guaranteed income coming in, and you've got a wedding coming up? I could see her having to talk him into that one. Either that, or she hasn't mentioned it yet because she's working on some huge over the top "celebration of some kind," whether it's another fake trophy, cake, or party? With these two, it could really go either way.