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Kiki: I don't know what all these things are that my Dad left behind here. There are shelves full of them.

If she's in scenes over more than one commercial break, that's probably her 2017 allotment, too.

Ah, maybe that was it. It seemed like, overall, she was enunciating everything really oddly today, maybe her accent slips in when she's doing "emotional" stuff.

The main thing I got out of today's show is that JMW pronounces "fault" really oddly. And she kept saying it over and over and over (and over and over) again.

I can definitely see the need for a Lucky recast at this point, but I'd be so annoyed if it was Jeff Branson. Aside from the knee jerk negative reaction I have to just thinking about his character on AMC, I really don't think he's as good of an actor as advertised. I'd still vastly prefer Mark Lawson. (I love Josh Kelly, but he doesn't feel like Lucky to me.)

And, to give him some credit, JPL could step up when in scenes with a strong partner, like the Rex/Bo scenes. So, at least, he'd probably be decent opposite Tracy.

I'm convinced she has some deal where she gets to handle her hair, makeup, and wardrobe. I could be entirely wrong, but if I am, then she is the only woman alive who could consistently, day after day, manage to make the hair, makeup, and wardrobe departments of this show look so good.

I admire her so much for sharing all of that. Having been through similar issues, I know that it helps so much to be open about them, because otherwise you start getting into this mentality that it's your shameful secret. And that is so not the case. I hope she goes on to have a successful pregnancy, when she's ready to try again, and that the tumor remains as innocuous as possible. Side note: Kim looked adorable pregnant in that picture she shared. I think it just shows, once again, that TIIC of this show cannot dress a woman who doesn't have Kelly or Becky's body. (And they even mess up those two some times.) They should just let Kim wear her own clothes whenever she pops in to film.

Wish I could say it was mine. Just a cute picture I found online to use.

They were inside a series of a few glass boxes (I can't remember the exact number). It was an elimination game, and, to win, you had to completely break through all the panes of glass in each box. Timmy actually got done first, but, when he went to break one of the top panels, the whole panel popped out intact instead of breaking into pieces, so his escape didn't count. And, in the process of breaking through those glass boxes, he pretty much shredded his legs and ended up with pieces of glass embedded in them. (I think I got the general gist of it, it's been a while.)

I agree that Nina could have potential, if the writing and the way MS is being directed to play her would take advantage of that potential. Ever since they decided to reel her back in from the scheming woman she was when she first hit town and the woman who forced Ava into labor and stole her baby, they've been playing her and her "love story" with Franco as some weird melding of OLTL's Jessica thinking she's a 17 year old virgin again and AMC's teenage autistic Lily falling in love with the brain damaged "they cut the bad out" Jonathon.

Happy New Year, everyone. If you're going out tonight, stay safe!

T-shirt?

I love how Liz is somehow responsible for all things at all times. If her lie cost Patrick his "great love" with Sam, then theoretically, if she hadn't lied, Patrick would still be with Sam? So then, Robin would still be rotting in captivity. Yet, somehow, Liz's lie is responsible for extending the length of Robin's captivity? OK... But, wait, Liz's lie is responsible for Patrick becoming more attached to Sam. But, her lie cost him his relationship with Sam. It's like she's an evil time lord who has managed to cross every constraint of time and space to make every situation the worst case scenario. Is she also responsible for the success of Trump's campaign? Did her lies lead to Bill Cosby raping 50 some women over the span of a few decades? Did she order the HGH delivered to Peyton Manning's address?

I think it encapsulated how selfish she is along with how incapable she is of going without a man for 10 seconds. My UO - I see zero reason for Patrick to be mad at Liz. As today's repeat episode reminded us, once Sam knew Jake was Jason but that knowing who he was didn't send him running to his ride or die twu wuv, she decided to go full steam ahead with the divorce, because staying latched on to her second choice was preferable to giving her husband two seconds to process his identity and see how the recovering memories and feelings thing was going to go for him, and Patrick was perfectly happy to go along with that. The only reason she and Patrick ended up breaking up (aside from the writing decisions that needed to be made to accommodate JT's exit) was because Sam got reason to believe that Liz knew Jake was Jason, and she latched on to that. Given that behavior from both Patrick and Sam, had Liz been open about who Jake was from the time she found out (when Patrick and Sam were already involved), there's no reason to think that Sam wouldn't have pulled the same "well he knows who he is and still wants Liz, so I'm going to marry a guy I clearly don't love enough to marry," and Patrick would have happily gone along with it because Robin wasn't back, and he needed someone to warm his bed and raise his daughter. Add on that both Patrick and Robin love Liz and have been close with her for years, and while they don't approve of what she did with Jason, she's still their close friend who they love, who didn't do anything to either of them. I know, I know, the only respectable response from either is to pull out a gun, shoot Liz, put her through a wood chipper, burn those pieces down to ash, and spread the ashes in multiple, non-connecting bodies of water so they can't re-form. But, considering the shit each of them has forgiven in loved ones in the past (and, in Patrick's case, has received forgiveness from loved ones in the past), it makes more sense to me that both have drawn on their own life histories and realizations that even decent people do some messed up stuff some times. Add in their longstanding friendship with her, and they're not choosing to put her in stocks in the town square where they sell rotten vegetables for the all of Port Charles to throw at her. And, let's be real, if Liz had told Patrick the truth back when she found out, based on how he's acted the past year or so, he would have likely agreed to the line of thinking that "everyone is better off this way," and wanted to keep it between the two of them so as not to rock the boat. I love Liz, but I agree that there are a lot of people who should be long term mad at her. Patrick and Robin just don't fall in that category for me. Patrick because Liz keeping the secret fell right in line with what he wanted to happen in his life. And Robin? Liz didn't do anything to her. She had zero idea that Robin was being held against her will.

I still kind of love that they had her quickly glom onto Franco, the guy who had caused Jason so much pain (along with facilitating her favorite child's rape). I feel like it showed exactly how selfish Carly truly is. Jason was dead, he wasn't around to do shit for her any more. She needed a new guy to prop her up. And she thought he was Jason's twin, so he was the closest she was ever going to come to screwing Jason. It clearly illustrated what a shitty, self-centered person Carly truly is.

While watching the repeat episode today (what, I was feeling too lazy to change the channel!), a Soaps In Depth commercial came on, leading with "Franco and Nina finally make love!" Jasus. Trigger warning, SID! I just ate!

I believe it is when Nany is packing for the Pit, right after he goes in there and has his "God, you're still mad, that was like 5 minutes ago!" moment with her.

I won't lie. I laughed, rewound, and laughed some more. Steffy as the killer cousin is the only thing that seems to make me smile on this show. Not because I like Bratz, by any means, but because it's just so hilariously bad every time. (Not that I'm not still bitter about her offing Aly, because I am). Fingers crossed this spill down the stairs re-aligned whatever rattled out of place when Ivy got electrocuted, and we can discover that all this "I love Liam!" was just some mis-firing neurons, or something. And Caroline still exists!

You definitely saw John flat ironing his hair. I rewound to watch again and laugh.

Carly and Courtney always watched the Academy Awards together...when Courtney wasn't starting at snow globes.

Well then clearly that baby was an asshole. Poor Saint Taylor.

Johnny and Nany being the ones going on about how Cara Maria's flirtation with Thomas has to come out is really rich. If Johnny does really decide to set that reveal in motion, I hope that Abe and Cara Maria return the favor and put every single one of his "off camera" (i.e. he gets the production crew to agree to look the other way) hook ups out there. Every single one. And Nany, the girl who complains that she's being slut-shamed if anyone dares to talk about her hook ups? But it's OK to use another girl's flirtation as the source of endless gossip and judgment? Shut up, Nany. And Johnny was an idiot (although I did wonder if he figured that saying Nany's name would play well with his girlfriend, since Nany is obviously still hung up on him). It would have been easy to say Jenna's name. Everyone would recognize it for what it was - him refusing to say Nany's name and sticking to his promise to Aneesa not to say her name, while still not being a legit attempt to send Jenna in, since the numbers were already against that. And then he has the nerve to complain that Nany's going to be pissed too long over it? Um, are you, or are you not the guy who showed up for this one still bitching about Sarah sending you in on the last season? But Nany gets, what, 2 minutes, to be pissed off and then she should just move on? I certainly hope Nany was paying attention to this episode and heard him essentially say it was good that she went home because she would have just been mad at him for the rest of the season and that would be bad for his game. Nany, you're a pawn to him. If I had to hazard a guess, he has figured out some time frame as to how often he needs to throw her a little flirtation, maybe a few kisses, and then a random hook up less frequently, just to keep her happily on "Team Bananas." I hope his girlfriend realizes that him voting for Nany to make things look good to her means that he'll have to indulge in that hook up with Nany sooner to make sure she's on his side the next time they're both on a challenge (which will likely be soon). Oh, and Nany, at least Cara Maria was flirting with some new guy to solidify her position on the show. You're willing to continually take Johnny's marching orders, knowing that he will always come first, just to get whatever scraps of attention you can from him. You can judge Cara Maria all you want, but you're just pathetic. I adore Abe's John hate. It was the best part of the show. Aneesa confused me. I'm sure it's partially because I missed the first half or so of the first of these two episodes, but why is she back to drooling over (and then getting pissed at) Cory? Did we not already see her eavesdropping and finding out that Cory has a girl back home and he's only interested in Aneesa as a means to stay on the show? So why was she acting like there was still some chance for a relationship with the two of them? And you've managed to go all these seasons while essentially keeping any relationships off screen and now, as a grown ass woman in her 30's, you manage to go to pieces off this little boy who is clearly not worth it? Please gather up your dignity and forget his name.

Is Jack the baby that was supposed to be Taylor's, but ended up being Brooke's due to some "oops!" in the lab? And Taylor had the baby but couldn't bond with him because the idea of one of her kids being partially Brooke's made it impossible for her to bond?

When they showed CT in the "this season on the Challenge" package, I was really hoping that he was coming back to take part in a Pit and give us another Johnny Bananas Backpack moment. I still hold out this hope.