Bringonthedrama

Jason flat out stated he wouldn't make a decision that moment. He isn't okay with Sam's will because of the date (and now knowing what he knows, doesn't trust Drew.) I got the impression that he was just venting to Sonny, but Sonny's reaction is of course predictable. From the preview, it looks like Jason goes to Dante for help/advice/to vent about what's best for Danny and Scout. He already knows Danny wants to stay with and look after Scout. Drew implying that Jason might beat Danny the way he handled Drew when upset was gross. And he's convinced himself that he's a loving, devoted father to Scout so he does his best to shut her down when Alexis asserts herself.

NLG is such an excellent actress when Alexis is in pain. The way she said "your drama" to Drew and Jason and looked like it was taking everything in her not to backhand both of them, was awesome. Jason, you conceived a son with a woman, your friend, whose husband had also been your friend in the past, so shut UP about Drew living up to the Q name. Well, so did Michael since he slept with Sasha before Willow actually slept with Drew. The hypocrisy, it burns. I call b.s. that Drew will stand firm on not giving up Scout to Alexis. Alexis rightly looked pissed at the condescending way he spoke to her.

Yes. Terry did it when she called Sam to the hospital about being Lulu's liver donor. I think Portia uses her title because she is driven by a need to feel in control and in charge. As we all have seen, she just can't face the possibility of life not turning out in ways that don't suit her wants and needs. That's why she was never honest with Marcus and Curtis about Trina's paternity. That's why she kept trying to control and manipulate Trina's relationship with Spencer. That's why she has verbally attacked Laura (and Elizabeth with Laura) as well as changed the cobalt test results for Heather. That's why she went to Elizabeth, looking for fault in Brad's performance so she could get rid of him.

NuLulu isn't exciting, and neither is Lucky in his current state, but I think it will be exciting to see GF play Laura's joy at having both of her Spencer kids back in her life after all the Ryan's daughter/+baby drama that dominated her storylines with Nikolas and Spencer the last few years. I feel like the all the Laura-Elizabeth scenes (since Franco has been dead) are beautifully performed and you can feel Laura's history with adult Elizabeth and Lucky when BHerbst and JJ are in the scene(s). I'm looking forward to more scenes with Laura and her grandsons Aiden and Rocco as well. Both young actors seem talented. I'm sorry you've had bad experiences in online communities. I wish we (all humans) treated each other with more dignity and respect. Yes, that was ridiculous. Where did she think she was going to go when she's so weak and in pain from recovery, doesn't have clothes, a cell phone, or money, and is in a new facility?! Come on! If she manages to steal someone's phone and calls Laura, "Hey mom, come get me!" my eyes will just roll out of my head!

It could be a red herring but it makes sense that Cyrus would be the killer. Cyrus used Julian to set up the bomb that was supposed to take out Jason. Instead his sister Laura's daughter was severely injured and she (rightly) blamed Cyrus. What better way to weaken/distract Jason long-term (in theory) and Sonny than with the death of Sam that they never saw coming, and make Dante available to ex-wife Lulu in the event she recovers? He has already been doing his best to use Lulu's condition to get time with/try to manipulate Laura. He wants Laura's attention and wouldn't hesitate to kill someone to make it seem like he's played an important role in "giving her the family back." ETA: It sort of reminds me of the time leading up to Ryan murdering Kiki. Ava complained bitterly and often in front of "Kevin" (who was really Ryan) about losing Griffin to Kiki. You would think her daughter was the cause of her misery. So in Ryan's twisted thinking, Kiki being removed from her life solves the problem. In this case, Cyrus thinks killing Sam solves multiple problems, but especially helps Laura's family.

I liked the scene today of Danny calling out Jason about his fight with Drew, that his actions aren't contained and do hurt others --seeing Drew's injured face really upset Scout. It's sad and pathetic that it takes his own son, a teenager, to get him to feel remorse for handling things the way he did. Danny dear, it would be awkward for your mom to talk about your elder deceased sister since the father was your "brother" Rocco's grandfather/Dante's dad. I get the impression that Sam let the kids believe Jason was the father? So Lulu remembers evil Cyrus, and clearly Cyrus is going to turn out to be the one who gave/arranged for Sam to get the d-name drug in surgery, who set up Elizabeth/nursing staff to take the fall for her death and is trying to control nuLulu's health status and manipulate Laura with it. I really thought Cyrus was going to find nuLulu on the floor when she fell, after his "promise" and they would have a showdown. I so very much want someone to tell Lulu "You look so different without the crown of Christmas lights on your head." It's such fanservice that Lucky is going to walk away from Brennan's offer in this moment out of love/concern for Elizabeth, thanks to nuLucas' phone call. Not because he's received urgent news about nuLulu or because he thinks he should be a present father. The Dante-Kristina talk about Sam was really well done.

Jason said Sam taught him a lot about life. That's fair; they lived together and were a couple on and off for years. He never even alluded to sex or hinted about learning more from Sam than he did from Robin. My favorite moment of Jason's brief monologue was when he seemed to be talking directly to Scout about Sam. I swear "Uncle Jason" cares more about poor young Scout than her own father does. The Drew character that Billy Miller originated has certainly been ruined by the Show's writers (although CM's acting hasn't helped.) The funeral scenes also highlighted for me how alone in life and pathetic, Jason really is. Sam had Dante and her family, some friends, and associated people. Jason has essentially four relationships in his life: Sonny and Carly who mostly need/use him, Michael who also mostly needs him because he's an adult in age only, and his friendship with Spinelli (Maxie by association with Spin and Sam). He and Elizabeth are friendly now mostly because of the Jake connection but they don't see each other on purpose often and aren't close. He has the undefined connection with Anna. He knows Sam's family, Carly and Sonny's kids, his own two sons, attorney Diane, he knows his various Q bio relatives and associated folks, but he doesn't actually have relationships with any of them. He's 50ish years old and fine with living in a small room above Kelly's and not having any quality relationships other than his friendship with Spinelli. That's a sad life. Both Elizabeth and Sam moved on and got more out of life and relationships than they would ever have with Jason as a so-called partner. They both finally accepted, as Robin had many years earlier, that Jason and Sonny's "business" and Sonny/Carly's family would always be Jason's top priority. I know the young actor has autism like Leo does. But there's no reason (unless the boy is very sick right now) that Leo couldn't have appeared for part of the episode. He could sit next to Olivia briefly and after Spinelli's tribute to Sam was over, have a shot of Sonny asking Olivia why she's texting and she says this funeral is too upsetting for Leo so I'm telling Ned to come pick him up - he's waiting outside. At least that demonstrates Sam and Leo cared about each other as siblings and the Show didn't just forget about him. It reminds me of the Show never giving a good reason/excuse for why Robin and Lucky didn't appear at Bobbie Jones's funeral.

Regardless, Gio has only been in Port Charles since the BLQ + Chase wedding and hasn't been in scenes with Sam or the three kids, so his presence seemed very out of place. I saw that Danny yelled at nuLucas and he ran out of the church. But that doesn't explain why Leo, Lucas and Sam's biological brother/Julian's youngest child, wasn't at the funeral next to his mother. When Ned adopted Leo, Sam showed up to support Leo. Most recently, Scout said "Olivia and Leo say Mommy is a hero." So Leo definitely knows his sister Sam and has been around her children at the Q mansion numerous times. It's a glaring error to me that he wasn't there with Olivia, yet Gio was there the entire time. I also kept waiting for nuLucas or Ava to mention his last decent living sibling, Leo.

JJ's Lucky and Sam were in at least one scene together during JJ's Fall 2009-December 2011 run. I remember Lucky went to check up on Lulu and had a scene with JMB's Lulu and Sam because original Franco kidnapped the two women, told Jason he strapped them both to bombs and it was up to Jason to save one/decide who lived and who died.

Allll the kudos to KV, KM, BA, JJ, DZ, FFC, NLG, and the two Jason-Danny hugs in front of everyone, really made me cry as they spoke about Sam during the funeral. I am not the type to cry from television. The child actors, their eyes glistening/watering with unshed, tears, was heartbreaking. Elizabeth's tribute/saying she's "proud" of the place she and Sam had reached as co-parents seemed appropriate. Carly had to speak because that's how this Show rolls, but telling all the loved ones that she respected Sam is absolute b.s. CM couldn't even manage a glistening eye. Did he fall asleep briefly? I swear I saw closed eyes. Even Portia, who barely knew Sam, showed more emotion. And why on G-d's green earth was Gio (not sure he ever even met Sam and playing violin as people left seemed out of place) included in the funeral but not Sam's brother, Leo? It can't be about the actor's age because the other kid actors were there for all the scenes yet the girl who plays Scout is younger than the boy who plays Leo. Alexis looking absolutely gutted, sitting alone briefly, was so very sad and that montage of Sam with various friends and family at the end also made me tear up. Farewell, Kelly Monaco. I thought Laura would be entering Lulu's hospital room or asleep in the corner since she wasn't at the funeral. I call b.s. that Lulu would be alone in her room and would have the strength to lift her hands to her face after years in a coma. Instead of emotional Laura, Cyrus is in the preview with Lulu? Ick.

He's an equal opportunity bastard, not just to Alexis. He likes to act as if he never locked pregnant Carly in a panic room for however long it was, was not the cause of Elizabeth going blind (temporarily), never attacked Elizabeth on the witness stand about her marriage and Jason and the paternity of her baby and then sneered at her about Jason when she called him cruel. But he's a jerk to Alexis, to his own former stepdaughter (who used to call him Daddy Ric, and he's been a pushy jerk to Elizabeth on multiple occasions. Both brothers are shitty humans however Sonny has a higher body count. I was under the impression from the lack of mentions over the years that Molly and Ric have hardly been in touch since he left. Alexis had to get on the phone and yell at him to come to the baby's funeral. He was also Kristina's stepfather for a while when she was a young child, so he should show that he feels at least a tiny bit of compassion for everything she's been through. Instead, he uses info obtained from Molly to provoke Kristina and tells her to her face it's her fault the baby died. He's acting like he has always thought Kristina was a loser and that his "love" for Molly is superficial. It seems to me more like his presence is about wanting to make Alexis suffer for having children other than his daughter.

Yup. Elizabeth literally said that to his face in their scene last week at the bar.

Utterly heartbreaking: Scout upset over her dad's injured face and reminding him of his promise to stay with her, Maxie's monologue to Sam's photo, and Alexis being upset and getting support from her daughters over breaking her bracelet from Sam. Is Ric trying to be more of a low-life than his brother? Loved NLG's delivery of Alexis's lines to Ric as he sneered at/taunted her right before the funeral. I was half expecting him to say Sam deserved to die. Elizabeth and Aiden are such a sweet mother-son duo. Awwww. And kudos to BHerbst for the look, and reaction, Elizabeth gave Lucky about talking with Brennan. lol Please tell me Nina turns Drew's other cheek purple too when she finds out he lied to her face about him and Willow, as she's helping him right before the funeral. I figured one of the kids would overhear them talking about Jason. Good reaction by Rocco. What nuLucas said was right no matter how much Maxie wanted to dismiss it, and he kind of deserved to have a devastated teenage boy yell at him. Don't care about Trina's new romance. So nuLulu makes her grand (unconscious) debut as Sam's funeral is underway tomorrow. Of course.

I agree since Trina isn't behaving like she's crushing on or attracted to Gio (other than great admiration for his musical talent) and TJ and Molly are clearly about to break up. TJ being so cold and unemotional with Alexis and Molly about Sam's death when he's been around Sam often for approx. 10 years due to his relationship with Molly, is horrible. I realize he's in doctor mode at the hospital but I see zero compassion. I saw the TJ-Molly hug and what he said to her, but he's supposed to be the love of her life. A neighbor or old childhood friend could have done the same. Did he even remember her birthday? I also agree about TR. I was a little taken aback at how old and frail he looked in the dim light when Holly and Robert had their reunion scene before getting on the plane. Worse than when he paused and looked back at Diane from the doorway before exiting.

When Lucky was saying that being a cop "didn't work out well" for him, I thought it was a vague reference to the downhill trajectory of his life once he got hurt on the job and got addicted to drugs. If he had never been a police officer and been in that situation, would he and Elizabeth still be happily married with a great family life? I figured Lucky went to Sonny for advice as a sort of stand-in for Luke since Sonny and Luke were best friends. Sonny doesn't want to criticize Luke's pride and joy or outright say to Lucky, you're making a big mistake if you leave, but he also believes Lucky belongs in Port Charles with Aiden, Laura and the rest of Luke's family. When he mentioned being on "thin ice" with Laura, it seemed like he genuinely did not want Laura to be upset with him anymore, so he was NOT going to encourage Lucky to leave. Yes, I thought Anna was jealous that Robert took off with Holly. Also that Felicia was calling Robert, Holly and Sasha a family as if that is comparable to Robert, Anna and Robin. It seems like Elizabeth is remembering the good qualities of Lucky she fell in love with and longs to have a family life/co-parent now that the lies and affairs are in the distant past (and Franco is deceased), while Aiden is still a teenager - she sees Aiden growing attached to those qualities as well. There was tension between them often from the time Cam was a toddler until Lucky abandoned 7ish-year-old Cam and baby Aiden, because of Lucky's addiction, and both of them lying and having affairs. Neither Jason nor Lucky made themselves available to co-parent Jake from the time he was 8 years old (when Luke and Lucky brought him home). I think she wants to give Aiden, herself and Lucky a new family life but is mostly in denial about it because she doesn't believe that Lucky has the emotional maturity for it and won't make the effort to be what Aiden needs long-term. My personal opinion is that seeing Lulu wake up and be heartbroken over how much time she's lost with Rocco, and Rocco's joy over having his mom back, will be the mental smack Lucky needs regarding his own son (and Elizabeth).