Bringonthedrama

Awesome: Tracy telling Olivia it's NOT her kitchen it's actually Monica's, and the great conversation with stubborn Gregory. The last line, a sweet compliment from Gregory to Tracy. Awww! GF all day, every day. Laura's truth telling to Sonny when he asked if she's turning on him, too. "Who's going to protect [your children] from you" Strongest line from her. Also making the point that in the Sonny/Cyrus situation, there are two bad guys. Nina telling Carly, so much for earning the MC back on your own and Carly unable to dispute that. Alexis being an excellent sounding board for Molly and then Finn. Good for Alexis saying that TJ's anxiety/distrust of Kristina is the problem here, when Molly clearly doesn't want to think or feel anything negative about her domestic partner.

I must admit, I was shocked to see Sonny call out Jason on abandoning Jake and Danny for two years. I know he did it because he's feeling defensive once Jason brought up Kristina in the conversation, but still. The other shock was seeing "Ace" walking on his own. And again, SHUT UP TJ. Trina recently lived through a trauma and believes that her first love is dead, while all you do is verbally express distrust of Kristina and "her family" - which includes the love of your life, btw.

Learn how? She takes after her mother. The sense of entitlement she demonstrated by going to the office without an appointment, calling Anna by her first name, trying to assert her will in the face of a police/city official, etc. is learned behavior from Carly. Carly is just generally louder and more obnoxious whenever she goes/has gone into the PCPD because of Jason being questioned, arrested, etc.

Welp, you know there are different writers at play when Kristina gets to call Josslyn on "virtue signaling" and being drunk. It's good to see cast integration in two different celebration scenes, where those being celebrated are not Sonny and/or Carly's kids. The great- At BLQ's bridal shower: everything Tracy, Brooklyn's makeup, Lois giving the sweet speech about BLQ, and Kristina being over Josslyn's I-hate-your-dad spiel. No sign of Carly or Sam. At the ax throwing thing - Ned finally appearing and welcoming Chase to the family, Dante calling Chase family in front of everyone and the gift, Blaze appearing to raise that sweet toast to Chase, and Chase being appreciative of his family and the rest. The awful - Why must Dex be propped at two different parties? I hated that use of the groom and Dante. Why did Curtis and Drew both get mores lines than the bride's father?! Curtis gets to brag to his ex about how well he's doing. Ugh. Drew was out of place there; he may be BLQ's cousin but they don't talk and he does not have a relationship with Chase. Spinelli is the best they could come up with for DJ-ing the party?! I felt bad for BLQ that the idiot thought he should take over the dance floor. He was the only one who could make miss "I'm hot stuff/we Bensonhurt babes are so awesome" Olivia's dance moves look less hideous. I understand why LC/Monica wasn't at BLQ's bridal shower, but I hate to miss out on seeing Monica Quartermaine and Lois's mom at a family event yet Carly's brat daughter is invited.

The Jason that Carly knows is brain damaged and has spent the bare minimum time with Danny. So in my opinion, Danny could not have learned habits/ways of behaving from Jason. Carly missed Jason and wanted to remember him (not knowing in that moment she would see him very soon), so she decided that Danny's behavior reminded her of Jason. YMMV. A teenager not talking much to their mom is in no way a sign of being just like another parent. Lots of teenagers internalize things and don't communicate much with their parents. Sam has never raised a teenager before to understand that. She has a history of being angry at/frustrated with Jason for not talking to her about things she wanted him to share, esp. the "Jake is my son" secret. That is why, in my opinion, she is so upset about Danny lately. She got together with Dante having never really worked through her feelings about her relationship with Jason ending and why, so her gut reaction to Danny sneaking out once and drinking is "OMG he's just like Jason this is a crisis situation WHAT DO I DO." Then of course, Danny lying to his mom because his dad asked him to seems to endorse her fear of Danny being like his dad has come true.

In scenes after Danny was brought home by the police - before they knew Jason was returning to Port Charles/alive - Sam told first Dante that Danny was being "Jason's son" and then said to Alexis that Danny is "hard-wired" (as in, DNA) to be drawn to danger, and not think through actions, like Jason. Sam did not know 14-year-old healthy Jason Quartermaine, so her repeated statements that Danny is just like Jason are nonsense. I had the same reaction to delusional Carly telling Danny he reminds her so much of his dad. She didn't know 14-year-old Jason Quartermaine, either! Ladies, dangerous/impulse behavior resulting from traumatic brain injury is not hereditary. Sam also complained to Elizabeth that Danny doesn't talk much "just like his dad." Elizabeth responded that the not talking is common teenager behavior. From my perspective, Sam is projecting her remaining anger and hurt toward Jason for how he failed their family, combined with self-disappointment that she chose him despite all the evidence (and warnings from Alexis) he would be bad for her/kids in the long term, onto this Danny/Jason and Danny situation. Sam worrying that Danny now wants to emulate what he perceives as his dad's cool behavior is another story.

Involved with -yes, entirely devoted to - no. Elizabeth knew young Jason Morgan, who had a good relationship with his sister (Emily loved Jason Q. and Jason Morgan), who owned and worked on motorcycles, who empathized with Lucky's desire for independence while Lucky and Elizabeth were dating, who had truly loved and parted ways with Robin, etc. He was a real person back then. Sam talks like Jason has always been/is hard-wired to be the dude she knows, and that is what Danny is destined to become without her motherly intervention. Absurd. If instead Sam has been fretting about Danny becoming an alcoholic because he got caught drinking and she's aware of AJ's alcoholism and Alan's history with pills in addition to her own mother's alcoholism (addiction in the genes, both sides of the family), I would say her concerns have merit.

I feel like both versions of Jason had more layers, but then the promising Elizabeth/Jason connection went poof so that Jason could focus entirely on Sonny, Sonny's sister, and Carly. The Show addressed the layers today a little, with Danny telling Kristina that Jason treats him like a person whereas his mother tells him what to do/not do and he feels that whatever he says or does will make her freak out. I don't know why the Show refuses to let Sam acknowledge that she didn't know young Jason. She knows damn well that Elizabeth and Jason's sister Emily were best friends, and so Elizabeth knew Jason before he devoted his life to taking care of S&C. Why not use her as a resource both for young Jason history and as fellow mother of a Jason son? Sheesh!

Sam looks pathetic with her tears about Jason/regrets and Nina looks pathetic with her tears over signing the papers and the montage in memory of her and "Mike"/Sonny. Seriously ladies they are NOT worthy of your tears. Also, the Show needs to STOP with the Danny-is-so much-like Jason nonsense. Sam didn't know teenage non-brain damaged Jason!! The only thing that makes sense is that this is a poorly written set-up for Danny getting hurt while he's around Jason.

You're correct. Molly had lines about recusing herself and said Sonny's her uncle, at the point she was facing Anna while Anna was standing behind the desk. I missed that. When did Anna move in with Sonny?! How long did she live with him? I guess I missed that!

The flag coffin line is good in theory, coming from someone else. However, Joss and Dex are not married nor engaged nor do they share a child, so her line about refusing a flag from Anna's hands made me roll my eyes. Apparently so. Or the writers think the audience doesn't remember Molly's dad/Sonny's brother because he's been gone from Port Charles for so long now. Even Kristina isn't allowed to remember him. I remember a Kristina-Molly conversation where Kristina spoke about Molly being so knowledgeable about/invested in the law because of mom, as if her own uncle/former stepdad, Molly's attorney father, never existed.

She believes she and Sonny are good together/have a special kind of love and also wants to hang onto the "Momma Nina" and "Aunt Nina" roles in Donna and Avery's lives. She never got to have relationships with her daughters when they were children and had to give up the stepmom role in Charlotte's life when she and Valentin split up. I recall that the Nina character even tried to force a mother-type relationship with young(er) Molly during the brief thing she had with Ric Lansing.

It took her a "long time" to see/accept what Sonny really is despite his relationship with her daughter. Molly was surprised and asked what changed, I thought you two were friends. Anna says It took her a "long time" to see/accept what Sonny really is despite his relationship with her daughter. I have considered him a friend. We have to do our jobs in law enforcement, not pick and choose who we go after, etc. Molly pointed out that one of the other ADAs should do it due to her own conflict of interest. Anna got mad and put pressure on Molly to do it.

She wants Molly to prosecute Sonny, after Joss stalked out crying, saying it's on her if Dex winds up dead because Sonny had him killed. Btw Joss, you wouldn't receive the flag at Dex's funeral because you aren't his family. Anna feels guilty and stupid now about Sonny. She got angry that Molly says it can't be her because her sister is Sonny's daughter and her sister is her surrogate. Has this show forgotten the word "uncle"? And has Anna had her brain zapped that she didn't realize/remember/care that Molly and Sonny are related?! So Jason points out he would have talked her out of risking the Metrocourt, and that's all it takes for Carly to accept and go running to the Metrocourt to tell Olivia, like she's a high school girl who just got asked to the prom by the most popular guy in school? Poor Danny, so desperate. And of course Jason can't even manage a smile when he sees him. I laughed at the look on Nina's face when Sonny said Carly, Jason and Nina deserve each other. Re: preview - Nina, you ARE a fool! Not to mention pathetic.

Eh, sloppy storytelling. Spinelli is the love of Maxie's life in the sense that he's the one love that hasn't been murdered/died, who has been in her life since before her sister Georgie died. The only way that Mac and Spinelli are alike is that as Mac happily stepped up to be a dad to two little girls who were not his biological children, Spinelli would happily be a dad to their daughter's younger siblings if Maxie "blessed" it. Spinelli is free to make whatever commitments to Maxie and all three kids since Ellie wisely dumped him and no one else wants him as a romantic partner or father of their kid(s). Whereas Mac is genuinely a great and attractive man, who has had options in life - both career wise and with women. He had loved and been in relationships before he and Felicia became a couple. Even last summer, women at the pool were checking him out in front of Felicia (not realizing she was his wife).