Bringonthedrama

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).

In this case, I got the impression Chase wanted to do something extravagant, out of love, to start out their marriage. BL mentioned to him a few suggestions (all within the US) that she thought would be adequate/great. His tone after she walked away hinted that he didn't want their honeymoon to be just enjoyable. He wanted to make a sacrifice to give his new wife a once-in-a-lifetime memorable experience that they would share. Tracy's point is that if BL bought him a new truck, it would void his grand gesture of love - essentially emasculating him. That is a different situation than Michael's gross behavior with Willow, using his wealth and his kid to manipulate her into wanting a relationship with him.

Wow. When given good writing, Jane Elliot and Amanda Setton are fantastic screen partners! It's great to see Tracy shine as a grandmother. Shut up, Curtis. Carly absolutely would cheat. She cheated on her husband Sonny with Jax and she cheated on her husband Jax with Sonny. Drew was just her boyfriend as a stand-in for Jason's absence. So is Gregory a replacement male best friend now for Jax in Alexis's life? They have great friend chemistry; I can't remember the last time she interacted with Valentin.

It's rather pathetic that TJ has to have his grandfather tell him to focus on his relationship rather than fixating on what he doesn't like about his SIL/surrogate. This young guy got to be a doctor, is in a relationship with the woman he loves, is doing fine financially, is going to be a father soon, and his uncle/father figure just started walking again. How many men in the world would be thrilled to have his life?! Count your blessings that your biggest concern is that you don't have your personal ideal of a surrogate carrying your baby. UGH!! Nina wants Drew to cooperate so she can get back into her daughter's life and she also wants to get along with her daughter's husband ... so she walks in on a meeting Drew is having with Curtis and her daughter's husband and announces to the three of them that Carly is sleeping with John Cates. The only positive things I can say about GH right now is Hudson West is doing an awesome job playing Jake, and GF's/Laura's haircut looks lovely. Yeesh. (Carly's behavior and conversation with Jagger/John is so WTF I can't even comment.) ETA: I understand that some people think Drew/Nina is hot stuff, but the misogyny of Drew re: Nina makes it, and him, repulsive to me. I had hoped this show would limit misogyny to the Sonny character; people knew he was a Mobster sleazeball. This turn is such a pity because Drew used to be a promising character.

Not just went back to him - had surgery after she got shot from being close to him, so she could get pregnant by him. Unlike Jason and Elizabeth's night of the defective condom that resulted in the Jake pregnancy, Sam very much wanted to have a baby with Jason and believed he would be a devoted father. Now, when their son is a high school freshman, she says his dad is too dangerous to be around. GMAB.

Their anger would still be completely legit, for the reasons Jake stated, esp. when he forced Jason to admit he didn't come back to Port Charles or make contact as soon as he could. However, it would make Jason's actions more forgivable. I don't agree that the onus would be on them, when they didn't know because Jason made this decision that impacted several lives without consulting anyone. Jason, and only Jason, should feel guilty even in that situation. The "I took a job I didn't want because I had no choice" is a complete lie. It would at least be an understandable statement as a stand-in truth for someone's life is in danger or there's a risk of either son losing his mother long-term.

I think it would make a world of difference if Jason had been protecting his ex-wife/son's mother, Sam, from being prosecuted for one of her past crimes, or if he was working in secret as an FBI informant/playing dead to try to free Lucky Spencer from a militant kidnapping in whatever country he's been supposedly doing volunteer work. Even protecting weak Spinelli from jail time would be a more understandable reason. (Spinelli has been unfailing loyal to Jason over the years, has a young daughter with Maxie, and helps Maxie with her two other kids/ their daughter's sibs). There is no good reason for Jason to abandon his two sons and let them think he was dead for two years, for Carly's sake. Carly is a) an adult b) guilty and c) would not be leaving Donna alone in the world. Even if Sonny died/got killed at some point, Donna has multiple adult siblings who could serve as her guardian for however long is needed.

@Daisy Maxie told Nina she was acting "desperate" and would be seen as such, that having Ava as a "secret weapon" to get Sonny back would not work and that she (Maxie) was not fond of the person Nina became while she was Mrs. Sonny Corinthos.

Bravo to Maxie in her scenes of truth-telling to Nina. She showed how she has matured and grown since her younger days of scheming to get Lucky away from Elizabeth. No, Kristina, it's not so weird that your dad is living with his young daughter and her mother. It is very weird, however, that your 1/2 brother and your nephew and are living with your 1/2 sister and your other nephew and niece, as a family. It's even weirder than you and your 1/2 brother are talking about the weirdness of dad's living situation while being oblivious to the weirdness of his living situation. You could even start with, hey bro, do you remember if you were ever told that your current live-in girlfriend once had an affair with dad, and was pregnant with our sister but she died at birth. *Seriously,* Head Writers. The Stella-Tracy scenes were awesome. I love the idea of these two women being friends! It was great to see JE show Tracy's vulnerability, acknowledging she has few friends and how different she is from her late mother.

The new writers are a letdown regarding the Jason storyline. He's a POS for letting his mother and sons believe he was dead ... to protect Carly. Utterly predictable. Except seeing him wear a blue jacket that matches his eyes. I feel so bad for Monica, Jake and Danny. Those teenagers deserve better and should not be forgiving him anytime soon. I like that for once, Willow seems to be giving Carly a hostile vibe as she's happily chirping about Jason. Weird that it's on Drew's behalf. I lol that Willow sounds more invested in her husband's uncles than in him. I'm confused about the kids. Wiley and Donna are the exact same size now. Wasn't Wiley born before Donna?

I don't think Elizabeth was trying to stop Jake for calling out Jason (she flat out told Jason she had some same questions), I think she didn't want Jake getting worked up and having it out with Jason, an adult, in front of Aiden when Aiden looks up to Jake as his older brother. After all, Aiden just a few days before witnessed Jake and Danny arguing and hitting each other. I think Jason has actually had more interactions with Jake over time than he's had with Danny, which shows how uninvested he is in his sons. The only "fun" time I can remember between HW's Jake and Jason was when Jake asked BM's Drew and Jason to meet him at some event (sports?) and neither knew Jake had invited the other. Jake wanted to hang out with both of them and for them to get along like he got along with his brothers. After that, Jake got close to Franco and so there was tension when/if Elizabeth and Jake were with Franco and saw Jason or talked about Franco to Jason.

Mac knows this, but it seems like the show has made it a characteristic of Anna that she can't help but see Jason through 'guilty absentee mother/what would have happened to Robin if Jason hadn't persuaded her to take those meds decades ago' eyes. It's more comfortable for Anna to be in denial, believing that Jason would only kill if his/someone's life was in immediate danger.

True. My bigger takeaway from those scenes is that Valentin is really a POS father. No remorse, no feeling about the shooting/potential death of Charlotte's stepdad/her brother's father. It's clear that Carly only truly cared about Dante waking up so he would exonerate Jason. Not one word about her own cousin's son's, her ex-boyfriend's daughter's, or Jason's son's worry/suffering. UGH. Of course. I assume she is hoping to resume their wedding night in her old room above "Bobbie's" now. With the way she was holding on to him, is he going to able to go anywhere without her attached to his leg? I found it lol funny that Sonny is the last to know about Dante waking up. Olivia texts instead of calls with such important news?! Also lol that Sonny is that stupid/gullible to believe that Ava could just call in to the hospital and get the information. I rolled my eyes when he kissed her and when Anna told Carly, thank you to Jason for saving Dante's life. Danny's desperation for Dante to exonerate his dad two seconds after Dante woke up was icky, but Elizabeth "not seeing anything" and the Dante-Rocco reunion was sweet for a Friday. Brennan and Carly deserve each other. Preview: I'm genuinely surprised Jason goes to see his first born. Good for Jake for being all "why are you here/what do you want"