Bringonthedrama

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).

If he actually loves his daughter Molly, he should care that she just lost her sister, and esp. that she's suffering this loss so soon after the loss of a baby. UGH. Instead of seeing his daughter for her birthday and providing emotional support to her in this major loss, he's showing up immediately at the Quartermaines and is gleeful at the idea of prosecuting Jason for a fist fight, and then goes right over to Jason's room to get in his face about Drew. I'm really not sure which one of the guys on this Show wins the worst father award.

JJ looks ridiculous pretending to box/punch a bag and Lucky sounds like an ass for whining that he should leave because he doesn't have a "purpose." Poor Aiden. The only positive thing is Lucky's hair doesn't look filthy in the scenes at Sonny's gym and in the hospital with his best bud. BHerbst did a beautiful job conveying Elizabeth's anger, hurt and disappointment in Lucky, to Terri. Deep down, she still loves him. It's a sad day when between Jason and Carly, she sounds like the mature and level-headed one. It's so weird to see her angry at Jason. Clearly it didn't matter to Jason, or occur to him, that Scout is already traumatized and could react badly to seeing her father's face beaten. Of course standing up for poor man child Michael is more important to Jason than thinking of what's best for two actual children who just lost their mom. Shut UP, Felicia. Does she really adore Holly that much to have the rose-colored glasses and totally romanticize the Robert and Holly mess? It's at least good to see Anna worried about Robert and not thinking of Jason.

Michael is just getting his karma for having sex with Willow while she was married to his "friend" Chase. Jason going after Drew for Michael just proves again what a man-child Michael is. Much as I don't like the character, it should be Liesl Obrecht going after Drew for having sexual relationships with her niece and grand niece. And she can remind both Drew and Willow that she, not Drew, saved Willow's life. Drew deserves the anger that Dr. O aimed at Elizabeth for Britt's death. Tracy and Dr. O taking down Drew would be a helluva lot more interesting than watching Tracy and Cody. Tracy or Dr. O plotting would be much more entertaining than anyone in PC punching Drew. Why/when did Dr. O leave Port Charles? I only remember her being angry at Scott for having the audacity to disagree with her about Britt's death.

I think the writers were sloppily (as always) trying to have Kristina say she knows the older sister is supposed to be the one the younger sister can depend on/look up to and she doesn't know how to be that person for Molly. Kristina was the older sister when they were young children, yes, but Molly wasn't depending on her for emotional support at that age. IIRC they were younger than the tween years when Sam was revealed to be their big sister/Alexis's long ago given up daughter. Big sister Sam was there for Kristina at important moments, like getting birth control, when she was vulnerable after being beaten by Kiefer, when she needed to be rescued from the cult, etc. Kristina is afraid of being "not enough" after the example Sam set for them.

That's not accurate. Molly started dating TJ when they were both teenagers. He decided to go to med school while they were a couple. When HP's Molly was hurt and angry that TJ appeared to be done with her (he disappeared due to being kidnapped and Jordan, as a cover up, was nasty to her about rejecting TJ's marriage proposal), she had a ONS with white guy Brando Corbin.

I see this as Anna trying to emotionally distance herself from Robert/their memories because she knows (although not admitting it to others) how badly she has screwed up her life and career because of her feelings for Duke, the mess with Peter/Henrich, more recently her feelings for Valentin and guilt over Charlotte, and now her feelings (ick) for Jason. I don't recall that Lucky ever had a relationship with Robert. I would insert "Maxie" whom he definitely considers family, instead of Lucky.

It means they believe the retcon because Luke adored tween Lucky, and vice versa. (The fall out over him finding out about Laura being raped happened years later.) Luke was thrilled when he found out he and Laura were having a baby girl. I remember JJ's Lucky and possibly also GV's Lucky saying they didn't want to be "like my old man." I watched five minutes. Well, I see Jason has a big mad for Drew. I guess this is how Nina finds out that Drew is having sex with her daughter too. The only thing I liked about the preview is apparently Ned breaks up the brawl between his cousins. Ned should be in many more family scenes while Michael and Drew should be in many less.

Okay, so I wasn't imaging that the storyline over the years has strongly implied, when it wasn't outright said, that Robert and Anna are the great loves of each other's lives. Yes, I'm really disappointed in the writing for Lucky Spencer. The moment he knows Lulu isn't about to die and therefore his mother doesn't need him to hold her hand as she says good-bye, he's ready to leave when he doesn't even have a job/assignment waiting for him. I hate the attitude that well, I'm not my mother or sister's hero in this situation so why bother staying. Until Lulu wakes up (soon) the reason he is staying in Port Charles is because he's been shamed by his ex-wife into trying to build a relationship with his son. It's awful when you remember how Lucky loved being a dad to little Cameron and Jake and "prayed to God" that Aiden was his.

My comment was about the Show's intention to pair Trina with a black man after all the hate that TA (Trina actress) got online for being in a storyline with (perceived Caucasian) Spencer played by NAC. I know Spencer was supposed to be half Greek since he was a Cassadine although I've never bothered to look up NAC's background/nationality. Then the Show led us to believe that Gio was going to be Trina's new romance or at least flirtation esp. after the way he emerged from the Metrocourt pool, which triggered Trina to think of when Spencer did it the same way. I don't care about Gio one way or another. You're right about it being a cliche, although it seemed to me more like an altered version of the beginning with Spencer once she knew he was Spencer. This guy has everything handled for him and has not been invested in academics whereas Trina takes school seriously and is appalled by him. Of course, athlete Joss is impressed by the jock.

Not to mention, Robert is still the district attorney. What's he going to do, leave a note saying "Hey, ADA Lansing-Davis can handle all my responsibilities 'til you all decide what you want to do with my job. Deuces!" We know from his conversation with Diane that he was already aware (didn't react with surprise or shock) Sam has just died. He also is aware that Molly is Sam's sister, and he knows Molly and Sam's mother. Molly is going to need some time off to grieve/support her family in grief. I call total bullshit that Robert would leave without saying goodbyes to his loved ones and would also leave his job in such an unprofessional and inconsiderate manner, when he is aware of Molly's family loss(es). Infuriated? Ridiculous. Everything Elizabeth said was spot-on and Lucky deserved it since he wanted Elizabeth's blessing/absolution to abandon their son. I also think it's sloppy writing that Lucky and nuLucas haven't had a single conversation about memories of Mom/Aunt Bobbie or even of sister/cousin Lulu (when Lucky's supposed to be an important part of this storyline!. No scenes of Lucky and stepfather Kevin or even a mention that Lucky has acknowledged Kevin's presence while living at their place, no mention of Lucky developing a relationship with Ace, bare minimum interaction with his old friend/PCPD partner and ex-BIL Dante and not a single actual conversation with Lulu's son, his nephew. He's seen Aiden what, twice? It seems like the writers think it's important that Lucky has more than two scenes with Jason, Laura, and Elizabeth only (aside from newbie Isaiah).

Baby Daddy day for Elizabeth, huh? It's so disappointing (but not at all surprising) that Elizabeth of all people pressured Jason not to let anyone make him "give up Danny." And of course, he looked at her like she's lost it when she said he could live with the Quartermaines. Why the need for Laura to call Lucky to come to the hospital? Doesn't he live with Laura right now? She was talking like she hadn't seen him in a while. Diane declaring that Robert needs to go be with Holly because of the "love," him walking out with a sad/confused/give up expression like he's a very frail old man, and then Diane crying to Anna about how do you get over Robert ... so much WTF to me. Was this - Robert getting on the plane with Holly - seriously TR's last scene?! Is he really not going to have any more scenes with his family/Anna or his newly discovered daughter? "I don't know where home is anymore without Mom." The best line Danny has had with this actor in the role. He was good in his scenes with his Dad at the Qs. This scene (SB showing emotion) was the first time since Jason's return that I believed Jason feels real love for his son. Good for Elizabeth for (finally) telling off Lucky about being a child abandoner. BHerbst was on fire!! Yes, Lucky, you deserve to feel those tears of shame. Laura, you can't make demands to Lulu. That's now how medicine works. I guess the Show is making the racist viewers happy since it's obvious Trina's new romance will be with the star black athlete who provoked her anger, instead of Gio.