Bringonthedrama

IMO you can dismiss what Robin said to Carly when Robin and Patrick re-married and left the Show, because Billy Miller was in the role of Jason-soon-to-be-Drew at the time. So, Carly being all gleeful around Robin about having her Jason back didn't really count. KMcC/Robin didn't see SB/Jason again until Robin and Patrick had Noah off-screen in California, and Sam and Jason/Drew had Scout.

Did I hear correctly that off-screen Robin worked with WSB to save Carly's miserable life? I call it now: Carly's going to say she went into cardiac arrest because she sensed that Jason had decided not to tell her something very important. I was really waiting for lightning to strike Sonny, who has had one son critically wounded in childhood and adulthood, one son dead, a daughter nearly killed by a car bomb he set, and children kidnapped, for telling Valentin "you don't deserve to be a father." BLQ, your husband doesn't want to go along with you keeping this secret because your reasoning sounds like bullshit to him just as much as it does to the audience. She wants to believe she is doing this to protect the adult child, but it sounds more like she doesn't want to wreck her friendship with Dante and have the family furious with/hurt by her and Lois. Telling Chase that she didn't tell Dante the truth as an adult because she realized he didn't have "lingering feelings" for her, makes this retconned secret even more gross. Her ego was hurt because he wasn't interested in sex with her a second time, so she resorted to trying to rape him while he was under the influence?! (That's what I got out of her talk with Chase; he just doesn't know specifically that Lulu actually caught Brook Lynn in Dante's lap after she slipped something in his drink.) Basically, she wanted $ from Carly, to have the ego trip of Dante wanting her, and to stick it to Lulu. Girl, you were not a teenager at the time as an excuse for bad behavior and that is not friendship. If the situations were reversed and Dante was telling this story about withholding a very important truth from BLQ because she was not willing to cheat on her boyfriend with him, this would cause outrage.

Maybe he's been poisoned before? Regardless, unconscious Carly is the very best Carly so good job, Valentin. Tracy having Martin arrested in Laura's home is ... a choice.

Lois decided (with Monica's permission) to move Gio into the Q family home where Brook Lynn was living with her husband, then started freaking out about the secret being exposed, and went to see Martin behind Brook Lynn's back about legal options. She'll be a total hypocrite if she blames Lulu for this mess. Yes, Lulu was dead wrong for breaking into Martin's hotel room and her hostile approach to Brook Lynn. But the way AS and RS are playing their characters, I don't believe they are really keeping the secret to protect a now-adult child. There are ways to investigate/look into the past without just showing and declaring "ta da, I'm your biological parent who gave you up for adoption." Both women have clearly not kept the secret for fear of the kid's safety re: Sonny. Lois is protecting Gloria and herself from having her daughter, ex-husband, etc. rage at her. Brook Lynn is protecting her marriage and secondly, her friendship with Dante. I imagine Chase is going to be hurt, jealous and humiliated when he finds out that best friend Dante got Brook Lynn pregnant when he was a teenager, but now, he -an adult who is her husband - can't. It makes sense that she didn't tell him when she was a scared teenager. But she knows Dante is a kind, not dangerous guy who would never blow up a kid's life for selfish reasons, and she was never afraid of the danger that Sonny brings to children, so she had no real reason to not tell adult Dante the truth. I still remember when Dante and AL's Brook Lynn told JMB's Lulu that they grew up together but were never, ever into each other despite both families trying to get them together at weddings. Not a single mention of summer camp. Dante talked about her like she was his little sister from the old neighborhood.

It was stupid to have their scenes in the Q mansion's kitchen as opposed to Bensonhurst or literally anywhere else in Port Charles. Rocco already overheard one conversation right there, so BLQ's father, stepmother, other grandmother, Gio himself, or any of the kids including Rocco could find out this "secret." The audacity of Lois and Gloria to have this conversation about keeping the secret from Dante and the Q family while Lois is living there in her ex-husband's family home for no reason. The only time it would have been appropriate for Gloria to visit and Lois to stay there (other than wedding preparation) was when BLQ was in critical condition in the hospital from being attacked. Yet none of her Bensonhurst family showed up. I think he was meant to be there to flash happy/loving eyes at nuLulu (after their conversation at Maxie's, Maxie telling him Lulu is still in love with him, and him telling Chase they're in a good place) as she's giving Rocco this moment with his sister/getting their family back together as opposed to BLQ choosing in the same episode to continue not to tell Dante that he has a son and Rocco has a brother.

Could be Valentin's preference. My cousin's (very controlling) husband wanted their daughters to call him Poppa from birth, and to my knowledge they still do even though they're 16 and 14 now. I've heard my cousin say "You better tell/ask your poppa..." Although in conversations with other people, the elder daughter will say, "My dad ..."

It wouldn't surprise me since Charlotte briefly dated her cousin Aiden's older brother, Jake, who also called Laura "Grandma" before he went off to college in Spain. However, IIRC, Valentin and Alexis are not actually cousins since he turned out to be Helena's son with a man who was not Mikkos.

Poor Trina, there are three extras at her surprise birthday party while the father who raised her, her best friend, and her pseudo-cousin TJ are missing. Or was the birthday party just the set up for her and Laura to talk about Spencer and show she's moved on with Kai? I call bs on Rocco missing Charlotte so very much while visiting Grandpa's new place. They never had a relationship on-screen in the four years Lulu was in a coma. Kristina has some audacity asking Dr. Gannon to drop Rocco off at the Qs so she can confront her father. Dr. Gannon has met Kristina only once, has never been to the Qs/they don't know him, and this is the first time he and Rocco have met. Ugh. Lucky better be nuLulu's next call now that her kids are reunited. The Show has gone two weeks without Lucky having a significant conversation or big emotional scene with Elizabeth, his mother, sister or son despite the "we have a lot to talk about line" in the hospital to Elizabeth. I hate that!

Poor Rocco. He'll have Charlotte back in his life and he'll have his world upended (again) by finding out about Gio. Not to mention Danny getting jealous - I assume -that Rocco has a new brother and Dante has another son.

Then today Ric interrupts. I actually liked the Ric/Elizabeth/Lucky scene. Well played by RH (tears in his eyes) and Lucky rolling his eyes made me chuckle. JJ can be so funny in his subtle acting. So now Maxie and Carly are friends? The three ladies' scene would have made more sense if nuLulu was celebrating a birthday. I assume this guy with the dark good looks that Lucas is pouring his drunk heart out to and wanting to hook up with will turn out to be Noted Bigot Natalia's son/Blaze's brother. I thought Lulu would have more tears when she hugged Charlotte. LOL that Willow accuses Sasha of seducing Jason when he was mourning Sam. Willow knows/has witnessed next to nothing about Jason and Sam. KMc finally showed Willow acting unsure of Drew/a little like a woman telling a man what he wants to hear because of his emotional power over her.

Oh how I've missed JJ!! Lucky's reactions to his family today really made me giggle. How long has it been since JS and DZ were both shirtless in a scene? Good friendship scene for them; sad that it's about to blow up. I feel sorry for Scout that Grandma Alexis is the only trying to look out for her. NLG is very good in concerned grandmother mode. Something is very wrong when I watch a scene between Willow, Drew, and Carly where Carly is the most tolerable and reasonable character.

The look on nuLulu's face when Dante admitted in a roundabout way that he still loves her was well played by AH. Lulu seemed to fall in love with him all over again by watching him with Bailey Lu. That little girl is adorable. Watching Laura and Tracy together, even when it's brief, is a treat. Are we supposed to be excited about seeing Ms. Travolta again? Meh.

NuLulu is an adult, not a teenager that Laura can tell "you're grounded." Laura has never held Nikolas up to any standard, which is part of his problem. For years she was not hard on him for the horrible things he's done out of Mom Guilt that maybe he wouldn't have turned out this way if she had raised him. She said to him and then to Lulu she was proud of him for taking responsibility and turning himself in for his crime(s), but that's not really holding him to a standard IMO. I get why Laura is not being harsh with her daughter. She lost years with Lulu twice now, and Lulu almost died. That's a lot for a mother to endure. She had a scene with Martin where she explained understanding how Lulu is feeling because of her own history ('wig on a stick'.) She's not okay with Lulu running off to Prague (she said so) and other behavior/words re: Charlotte but she knows she can't control an adult child. I understand Lulu's perspective in that BLQ has literally had two + decades to let Dante know she gave birth to their child and gave the child up for adoption. Not telling him when she was a scared teenager was one thing, but she doesn't have a good reason for never telling him given she's supposed to care about him as a friend, knows he's a good guy, and she's certainly not afraid that "Uncle Sonny" who's "the sweetest" would be a danger to the grandchild. Yes, Dillon was married. He got married when he was a teenager because he thought his girlfriend was going to die. Yes, Lulu made the choice to have an abortion, but she didn't lie to/withhold the information about the pregnancy and abortion to him for the rest of his time in Port Charles. This is all so ridiculous. If the Show hadn't made BLQ such an "Uncle Sonny" adorer, the logical storyline would be that BLQ thought about telling Dante the truth once they were adults, but then when it was revealed he's Sonny's kid, she decided to hide the truth forever to protect the child knowing how Sonny feels entitled to seeing and having relationships with the young members of his family and knowing also that Michael got shot in the head, the children were kidnapped, etc.

It could be that Sam knows Jacob from another time in the past, like Elliot has been Alice's talk -to in 1999. His anger toward Del about her not being "honest" about Jacob's return and then his angry/exasperated reaction the first time Del said Jacob left/ran off and she didn't know when he would be back, seemed like he's personally invested in Jacob not just upset for his girlfriend Del that her son's return was not easy. It could be that Casey is actually Alice's granddaughter. I've read speculation that Alice has a daughter and she and Max Goodwin's son get together and have a daughter.

Dante could be told and he could decide not to tell his mother since BLQ and Lois both decided never to tell Ned. I'm confused about a few scenes today. Why was BLQ dressed for a winter funeral in her bedroom in the confrontation with nuLulu? Has Charlotte ever even met Jason before? He informs her he's taking her back to Port Charles because he "promised Rocco" and she just complies after refusing to go with Anna? She's a teenager so I was expecting a tantrum about not wanting to go back. Since Gio does not yet know he's Tracy's great grandson, why would he and Emma involve themselves in the Q crypt family drama between Tracy and Drew? Emma's grandma was not the police presence on scene. They're college kids so they should be involved in college/campus drama even if it's lame. I rolled my eyes at Chase arresting his grandmother-in-law for assault. That's the lite version of Dante investigating or arresting Sonny/Jason and associates for crimes. The Dante-Maxie stuff was good, but why does Dante look so shocked to find out that Lulu is still in love with him? She has not once mentioned deceased Dustin since she and Dante talked about the day of the explosion and her going into a coma. I assume they'll start making their way back together once the Gio secret is out and Dante feels betrayed by BLQ, Cody and Lois.

Yes, it's been mentioned a few times by different characters that Colton's brother took off at some point after their father died. Now that Elliot has read his mother's letter that indicates she decided to "jump" for "love", I assume she fell in love with Colton's brother while married to Vic, and she and Colton's brother jumped into the pond to tt and leave Port Haven, including Elliot, behind. I'm also going to guess that Sam has now witnessed Jacob jump into the pond (without Jacob knowing) and that Casey is either Jacob's future daughter or granddaughter. She seems in awe of him, similar to when Alice met Colton.

On this Show, nbd considering: -Carly was both Rocco's stepgrandmother and his cousin (he's Lulu kid) while she was married to Sonny. -Donna, Carly and Sonny's daughter, is Lulu's cousin and Dante's little sister. So, she is both cousin and aunt to Rocco. -Molly and Kristina, James and Bailey Lu, Danny and Scout, Wiley and Amelia are all siblings as well as cousins to each other. -Ava was Sam's aunt and simultaneously her cousin-in-law while Ava was married to Nikolas. (Ava has been Alexis' sister-in-law and niece-in-law.)

NuLulu goes to Carly for advice about the BLQ/Dante secret baby news. Oh, Show. I was actually surprised Carly didn't shriek once (for now) but c'mon, Robin did not "wreck" your lives. AH was very good in showing layers to her reaction and thoughts/feelings about Dante, BLQ, and their families. This is probably an unpopular opinion but I think Lulu has been a good character so far when she's having relationship scenes with her mom, Lucky, Rocco, and Dante that aren't all about finding Charlotte. Tracy throwing Stone, Karen and Jason in Sonny's face in front of Lois, BLQ, Dante and Gio was well written and equisitely acted by JE. The Tracy-Gio scene was great too; they have good family chemistry. It seems that Gio is the new Violet in her life; can't wait for their reactions to finding out Tracy is his great grandmother and that Lois has been lying to his face since he was a baby. I felt really bad for him today when he talked about his past. Alexis being so blunt with Sidwell is as entertaining as when Alexis has no time for Carly. Kudos to NLG. ETA: Elizabeth's line to Drew today about Oscar was kind of her to say, but I don't buy for a moment that Drew and/or Trina and Joss think about or talk about memories of Oscar alone or with others.

Yes, he and BLQ had a conversation a few weeks (could be months, with GH's time?) ago where he said he remembered her saying she was pregnant, and he agreed to drop her off to take a bus. He confirmed to her he never told Dante or anyone else that she was pregnant. Thus, his "what if something did come from it" line today in response to Dante line's about that summer and BL.

Tracy, telling Sasha she's smarter than Willow is not the compliment you may think it is. Highlight of the week: Maxie today saying "Lulu, what are you doing?!" with the subtext in her tone clearly saying "Lulu, you IDIOT, what the hell?" KSt is great at delivering lines just the right way. LOL at Maxie wondering if Lulu trying to break into a hotel room in a maid's uniform was role-playing with a new fling. So how long now 'til Lulu blows up the Gio secret? AH did a great job with the WTF?! reaction to Marty's notes. I am hoping to see Dante and Lucky re-establishing their friendship and more Dante-Lulu scenes of getting closer once Dante realizes BLQ, Cody and Lois have betrayed his trust/kept this secret. Curtis being in scenes with Laura is one of the very few times he's tolerable.

Yes, technically JJ was 28 when Lucky and Elizabeth's son Aiden was born in 2010, but that's close enough to 30 something that I believe he was supposed to be in his 30s esp. because he was a father figure to Elizabeth's toddler son Cameron, who is now over 20 years old/in college. Given that the Aiden character is supposed to be 14 (turning 15 in a few months), Lucky should be 40 or older. JJ is now 42 so his age fits but they aged the Kristina actress up too much. The age thing isn't an issue with Lucky and Lulu IMO because they're not in a storyline together that doesn't fit with their past storyline the way the storyline is working with Lucky and Kristina. Even putting aside the fact that Lucky is an alcoholic/addict who should absolutely NOT be working as a bartender, Kristina was born in 2002 while JY's Lucky was engaged to marry Elizabeth and was involved with her sister. I know, I know - the Show has done far worse than this. It just bothers me.

Yes, Lucky and Dante were the cops investigating when LA's Kristina got beaten up by Kiefer and blamed Ethan. Kristina was a high school student whereas Lucky was a 30-something (alcoholic/addict) with kids, so it's weird to me that he's now working for her as a bartender.

She doesn't. She was looking for answers from Del and Colton's youth/their courtship time because Del asked her to find out. Del was reacting to finding out from Jacob that he saw young Colton - her boyfriend/fiance - twice in the 1800s yet Colton never said a word to her that he could actually time travel. Colton was more likely to be honest with his "friend" Alice than with his daughter Kat's friend Alice in 1999. Although I won't be surprised now if 1999 Colton at least suspected that Alice is a time traveler related to his family.

Kristina is his boss, since she hired him to be the bartender at Charlie's. They have had multiple scenes together "at work" before the Lucky/Cyrus fight that put Lucky in the hospital.

That was some great facial acting by JJ when Kristina said to Lucky that Ava's swanning around after putting "three people in the ground including my daughter." Lucky, hit the patient in distress call button. Hey Kristina, your beloved dad has killed way more than three people, either by his own hand or Jason's. She should be on the ground, gasping for air from choking on the hypocrisy of her words. Is the Show still keeping Noted Bigot Natalia around because of wanting more storyline for Carlos Rota's character?