Episode Discussion II: The TFGH

[GHScorpiosRule]

20 minutes ago, TVbitch said:

 

Puhlease, any time I work on any project, I have copies backed up on the computer, a cloud drive, and on a thumb or external hard drive

 

THANK YOU! And stupid of NuNotMyEmma tucking it in her pocket like that? 

[dubbel zout]

1 hour ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

I don't quite understand why Brooklynn and Chase are acting like writing it will out Gio's parentage.

I think it's more about them—BL especially—feeling like Lulu is taunting them: "I know your secret and I can blow your lives apart if I want!"

They're hypersensitive about it all, definitely, but Lulu didn't propose an article on adoption for no reason. And her excuse that the editor chose the topic is a laughable copout. You know the other two topics were deliberately lame.

Of course Joss has to sabotage Emma to get the research position with Professor Perv. I hope when Trina finds out she drops Joss as a friend immediately.

Edited May 1 by dubbel zout

[GHScorpiosRule]

36 minutes ago, dubbel zout said:

but Lulu didn't propose an article on adoption for no reason. And her excuse that the editor chose the topic is a laughable copout. You know the other two topics were deliberately lame.

Oh that I agree with! She’s not blameless in that at all. It’s all so…overwrought. And Chase attacking Dante on Brooklynn’s behalf as if she’s some child and that Dante knows everything.

I do however, like how calm Tracy is on the previews, instead of having heart palpitations like Lois will have when she finds out Brooklynn told Tracy.

[statsgirl]

1 hour ago, TVbitch said:

Puhlease, any time I work on any project, I have copies backed up on the computer, a cloud drive, and on a thumb or external hard drive. Give me a break! But I guess it has to be this stupid to allow super spy Joss to get her hands on it!

I immediately back up everything to the cloud. If it's important to a thumb drive and an external hard drive. And every time I add data or make a change, I file the new version under a different number so I can correct it quickly if it gets corrupted. And everything is emailed now, not handed in by hand.  But hey, what do I know?

How did Joss not know about the extra credit assignment? And wouldn't she be better writing her own program instead of stealing and corrupting Emma's? At least she didn't try to steal and claim it as her own.

Where are Wylie and Amelia since Willow is so angry that she left Drew's house without checking on them. And what kind of school does Wylie go to that the children in grade 2 all have their own phones? That is not good education. (Australia has banned cell phones in public schools entirely.)

As usual, Laura is the only competent parent on the show. Good scenes with Laura and Lulu.

Tracy is really spreading fuel on the feud between Brook Lynn and Lulu. Is it the Edward in her?

On the shallow, Brook Lynn was wearing the hoop earrings that Stella wore a couple of weeks ago. I wonder if there is a joint costume box for the cast.

Edited May 1 by statsgirl

[Sake614]

so Brook Lynn finally had enough and blurted out to Tracy that she got pregnant and gave the baby up for adoption. The look on Tracy’s face was priceless. JE should really teach a master class. She can say more with one look than most actors can with an entire page of dialogue. I expected Chase to blurt it out to Dante, so color me surprised he didn’t. 

I don’t like this Danny/Rocco story. Danny already got plastered once and now he’s going to get Rocco drunk. Rocco is mostly more mature but I can see him getting caught up in the party and Danny being so cool about it.

Emma is a moron for not backing up her work. Forget Joss stealing it, what if she loses the flash drive? She’s going to a bonfire and put the flash drive in her shorts pocket. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? 🥱 circling back to Joss, of course she’s going to steal Emma’s work and pass it off as her own. Because that’s the only way she can possibly get the RA position. I mean, she wouldn’t want to actually do the work herself. That’s for peasants. Joss is royalty. 🙄

really nice conversation between Lulu and Laura. Very glad Laura basically told her to mind her own damn business and not play God with other peoples lives. I doubt she’ll listen but it was nice to have someone say it. Equally glad Chase asked WHY Lulu pitched an adoption story. So far everyone has just been ‘oh well, you know, she pitched 3 ideas and this is what the paper chose.’ Even without being suspicious, it’s a valid question. The subject isn’t one most reporters would choose unless they had personal experience with it. 

still puzzled over the whole Drew mess. Ketamine is a tranquilizer, not a stimulant.  Does it act differently when mixed with alcohol? And even if it does, Drew is still responsible for his actions. Whether he remembers or not, he wouldn’t keep drinking or do body shots if he didn’t want to. No one put a gun to his head. No one planted the idea. It was all him. So at least on some level, he wanted it. Of course Willow is too stupid to see that and walk away because you know, he wuvs her and would NEVER do that! I truly hope the drug isn’t still in his system, or Nina is toast. 

Interesting that Carly has either a photo or video of Nina with Jacinda (previews). If they weren’t on the same side of the Drew issue, Carly would blow her out of the water.

[Artsda]

Brooklyn is unbearable. Her screaming and ranting and chases about Lulu. While both lie to everyone in the house, while they lie to Dante, lie the Rocco. 

But Lulu the bad one. 

Emma never heard of cloud? 

Edited May 2 by Artsda

[TVbitch]

2 hours ago, statsgirl said:

And everything is emailed now, not handed in by hand.  But hey, what do I know?

Like the professor is going to keep track of 50 thumb drives that students give him?! 🤪

[Cheyanne11]

3 hours ago, dubbel zout said:

Lulu didn't propose an article on adoption for no reason. And her excuse that the editor chose the topic is a laughable copout. You know the other two topics were deliberately lame.

Socks with sandals: yay or nay

Do raisins belong in rice pudding?

[ciarra]

Laura:  How old is this child?

Lulu: 21

Laura:  ...

[driver18]

Brooklyn is the absolute worst. Lulu has not been holding this secret over Brooklyn in any way, shape or form. Brooklyn is a heinous beast. I  despise her with the heat of a fiery thousand suns.

Edited May 2 by driver18

[KerleyQ]

Brook Lynn's biggest issue isn't that Lulu knows. It's that Chase clearly wants the whole story to come out so he can have it out with Dante. So he's going to just keep confronting Lulu and Dante until the truth ends up coming out. 

Even if Drew does manage to prove that there were drugs in his system, and swears up and down he didn't take them, Willow would be smart to pump the brakes for now. She's worried about what it could mean that Michael didn't want to talk to her, and now Drew has been all over the media with his wild night out. Her best option would be to slow way down with Drew and move the kids back out of his house. It would also be hilarious if Drew's manipulations to make sure Willow didn't get to talk to Michael ended up being a big part of the reason she pulled back from him. 

I still love seeing Dante parent both Rocco and Danny. 

[Bringonthedrama]

3 hours ago, Sake614 said:

Equally glad Chase asked WHY Lulu pitched an adoption story.

The subject isn’t one most reporters would choose unless they had personal experience with it. 

Lulu doesn't have to explain/justify to Chase why she pitched the adoption story. Also, Lulu has had issues with separation from parents and what makes a family, for decades. She has expressed jealousy about Lucky being the one raised by both mom and dad since she was a child when Laura went catatonic and Luke mostly abandoned her to be raised by Grandma Lesley, until teen Lulu moved into the Q mansion with him.

Aunt Bobbie adopted both BJ and Lucas; the family tragically lost BJ and then Aunt Bobbie's biological daughter came to Port Charles which is why Lulu has had a relationship with her. Lulu knows all this. Lulu also met Ethan as an adult, who claimed to be Luke's son with Holly and that he had been adopted but his parents died. Also, there's Laura story with the Vinings and of course the years she missed out on with Nikolas. Most recently was Lulu (then played by ER) feeling devastated to find out about Charlotte and knowing she missed the early years with Charlotte. Sure she's projecting her feelings onto Dante and making assumptions about what he would feel, but that's not a surprise.   

41 minutes ago, KerleyQ said:

Brook Lynn's biggest issue isn't that Lulu knows. It's that Chase clearly wants the whole story to come out so he can have it out with Dante. So he's going to just keep confronting Lulu and Dante until the truth ends up coming out. 

Bingo. Brook Lynn doesn't have any idea if her son was actually adopted by a family, where he went or what happened to him because she blindly trusted Lois to handle everything. She's scared now because it's obvious Chase wants to get real with Dante and is keeping this secret out of loyalty to her - not because he thinks it's the right choice, because she doesn't want to blow up her friendship/stepsibling ship with Dante, and because she's afraid of her family's reactions. Between the two sides of her family, she's been taken care of her entire life. 

Unlike Lulu, Brook Lynn has never been in a situation where her parents were unable or unwilling to take care of her when she was young and/or in trouble. Luke's attitude that he didn't know how to raise Lulu without Laura was a total cop-out.

[ljr]

I thought Brooklyn knew gio is  her son. 
 

Edited May 2 by ljr

[YaddaYadda]

I'm assuming that Tracy is the one who will figure out that Gio is the child in question.

But the look on her face when Brooklyn shouted about the pregnancy and the adoption was pretty priceless.

Of course, Nina's plan was half-baked. So now we have half-baked results.

[CeChase]

1 hour ago, ljr said:

I thought Brooklyn knew gio is  her son. 
 

No, she has no idea.  Lois has hidden that from her and everybody.  And then moved Gio into his bio mother's home, where his bio father now also lives.  

[dubbel zout]

8 hours ago, KerleyQ said:

I still love seeing Dante parent both Rocco and Danny. 

Same. His exasperation with them not cleaning up the boathouse was perfect. (And they were jerks to leave it a mess.)

1 hour ago, YaddaYadda said:

Of course, Nina's plan was half-baked. So now we have half-baked results.

Nina needs to call Portia so Drew's test results can be changed. 

I know it was for the audience, but Nina came in awfully hot when Drew was in the apartment. She needed to be more subtle in encouraging Willow to walk away, not scream about Willow showed up crying her eyes out. The look on his face when Willow said he would cause her to lose her kids was priceless, and Nina's "Oh, shit, that didn't occur to me" was pretty funny too. But this custody nonsense has to stop. It's completely unrealistic and it's not soap at all.

[MarciNJ]

On 4/30/2025 at 4:48 PM, dubbel zout said:

On 4/30/2025 at 4:12 PM, statsgirl said:

That only applies if Michael is incapacitated and can't make his own medical decisions. He clearly can now so so Willow has no power to do anything around Michael.

That makes sense.

I'm sure that was an accident on the part of the writers...

[boes]

With this upcoming bonfire on the beach party, that Rocco and Danny are going to sneak into, you don't think Show is going to do an updated version of AJ and Jason's accident?  AJ has been mentioned more than once lately, and now, apparently, there are two "brothers", one more adult, the other more of a risk taker.

I hope I'm seeing things that aren't there because that would be terrible.

[Bringonthedrama]

1 hour ago, boes said:

With this upcoming bonfire on the beach party, that Rocco and Danny are going to sneak into, you don't think Show is going to do an updated version of AJ and Jason's accident?  AJ has been mentioned more than once lately, and now, apparently, there are two "brothers", one more adult, the other more of a risk taker.

I hope I'm seeing things that aren't there because that would be terrible.

Neither Rocco nor Danny are old enough to drive yet, or Jason/Dante and Lulu would have mentioned it (like when Ava complained about Ric taking her parking space, prior to Kristina's sabotage and the Ric/Elizabeth car crash).  The writers also already wrote a couple of brothers in "trouble" scenes between Jason's sons: Jake took Danny's vape pen away during Scout's b-day party and they argued about it and on another day, they fought and hit each other about Jason re: Dante. 

I think it's more likely they'll inadvertently get mixed up in the Emma/Joss WSB plot point and need their parents, that their drinks will be spiked and they'll be saved by elder brother/cousin Gio which will be a big deal once everyone knows who Gio really is, or one/both will overhear while trying to sneak back into the Q mansion unseen that Dante has another son by Brook Lynn. Lord knows she and a few family members have been talking/bellowing/arguing about the secret baby so much while in the Q mansion it's a wonder that everyone who lives on that property doesn't know her secret by now. 

Edited May 2 by Bringonthedrama

[Pingaponga]

I absolutely loved the expression on Tracy's face when Brook Lynn told her about the baby. JE is just brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

But honestly, I am so sick of this adoption story. The baby was given up for adoption. The birth mother/father does not have the right 21 years later to re-enter the child's life without the child's agreement, let alone actually "parent" them. 

When Lulu had her abortion, Dillon disagreed with her decision but it was clearly her choice to make and she made it. Is the show actually going to now go with "Brook Lynn should have told Dante about the baby because maybe he'd have decided they should raise the baby together" and Brook Lynn should have been forced to raise a child she didn't want?

And I hate the narrative on soaps that a child that is given up for adoption becomes in adulthood someone who fully embraces the family that gave it up for adoption. The whole "We have a biological connection, therefore I will call you mom and dad and listen to you scold me for making stupid decisions and ask you for advice and ignore whoever raised me for 20+ years" absolutely infuriates me.

Maybe I feel so strongly about this because Trina, who wasn't actually adopted, is now doing this with Curtis even though we know she had a very loving and respectful relationship with the man who believed he was her father and whom she believed was her father. Taggert, I miss you. You were a great dad to Trina.

Also...Cody wasn't adopted. Laura was switched at birth, not adopted. Nikolas wasn't adopted. Maybe Lulu should talk to people who actually were adopted or gave a child up for adoption (thank heavens she reached out to Alexis, even if they couldn't talk).

Rant over. Just move this story forward so I can stop thinking about it.

[ciarra]

11 minutes ago, Pingaponga said:

Also...Cody wasn't adopted.

Wait, what?

Quote

Cody was born to the late Dominique Stanton and Mac Scorpio. ... After his birth, Dominique gave him up for adoption in order to protect him from Dominique's ex-husband, Leopold Taub.

After Cody was given to the Bells, Dominique met and married her love, Scott Baldwin

 

[dubbel zout]

29 minutes ago, Pingaponga said:

Maybe Lulu should talk to people who actually were adopted or gave a child up for adoption

Another problem with Lulu's article is that she's talking to people who had some trauma in their childhood. Which of course happens, but how about talking to someone like Ethan, who had no hangups about being adopted, loved his adoptive parents, and didn't look at them as lesser somehow just because they weren't his bio parents, whom he met much, much later in life.

Lulu is talking to people who can reinforce her idea that adoptive kids had traumatic childhoods solely because they were adopted, so she can justify telling Dante. At any rate, it's not just about the parents and kids, a point I was glad Laura made to Lulu. 

6 hours ago, YaddaYadda said:

I'm assuming that Tracy is the one who will figure out that Gio is the child in question.

I tend to agree, and I don't think Tracy will be the one to spill those beans. Unlike her stepdaughter, Tracy is able to look at the bigger picture.

[JMO]

I'm inclined to cut Lulu a break and not assume any ulterior motive other than to learn and understand more about what people on both sides of adoption think and have experienced.  Yes, her concern is for whether she should tell Dante, but I don't see a reason to think she's just looking for an excuse to do so. 

I don't think it's that unusual for either an adoptee to look for a birth parent or vice versa, but often the contact is made through the adoption agency that facilitated the placement, giving each a choice as to whether to meet.  That can't happen in this situation.  At some point, if someone doesn't spill the beans beforehand, I wonder if either Gio or BrookLynn will need some sort of biologic product that only the other can give.  

The talk of adoption reminds me of a pet peeve regarding Mac and his wish to have had a child of his own loins.  Remember when it looked to Anna and Robert like he wanted post-menopausal Felicia to try to get pregnant? To my ear, Mac was expressing a regret that he'd never raised a child of his own, as in having the bio-father son or daughter relationship he'd never had.  Sending him fully-formed Cody could hardly be looked upon as a fulfillment of that wish.  

 

[Bringonthedrama]

46 minutes ago, Pingaponga said:

I absolutely loved the expression on Tracy's face when Brook Lynn told her about the baby. JE is just brilliant, absolutely brilliant.

Is the show actually going to now go with "Brook Lynn should have told Dante about the baby because maybe he'd have decided they should raise the baby together" and Brook Lynn should have been forced to raise a child she didn't want?

Maybe Lulu should talk to people who actually were adopted or gave a child up for adoption (thank heavens she reached out to Alexis, even if they couldn't talk).

 

JE really is! Today the tears and the trembling lips from Tracy as she absorbed the news, then the kindness and compassion with which she treated her granddaughter. Alllll the kudos to Jane. That emotional scene between AS and JE was superb. JE made me cry. That sobbing hug = Wow.

I don't think they're going with "we could have raised the baby together" after BLQ has admitted to her husband that she decided not to tell Dante about the baby when he didn't want to cheat on Lulu with her. The problem is she has been lying to Dante's face for decades. She has no reason to believe he would have tracked the kid down and demanded to play daddy; she knows he's not selfish like that. She knows that Dante has seen firsthand from a paternal perspective how a boy - his son Rocco - handles emotions. Most likely, Dante would have wanted to investigate from a distance to find out for sure his unknown son was okay. 

BLQ was furious about finding out from Lucas that Lulu interviewed him about his adoption, for an article. From her reaction, you would think that Lulu went straight to Lois and started interrogating her.

The Dante -Lulu emotional conversation was well played by AH and DZ. But way to not hold Maxie's confidence, Dante. I was not expecting Dante to say to her face that he's in love with Sam while still being in love with her!!

Speaking of Maxie, why is she dressed in sparkles/formal wear while planning the Nurse's Ball in the Q kitchen?

Rocco drinking spiked punch out of severe nervousness and then passed out alone on the beach is no bueno... 

The preview of Tracy confronting lying Lois looks awesome!!!

Willow is an idiot.

 

 

[dubbel zout]

It drives me nuts that Drew is telling Willow he'll fight Michael for custody. The only legal thing Drew can do is bankroll Willow, and she has Nina for that. They should have Drew say "We'll fight him," but then that wouldn't give him total control. Ugh.

Unsurprisingly, JE was superb in the scenes with Tracy and BL. The writing was good for a change, too. 

Joss is not one to think on her feet, is she? It wouldn't have been that hard to persuade Gio and Emma to go swimming. But then she also wouldn't have gotten an eyeful of Vaughn's bare chest.

"It's going to be so cold! Oh, it is!" Hee. I've never liked Gio more.

Poor Rocco. I have been in his place, and it's so uncomfortable. The part about being at a party you don't want to be at, that is, not the part possibly overhearing about a super sekrit plan possibly going sideways.

I am curious to see how Jason reacts to Danny passing out at a college party.

[statsgirl]

I have to give the show credit for presenting an interesting problem in terms of looking for Brook Lynn's baby. I'm now leaning to Dante finding out about the baby and Brook Lynn and Dante together deciding what to do.  I support the mother having the decision for a baby but for a 21 year old adult, the dad should have a say too.

On the other hand, Lulu continues to be a self-absorbed shrew. While there are legitimate reasons for doing an article on adoption (try to interview someone you're not related to, Lulu) the only reason she is pushing it is to force Brook Lynn to tell Dante, possibly to look like Dante's hero so he will love her again.

If Lulu's entire journalism career depends on writing this one particular article, she's a crap journalist. It's an interview piece like a term paper, not even investigative journalism. Have some empathy and pitch another idea.

In other stories, LOL that Carly thinks that she could have done the Drew drugging better. And maybe she really could have.

Joss is an idiot. She's ready to sabotage Emma's work and she doesn't even know why it's important that she get the job as Dalton's RA. Not to mention, what if she gets the job and fails at it? (Of course, Joss would never think that she could fail at anything.)

Kudos to EM for the mocking looks that Joss was throwing Vaughan's way.

What is Original Recipe Aquaman? Other than not Jason Momoa.

And as always JE gave a masterclass in acting.

5 minutes ago, dubbel zout said:

I am curious to see how Jason reacts to Danny passing out at a college party.

Was it Danny?  I thought that is was Rocco.

And if it was and Brook Lynn sees how Dante handles it, it may be the (unsubtle) catalyst to push her into telling him about his older son.

[JMO]

Wow.  For the first time in a very long time, I'm actually looking forward to the next episode.  Don't blow it, writers!

[YaddaYadda]

Every time Lulu called herself a journalist, I wanna stab myself in the ear. Barely a step up from a recipe blog, ShrewLu. 

The scenes with Tracy and Brooklyn were pretty good. Brooklyn giving Maxie an ultimatum? Not so great.

Rocco passed out. How much did he have to drink?

Also these college kids were stupid. Really? Danny and Rocco look like Freshmen? And those girls. All I could think of was statutory rape.

And Joss. No one will be calling her James Bond. Couldn't even do this mission on her own. Needed her handler to distract the mark? 

The less said about Willow and Drew the better.

[ciarra]

8 minutes ago, YaddaYadda said:

Every time Lulu called herself a journalist, I wanna stab myself in the ear.

It's as believable as one semester at PCU, Michael Corinthos, CEO.  

 

[dubbel zout]

1 hour ago, statsgirl said:

1 hour ago, dubbel zout said:

I am curious to see how Jason reacts to Danny passing out at a college party.

Was it Danny?  I thought that is was Rocco.

1 hour ago, YaddaYadda said:

Rocco passed out. How much did he have to drink?

You know I can never tell those two apart when they're together.

[GHScorpiosRule]

Just now, dubbel zout said:

You know I can never tell those two apart when they're together.

Even though Rocco has dark brown hair? And Danny has what is referred to as "Dirty Blonde/Dishwater blonde" hair?😋

[dubbel zout]

You can describe who's who until the cows come home. I am face blind to those boys.

[TVbitch]

🙄 at Dante telling Lulu she's proven what a good journalist she is with her pictures in the Herald. For God's sake, she happened to be at the Savoy and pulled out her phone like everyone else in the club.

Danny is Dylan to Rocco's Brandon. So Joss is not remotely concerned about Jason's son being at a college age drinking party?

 

Edited May 2 by TVbitch

[Bringonthedrama]

59 minutes ago, statsgirl said:

On the other hand, Lulu continues to be a self-absorbed shrew. While there are legitimate reasons for doing an article on adoption (try to interview someone you're not related to, Lulu) the only reason she is pushing it is to force Brook Lynn to tell Dante, possibly to look like Dante's hero so he will love her again.

If Lulu's entire journalism career depends on writing this one particular article, she's a crap journalist. It's an interview piece like a term paper, not even investigative journalism. Have some empathy and pitch another idea.

Was it Danny?  I thought that is was Rocco.

And if it was and Brook Lynn sees how Dante handles it, it may be the (unsubtle) catalyst to push her into telling him about his older son.

Lulu has been self-absorbed on multiple occasions, but I don't think this is one of them. She was a little over dramatic in the line today about her journalism career, but it would look unprofessional if she refused to write about adoption after the editor said yes, please pursue that topic. She's not a staff writer for that news organization at this time; she's trying to re-launch a career. Brook Lynn is striking me as equally self-absorbed, if not more so, than Lulu at this moment by having a tantrum over Tracy's praise of Lulu and then crying out to Tracy that Lulu is threatening her/holding her baby secret over her head. Did I miss a scene where Lulu gave Brook Lynn a deadline to tell Dante, or blackmailed her about this secret? 

Lulu had the perfect opportunity in the conversation with Dante today, to blow up Brook Lynn's life/turn Dante against her about the baby secret if that's Lulu's big goal at this time.

Brook Lynn has not yet spilled the secret to Dante, and yet Dante told Lulu to her face today that he's still in love with her, too.

Now if Lulu had marched into the Q mansion and forced Chase and Brook Lynn to observe while she interviewed Ned in-depth about adopting Leo, I would understand them as well as Dante being really upset with her. Lucas is the older biological brother of Leo so he, Brook Lynn and Dante are all Leo's siblings but he's not Brook Lynn or Chase's family in any way (unless Cheryl was related to the Qs or Lois's family and I don't remember that). That's why it seemed to me like Brook Lynn being so outraged about Lulu interviewing Lucas was definitely irrational. Then she makes it worse by demanding to Maxie's face that she must make a choice between Lulu and herself because she can't be friends with them both anymore. I liked the stink eye Maxie gave her. Kudos KSt.

It was Rocco who passed out on the beach after drinking.

[YaddaYadda]

16 minutes ago, dubbel zout said:

You know I can never tell those two apart when they're together.

Danny is fair, Rocco is dark.

Danny's hair is straight and kind of shaggy, Rocco's hair is curly. One has blue eyes, the other has brown eyes.

Also, Lulu. Sam didn't just die. She was murdered by your sociopath uncle for doing a good thing.

Edited May 2 by YaddaYadda

[dubbel zout]

Thanks to everyone trying to help me (again!), but save yourselves. Until they wear name tags or something when they're in the same scene, Rocco and Danny will be forever one to me.

[Sake614]

3 hours ago, Bringonthedrama said:

her. The problem is she has been lying to Dante's face for decades. She has no reason to believe he would have tracked the kid down and demanded to play daddy

No but Olivia absolutely would have tracked him down and demanded to raise him herself, all while berating BL for not telling them and giving Olivia the chance to raise her grandson 

[Sake614]

38 minutes ago, Bringonthedrama said:

Lulu had the perfect opportunity in the conversation with Dante today,

She very nearly did with her whole ‘if you knew what I know’ and ‘I know so much more than that.’ Stuff it Lulu!  For the eleventy billionth time, it is NOT YOUR SECRET TO TELL!!!!!

[Daisy]

I will still maintain while I always believe the person who fathered a child has a right to know that there is a child and I don't think it was fair for BLQ to keep the pregnancy and the baby a secret. - 

I will respect the right that BLQ has the right to keep that secret to herself. telling Dante does what. Okay he has a child. and then what. he's going to be "good to know," and Leave it? He'll tell Olivia and Olivia will go "good, thanks, good to know, " and leave it? (HE might, but SHE wouldn't). and then go disrupt this kid's life (i know we know it's gio but still) and for what so THEY feel better. 

BLQ has the right to tell Dante at the right time at her time not because Lulu and everyone is all "but what about Dante though." 

[JMO]

1 hour ago, TVbitch said:

🙄 at Dante telling Lulu she's proven what a good journalist she is with her pictures in the Herald. For God's sake, she happened to be at the Savoy and pulled out her phone like everyone else in the club.

Danny is Dylan to Rocco's Brandon. So Joss is not remotely concerned about Jason's son being at a college age drinking party?

 

After Joss and Danny spotted each other at the party, Joss told Vaughn that his parents would kill Danny if they found out.  Parents, plural.  Writers.

[Cheyanne11]

1 hour ago, TVbitch said:

So Joss is not remotely concerned about Jason's son being at a college age drinking party?

SpyGirl is #onthejob and nothing can stop her from performing the duties that she swore in some janky backroom WSB training facility to carry out. 

Loved JE today.  What a force she is.  The writing was good in those scenes, but she elevates them even more.

The figurative crane has now crashed on Willow's head several times and she refuses to acknowledge it.  

[rur]

3 hours ago, YaddaYadda said:

And Joss. No one will be calling her James Bond. Couldn't even do this mission on her own. Needed her handler to distract the mark? 

Let's not forget that she took the flash drive in plain sight of everyone without checking to see if anyone was looking,  then scurried away. At the very least she could have pretended to be folding Emma's clothes or something that would have given her a reason to be mucking about with someone else's things. 

 

[Sake614]

1 hour ago, JMO said:

his parents would kill Danny if they found out.  Parents, plural.  Writers

Yeah I caught that as well. Does Joss remember that Sam is dead? Or does it not fit her narrative? 🤣

[Bringonthedrama]

2 hours ago, Sake614 said:

No but Olivia absolutely would have tracked him down and demanded to raise him herself, all while berating BL for not telling them and giving Olivia the chance to raise her grandson 

I think it would have depended on the timing of the revelation since Olivia had her own second unplanned pregnancy to handle. Olivia had given birth to and was raising Leo as a single mother at the time the Show is now claiming Gio was a tween orphan in Bensonhurst surrounded by the Cerullo Family.

2 hours ago, JMO said:

After Joss and Danny spotted each other at the party, Joss told Vaughn that his parents would kill Danny if they found out.  Parents, plural.  Writers.

 

21 minutes ago, Sake614 said:

Yeah I caught that as well. Does Joss remember that Sam is dead? Or does it not fit her narrative? 🤣

I figured she meant Dante and Jason. Everyone knows Jason moved back into the Q mansion and Dante and Rocco stayed so that in theory the 3 kids could maintain their relationships as sibs and Danny would have both his dad and almost-stepdad there for him. 

Edited May 3 by Bringonthedrama

[GHScorpiosRule]

Jane Elliott/Tracy was the BEST thing about today’s episode.

 

[ljr]

If Aiden was at the beach with either Danny or Rocco it would have been easier to tell them apart

is the beach replacing the pool?

[Artsda]

Gio lives with Rocco and Danny and never saw them? 

Willow is an idiot. She forgave him in minutes looking like a fool. 

Why is the nurses ball meeting in Quartermaine kitchen. 

I'm tired of Brooklyn attacking Lulu because Lulu wants to not lie to her son and father of her son. She should tell Dante the truth. , now she's giving an ultimatum to Maxie. 

[statsgirl]

4 hours ago, Bringonthedrama said:

Lulu has been self-absorbed on multiple occasions, but I don't think this is one of them. She was a little over dramatic in the line today about her journalism career, but it would look unprofessional if she refused to write about adoption after the editor said yes, please pursue that topic.

Brooke Lynn is over-reacting but my sympathies are still with her because it is easier for Lulu to drop it than it is for BL. Going by Lulu's interviews with her cousin Lucas and her mother, she doesn't really have a focus for her article [eyeroll on the writing].  It would be easy to swerve to something nothing to do with Brooke Lynn's story and reassure Brooke Lynn that she will keep her secret. Heck, do something on the Sixties Scoop and how both children and parents are dealing with it now.

But she won't because Lulu doesn't want to let Brook Lynn off the hook. She wants her to suffer.

[ciarra]

2 hours ago, Artsda said:

Willow is an idiot. She forgave him in minutes looking like a fool. 

Nina is an idiot for not contacting Portia and having her switch the ketamine blood sample with a clean one. 

Is this all they have for Isaiah to do?  Run a basic blood test?

And why does Carly know about drugs that leave the bloodstream quickly, but Dr. Portia does not?

[ByaNose]

Nice scenes with Jane Elliott. Unfortunately, Brook Lynn is always yelping about something. She is sooooo annoying. I do have one question. When Brook Lynn was going on and on and on how terrible Lulu was/is and  she’s holding the baby over her head did she mention to Tracy that Dante was the father? I can’t recall. 

The. Brook Lynn tells Maxie to pick a side. Ugh! Can Brook Lynn go back to Bensonhurst like yesterday?! She is so shrill. 

I know Vaughn is supposed to be older than Joss and The Scooby Doo gang but he really looked with them today. Granted, he’s in awesome shape but I think the character is totally unnecessary and they should have never killed Dex off. The whole thumb drive plot is so dumb as is Joss being a spy.

Harpy Lucy Coe and her nurses ball. Make it end please!?!

It was funny to see Carly totally clock that it was Willow. Although, I thought Nina was going to call Portia to intercept the blood results. Drew can’t be killed off soon enough. I didn’t mind Willow crying. She sort of deserves it. 

It was nice to see Rocco and Danny joining the Solo Red Cup club. It’s a right of passage in daytime. It’s also not a soap unless one teen passes out after drinking too much or the drink being spiked. It brings nice memories of my high school years. LOL!!!!!!
 

Have a nice weekend y’all and Happy Derby Day!