Episode Discussion II: The TFGH

[DanaK]

5 hours ago, ciarra said:

Why would a party gone wrong at Berkeley require an NDA?  And everyone seems aware of said party and the result, Emma being expelled.   It must be something else.   Another big secret.

I’m not a lawyer but my guess is the university did something wrong. I don’t think it’s the party. The assistant DA told Anna about a protest and I think break-in, about a lab I think. So I’m guessing the lab was doing something wrong and the university made Emma sign an NDA so whatever it was remains buried

[Cheyanne11]

The mayor openly being so chummy with the ~alleged local crime boss is an awful look and that we're made to think Boyle is the one in the wrong for suggesting that is typical of this show.  Do better, Laura.

Sonny's heavy sigh/eye roll-esque expression when Carly and Jack and Carly's annoyingly fake laugh walked into the MC was probably the first time I got his stance in a solid year.  

I can't with Jason.

I can't with Sasha.

 

Edited Thursday at 05:46 PM by Cheyanne11

[Sake614]

Ezra may be slimy but he’s 100% correct about the appearance of impropriety. It boggles my mind that Laura refuses to see it and act accordingly. Hell, even Sonny agrees with him!

Edited Thursday at 01:53 PM by Sake614

[sashabear21]

They're really pushing this Laura and Sonny as dear old friends narrative lately. I wonder when the writer who wrote Valentin and Brennan calling themselves "old friend" every 5 seconds will start in with that here.  And yes Laura, being besties with the local mob boss is not a good look and neither is the, "whateva, whateva, I do want I want!" attitude about it.  

So nothing about Elizabeth or Ric today other than the brief update from Laura? Why bother having them in a life-threatening accident if there's no drama to it? I mean Kristina's not even calling her dad to try and cover her ass for what she did. It's all going to get handwaved away like Jagger's murder isn't it? 

I thought noted bigot Natalia's backstory on her son was he some kind of singer and pulled away from her because she was too involved in his career. So is he a singing lawyer? Or are there more kids and NBN and Sidwell's family are all going to come on eat the show like the Rappaports on OLTL? 

I don't care what Emma did, obviously she wouldn't be walking around if she killed anyone or blew up a building so it's probably going to end up being super boring and along the lines of, "everyone does dumb shit in college so just do it then and don't wait around until you're Kristina's age".  

[DanaK]

3 minutes ago, sashabear21 said:

I thought noted bigot Natalia's backstory on her son was he some kind of singer and pulled away from her because she was too involved in his career. So is he a singing lawyer? Or are there more kids and NBN and Sidwell's family are all going to come on eat the show like the Rappaports on OLTL? 

With Sidwell yelling at her that she ruined their family and now her son (or one of them) in town, it feels like we're going to revisit Natalia the bigot. I would think given how they downplayed that since her introduction, they'd want to stay from it

[TVbitch]

There's nothing I hate more than GH ..except when GH is pre-empted. 😡😢

I hope they make Ezra a good guy, because I like him, and WHY ON EARTH would they think what the show needs is another Drew?! 🤷🏻‍♀️

Laura: "I am the Mayor and I will not be told I can't be friends with a mobster!" Ugh. They are making me dislike her.

So now Sasha is implying to Sidwell that Jason will kill for her. Didn't take her long to start enjoying her new station. 

Seriously, are Lucky and Liz just some C story now. 

[GHScorpiosRule]

3 minutes ago, sashabear21 said:

They're really pushing this Laura and Sonny as dear old friends narrative lately. I wonder when the writer who wrote Valentin and Brennan calling themselves "old friend" every 5 seconds will start in with that here.  And yes Laura, being besties with the local mob boss is not a good look and neither is the, "whateva, whateva, I do want I want!" attitude about it.  

Yes! Yes! Yes! Look, Korte and Van Etten. Mulcahey quit over a year ago. But they've and are still undoing everything everything he did. Like Laura cutting off their relationship; Anna, out of the blue having an epiphany about Mooby-when Jagger was still sane, etc.

I could tell the anniversary must have been filmed way before, because Kristen Storms' voice was normal, yet the day before, you could tell she had a sore throat and yesterday was even worse-bordering on laryngitis. Kudos to her for sticking it out.

Frank doesn't give a shit about history, canon, what his hacks have written before, etc. etc.  Like having all the staff currently on canvas on Tuesday's episode would have broken his precious budget?

And of COURSE Genie would say the best part is working with that marble mutter mouth Bernard. It's written in all their contracts, I'm sure, that when talking to media/press, Bernard must be praised to High Heaven as the BESTEST, when he is the WORST.

At this rate, I'm only going to get my Lucky and Elizabeth fix once a week.

[sashabear21]

Everyone must say good things about Mo and Sonny and also I would imagine GF likes working with Mo because it guarantees screen time. I remember the years when it seemed like security teams at the GH studios carried around a picture of GF with standing orders to never let her near the studio even if she was 5 miles away and just glancing in the general direction. 

[GHScorpiosRule]

18 minutes ago, sashabear21 said:

Everyone must say good things about Mo and Sonny and also I would imagine GF likes working with Mo because it guarantees screen time. I remember the years when it seemed like security teams at the GH studios carried around a picture of GF with standing orders to never let her near the studio even if she was 5 miles away and just glancing in the general direction. 

That is outrageous. It's a wonder Genie even returned to this show after I recently rewatched the Lifetime Profile on her, and how the show/network did JACK SHIT to help her when she was struggling as a teen and early years on the show with her drug addiction.

Back to the Show.

While I enjoyed Sidwell's "Darling" to Noted Bigot Natalia (it was all the in the way Rota said it), no one will do better than Sebastian Roché as Julian's "Dahling" as far as I'm concerned.

[dubbel zout]

If the show is going to do a custody battle, can it please base it in some realism? No judge is going to give a mother full custody of her kids if an estranged husband had a baby with another woman. 

I'm tired of Portia's whining. If you don't want to be blackmailed by Drew any longer, tell Curtis everything. I also want Drew to blow Portia's cushy life apart. stop threatening and start doing something!

Play Sonny like a fiddle, Jens!

[Bringonthedrama]

4 hours ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

 

And of COURSE Genie would say the best part is working with that marble mutter mouth Bernard. It's written in all their contracts, I'm sure, that when talking to media/press, Bernard must be praised to High Heaven as the BESTEST, when he is the WORST.

At this rate, I'm only going to get my Lucky and Elizabeth fix once a week.

I'm appalled that she didn't say working with JJ is her favorite!! The GF-JJ Laura reunion of Laura and Lucky in the hospital chapel is the most emotionally moving work GF has had, other than the Bobbie/Jackie Zeman tribute episodes, in a long time. I can't fathom why there isn't more emphasis on Laura spending a lot of time on-screen with the family she and Luke created. The Show's history has a ton of emphasis on the glory of Luke and Laura, not the glory of the Luke and Laura and the Sonny friendship that came much later. Or if the Show insists on Laura having a lot of scenes with Sonny, make it so that she's highly conflicted between doing what's right for Port Charles versus complicated feelings of sharing a grandson and the nostalgia of the memories of Luke and Lucky with Sonny.

[GHScorpiosRule]

3 minutes ago, Bringonthedrama said:

The Show's history has a ton of emphasis on the glory of Luke and Laura, not the glory of the Luke and Laura and the Sonny friendship that came much later. Or if the Show insists on Laura having a lot of scenes with Sonny, make it so that she's highly conflicted between doing what's right for Port Charles versus complicated feelings of sharing a grandson and the nostalgia of the memories of Luke and Lucky with Sonny.

Seriously. I really wish her hatred at Mooby had remained when JJ's Lucky "died" when JJ left the show. I LOVED how she hissed "MURDERER!" at him.

But no one is allowed to hate that petulant Michael Corleone Wannabe. Except maybe Tracy and Patrick.

[TVbitch]

Why is Kai "Unisom" Taylor getting more screen time than Lucky/Liz?! And the new prosecutor woman, too?! And Marco?! It's like they took a poll about what we want to see so they could show everything but.

And please stop trying to sell me on what a great spy Joss is cuz she successfully surveilled some croissants! The whole WSB story still feels so left field and unreal to me.

[KittyQ]

Sonny doesn't like the coincidence of Sidwell working in Africa and the hitman for hire working "globally", including Africa - I know I'd be suspicious of two people possibly existing on the same continent at the same time! Sonny is no detective, for sure. 

[YaddaYadda]

I feel asleep five minutes in. It doesn't seem like I missed all that much.

[tessabq]

6 hours ago, sashabear21 said:

They're really pushing this Laura and Sonny as dear old friends narrative lately. I wonder when the writer who wrote Valentin and Brennan calling themselves "old friend" every 5 seconds will start in with that here.  And yes Laura, being besties with the local mob boss is not a good look and neither is the, "whateva, whateva, I do want I want!" attitude about it.  

So nothing about Elizabeth or Ric today other than the brief update from Laura? Why bother having them in a life-threatening accident if there's no drama to it? I mean Kristina's not even calling her dad to try and cover her ass for what she did. It's all going to get handwaved away like Jagger's murder isn't it? 

I thought noted bigot Natalia's backstory on her son was he some kind of singer and pulled away from her because she was too involved in his career. So is he a singing lawyer? Or are there more kids and NBN and Sidwell's family are all going to come on eat the show like the Rappaports on OLTL? 

I don't care what Emma did, obviously she wouldn't be walking around if she killed anyone or blew up a building so it's probably going to end up being super boring and along the lines of, "everyone does dumb shit in college so just do it then and don't wait around until you're Kristina's age".  

OMG, my brain is cringing a the memory of the Rappaports That Ate Llanview/OLTL. 

My brain may be old, but I distinctly remember Natalia wanted to add her son to Blaize's recording session because he was a "brilliant musician." Maybe he's in town because they're short an act for the now soulless Nurses' Ball? LOL

Or, maybe they have another son? 

Whatever but I am hoping Mom's homophobia destroyed the family simply because that was swept aside all too quickly.

Edited Thursday at 09:54 PM by tessabq

[Cheyanne11]

2 hours ago, dubbel zout said:

If the show is going to do a custody battle, can it please base it in some realism? No judge is going to give a mother full custody of her kids if an estranged husband had a baby with another woman. 

Every time Sasha says that I want to scream.  It's so stupid and unrealistic.  Like the judge is going to say "well, mom had an affair with dad's uncle, but dad knocked someone up, so clearly mom is better."  GTFO of here with that idiocy, show.

[dubbel zout]

43 minutes ago, Cheyanne11 said:

Like the judge is going to say "well, mom had an affair with dad's uncle, but dad knocked someone up, so clearly mom is better."

Willow was worried that she'd lose custody of the kids, especially once the Qs started interfering. Neither she nor Michael's terrible choice in sexual partners has anything to do with custody, thought the show keeps trying to make that a Thing. As if anyone cares anyway!

[Sake614]

So Marco interviews with diane and says his largest client is JS & Associates. And Diane doesn’t ask who JS is? Then Marco spies the photo of Lucas, meets Lucas and hightails it to daddy Sidwell’s house. Obviously Marco distanced himself from daddy by changing his last name, yet has no qualms representing daddy as his attorney. And of course he’s shocked, SHOCKED! to see mommy at daddy’s new house, either they have another son, or the writers completely forgot what they wrote because while I don’t recall the musician son’s name, I do know it wasn’t Marco. And I’ve officially given this more thought than the writers. 

Did WSB spy in training Joss just out her trainer for making an ‘illicit’ exchange at the coffee shop? It was probably a set up to see how observant she is, but damn that’s cold. Guess there’s no loyalty among spies.

poor Carly just can’t fathom that Jack and Sonny discussed anything other than her. Because the entire universe revolves around her. 🙄

[DanaK]

I’m not sure what’s bugging about the actor playing Marco. I can’t tell if the issue is he’s wooden or he’s playing the character as super confident or something else

[GHScorpiosRule]

How stupid is Sasha? She seriously told Jason that listing him as the father of her spawn constituted fraud? Well then, many women over the centuries should have been thrown in jail for doing the same thing for whatever reason they had (rape, abusive partner, etc.). And to add what @dubbel zout said about a judge giving sole custody to the mother because the father boinked someone else while they were married. Oh, like Willow who boinked her husband’s uncle?

Oh, look! They let Joss out of jail the bunker so she could go out and be seen in public!

I am NO fan of Cujo, or this new Not!Brennan, but I laughed so hard when he told he would “never intentionally hurt her” like blackmailing her second most precious spawn into joining the WSB isn’t doing that? Or setting said spawn up so she would kill Cyrus? Sure, he ain’t manipulating her, but it’s TOTES okay to manipulate her spawn.

Excuuuuuuuse me, Madame ADA, but just nub the nature of your position, your ASS definitely should be listening to whatever your boss tells you to do. This digging into what Emma’s record is strikes me as something she can use against Anna.

Robert needs to come back! STAT! And without that appendage!

I was right- looks like Elizabeth and Lucky are only allowed to appear once a week. And good grief, now they’re are “complications” with getting surgery or recovering from the injury to her leg?

[JMO]

37 minutes ago, DanaK said:

I’m not sure what’s bugging about the actor playing Marco. I can’t tell if the issue is he’s wooden or he’s playing the character as super confident or something else

I go with wooden.  I can see what Marco sees in Lucas, but not what a sober Lucas sees in Marco.  

Guessing JJ is available on a limited basis and commutes when he needs to.  With their block filming, they ought to be able to get around that, but it may explain why we mostly only see Lucky and Elizabeth together, and rarely with anyone else.  Doesn't exactly lend itself to great storytelling, but it is what it is.

They're building up the role of the ADA, and it's not quite clear why.  Is she really after Emma?  Cozying up to the mobster in town, letting him know she can be compromised, or trying to get the goods on him?  I agree, we need Robert back.  But I will also admit to being intrigued for the first time in a long time.

I don't dislike Joss, but I hate her storyline. For me, it's gone beyond snooze material and into 'annoying'. Enough, already.

 

[Sake614]

6 minutes ago, JMO said:

They're building up the role of the ADA, and it's not quite clear why

They were definitely chem testing her either Mo today. I guess he isn’t happy with the women his own age.🤣

[statsgirl]

Brennan to Carly: "I won't lie to you" while lying to her about both Joss and Michael.

9 hours ago, sashabear21 said:

I thought noted bigot Natalia's backstory on her son was he some kind of singer and pulled away from her because she was too involved in his career. So is he a singing lawyer? Or are there more kids and NBN and Sidwell's family are all going to come on eat the show like the Rappaports on OLTL?  

I don't remember him being a musician, only that she objected to his sexuality.

If Marco really was working for JS & Associates than presumably he knows what a bad person his father is and still is working for him. Will the writers go to this causing conflict with straight-arrow Lucas? That could be worse than Brad and his aunt Selina.

4 hours ago, dubbel zout said:

If the show is going to do a custody battle, can it please base it in some realism? No judge is going to give a mother full custody of her kids if an estranged husband had a baby with another woman.

It also makes everyone look so stupid to elieve that, especially Sasha. Nina has a good point that Willow moving the kids away from their home and in with Drew while Michael is in hospital is a bad look but Michael sleeping with Sasha? Who cares?🤷🏻‍♀️

2 hours ago, KittyQ said:

Sonny doesn't like the coincidence of Sidwell working in Africa and the hitman for hire working "globally", including Africa - I know I'd be suspicious of two people possibly existing on the same continent at the same time! Sonny is no detective, for sure. 

Sonny thinking that Sidwell is connected to the hitman because they were both in Africa made me think of this beer ad from 2000:  "And I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Susie from Canada although I'm sure they're really nice."

 

10 minutes ago, Sake614 said:

They were definitely chem testing her either Mo today. I guess he isn’t happy with the women his own age.🤣

Ironically, her husband Carlo Rota is 2 years older than Mo.

[graight]

Why do the showrunners think we want to see mobby/gangster stories? They do it so badly -- if I want to see that I'll watch Coppola/Scorsese/Ritchie movies.  Let Sonny retire and be involved in other stories or just go away.

Is it horrible that I would love a soapy story whereby Kai and Portia have an affair?  I saw sparks.

I like Lucas and Mario but poor Brad is now on the shit list again.

Joss and Vaughn .. zzzzzz .. until the very end.

[GHScorpiosRule]

26 minutes ago, statsgirl said:

I don't remember him being a musician, only that she objected to his sexuality.

He’s definitely a musician. At least Noted Bigot Natalia was going on how he and Blaze  could tour together or be successful at muzic if ONLY he would listen to her!

[dubbel zout]

38 minutes ago, Sake614 said:

They were definitely chem testing her either Mo today. I guess he isn’t happy with the women his own age.🤣

She's a brunette, so he'll smarm on her soon enough.

30 minutes ago, statsgirl said:

Nina has a good point that Willow moving the kids away from their home and in with Drew while Michael is in hospital is a bad look but Michael sleeping with Sasha? Who cares?🤷🏻‍♀️

Yet neither of those things will cause the dolts to take the kids away from the other. II don't understand why the show keeps pushing this idiocy. There's no drama in it.

[Bringonthedrama]

2 hours ago, JMO said:

Guessing JJ is available on a limited basis and commutes when he needs to.  With their block filming, they ought to be able to get around that, but it may explain why we mostly only see Lucky and Elizabeth together, and rarely with anyone else.  Doesn't exactly lend itself to great storytelling, 

This is my complaint as well. NuLulu actually had the line to Lucky last week "at Mom's where we both live" to let the audience know Lucky technically lives there, because Laura has not had a single scene with both of her Spencer kids in her home since Lulu woke up. Lucky and nuLulu only had one episode of scenes at Laura's, when Dante brought her home during fall 2024. Has he met Charlotte yet? If so, it was off-screen as was any introduction between Lucky and Kevin since Kevin became his stepdad. I had hoped to see Laura in her home with nuLulu and Rocco and Lucky and Aiden (with or without Elizabeth and Dante) but silly me. Why bother to give GH legends Luke and Laura's grandsons the first opportunity ever to talk/bond over how crazy it is to have their Spencer parents back in their lives after years apart, when we can watch Sonny's daughter raging about how "Ava killed my baby" over and over again? The only reason we know that Aiden is even aware cousin Rocco exists is because he told Elizabeth how sad he was for Rocco, Danny and Scout after Sam died. 

 

Edited Yest. at 02:49 AM by Bringonthedrama

[driver18]

Well, I enjoyed Sasha and Jason cuz I think they're sparkly and have chemistry.

And that was the one nice thing I could say about GH today.

[ByaNose]

15 hours ago, sashabear21 said:

They're really pushing this Laura and Sonny as dear old friends narrative lately. I wonder when the writer who wrote Valentin and Brennan calling themselves "old friend" every 5 seconds will start in with that here.  And yes Laura, being besties with the local mob boss is not a good look and neither is the, "whateva, whateva, I do want I want!" attitude about it.  

So nothing about Elizabeth or Ric today other than the brief update from Laura? Why bother having them in a life-threatening accident if there's no drama to it? I mean Kristina's not even calling her dad to try and cover her ass for what she did. It's all going to get handwaved away like Jagger's murder isn't it? 

I thought noted bigot Natalia's backstory on her son was he some kind of singer and pulled away from her because she was too involved in his career. So is he a singing lawyer? Or are there more kids and NBN and Sidwell's family are all going to come on eat the show like the Rappaports on OLTL? 

I don't care what Emma did, obviously she wouldn't be walking around if she killed anyone or blew up a building so it's probably going to end up being super boring and along the lines of, "everyone does dumb shit in college so just do it then and don't wait around until you're Kristina's age".  

Facts.

I could understand the accident and having the anniversary episode right after but it was really bad when they didn’t follow up today. They lost all of the momentum and drama when everyone was there. It was horrible continuity. 

[ByaNose]

4 hours ago, Bringonthedrama said:

This is my complaint as well. NuLulu actually had the line to Lucky last week "at Mom's where we both live" to let the audience know Lucky technically lives there, because Laura has not had a single scene with both of her Spencer kids in her home since Lulu woke up. Lucky and nuLulu only had one episode of scenes at Laura's, when Dante brought her home during fall 2024. Has he met Charlotte yet? If so, it was off-screen as was any introduction between Lucky and Kevin since Kevin became his stepdad. I had hoped to see Laura in her home with nuLulu and Rocco and Lucky and Aiden (with or without Elizabeth and Dante) but silly me. Why bother to give GH legends Luke and Laura's grandsons the first opportunity ever to talk/bond over how crazy it is to have their Spencer parents back in their lives after years apart, when we can watch Sonny's daughter raging about how "Ava killed my baby" over and over again? The only reason we know that Aiden is even aware cousin Rocco exists is because he told Elizabeth how sad he was for Rocco, Danny and Scout after Sam died. 

 

Like I said upthread it’s horrible continuity. I had mentioned that Genie wants to work more with JJ but he’s tied up with the Elizabeth stuff. I thought the whole idea undeading Lulu and bringing back Lucky was for more Spencer interaction. They aren’t even in any scenes together. I agree the block taping is the culprit. I think most of these actors don’t even live in California anymore. They try to keep their tape dates in blocks for the month and they are off a month. I saw Van Hansis just mention that yesterday. He lives in NYC. He comes for a month, tapes and the he’s gone until the next. Not only do they rush everything  because of the budget but it makes for horrible writing because you have to account for the sets, actors and the studios going black. I miss the old,days of soaps when they kept them at the studios from sunrise to sunset. LOL!!!!
 

That said, I know Days tapes 9 months out. I think Y&R have a pretty normal schedule. B&B double ups since it’s only a half hour soap. Karla Mosley said that Beyond The Gates is finally caught up and settle in better. I think she said they are doing an epic and a half a day (or something like that). And, once again she’s a frequent flyer. She lives in California and flies to Atlanta when needed. She said they block her stuff too. I have one question. When did all this happen. Was it when the New York soaps were cancelled and no one wanted to move to LA? Was it a Covid thing? When did all the traveling and block taping start? 

[YaddaYadda]

11 hours ago, Sake614 said:

So Marco interviews with diane and says his largest client is JS & Associates. And Diane doesn’t ask who JS is? Then Marco spies the photo of Lucas, meets Lucas and hightails it to daddy Sidwell’s house. Obviously Marco distanced himself from daddy by changing his last name, yet has no qualms representing daddy as his attorney. And of course he’s shocked, SHOCKED! to see mommy at daddy’s new house, either they have another son, or the writers completely forgot what they wrote because while I don’t recall the musician son’s name, I do know it wasn’t Marco. And I’ve officially given this more thought than the writers. 

They named the other son, Elio, I think or something that sounds like this.

So Natalia has three kids, two of them are gay. Poor bigoted woman. She can't win!

[nilyank]

31 minutes ago, YaddaYadda said:

They named the other son, Elio, I think or something that sounds like this.

So Natalia has three kids, two of them are gay. Poor bigoted woman. She can't win!

Natalia kept calling Blaze by her given name of Allison. Marco probably is Eloi but that was either his musical alias or Natalia’s special nickname for him. He is probably her favorite.

[dubbel zout]

13 hours ago, Bringonthedrama said:

The only reason we know that Aiden is even aware cousin Rocco exists is because he told Elizabeth how sad he was for Rocco, Danny and Scout after Sam died. 

The teen set isn't developed beyond plot points. Given the range of acting abilities, I'm not upset, but from a soap point of view, you need to keep the generations going. They have enough SORASed kids to start doing that.

8 hours ago, ByaNose said:

Days tapes 9 months out

No matter how many times I see this, it astounds me. I suppose you could bring people in and do reshoots if you absolutely had to tweak a story, but I imagine the Days budget isn't much more generous than GH's.

[rur]

15 hours ago, graight said:

Why do the showrunners think we want to see mobby/gangster stories?

As Sidwell and Sonny met together yesterday, I found myself wishing we could go back to the days when Port Charles was the home of international spies and we got actual espionage, saving the world-type stories, no matter how far fetched. I'd much rather watch good guys fighting evil than evil guys -- of which we currently have far too many --  scheming.

If I were super spy Joss, I'd be thinking the whole day was a setup to see what I'd do and observe-- from the cancelled class on. At the very least, I'd be suspicious when a WSB honcho essentially berated my trainer about a secret mission in front of me instead of speaking in private. 

And exactly where is Joss being trained? Brennan got there awfully quick after telling Carly he had someplace to be.

And finally, at least someone mentioned Kai's parents. If he had (has?) at least another year of college ball ahead of him, he's probably only 20, or maybe 21. They should have been  given lip service earlier. 

 

Edited 23 hours ago by rur

[dubbel zout]

18 minutes ago, rur said:

And exactly where is Joss being trained? Brennan got there awfully quick after telling Carly he had someplace to be.

Beecher's Corner, heh.

[Bringonthedrama]

2 hours ago, dubbel zout said:

The teen set isn't developed beyond plot points. Given the range of acting abilities, I'm not upset, but from a soap point of view, you need to keep the generations going. They have enough SORASed kids to start doing that.

Yes! i assume Danny, Rocco and Aiden go to the same high school. Why not have Rocco and Aiden leave school together one day, talking excitedly about something they want to do with NuLulu and Lucky, while Danny watches from a distance and plans a prank out of jealousy. Or Danny acts out toward Dante and Rocco after seeing Rocco with both his parents and Aiden with both his parents, in a public place? Hot head Danny does something stupid in response and there's some teen drama/plot.

I don't think he would react with the same jealousy upon finding out Dante has an older son/Rocco has a half-brother because Gio is also Danny's cousin since Brook Lynn, Ned's daughter, is Jason's cousin.

[ciarra]

No matter how they twist this story to try to get it to work, it's still out of character for Jason to be lying to protect Michael's kids from the threat that is Willow, and lying about Sasha's kid to protect him/her from the threat that is the Q's.  It's stupid.  Maybe if Michael were the target of the firebomb, not just a bystander.  And having a mob enforcer pretend to be the dad isn't very safe for Sasha's kid.

[Cheyanne11]

49 minutes ago, dubbel zout said:

Beecher's Corner, heh.

LOL, I was thinking the same thing!

[nilyank]

Also why would Sasha ask Jason to put his name on the birth certificate and provide his medical history. How would that help the baby if needed when Michael is the father.

[Bringonthedrama]

The Ric-Molly scene was sweet.

Kristina (again) shows how much she is Sonny's daughter, thinking/hoping she can persuade Lucky to keep his mouth shut since both Ric and Elizabeth will recover. The preview of angry Lucky with Kristina is great, although I wonder if she'll end up attacking him since she's so unhinged now. Interesting development that Ric can place Kristina at the crash site.

If Sasha falls in love Jason, she deserves to come in second in life to her baby's grandmother. Today's show re-enforced that Elizabeth and the late Sam deserve(d) better than Jason.

How does Lucy know where Trina lives?? That was obnoxious. Go away, Lucy.

 

 

[dubbel zout]

Elizabeth to Deana in her hospital room: "Tell me you're here to smother with with that [pillow]." Hee.

Wanting something folded a certain way is not being a control freak, Show.

14 minutes ago, Bringonthedrama said:

How does Lucy know where Trina lives?? That was obnoxious. Go away, Lucy.

Lucy in Nurses Ball organization mode is my least favorite Lucy.

I wonder if Drew is going to force Portia to tell Kai that the surgery is a good idea.

I was hoping that Molly would unknowingly torture Kristina about the accident by saying how worried she was for Ric and Elizabeth, but it looks like this is the story the show decides has to be told as quickly as possible.

[GHScorpiosRule]

1 minute ago, dubbel zout said:

I was hoping that Molly would unknowingly torture Kristina about the accident by saying how worried she was for Ric and Elizabeth, but it looks like this is the story the show decides has to be told as quickly as possible.

That's Frank's MO. Why have something play out with repercussions? I can't remember the last time...I think it was when it turned out it was Luke who had run over and "killed" Jake? Then again, that story line was before Frank took over.

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I just can't with Carly's "You're not the boss of me", neither with Jason's "I have to take care of you because you make stupid decisions and get into situations you can't get out of".

How does Joss not see how sketchy Brennan and the WSB are? Join the PCPD or the FBI if you want to fight crime. She really is her mother's daughter.

Why is Ric's car getting crushed without anyone checking it over to see what caused the crash? Shouldn't the police have contacted the insurance company before sending it to the wrecking yard?

I appreciate that Kai wants a second opinion but maybe get one from on orthopedic surgeon rather than an internal medicine doc.

Sidwell is underwriting the cost of the Nurses' Ball but isn't it a fundraiser for the hospital? Why is Jordan turning down Drew and Curtis' money?

Lucy insisting that everyone in town perform at the Ball whether they have talent or not is why the show is so crappy every year.

[KittyQ]

Well, Kristina is her father's daughter! Go to the chapel to beg God to help you out because you've done something wrong.  Don't go to the people you've injured and beg forgiveness, because... why would anyone do that?

Perhaps if there was a chaplain in this hospital, they would tell Kristina to acknowledge her actions and turn herself in as part of her repentance. 

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1 hour ago, nilyank said:

Also why would Sasha ask Jason to put his name on the birth certificate and provide his medical history. How would that help the baby if needed when Michael is the father.

Is Sasha aware of the Q inherited heart issue?  Maybe Sasha's baby can be the first patient at the Monica Quartermaine Cardiac wing.

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9 minutes ago, statsgirl said:

Sidwell is underwriting the cost of the Nurses' Ball but isn't it a fundraiser for the hospital?

No. It's a fundraiser, yes, but to raise funds for HIV/AIDS Research. Unless Frank has decided to change it, like he made it a red carpet event when he brought it back in 2013. When during its original run, it was a local fundraiser.

Or maybe I'm wrong and the funds go to the hospital for the research. I just know it was done so much better under Frons/Riche/Labine/and yes, Guza.

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4 minutes ago, ciarra said:

Is Sasha aware of the Q inherited heart issue? 

Yes, she was at Michael's side in the hospital giving Nelle a hard time when Nelle didn't agree that then-baby/toddler Wiley should have surgery because of the inherited heart issue. 

Sasha showed approx. the same kind of contempt for Nelle back then that that she shows for Willow now.

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When Sasha gets anywhere near Michael or Carly and their family, she becomes a nitwit. I'd forgotten how awful she was to Nelle  who only wanted to be sure that her child would be safe.

1 hour ago, nilyank said:

Also why would Sasha ask Jason to put his name on the birth certificate and provide his medical history. How would that help the baby if needed when Michael is the father.

This is so unbelievably stupid.  The baby shares 12.5% of genes with Jason, not 50% so Jason's medical history is not much help if anything goes wrong.

And even if infidelity were a reason to lose custody of your children, all they have to do is say that Willow was unfaithful first.

5 minutes ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

No. It's a fundraiser, yes, but to raise funds for HIV/AIDS Research. Unless Frank has decided to change it, like he made it a red carpet event when he brought it back in 2013. When during its original run, it was a local fundraiser.

Sidwell is underwriting the costs of the Ball itself, the food and drink, costumes and cheap set. It still needs to raise funds for research, so why is Jordan turning down Curtis and Drew's money?

Maybe this year they can use the money to supplement AIDS prevention in Africa.

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1 minute ago, statsgirl said:

And even if infidelity were a reason to lose custody of your children, all they have to do is say that Willow was unfaithful first.

Except she wasn't. The SLS was. Over a kiss.

2 minutes ago, statsgirl said:

Sidwell is underwriting the costs of the Ball itself, the food and drink, costumes and cheap set. It still needs to raise funds for research, so why is Jordan turning down Curtis and Drew's money?

I haven't seen the show yet, so I don't know.

2 minutes ago, statsgirl said:

Maybe this year they can use the money to supplement AIDS prevention in Africa.

I never thought the Ball was for funds for just Port Charles. In one year, when we had Miguel, they showed a clip of the AIDS Quilt, and needing money to fund research all over. Or maybe it was for the United States. I can't remember.

This show lives in its own bubble and has nothing to do with the real world.