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I kind of enjoyed the three Christmas Eve scenes--Abbotts, Dilary's, and Michael and Lauren's. And there's definitely a change of focus and weighting, in terms of the dialogue-content--it's much more forcefully about human and family memories and interactions.

And this is the Grinch writing, not someone who actually likes Christmas.

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So I only have 15 GB of internet a month and I'm now at my limit until the 26th. Not sure I'll be around before then because I want to try and avoid going over, especially since I have to bring Steve back to the vet tomorrow (possible crop infection.) If you don't see me before then , Merry Christmas and sorry for the lack of recaps!

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Good luck to Steve and happy holidays to you, jewel.

Fortunately, I put some recaps in the freezer for just such an occasion. 

Buttbiscuit wallows in self-pity despite having cute kids, an enabling mother, and a walk-in closet full of black turtlenecks. Jack still resents him for diddling his wife, much to the bafflement of their sisters. Ash and Tracy act like Jack murdered a hobo in Reno just to watch him die when Jack hesitates to dine with the pasty tampon.

Victor has multiple scenes with children. Nikki swoons when he doesn't eat one. Victor temporarily suspends Newman sponsored gladiatoral fights between homeless children for scraps of bread and is showered with civic and humanitarian awards.

Danger looms as a gang of meth cooking lumberjacks feels threatened by a GCPD investigation. Oh noes! What will happen?

Nick preens and struts and barely restrains himself from flashing his engorged baboon spoon in a raw display of dominance as he deigns to allow Sharon and Dylan holiday time with CAN. No one points out that it might be crueler to tease them with a one time interaction because Nick is perfect.

Faith manipulates all the adults in her life and decides that a full-time apprenticeship with the Undead Duke of Dickheads can only up her game. 

Hilary is a mean-spirited menace. Devon reacts. Lily contributes her two cents while Cane snorts lines of ibuprofen off a cowhide rug.

Jill cheerleads for Buttbiscuit and Victoria to reunite. She pauses occasionally to eat and use the bathroom. 

Gloria reads Chloe for filth, which proves she's highly literate. Michael and Kevin act exasperated. 

 

That should cover everything for the next couple o' weeks.

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Wow... what a shitty Christmas.  Cricket won't stop working even on Christmas Eve.  Jill and Billy are high and dry in the vaguely familiar Chancellor mansion.  At the entirely unfamiliar Newman ranch, the relationship challenged Newman children bring their variously parented children to sit at Pastor Grampire's feet while he read some religious story that naturally holds the three year olds in thrall. Off to the side, Nikki is transitioning into Genoa City's own Log Lady, pining for the soon to be felled redwood that is Dylan.  At the satellite shack that holds Dylan and Sharon and Marassey, everyone does their best imitation of the Glums.  And they do it very well.  The day prior, the Abbott family was reduced to three middle aged siblings (well, two and a half thanks to slutty, bored Dina back in the day), staring at each other over dinner and reduced to uncharacteristic bouts of prayer.  PRAYER.  That night, everyone explicably goes to Chancellor park, in the dark, where the Victorian Fetish Club sings lyrics to O, Christmas Tree that suggest a better title would are Never Heard of These, so from time to time the cast breaks into a little refrain of 'O, Christmas tree, O, Christmas tree' before that sort of peters out in confusion and they decide its best just leaving the obscure lyrics to the really emphatic singing girl who is going to make her big break happen if it kills her.  It was dim. If this was a Christmas tree lighting ceremony, there was a blackout that foiled the fun. Maybe the tree was lit.  But I didn't see one.  It was too fuckin dark. 

The only bright spot over two days of Christmas celebrations was the chaos at the Fenmore Baldwins.  Even down in the dumps Phyllis managed to have fun, Gloria's bad manners and Chloe's sour charm notwithstanding.   I almost thought - indeed I hoped - Lauren and Michael were going to play if for laughs and get hammered.  The way Michael was tossing that kid around for the whole episode I'm surprised she didn't puke.  Although if I were Lauren, I'd be asking Santa for a new kitchen.  What a dump. 

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11 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

I always wanted to see SORAS'd Chucky Faith and Stench's psycho son Max get together and become CG's answer to Bonnie and Clyde.

Well, we have Chloe and Kevin, Genoa City's answer to Ren and Stimpy.  

And when and if Chloe gets together with Billy, it'll be a replay of Beavis and ButtBiscuit!

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4 hours ago, NinjaPenguins said:

Good luck to Steve and happy holidays to you, jewel.

Fortunately, I put some recaps in the freezer for just such an occasion. 

Buttbiscuit wallows in self-pity despite having cute kids, an enabling mother, and a walk-in closet full of black turtlenecks. Jack still resents him for diddling his wife, much to the bafflement of their sisters. Ash and Tracy act like Jack murdered a hobo in Reno just to watch him die when Jack hesitates to dine with the pasty tampon.

Victor has multiple scenes with children. Nikki swoons when he doesn't eat one. Victor temporarily suspends Newman sponsored gladiatoral fights between homeless children for scraps of bread and is showered with civic and humanitarian awards.

Danger looms as a gang of meth cooking lumberjacks feels threatened by a GCPD investigation. Oh noes! What will happen?

Nick preens and struts and barely restrains himself from flashing his engorged baboon spoon in a raw display of dominance as he deigns to allow Sharon and Dylan holiday time with CAN. No one points out that it might be crueler to tease them with a one time interaction because Nick is perfect.

Faith manipulates all the adults in her life and decides that a full-time apprenticeship with the Undead Duke of Dickheads can only up her game. 

Hilary is a mean-spirited menace. Devon reacts. Lily contributes her two cents while Cane snorts lines of ibuprofen off a cowhide rug.

Jill cheerleads for Buttbiscuit and Victoria to reunite. She pauses occasionally to eat and use the bathroom. 

Gloria reads Chloe for filth, which proves she's highly literate. Michael and Kevin act exasperated. 

 

That should cover everything for the next couple o' weeks.

Most excellent, NinjaPenguins!  

All I'd add is 

Kneel gives his best puffer fish imitation, inflating with his usual pomposity, sharing his unwanted advice and fortune cookie sayings in a seemingly unending stream of verbiage, his "my shit don't stink" smile on his face while

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his nearest and dearest fake it, their unfocused looks telling the audience that while Kneel thinks they're taking in his cultured pearls of wisdom, all they're hearing is "Blah blah blah". Blah.

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Speaking of the Newmans....2016 is a strange year indeed because one of the recent episodes (might have been yesterday's) where Victor mentioned battling over custody might not be the best idea....holy shit. I actually agree (its,too bad he didn't have this attitude about Reed, but I digress). And given he's been even more anti-Sharon than Nikki the last few years,I was especially surprised that he suggested it.

But he was right. Faith was old enough to speak on her own and they didn't need to push her back to one idiot, selfish, twat parent or the other. They all live on the same property any damn way, so it's all one big  custodial shell game. 

I feel dirty defending The Undead Victor Newman. I haven't done that since he tossed Adam out of NE eight years ago.

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I am happily in Maui, and I want to thank each of you for your updates and creative recaps.  Thanks especially to Jewel for the recaps! Wishing all preverts a happy holiday season.  P.S.  I bought a Canada baseball cap just to ensure that the locals know I didn't vote for Trump.  Cause sadly, I look like a Trump voter.

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8 hours ago, Big Blue Plate said:

Wow... what a shitty Christmas.  Cricket won't stop working even on Christmas Eve.  Jill and Billy are high and dry in the vaguely familiar Chancellor mansion.  At the entirely unfamiliar Newman ranch, the relationship challenged Newman children bring their variously parented children to sit at Pastor Grampire's feet while he read some religious story that naturally holds the three year olds in thrall. Off to the side, Nikki is transitioning into Genoa City's own Log Lady, pining for the soon to be felled redwood that is Dylan.  At the satellite shack that holds Dylan and Sharon and Marassey, everyone does their best imitation of the Glums.  And they do it very well.  The day prior, the Abbott family was reduced to three middle aged siblings (well, two and a half thanks to slutty, bored Dina back in the day), staring at each other over dinner and reduced to uncharacteristic bouts of prayer.  PRAYER.  That night, everyone explicably goes to Chancellor park, in the dark, where the Victorian Fetish Club sings lyrics to O, Christmas Tree that suggest a better title would are Never Heard of These, so from time to time the cast breaks into a little refrain of 'O, Christmas tree, O, Christmas tree' before that sort of peters out in confusion and they decide its best just leaving the obscure lyrics to the really emphatic singing girl who is going to make her big break happen if it kills her.  It was dim. If this was a Christmas tree lighting ceremony, there was a blackout that foiled the fun. Maybe the tree was lit.  But I didn't see one.  It was too fuckin dark. 

The only bright spot over two days of Christmas celebrations was the chaos at the Fenmore Baldwins.  Even down in the dumps Phyllis managed to have fun, Gloria's bad manners and Chloe's sour charm notwithstanding.   I almost thought - indeed I hoped - Lauren and Michael were going to play if for laughs and get hammered.  The way Michael was tossing that kid around for the whole episode I'm surprised she didn't puke.  Although if I were Lauren, I'd be asking Santa for a new kitchen.  What a dump. 

It was extremely unimpressive, and annoying re: buttbiscuit and his sadness and every one crapping on Jack for daring to be hurt and angry. I'm wondering more and more if this is just it for daytime soaps. The overall story direction may be in better shape with a better HW (or heading in a better direction) but it's hampered by years of damage and some craptastic script writing. I don't believe good writers are remotely interested in daytime soaps. And the truth is I'm kind of forcing myself to watch lately. Like maybe it's better to glance at recaps and tune in for Feb sweeps. 

I was hate watching during the final death throes of Pratt but now I'm certainly not excited to tune in.

I can't watch embarrassing stilted illogical saccharine conversations day after day. I was really cringing when Ash and Traci were reminiscing about their perfect daddy. Do women in their 50s hero worship their dead fathers like this? I don't know of any. It was bad, I'm sorry to say. And then the weird looking notBilly arrived and claimed to have grown up in that house and he hadn't. Billy spent a lot of years in NYC as I recall. And Mrs. Martinez has been mentioned for the past 5 years maybe. She works for Jack. She does not KNOW these people, especially not Billy. 

It was too forced and cloying.

I skipped the Newman Christmas hour. Just couldn't do it.

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Man, I am fifteen minutes into today's show and this GC Buzz talk (henceforth, perhaps, GCBuzzWords) is driving me crazy.  Fake, canned, made up... bleh. I just reverted to ff Hilary reflex.  Sorry, Sally, fail.

  On the bright side, at least there's something they write even worse than a business story.  On the other hand, to write unrealistically about TV production is rather concerning given they are in the middle of a producing tv. 

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Soon as Hil hits the sheets with Jack, Devon can dump her more cheaply. I think PTSD Dylan will vanish in Miami. (Thanks Bug) Can't wait for Adam to come back and scrape off Chels and Nick and take his kid back.

Points if he returns and Sharon finds him - banged up and hazy. He can stroll in on Dick and Chels wedding and break the news that she AND daddums knew the kid wasn't Nick's. Come on... show... you can do it. Classic soapatude.

(Bonus - Nikki loses a grandkid...snicker)

Dylan goes off and Sharon can tell them all (Told ya so) that he kept saying he's lose his mind, if he lost Sully - Every time... every single time she tried to tell him.

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The fact that both of Faith's parents allowed her to chose to live with her creepy, law breaking, hateful, nasty grandparents after all Victor has done not only to his family but to the Abbotts just shows that she should have been removed from all of them by DCS to live with decent foster parents. What 9 year old gets to make that kind of life changing decision? After spending Christmas holidays for a week with our 7 year old grandson and 5 year old grandson, this makes me insane. They are children. Children!

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10 minutes ago, crowsworks said:

Soon as Hil hits the sheets with Jack, Devon can dump her more cheaply.

I hope they'll wait until Hilary is at least legally separated from Devon before going there. ButtBiscuit doesn't need any more excuses to throw stones from his glasshouse and it would be a REALLY lazy way from them to have a truce. 

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6 hours ago, basiltherat said:

I hate to bring logic into the mix, but why would some Podunk town be sending a Local Yokel to Miami to infiltrate a crime gang and not, you know, THE FBI?!

No shit. What does the GCPD have to do with drug cartels in Florida? That stuff is usually handled by the DEA.

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I'm leaning towards Sharon finding out after Dylan 'dies'/goes missing in action in Miami (a guess not a spoiler) that she's pregnant with the spawn they so dearly wanted. Sharon then has a high risk pregnancy she has to protect, Dylan is gone but not forgotten, Nikki weighs battling Sharon over custody (when she isn't blaming Christine for killing her son in between longing glances at a vodka bottle) but they actually bond in a way they never did when she was a Newman, and because she has her own baby she no longer is obsessed with SullyCan. 

If Ashley could have had her 50+ pregnancy, Sharon can have her mid40s miracle pregnancy, too.

Although if ya'll thought the deification of Cassie was OTT, I can't imagine what shrine Nikki and Sharon will build for Dylan.

It was nice seeing Noah and he was very considerate to Dylan even though he was acting like a dick.

Mariah there's a time and place for revenge. You may owe Hillary some broken teeth but a charity benefit isn't the place to do it.

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I lost my fucking recap again. I hate this dialogue box. I was right near the end too, grrr.

It's New Years Eve and Victoria, Billy and Cane are at the B&S offices packing up because it's eviction day! Billy is pissed and keeps calling Jack petty and selfish. Billy has invited a reporter to come take pics so he can bad mouth Jack to the press, but then Billy's bodyguard/babysitter, comes by with a letter. Everyone is shocked to learn B&S will not be evicted. Billy and Victoria wonder what changed, but Cane is just relieved and goes to get ready to attend the Abbot/Winters Foundation Gala.

Mariah is getting ready because she will be helping to produce the Gala event or something. Hipster guy with the beard comes and delivers the script to Mariah that Hilary will be reading off the teleprompter. Mariah promises to read it and make any necessary changes. Mariah, who remembers Hilary kicking a wire under the red carpet that caused her to faceplant on live TV, is up for some revenge. Ah, Payback. How I love thee.

Hilary is at the penthouse getting ready. She's going over her lines and stumbling over some text she can't pronounce. Devon assures her she will do well and pours her a glass of wine.

Nick shows up at the ranch and sees that Nikki and Victor are all dressed up for the gala/auction. He asks how Faith is and they tell him she's fine. Nick mentions he just plans on staying home with Chelsea and watching a movie, but Faith walks up and tells Nick he and Chelsea should come over to watch movies and the ball drop with her tonight. Nick is thrilled.

It's showtime. Everyone arrives to the Auction. Billy shows up much to Jack's dismay. Then Nikki and Victor show up and Jack compliments Nikki before running off to avoid breathing in Victor's toxic fumes. Victoria sees her parents and learns from Nikki that Victor is the reason B&S isn't being evicted. She's happy but tells him she would have found a solution on her own. They all agree. Billy learns that Victor is behind B&S staying put and isn't thrilled.

It's bidding time! Devon bids and wins a fancy sports car. Cane, Ashley, Abby and Victor all bid on a Chelsea Lawson Original 2.0. After a bidding war, in which Nikki asks Victor to let Cane win, Victor concedes and Cane wins the dress for a whopping $10,000. Lily is thrilled.

The last item up for bid is a trip to France where the lucky winner will stay in their own personal Villa where they will be pampered and have a chef cook for them. Hilary is reading off the teleprompter when the text suddenly changes. She's too stupid to realize this and says she kicked the wire out from under Mariah which resulted in her tripping on live TV. Hilary stops, stunned, while all the guests gasp. Devon comes up to Mariah and asks what she's done. Mariah says it's time everyone knows what kind of a person Devon's wife truly is. Hilary glares at Mariah from the stage.

Nick, Chelsea and Faith watch a movie but Faith passes out. Nick puts her to bed and urges Chelsea not to leave. They drink and talk and then start kissing. Man, it hasn't even been a year yet since Adam died, Chelsea.

Previews show Nick urging Chelsea not to leave. It looks like they had sex on the floor. Maybe it was just a make out session. Who knows?

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10 hours ago, NinjaPenguins said:

And thus was . (Shut up! I'm trying to jinx it!)

Christ, even during a charity auction, someone can only win over Victor because Victor let them. OTOH, since the prize was a Chelsea 2.0, there were technically only losers. 

is the cousin to a can a tetra pack?

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Cane!  Do you know how much penny candy you can buy for your Pixie Stix Twins with $10,000!  For Shame!

These idiots can buy $10,000 Dress Barn exclusives and sports cars but they get their own coffee and have no household help and leave a month's worth of dirty dishes in the flophouse sink.

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14 hours ago, TobinAlbers said:

If Ashley could have had her 50+ pregnancy, Sharon can have her mid40s miracle pregnancy, too.

I thought Faith *was* that miracle baby.

Grrr , no more babies for Sharon. She and Nick already fucked up the two they have now and probably would've driven Cassie into a straightjacket if she had lived too.

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17 minutes ago, Anna Yolei said:

I thought Faith *was* that miracle baby.

Grrr , no more babies for Sharon. She and Nick already fucked up the two they have now and probably would've driven Cassie into a straightjacket if she had lived too.

Faith was Shick's miracle baby in that it was a miracle that child was conceived after all the crap that went down after Cassie's death! The devestation that the Phick affair wrought seemed like there would be no way Faith would've been conceived.  

Sharon wasn't that old in terms of egg and womb viability. I really wanted Faith to have been Jack's but you know this show- Newman sperm always wins.

It's interesting - had Cassie lived I wonder if she and Sharon would've gotten closer or always had a very prickly relationship with Cassie being the very protective big sister to Noah with Noah wishing they all just got along. It actually would be similar to the Victor/Victoria and Nikki/Nick with Nick being close to Cassie and Noah being close to Sharon.

ln any case I think you're right that the show would lean away from an actual baby for Shylan baby as having another baby on the show whose father is dead provides no real drama. 

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Hilary is reading off the teleprompter when the text suddenly changes. She's too stupid to realize this and says she kicked the wire out from under Mariah which resulted in her tripping on live TV. Hilary stops, stunned, while all the guests gasp

 

Okay, who called it? Stay classy Genoa Citizens!

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17 hours ago, jewel21 said:

Previews show Nick urging Chelsea not to leave. It looks like they had sex on the floor. Maybe it was just a make out session. Who knows?

Sh*t.  She's pregnant.

 

17 hours ago, jewel21 said:

It's bidding time!

This whole gala planned in three weeks gives me the barfies. [projectile barfies] The one episode I have watched showed Kneel and Jack flapping around trying to find a new venue and going apeshit over the suggestion to postpone it.  Jack says all the "contributors" are primed to give a lot and if they postpone the momentum will be gone (I paraphrase.).  My question is:   who are these contributors/attendees that haven't had their own plans for NYE made more than three weeks ago, at another, better planned event?  I'm supposed to believe the upper crust of GC waited until Kneel got around to scheduling an event because they know his party is the must be seen and give a lot of money at event of the season? =coughbullsh*tcough=.  Then these incredibly expensive auction items! [I'm  not rich, maybe it happens, I don't know...trump]  When did Kneel have time to round this sh*t up? He couldn't even check out the venue he hired (that ripped him off).  Booo.

 

4 hours ago, TobinAlbers said:

ln any case I think you're right that the show would lean away from an actual baby for Shylan baby as having another baby on the show whose father is dead provides no real drama. 

It does if they don't want to kill the Dylan character off completely.  Adam is perceived as dead because a body was found in the burned cabin.  Dylan could be reported dead, but actually MIA in the drugland of Miami.  While he is gone, there could be lots of drama with Sharon and Nikki, (as another Prevert pointed out) over custody of the wee one.

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1 hour ago, MollyB said:

Thanks, I stand corrected.  I think I was remembering a hand or something found and my brain blocked that mess out.

i think "the hand" you saw was later, wearing a glove, putting a wedding ring in a drawer...

i believe it was adam but that's because i don't think he's really dead..

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On December 28, 2016 at 8:35 AM, TobinAlbers said:

 

ln any case I think you're right that the show would lean away from an actual baby for Shylan baby as having another baby on the show whose father is dead provides no real drama. 

I agree with this- to a point. Sharon has children with Nick, so I don't think that Shylan would ever have a child together- at least not a biological one. I remember when Sharon was with Adam, I knew there was never going to be a Shadam baby. This show is still conservative, the writers would never let Sharon have children with either of Nick' half-brothers. 

I hate to bring this up again, but this is why the SullyCAN story was so awful. Dylan and Sharon were never going to have a baby together and IMO, Pratt knew this from the inception of the storyline. Given the fact that he didn't bother (or care) about Sharon and Dylan's respective history's WRT to losing children, to put them both through all of this heartache of losing Sully was stupid and unnecessary.

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15 minutes ago, ezzylin said:

This show is still conservative, the writers would ever let Sharon have children with either of Nick' half-brothers. 

::sigh:: Would've looooved a Shadam baby. A baby girl named Hope Newman. Although Sharon having kids named Hope and Faith? A little tew much.

It's funny how on this show a woman is stuck with one baby daddy no matter how many partners she's had but B&B's Brooke has kids by a father and a son and GL's Reva had children by 2 brothers and married their father. 

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