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It does make me wonder if they're wrapping it up somehow. Willow has spent forever claiming it was all a huge mistake and now she's immediately banging him. Understand, I am far from against them finally fúcking. But there were ways to do that kind of night of passion right and build it up quickly even now - maybe Michael turns horribly verbally abusive, maybe she learns he's been with Sasha or thinks he's serving her with divorce papers - but the total 180 she did from the night before where she sleeps with her husband and vows Drew is in the past to fúcking him in the nursery, with no real call to cheat on Michael in her mind, is just deranged. To be clear, beyond the scandalousness of this Drew story Sasha and Willow can both go into the farm thresher for me. I think they are both useless and totally overstayed on the show long-term. But if Sasha wants to embrace her inner schemer with her parents' latest abandonment and bleed Michael for all he's worth for awhile, sure, I can allow that as an exit story for both. I also think it might as well be time for Who Killed Drew Q? It's clear no one is committed to developing the character (or Nina) in an interesting way post-Mulcahey.

I don't love the idea of ruining that male friendship, and again I'm more into Cody and Tracy. It feels like a waste of time to me, but if the options are Lulu or Sasha then yes, I'll take Lulu.

Lulu?

Nina is now barely on, so that checks out. Whereas with Mulcahey the focus was clearly on those three (and Drew and Nina's hate sex/power playing moving towards romance), now Nina is the afterthought and the actual story for Willow and Drew is largely a series of hollow plot mechanics. It made zero sense for Willow to fúck Drew when she did, a few mere hours after she re-dedicated herself to Michael and resolved to put the kiss with Drew behind her, with zero knowledge that he'd slept with Sasha. A day later, maybe less, Sam is dead and she decides to bang Drew in her infant's nursery. It felt like they wanted Event A (Willow and Drew having sex) to happen but weren't ready for Event B (anyone knowing what Michael did) to occur, so they just shrugged and did it anyway. But in this instance, without having a deep enough romantic connection or at least sexual obsession established between her and Drew, it makes Willow come off totally schizophrenic and insane. God knows I blame plenty of things on Frank's whims but again I don't think Lucky's return is a big conspiracy. I think the show is purely and simply that inept on plotting returns and story (and Jason's showed this - it was on ice forever due to the same block scheduling and probably creative turmoil) and working with the relentless block taping chaos that leaves key story and characters plate-spinning for weeks and months while they rotate some in and some out to save cash. I do not think FV is prepared to stick his neck out to sabotage Jonathan Jackson's return if it came from the network. I am convinced Heather and Violet will be back soon enough. Frank never lets go. They did have Alley Mills' last(?) scene, I think, whispering creepily in the obviously unnerved Ace's ear "I'll be baaaaackkk!" You can play that beat ambiguous and still have it turn out she's harmless and happy in Sedona, but they clearly wanted to leave the audience guessing/suspicious.

Finally.

I'm aware. Still, Duplaix as a grandmother with fully grown adult married professional children is a hard one to swallow for me.

I still don't understand some of these TV Line character bios. Do they expect me to believe Daphnee Duplaix's character has not only grown children but teenage grandchildren??

Nothing I could say about Trina and the new guy would be fair or appropriate other than to say I wish they'd cast the Black Quartermaine character that was rumored during PM's run instead. Do I find it surprising that the male of color who has appeared instead is a random newbie with no real ties, summoning the spectre of Bryan and Claudia? No. As for Gio and Trina, I'll just say again that poor GM has a) a very nice body they seem intent on hiding and b) a character with the personality of amiable tofu, and he could be and do more. Am I surprised they didn't let her near him romantically after all? No.

It's just the FV way of block taping that shortchanges any coherent storytelling or throughlines. It's been getting worse since the end of OLTL.

The only silver lining! Watching Robert totter off with trick-ass Holly at this point was depressing, but I do think Tristan needs to retire. I am glad Elizabeth told Lucky off though. I get why people are infuriated with it but I think the only way to deal with what has become of the character is to have him backslide and be challenged - it makes sense for him that he'd do that. The problem with this, of course, is that this creative team rarely ever writes anything with depth or sustained focus for anyone. So I suspect what we'll get next is weeks or months of Lucky making an effort merely in the background of the main storylines (or talking about having done it offscreen) instead of having real substantive storyline about it or discussions about the issues, and over time and through osmosis that's what will settle the past. Which I find meandering and lazy. OTOH, hey, it worked for Felicia in 2012.

It looks askew.

I just remember several shows being well ahead of that 10-15 years ago. Maybe I'm misremembering, who knows.

Not for me! Sorry, I'm just not broken up about this right now. If you think the person next to you is the bad egg, that your own blood are exempt and you vote for the leopards that eat people's faces, well...

It's a bit much! Before COVID I'm pretty sure a lot of soaps were what, 3 or more months ahead? I know GH was at least that. Nothing remotely like DAYS.

No one cares or ever did.

Only political thing I care about right now is if the Senate manages to confirm all those blue judges they've teed up before the handover. If they whiff on it or Schumer and Durbin decide to act like it's still 1992 and wouldn't be sporting, fuckin' miss me. They can all retire, BTW.

AFAIC it was just supposed to kill a year's worth of time. Like virtually every pregnancy story on this show these days. And neuter the LGBT characters.

Wendy, all my best to you and yours.

Good luck with that! I'm completely disengaged from any emotion surrounding this at this point and just watching the assembly of the next Trump Backstab Brigade with detached amusement. Like a lot of people online I'm just done, and if that indeed seems to enrage MAGA so be it.

I mean, everything with Kristina's miscarriage came in after PM left. I do think Kristina seeing through Ava and Natalia had her in a stronger position as a heroine and that Mansi sold it very well. It was the surrogacy fallout that put her on everyone's shitlists, but that (and Blaze) was also from either the strike or CVE's prior run.

I know I've said many a time I wanted more people on this show to just fúck more often, but it is insane that Willow chooses now to do it without even knowing about Michael and Sasha. Earlier today(?) she vows to recommit to Michael and their marriage but less than 24-48 hours later she is letting Uncle Drew lay pipe just because Sam died! They haven't even laid enough groundwork for it to be like, 'Willow finds Drew too irresistible so any excuse is enough.' Which I could totally buy, given a bit more time and a little writing for it! But no, it just randomly happens because it's sweeps after Willow has been vowing up and down she is done with it and thinks her husband is blameless. Huh??

I'll just say it: Latinx was always stupid as hell, and apparently a lot of Latinos think so.

Whereas the kid playing Danny (whose name I refuse to learn how to spell) has had twice the time and is still grinning like he's doing TikTok dances.

Also: Kristina howling away at the top of her lungs in the hospital chapel was embarrassing, nasty work. It is mortifying how quickly they have tanked Kate Mansi, who was admirably carrying a lot of the show on her back in the spring-summer under Mulcahey IMO. The character has become utterly unrootable, is still calling her sister's child hers and shrieking through scenes. I think KM can recover but not with this kind of material.

I will give it to the kid playing Rocco: I thought he was mostly mid for awhile but he has brought it for this stuff and is quite good. The best since Hudson West. You could see Genie lighting up having someone young who's actually a talent to work with, even if their scenes were cut to ribbons so we could have more of the Scorpio geriatric reunion tour. Whereas I knew the kid playing Danny was green and weak awhile back, and he remains so. I know Steve had been working with him since he came back and Steve is seasoned enough to be able to teach him physical control; Danny had some emotion in the early scenes but kept grinning through them. Oof. (Also, did Jason really tell Sam's kids about their mother on the bench outside Bobbie's?) Not a tear shed with Carly either. He seemed weeks or months past it. Legit ridiculous that Lulu's kid is grieving harder than Sam's own children. But I rarely expect much from soap kids, especially ones FV hires bc they're cute and then refuses to let go of. It's just embarrassing given GH's history with hiring a lot of good kids in the past. They should level up Rocco in story now, but if I know this show he'll be in backburner city just like Jake. I am ready for Lulu to wake up - I want to see this poor kid happy.