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Cassius has obviously done a lot of bad things (and is still doing a few of them), but I was rooting for him today in his attempts to knock Lulu and Dante off their positions of moral superiority. SMH for those two and the way they're constantly in attack mode, even towards people who are trying to help them.

Maybe those are his "mysterious ties"...

Lucas either has terrible fashion sense or he's wearing a bulletproof vest. I expect he'll be fine, and Lucas/Laura/Sonny will have more leverage over Sidwell now. I really liked today's episode, but I think the show is very weirdly paced, because it's seemed like we've been treading water for weeks, and now all of a sudden on a Tuesday, we get an episode full of exciting plot developments and cliffhangers.

LOL! I wouldn't go that far, but I would say that if Lulu and Dante left the show tomorrow, I wouldn't miss them. Both Alexa and Dom are very good actors, as they showed in their scenes today. But Lulu and Dante are both so sanctimonous and self-centered and stubborn, I just can't root for them. "Nathan" and Britt keep giving them very good advice on how to keep Rocco safe, and they're not listening at all, so it just keeps turning into scenes like this: Lulu: "How DARE you tell me how to protect MY SON?" Britt: "Hey, where is Rocco anyway?" Lulu: "Oh, I sent him off to the Quartermaines or wherever so I could yell at you for speaking to MY SON."

For two people who've made parent their whole identity, Lulu and Dante sure are hilariously bad at it.

I can't believe you have to ask this. All evidence on screen for the past few years points to a strong "Yes".

I don't know if you've watched today's episode yet, but I think there are lots of fun ways they could have written a scene where Laura calls Ric out on his past misdeeds and tells him he's not good enough for Elizabeth. But that's not the way they went; instead it was all about how Ric needed to cancel his romantic getaway with Liz in order to protect her from Sidwell, and I just found the whole thing insipid. And, I'm sad to say, not very convincingly acted by Genie Francis.

There was a time when I really liked and rooted for Laura, but that time is getting harder and harder to remember. I thought she was ridiculous today in her scenes with Ric, butting into his relationship with Elizabeth.

What would be refreshing is if Ethan doesn't want the baby either. Maybe he suspects he's the dad but has his own reasons for keeping this secret, so he's happy to let Brook Lynn and Chase have custody. You could still get plenty of drama out of that without going to the custody battle well. Maybe Tracy gets suspicious that Ethan keeps dropping by the Q mansion and asking about the baby. Or maybe when the truth finally comes out, Chase gets jealous and doesn't want Ethan around.

Of all the episodes they could have preempted... at least they picked a very dull one. The highlight was Lucas's monologue about how Marco was insanely competive at tennis (and also a sore loser). Too bad they didn't give Marco this level of character development when he was actually alive, but better late than never!

You're not alone. I was just thinking that as I watched Friday's episode. I feel like RP is significantly better playing Cassius, where he gets to have more of an edge. In his first run as Nathan, RP would sometimes come off as arrogant or angry, and it didn't really work with the writing that was telling us he was supposed to be this good guy cop. The shady Cassius just seems like a much better fit for his energy.

Even though those Aladdin-promotion scenes with Gio and Emma were a little cheesy and awkward to watch, I still think it's a good sign that TPTB at GH are promoting this couple and their actors. They just posted the actors' behind-the-scenes travel vlog, and it's pretty clear from their body language that they're a real-life couple as well. They really do have a ton of chemistry that translates onscreen.

Wishful thinking!

That's an insult to YouTube fan trailers, which are generally much better edited than this. Although I will say this is the first Days trailer in a while that gave the sense something exciting might be happening in the upcoming week. If they'd just focused on the scenes of Joy and the baby, Javi collapsing, and Leo getting maced, then added appropriate music, they could have had a great trailer.

This quad has a lot of potential, and it did give us some interesting scenes today with Jordan keeping up her brave face with Curtis but then lashing out at Portia and Isaiah. But Darn is right that Isaiah's role in all of this is spectularly poorly defined, as the writers have never bothered to give us scenes where we learn about his motivations. They really need to give him some "talk-to" characters, like Liz or Lucas asking him how he feels about Portia carrying Curtis's baby.