StevieM

Didn't they show a supposed Finn flashback for Epiphany that was actually a scene she had with Silas?

I am so excited about this. Ned and Lois are my all-time favorite GH couple. And Lois Cerullo is one of my all-time favorite daytime characters. It will be wonderful to see her on-screen with Brook Lynn.

I would love to reunite Hayden with Violet. It was disgusting how they brought her back, sent her away, and acted like it wasn't that big of a deal for Violet. The purpose was to further prop up Fin/Michael Easton by giving him a daughter and a single dad identity. Violet should be with her mom. I love Esme. She really has become one of my favorite characters. It has been enjoyable to watch her trying to be a better person, with mixed results. I hope the show keeps her around and redeems her, at least partially. Maybe she can have a long transition, like Maxie did, or Rachel Davis on AW. I know she has done terrible things, but I think she is more redeemable than Franco or Liesl were. There just seems to be a lot to her backstory that is worth exploring.

You would have loved Santa Barbara. I have actually rewatched some old Passions episodes recently. I like watching old scenes of Kay, whether played by Taylor Anne Mountz, Deanna Wright or Heidi Mueller. Deanna was my favorite, but they were all good. You might remember that I always loved Andrea Evans. She was such a good actress. I was sad to hear of her passing. How have you been, Toups?

I have a question about the flashback scenes we saw of Michael Easton and Sonya Eddy. Was that Hamilton Finn in those flashbacks? I could be wrong, but I feel like those scenes were taken from when he was playing Silas Clay.

The biggest mistake on today's episode was that there was no mention of Epiphany's late son, Stanford. He should have been acknowledged. Then again, they should have mentioned him from time to time when Epiphany was alive. Epiphany was a mother and that should have been recognized.

Those scenes gave me flashbacks of that family dinner with Sonny, Olivia and Dominic Perelli back in late 2009. Shortly before Sonny shot him.

Hey Toups!! I totally agree. I absolutely loved that last line from Ryan. It was nice to have Mac's role as Ryan's great archrival recognized, along with the scene where Felicia put her arms around Kevin. In recent years GH has downplayed the importance of downgraded characters to major storylines involving their longtime friends and rivals. Remember when Jerry Jax came back and went years without having a scene with Bobby? Or how Brenda had one lousy scene with Ned when she returned in 2002? I am glad that GH did a decent job of keeping Felicia in Ryan's story, even as they updated it to put the focus on Ava. But Mac hasn't been as involved as I would have liked. It is great that he is the one who finally killed Ryan. Is there any doubt that Jason would have been the one to finish him off if Steve Burton was still on the show?

I agree that shows need new characters. The problem with the Rappaports was the extent to which they were thrust into the center of everything. A OLTL fan said to me back in the early 2000s "Sam Rappaport was a breath of fresh air...until he was on 5 days a week."

Chelsea cannot legitimately be called a surrogate IMO. She is the birth mother. That is not the same thing, and I don't think it is OK to call a biological mother nothing but a surrogate. They are more than just vessels to bear a child. Humanity has a very dark history of dismissing women as "just a surrogate." As I understand it, she broke down an cried after signing the adoption papers. That means that she probably didn't want to do it, and was made to feel that it was the only right thing to do. She was not looking to relinquish her child, but was persuaded that she had to. To me, that is an adoption that never should have happened. Regardless, she was promised an open adoption. Billy and Victoria lied to her. They closed the adoption, shut her out completely, and treated her expressions of love for her child with utter contempt. Billy has even indicated that he plans on coercing Johnny for his entire life not to have a relationship with his natural mother. In my mind, that makes them people who have no business adopting a child.

I understand the point that people are making about the need to widen the gene pool. Of course, OLTL created some genetic diversity by introducing the Rappaports. But they felt so shoved down the viewers throats, especially Sam Rappaport, that many fans became extremely resentful.

My understanding is that Chelsea, regardless of her initial intentions, turned down $10M from Victor to leave town, after the baby was adopted, and that she did not, ultimately, sell the baby. Regardless, she was promised, if I understantd correctly, an open adoption. And it is wrong for Billy and Victoria to be denying Johnny the right to know where he came from, or any relationship at all with his natural mother. In fact, didn't Billy say (a couple years ago) that he didn't want them to ever have a relationship, meaning at any point in his son's life? So when Johnny is an adult, will he be shamed if he wants to know her? That makes Billy and Victoria lousy adoptive parents.

I have never watched a whole episode of Y&R in my life. But for the first time I have an opinion about something that happened on the show. The adoption of Johnny seems like it was pretty disgusting. They promised her an open adoption and that Johnny would know where he came from. Instead, they don't give her a single visit, treat her with contempt for daring to ask to see him, and still haven't told the poor kid that he is adopted by Victoria. I also think it is terrible that there was a prenatal termination of parental rights (TPR) agreement. No woman should ever be asked to sign something at the point, before she has met her child. A situation like that is ripe for coercion. I don't watch the show, but that is what it sounds like to me. Can any long-time viewers offer some thoughts?

Wait, are you talking about the DID story? It sounds like you may be referring to something else. In early 2010 Jessica was given electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) by Mitch Laurence. That, along with a gunshot and an attempted rape, caused her to block out the previous 13 years of her life. She regressed to being a teenager and thought she was in her senior year of high school. Many long-time viewers commented that teenage Jessica acted nothing like the way she was written during this storyline. Adult-teen Jessica was immature and goofy. Actual teen Jessica was mature beyond her years. The part I hated the most was her indifference to her daughter Bree, aside from being loving, as well as level-headed, during their first meeting. It seemed like RC didn't feel he could write the story he wanted for Jess/Christian/Layla without turning her into a bratty teen, who was not the least bit interested in motherhood.

What does NB refer to? I believe it may have been Wendy Riche's decision to recast Edward Quartermaine, after longtime portrayer, David Lewis, retired. I am not so sure that went without saying at the time. But it was an unbelievably successful recast. Claire Labine liked to write socially conscious stories like Stone having AIDS, Monica having cancer, and BJ donating her heart to Maxie. Ned and Lois provided the fun times and comedy.

I wonder if Felicia could somehow be Esme's mother. Obviously, it wouldn't be believable that she slept with Ryan, even if she knew he was alive. That would be an even bigger stretch than Anna/Faison, which was absurd. But there was a period back in 2006 and 2007 when she disappeared from the canvas, and when she came back for Georgie's funeral, we were told she was doing a WSB assignment. She was with Frisco, there was a situation that was described as "touch and go" and "rapidly deteriorating." And they had to maintain radio silence, since they didn't know who they could trust. Maybe at some point she was briefly captured by someone, had her eggs retrieved, and her memories of the procedure wiped, either through hypnosis or drugs. Then Ryan could have "donated" the fertilized eggs to Esme's adoptive parents. They might be temporarily leaving out that Esme's adoptive mother is also the women who carried her. Or maybe she was carried by a surrogate, and then adopted. Actually, it would be pretty cool if Esme's surrogate was Claudette. That would make her and Charlotte womb sisters. And Esme comes across like someone who grew up in Montreal. Finally, speaking of Felicia's family, this courtship between Maxie and Austin is so unenjoyable. They are never going to be a successful pairing. The last time I felt a pairing was this forced was in 2001. JFP decided that Jensen Buchanan and Robert Kelker-Kelley just had to be together. Actually, she first decided that on Another Word, and it was a total disaster. But Jill felt the need to try again, so we were told that Nurse Melissa and back-from-the-dead Stavros had some sort of connection, even including her in his hallucinations/daydreams. At some point they will probably just give up on Austin, bring back Todd, and put him in a story with Carly.

I think the nurse is Kiki, plastic surgery and all.

It looks like Kiki is alive, plastic surgery and all. It doesn't make much sense, but I don't care. Killing her off was a big mistake, and I am glad they are reversing it.

I am betting that Tiffany Rizczech is an alias. I think Gwen's mother's real name was Kristina Andropolous. Jack had a mini-affair with her when he was engaged to Melissa, Jennifer's cousin. Kristina was Victor's pseudo goddaughter. Gwen's mom may have lied about the timeline of when she met Jack, like she appears to have lied about other things. Maybe it was Victor who was paying her off. I am not sure why. But it actually was Victor who banished Kristina Andropolous from Salem. Interestingly, Kristina was played by Chelsea Noble, Kirk Cameron's wife. She played Kate on Growing Pains, an infinitely inferior and less popular character than Julie, who the audience loved, but was played by an actress that Kirk Cameron hated because she posed in Playboy. So he had her fired. Kristina Andropolousis | Days of our Lives Wiki | Fandom

I thought about that too. It is certainly a possibility. But the letter "A" makes me think it will be Alexis.

Oh shoot, I forgot a couple. On Beverly Hills 90210 Noah was seen as a rip off of Dylan. And on Days of our Lives Mimi Lockhart was immediately identified as a carbon copy of Sami's best friend Jamie Caldwell.

The inscription on watch that make's Sonny think his name is Mike--which I guess it technically is--says "Mike, never enough time, Love A." The letter A refers to Adelle, Sonny's mother, and Mike's ex-wife. But Sonny/Mike doesn't know that, obviously. I am really starting to think that Alexis--whose name also begins with the letter A--will discover him and she will tell him that they are married. I think Alexis will decide to start her life over with an amnesiac Sonny, who is free from the mob. We could see them living as a married couple, away from Port Charles, for 6 months.

Eileen Davidson's incarnation of Kelly Capwell on Santa Barbara. She was dramatically changed and turned into the new Eden. Laura Templeton on GH, after Laura Spencer "died," is something I have heard before, although I never fully understood the story. I don't think Reese on GH was a Brenda replacement, she was the real Carly Roberts, and her story was all about Carly Benson's backstory. I wish they had done a better job with it, since it did show a lot of potential at times. She should not have been killed off IMO. I think it would have gone better if they had not also introduced John Durant, Carly's father. Actually, Carly really shouldn't have had a father. They should have kept true to history, and let her father be one of Bobby's johns. Ironically, a few years later the introduction of DNA companies like Ancestry, 23andme, etc. would have made it much more interesting to do a story involving Carly's search for her paternal family.

They could also bring Robin back for the funeral. For that matter, they could have Tiffany make an appearance. I am thinking the funeral will be held in Port Charles. Maybe they will have Sean buried there, or at least his ashes will be sprinkled there.

I finally caught yesterday's episode on the internet. And FV appears to have done something that is amazing to me, although I guess it shouldn't be. It seems like a scene with Liz and Maxie wound up on the editing room floor. Liz followed Maxie to the bathroom. We never saw them speak, and instead we got boring Franco and Peter stuff, that I guess was more germane to the development of the story that they are pushing. But the Liz and Maxie stuff would have been so much more interesting, given their history. I hope they find a way to show it to us, via flashbacks. But my guess is that they won't.