Contessa Donatella

In my opinion Maurice has been regularly blowing lines like nobody's business for at least 4-6 months. It's been discussed quite a lot in some quarters.

I feel that. Look, I supported Frank loudly for a very long time. That time is now over. It is unmistakable at this point that he is not the solution so that means he is the problem.

Dex was not fighting back. I think the line was meant to be "I'll put bullets in your heads." Mo said "a gun".

5/20/2024 Sonny is horrified. Blaze consoles Kristina. Jason summons Carly. Gregory apologizes to Finn. Anna confronts Brennan. 5/21/2024 Alexis and Diane prepare to present their case. Kristina pleads with Michael. Dex has a big decision to make. Finn faces a difficult task. Sonny seeks Dante's help. 5/22/2024 Liz is alarmed. Alexis is thrown for a loop. Dante issues a warning to Sonny. Ava gets key intel. Kristina makes an offer. 5/23/2024 Carly stonewalls Anna. Alexis has her day in court. Gio makes a move. Kristina shares her fears. 5/24/2024 Molly and TJ go on a date. Liz can't shake her concern. Portia is conflicted. Cody and Stella support Tracy. (This comes from a poster on Twi/X who says they are the official previews. She gets them right after the air show on Fridays. Ref: https://x.com/brookelynn74/status/1791553254276431900 )

LOTD goes to Sonny: Let me go! Let me go! I'm gonna kill you both! I'm gonna put a gun in your heads! Runner-up to Olivia: "Always good when a wedding is over & no one is in custody."

I only know that he would prefer her on Recurring which she did not agree with.

Good for her & also finally! This confirms for me that I was right that she left because of Alarr. I still think it's why Lindsay Arnold left, too.

And Casey Hutchison of THE CHAT podcast is predicting some female about to be fired. Of course, in their last podcast they claimed to know many things & some of the things they said were totally untrue. So, many grains of salt are needed. My Bolded: That too is Frank & it used to be one of his assets. He respected the vets, would keep them on, would write for them, would not change them, etc. Now I think that NuTracy began before PM came on so maybe Korte is some of Tracy with a heart, the new matriarch & if so, well, that is one good thing.

Oh, gee, we are not excited that the trains run on time?! SARCASM ALERT Yesterday I said that I have long been a staunch defender of Frank. But, now I find I must totally abandon that position. As a Carly & a Jason fan (not to mention at least 1 dozen others) I am trying to be hopeful but it is such a huge problem to see anything at the end of the tunnel besides more tunnel.

BOLD and the rest, agree. Also @titan1978 agree.

Well, this may be moot. I think Patrick was setting up Sonny/Bad v. Jason/Good & Joss v. Kristina was just an extension of that. Krissy stuck on the wrong side but someone has to be on Sonny's side. I believe Patrick was gonna allow Sonny & the mob to exist but only if they became labeled as bad guys, not masquerading as upright citizens. Does this help any at all? And, there are other Carly/Jason fans who subscribe to this theory, too. However, with Patrick gone, I have NO IDEA if they will continue with "rebranding" Sonny. ???

Okay, I will just say that Navell, who originally broke the story, told me that his source said fired & this was in reply to my specific question: fired or walked? His only other comment was THIS IS A HUGE MESS. (caps his)

It is true as far as I can recall, in terms of being unprecedented to take this action of firing on the day that their Episode 45 airs, when they have not even completed one whole Sweeps period.

Now here, in my dissenting voice, I would say that we have seen both structure and interesting dynamics. Every day I am engaged. I care about people I never did before. I see constant positioning of people. Whether it is Pikeman which now covers everything from the FBI & Cates & Jason to Valentin & Brennan plus the unknown executors of several mob bosses to knowing that Jason & Cates have taped action scenes, we know who is set up against whom. And, of course, the meds tampering falls under Pikeman, too. Other positioning, Sonny can be a mobster but not a philanthropic fine upstanding citizen, wandering around town dispensing sage advice. Now Jason has been moved from being a black hat to a white one. Joss v. Kristina is just an extension, or a metaphor, for Good v. Evil. And, so on. Heather & possible redemption is a thorny issue. Laura is now set v. several.

It was said that we would see 3 days of the wedding. I suggest we have one more day coming to us. Today. And, about all good or all bad, @Toups I do not agree that everyone put things in those terms. Maybe some did. But, lots of people put different things in different categories because of specific things & also things that were known. The example of longer versus shorter scenes, well, that would put Patrick & Elizabeth on one side & Frank & Varni on the other. This is known. In 2021 Elizabeth let it be known that she rewrote all of Scott Sickle's work, effectively claiming and having the writers credits to back her up, all of the wedding of Jason & Carly & all of the scenes attending to the wedding events & all of that was an example of longer scenes.

Obvious to me. When you remove Patrick from the equation then there is no one left who does not HATE Becky, so it was clear that things were going to get worse for her. What's worse than her current often MIA status? FIRING. That's all that is worse. Why is this not obvious to everyone?

Maybe it is something today. I don't think it's irrational, not at all. And, I believe the actors. They would have no reason to volunteer about how they felt daily when they got their scripts. There are times & situations when I am certaiinly DUBIOUS of actors claims. This just doesn't happen to be one of them. I am trying to verify IF Sally Sussman has gone Fi-Core status. She is not on WGA West list. I cannot find East. Does anyone have a link? Thank you.

Calling into question Marshall being schizophrenic was well underway before Dan & Chris were fired. What changed about that story was the idea that Marshall's poor healthcare was a product of racism & of stereotyping young black men as dangerous, IOW, bringing closure to the story that had seemingly dragged on forever & putting a political bent to the conclusion.

So about today, on the show, ... again I liked the extravaganza of this wedding. I particularly liked the picture taking. In one fell swoop they made the character Gio older than the actor. He has completed 2 years of college. So he can hang with Joss & Trina. LOTD goes to Maxie, to Natalia, "You don't get invited to a lot of parties, do you?" Second runner-up is Pure Schmaltz Spinelli: "Was there a bride at the wedding? Because all I could see was you." Sam enlisted Spinelli to investigate the FBI! Carly was in the opening but not in the show. Poignant: Gregory to Tracy: I sometimes wonder what life would have been like if I had met you when I was 25.

What about Michael Fairman? I know at times he lobs softballs, but at other times he seems at least thorough. I suppose that is damning with faint praise. What I am getting at is he always is prepared.

SAME!!! Funny, I just recently said that I missed him. Everyone wanted to know WHY. I said it was because of his access. He could get people to talk to him when they wouldn't talk to anyone else! Soap journalism today is ... meh. Mara's doing good work at Digest. SoapHub is in a state of decline. No other was very good in some time. IMO.

Understood. I'm glad you do because I do not.

About THE GATES, my immediate thought earlier today. Hmm. Will Michele Val Jean tap Patrick for her team? She told me once that they talked on the phone DAILY. That is the kind of friends they are. I see the resemblance & both are darling to me in their Southern accents & sensibilities. However, Curlee got pregnant two years in a row. She was set to HW GH when she OOPS found out she was pregnant the second time. That is not a Harper Lee type eventuality!!! 🤪😜🙄😉

I think to myself, Soap Jesus, can you bring Nancy Curlee out of retirement BUT they would just screw her over, wouldn't they? Oy.