7 minutes ago, Vee said:

IIRC they have said the Hayley reveal was planned from Day 1.

If they stay do I guess but I have my doubts on that. It feels more like they pivoted. Early Hayley felt more like an unfortunate outsider that fell in love with Bill and latched onto him for stability and financial security that she never had. Not so much this black widow scamming gold digger. There’s stuff in the timeline with her relationship to the Hamilton’s that make less sense after the reveal. Like why is she a paralegal? You have to go to school for that and it doesn’t feel like she’d be able to fool Bill about her education and experience. They could have made her the secretary and that would have made more sense. Before I thought she and Naomi met in school when both were taking law classes but then they switched it to some random gym run in a year before the show began?

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3 hours ago, GLATWT88 said:

Not that I think anyone in particular from ATWT and GL would be added to the canvas, but for example Mel Bauer was a John Hopkins graduate and a nurse.

And I remember the on call physician when Anita was hospitalized with the infection, that her regular physician Dr. Bauer was out of town. I don't know why my mind thought of Rick (Ed would be retired was my 1st thought). Probably because the by the time Mel was on the canvas, I was no longer watching GL.

9 minutes ago, Cheap21 said:

If they stay do I guess but I have my doubts on that. It feels more like they pivoted.

I don't see any reason to believe they'd lie about it at a point when they were still less than a year on the air. I just think some of the background timeline was wonky.

I don't think they lied either. It has been clear they had the major plotpoints planned out just through the superb foreshadowing dialogue they had those first few months. I'm still wonder if they are still going to plan a baby switch on Kat and Eva in fact due to a lot of their foreshadowing that has come to pass in other storylines in the first year.

That said...yes, they have made the timeline for some things too wonky.

4-17

Wow. Actually caught up. It's been a minute! :)

For all of my complaints over the writing the last few days, I thought this episode was a nice coda to the whole week. What plot they focused on came to some end and/or turn. Thank you, Nat.

I'll be honest. I don't want Vanessa vs Nicole to end so soon. But that didn't take away from their scenes for me. Adults coming to some kind of understanding. And we got a flashback to how they met. Adorable.

So that was the point of Babygate? lol. I was talking about how Dani/Andre was too background and far away from the Hayley storyline. But great to see Babygate is the way to get them back into that orbit. Okay, Show, I see you. I actually enjoyed the Dani/Bill scenes even though it was annoying at the same time cuz Dani playing with fire again.

The fallout from Jacob's beatdown was okay. At least Naomi knows. But that is probably only going to add to her stress.

And there were some C plots. I thought it was cute in a Soaps 101 way the Eva/Izaiah/Kat scenes cuz like I said ever...there is so much potential in that rivalry and those two girls shouldn't be getting along anytime soon. Meanwhile, the start of a Vernon plot while Anita's story appears to be coming to a break is just heartbreaking. I don't want anything happening to Vernon. At all.