I thought Jordan was kind of superfluous when she first arrived, but the actress was better than the usual GH hire. It took me a while to get used to the recast but I finally did. Of course she wouldn't want to work with Sonny and Jason (not everyone worships the ground they walk on).
Vinessa Antoine, the original Jordan, probably wasn't supposed to survive that introductory plot where she was a DEA agent infiltrating the Jeromes. I got the feeling back then that she survived only because Antoine was so good in the role and managed to keep her from falling into the typical GH trap of "strong woman gets turned into a wimp by lousy writing". She had the same vibe that Anna Devane gives off (and Ava Jerome, though in possession of a better moral compass). When she emerged from the Jeromes/FakeLuke plot with the Police Commissioner job it was a stretch but the job fit her character...at least back then. Antoine left to take a lead role in a primetime detective series for Canadian TV so of course she went on to better things.
It is nice to have a character act as the audience's conscience once in a while, reminding everyone onscreen that Sonny and Jason are mobsters. One of my favorite periods of GH was when Michael turned his back on Sonny and Carly to embrace his Quartermaine roots, saying out loud what fans had been screaming at their TVs for years. It was brief, but oh-so-sweet. Scotty Baldwin is another character who calls it as he sees it (when given the chance), and of course Monica will occasionally speak out against him and especially Carly. Even Dr. Obrecht dressed Sonny down in a scene back when she was Chief of Staff of the hospital, telling him she knew 'his type' who hid behind his guns and his slick suits while sending innocent people to people like her (a doctor) to be put back together, and showed she was not intimidated by 'his type'. Of course they have to marginalize the people who call him out like that, since they can't have viewers actually see he's not some anti-hero type who deserves respect.
What's the deal with Molly? She's been with TJ all of these years and now she hates men?
They laid it on thick with her, didn't they? She's always been kind of cartoony-PC, but she lurched right into Man-Haters University's Women's Studies Program. Her long, uncomfortable, man-hating rant seemed comical at first, as if certain body parts of TJ's would just shrivel up and fall off mid-way through. At the very least, it ought to have made him pack up his ring and run far, far away. And in a way, he has!
I'm guessing there won't be a custody battle because Miss Nelle won't survive to see May Sweeps. It was always in the back of my mind that she's now more valuable dead than alive (story-wise), but the tete a tete with Dr. O on Thursday seemed like one of those scenes we see right before someone gets killed off--you know, where all the character's misdeeds are repeated for the viewer to be reminded by all possible future suspects in the murder.