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[Jock Ewing Fan]

Nina is truly one of the most hypocritical, disgusting characters ever.

She refuses to take any responsibility, and/or deflects it.
Nina hired a noted gossip columnist, and then gets self-righteous when he...does what he was hired to do?
In direct defiance of the more reputable publication that Sean and Alexis worked to build.
What did she expect.
It is absurd that Kristina and Blaze would trust her now.
Yes, Natalia's comments were (fill in the blank) unsupportive among other things, but at least
she is talking responsibility while struggling with it.
Eva LaRue is doing a great job.
Because she hid the fact that Sonny is alive, Carly attended the meeting,
and Jason was forced to cooperate when Carly's attendance was discovered.
If Nina had been honest, that does not happen.
She has no room to lecture Drew, considering that she is with him - again, lying by omission
by not telling Willow.
She has no business judging Ava, who admittedly is...Ava. Nina is no better.

 

[Monzo]

Did Chase whitewash his past with the police during his recent conversation with Dax? Wasn't the problem before he came to Port Charles that he got involved with a suspect (Nelle) and was therefore intolerable in his police station? No wonder Chase would like to forget that.

I thought it was nice that Jason and Carly remembered Britt and her death, but why aren't they (and Sasha too, by the way) interested in the possible release of Heather? Shouldn't they discuss this topic with Laura?

I like Cody quite a bit, but a friendship with Tracy is going too far for me. Not everyone on the show (with the exception of Mac, of course) has to love him.

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

Did Chase whitewash his past with the police during his recent conversation with Dax? Wasn't the problem before he came to Port Charles that he got involved with a suspect (Nelle) and was therefore intolerable in his police station? No wonder Chase would like to forget that.

I thought it was nice that Jason and Carly remembered Britt and her death, but why aren't they (and Sasha too, by the way) interested in the possible release of Heather? Shouldn't they discuss this topic with Laura?

I like Cody quite a bit, but a friendship with Tracy is going too far for me. Not everyone on the show (with the exception of Mac, of course) has to love him.

Forgot about Chase/Nelle. Good point
I guess Carly and Jason have other concerns at the moment, but your observation is valid

 

[Daniel Avery]

I don't think it is common knowledge in the town that Laura has been asking questions about Heather's case. Portia learned about Laura's efforts because she was Heather's physician when she was taken to the hospital, and others learned of it because Portia has been so outspoken in her opposition. Alexis found out because Laura went to her for legal advice, and yet we haven't heard a reaction from Diane, Alexis's BFF and one of Heather's survivors. Jordan also ought to have some reaction since Heather murdered one of Jordan's rookie cops, Rory (remember him?). Ava, the first victim, ought to be reacting, as well, but like Jason, Sasha, etc. I don't think they know about Laura's questions. Jordan probably knows but they seem to exclude her from lots of stories that involve her (Molly/TJ and the surrogate baby, for instance).

But y'know, with all the changes in the writers' room, they might just drop the whole storyline. Genie Francis usually takes the summer off, and without Laura around to push the story, it isn't going to move forward. Laura's soon to welcome Lucky back to PC as well, so maybe she will just forget about Heather.

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

Is James Patrick Stuart now off the show?
Huge loss if so.
He is a different Cassadine, more balanced, not as malicious as the others.

If Maura West leaves, that is also a huge loss.

 

[Daniel Avery]

I'm hoping it's more a "See you soon" rather than "Good-bye" for both JPS and Scarlett Fernandez (Charlotte), since JPS has always been coming and going this way. With their departure, we lose the last of the Cassadine family, since Alexis and her girls don't claim their Cassadine roots. That said, Anna giving him the chance to escape really takes a hatchet to her character....in much the same way she used to let Sonny get away with all kinds of law-breaking.

I do not like what they're doing with Ava since it does give off the vibe that she might be written out. I'm sort of watching between my fingers with a certain amount of dread. Maura West is too good at what she does and has too valuable a fan base for them to let her go. My hope is that this is their effort to "fire up" the viewers and generate buzz ("They better not___") and hopefully get lapsed viewers to regain interest.

 

[Emelee]

I think Valentin & Charlotte are just temporary gone. No one is reporting the actors departed from GH.

Anna is driving me bonkers these days. Saving Valentin after using sex to find evidence, but thinking Cates should be in jail. Wanting Sonny in jail, but Jason the hitman free. What kind of police commissioner is she???

 

[Emelee]

Rick Hearst is returning as Ric Lansing (Molly's dad, Sonny's half-brother and ex-husband of Liz & Alexis). He begins filming in a few days and will begin airing August 18.

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

Rick Hearst is returning as Ric Lansing (Molly's dad, Sonny's half-brother and ex-husband of Liz & Alexis). He begins filming in a few days and will begin airing August 18.

I never liked the Ric character, in fact I didn't like him at all.
No disrespect to Rick Hearst, a good actor in a role that I did not like.

Molly's father maybe representing her against Kristina?
I thought TJ would have been more perturbed than Molly about the interview

 

[Daniel Avery]

That was a no-win situation for Kristina, though. No matter what she had said about her pregnancy to the interviewer, I think Molly and TJ would have reacted the way we saw them reacting (that is, making furious and negative assumptions about her motives without actually ASKING her what her reasoning was). Kristina said (to BLQ, I believe) that she planned to gloss over the pregnancy out of respect for Molly's privacy, since her health problems (infertility due to endometriosis) are no one's business but hers. If Kristina had announced "Oh, I'm carrying my sister's baby as a surrogate because she can't have kids" then we would have seen Molly and TJ flip out about THAT too. I want Kristina and/or Blaze to finally lose their temper(s) and announce they can't wait for Kristina to give birth, because Kristina can finally hand them that baby and never speak to either Molly or TJ ever again, since M&T have been totally insane from Day One and the less they interact from then on, the better.

 

[Daniel Avery]

I think I have figured out a way Carly (and thus Jason) can get out of this pickle with John-don't-call-me-Jagger and the FBI.

We saw yesterday that Jack Brennan is no longer in Pentonville--in fact, the warden is insisting that Jack was never there at all. He was, of course, but I think the warden and everyone involved has been ordered to scrub him from existence now that he has been sent elsewhere for whatever reason. Now that Pikeman seems to have been exposed and shut down, Brennan might have 'done a deal' where he exposed all of Pikeman's insiders to avoid a treason/death penalty sentence. He should have tons of connections in the FBI organization, so he could ask one of them to delete that tape of Carly trying to take over Sonny's organization since Brennan obviously has the hots for her. Without that tape, John-not-Jagger has NO case against Carly, and NO blackmail power over Jason.

 

[xab]

I think Valentin & Charlotte are just temporary gone. No one is reporting the actors departed from GH.

Anna is driving me bonkers these days. Saving Valentin after using sex to find evidence, but thinking Cates should be in jail. Wanting Sonny in jail, but Jason the hitman free. What kind of police commissioner is she???

A soap opera commissoner, I guess... Just like Cates's vendetta (or is it John ? Jagger ?) is a soap opera vendetta... And this one came out from the Twilight Zone... I've watched zillions episodes from the 90's and I don't remember a Jagger (even a Jagger recast) attending the funeral of his brother, Stone (but I might have missed something...) So, why should he care 30 years later... ? And what's Sonny got to do with Stone's AIDS (once again, maybe I missed something...)
Besides, considering the fact that Karen died off screen, how could Sonny be involved in that ?
Or is this vendetta related to Cates son ? (still to be cast and introduced to us)

Whatever, I don't get it...

And, by the way, could somebody shoot toxic Carly, please ?

If I were Danny, I would.

And, Danny, if you need an alibi, I'm your man.

 

[Emelee]

The most toxic person right now, to me, is Kristina. What nerve! I didn't really care for Molly before, but I am 100% team Molly right now.

Kristina's doubts about giving the baby to Molly after pleading to be the surrogate caused TJ and Molly to fight. Once. Then Kristina worries that Molly and TJ are gonna break up because they are fighting. So she might just keep the baby herself. Like, what the actual.......!!!!

If Molly wants to kill Kristina, I'll hand her the weapon and provide an alibi.

 

[Daniel Avery]

Molly, TJ, and Kristina were all idiots to enter into this agreement. I dread the idea of another dead baby, which is never a good story for a genre geared toward young, stay-at-home mothers and retired grandmothers. But if the baby does survive, what do we have to look forward to?

1) As planned, Kristina gives the baby to Molly and TJ, who are on so infrequently that we'll likely never see the kid again. They're young professionals, so the baby will end up with a nanny or on the third floor at the Q mansion with the other 45 abandoned children. TJ will likely be dropped back down to recurring and only be seen when they need a doctor in a hospital scene.
2) Kristina convinces herself she should keep the baby, leading to a custody fight that will split up the extended family. We will be expected to suddenly care about characters who are never really given a point of view or "root-ability". It would likely continue to be a story about characters getting into arguments rather than about a baby. And yes, Kristina is a flake (historically) so I see her sudden love of all things Baby destroying her relationship with Blaze (no great loss there) and isolating her from a lot of plotlines because it will be all about the baby. The baby will be her whole life...until she decides she wants to do something else and starts having regrets.

I tend to fall in the "I don't care who ends up with the baby" camp, and I fear there are enough of us that the show may decide to go the Dead Baby route just to end an ill-advised storyline that they screwed up (and, to be fair, got screwed up further by the Writers' Strike).

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

Michael has every right to ask Nina for help.
Carly is in a bad situation because she was forced into action because Nina withheld Sonny/Mike survival
Furthermore, Jason is in a bad situation because he is protecting, or trying to protect Carly as aresult.

Nina has no moral high ground in this.

Of course, when Michael finds out about Drew/Willow...

 

[Emelee]

Carly doesn't deserve this situation. Sonny & Jason deserves jail. Carly shouldn't go down for them. Not that I think she will.

Enraged unmedicated Sonny with a gun.... Watch out.

Curious to see more of BLQ, Chase & Violet. I want to see some family bonding with the three of them.

 

[Daniel Avery]

I assume Finn will leave his 90-day treatment program and send word that he isn't coming back to PC. He was so single-minded about the others "not taking his daughter away" when he was falling off the wagon, but in order to keep Jophielle Love (Violet) on the show they will have to write something that makes it look like he voluntarily gave her up. Maybe he will rejoin Doctors Without Borders and march off to cure some other tropical disease like he used to do all the time. I did find it odd (maybe an oversight of the writers) that Chase offered to bump himself down to part-time at the PCPD in order to "be there for Violet more," while Brook Lynn accepted a job launching/running a new record label while already working full-time at Deception.

Carly's never going to be a character I particularly like, no matter how much the writers try to push her as the "heroine" character overcoming all the odds, etc. Actually, I think part of the reason I've grown to dislike her is her over-exposure at the expense of other characters. That said, the now-infamous tape of Carly declaring herself as the new head of the Corinthos organization is not enough to base an entire trial upon, so the sooner that tape disappears (which I figure it will), the better.

How soaps are not real life: Ava instructs the pharmacist to replace Sonny's lithium with placebos, and almost instantly he starts going off the deep end worse than before. Unless he gets weekly prescription refills (which...no one does) he should not have been worsening until he got the next refill and spent at least a week taking them; typically such meds are refilled every three months. But I guess if Kristina can have a six-month pregnancy (while Maxie had a 13-month pregnancy) then I guess timelines can vary.

 

[Jock Ewing Fan]

Ric Lansing - Could he be the real leader of Pikeman?
Could he be part of the efforts against SonnY/
It would make sense.
I don't think Valentin is the head, or at least he is not acting alone

 

[Emelee]

How soaps are not real life: Ava instructs the pharmacist to replace Sonny's lithium with placebos, and almost instantly he starts going off the deep end worse than before. Unless he gets weekly prescription refills (which...no one does) he should not have been worsening until he got the next refill and spent at least a week taking them; typically such meds are refilled every three months. But I guess if Kristina can have a six-month pregnancy (while Maxie had a 13-month pregnancy) then I guess timelines can vary.

He's been getting less medication for much longer than that. Valentin started it many months ago (we don't know exactly when) by having the pharmasist cut the dosage and blend with placebo.

When Ava lived with Sonny, she had trouble sleeping and took one of Sonny's pills to fall asleep. It didn't work. So she took some of his pills to the lab and found out it was a very low dose. 25% of what it should have been.

Later on, Ava decided to decrease that to 0% by threatening the pharmasist to reveal what he'd done if he didn't switch it to 100% placebo.

So Sonny has basically been off his meds for many months. Maybe even as long as a year.

 

[Daniel Avery]

Yes, I recall all that...I was simply commenting on how the writers skip a necessary step in Sonny's medication dilemma. Ava told the pharmacist to cut it back from 25% to 0% and it's like Sonny instantly started going further downhill, as if he got the newly-tampered 0% pills the same day. There would have to have been a period of time where he was finishing off the last 25% bottle before he got the newly-tampered 0% pills and began taking them. I guess the writers couldn't wait around for him to crack.

Speaking of which, with Valentin and Brennan seemingly getting way with what they'd been up to, no one might ever know Valentin was the one who started the "cutting Sonny's meds back" scheme. If and when they figure out what happened, they'll jump straight to blaming Ava.

Ric Lansing - Could he be the real leader of Pikeman?
Could he be part of the efforts against SonnY/
It would make sense.
I don't think Valentin is the head, or at least he is not acting alone

I've missed a few episodes and relied on online synopses, but I was under the impression that Pikeman and all its associated dramas are over. All the stuff on Valentin's satellite phone blew the whole organization out of the water (exposed their existence to the WSB and CIA/FBI) and those agencies shut the organization down. Brennan was said to have formed Pikeman decades ago using money he stole during a WSB operation that had involved Anna (which is why she got so involved). He'd been running it until he was sent to Pentonville for some reason I forget. Brennan enlisted Valentin to take the reins and was acting as Brennan's "man on the outside" until Anna exposed him (and by extension, Brennan). When Anna ran into Brennan in DC the other day, it was stated that the WSB wanted to wash their hands of all things Pikeman, so they got Brennan out of jail to help them shut it all down (and, I assume, inform on all the key players in exchange for his freedom). There was even a hint that Valentin was also being given a similar "Get out of Jail Free" card by the WSB, though I'm fuzzy on that one.

But the overall feeling was that we won't be hearing much more about the infamous, offscreen threat of "Pikeman industries" because the storyline has been concluded, just like the miraculous-yet-predictable shutdown of Carly's RICO charges trial was ended with the wave of a hand. Between newly-freed Jason and newly-freed Brennan, Queen Carly will have a pretty full dance card.