Sunday Surgery: Black and White

Ah, nothing is as black and white as it may seem, is it? People saying one thing, doing another... right --wrong--shades of gray and tension over race, we got the whole sheeebaaaaaanng these 5 days. 

I'm so THRILLED to be back here. Having a GREAT time..

Pull up a chair. I actually found this week to be..well a little weak so the blog will be shorter than most. I'm having a protein shake--my new fave. 

Hey, Dad I need some money for a drink..because you know, I DO NOTHING! 

I skipped Monday's show and really didn't feel like watching it--so, I didn't! I know that Laura stood there all day saying "I want Luke" and I pretty much caught up on Tuesday.  I also had the added bonus of NOT seeing Anna say goodbye to Sloane. Small favors for me. 

Let's go story by story. 

I'm here...so Deal With It! 

The Engagement Party:  As we all know, Luke and Laura have some 'plan' that seems to involve making Tracy believe Luke loves her (for like a night), and getting engaged only to have it thwarted a the last minute. We were misdirected for 2 days about it all and it ended in a whimper and not a bang. Tracy stormed off, Luke and Laura stood around looking weird and that that was that!
Jane Elliot was superb and just needs the Emmy--now. Her looking up the stairs was perfection. 
Why would L&L have to carry out this ruse? Helena? The boys-- what? Guess I don't really care much yet. That's pretty sad. Not a great sign of a return, imo.

Luke continued to grate on my nerves because even when everyone was gone and it was just he and Laura...it was still "Death March 2000". 

and I just don't get it..I just don't get it...why um..tell me...because I need to know...blah blah

There was a 2 day interruption on their story  -- and then Laura went to visit Nik (which felt forced, imo) and Spencer wasn't there. Yes, we have school into the endish of June in NY. Lulu is pestering Luke about what's going on (such an annoying VOICE, that one) and Dillon busts in just as he's about to tell her. Finally, when Laura comes back he yells: WE WERE LYING! And...the end of Friday's show. I'm really starting to hate these 'backward stories'. ugh. 
So...I'm not even going to bother to speculate what's going on at this point. I usually love doing that but I'm not going to put myself or you through it. For once, I'm going to let it "Play Out". I so hope it's worth it.

OH MY God tell me...TELL ME....

And not for nothing, but TG better light a fire under himself because...Grumpy Von Grumperson.  And don't come at me with "he's acting". You watch the scene where he and Genie are alone on the HS and she holds his hand.
Magic..gone. 
I've watched Tony every year he's been on GH. He used to sparkle and be fun in every scene, even if it was a sad/tense/whatever scene. There was a spark. I just don't see it anymore, He also used to improv A LOT--and I don't see any of that either. Actually RH is the 'old' way he used to act. (think Michael Knight as Tad Martin as well). 
Again: Magic.....GONE. 

Here are the share spreads, in case you care. Spencer typed it up on his toy typewriter

ELQ Stocks:  I'm trying like HELL to be interested.  I wanted an ELQ story--but this? Well..it's just not good and it's confusing. Blah blah blah has blah percentage of shares and blah blah..control and blah.  All you need to know is that for some unknown reason, Nikolas feels like it's his biz to run the company and get all the shares. He sends Rosie out to buy Nina's (which she did)--although it took like a DAY for Michael to find out about it all. (great plan. Sam is investigating Rosie for Sabrina (don't ask) and Jake is now head of ELQ security! He and Michael bonded over dreams and tales of Motorcycles. Jake notices a photo of Monica holding baby Danny and pauses. Who is this woman? (we all say the same thing since it's been so damn long since she's appeared). Why do I feel something? Rumor has it that yes, Monica and Jake will have a scene together. Get your window of 10 minutes ready! 

False inprisonment 

 Liz isn't happy Jake is at ELQ because she thinks that he will recover some memories about his old life being around Michael. If you think about it, she's totally keeping Jake prisoner in his own head. By not telling him who he really is, she's got him in a box.

I'll get my tan ready to charm the ladies, boss 

Oh, the most funny thing this week? Nik sends Sloane to "get the shares" from Maya and BrookLynn. (off camera of course). How's he going to do that? Flashing his muscles? I mean, seriously. How's he gonna do that? 

You brings Ze Cheetoes and I'll get Ze Wine Coolers...

Nina/Franco: I mention this because Franco was the catalyst for people finding out about the shares being sold. It also got he and Dr. O to have more scenes. I actually thought that maybe we'd get a cool road trip with the 2 of them but nope! Donna Mills is out of jail! Franco asks her for help, not realizing she's actually working with Ric. 

Nina and Ric were hysterical with Molly. MS and MP were just great as girl and StepMonster.  I probably could deal with them being on daily with like 10 minutes of snark. You know, Molly gets ready to go out, Nina gives her fashion tips. Molly goes out with her girlfriends, Nina shows up. LOL 

Ava/Flava:  Why. WHY WHY??   She sees baby Avery.  She cries. She and Morgan kiss. Ok, they make-out. He's all "man, you are SO like Ava"!!  Ava almost blows it because of her libido but stops herself just in time. Idiot Kiki walks in and it's all diffused anyway. That's all we see of them for the week. 

TJ's Arrest:  Why couldn't we have seen the actual arrest happen? The Wyndam's scene could have been done really well. But nope..for 2 days we had to sit there and wait while he wouldn't talk about why he was in the PCPD-- and Dante wasn't around to tell anyone. I swear this show is set in 1985. Ric finally comes in to talk to TJ. He's plenty mad at MOM who's "The Man" now. (figuratively) 
Finally after a long drag out wait, we find out TJ was buying earrings for Molly and the clerk thought he'd stolen a credit card. (which actually happened 2x in NYC last summer) They called security. TJ got all mouthy because he hadn't done anything wrong and he needed to get out fast to see Shawn. Things escalated, they called the police (enter Dante) and TJ ended up shoving the mall cop to the ground after he tried to stop him leaving. Dante arrested TJ to get him out of there. The credit card was legit but the security guard wanted to press charges because he hurt his back. Mayor Lomax wanted TJ made an "example of" (again, off screen) and made Jordan keep him in the pen overnight. 
TJ's mad at MOM and he's mad about Shawn. About her lying to him. He's just angry. She tries to explain things and he says why do all (Insert Name) people get off but those that look like Shawn and me don't? She's incredulous! Don't make this about race she says! He says it's ALL about race.  Jordan reminds him he pushed the guy-- he says he was in the right because they profiled him. 
Oh, and TJ also puts Duke and Shawn on a pedestal and says what good guys they are. Jordan finally tells him Duke had her targeted for a kill.  TJ is shaken.

In the other room, Valerie tells Dante (who feels like crap about the entire thing) that she's been stopped many times because she's black. The only part of this story that turned me off was using it to get them to hold hands and look into each other's eyes. bleck. 

Yes, this is a timely and important issue. I like the way they are writing it because TJ is already angry about the Shawn situation and his mom not coming clean. She's also the police commish. ANY race kid sometimes rebels against their parents if they are administration (Schools, police..yada yada)--add the stories/tension happening now and it's a good combo. TJ is also right in pointing out that almost the entire town got off their charges. This could be really interesting. I still wish we saw the confrontation ourselves but, you know-- GH.

Given it was a "return week" for one of the big vets, it was pretty boring, imo. All the stories are told in reverse on GH now. We get to see the middle or the end, then things are explained after we sit and stew for a good long while. Just like the Ava/Denise tale. *sigh*.  I'm also feeling that everything is disjointed again and really not knit together. What else is new, right?

If you missed this week, watch Friday, you'll catch up. 



SCENE OF THE WEEK: Tracy struggling to climb the stairs after her engagement party. So great. Those stairs are very significant on this show, especially if you've been watching since the 70's. 




PROP OF THE WEEK:  Silas' peanuts. He was pretty funny with Franco. It was the old Todd/John days! 



RUNNER UP:  The tiny, tiny motorcycle, filling Jake's head with dreams of...??? 




FACE OF THE WEEK: Tracy yelling at Luke. She had a lot of great expressions but this was the best. I can imagine her saying: WHO WROTE THIS?! lol.. 



OH, and this happened! I did laugh and laugh! See, if we got more ensamble scenes we could have had Molly and Sam at the same time! Can I hope Nina decides to cook dinner for everyone?!! 
I have 2 questions for you:   Did it bother you more that the engagement and party all happened in 3.4 seconds---or that TJ's story took 2 entire days to get out?  And...name 2 characters on the show you'd boot tomorrow if you could.