Sunday Surgery: Stomach Pump

 

This will be short and sour, much like my viewing this week!! At a time when several stories were reaching a peak, things just got thrown together like a Jumble sale. Garage sale? Rummage sale? What do you call it in your area?!

I'm having Heather's uneaten hospital tray for breakfast. 5 cups of coffee...so LET'S GO GO! 

I guess we can start with the Kristina story. This went from spectacular soapy window fall to-- a mess of choppy scenes, missing characters and just plain mayhem. The details are in my daily blogs but they were so disjointed that I honestly couldn't keep up with day, time... who's there, who knew, who didn't know and the like. Kristina did have another operation and she still has her uterus--for now (they are monitoring). 

Kristina and Molly had the better scenes, with KV hitting it out of the park as Molly. She gave Sonny such a tongue lashing, he ended up on the roof (more on that later). TJ seemed stunned. Jordan was in police mode and showed little emotion. Sam came in the 12th hour. NLG was also brilliant in every scene. Even the gradual erosion of her make up, her hair and the shadows under her eyes was real. Meanwhile, let's check in on someone else in this story: 

Why it's JOSSLYN... who, after saving Krissy and riding with her to GH, decides not to text or call Mom or Michael but winds up in Dex's doorstep looking for...um... comfort. Why this didn't happen 2 or 3 days after the event, I'll never know. It was just thrown in there and frankly, dumb. No one wanted that at this juncture. 

Who else didn't know? CARLY! And it's her hotel!! YEP! She wasn't called. Jason told her that night when he had stopped over at her house.Poor Carly. OUT of the loop!! They also should have had Olivia in those pool scenes or at least the aftermath. 

Sonny gets upset and more despondent because he flashes back to everyone telling him what a bad person and father he is. He ends up on the roof and Morgan comes to save him from beyond the grave. This is the same roof Morgan was on when Sonny talked HIM down years ago. Sonny wises up, pops into Kevin's office for help and by some miracle, is A-OK the very next day! Talk about quick wrap ups. Someone was like: WE'RE DONE !! PUT "THE END" on it and let's bail!! 

How's Kristina doing you ask? WELP.. she's getting revenge-fever and obsessing over the photos Brick took. She wants Ava DEAD. All this Ava hate is just-- making me nervous. Also, for the life of me, I can't understand why that baby couldn't have lived. Ace fell off a cliff 2x and belly floated to Canada! 

Speaking of bail....I guess she was grated some because that's a still from Monday's show! Ava, who we watched grow and learn and become multi-dimensional in 4-5 years. Ava who now is poised to be the absolute vilified character for A) Seemingly "pushing" Krissy out the window and B) Tampering with Sonny' meds. We got a tiny reprieve there when Ava said to Jason she knew about them but not who did it. On this show, telling or not telling gets you in just as much trouble as doing the deed. I think Ava may blame it on Jagger. Brennan is certainly not in the running because he's on contract now. 

We finally got a nice TJ reaction with the socks and I got to see Stella. Molly had to rush off to work. So it looks like their grief dynamic is going to be a thing next. 

OTHER STUFF: 

My tummy hurts! (photo thx to @Carlyanddava1) . So, Avery found Sonny's pills (I knew that bottom drawer was a bad place) and took them to Carly's for her sleepover. Donna ate them thinking they were vitamins. (Did she CHEW them ?? ) Anyway, crisis avoided because they were placebo. Wonder if Ava will get credit for that? LOL 

The Hippy Heather story is still rolling along. I thought for a minute they dropped it but...NOPE! As soon and Laura said she was done with it, Heather decides to get Scotty back so they can sue  the pants off of the manufacturer and hopefully get outta jail. Portia will lose her mind. Good scene with Trina and Heather, I liked it. 

Elevator 101. Really? Michael is having a casual lunch with Nina. Never mentions Kristina until the very end. It's like they taped it at a juncture and decided to insert it that day. THEN, guess what? WILLOW and Drew are stuck in the Metro Elevator. Willow gets all hot and bothered and tells Drew she can't go on the LA trip with him. She says she has obligations and we know it's lust. 

The Worst use of Time this week goes to... BLAZE AND MAMA LARUE! What!!?? Blaze's mother drags her from GH where her girlfriend lay possibly dying. They go to a restaurant and have coffee and soup. They talk about the "gay" issue (again) and it was so apparent it was yet another attempt to make LaRue 'likeable' and forgiven. Well, it's not working. The absence of Blaze in all of this was really telling I thought. Did Kristina even ask for her? Is Blaze on her way out? Hmmm. I would think not because of the whole record label storyline. We shall see! 

There was a LOT more that happened this week in the undercurrents but I've gone on long enough. Just know that the whole "aftermath' of the fall was full of holes and questions and head-scratching moments. It should have been a tight, well-oiled machine by 2024 to tell a story like this but...?? 

One more thing. Chris Van Etten is back. You all know I like his writing. I love that he expanded the families of Trina and TJ. Spencer and Tina were great and so was Greenland. Laura becoming mayor.  Ava was morphed under his pen. I can only HOPE.. that this is a good thing. Not so sure of the paring as EK isn't one of my faves. What a mess over there. Writers in and out. Now an "associate" writer that used to work on 7th Heaven? What's an associate writer anyway? The backstage shuffle that led to all of this has to be a fascinating story. Maybe Chris and Dan will write up a mini-series about it all in the  year 2035. I'd watch!! 

Now we wait to see Holly, Ric, Lucky and Lulu come back. Emme told us she's not going to be Lulu but will Julie Berman?? That would be amazing, imo. I like it when faces I know wake up! I think we all know this summer was just a wrap up of stories that went on too long and were starting to go so off the rails, the viewers were tuning out (see Pikeman). They are putting all their eggs into the vets coming back to get those eyes back. Let's hope it works. 

CHEERS!