They are known for their much speaking.

5 Thoughts brought about by today's episode:

1. Liz. Darling. I love you, I do. But your spine must still be packed up at the studio with all your art supplies. There is a time and place to throw away your inhibitions. Yours just past. See it go. Wave bye-bye as the moment to find yourself disappears.

2. Just watching Diane and Alexis makes me smile. Clearly, lawyers believe in justification of all behavior, even their own.

3. What?! Devlin is Dr. Jekyll? Seriously - Sam needs to hold onto Lucky with all her might. He may be the only non-murderous guy she'll ever know. I was kinda diggin' on him. I love his medical talk and I nearly swooned when he made literary references. But now he's given me a big case of the higgety jibbeties.

4. Wow. Green screens. You're kidding me - this is the special effects extravaganza? I saw this on Disney Channel last week during Wizards of Waverly Place. Granted, I don't know anyone who's been wandering around saying, "Whoa! Those soap opera action sequences just blow my mind!"

5. And as a warning to all, "Secrets will out." If soap operas teach any truth, there it be.

Thank you, Spinelli. That was oddly comforting.

I haven't yet listened to the Daily Confidential podcast to find out what *they* mean by "suprising chemistry at ABC" but my vote belongs to Maxie and Spinelli. I can't explain it - Maxie deserves worse and Spinelli deserves better - but they make me laugh. And smile. And grin a bit when the show careens back towards coupling for storyline sake only (That's another loosely veiled complaint about Kate/Sonny & Ric/Marianna).

I'll enjoy Maxie/Spinelli while it lasts...

So, last week had some good moments and I feel a countdown coming on...hold on for a Top 5:

1. Max/Spin bungling PI work leads to accidental comforting

2. Johnny's line "But you do make me feel funny...in a good way." He said it so cute & goofy - Brandon Barash is my new soaps addiction.

3. Elizabeth asking Jason if he could come up with a way to get them together in one house - what?! Adults can problem solve?! Say it ain't so....

4. Discovering that my Tivo jump-forward button, if pressed twice, will get me through any Ric/Marianna scene

5. Sarah Brown's line "Well, as long as we don't like the same men, we'll be great friends." Hahahaha....I love a good tongue-in-cheek nod to the past.

I watched All My Children and One Life to Live and Young & the Restless last week as well and, while Y&R is much better soap in general, of the ABC soaps, GH remains my truest love. Especially since the faux-ER look of AMC is enough to make me giggle and guffaw in rude & unacceptable fashion....you just can't use 'gritty' filming while doctors say lines, such as, "If I give them a bigger dose of the anti-venom, then I think it will interfere with the poison. I don't know how but it just might work." Wow. I was overcome with the intellectual paucity of it all.

Yep. That entire paragraph was just so I could make fun of one line by Angie. I'm a soap opera watching genius, I am.

Spoiler I most hope is true:

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*crickets chirping*

*sigh* It's going to be a long February.