I actually enjoyed today’s show. I think it is because there were so many adults on, interacting with one another.

Subject: Sam getting asked hard questions & David’s eavesdropping

I got a hoot out of watching David deliberately eavesdrop on Sam and TC. For once, this show made sense. Passions has that bad habit of having characters talk in normal tone with someone not 5 feet away from them, who hears nothing. I’m glad that David heard what Sam and TC were saying; though his comments only make me more suspicious of him.

I was also glad to see TC back. I think Sam and TC have terrific best friend ‘chemistry’ – I totally believe that these two are best friends, and it makes more sense to me that Sam is talking to TC than to the block of wood otherwise known as NuHank. Plus, anything that gives me more TC is something that I cheer.

Sam tells TC that he’s finally beginning to believe that David is indeed Grace’s husband. That his original thoughts of David being a con have been disproved. And, it wasn’t so much the ‘official’ proof that has Sam convinced; it’s the ‘little things’ that David knows about Grace that makes Sam know that he did know Grace intimately at one time or another. Sam also brings up the wedding remembrance by Grace, but, once again, we are reminded that Grace never remembered THE FACE of the groom. I still have doubts that David is ‘the groom’. Something is not quite right about this.

Sam doesn’t know what he’s going to do. He wishes David had never come to Harmony, and David comments that it’s too bad, but, that he’s not leaving without Grace. See, it’s comments like that from David that give me the creeps. The man always talks about leaving Harmony ‘with Grace’. As if Grace is just going to up and leave her three (make it four if you count Charity) CHILDREN all to go off with that man. I haven’t seen David make plans to buy a house in Harmony, so that he can be WITH Grace, and accommodate her children. And, I have to wonder about a man who would expect a woman to leave her children just because they are married.

Sam also tells TC about what he had to do with regards to Ivy. How he had to pretend that their lives had turned out like Ivy’s fantasy, and that he had never stopped loving Ivy. He tells TC about Grace overhearing all of that, and even though he tried to explain that he was doing what Eve had asked him to, he and Grace really never had a chance to discuss things, because the kids returned.

TC asks Sam to go somewhere else so that they can continue their talk, and before they leave, Sam goes in to check up on Ivy. When they are alone, TC questions Sam about his feelings for Ivy, telling him that though Eve had told him that he had to do it to save Ivy’s life, is Sam sure that he doesn’t have feelings for Ivy. Sam gets hot under the collar, asking TC if he thinks that Sam is lying about his love for Grace. TC says that he believes that Sam loves Grace, but maybe he’s in denial about his feelings for Ivy. He also warns Sam that he better be telling the truth about his feelings for Ivy, because TC doesn’t think that his marriage to Grace can handle another lie. The truth is all Sam has, TC warns.

TC was also a little up on his high horse, in saying that HE could never have said those words to another woman, even if she were dying, because he loved Eve so much. I hope that TC gets to eat those words one of these days. There has to be something that can shake TC’s moral superiority complex.

Grace, who has been encouraged to seek out Sam by Pilar and Eve, stops by Ivy’s room, and hears a voice encouraging Ivy. At first Grace thinks that it’s Sam, but, she opens the door to find David in there, encouraging Ivy to get well, so that she can get Sam back, and he can get Grace back. I loved the look on Grace’s face when she saw David plotting, and she called him on it. David realized that he had been caught, but he went into overdrive, trying to spin his way out of it. He told Grace that he believes that they belong together, but that Grace will only come once Sam has broken her heart. I don’t know if Grace was all that believing.
 

Subject: Pilar cracked me up today

Pilar really did make me laugh today. We left off yesterday with Pilar worried about her children. Grace is trying to calm her down, by telling her that not all Charity’s visions come true. Pilar says that there are far too many coincidences for her not to be alarmed.

Eve comes to join them, after having been asked by Charity to look in on Pilar. Pilar expresses her worries about her children, and Eve is trying to help Grace calm Pilar.

Pilar worries about Sheridan, and what it would do to Luis if anything had happened to her. They all comment about Sheridan being the only ‘good’ Crane, and then Pilar talks about Alistair and Julian, and she worries about Theresa being with Julian.

When Pilar picked up the scalpel and said that she would ‘neuter Julian like the dog he is’, if he had touched Theresa, I believed her. I’m hoping she has a meat cleaver in her hand when she finds out about Julian and Theresa. Can you see it? Pilar chasing Julian around the Crane mansion, cleaver in hand, cursing at him in Spanish?

BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA

They try and calm Pilar, and tell her that they will get in touch with them ASAP.

Eve and Pilar then send Grace on her way after Sam, after she tells them that she had worried that something from her past would come back to haunt her, and that past is David. They encourage her about Sam, and she is gone to look for him. Eve and Pilar express their hopes that Sam and Grace will come out of it ok.
 

Subject: That Justice of the Peace Can’t Catch a Break

We come back to the Wedding Chapel in Bermuda, with the two happy couples, about to get married. It’s so funny, having the two clueless ones standing there with Julian and Theresa.

Theresa once again asks Julian and Rebecca if they really want to share their wedding day with them, and Rebecca is fine. Gwen calls Rebecca outside, and asks what is she doing? Rebecca has the opportunity to delay Ethan and Theresa’s wedding, and she’s not doing it? I hope Gwen sees the supreme selfishness of her mother. Nothing else matters to Rebecca right now, other than becoming Mrs. Julian Crane, and thoughts of Gwen’s happiness don’t measure on the radar.

Rebecca goes back into the Chapel, ready to get married, and the four of them are standing there, when Theresa comes up with the Luis excuse. She can’t possibly get married without Luis , after all, he is her only family. So, Chad goes to find Luis and the ceremony gets underway once again.

Yet ANOTHER interruption.

This one by the bellboy, who tells them of Ivy’s accident  and that she’s in bad shape.

Well, Julian and Theresa pounce on this chance to stop the wedding. Julian tells Rebecca that he can’t do it because of the bad publicity.

It’s asinine lines like these that make you doubt the writing staff. Does ANYONE of these writers remember that Julian and Ivy share THREE OTHER CHILDREN?

HOW HARD would it have been to have Julian tell Rebecca that he’s getting back to Harmony, not because of any great love for Ivy, but, because SHE IS HIS CHILDREN’S MOTHER??!!?

HUH?

Is that to ‘plain and true soap’ for the likes of Passions.

Blech.

Julian goes over to Ethan and tells him how sorry he is, and Ethan asks if they can take the Crane Jet back to Harmony. Julian says that the jet is gone, but, then, he tells the bellboy to get the manager to commandeer an airliner for them. The bellboy comes back to tell them that it will be awhile before the jet is fueled, and Rebecca thinks that means it gives them time to get married.

There’s only one problem – the Justice of the Peace is missing. When they came into tell about Ivy, he decided that he couldn’t handle it anymore, and that he was going to tell the others about the wedding, but that he needed proof- Julian and Theresa’s wedding picture, so he went to get one.

Ethan and Chad went to look for the Justice of the Peace, and Whitney and Theresa did too. Well, Whitney and Theresa are pretending to, and Theresa walks over to a closet, where she finds the Justice of the Peace tied up. Just then, Rebecca comes out and asks Theresa what she’s found.

Bruce strikes again ! LOL

Subject: Brian – so far, OK

I don’t have anything bad to say about Brian. He rescued Sheridan, gave her CPR, fought the Captain to get the boat turned around, and even took her clothes off without peeking and dressed her in dry clothes fast.

Haven’t figured out how he fits into things, but, he doesn’t seem shady. So far.
 

SIP