Living with the consequences

Tuesdays are quickly becoming my favorite days on GH.  It seems like Tuesdays have become the old Mondays.  Tuesday's shows used to be the most uneventful episodes of the week.  However, in 2011 Tuesdays are turning out to be the day of the week that I look forward to.  Today's show was wonderful because it seems like who ever does the writing and editing on the GH staff for Tuesdays knows how to do the perfect balance of story lines.  Today's story lines seems to all have a common theme about living with consequences of choices.


The Spencer clan can never seem to be on the lucky side in love and all of them seem to be living with the consequences of their bad luck in love.  Let's face it if there was one family who's seen relationships call apart again and again it's the Spencers.  Lucky and Lulu are products of a broken family and while they love their family the scares are very visible.  Lucky has gone to great measures to try to have the perfect family image but he learned that no matter how hard you try sometimes it doesn't work out.  Lulu is too scared to let herself try too hard.  Dante's case was convincing enough and for 2 minutes today I was honestly rooting for Dante to win her over.  However, I don't want to see Lulu be struck down again by this next big whopper of a lie when it hits the fan.  Lulu is stronger without Dante.  I hope secretly we would get a Johnny and Lulu reunion but alas we'll have to settle for just hoping she moves on from Dante.   Now Ethan is a new player in this Spencer clan relatively.  His situation isn't the same because unlike his brother and sister, he has everything that he could want.   That scares Ethan more then anything.  The three Spencer clan seem to want to believe that they are destine to fail at love because they can at least count on that comfort of failure.

Maxie is  now Luke's new pawn in his more recent scheme.  The funny part of this whole situation is both Ethan and Lucky knew Luke was going to use Maxie to smuggle jewels.  It's no secret I can't stand Siobhan and today was no exception.  I think Lucky really does need a new woman in his life.  I love Maxie and Lucky together.  Matt is way too boring for Maxie, Siobhan is way too dramatic and annoying for Lucky.  Lucky and Maxie though have undeniable chemistry.  The two of them flirt with each other each time they see each other.  Lucky always has a little sparkle in his eyes when he sees her.  I hope the future we get those two together. 

Dante is still living with the consequences of his actions that put Michael in prison.  Unfortunately Michael suffered the most from Dante's choices at the hands of Carter.  Michael has to live with the horror of what happened to him in prison everyday. Abby is the only one who he has invested his feelings and she is the only one for him.  Today's scenes between Michael and Abby were so amazing.  Chad Duelle and Andrea Bogart are doing an amazing job in this storyline.  Abby is the only person Michael wants to be with and he proved that by telling her today that no matter what she does for a living even if she was a hooker. Abby continued to push Michael away because she doesn't want him to suffer from the consequences of her own life choices from the past and the present.  Abby is afraid Brandon or anyone else from her past will go after Michael and she could not handle that.  She wants to keep him safe from the dangers of her life but what she is overlooking is without her he will turn inside himself again.  He will go back into that internal prison he has created himself and never left.  He needs her and no matter how much she wants to protect him from herself she will soon see she is good for Michael. 

No one struggles more with living with the consequences of their own life then Jason. Finally Jason noticed Sam was going through something and actually asked her what was going on.   Jason saw that Sam was clearly hurting.  I was happy Sam was honest (or at least half honest) about what has been going on with her.  Sam knows the topic of family and children is a very delicate situation with Jason.  She knows she has to chose her words very carefully because there is so much past history between them in this regard.  Jason still carries so much guilt with him about Sam not being able to have a baby, having a child with Liz and hurting Sam so much in the process, not being a present father in Jake's life and then of course being a present figure in Michael's life and seeing how that has turned out. Jason struggles with this pain daily of the consequences of his actions have caused.  I don't think Jason has ever fully forgiven himself for Sam getting shot and not being able to have the one thing she wanted more in this world which was his child.  You can see it in his face that he still carries so much regret for all he has done to Sam through the years.  But yet she still loves him and he realizes that is so amazing.  Sam is everything to Jason and in the past he didn't always treat her that way but this time around he wants her to know how incredibly grateful he is.  He wanted to talk to her about his time in prison and the hell it was but knowing she was on the outside waiting for him, loving him that kept him going  and kept him from being as damaged as Michael.  Sam is Jason's rock and savior and that is just so beautiful.  That is the reason we keep watching through the rest of all the other story lines is that beauty right there.  The amazing love they share is so tangible it is almost like a drug that keeps us craving more. 

Today's scenes for both Mabby and JaSam almost brought me to tears which was a great credit to the writing and editing of today's show.  I keep looking forward to Tuesdays for the weeks that are coming up.  

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