Emmy Worthy!

Yesterday and today's episodes have been emmy worthy performances by Chad Duell, Andrea Bogart, Laura Wright and Steve Burton.  Today's show was so powerful I had to write about it.  Finally Jason and Michael talked about not only what happened to him but Michael finally explained to Jason he can't live his life for him.  Jason, naturally, as Michael's father figure has always wanted to protect Michael from everything.  That's the natural way for a parent.  However, much like all of us as parents, we have to eventually accept our child is grown and is now living their own life.  We have to let go of them and let them fly or fall.  That is the hardest part as a parent and Jason realized today he has never let Michael live his own life but he has to now.  I felt extremely sorry for both Jason and Carly today.  The child they have tired so hard to protect was sexually assaulted and they can't fix him.  Carly is really having a horrible night.  First, she gets blindsided by Brenda telling her Jax went to London for Brenda.  Then to fight with Jax and wants to quit on their marriage.  She rushes to Jason's for support only to find out the horrific details of Michael's time in Pentonville.  As a mother she could not be having a much harder day. I was proud of Carly because she didn't fly off the handle.  She reminded her son he is strong enough to handle anything.  She was strong enough to keep her cool instead of explode irrationally which we know she can do from time to time.  She at least kept it together in front of Micahel which was good. 

I almost felt sorry for Brenda briefly too today as she talked about her lost child.  I almost liked her for a brief fleeting moment. I think Suzanne has Brenda's child.   I am fairly certain she is working for the Balkan.  I really think she is the dead dude's mother.  They really are leaving this whole story rather open ended right now.  We don't know how pregnant Brenda was when she went to Africa.  If she were less then 6 months the baby's chance of survival (especially in a country without modern medicine practices) are very low.  If she were in her 3rd trimester what the hell was she thinking traveling to Africa that close to her due date?  Also another detail is what happened to the baby's body if she was fairly far along and the baby died? All these details are very much needed before we can fully determine what really happened in Africa.  Just when I began to start listening to Brenda and somewhat caring about the story Brenda had to go be Brenda again and I went back to rooting for the Balkan.  Brenda really is clueless and mean.  I was angry she said those mean things to Jax about Carly.  Jax really is blind and should realize he should not waist anymore time or air on Botox.  Brenda has brought nothing but pain and heart ache for Jax, Carly, Lulu and Dante.  She has caused major stress for other relationships all around Port Charles.  I really do wish the Balkan would just kidnap her and take her out once and for all.

Call the comment lines about how amazing Chad, Steve and Laura were today!