It’s Only My Opinion For The Soap Week Ending April 4

Here Comes Trouble: B&B’s Liam (Scott Clifton) and GH’s Kristina (Kate Mansi, with Jonathan Jackson as Lucky) drove big drama this week.

Unintended consequences are a great way for a show to surprisingly zig when we thought they would zag.

There was GH’s Kristina cutting the brakes on Ava’s car — except the car turned out to be Ric’s and he and Elizabeth had to be cut out of it with the jaws of life after it crashed. Kristina later “happened” upon the crash site, as did Lucky.

Kristina: “It was supposed to be Ava!”

Lucky: “What do you mean?”

Kristina babbled on about how she had cut the brake line and Lucky was like run! She turned up behind the bar at Charlie’s, claiming to have been in the back when her half-sister Molly — the Assistant DA in charge of prosecuting crimes and daughter of the injured Ric — asked where she’d been. Just then, Mac approached to thank Molly for handling Cody’s most recent kerfuffle with the law.

Molly: “It was just a little mistaken grand theft auto. It’s not like he tried to murder someone.”

Ha ha! Oh wait, that’s not funny. Kristina tried to murder Ava and put two innocent people in the hospital (instead of working out her anger in therapy) and that counts as a serious unintended consequence. I wonder if the growing hatred of Kristina is intended?

Carly dating dangerous WSB agent Brennan resulted in Jason withholding the news that she’s going to be a grandmother which she definitely did not intend.

Jason: “I cannot trust Carly with this, she hasn’t been making the best choices lately.”

Diane: “Carly hasn’t made good choices for decades. What’s different this time?”

Jason: “When Carly was with Sonny, I could protect her. But the WSB…”

Carly always gets her way, so it will be fun to watch her interact with Sasha and “Jason’s” baby without knowing it’s her own grandchild (via Michael). Kind of like watching Tracy and Ned in scenes with Gio not knowing he’s Brook Lynn’s son. Chasing Lois out of Port Charles back in the 1990s resulted in Lois keeping that secret which will be another “reap what you sow” story. That reveal is going to be epic.

Much like the moment when B&B’s Bill Spencer learns that the murderer he got released from prison is throwing herself at his son, Will. First, Bill had to face Liam, who was incredulous at his father’s actions.

Liam: “Why?”

Bill: “Luna wasn’t safe in prison.”

Liam: “Now none of us are safe out here. Do you remember Steffy? Your grandchild’s mother? You unleashed a maniac on all of us.”

Bill: “Accept it. You work for me, you will do what you’re told.”

Liam: “I quit.”

Well, that took a turn, huh, Bill? Zig! Of course, the even bigger zigzag was yet to come when Liam collapsed — and by the end of Friday’s episode, he was flatlining in the hospital!

Not only has Luna set her sights on Will, she’s enlisted her psycho grandmother, Sheila, to help her. It was beyond bizarre that the first serious conversation they had after Sheila found out Luna was her granddaughter was about how Luna could get Will to sleep with her. No “tell me about yourself” interactions, no discussion of how Finn and Li reacted to the news that Finn had fathered the local murderer, not even the fun of grandmother and granddaughter comparing notes on the crimes neither will ever pay for. It was just this:

Sheila: “You mentioned something about a boy, Will Spencer?”

Luna: “I made it very clear exactly how I feel about him. He needs more [than Electra]. He needs a real woman.”

Sheila: “Someone like my beautiful, sexy granddaughter?”

Ew! Even grosser was how Luna made her intentions clear to Will. She walked right up to him in the middle of busy Il Giardino and said, “I know how much you want it.” The first priority for a pardoned felon with no job, no home, and no money was to proposition the son of the only person in town willing to help her? The more farfetched this story gets, the harder it is to invest… but I do look forward to Bill’s face when he, too, has to reap what he has sown.

Steffy: “Grandmother and granddaughter: Two vile, soulless murderers.”

That’s better.

Y&R’s Victor has been so nasty lately… I wonder if Nikki might turn to Jack for more than friendship? Their interactions are so light and fun compared to Victor’s gruff treatment of his wife, who he always keeps in the dark. I especially enjoyed when Kyle and Claire texted that they couldn’t come to work because they had eaten “bad clams.” Their bosses — aka his dad and her grandma — happened to be having lunch together at the time.

Jack: “Young love.”

Nikki: “Divine.”

Jack: “Isn’t it?”

It was when Jack and Nikki were young and in love! Jack later promised Nikki that he would always be honest with her because they are “the oldest and dearest of friends.” There could be no greater retribution for Victor’s behavior than his wife cozying up to his worst enemy. Zig!

Bill’s affair with his daughter’s best friend on BTG resulted in total alienation from the Dupree family (which has an iron grip on Fairmont Crest). His daughter, Naomi, is now suing him on behalf of three employees who were sexually harassed at Bill’s law firm and she’s vowing to make her father pay.

Bill: “My reputation for being untouchable is earned.”

So is the disgust his daughters feel for him, so Bill turned to his ex-wife Dani for consolation.

Bill (looking at photos): “These were all taken before my babies hated me.”

Dani: “They don’t hate you. They are gravely disappointed in you.”

Indeed, marrying Hayley after his affair with her broke up the girls’ family may have soothed Bill’s midlife crisis, but he lost his kids over it. Zig!

The worst unintended consequences are when backstage events impact on-screen action. We’re used to actresses hiding pregnancies when their characters aren’t pregnant, so just dig out those big purses and move on. Bad behavior from an actor is always a bummer because it leaves them sidelined (or fired) and the action has to take an abrupt turn from the show’s planned storyline. But nothing is worse than a beloved A-lister getting sick and the show treading water with the desperate hope they will recover… and then they don’t.

That’s the story we’re watching right now with GH’s Monica, who was “upstairs” for two years before Leslie Charleson’s sad death. Tracy has done yeoman work relaying Monica’s legal triumphs (take that, Drew!) and everyone in the Q house has kept Monica alive by talking about her, bringing her tea, etc. This week’s dedication to the Dr. Monica Quartermaine Cardiac Care Center was touching and deserved, but it was empty without its honoree — and we all know what’s coming (sniff!).

The same goes for this months-long hunt for John Black on DAYS. When Kristen says John will “outlive them all” it’s so bittersweet because we know he won’t; his beloved portrayer, Drake Hogestyn, is gone. The show was smart to team Marlena with Patch and have them interact with Shane, Andrew, Paul, the villainous Orpheus, a random nuclear scientist, and whoever’s next as we follow the clues to John’s whereabouts to Estonia. The truth is that DAYS would never have written John out in this anti-climactic way if they hadn’t been treading water hoping Drake would recover.

Marlena keeps the family apprised by calling home from Estonia and reporting that John is in trouble.

Brady (to Belle): “Dad may have been abducted. We’re going to have to have faith.”

If only that was enough (again, sniff!).

Wisely, DAYS intercut the action surrounding John’s disappearance with the “Who Shot EJ?” mystery, set up perfectly since he’s the most hated man in Salem. There can be no greater zig than EJ bragging that he’s beaten everybody and “won” right before he might lose his life.

EJ (to Stefano’s portrait): “You were always one step ahead, and so am I.”

Bang!

Hey. It’s only my opinion.