It’s Only My Opinion For The Soap Week Ending December 13

Fighting Words: B&B’s Ridge and Steffy (Thorsten Kaye and Jacqueline MacInnes Wood), GH’s Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) and DAYS’s Kristen (Stacy Haiduk) are no strangers to conflict.

’Tis the season… for conflict!

Where do we start with GH? Alexis v. Ric, Sonny v. Ava, Sasha v. Willow, Drew v. Curtis… let’s go with the feuding Davis girls. Alexis has tried hard to bring her two surviving daughters together, but she is swimming upstream with those hellcats.

Alexis (to Molly): “When I ask you to make peace with your sister, it is not me saying Kristina is right.”

It wouldn’t matter because Kristina always thinks she is right, even in a situation where she confronted Ava near a third-floor window, pitched out of it, and lost the baby she was carrying as a surrogate for Molly and TJ.

Kristina: “You blame me because I went to Ava’s hotel room even though you told me not to.”

Molly: “We need to move on.”

Kristina: “You’re able to move on because you were never Adela’s mother.”

Alexis (horrified): “Molly… ”

Molly: “I’m done. We’re done.”

Wow. Kristina lost a partner, a baby and a sister in the last few months. She has no friends, no job and no remorse, yet she’s still calling the baby “Adela” and being a bitch to Molly.

Molly: “Kristina sees any peace over the baby’s death as a betrayal.”

Bingo.

I’m also enjoying Anna v. Jason, which has notched up a level in awkwardness since they kissed in captivity. Anna called Spinelli to set up a bug in Brennan’s office so they could locate Valentin, and Jason was not having any of her take-charge attitude — especially after Anna roped Carly in.

Jason: “Why would you put Carly in a dangerous situation?”

Anna: “She was married to Sonny! She’s a grown woman with a mind of her own.”

Jason: “What happens when Brennan finds the bug and figures out Carly planted it?”

Not much, as it turned out. His feelings were hurt that Carly didn’t trust him — which was a strange response for a supposedly cagey operative.

Elsewhere, Lulu busting into Nina’s office demanding to know Charlotte’s location was pretty badass for a girl fresh out of a four-year coma. She called Nina a liar and wanted a rundown of everything that had happened between Nina and Valentin. Nina’s response?

Nina: “We’re not girlfriends.”

Cold, but effective. Nina had a similar reaction to her cheating lover, Drew, asking her to smooth the way with Curtis when Drew backstabs him out of the job he promised him and names Michael CEO of Aurora.

Drew: “A happy Michael means a happy Willow.”

Nina: “And you can sweep your betrayal under the rug.”

In the Quartermaine playroom…

Exes provide the most consistent betrayal on soaps, and DAYS’s Kristen did not disappoint this holiday season.

Brady: “I have tickets to The Nutcracker…. what do you mean you already took Rachel? We talked about this!”

Ah, those DiMeras. I couldn’t get involved in the search for Abigail’s body with that cartoon villain Clyde and all those strangers with guns, but I am finding EJ’s efforts to keep Johnny’s infidelity quiet amusing since EJ was the king of cheating. He offered Joy money to leave town, which angered his son.

Johnny: “You don’t get to just fix my problems, it’s none of your business. You’re going to call Joy and retract your offer.”

He didn’t succeed, but it wouldn’t have mattered. Like all soap opera confidences, this one started spilling out when Joy told Alex about her misguided night and Kate intervened to keep the actress in Salem.

EJ (defeated): “You’re going to have to learn to live with this secret.”

Elsewhere, a guy showed up at Doug’s funeral claiming to be his namesake grandson and Julie invited him to move in without so much as a phone call checking him out, much less a DNA test. “Doug” told Julie he’ll always be there for her and here’s me: Who are you? Did Julie not learn her lesson with fake Abigail?

Hope returned to get in Doug’s “grandson’s” face but didn’t stay long enough to figure out he stole Grandma Alice’s necklace.

Hope: “If you hurt Julie, I’ll be back. And not so friendly next time.”

Hurry back!

B&B has been all drama since Carter and Hope cooked up their scheme to steal Forrester Creations from the family with some kind of fakakta LLC. As tired as I am of Steffy going on for years about “the Logans!” this was a brazen move, and the family was right to go nuclear.

Steffy: “Carter never felt slighted before you got in his head. We Forresters opened the door to you Logans and this is how you thank us?”

Hope: “We helped build your family dynasty!”

Steffy: “And now you want a bigger piece of the pie. All you and Brooke do is destroy good men. You lure them in and ruin them. Congratulations, Hope. You’re finally just like your mother.”

Brooke was standing back shrugging, like What did I do? She ran right to Ridge when she learned of the coup and scolded Hope repeatedly for her part in encouraging Carter to turn against his best friend and employer. Keep the vitriol where it belongs on Carter.

Eric: “I should have fired you when you went after my wife [Quinn]. But I forgave you because we loved and respected you. And this is how you repay me? With betrayal?”

Carter: “I’m not kicking you out.”

Eric: “I founded this company! It’s in my DNA. It’s in their DNA, too [points at Ridge and Steffy].”

Actually, it’s not. Ridge’s bio dad is Massimo Marone, which means neither Ridge nor Steffy are blood Forresters. But Eric’s late wife, Stephanie, was there at the beginning and she did birth Ridge so it’s quasi-true. Those scenes were so un-Forresterlike with them yelling in the halls and oozing sarcasm.

Carter: “You can still design.”

Ridge: “Oh I can? Thank you!”

Eric: “What about me? Do I get to do anything?”

Carter: “You are the founder. That will never change.”

Ridge: “I’m not going along.”

Carter: “You have no choice.”

Ridge stormed out and ran into Hope in the hallway.

Ridge: “You happy the way you manipulated Carter? You’re a nasty little bitch.”

Language! There will be no holiday party at Forrester Creations this year; not even Pam’s lemon bars. And the next feud looks like Ridge v. Brooke…

Y&R’s another show with conflict all over the place: Nick v. Adam, Summer v. Claire, Ashley v. Diane, Phyllis v. Sharon, and now Phyllis v. Michael for defending Sharon with the “my meds were tampered with” argument.

Phyllis: “This new defense is disgusting. Our friendship’s over!”

Victor always has multiple feuds going; right now, they’re with Billy, Diane, Kyle (“Has mommy handed you the keys to the Jabot offices?”), and of course his decades-long enemy, Jack.

Nikki: “I miss peace between our families.”

Jack: “Talk to your husband.”

Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.

Hey. It’s only my opinion.