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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 294908" data-attributes="member: 27">Jax pointed out to Carly that if he had told her Sonny was alive and tending bar in Nixon Falls, she would have accused him of making up crazy stories to stop her from marrying Jason.  Even she had to admit that would have been her reaction.  But that didn't stop her from continuing her diatribe, did it?  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> How dare he introduce logic into her ranting and raving!!From what I read, the one-episode recast of Nikolas was because Marcus Coloma had a family emergency that took him away from the studio for several hours (not even a whole day of shooting).  I'm frankly amazed they found a suitable recast so quickly.  The scenes had been written, blocked, and rehearsed, and they don't just shut down the whole operation because one actor (of the numerous actors involved in those scenes) had to leave briefly.  if his scenes had been less vital, involving fewer actors they could possibly have shot around his absence, but it just wasn't possible given all that was going on. The way they were able to limit the recast's scenes to one episode (it was just that one, right?  I saw Coloma back on Thursday) says they didn't even want to pay the guy for more than one episode.I don't think it will ultimately matter that Maxie (of all people) was the one who blabbed about Nina's role in the Nixon Falls Follies, since someone was going to clue her in eventually.  What I'm seeing is an effort to tear down the Corinthos marriage in the style of "death by a thousand cuts".  Both Carly and Sonny are carrying around secrets about their feelings (Sonny is being suspiciously and uncharacteristically easy on Nina, while Carly is glossing over her feelings about Jason quite obviously), and every time one of them learns something about the other, it comes from an outsider rather than their spouse.  As Sonny realizes his wife has feelings for his lackey that she is hiding, Carly might realize that this Mike-ified Sonny (a softer touch, maybe less of a hothead) is not the man she married (so many times).  I mean, he's not even putting the Kiwi Shoe Polish on his hair any more, which to me is an intentional, visible choice of the producers to remind the viewer that he's a "changed man".  Even if they don't try to do a mirror-image romance thing with Sonny/Nina and Carly/Jason, they can use what isn't said between them to hack away at their marriage.  Which....ehh, we see too much of them already.Phyllis is a wild card they have yet to deal into the game, since she can attest to what really went on in NF without having her motives or ability to tell the truth questioned by Carly in that "ladylike, demure, and level-headed" fashion of hers.  Nina was not "hiding Sonny from everyone for nine months" as Carly keeps screeching to anyone who will listen (and even those who won't).  "Mike" had been in NF for months before Nina stumbled upon him by chance.  Both Phyllis and Lenny kept urging "Mike" to find out who he was, and Mike flat-out refused long before Nina entered the mix.  Will Carly try to scream at and steam-roll Phyllis over not forcing "Mike" to look into his past?  She could try....but man, would that blow up in her face.  Sonny would blow his stack and defend Phyllis against Carly's bullying and bellowing, and I think Miss Phyllis might dish it right back at her and tell her she needs to take a few seats.  Carly would see Sonny taking Phyllis's side against her and go running to Jason for yet another of their subtext-laden scenes of "friendly advice" that may or may not end up submerged in sexual tension.Speaking of good ol' Phyllis, I have yet to hear whether the show plans to have Phyllis move to Port Charles, though rumor has it she might be Stella's sister.  In the Show In My Head, she moves to PC to run Charlie's (Sonny and/or Nina buys it for her).  Willow's mother Harmony is released from her half-way house job at the prison and tries to get hired at Charlie's, but suddenly decides against it when she sees Phyllis, and Phyllis feels she's met Harmony before.  Turns out Harmony (using another name back then) met Phyllis years ago when Harmony and comatose Nina were in the same hospital giving birth.  Harmony switched her unwanted baby with Nina's, hoping to scam some money out of the Reeves family, but when Madeline Reeves was so quick to adopt out the baby in secret, Harmony realized Madeline did not want ANY baby around...so Harmony kept the baby, named her Willow and told the world she was Willow's real mother.  When I heard that the actress who plays Harmony has been put on contract, I assumed they planned to do more with her---and this would be great, since making Nelle into Nina's (now-dead) daughter was not very good timing.</blockquote>

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