January 23, 2006

The chickens are coming home to roost and honestly, I think the AMC Gods were benevolent to us for not pretending we are stupid for making the educated guesses we made.  That is one of the things I love about AMC.  They do not condescend to the viewers for the most part.  GH in particular will often show us the specific direction a story is going, leaving us breadcrumbs that are so obvious we practically fall over top of them, then pull the rug out from under us at the last minute by introducing previously unknown elements that change everything.  It's as though they taunt us and make fun of us, falling down laughing and slapping each other on the back when we think we've got something figured out.  AMC works with us as a cooperative partner and GH treats us as the antagonist that they have to "best."  The problem is not only that we feel misled, but the story also seems to suffer.  AMC has been building to a few very strong culminations over the past several MONTHS actually and for me, other than a few speculative "what if's," spoilers indicate that they are leading exactly where I thought they would and that the results are being created in a very satisfying way.

Let's evaluate a few of those pots that are just starting to come to a rolling boil:

Erica and Greg Madden

Between what we have seen in recent episodes and what is revealed in this week's spoilers for AMC, we now know that Greg Madden was actually the doctor who performed the abortion on Erica all those years before.  This means that rather than ending her pregnancy, he simply transplanted it.  Erica's little embryo went directly into the baby catcher of Missus Madden and grew up to be Josh Madden, which is why Greg was freaking out when he thought Josh was sweet on Kendall. 

Man, Erica is going to be PISSED.

It's also obvious that Josh also knows about this and is intent on destroying Erica for wanting to destroy him all those years ago.  If she thought Kendall was angry for giving her away, she's ain't seen nothing yet!  Now she has a baby boy who is not happy that Erica was not only unwilling to give him a life, but was unwilling to GIVE him life.  This is going to be heated, I can promise you that.  After all these months of lazy story-telling, we are going to finally see a purpose for Greg and Josh in Pine Valley. 

Zach and Kendall

It is standard AMC fare that as soon as Kendall gives her heart, it's going to be broken.  Personally, I think Zach and Kendall will survive this one, but it's going to be quite a hurdle!  So Ryan finds out that Zach has a copy of the Pine Valley Power Grid and realizes that he must have been behind the power outage the night that Kendall was artificially inseminated.  Being the egocentric imbecile that he is, my guess is that Ryan is going to immediately think it's about him and figure Zach just didn't want Kendall to be pregnant with Ryan's baby, hoping to kill all the little Ryan spermcicles.  My guess is that he found out that Josh is really Erica's child and blackmailed Dr Madden into inseminating Kendall with his own swimmers and the baby she is carrying is really Zach's.  So now Ryan is going to confront Kendall about Zach's misdeeds, but having his typical Ryan shitty timing, he's going to do it while Zach is in the hospital after Erica, who has been drugged by Josh with Amanda's medication, hallucinates that Zach is actually Michael Cambias (fortunately, this is the momentary return of whatshisname who played Michael Cambias, so we aren't looking at long time exposure) and stabs him a good one.

Kendall refuses to believe Ryan, but of course, the truth is going to come out and Kendall will freak out and kick Zach to the curb and then take him back in a really heated, lovely scene.  Once again, the sperm that Ryan left at the club do not make it into the baby package they were meant to see.  Memories of Colby and Liza...

Jamie, JR, Babe, Amanda

= pee break for me!  Did we see it coming or what?  Now Babe is getting all dewy-eyed over JR's profession of love and thinks she might want to be with him after all, until she sees the prenup! 

I was laughing my butt off at the spoiler that Julia will offer to adopt Ryan and Kendall's baby.  Yeah, OK, give the crazy woman a baby.  That works.  She's trolling clubs for me, wearing her screw me clothes, just slew a dragon and tells anyone who will listen for more than 3 minutes about how horrible her life was in the witness protection program.  She sounds like model parent material to me.  More like the woman I don't want to sit next to me on a flight.

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