General Hospital - June 1 to 12, 2018 Episode Reflections

I am going to be honest that I haven't watched every single scene at times during the month of June, but it's been actually really good content.

Take June 1. I didn't get to see the episode due to prior commitments, but I watched the highlights that you need to know (thanks @JMQFF).

With that said, this has been MUCH DELAYED so here we attempt to make some sense........

#JaSam is slowly making some headway to having a relationship together, and that's always great news, eh?

I wasn't surprised to see Sam go to her mom to speak of divorce, and separating herself from Aurora. We heard about how she hated desk work, only stayed to investigate Peter, and wanted to get back to her own thing.

But of course, Alexis had to advice her on other things due to the fact that Jason gifted her the company, and possibly wanting his assets back. Has she not learned anything about the man that is Jason Morgan? As Sam said, money doesn't matter. And Diane can try and do as she may but Jason would say no up and down. Getting Sam free from Aurora is beneficial for her so he'll back no matter what.

So how about dropping that resignation letter off? We saw her do that - but where has been the reaction from Drew? I was all set for his droopy sadness out of that.

In the midst of that, nice job Sam in calling out her mother on Valentine. That was beautiful in her saying. "You have a lot of enemies in this town, but mess with my mom and I'll be your worst." Maybe her first PI case could be investigating the Cassadine history. That said, I wasn't surprised that Alexis ended up opening the envelope - but that's a separate topic.

 "Keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times." Can we please get off the Nelle rollercoaster?

#Jarly will always make my heart explode, no matter what because their friendship is second to none.

I mean, the fact of the matter is Jason will do whatever it takes for her, and that goes both ways. And while he did not want her to plea insanity, she respected him him to hear that, and also respected her own values to tell him that she wanted to stick with this and let her be, and help her. He accepted that. The fact that Diane was so worried going into his testimony had me a little hell bent.

But I get it because while he'll stand by Carly and do whatever it takes, he will not lie or go against his own code to do so and that's making it seem as though she's insane. #Jason's version of backing Carly is finding her innocence, not letting her take the fall for something she will regret down the road and didn't want to do initially by herself - but I guess that's a moot point now. We'll get there, trust me.

Now rather than this tension on decisions, can we get back to Jason and Diane sharing awesome scenes together, say Valentine's Day surprise?

Back on track, I will say at times, this appeared like the perfect idea. Bobby's testimony is right on point as yes, Nelle is a paracite. But marking a note on the growing tension would work perfectly as it reasons as to why Carly would explode on her. Then Carly's lashout against the Jocelyn testimony and Nelle could be used to the advantage of the insanity plea.

I laughed when it was supposed to surprise the court that Carly was livid about #melle being together? The court shouldn't be surprised given Nelle's admission of her own mistakes. That said, Nelle's antics on the stand drove me insane. I loved Sonny's face when Dawson said Nelle's "courage," as well as #carson's reaction to Nelle's little fake pain matched mine. Like you've already dug enough hole, bitch.

I got a little nervous when the detective repeated Carly's words in saying, "She wanted Nelle's head on a silver platter." I almost wanted to have them switch to Jason's plan right there. I even shouted for a switch when Jason offered her a way out by saying, "You could stop this right now."

However, I stuck with it. I mean, Diane didn't do too bad in playing her cards for what she wanted. Calling Sonny to stand was easy as he actually believed that Carly was crazy until Jason made him see otherwise somewhat. The testimonies from Griffin and Collins were good, and Diane was good in getting what she needed from Jason without having him answer the question or thought he told her'd never answer.

Oh, and Jason was equally as good. He was spot on in telling Dason that he can't can't state Carly's state of mine in that situation. He wasn't there to judge or see the events.

By the way, why wasn't Jason sitting in on court during the first day? Irresponsible writing IMO. That said, I'm glad that they brought him in for the next day as he was the perfect audience for Chase. His reactions pretty much match the fan base right now.

So Diane got what she wanted - guilty by insanity. Except, like expected, there was a snag in the plan with Carly being sent to ferncliff, rather than shadybrook.  So much for your great plan, huh Diane?

"No games. Don't make it worse. Promise me." "I promise you, and I'll be waiting for you to come get me." The only person that promise could be meant to and fully set to happen. I mean, I laughed when Sonny added, "I will take care of Nelle." You mean you're done trying to lock Carly up and say she's losing her mind now you succeeded that you're going to do the right thing?

"we just need to wait." "I can't wait." This is why Carly always turns to jason instead of sonny. And Jason of course meets up with Sam to talk about court and break it down - just like old times. Sam's first case could be investigating Nelle.

It was nice to see Sam reach out to Jason, offer the beer and someone to talk to, rather than say the usual Jason seeking her out.

But really, let's take a moment to appreciate fate before we go further. Fate is supposed to be bringing our lovely couple together per the lovely writers in magazines. Well thank you for fate. Jason went there to left off steam, Sam was supposed to meet Curtis and plans got cancelled.

Now getting into the juicy details, I loved her little compliments for him on the appearance.

"Are you sure you're okay with Ashford before McCall?" "It's alphabetical, just like Carrinthos and Morgan." They're alike in so many ways. She even brought that up to Curtis herself.

Really, this scene was everything as hearing Jason break down the details of Carly's first breakdown, it makes you understand why he wanted to handle things the way he did and keep her out of ferncliff. His words, "She thought I was going to leave her in prison. She convinced herself that I was going to start a family with Michael and Robin," hit a close spot. There's the reason for determined to do whatever he can for her, willing to not sit back & wait like everyone else, right previous wrongs.

It's also big in hearing his regret by saying, "Nelle was the obvious suspect, and I missed it. Now Carly is paying for my mistake." Jason hates letting his best friend down. He hates not being there for friends. And when he lets them down, he's loyal and does whatever it takes to make right.

"you know what you have to do." "The problem is I don't know how much time I have to do it." I say they team up. It'd be a great first case for Sam's new PI firm. But instead of letting Sam work with Jason on Carly/Nelle, she's instead stuck with Curtis set to find Peter. I call bull on that as why would she care about Peter when he's one of the factors to why her life was blown apart?

"She can handle herself." "Maybe she doesn't need to. You gave me an idea." Do I wanna know?

That said, before we move forward with more on this, take me back to June 4. Carly's stunt in the freak-out to help her case in court, followed by the thank you and smile for Nelle - perfection. Who is going to get the last laugh? Take one simple guess and be right, or be gone my child.

Now moving forward to a possible solution, shall we? It's nice to see Michael finally start to come around, beginning with the scenes that he shared with Jason. The fact that he repeated "my family" and they broke ground together was nice to see in homage to their history.

I'm also enjoying seeing Michael and Spinelli work together and Michael, I hope you stick to your word in saying, "I created this mess and I will do whatever to get my mom out of it" because you're right. You trusted the witch when we all said to run.

Unfortunately, his work has been sloppy. I mean, he should've offered her a drink with a sleeping pill before snagging the laptop. Now decent cover for the phone call - but why did you go grab it again as soon as she left the room? You had to know Nelle would walk back into the room.

That said, I'm glad Michael got Spinelli to explain "raspberry pie" in clean English. But once again, here comes Nelle seeing it. So Michael, what's your excuse for "raspberry pie." I hope you can think fast on your feet like Uncle Jason.

Now if Michael keeps failing, let's just all turn to Chase, huh? He made quite the debut with Nelle there.

It's nice to see this twist in the fact that Nelle got away with murder due to playing Chase. Now if he can play her this time, I'd be all for loving this new detective. I mean, you can tell the threat is there in her saying, "If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were stalking me Chase." Really, I hope he has been. Squeaky clean cops are no fun.

I was kind of sad to see Drew give up doing the procedure. I mean, it was a great way to rid of him from the surface. That said, as long as he gets closer with Kim, I'm willing to keep him around as #krew is fun to watch.

I like how Kim said she was so heartbroken and worried about Julian with Alexis. Meanwhile, go back through all the scenes that took place during that time. She spent every waking moment with Drew. Like Oscar said, "I just think there's someone out there who could make her a lot happier."

Oh, and did everybody hear the great news? He's moved into the Quartermaine Mansion! Now it's sad that Drew continues to live off of other people but - wait for it - he's outta the penthouse. Sam got to keep the penthouse. Let's get reunited.

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If Anna continues along this trek with Peter, she's going to get hurt in the end. We all know how he acts. That said, the other side with Anna is glad that her and Finn are back on the right track, beginning with Finn offering her company on June 4.

Well, except until recent that is as there was so much tension with Finn and Anna that it surprised me on June 12. Finn should just turn around and kiss her lips again like he did the last time.

"What am I doing?" That's what I wanna know, Finn. You'd think after the kiss you guys would be in bed together right now.

Now that flirting conversation with #fanna is where we should be rather than awkward, followed by the perfect  smiles at the door. #fanna #GH

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Speaking of Peter, I was surprised to see Nina have the first kidnapped shared scene with him that they showed. But of course, we knew it was Dr. Oberect that actually did it based on the trail of events that they created before his kidnapping.

Really, though, it's great justice seeing him tied up so I have had no objections to everything so far.  I especially loved her moment with the ax. Or how about the finger? Why did Nina walk into the room? I wanted to see Heinreck lose a finger.

I have one request - can we have evil Dr. Oberect everyday of the week please? I love her evilness. Heinreck's situation is perfect payback. My response to Nina saying, "I want justice, not vengeance" is that vengeance is more fun. Keep the Peter torture coming. Five years worth sounds good for me.

Clearly, he hasn't learned anything yet as he should've known getting Dr. Oberect more angry with an Anna mention was not a good strategy. Just look at his poor wrists now, and his hand. 10 points for the baseball bat. I also smiled in how innocently she said, "He was trying to escape. I stopped him."

And Peter, your pea of "I don't deserve this" is full of shit. You're the reason Nathan is dead. You held a man captive for five years using horse tranquilizers. You deceived everybody in town for months. The evidence says otherwise.

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For the record, I know they got some other girl to fill in for Maxie for a single scene, but they never should have. Kristen Storms can't be topped so let's just be glad that they didn't last any longer, okay? That said, I was surprised that she headed home without James. Being me, I would've stayed there to simply watch my son.

For the record, I'd be all for Spinelli and Maxie getting back together. I've said that since they broke up. Their relationship was fun times.

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If inviting the family is bad idea for Elizabeth ahead of the wedding, I say bring everybody outta the woodworks. I dare Franco to send Liz's family invites even if she keeps denying it. Just for some good drama. Maybe then I'll pay attention to this awful couple.

But wait....

So why didn't Franco care about Liz's family when he was set to marry the night of the earthquake? Like this may be an interesting arc for them - that I could care less about - but the timing is all screwed up.

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By the way, there's no shortage of storylines. Among everything, they keep dropping about one hint every two weeks regarding the missing body in Coughton. Take June 4 with Mike saying, "Like the time I moved the body from croughton. Like I moved it closer to home."  Be interested in seeing the significance of this as we head down the road.

Also.....

• So HR ignores the claims against Dr. Bensch. Great way to encourage people to do the right thing about sexual harassment
• Julian is going to go mess this up for Brad and Lucas.