#it should not feel like trina is the only one really cares about spencer and yet...

[bklynmusicnerd]

Trina really does get Spencer because he clearly needed that validation from her that she was proud of him. Spencer is almost too motivated by his desire for validation (Neglectful Nik's fault) and that whole Jerry Springer household kinda switched up on him and went from praising him for his demon spawn obsession to abruptly telling him to step aside.

Trina, even after that bullshit ultimatum, is the only one really taking his feelings into consideration. I stand by my belief that there was nothing heartwarming about this arc. It was always gross, and nothing about Spencer suggested that he was mentally strong enough to handle the confusion of temporarily raising his (alleged) baby brother that exists as a symbol of his destroyed relationship with his father.

Spencer is related to half the town, and yet there is no protective instinct from Spencer's family when it comes to him these days, and it makes Trina's role in his life that much more important.

[anyathefandom]

Characters that need frontline sls:

Kristina: Give this a girl sl that doesn't have anything to do with being spiteful towards her family. Sick of seeing that.

Lucas: We deserved to see lucas after the wiley is Michael's son revelation. We deserved to see him deal with the fact his husband is in jail and his son is dead and that wiley isn't his.

Spencer: He should be mixing it up with the teen scene and giving us all his angst. I mean he is a cassadine. He should be telling nik to fuck off left and right and let britt take him in when he can't deal with ava/nik.

Characters that should've had different sls:

Sasha: Technically she does have one and I have no problems with it being about her descent into becoming an addict but I still believe it shouldn't 100% been about michael. She should be having a melt down over everything that has gone wrong since she got to PC.

Alexis: Again technically she has one but they've been dragging her through so much crap lately and the only thing I like about it is that she's being very raw about her feelings with everyone.

Willow: Not really a full sl more like showing her realizing she hasn't fully grieved her own son and her going to therapy for it instead of replacing him in a way with wiley

Michael: He has one but I want something different for him. He should've had more scenes with lucas after the revelation wiley was his son. I would've liked if michael maybe even asked lucas to keep custody of wiley since the court seemed like they wouldn't even give michael nor nelle wiley since willow married michael to get him a better chance in the first place or he could've at least tried to keep checking in on lucas because if the roles were reversed lucas would do the same. Plus michael is suppose to be this compassionate person so it would've made sense to do this but the writers are bad at writing so not surprising.

Elizabeth: Any kind of sl that has nothing to do with franco and if we had to see it being with franco at least have her getting back into art and while their going through their money troubles she becomes a popular artist making franco jealous but instead of liz patting his head and kissing his boo boo she tells him to suck it up and let her shine. Enjoy the money shes making and shut up.

Dev: I don't care for this stalker bs the writers are pulling but I don't want him to go back to being boring. They should've elaborated on his backstory instead of his fixation on joss. I wanted to know more about how he ended up on the streets and what happened with his family.

Trina x cam: It should've only been about them. Joss wasn't necessary.

Brando: brolly could've been cut. They should've just done him and sam having a ons because at that point she deserved it due to frustration her and jason not being able to see each other and then there could've been drama from that and while that's going on then jason bike could've been sabotaged and sam would have an actual good reason to be hostile with him and then everything that has already commenced on gh can stay canon except their would be more tension between jason and brando and sam would be in the mix of things. 💁

I might add more if I think about it...

[bklynmusicnerd]

I did watch the episode, but tbh an entire week of sociopathic mooch is a special type of torture so I'm not paying attention as much as I usually do, just a couple of thoughts.

I'm glad the shifts in Nik that I was picking up on were legit and they had Nik express remorse to Spencer about how much he failed him as a father*. Nik failing Spencer the way he did was tragic and it felt like Spencer was the only one processing that tragedy. I'm glad the writers and AH in his performance remembered who Nik is at his essence. Nik tries. He cares. He feels it when he disappoints the people he loves.

That emotional core should always be embedded in Nik and I saw glimpses of the Nik I know in those scenes with Spencer. I also love how protective they're writing Nik and Spencer in regards to each other. Spencer wants Nik to stay and fight the charges. Nik refuses to let Spencer take the blame for being preyed upon and is the first one to really acknowledge Spencer as a victim of sociopathic mooch and her serial killer father.

It was damn near a perfect full circle moment to the chapel scenes, and I'm glad AH and NAC got to play a type of closure to those scenes. I still think it's embarrassing how hard Nik and Spencer are trying to convince themselves that demon spawn is a Cassadine (sure 🥴), but Spencer aiding Nik in bonding with demon spawn was sweet and another glaring sign that he is finally over his domestic nonsense.

All in all, so much of Spencer's arc got derailed by the sociopathic mooch agenda and it was nice to see Spencer's original arc, a boy desperate to reconnect with his father, brought back to the forefront for him. I think at bare minimum, it's important for Spencer's growth that he let's go of his Nik pain and this was a big step in that direction.

That was the resentment that made him so easy for sociopathic mooch to manipulate and weaponize. Her having any residual power over him was tied to the Nik of it all. By reconciling some of those issues instead of doubling down on them, Spencer is freeing himself of all of that, which is what Trina has been trying to convince him to do for a while.