Happiest of Holidays, Everyone

Happiest of Holidays to everyone from me and my family!

We celebrate Christmas here in Capville so on behalf of all of us, we wish that you enjoy this Christmas Weekend and also enjoy whatever celebration you may have of your own. :-)

(Best Friend is a Pagan with a deep abiding interest in Celtic worship and adheres to Bhuddist theory. Best Friend's husband is Catholic. Between the three of us, we're all over the map, religiously speaking.)

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GH today and yesterday consisted mainly of Christmas staples and tradition.

Go figure.

I'm guessing that the regular writers have had the week off for the holidays and the Emergency Backup Team is in the captain's seat.

'Cause the storylines have been great, tradition has been given a nod and the actors who've been around the show since it was a 1/2 hour black and white serial were brought out and paraded.

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Tradition. Alan Quartermaine read the Christmas Story at the hospital for the little kiddies. Just so adorable. (But would it be so hard to read the King James Version? California-Lite is nasty.)

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Jax got drunk and stumbled onto Courtney's doorsash. She puts him up for the night. She also gets a call from Nikolas who is snowed in somewhere in Europe. It's all made clear. She is over Jax and gently let's him down and is madly in love with Nikolas.

The baby moves.

Awwwwwwwwww.

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"Um"ily convinced Dr. Kim to let Carly out of RoseLawn for Christmas.

Awwwwwwwwwww.

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Jason and Sam get to spend Christmas Eve night on the hospital roof being cute. But not before Jason goes to his Mother and Father during the kiddie party in the lobby of the 4th Floor Nurse's Station and tells them he loves them. (In his own hitman sorta way.)

Awwwwwwwwwwww.

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Lulu deigned to wear the Elf Costume and showed up to give away toys.

Yesterday, she refused but then overheard her father, Luke, telling Skye that the first time he saw Laura, she was in an Elf Costume some 20 years ago giving out gifts to the kiddies.

Lulu gets a little weepy and gives in.

Awwwwwwww.

(That actress is amazing. I lurve her.)

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Speaking of amazing! Who the Hell is playing Curly Boo? (Alexis and Sonny's daughter.) She's fantastic! I'm absolutely gobsmacked.

Honestly, this child has more personality in her eyes and mouth than my dear Steve Burton has portrayed in years.

Seriously, I love me some Jason but he's being unintentionally upstaged by a 5 year old.

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And, as a segue into more expressive and incredible acting, the Drake Men are stealing the show. Rick Springfield is stunning as a has-been washed-up alcoholic neurosurgeon and the young man playing his (completely credible looking) son, Dr. Buttmunch, is quite probably the best actor they've ever hired.

His face is expressive and he lets it be so.

To wit: Noah Drake played the hospital Santa today. He was guzzling it down in the elevator and his son, Patrick, was the first to realize his father was soused.

He escorted him out and followed him to the lobby of the MetroCourt Hotel.

With very, very little dialogue the two of them got across 8,000,000 emotions and even showed that there were feelings left unexplained.

Patrick was devastated that his father was drunk. But he wasn't surprised. But he was remembering why Christmas is hard on Noah. But, it wasn't ~quite~ explained why. Then, with resignation in his eyes, he took the tumbler of scotch from his father's hand, put it on the table and left the room.

Noah, embarrassed that his son saw him this way, also showed gratitude that his son was willing to remove him before he did something stupid. He looked up with guilt as he was continuing to drink in the hotel lobby. He relinquished the glass to his son and got up as he watched him leave the room.

All of this with a minimum of dialogue.

It was worthy of an episode of House.