Before we kick things off, I wanted to make mention of several notable things. First off, Kin Shriner (ex-Scotty), who has joined the cast of the online soap "Gotham," and made his debut on Monday, January 18. "Gotham" creator Martha Byrne (ex-Andrea Floyd) has promised that Shriner will be rocking' the internet in his new role so be sure to check it out! And our Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis), frustrated and saddened by the tragedy in Haiti, gathered some of her daytime friends (at literally the last minute) and headed over to the Rose Bowl to assist KNBC in collecting donations for the Red Cross. Many GH stars attended and through the magic of Twitter, we were able to help Grahn send some Days stars over there too. Good show!

For the life of me, I couldn't figure out why Lucky was still being all googly eyed with Liz, yet be really ticked off at Nikolas. Why not be mad at both of them? I didn't have to wonder long when Lucky was greeted with the site of his brother and his fiancée in a seriously passionate moment after Nikolas announced his plans to move to France. Finally Lucky calls Liz on the carpet - thank God, because even Lucky can't possibly be that easy. For a while there, I was half expecting to see him being at home with the kids and when Liz comes home, Lucky asks, "How was your date, dear?" Don't think that possible scene didn't cross my mind because it did. I mean, dude. Buy a clue, you can't be serious. But since that didn't happen, now we have Lucky swigging back alcohol and hashing it all out with Luke. Um, uh... dare I ask? Luke knows that Lucky is a recovering addict. Why is he sitting there letting him drink?

On the one hand, I can see how Luke, who is anything if not anti-establishment, would simply sit there and let Lucky express his pain and, in doing so, give him understanding and not judgments. Perhaps Luke instinctively knew that Lucky didn't need to hear any lectures at that particular time. Luke was also never one to actually listen to good advice that he knows would keep him healthy. Looking past all that, what we got were scenes where we really got a closer look at the relationship between Luke and Lucky. Luke knew about Nikolas and Liz's relationship and, as he told Tracy, "I ran because I couldn't bear to see him (Lucky) get crushed." These scenes were well done, if not a little out of step, considering that Luke and Lucky have not seen eye to eye in the recent past. It's nice to know for certain that, despite his actions that may say otherwise, Luke will go above and beyond for his kids and he really does feel their pain right along with them.

Now we have Nikolas and Liz wringing their hands over Lucky hitting the bottle (he nonchalantly took a shot of booze right in front of a stunned Lulu) and wondering what could've possibly set him off. Lucky asked Nikolas to stay in Port Charles, they wondered, what went wrong? The gloves were off when a drunken Lucky finally confronted the two people who jolted him back to reality and out of his "adolescent fantasies." And what a jolt it was. "You don't love me Elizabeth," Lucky stated bitterly, "Otherwise you wouldn't be screwing my brother behind my back." Ouch.

Michael is a different story. In fact, he's a different story every time I tune in, it seems. He has been alternating between both remorse and pride over his role in Claudia's death. I say let the brat take the heat for what the law deems fit for him if that will shut him up, but I digress. Now Michael's attitude is coming with a new spin. He thinks that Sonny is favoring Dominic over him and has taken umbrage to the fact that Sonny won't leave organization to his own son. Was there talk about Sonny handing over the whole deal to someone else? Never mind that, Sonny has made it clear as crystal that Michael will never be a part of Sonny's organization (and with good reason, I might add) and Michael is taking offense to that.

For starters, little Mikey, how is anyone supposed to take you seriously as a future crime lord when you look like you're twelve? How is anyone supposed to take you seriously as a future crime lord when you ACT like you're twelve? Sonny kept saying no, no, no. And what did Michael say? He pointed out that he took a bullet for Sonny, and killed Claudia. Oy vey. Far beyond Sonny not wanting Michael to follow in his footsteps is the fact that the ingrate is a loose cannon. You'd need a score card to keep track of Michael's moods and emotions (and shifts in alliance) - hell, you need a score card to keep track of all that now. Putting this brat in charge of anything bigger than a lemonade stand is asking for trouble. Michael should be worrying about things like prom, calculus and college applications, not being in the mob and being forced to hide his crime.