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After watching Monday's Memorial Day show, I can't help but feel that Josh Lewis needs to do some serious soul searching. This past year, Josh has made a true mess of his life--all on his own.

 

1. Shacking up with his sister-in-law.

 

In my opinion, deciding to shack up with his sister in law was just the beginning of his mistakes. He claims that he wants his life to be less complicated. How in hell is your life less complicated by choosing a romantic relationship with your sister in law? If anything, it percipitates drama for Thanksgiving dinner and other family holidays.

 

Starting a relationship with Cassie was irresponsible after coming off a marriage, no matter who Cassie is related to. One can't help but believe Josh is choosing the LESS expensive route after cloning a missing Reva. What makes a person choose to take up with a sibling? It brings to mind a song that goes, "You remind me of a girl that I once knew. I see her face every time I look at you..." I think it's by Usher.

 

My last point about it is, Josh just shows how much he devalues each woman's relationship to the other. He knows what it has taken for those two sisters to find each other and come together. He very thoughtlessly tore that relationship apart for his own needs. Not a good man in my book.

 

2. Taking the Law Into his own Hands.

 

On Josh's path for a less complicated life, out of the blue, he chooses to take the law into his own hands and just lie about committing attempted murder to save Cassie--Uh, the one who did NOT shoot anyone in the first place...yeah...way to be less complicated, Josh.

 

If he wants a life with Cassie so badly, why throw it away to rot in jail? Why not set himself on the path of learning who REALLY shot Alan? No, it's just best to confess to something he has no clue about so he can get the snot beaten out of himself in jail. In an even BIGGER attempt to create less drama, toss into the mix a refusal to see his so-called biggest supporter Cassie. He loves her so much and she's so unglued nowadays, yes, it's best to alienate her from him and let her suffer her mental problems and loss of her daughter--and NOW loss of him--alone.

 

3. Sleeping With His Fiancee's Sister in Jail.

 

If life still isn't drama filled enough, sleep with Reva in jail. Get her hopes up and then turn around and say you never knew she still loved you. She just has loved you her whole damn life. Sure, she can turn it off. Way to show Cassie your loyalty. Five minutes in the clink, cheat on her. How does one even get a chance to be a cheater in jail? That's a one in a million chance. Guess he had to take it.

 

In essence, he just turned around and betrayed the both of them. How disgusting can this man get? Okay, onto the next point.

 

4. Comtemplating the Ministry. Josh really cinches it by quitting his job and contemplating the ministry. He has no clue how far off the deep end his majesty cassie has gone. He's dreaming of choir robes while she's seeing and talking to evil spirits and changing paternity tests. All the while, both are dreaming of being shining Pastoral examples in the community. So in one year, he's cheated on his wife (according to God, Coveting is cheating), been convicted of attempted murder and has committed adultry, but thinks he should be a pastor. I don't know how many of his follwers can sort out the "Yeah, that happened, but..." circumstances.

 

My advice for Josh to lead a less complicated life: Simple. Dump both Cassie and Reva. Find a woman that's not related to either one of them. Or better yet, stay yourself single till you can handle a relationship.  Learn the real meaning of love. Love doesn't destroy. Stop destroying Reva and Cassie. Grow the hell up, think before you do something and stop blaming your problems on Reva. You did this stuff all by yourself. God helps those who help themselves. Stop wallowing in your mess, sinking lower in quicksand and get praying for god to show you the way out of it instead of digging yourself deeper into it.

 

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May 2nd's ITL was called Freedom, but I certainly don't feel free after watching it. In fact, I feel boggd down in Crash chains. Today was the first day I actually called a soap opera to complain--but that's for another entry. I digress. Today's ITL left me in the dark for so many reasons I can't even count.

 

It's Bad

 

It started off badly. I should have turned the channel the moment I saw that the anticipated jailhouse kiss between Josh and Reva was just a dream. Now Jeva fans are reduced to watching them love each other only in dreams. I can't believe the writers think this is the best way to go. Jeva fans won't stand for being baited and then let down. Just take a look at the message board today if you don't believe me. To make matters worse, Cassie barrels passed Reva almost knocking her over to leap into Josh's arms.

 

They expect us to believe that neither Cassie nor Josh knew that Reva was coming to the jail the day of Josh's release. I had to wonder to myself why the hell WAS reave there? What did she plan to tell Cassie about the fact that she showed up without her permissions--again?? Was she hoping for another horizontal hoakie in the poakie with Josh before he got turned loose? We'll never know because all that action got canceled the minute Cassie thrusted her talons into him.

 

Most awkward was how Josh played Reva as if he didn't know why she was there. He halfheartedly offers to share his freedom celebration with her and Billy. Why Billy wasn't at the jail is beyond me. Reva declined, quietly slinking into the woodwork.

 

Reva wants to tell Josh how she feels about the conjugal visit they had while he was incarcirated.  Josh has chalked it up to something "he needed" at the time. She returns to the Beacon where she had planned a special night with a bottle of champagne and two glasses. She pops the cork and turns it straight up. In a box on the bed are old photos. She reaches for the one of her and Josh at the Cross Creek wedding. Reva sobs when she finds a drawing Shayne made of his parents. It reads Mom and Dad.

 

At the farm, RJ has drawn a similiar picture with a blank for Josh's name. He asks if he can call Josh Dad and Josh readily agrees.  Meanwhile, Reva is left with the burden of explaining to Josh's grown children how he was released from Prison but didn't bother to let them know about it.

 

Later, Cassie and Josh are all over each other a hotel room when Cassie decides that Josh just has to leave to attend to a note left for him by Billy. Instead of going to see Billy, Josh texts Reva to meet him at the lighthouse. Reva goes there only to learn Josh is concerned that she will tell Cassie what happened at the Jail, since she told Billy.

 

A bitter Reva insists she didn't tell Billy. He figured it out on his own. Ambivalent, Josh imposes upon Reva to keep the secret so Cassie doesn't get hurt. Reva reluctantly agrees. Josh senses her discomfort and asks her if they are on the same page. "We aren't even reading the same book," She tells him and unleashes her true feelings about everything.

 

Then it Gets Worse

 

Reva believes they made love. She believes that the both of them needed it. Josh doesn't regret what happened because the moment meant so much to him. However, he is shocked to learn Reva still loves him, asking, "When did you start loving me?" Try grade school, you diot! was what I wished Reva had said. At first Josh tells her that he doesn't want to talk about this. It's not what he asked her up there for. No matter because Josh proceeds to  blame it on Reva, saying that she pushed him away. He loved her more than anything, but she pushed him away.

 

Reva admits she did, but not forever. She had her reasons--thinking she was dying of cancer. Loving Cassie is simplier than loving Reva. Josh wants to live his life the best way he knows how.Sounds like a load of crap to me and I'm glad Reva doesn't want to listen.  He gives her and unsolicited escort to her door. She trips inside the dark room and Josh rushes in to help her. Reva doesn't want or need his help. He grumbles about once again being pushed away. Meanwhile he gathers up the box on the floor and notices the drawing done by Shayne.

 

Reva insists he keep it and get the hell out. He takes it. She retorts that he's just standing there, waiting for her to tell him it's okay. Well, it's not okay, Reva tells him. She'll love him to her grave. He responds that he will also love her and then he leaves to go sleep with her sister.

 

Then it Just gets Stupid

 

After Josh has sex with Cassie, she finds the drawing of Shayne's. Instead of confronting Josh about it, she takes her insecurity's to Reva's door.  At first Reva tries to coddle her, but then she snaps and just tells Cassie that she's going to stop lying to her and tell her the truth.

 

Cassie wears the classic tight angry face as Reva professes her love for Josh. "How dare you!" Cassie cries. Oh, Reva dares. Not only does she dare to love Josh, she dares to hint that the conjugal visit she had with Josh wasn't in name only.

 

The stupid part comes in when Cassie tells Reva she doesn't care how she feels. I find this laughable for the simple fact that Reva's always telling Cassie how she feels uncomfortable helping her and Josh. Cassie chose to ignore it just to get what she wants. She cooes about how selfless and helpful Reva is, not once stopping to consider how this must be destroying her sister. Just because Cassie can turn her feelings on and off like a faucet, doesn't mean Reva can.

 

The question is, HOW DARE CASSIE:

 

1. Step in and persue her sister's husband

2. Act like she doesn't care that her sister had cancer. She'd fight her away.

3. Give the "death" of Reva's son and grandchild less consideration than her hang nail.

4. Push Reva to help her get information about Josh in a conjugal visit.

5. Ask her to be a bride's maid in a wedding her groom isn't sure he's ready for.

6. Think that she can betray Reva, her sister without consequence.

7. Think that Jeva just goes away because Cassie wants it to.

 

 

  What I'm left with today is a terrible, terrible badly written SL that could have been so much richer and so much better had they actually reached into Jeva's history and allowed Josh to actually feel pain over what he's doing to these two sisters. The SL is contrite. It's convenient and it's very shallow. It's something that a long standing viewer of the Guiding Light should be insulted by.

 

We've see Josh with other women. We've seen Reva with other men. We've never seen it so tacklessly and tackily done before. Sonni and Annie and Olivia had a thousand times more class and drama than Stripper Lane.