Joey=Brady

 Brady certainly does have a hero complex and she is right, he has fallen for every woman he has tried to "save". I would be worried if I were her, too. I really like the actress, Jen Lilley, and I am glad they are trying to set her right. Lots worse things have been forgotten and forgiven on a soap than what she did to John, LOL. At least the two of them acknowledged the elephant in the room and got on with it.

And I agree, Joey is a bit of a lunkhead. And i am really sure that this Jade had a whole other story we haven’t seen. All she does it whine about her parents, don’t call them, they hate me, they want to send me away to boarding school. Playing right into his hands and he falls for it. 

but that’s not because I feel she deserves to be transformed into some kind of angelic force who simply turned over a new leaf; on the contrary, she has never shown any regret for what she did to John or anyone else she treated badly, including the accusation she made against Xander’s attempted rape, which we know did NOT happen but put him behind bars anyway.  Theresa has found what she perceives to be her HEA with Brady and their son and now she’ll do anything she feels she must to hold onto that.  I do agree with her thinking that Brady has a hero complex with women, though.  All that being said, it was in her best interest to contact John today.  He is, after all, Brady’s father, even though he has barely acknowledged him and Marlena.  She will probably peak John’s interest just enough to have him help her, though, at least with investigating Summer and her backstory.

As for Joey, once Steve realizes he ran away with a girl both he and Kayla seemed to be suspicious of, he’ll probably take off to search for them, and that may be when this sl might get more interesting, because we know nothing about this girl except for a hunch that she’s bad news.

Whatever these two stories lead to, I hope it gets better than what we’ve seen so far, because we are now in the fourth day of May sweeps and so far I’m not impressed, and the continuation of the Deimos/Nicole/Kata saga and all that it entails has yet to really peak my interest.

Theresa has shown real respect for Maggie, especially, and I think that she is willing to bring up a topic with Brady that could cause a rift in their relationship shows growth on her part. She could have just run out and tried to set up Summer for some kind of a fall, which is what the old Theresa would have done. (I know, I know she is running to John to get background on Summer but Brady would be doing the same if the situation was reversed)  What did Abigail ever do to redeem herself from the set up of Austin? She needed help way back then but she just moved on/ She had an affair with EJ but sttill became St. Abigail and all was forgiven by Chad. Remember when everyone got so upset when Carrie slapped her? She obviously needed a good swift kick somewhere else. 

Yes Theresa is still a little rough around the edges but I believed her when she told Brady it wasn’t jealousy as such but a recognition of the fact that he likes to rescue damsels in distress and she even admitted that was what he saw in her at first, an opportunity to help her straighten out her life. And that’s what he is doing with Summer also. And now Nicole, who I might say Theresa has been very good to since Daniel’s death. there was another opportunity for her to be jealous but she saw Nicole’s interest in Brady for what it was, loss and grief, and acknowledged it. 

I’m not ready to hang a halo on her but I think as redemption goes, she has been trying. If John can forgive her for knocking him upside the head well then we should be just as magnanimous, LOL. I think there are just some characters people want to dislike no matter what. 

about Brady’s history of “saving” women but I don’t (yet) conclusively see her change/evolution as anything but trying a different tactic. I think she well knows her old ways did not get her anywhere, particularly with Brady. And did she ever sincerely apologize for the attack on John? Heck, he could have died.
She’s going to have to prove to me that she’s truly turned over a new leaf. I do concede the old Theresa would have schemed to get rid of Summer, but she has so much more to lose now if she goes that route. And maybe that IS part of her maturation.