So excited for this episode to air and have been for months since filming for it, that I couldn't wait any longer to start a thread for it, hehe!!!  So until tomorrow night, feel free to post what you are looking forward to seeing!!! 

Then we can keep this thread going to discuss the episode as I've enjoyed the one going for 704!!!

Hehe---all good thoughts!!!  The Dan/Nathan stuff definitely gets good in the coming episodes for sure, and yeah it starts heating up with 705.  And the Rachel stuff, just wait till you see, lol!!!  

Noles, you said a mouthful......I can't wait to see all the stuff go down and see how Dan enters to help Nathan and his family. I realize that it will not be easy on either one, yet I look forward seeing it all come to pass. Everything filters through Naley as you said at the start of the season. :)

N.Y.JOEY  :D 

Hehe, yeah it is a very heavy Naley episode to go along with the next several as well.   And that's definitely part of the reason that I'm excited for this episode, but mostly it's because of the material and the fact that Joy and James have some awesome stuff to work with, some really powerful scenes.  And yes, for the first half of this season at least----the main stories do filter through them.  The whole Scott family dynamic is my favorite on the show, hands down, as you know, lol---so that's why I'm loving this season so much because of the focus on them!!!

Yeah, they are definitely the one's that are propelling things along, no doubt about that.  And Brooke will still get plenty of scenes this year as her world is the only other dynamic besides Naley's world, it's just that Brooke, Julian, Alex and Millie don't carry the same kind of weight and overall purpose that Naley's story does.  It would be nice if at some point they could really give Brooke a meaningful story with some meat to it, but for now, her stuff doesn't even compare to the focus on NHJ and their world and what they're telling with them!!!

Yeah, Quinn's personal issues don't interest me either, although I do give Mark props for not making Quinn have some convoluted and dramatic/tragic reason for wanting to end her marriage.  People do change and fall out of love and simply just grow apart from each other at times, so I do like that aspect of Quinn, it's just that as a new character-----it does make it hard to care because the audience isn't invested like they would be if it was happening to an already established couple.  So I'm sure that most fans don't really care what's going on with Quinn personally at this point, lol!!! 

I do think that once they move things along with her and begin to set some things up with her and Clay that people might begin to care more, but for now, I'm sure most are just waiting for the story to move along.  For me, I like Clay and Quinn as individuals first and foremost, because they are characters that are around to enhance NHJ's world and be there for them, and that's what I enjoy seeing the most.  Plus I do really love Clay's character a lot, and I think that Rob is doing a great job with the JL's, so that only adds to my love for the Scott family dynamic!!!

Hehe, well that's because I'm excited as well, lol!!!  I'm so looking forward to seeing this, even though I already know how it all plays out, lol!!!  I'm just really pleased that this season Mark and company found a way for Dan to be relevant in NHJ's lives again, instead of how last season played out.  You know that I agree with you as well, that having Dan be non-existent in Nathan's life, is a big time miss, so the fact that yet another mistake is being corrected this season, makes me all kinds of giddy over this show again lol!!! 

Regardless of whether one likes Dan/Rachel together or not, I can't imagine anyone not wanting to see Dan be a factor with Nathan again?  It gets back to the root of this show and only adds to further enhance what they can tell with NHJ when they parallel their story with Dan's, something that they didn't really portray last season except in episode 617, so yeah---you can say that I'm all kinds of excited as well, lol!!!