hopefully there's a point to her absence, but I'd really like Luisa to start being a part of the Solano-Villanueva family too!

Me too (on the co-parent front). I know, but I'm still hangin on the line from a Jennie Urman interview in May, where she said of Petra:
'she's a young woman, she doesn't need Rafael to get pregnant'.
Maybe it was leading, but I dunno… :)

So many questions…
Other forums suggest maybe Magda is hiding Petra's twin? Ö
And of course, whether the twins are Rafael's, per the questions about whether it runs in the family.
Also, ppl suggest it's a clue that they're Roman's, as he's a twin?
Wonder where Rose is?
Wonder what Luisa was up to for those 5 months - why…

I really liked that Jane & Rafael got this time to get to know each other slowly and calmly, and Rafael finally getting to know the family, and find his own place in it as Mateo's dad. And OMG how cute of a dad was he, just so lovely to see father/son bonding moments. :)

Hmm… it would be more interesting storytelling wise, but still not excuse him attacking Rafael.

I really do too. Rafael's putting up with a lot of crap at this point.

I disagree.
Thought it was so much better because these character never get to evolve, and finally there was some.
Haley breaking up with Dylan (and prob realising that she's gonna stop that wedding somehow)
Alex trying to get over her boyfriend
Mitch starting his own company

You need to
pick yo afro, corgiiiii
because it's flat on one side
ba dum, ba da da

I completely think Rafael had NOTHING to do with it. But I could see the possibility that the show would telenovela it in that direction - I hope not! It would be out of character. I don't think that is how Rafael would react to having his heart broken. That's more something I'd expect from Michael. #TheRealSlimShady

Huh. That would be… so creepy, on so many levels.

Also, enough with the 'Slutty Crystal'!!!
It's 2015 and women are still slutshaming each other??? Fantastic.

Also, I gotta say, if Rafael had been the one to testify against Michael, it would be justified. He doesn't know him very well and for someone in law enforcement to let a person go who participated in the kidnapping of his son? It's the only right thing to do.
Just as, when Michael & Nadine worked the Sin Rostro case…

I sad this last ep as well, Jane discovered that she'd lived her life safe and guarded, and Rafael brought out her inner desires. And after Rafael broke her heart, it seems like she's closing up again and going back to "safety" ie. Jane's-planned-life ie. Michael. But it's gotta be rough too, their whole family is the…

I hope so! I really don't want to them to take that low road with Rafael for the sake of "balance" between what would then be two increasingly insane guys that nobody should be around.

This.

How do you attack someone holding a baby? That's not a person I would want to be around.

I'd like all three of them to be single and reinvigorate their lives now. Sorely needed.

Exactly!!! I really don't think he did because Rafael has always been honest with Jane, and himself, since the show started and he was starting on a new life path for himself.
But his lack of reaction to Luisa's repulsive 'cancer card' comment has me worried that it would be a typical JTV storyline to pursue.
Although,…

Also, Luisa being the second person to use the repulsive wording 'drop the cancer card' sorta sheds light on why old Rafael could have married Petra in the first place (although she too, like Cordero, is pretending to be somebody she's really not – violin playing, innocent Petra any day of the week).
Great female role…

Alba & Xo being loving to each other is my new favourite superhero team!! #TeamXalba