All My Shadows

LOL people tend to forget that they are twins. I was reading on a board where the posters thought it was very strange how close and touchy feely they were with each other, being brother and sister, but when it was figured out that they are twins, it was totally okay. I don't get it.

THE PILOT!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmjUJnDsK58 I haven't seen this in about seven years, so I am extremely excited to use the available opportunity I have to sit and watch.

at your response to that post. Looks like Riley's little yoga slice is gonna be sticking around. Interesting. The rest of the season, surprisingly and unsurprisingly, doesn't really pique my interest. Not surprisingly because...well, it's the new kids. I can take or leave 'em. Surprisingly because...I've kinda gotten used to them a little bit through season nine. Eh. We'll see. Hopefully ten is the last one, because I don't see them making this 4823948 episodes a season thing work.

Got around to watching these. Tony's just running things, and it's so fun to watch, if fun is the right word. The Underworld scenes are very tense and claustrophobic. I'm liking the whole thing a lot, especially Carla, who I never cared for before but now enjoy most of the time. I'm also glad to see Maria back. Her utter confusion as to what to do when she walked out of the factory was just riveting! The simple fact that she walked clean on out of there to begin with was bold and definitely something different from most hostage storylines. The Gail drama. The only scenes that really stood out to me as scenes that I liked were Nick and Natasha back at the house and David and Tina talking on the bench. 'Chelle and Jack have this great chemistry, I love them together. Nick grew on me a little in the scene with Natasha, though I did find it just a teensy bit condescending. I even liked David and Graeme, and honestly, Other random bits...the more they show Ashley, the more I hate them for giving him the axe. He's just as viable, if not more than, as Steve and Tyrone, and way more viable than Lloyd, Sean, and others. Ugh. I liked Kirk all throughout the hour, which is strange, and Janice/Julie/Sean/Fiz brought some laughs, especially Janice. Max Headroom, indeed. The Roy scene was kinda pointless, no? I get they wanted to establish his coming home and not finding her, but it was kinda out of place. Whatevs.

Friday's episode was all right. I didn't see it as any different from what's been going on for the last month or so, but maybe that's just me. I was shocked to see so many black people! And not all involved in one story! The Fox party was bizarre with all the drunkenness, but I liked it. Ian and the teens was hilarious. Zsa Zsa and Leon can go, but Fatboy has to stay. Those ridiculous car double entendres were so clunky and cheesy!

Shirley is one of the best characters on the show!

I see a little EiE in Knots, too. They were produced by Lorimar at the same time, so it makes sense that they have a similar style and feel. I popped in a disc this morning and watched Breach of Faith, which was probably my favorite of the second season so far, shocking because Abby wasn't a HUGE presence, but she made a lot of things happen. I finally picked up S1 and will be watching from the beginning when I get a chance. I've seen the pilot dozens of times, but I'll tune in again just because.

All this...is just amazing. I can read it all day. SS seems like my kind of soap, from the moodiness, to the raging emotions, the confrontations, Belle, Valerie, etc. I need to see more. Thanks, sayno, for the episode you posted. It's the best one I've seen of the show yet. The Joan Crawford episode is now #1 on my things to do before I die.

:o Wow. I guess it's honorable of them to dump this huge storyline in the name of not wanting to upset the people affected by this tragedy.

*snore* Can't they find anything else for them to do?

Getting ready to watch yesterday's episodes later on, but I did skim through. Tony and his BFF on the bike looks like it will be unintentionally hilarious, as well as the fact that he's in sweatpants. And they changed the End of Part One music! No! That was the perfect music for that part of each episode!

I like the Underworld crew for the most part. Carla's grown on me, I don't hate Nick as much as I did about a month ago (he can still go, though, please). I like the machinists for the most part, though I'm not a fan of Izzy's yet, and Sean and Fiz can be harpy, but I can tolerate them most of the time. I flove Janice. So have you all heard about Jack P Shepherd (David) cheating on the mother of his child? This is a pretty crappy article, but it basically lays out the details, though the pregnancy thing is still sketchy. He's publicly apologized for his adultery, though the pregnancy wasn't mentioned. I'm sure Helen Worth's gonna give him a few unkind words. Her husband screwed around on her twice, so she must have a low tolerance for cheaters.

LOL, this is true. The only difference, though, IMO, is that Hannah Montana isn't hailed as one of the decade's greatest shows of foreverer and nobody, not even the most rabid of her/its fans, saying that it's brilliantly written or a masterpiece or anything. If a Hannah fan believes that, that's perfectly fine, but the second they call all people who disagree jealous, talentless hacks, that's when it stops being fine. That's what too many Gleenuts do on blogs, message boards, etc.

We're laughing at the predictable comments underneath, right? It's getting old. I'm no Miley fan, but the knee-jerk "she jehluss!" comments are extremely ironic, no?

Gah....I look for anything/everything I can find regarding Secret Storm, especially the mid-to-late 60s era of the show. Thank you so much for sharing all your memories! I look forward to more!

Oh, abso. I don't deny that one bit, because like you said, it would be delusional. I'm just glad that they didn't just basically put the Twilight plot in a TV series and disguise it with the TVD characters' names. Yeah, it's a fun (wrong word?) movie for sure, and a true 90s classic, but as an adaptation of the book? Nooooo. And I can imagine all the fans of the movie being excited to read the book and then being promptly let down. Probably not. Griffin didn't really have a happy ending. I don't want to spoil it if you really do come across it one day and want to watch, but pretty much, the title of the movie comes true, though not on purpose. It's really a good movie. Like JP said, it usually gets play when LMN does their every-so-often teen movie weekends. And to go OT just for another moment, I just have to sing Lois's praises a little bit more haha. I just wish some production company would get it together and do movies for all of her major YA novels. All of them would be excellent little teen/supernatural movies, and if they could squeeze a TV show out of one or two, I'd fall over with happiness. Daughters of Eve and Summer of Fear are my favorites. And I'll stop gushing about Mrs. Duncan now.

Yeah, she's doing sort of a sequel series called The Return right now. I believe she's been planning it for years and years now, but finally started releasing them about a year and a half ago...you know, when Twilight started being all the rage. Of course, the original books weren't inspired by Twilight, but I think it's fishy that she announced the sequel series over 10 years before she actually started putting the books out. Most people that I know who've read the books only did so because they liked the show and wanted to compare/were curious/etc, and they're all in general agreement that Williamson and Plec took the story from Smith and ran with it, which isn't hard to believe. Just from the cliched excerpts I've read ("Her smooth, olive skin" -- does every female in every young adult book have olive skin?!), I'm inclined to agree. Lois! I idolize her. Read so many of her books in junior high. IKWTDLS was such a horrible, horrible adaptation for all the reasons you mentioned. It was not a slasher story, it was about these kids living with what they did last summer and knowing that someone else out there was aware of it, too. Funny enough, and I'm the type of person who just loves this kind of thing, Lois of course panned the big, high budget big screen adaptation of one of her works, but around the same time, Lifetime made a movie out of Killing Mr. Griffin (with Amy Jo Johnson, Mario Lopez, Scott Bairstow, some others) and Lois thought it was excellent and she praised the acting and everything, and that movie wasn't 100% by-the-book either, so I guess she genuinely enjoyed it.

I had a feeling that was gonna sound bitchy, but I was too lazy to go back and edit it! Sorry, E. I think I misunderstood you, too, so yeah. Everything I've read about the books say that they are pretty cheesy and cliche but overall readable, if you like that sorta thing. Ljane kinda loves herself, so she's only slightly approved of the TV show, sorta in a smirking way ("I've seen the pilot...all I'll say is give it time, guys, give it time..." blah blah). I agree, especially about Anna dying. I was tired of her from day one and whenever I sit down and watch the rest of the season, I can't wait to watch her die. The only two deaths that I wish didn't happen were Lexi and Damon's ex-girlfriend who he and Elena saw when they went to Georgia. I really wanted more of them, and it would have been awesome if they'd been written as one characters (Damon's ex who takes none of his [!@#$%^&*] and is also Stefan's snarky BFF).

I think it's unfair to say that it's better than it has any right to be. All this show did was prove that the silly, silly stigmas that hover around The CW and teen dramas are nonsense. It's possible for a CW show to be more than decent, and it's possible for a teen drama to be more than decent (without numerous references to the 80s, "realistic" characters who wear high waters and bifocals, and a cast of stereotypes).

The cat's there! It just looks like the poor thing is about to fall to its death because it's going from a higher part of a roof to a lower part, but the lower part really isn't in the frame. What's going on with the scheduling this week and next? I've pieced together what I've read, and it looks like this: Monday, May 24 - One episode. Wednesday, May 26 - One episode. Thursday, May 27 - One episode. Friday, May 28 - Two episodes. Monday, May 31 - Two episodes Tuesday, June 1 - One episode. Wednesday, June 2 - One episode. Thursday, June 3 - One episode. Friday, June 4 - One episode. Is that right? Or are they still sneaking Sunday episodes in there?

Thanks for posting. Uh...it looks strange, no? They should just left the people out. It's almost like they're trying to say "See, this street isn't depressing at all! Look at all of the action, all of the business! It's just like Albert Square!" But it's not. At least the title screen looks nice.

Is that really what most people associate her with? That's so unfortunate. Billie's only even around because the guy played the character when he was a kid, right? I saw an ep where Billie had a big juicy 'fro, and he looked just like the guy who plays him now.

I need to catch up on Thursday, Friday, and today. Skimming yall's posts...yay, more Janine hilarity! I love her and her big ol' 4head, she's great. Re: Shirley. If they wrote her out any time soon, I wouldn't be able to forgive them. She's one of the most realistic, true-to-life characters on the show, IMO. I do wish she'd get away from Phil because he's just a mess and a half. And yes, they need to do something with Carol. I've gotten a little MILF crush on Ms. Coulson after watching her during her original run.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. I've been watching these eps for months, but I've been going at them so slowly. But somehow, I'm on my fourth episode since last night. I might finish the first twenty by the end of the week. But yeah, the no the's and no a's...they all do it, but Peggy just goes to town. I think I once heard Joe ask "Where's towel?" and they all say "...gone t' pub." It always sounds like they've given those objects names.

I took the very beginning of the show very very slowly, but now the stuff with Joe and Mr. Wilks' accident and the Merricks is making me watch episode after episode. I'm really liking it now. I get a chuckle out of all the zero articles in the dialogue, especially from Peggy. She actually said "I'm ironing suit for interview!" That's so odd to my American English ear. Do they still talk like that on the show today?