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I thought it was a good episode. I've heard a lot of criticism of the flashbacks, but they were short, and a good way to get into Carol's head during some key moments of the last few seasons. I thought the episode in general was a good look at Carol the real person, eaten up by the idea that being a killing machine is the only way to get past her mistakes and survive. I liked that she was turning a corner, that we saw her weaknesses. The character needed this in order to remain viable. I was also happy to see more of an edge for Daryl again, along with some hints of him trying to understand himself more (taking the child abuse book). As someone who doesn't "ship" Caryl, and feels that the focus on that has damaged the characters and made fandom look like dumbasses (and sadly I include the people on Talking Dead last night, who made it all about shipping wars and led to the guy who plays Noah barely getting a word in), I'm really glad the show didn't do any ship teasing or baiting, and instead focused on the characters. My only real complaints are that the ambulance crash scene was just silly and hokey (I like the idea of Carol and Daryl trusting each other even in probable death, but the miracle of the crash really almost made me chuckle), and I wish they had introduced them to Noah another way - it just sets people up to hate Noah, or wonder how he managed to have no injuries from that bookcase fall. I can see why some people are tired of the solo focus episodes, and three in a row may have been too many. Still, overall I've appreciated them. I just hope we get more of characters like Michonne soon. I doubt it's going to be BAMF Rick to the rescue. If they cared that much about this then he wouldn't have been helpless at Terminus.

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I could swear that's Jaime in some of those lower panels. You're right - I see a tree behind that woman, which isn't the Greyjoy coat. I was confused as the article made it sound like the panels were all show characters.

Is that Asha/Yara below Ramsay, or someone else?

Ilene Kristen ad at about 3:40, not too long after her Loving stint (the character is even called Norma). She still has her old voice.

That was it - White Rabbit. The woman who'd started a new life after being a part of bombings in the '60s. She was great.

Not that I can remember. Tina recasts and Cord chemistry: Karen Witter - they were OK. Not what he had with Andrea. She had more with Chris Cousins. Krista Tesreau - again, OK. There just wasn't much of anything there with anyone because Tina was written to be so grating and stupid.

Lisa V's is just great (as all of hers tend to be). I also wonder if someone onstaff is a Game of Thrones fan... Brandi's - I'd say someone in production was having a dig at her.

Cute Patsy Palmer ad at the end of this.

I'm kind of sorry they didn't do more with the Gabrielle and Cord relationship. I like the casual flirtation and maturity. Of course if it had gone anywhere Gabrielle likely would have gone off the rails yet again, but I like this side of her more than some of the histrionics with Matt (although her "I will kill you" eyes when she sees him in the second clip are priceless). I'm always so impressed at how Karen Witter managed to step into this material, which was often carried along solely by Andrea Evans' vulnerability and heart. By all rights a recast should have just seemed like a dumb, whiny bitch, but she never did. Gabrielle has a killer line at about 2 minutes in the second clip.

I could swear this is from the time when Max was "dead" and Gabrielle was going to try to win Cord and take over the Buchanan mansion. Either that or when the Intruder burned down. Not sure if that was 1991 though.

Someone is writing fanfic. Didn't happen onscreen. Frankly, it's better than most of what aired at that point.

That's fascinating info, as always from you. It's like Six Degrees of Jennifer Cooke (fitting, as she only missed Kevin Bacon by six months or so).

Nothing that thrilling here, but June 1967 TV PIcture Life Bethel Leslie (Dr. Maggie Van Allen) has been separated from her husband, Andrew McCullough, for seven years. (They were married in 1953.) Meg Myles (Harriet Wilson) used to be a nightclub singer, and even made two albums, one for Mercury and the other for Liberty. She lives alone in New York. James Pritchett (Dr. Matt Powers) looking forward to summer because he has a new motorized charcoal grill he wants to try out at this country farm.

It's like photo ops of the damned with he and Sheryl... I thought that was Michael Lander in the first one. I wonder how he's doing...I know he has MS.

I think that could have been interesting, although Michael liked to control women, and she would have fought that. I remember one of the L&O episodes with Mary Joan and I remember being really impressed with her work. I just can't remember which one. It might have been a season 6 episode.

Thanks. I wonder if she had any of the problems with brass that Vincent Irizarry did when he wanted to film Marie. I wonder if they ever considered just recasting with the temp when Judi left. Probably not.

Pat was such a dry, droll character - John did have that side, but at that time he was mostly a haunted Vietnam vet. It would have been interesting. I think the show had the right idea in splitting Mac/Rachel and starting up Janice/Mac. That was a riveting story. The problem was the aftermath of Janice's death. I wish they'd stretched the story out, and if they had to kill Janice, make it worth the loss. I also don't know if any Frames outside of Willis were all that popular with fans when they were written out in the late 70s. Again, I would have kept Janice, but there seemed to be some who were just sort of hanging around, like Vince. I think the show's main problem was becoming so transient in the mid/late 70s. There weren't a lot of people to care about, and if you did care, they didn't last for long. When you watch the 1980 episodes it's essentially a train station, and that seemed to only worsen.

I'm just relieved and pleased. If it weren't for all the speculation on those Twitter accounts I wouldn't have ever been bothered, but at one point it felt like almost everyone but Dana Ashbrook was confirmed. It's not going to be Bobby Peaks, but I just wanted to see where the character is now and see him acknowledged as an important part of the show. And now that has happened.

First time I've ever seen a clip of Phil Macgregor's Rick Bauer. It's at about 9 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uKRMEIO1Bw He's cute and seems decent enough as an actor. I guess I can see why they recast him, as he seems very thoughtful and somewhat somber...and he even sort of looks like GA. Not much of a contrast between Rick and Philip. I like the friendship between Philip and Morgan. Presumably it was going to lead to something more, but I like it the way it is.

http://www.joblo.com/horror-movies/news/where-in-the-horror-are-they-now-jennifer-cooke

Yes. Julianne Phillips (Frankie). I read somewhere that she got a big payday for that divorce.

No. She did appear on Year in the Life with the beautiful David Oliver (Perry Hutchins, AW), which was sort of soapish. Apparently that was her last acting credit. Speaking of the March 1983 episodes, I can't believe what an anticlimax Henry learning about Quint being his son was.

http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20089170,00.html

I will say that Cooke has a bit more personality in the March 1983 episode I was watching, as she seems older, and colder, and isn't a bad fit with Josh (who was by that time a nice guy). Of course she was just about gone, and she and Robert Newman were a couple IRL, so that might be a reason.