Everything posted by DRW50
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That comment about Tyreese cracks me up. I do like him though. I think he and Carol are a good duo together. There are so many relationships on this show with such beautiful little moments. I loved last night when that walker was about to kill Rick and Daryl saved him just in time. -
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2014/10/12/walking-dead-actor-discusses-characters-heroic-action/17172485/ Vee, I'd forgotten that. Hmm. I have a feeling it won't happen (I mean Richonne), although I hope I'm wrong. I think Andrew Lincoln said he improvised the Rick/Tyreese bit in the episode? If so, I'm glad he did.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/walking-dead-morgan-returns-739960 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/walking-deads-andrew-lincoln-rick-739890 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/walking-dead-bosses-were-not-739191 http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/13/walking-dead-premiere-robert-kirkman-season-5/ http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/13/walking-dead-scott-gimple-season-premiere/ http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/11/walking-dead-josh-mcdermitt-eugene-gift/ http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/11/walking-dead-showrunner-scott-gimple-season-5-comic/ http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/10/12/walking-dead-lauren-cohan-season-5-premiere/ This is really cool. Storyboards of Carol's fight against Terminus: http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20622701_20861421,00.html
I could have sworn they said last year they'd made her a regular for this season. I get so mixed up. I don't mind Rosita, although she's superfluous. I like that they addressed the earrings (having her use them as a weapon). What did you think of Morgan being back? I just hope they don't feel that means they must write Tyreese or Bob out to somehow balance it out.
I thought this was a terrific episode. Suspenseful throughout, no real time spent on pontificating. I'm not a fan of making Carol an uber-hero, but Melissa McBride offsets any potential Mary Sue breakouts with her naturalistic acting style. I also like that she clearly learned from the people around her (the walker guts on her face, the weapons training). The reunions at the end were very moving. The Terminus people were beaten a little too quickly, but then, this is likely the first time they'd been challenged on so many levels, and it's obvious not all of them are gone. The question of just how good you should allow yourself to be popped up yet again, as we saw Tyreese and Glenn both screw up based on their attempts at being decent people, and possibly the group screwing up by not letting Rick go back to kill. Yet we also have the Terminus people telling us that you can't go too far in the other direction. This morality play may get a little stale at times but it works overall. This show gets so many small details right, like Michonne and Carol, both mothers without children, watching Rick and Carl with Judith. I'm sorry to see Denise Crosby go but it was a real pleasure getting to have her on TV again. I hope this gets her some more acting work. I wish we'd gotten more of the group this week but I was mostly just happy no one died, as their death would have had no meaning with so much going on. I love having such a large cast. I'm sure a few will die soon, and sadly, not the ones I want dead (looking at you, Abraham and Eugene), but I still like having this many characters who can bounce off each other. And it's a real credit to the show how much more diverse the cast has become in the last two seasons. The biggest shock of all...the biggest shock ever in the show's history...Morgan! I just happened to keep watching the credits, assuming the show was over, and there he was. There have been rumors for eons about him returning (I think the last one was that he would return to help battle The Governor). HOW did they keep that a secret? I can't wait to see how he is with Rick now. They've both changed so much.
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The main problem with Annie was she didn't have an inner life - she was there mostly for how men saw her, whereas the other women on the show. If they could have expanded on her while still keeping her sweetness and the slight melancholy within her, then I think she would have worked. Since we barely got to know her, she's mostly remembered as just replacing Audrey's story. I did like Annie. By the end I preferred her to Cooper.
That scene with the glasses and the smoking almost feels like making fun of Donna, and perhaps LFB. I didn't care for the Ben-is-Donna's-father story (too melodramatic and ultimately no real fallout, as Donna didn't have interesting relationships with Ben or Audrey), but I'm not sure where else they could have gone with Donna either. The main problem is LFB had a certain range and was only suited to that range. Maybe they could have paired her with someone like Mike Nelson, as they used to date.
I am up to episode 5, and was pleasantly surprised to see back-to-back episodes featuring Althea's therapy sessions. I'm sure this was rare even for 1967-era soaps, and whoever wrote that material (I know Rita Lakin was headwriter but there were subwriters, weren't there?) had a real knack for mature, adult conversations that get basic information across for viewers. Althea struggling with her daddy issues, talking about her failed marriage, her difficulty in reconciling that a man who in many ways makes her feel more alive and "on" than any man she's ever known is also a huge controlling !@#$%^&*]. Their full-blast confrontation at the end of that episode just reflects the attraction and toxicity of their relationship - neither of them backs down, and wouldn't even begin to know how to. It's fascinating to watch. I agree with the comments about Carolee. This is the type of thing Carlivati tried to fast-track with Sabrina on GH, and which he failed miserably at. I think it helps that Carolee Campbell looks like a "real" woman (even compared to most of the leading women, who are fairly glam), and that she's so comfortable with broad comedy. I laughed when she was waving the folder and finally shoving it at that other nurse to get her out of the station. Terry Kiser is a real ball of energy and melancholy and singlehandedly saves the stale and overlong "doctor and quirky tragic quasi-comic relief elderly patient bond" scenes. He also made some very entertaining bloopers in that episode - saying "the world is better off without me as a doctor" (he meant "actor"), and when he said he was hit by a "a bore" and quickly changed it to "a door."
That's interesting. Thanks. I never have been able to figure out if Bob is supposed to be the true manifestation of evil in that world, or just one manifestation, if he is supposed to be like a difficult child the others at the Black Lodge have to deal with, or if he has true power over them, or what. I wonder if Lynch tried to get Mrs. Tremond back for the finale, since she had those scenes early in season 2 but I don't remember seeing her again (on the show), and all of that seemed to be somewhat dropped. I'll always wonder if he had any more plans for Laura's meals-on-wheels storyline. I guess the whole thing was cooked up by whoever in charge to help Laura sort of find a way out. Then Donna was following in her footsteps but once Harold died, that was never mentioned again.
Thanks. Look how close those soaps were.
I had forgotten Joan filmed for FWWM. Now that I think of it it does fit FWWM's tone more - that guy with the glasses was what they sort of tried and somewhat failed to do with the mayor and his brother on the show. Is this supposed to be like Bob's first entry into the world, or is this just supposed to be a typical coming and going? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw4Nq8aPhNA
Thanks for the recap. Poor Sarah. I felt like Cooper's speech was something that wasn't really said to her as much as said at her so I'm not all that surprised if she wasn't able to listen. I wonder what her hair looks like now. I can't remember how often the show mentioned horses (I do remember the white horse in the room when Maddy was murdered), but her diary had those heartbreaking passages about the beautiful horse Laura got for her birthday and how she drove it away a few years later as she felt she was cursed and was too impure for such a creature.
The thing with Y&R women at the show's peak wasn't that they were strong, it's that they were complex and fascinating - glittering, jagged edges. You look at Katherine during the blackmail photos story - she's absolutely pathetic. A bitter failure drowning herself in booze and revenge to try to recapture what she never had. This was riveting to watch. When Katherine was "strong" in later years, she was often boring and forgettable outside of Jeanne's performance. Of course you can write strong women who are also complex and tragic, and I do think he did this with Liz. I don't think Bill Bell was the greatest writer ever for women, and I imagine in 1977, compared to shows like Ryan's Hope, or the other ABC soaps, or Guiding Light, his women may have seemed antiquated, but it's just that he was a very stylized writer. I tend to wonder if she felt that way because Jennifer was consistently written as the family burden.
Christian Marlowe, son of KT Stevens and Hugh Marlowe (and on Love of Life in its last few years), auditioned for Y&R's Lance (when they were first casting).
Teri Austin in this Neet ad.
He doesn't hold back, does he? At least he didn't bring up Showgirls... I know this is cheesy but it's a fun read. A ranking of every sweater in Twin Peaks (FWWM not included). My favorite entries are the ones for Donna's little sister. http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/10/ranking-of-all-117-sweaters-seen-on-twin-peaks.html
Some promos I didn't see on Youtube. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyxi9_nbc-daytime-1965_news http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xz3so_nbc-1967-afternoon-lineup_news
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