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I'm not too sure if she would be fine without them at this point. I tend to agree with those who say she would have left if her career hadn't flattened this past year.

Disco <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcPjyoJp6uo Pat bringing the hammer down on Jesse. They seemed to use Pat a lot in 1987 I wonder how far they were going to go with Angie and Jeff.

Sandy seems kind of like an ass. Cecile is more like Susan Keith's Cecile here, which is a nice change of pace. Always nice to see early Cass, and restrained Carl.

I guess him not being in a major pairing didn't help. I know he and Abby weren't a supercouple but that may have been the closest. The other option would have been bringing Krista Tesreau back full time to do Rick/Mindy, instead of waiting until the end.

I was going back and listening to a few of the GL radio broadcasts that are available. Some of them I'd heard before, some not. Some of the setup for the whole story of Ted White causing his and Meta's son's death by trying to make him more "manly", leading to Meta losing it and gunning him down and going on trial, etc. - this is all so subversive and balls to the wall for 1950. Irna Philips knew how to handle melodrama in a way none in daytime today do. This episode, where Meta talks about a "feeling" she has - I wonder if any listener could imagine what was coming up. And of course there is more of driving, scheming Bert, chasing her own tail, and weak Bill, in some of these. I always enjoy that.

Never really got her appeal...

I think they did sort of make Rick the central figure of the Bauers, in a way, but by then there was no real Bauer family, and the show had little interest in matriarchal or patriarchal figures. And there was something kind of pathetic about Rick as he grew older.

I'm glad you got to enjoy them. I wish more of that era was around. I mostly just want to see Jackie and Rita, but Peggy/Roger too. I have more from 1977 but I'm trying to find the July one so they can be in order.

Episode of Right to Happiness. I'm sure the episode has been around but I'd never heard it. I had no idea the show was so sinister. The voiceover reminds me of the intro of Tales from the Darkside.

I feel like Rick changed after he had to kill Shane. He loved Shane. Most of the hope and inner strength he'd had was already worn down and that was probably the last straw. It's surprising to me sometimes that he's managed to keep as much of a core of goodness as he even has.

That's such a cute photo.

Rick's made mistakes, definitely. He shouldn't have gone back for Merle (even if in the long run that got them Daryl's loyalty). He should have left Shane in the bus. He should have killed that prisoner who got away and then proceeded to let walkers into the prison. As a leader, a lot of this falls on his shoulders (for instance, I could say the adults in camp were at fault for not remembering to keep the fire at a lower level, but they weren't the leader). With that said, he's also done a lot of good things, he's kept a very disparate group of people together, against all odds, and he's made tough decisions they likely would not have made (like killing Shane). I do think he had little to no ability to stop anything involving The Governor. I liked Andrea, but I put a lot of that on her.

I guess the question I have is when does being talked about not mean enough? The women on NYC season 4 were talked about, but that still wasn't enough.

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That site with the 1977 synposes seems to stop with the February issue. I have some more. I can't find them all right now but I'll post some. I meant to years ago, as I think katie asked me, but I wasn't able to get to that computer for a while. March 1977 Digest.

Carol never taught the girls to shoot guns that we know. I'm not sure she would have approved of them getting in the middle of a gunfight. Yes she told them to assert themselves, but not to that level. It's very dangerous. Shane got trapped in the bus because he got into a huge, noisy fight with Rick. Dale, if that's who you meant, was killed because he was a dumbass who went walking in the fields in the middle of the night. Carol had less and less to do with watching Judith, she was mostly in charge of other areas of the prison, and then had the girls. Beth mostly took care of Judith. I don't think she would have made any difference when she was there. When she was there, she had great ideas like killing two people for little reason and letting it turn into paranoia and violence. If she even did it (I'm still not sure). I don't think that going against the Governor in season 3 would have made a big difference. The Governor had all the power, ammo, everything. Rick could have tried to kill him at the meeting but I can't see it working.

I think you could lose Joyce, Carlton, and Kim, but I'd cut at least one of Brandi/Lisa/Yolanda too. I think their relationships are too much gameplaying at this point.

It's not so much about their being better than her as people (I don't think Brandi is a terrible human being and i don't think they're saints), but any time they tell her something, or she thinks they told her something, she puts it on blast. She's done this with Lisa, Kyle, and likely, Yolanda. So what are they going to say to her from now on? They'll film, but this makes those scenes more likely to be false and forced, or even more false and forced. At this point does anyone really want to see a teary reconciliation between Brandi and Lisa? I think the best way to move the show forward is to have interactions that aren't so staged and aren't based on what someone is afraid or saying, or what someone said offcamera. It's why I think most of the cast has to go.

Brandi repeats "something Kyle told me" about 500 times in that article. It's tough for me to throw a lot of blame on Kyle because it seems like it gives Brandi too much of a free pass. I just don't see what her purpose is on this show at this point. She can't even really cause drama without backing down immediately. And now why would anyone want to film with her, other than Carlton, who I'm sure can have makeout sessions with her as she says that she's not an anti-Semite because she watched the Knots Landing episodes Millie Perkins guest-starred in? What they don't realize is that they only build Lisa up more when they make these attacks, and it's a bizarre attack in the first place. Oh, Lisa was once bankrupt - if anything that would humanize Lisa and Ken to people, if it were true.