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Who is the guy? Nice to see Diana van der Vlis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t0LUehEg4o

Is this the first Jeff Hartman? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU5PxifQLWc

FauxBo/Tina make my eyes hurt. This is the only bit I've seen of that Ponzini character Wanda interacted with (Ralph?) in 1988. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuGc0-ppjpw

Even if she ends up shooting you?

Maybe in a Nurses' Ball sequence, but I'm not even sure about that. Most of those just had PC people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkbug399HZw&list=UUvROx_-xaBo7S1MhQsFCOjg&index=59

I think he meant the boy who played Jack. I like Robin's hat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZoYT1XCyno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ3OSX4KhdQ&list=UUvROx_-xaBo7S1MhQsFCOjg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ3OSX4KhdQ&list=UUvROx_-xaBo7S1MhQsFCOjg

The days of "the big tent" seem to be long gone. The true believers are now openly saying their party needs to stop listening to those Republicans who are not in red states, and a ton of them voted against Sandy relief today. http://www.politico.com/blogs/charlie-mahtesian/2013/01/the-gops-blue-state-contagion-153243.html?ml=bp http://www.politico.com/blogs/charlie-mahtesian/2013/01/the-sandy-aid-vote-northeast-vs-south-153378.html?hp=l5

All they had to do was shoot her from above the waist. I wonder if that was just an excuse.

There's a certain style to this time on the show and a certain odd sense of freedom and looseness, especially with Joe, Jeff, the Quartermaines (this was lost later on when they became a joke family). I'm so impressed by just how good the show looks, and how stylish the location scenes are - even bits that basically amount to Luke and Laura on some lookout point-type place before Luke's supposed to kill Mitch. I was going to ask - what was Anne Logan's exit from the show, and did Jeremy go with her? I know that she was fired from being a nurse because she was out partying. Is it true that Susan O'Hanlon was fired because she got pregnant?

More not so thrilling reviews... "Tell It To The Frogs" Shane has a very nice ass. I was very moved by the scene where Rick reunited with Carl and Lori. Andrew Lincoln was just incredible. Apparently Sarah Callies played that scene as if Lori wasn't sure if Rick was a walker, which is an...interesting choice. I thought Lori was running too hot-and-cold with Shane but then I understood her anger more when she thought he'd lied to her about Rick being dead. I had to laugh when Darryl's first scene was accompanied by a slightly awestruck closeup of Rick. I guess those Rick/Darryl OTP or bromance (not the same thing, of course) people enjoyed that. They seem to have taken a lot of care in the writing for Darryl early on, making sure he was not as racist as Merle (aside from the ugly comment to Glenn). I could have done without Merle ranting and raving on the rooftop but I thought Michael Rooker did a good job. The scene of everyone awkwardly trying to kill the zombie in the woods was a little odd, but I got the thematic point. The show's stunt coordinator played the zombie in that scene, as he also did in the scene where Amy gets bitten. I liked the scene where the women were talking about being forced into "women's work", and ignoring that they had their own identities before the world ended. It was nice to actually get to hear Jacqui. Shane gave Ed such a beating that I was surprised he wasn't even more seriously injured. He just went on and on, full force. "Vatos" I don't really buy Dale as the voice of reason and wise man of experience. Maybe it's the crazy eyes, I don't know. I would have preferred someone like Jim in that role. Jim's dreams leading him to dig the graves for the attack that would soon happen...I don't know, I thought that was a little too clever, didn't quite get into it (especially the "It was my dream!" type dialogue at the end). But I quickly grew to care about Jim very deeply. His collapse over his family being devoured as he got away absolutely broke my heart. There are also people on the show who I just can't quite believe are surviving a zombie apocalypse. I completely believe it with him. Andrea...eh. I like Amy, and while her relationship with Andrea is a little too much tell and not enough show, the actresses worked well together. I felt so terrible when she was eaten alive. The whole story of Rick's morality and goodness being a fatal flaw was fascinating viewing. I didn't get all that much out of the Atlanta sequences, as everything up to the last stuff at the nursing home was amateurish and impossible to buy (Glenn apparently has super-healing powers to have zero aftereffects from being knocked around with a baseball bat), but I did like Darryl's freakout when he realized Merle was gone. That also led to the oft-quoted "Nobody can kill Merle but Merle" line. The zombie attack back at camp was certainly scary as hell and nicely put together. Considering how little Morales has to do on the show, it was nice that they let him have so much airtime during those killing scenes. I guess that was a goodbye present.

What did you think of Sarah? I'm surprised it took this long for an actress to be recast during a pregnancy. In the US it used to happen quite often.

I remember reading in Chris Schemering's soap book that many of the Luke and Laura scenes during their big heyday (on the run, for instance) were improvised. Is that true?

Who was he on ATWT? Was he married to Penny? I think he was Georgann Johnson's (Ellen) husband on Somerset, not sure though. Cookie is one of those lost characters I'd like to see.

What I took away most was how good DAYS used to be at creating couples, and wondering where that's gone. I realize that not all their couples were popular at this time, but even a couple like Roman and Isabella seem so much stronger than anyone on DAYS now, except a few of the vets like John/Marlena. Rabin also seems to be speaking from the heart, instead of what he thinks people want to hear.

I'm just glad to know someone read it at all...

Sure. I'll have it up within the next few hours.

I thought that was Nancy. Was that Philip Sterling as the father?

It must have been odd when the Penny recast showed up. What exactly was the story about with Penny taking her brother's child and fleeing to Europe? Did she mean Tom?

If Nancy was auditioning for Faith (I think she did? Not sure), then he might have been auditioning for Pat. I wonder how he was on Texas. That article makes him seem a little big-headed. I guess that was the angle they wanted to go with because he didn't get the part.

October 1975 TV Guide. Interesting that Nancy's GL character, who was a lunatic, would be described as an "ingenue"...