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https://televisionau.com/2024/05/obituary-brian-wenzel.html

@slick jones Thanks for keeping us in the know. Similar to AWHP and AW, I learned so much about the show from that site. It's so unfair on Mark.

There are probably more clips (I'm not sure) but I didn't want to clog the thread. Memories of first watching a decade ago is probably overhyping them, but I think Monty's era, at least in that period, was able to have a certain rawness in those moments to make the docks seem dangerous, whereas later on I just felt like they turned a fog machine on and put a few crates in the background.

The channel uploaded a whole week of this show.

I totally understand why - I feel that way when I watch the late '70s or even through a good portion of the '80s. The scenes of Paddy Kelly being stabbed are disturbing and almost feel like something that could happen in real life, with the atmosphere and dread. By the '90s, especially the late '90s, everything starts seeming too fake for me. Admittedly, it probably looks like cinema verite compared to what we have now.

Thanks for the responses. Blaze is a very dated name for current performers - she should change it. I'd say 2002 is generous. I remember some fans joking in the late '90s about how the docks got more airtime than the hospital.

Is her real name Blaze? Is Natalia a big Lolita Davidovich fan?

This doesn't show up, but it's another overrated hack who rode Obama's coattails announcing his podcast with the loathsome Kellyanne Conway.

This is the end result of a show that is wholly plot-based. He was given a pointless ex and daughter (the latter only getting attention when people talk about how old the actress is), and will presumably reunite with his ex when the plot demands, rather than due to any buildup. It feels like the character is on hold until awful Nish returns.

I am, although I just pop in there every once in a while. The last I saw of Dorsey he was peddling toxic [!@#$%^&*] on Twitter.

https://deadline.com/2024/05/barbara-o-jones-dead-actress-independent-black-cinema-was-82-obituary-1235904830/

Lovely thoughts @BetterForgotten I do sometimes feel like her impact is not that respected these days, for various reasons.

Angela Lansbury's brother Edgar has passed at age 94. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/edgar-lansbury-dead-subject-roses-angela-1235890334/

I agree, but I think people ultimately set themselves up to fail when they take this mindset. This is what happened with Kate Oates - her arrival was treated by many as if she were wafting down on a cloud. Then she produced some of the worst trash in the history of the show, which just made the betrayal even fresher because of delusions.

It takes a lot to make a story about your unborn child having birth defects dull, but they manage. If that is Martha Madison...well, at least she's consistent.

There are just a few people I stay on Twitter for, although I am also too addicted to the political turmoil to fully go even when I know I should. Unfortunately, many of the sensible people are gone, and many who are left are just wretched. Some have also clearly had a full breakdown, including a few that I remember as being very different not that long ago. I saw somebody who was going on about how it is "nationalist" if you vote based on America instead of what is going on in Palestine. This is one of those talking points I end up assuming is propaganda baked up by the same people who always want to help the far-right win, or those who are so full of nihilism, or they are just so trapped in an online bubble they have absolutely no ability to allow for basic empathy. The idea that you should sacrifice your vote based on a situation that Trump will do nothing to improve (and will likely make it even worse) because of "sending a message" is just incredibly naive, to the point where it leapfrogs into cynicism and a very clear agenda that has nothing to do with peace. I do think Biden is better off trying for Haley voters, those who won't end up voting for Trump (as many will). I read somewhere he hasn't reached out to her. I don't blame him if so but he doesn't have anything to lose.

This makes me more annoyed each time it happens - the flagrant bias. I just hope that no one pays any attention to that paper anymore, beyond those who are hyperfocused anyway.

I would guess most Gen-Zers don't know him at all. TPIR doesn't seem to have any real buzz anymore.

@kalbir Thanks for all these detailed writeups and ratings info. So much of Dynasty by this point seems built to fail - they are lucky the fall wasn't even steeper. @Soapsuds Thanks for the Cheers & Jeers. Those Jeers felt like straw-clutching.

Thanks. So May doesn't matter that much specifically, but if ratings are suddenly, sharply down, it will. I don't think that is because of Mulcahey and Korte, I think the show has been treading water and heading for an inevitable fall that was likely pushed by some recent departures and decisions, but if ABC does blame them I won't be shocked.

Is there such a thing as sweeps now? He could be doing Puppetry of the Penis and I still wouldn't want her in an episode. She needs a long rest. I don't know if Lucy has ever even had a team. Clearly the current writers have no use for her... Sonny always wins out in the end. The current story has an escape hatch for him via the meds.

That makes sense. The main problem with EE, beyond how heartless and hollow the show feels, is that it is rigidly plot-driven. Things happen to move story along and for no other reason. And that often means ideas that on paper should be strong just kind of fade out onscreen, like Cindy's return, Alfie's cancer, anything involving Whitney and Zack. The show is so cold to me. And it's one of those shows where people deify the producer and go on about how hot he is and all the rest, which just ends up causing a cult mentality.

When a show is hollow, as all the soaps are now, then you are more likely to only watch for a certain character or couple. This has been true for a long time - you could even argue GH helped cement this as the norm with Luke & Laura - but it hurts when they are in a rebuilding period, or as much as they can even be allowed to rebuild. The other problem is, as others have mentioned, the need for your favorite character to be in the right and behaving the way you want them to behave. I've been guilty of that myself with characters, if I think the story is repetitive, degrading, and so on, but I do think the show has made efforts in trying to move forward some characters, like Nina. Yet a lot of her fans just seem to be completely repulsed.

Lazy, offensive.