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That's true, but at a time when gun control activists have probably had some of their bigger success in recent times, his Twitter basically being an interchangeable "do something!" outlet makes me wonder if he just does not have that type of involvement anymore.

Between this and the "eliminate the filibuster now!!! Don't just tell people to vote!!!" type talk that is obviously impossible, Hogg seems to have fully moved into the dead-end "do something" side of Twitter. I would say this is a sad waste of his activism but I don't remember him accomplishing much of anything in activism...

It is, yes. I think another P&G town is mentioned around the time of the train crash.

Yes, EON is one of the main soaps I think could easily be revived in today's world (the others I'd pick are probably OLTL and GL). I always wonder how fans felt about the switch in actresses with Winter, as apparently she only became a more scheming character after Stephanie Braxton came in to finish out the story. Stephanie does a good job playing up those disturbed elements, but I could see some rejecting the shift. Always weird seeing Deborah without her shorter haircut. I had to laugh at Draper's lengthy bedroom scene with gold chain around his neck. Pure '70s nostalgia. Slesar did such a good job at pacing stories, in a way few soap writers could. This episode is clearly showing the end of one story (Winter) another at midpoint (the Elliot/Margo saga and the setting up of Margo manipulating April and Draper into the house situation that would be so disastrous for them), and another just beginning (Paige Madison/Mansion of the Damned). I haven't seen a lot of Dan Hamilton, but he was surprisingly hot and a good actor too, especially how he played Wade's fear when Wade realized just how serious Winter was. He also played a believable drunk. Funny to think he moved from EON back to Another World to be shot to death later that same year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G58n43pUgCg May 16, 1979.

I wouldn't be surprised @I Am A Swede Since this thread is back, keep Jane Rossington and her family in your kind thoughts: https://www.atvtoday.co.uk/202418-atv/ @Joseph there are some 2003 Crossroads episodes here:

I found this on an old disc and couldn't find it on Youtube at present (I might have missed it, I don't know), so I reuploaded.

I would agree if I thought it would matter, but I think the end result would just be the choices they ask people to donate money to being nitpicked into oblivion, or a lot of responses along the lines of, "Well you gave money to Henry Cuellar, so why don't you just spend your own money and leave us alone." So many of these attacks are in such bad faith and so coordinated - seeing MSNBC platforming that dangerous Rise Up cult to blast even the idea of fundraising for Democrats rang huge alarm bells for me. I do think the response has been a mess, and I've been complaining about their choices since a good while before Manchin killed BBB, but so much of the response on social media is very top-down from people who are motivated and compensated to depress Democratic turnout. I wish Pelosi had been able to hand the reins in the House over to someone a while back. I wish a better choice than Biden had been Bernie's main opposition in the primary. I wish Democrats were better at strategy and communication. But more than anything I just wish people would realize Democrats are not going to be near of what they want and, trite as it is, they just have to still keep voting and try to change the system as best they can, even if realizing that makes them look bad to their edgelord friends or means they have to see that they actually can't change the world through sarcastic tweets.

Priscilla talks about Dallas around 7 minutes in.

Another example of how H&A seems to be throwing things again the wall with the sudden departures of Logan and Jasmine. It could work...not sure if just adding bands onto a soap ever has a great hit rate. I assume the one woman is there to replace Jasmine's role in Cash's story. https://www.backtothebay.net/news/2022/06/29/home-and-away-announces-the-arrival-of-4-new-characters/

@Vee The idea of Diana the theater kid seizing onto the whole Chip saga for the sake of drama adds a lot more believability to how generally insufferable and stupid she was.

Looks like Manchin missed getting attention. We'll see if the can actually lands anywhere this time.

They will never rest until all lgbt people are silenced, likely for good.

@Vee Pathetic stuff. Reminds me that earlier today Jordan Charlton, yet another Bernie dead-ender/accelerationist, was tweeting out Puck News as the gospel truth (an article about how shocked Republicans are at Democrats not doing more after the Dobbs decision). I don't think it will sway many, because those who fall for this tend to be already be unlikely to vote for Democrats anyway, but the full court press from the garbage dump left, desperately working to drown out any sense of motivation or activism, has been staggering, and shows just how in bed they are with the right. Here is Jezebel blatantly misleading people that Biden is soon going to appointed an anti-abortion judge: Media Matters: There is so much more where this has come from, including deadenders pushing people to boycott Planned Parenthood and instead donate to cult groups like Rise Up.

Great finds @JAS0N47

1990 is an odd year - 1989 is a big transition year for Marland and 1990 is trying to come to grips with that - and this story is a great example of why. Having Frannie return and immediately become involved with a volatile man with a chaotic past was clearly a turnoff for viewers. Burke Moses was very attractive, but I just remember Sean losing his [!@#$%^&*] a lot.

I think of the four characters, Gary and maybe Val are the two I might have kept. Mack was ruined for me in the late '80s, I just...had seen enough of Karen, and Diana and Michael weren't compelling enough to be leading figures. If they had brought Sid's daughter back, maybe, but Karen Allen probably wouldn't have returned and there would less point in bringing the character back if you couldn't have Karen Allen. Season 13 was something of a revival for Valene (although I'm not sure Joan Van Ark would agree...but I think she was just demoralized by what had come before), and I think Valene would have made a better mentor figure for younger neighbors than Karen, who had become very cold. Underneath the sea of questionable choices made with Gary in the last 2 seasons, there was still a compelling character, plus the Ewing name meant potential appearances from various Dallas figures. I would agree with you about Knots up to around 1988, but after that point I feel like they started either writing out the wrong characters, or squandering potential until they had little choice but to write out the characters. And one character in particular (Claudia) lingered on two years after possibly the all time worst decimation I've seen on a soap. As for Doug Sheehan, I would agree he was lucky to get a job on a well-written (at that point) show after taking a risk on leaving daytime, but I do think he did a good job and did a great deal to help keep the Val/Gary dramas sustained for 3-4 more years, while being a viable partner to Val. I feel like it's very easy to take for granted how good he was until one remembers just how many poor male characters there were to come.