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Do you prefer Jed here or as CC?

Oh good. I wasn't sure if you watched these years so I hesitated but I am glad you enjoyed it too.

No problem. If you didn't have it I hope it helps with all your research and information as it's so invaluable.

Great. Did you enjoy it or was this not a favorite era for you?

Thanks. I wonder if any of Flippen's ideas really made it to air. Ah. He must have been bad to mention him all those years later.

That's interesting. I didn't know that. Did she say why?

Do you think they should have given Elizabeth Harrower more of a chance? What were Laemmle's nighttime shows?

Oh good. I hope you give us some of your comments. I was mostly glad to see Richard Guthrie's David was still there (I thought he'd gone by this time), and that I got to see Marie (I love Launa's Marie). And there is some good Doug and Julie melodrama at the end, even if poor SSH had to gasp like a seal. I can see why Gloria Loring was so popular with fans even as most of the new characters weren't - she has a real spark and a self-assurance about her, and clicks with Joe Gallison. I didn't realize Don and Marlena were still together at this time either for some reason. It made me sick seeing her having friendly talk with Kellam knowing he would go on to rape her. The one scene that really annoyed me was having Tom say he now knows how patients feel when by this point he'd already seen various friends and family linger in hospital beds for well over a decade. Just a stupid line. Thankfully Macdonald Carey and Frances Reid were as wonderful as always. Ratings drop I think. Glad you enjoyed it. That Archives channel has some other DAYS episodes too, but from later in the '80s and then into the '90s. This was so rare I was shocked to see it.

I didn't really remember anyone in the thread but people who hated the cuts, so I misunderstood. My mistake.

They're working out fine for the people they were intended for - big business. I do think they are one of the main reasons that Republicans lost the House, so at least that was one bright spot.

I was going to share this privately to people but the PM system still doesn't work so there's no point. It's an August 1980 episode that one of my favorite channels uploaded. @jam6242 @JAS0N47 @vetsoapfan this is right after Julie got shot, so if it's new to you I hope you enjoy it. https://archive.org/details/vcd1522120

Not to take away from that but I was just thinking how he ended up pretty much destroying Molly as a character as after his exit everything given to her was terrible, aside from her 2010 return, which I thought was surprisingly strong.

Pence doesn't want the blame. He can get his agenda through while Trump is the public face. People also likely know how these big revolutions turn out (as it likely will in Honk Kong soon enough). The only way anything will change is if rich white kids are affected. I think that the media and the Democrats have long underestimated just how much dislike and outright contempt there is for immigrants from many people. It's not just a liberal vs conservative issue and nuance is long gone from American discourse, if it was ever there in the first place.

They have a long history of this attempt to rehab far right Republicans. They had Tom DeLay, the corrupt and vile House Speaker, on years ago. One of the reasons I quit watching.

I don't have the money for this (it's an umpteenth box set) but I just love how unabashedly corny and fun David Lynch is.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-place-like-home-the-long-lost-film-predicting-how-tourism-would-ruin-jamaica

The Native American stuff is the main reason I was wary of supporting her in the primary. It's always going to be an issue, but at least she is trying to repair some of the damage. I read that Susan Sarandon is out making digs about her. No surprise there, really. I see a lot of comments about stories like the the one about the abused women which basically say - we have our own problems. And these comments are from Democrats, and people who could see themselves as moderate or liberal. I understand why people feel that way, but I worry about what this coarsening will do to America in the long term. That's the worst of Trump, in some ways - in the long term he has encouraged so much coarsening and rotting away of the best of what the country was meant to be (even if it was rarely actually able to live up to that best).

I think it's great news. I thought she was terrific last season and she and Goodman had such a natural chemistry. I don't think the show will push it too fast either.

What a [!@#$%^&*] joke. And not at all surprising. https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/18/mark-halperin-book-deal-1467085 Judith Regan is expected to release this statement about why she is publishing Halperin’s book: “I do not in any way, shape, or form condone any harm done by one human being to another. I have also lived long enough to believe in the power of forgiveness, second chances, and offering a human being a path to redemption. HOW TO BEAT TRUMP is an important, thoughtful book, and I hope everyone has a chance to read it.”

That is somewhere between incredibly embarrassing and incredibly dangerous.

If you pay they put it up.

I liked the story with her helping the waitress. I know it's one of those stories used as an example of why the season didn't work, but I felt that it was a nice throwback to the early seasons.

I agree with you, but then I feel like these games aren't meant for anyone outside of his base. It seems to work every time. I hope this time that doesn't turn out to be the case.

http://www.knotslanding.net/interviews/joan2.htm "Loathed" was probably too strong a word on my part, but she lumps it in with material of this era she disliked (the chat person names LML and BL but I think someone else had taken over this season). Alex Wade from Detroit, Michigan asks In close to your last season of Knots, Val loses her marbles yet again. In what could have been a same, tired old storyline, is in fact one of Val’s most entertaining forays into madness. How did you keep it fresh after all those years of playing borderline crazy? JVA: Which storyline does he mean? AS: My guess is the one in your second to last season when you fell off the horse and wound up somehow getting a brain virus. Val did all sorts of weird things like stir-frying the kids’ hermit crabs. JVA: Oh right, right. That one did ask a lot of me. I think the writers tested me with that one. I think they were testing me, sending me up. Val’s going to stir-fry the kids’ pets … how much crazier could she have gotten? But I guess this person from Detroit enjoyed it and that’s what the writers were going for. Maybe he saw it as a fun variation on a constant, repetitive theme. AS: So you really didn’t like what they were doing with Val at that time. JVA: No I really didn’t. I’m thinking of two particular writers who liked making fun of Val. Before, I’d go to David Jacobs, who was the creator and executive producer of the show and I’d talk about certain scenes and tweak them, but in this case I didn’t object or confront the two writers … there wasn’t allowed to be a dialogue. AS: Were these two just two writers? Did you talk to the head writers? JVA: These were the head writers at the time. AS: Oh, (Lynn Marie) Latham and (Bernard) Lechowick were the ones you didn’t like. That’s interesting. JVA (hesitantly): I guess you know the behind the scenes things that were going on then. AS: Well, I interviewed John Pleshette about a month ago and he couldn’t stand them. JVA: They came into a show that was established and … I really don’t know if I should be saying this here … but there was a little bit of turning it upside down. God bless ‘em for going on and having successful careers (after Knots) but it became more and more challenging to play Val the way they wrote for her. Oh and happy birthday.

Bibi is a messy and thuggish figure so I'm not surprised he didn't go that route. Today they offered Congresswoman Tlaib the opportunity to visit her grandmother, which she declined (and I can understand why she did), so that ends up making them look magnanimous, even though they have no right to be seen that way. So the optics tilt their way, as usual.