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I agree. I know it was seen as boring but I liked the Val story. It fit her more than most of what had been done with her the previous 4-5 seasons.

Someone has put up some Old Grey Whistle Tests that apparently hadn't been around before. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMKkw87LSSoyKjVadIVRRSg/videos

Even now the scenes of Karen going all road rage on the paintball kids still bewilders me. And Claudia unintentionally murdering her own son, which genuinely made me angry. That type of what I assume was meant to be Greek tragedy just had no place on KL. And it obliterated Claudia as a character. She was never the same and should have been written out immediately. I say that even though I thought she was a great addition to the show up to that point. I remember when they had her attempt suicide and then had Karen essentially beg and guilt Kate into forgiving her (I don't think Karen knew what she'd done to her son, but still, I didn't believe Karen would have pushed so hard - it felt like the show belatedly trying to manipulate viewers and using a beloved character to do so).

A lot of people seem to love Rami Malek (although I'm not sure how many will forget his middling response to the Singer situation) but I will be surprised if he actually wins. It's too much of a hot potato, especially when they have someone like Christian Bale giving the type of performance they frequently reward.

I was reading the Wiki for Interiors, and saw this Woody Allen comment about his fears for the film. It just makes me laugh, because of all the soaps, Edge of Night is one of those that has aged the best, and talents like Irving Vendig and Henry Slesar will likely influence generations of writers if they take the time to sit and watch the episodes. Woody Allen movies, meanwhile, will always be suffocated by layers of extremely ugly baggage. Later, while watching the film with an acquaintance, Allen reportedly said "It's always been my fear. I think I'm writing Long Day's Journey into Night and it turns into Edge of Night."[11]

It's a shame because I think season 12 took some real steps in refreshing the show for a new era. Then everything started going very badly off the rails in the finale. I've rarely seen a finale that feels so wrong.

Oh it is kind of sweet. Just...odd. That was very nice of Michelle but I could have done without so much Karen. Then again, when the alternatives were Kate, and that annoying British woman, I suppose I should be grateful. Logically, the last season must have been better than the infamous season 13, but I don't remember enjoying most of it, at all.

I didn't even remember the Perfect Strangers theme. This first one looks like they had a completely different concept for the theme (one that looks like it came from 1979...) and said "Screw it - but keep the footage" and shot the rest.

Didn't we first just see Claudia's black heels or something? I'd forgotten all that with Ric and his wife (was this around the time they killed off the nurse Patrick slept with). Thanks. You have a great memory. Honestly sometimes I forget GH is even still on the air.

😄 They did Full House and Family Matters too, right? Those opening credits sequences are seared onto my brain. Maybe I should send them a bill.

I always love finding more soap actors in commercials so thanks. (just yesterday I saw an insurance ad with a voiceover from Thayer David - it was a nice surprise) Most of the time when boys on 70's and onward sitcoms get older they just become assholes and sex-obsessed, but the credits for the Hogan Family manage to maintain the "one twin athletic the other twin loves book learning" narrative all the way to the final season. I'd genuinely love to ask their producers about their opening credits ideas, especially since shows don't even have opening credits now...

I just noticed that someone FINALLY put the opening credits for the Louise Lasser season of It's A Living (or Making a Living - whatever) up on Youtube. Now that this is checked off the list I truly believe we are one step closer to world peace.

He couldn't even win a James Comey lookalike contest.

Reading the sad news about Edie McClurg apparently having dementia I was looking at some old Valerie's Hogan Family clips and ended up being reminded that Danny Ponce was one of the boys who played Laura's ageless son. I guess he got out of Knots at the right time... Did anyone ever notice at the time that the show had what seems like 6 or 7 different opening credits sequences? I found another new one just yesterday. Bewildering. This is probably my favorite one, as it has the popping and locking scene that today would probably be called "iconic". (I keep forgetting Christine Ebersole was ever on this show - she had so much bad luck in primetime)

While I understand the decision to push him out, given what he did and his fumbling response, I am increasingly worried at what will happen the next time the media and the GOP come after a Democrat they hate. When they come for Justin Fairfax, will any of the party fight his corner?

That was the year of Michael killing AJ, and Jennifer Bransford Carly, right? What was the other stuff? Was this when Sam found out Alexis was her mother? Was this when Emily was raped by Nik's doppleganger and the show said she should get over it and had him screwing Courtney? I wish TWOP's forums were still around to see what they would have said about the Alan and Reese scenes.

Alan was never a sweetheart or a teddy bear. He even raped Monica. I wasn't surprised the scene got so ugly, especially since the likely intent was to remind viewers of how awesome Sonny was. I was just shocked at how terribly written and acted it was. I guess it's been a long time since I've sat through any of the JFP/Luza era.

saynotoursoap had such wonderful uploads. Sadly I think these may be ones that somebody else took from his channel a few years ago and screwed up.

Why does James Comey think we need his opinion on this? Or anything?

It's so obvious they were desperately insecure about fan reaction to Sonny or Jason. This is what happens when you let people who have contempt for viewers and who push agendas run the show.

Holy [!@#$%^&*] that's some terrible, terrible acting.

I was just watching this and maybe I'm just being reading too much in because I know the show was having problems at this time, but I was surprised at such old school gaffes, like that call girl Andrew is sleeping with messing up her lines, and that woman with Cliff (who was she?) nearly knocking the table over! There's always something so fascinating about the bloated quality of '80s AMC. Going from the Hubbards being in a hostage crisis (hostage crises are usually a quick way to tell a show is running out of ideas) to Cliff and his lady love having a cozy meal. James Mitchell was so sexy back in that era. Did Stephen Caffrey want to leave the show? The comments say he was trying to help out Tad and Dottie. I always just thought his stories involved his mother and Palmer. Did Greg have any actual story by this point or was he just marking time? I wonder if he would have stuck around if Larry Lau hadn't quit (I know they had an ill-fated recast).

There was some controversy in Virginia recently over an abortion bill and people claiming that Northam supports all forms of abortion, etc. I wonder if that led some to dig deeper.

Isn't Vice hellish behind the scenes?