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I wonder about that son of Flynn's.

I thought that was true to Emma's character. Manipulative, deluded, desperate. Gillian Kearney played it well. The only part that really bothered me was they wanted to keep the audience in the dark too about whether Faith knew, which meant the scene where she revealed she didn't know anything was just confusing and flat, aside from the performances.

The Politico article @Vee posted a link to is one I read earlier today. It spends a little too much time reminding us of this or that principled Republican, but there are a lot of interesting passages. This one hits on something I've always wondered about - how the true believers would feel about someone like Steve Bannon. Members of the Freedom Caucus realized right away that there would be no negotiating. Pence tried to pump up the conservatives, telling them the fight was theirs to win and that they needed to help Trump and Ryan score a victory for the new administration. The plea landed on deaf ears. "Take one for the team" was a phrase repeatedly deployed; at one point, after Bannon used it, Joe Barton, a white-haired conservative from Texas, snapped back in response that Bannon was talking to them like children and he didn't appreciate it. The room filled with uncomfortable silence; Bannon backed down and the meeting went on. (Barton eventually announced his support for the legislation—one of only a few who would eventually switch positions.) After several hours, the members returned to the Capitol feeling frustrated, calling the meeting "a waste of time" and wondering if they had missed their only window for cutting a deal with Trump.

I wasn't really suggesting you should. I just posted it because it was their tactic. I don't think most people care about George Soros. I don't think most care about the ACA either, really. I guess at least those who do showed up to speak their mind when it counted.

That's it. I don't care if it's not explored, but it's just that it never even existed.

You've all likely already heard about this, but it looks like we're getting sustained efforts to undercut the protest movement against Trump by blaming it all on George Soros: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/conservatives-soros-indivisible-trump-protest-group-236439

I thought it was believable but it was somewhat rushed onscreen.

I think Ben could work in a relationship, as he did when allowed happy moments with Paul, but the show doesn't really care about giving him a relationship. I think the idea was supposed to be that Lauren was with the "good" brother she thought went bad, and was now with the "good" brother who was actually bad. I imagine we were supposed to soon learn that Steven was wicked and wrong. We probably still will. The guy who played the boring copier man - http://www.heart.co.uk/showbiz/tv/eastenders/eastenders-extra-photo-copier-guy/

Yes. I'm glad you're enjoying it. Sorry I haven't put up more. I always liked Paul, and I wish he'd pop in a bit now, at least to see Bernice. I loved Carl...don't get me started on that one. I wish more older stuff for Emmerdale was around. One thing that I don't think new viewers realizes is that Bernice started most of what we have now with Ashley, Laurel, Diane, Nicola, etc. I'm not even sure if the show remembers considering how rarely we see Bernice. If you want to see more 2011 material I have another channel called Frank Harker.

They already gutted the parts that could have kept it afloat long term. I guess the question is whether insurers will ever want to work with it again.

Ah. I couldn't remember if it was that or something with Gina Tognoni. I think I would have liked Robin Christopher more in another role. She never seemed suited to Lorna to me.

I can't really blame him for leaving, as he got another year and a half of employment from being on OLTL (although wasn't there some backstage drama with him there?). I can't say I was ever that fond of his AW work.

The most annoying part is that the base of the GOP, like the Koch brothers and the Fascism Caucus, didn't lose. They will be strengthened by this. And many will say it justified the decision to botch this from the very start of the process because it's better optics to sit back and let millions die in case in their dying breaths they tell their loved ones to blame liberals. It's disgusting how for over 8 years now Republicans have been rewarded over and over for doing nothing or just gutting and cutting. And it never seems to stop.

They'll just keep letting the ACA die while working to gut other programs they hate, like Medicare and Medicaid. And a lot of people will still blame Democrats and Obama.

I can understand why Pelosi was so gleeful, because I know the alternative was worse, but it's hard for me to get past the reality of knowing that the GOP will just make sure Obamacare is a rotting old house, left in disrepair, pillaged and scavenged until nothing is left but vague hints of promise when you look at it from the right angle. This will also be spun as "good" for the GOP (obviously not for Trump or Paul Ryan) which means voters will return to giving them a pass, as they so often do. As always, Republicans win no matter what.

Nearly all of the flashback footage, what there was of it, was dumped on the cutting room floor. I'm not sure if they ever had any big plans for the character. @Vee may know more.

It's so hard to watch that. I've never known why they were so kill-happy with Sugdens. Poor Matt.

I took that more as the actor appeasing fans, especially since the scene was one of the more blatant examples of queerbaiting I've ever seen. I do think it's a possibility, but now if he suddenly goes after men while being "bad" again, it will just be another stereotype.

He was never straight. He was written as lusting after men very quickly. He was lying to himself for Phil. It was a bad storyline (as it was obvious DTC just wanted to do his own version of Ben's coming out story - there were no stakes, Phil didn't give a damn about Ben when he was "straight" or now that he's openly gay), but he was never straight. They seem to actually be saying Steven is straight. Or at the very least allowing people to assume he is. Aaron Sidwell tweeted that Steven is bi, but that's not on the show.

Not that this has to do with your posts - it just annoyed me. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/03/23/the-trump-administration-wants-to-kill-the-popular-energy-star-program-because-it-combats-climate-change/?tid=pm_politics_pop&utm_term=.99e1626e3c72

Unless he's afraid of losing the big activist support (that never bothers to show up at polls anyway), I'm not sure why Schumer is trying to force a filibuster of Gorscuh that will just cost Democrats any ability to block nominees from now on (and for a long time, as I doubt they'll win the Senate back in 2018). Maybe he figures they're going to take it away anyway. I don't know. Generally I find Schumer to mostly be good at talking to a camera. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/chuck-schumer-neil-gorsuch-filibuster-scotus-nomination-236441

I guess given how OTT and trashy their writing was on their soaps a character like Anna wouldn't have fit their view. Their loss.

Aaron Sidwell, I believe, said they did that as a fakeout so viewers would be surprised he was now with Lauren. Not only did it not work (Steven/Lauren was so obvious people called it from their first scene together), it's since been a noose around the show's neck, as they had far more chemistry in one queerbaiting scene than Lauren and Steven ever had.