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I have a few others I'll try to put up at some point.

This is most of a 1998 episode. The bit before the opening credits is mostly not there. It runs about 5-10 minutes after the closing credits. I didn't want to edit because many tell me it makes everything go out of sync.

It didn't bother me as much with Grant this time around, although the scene itself was stupid, because these were scared young men (who miraculously still managed to pull off a home invasion in the middle of the day in a packed Square - I had to headcanon that everyone just really hates the Mitchells and hoped they all died), he was with a young man, and he was waving a bat around. But this with Mick was just silly and makes a mockery of the story. I guess we're supposed to see this as Mick trying to show control the only way he knows how, and he can't help, and so on, but it doesn't come across that way because Lee doing the raid was so extreme and had no buildup. As a result no one in this is sympathetic. I also question why the "villains" in the story were cast with MOC up against our white heroes. What really bothers me is that they had all that about Lee getting a Samaritans card to use if he needed help, and then Mick found the card and told him he should have killed himself. What the hell kind of message is that to send to people struggling with suicidal thoughts???

I already went on and on about this at Walford Web, but the whole thing bothers me because yet again a story that is supposed to be serious and important is just more shock value and bile. If they were going to be honest about the culture of Mick (that Lee worships - essentially the hard done by white man who is making his way in the world as best he can), then they would have had him come back bloodied and beaten, because he went up against a strong guy 15-20 years his junior, in good shape. Instead, he had to be the bad-ass, because just like with Phil, the show has to remind us of his superiority. The abusive behavior from Mick, along with Whitney being written as so unsupportive and dumb, has just ruined this plotline. It's sad how no matter how many producers come and go, this writing for fathers never seems to change.

The sad part I guarantee you some bitter fans are going to cheer if/when the show is canceled for her. Years of whitewashing hate, extremism and fascism? Who cares. She's striking out against the show that broke up their favorite supercouple/didn't cater to their favorite tight-assed jerkoff fantasy. It's all good.

Most of the northern identity has been stripped from the shows, if that helps you any. Eastenders would do better at 3 episodes, but the main problem is wildly uneven material. The poor writing for the Lee story has dragged down the rest of this week so far.

Thanks. Ah, the '80s...

Thanks so much for these.

No. I mean she finally wakes up and presumably stops acting like a dumb twat. I think the story has made her look awful but if they let her move on and maybe address this behavior (good luck with that...) I can get past it. I've gotten over enough from other characters (especially Cain, who spent years murdering people's pets), although the compo stuff was just terrible and embarrassing writing.

It's winding down in the next few days, thankfully.

A lot of people are very confused and misinformed about the ACA, and will likely believe the lies that a plan will be on the way.

And look how quickly the media is giving Trump the credit. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cnn-manages-to-blow-the-house-ethics-story

This is just a few scenes, really - hopefully the full episode is around somewhere - but I thought people might still enjoy it.

He was dull as hell to me. And then, yes, he was very creepy on Port Charles, in an awful, awful story where he had sex with an amnesiac Lucy, trying to convince her that she was his dead wife, and the show tried to pass this off as romantic. It was one of several reasons I quit watching for ages.

Ew, she is? How lazy. I think they're also supposed to be fighting over the factory. I hate that place. I hate the idea that it's supposed to be reclaimed for the Baldwins. There are no Baldwins. Just a retcon child. I think Oates sees him as her new Ross Barton. Well, he isn't.

You're right. I do wonder about Chris as it seemed like her character changed very quickly. Chris was a construction worker who began dating John, and soon claimed he was sexually harassing her. He later learned she was mentally ill from losing a husband and child in Vietnam. She kidnapped Donna's foster son Mikey, I think. Kevin and his sister (Gabrielle Carteris) had the drug story. Rick was the one who lasted the longer, with two actors (as so often seemed to happen with recurring AW roles, more than other soaps - 2, 3, 4, etc. actors in a role). He dated Julie Ann Edwards. I think they left town together (?).

This show really has gone down the shitter. The end of this is a howler. These characters are everything I hate about modern soaps. I want Len Fairclough to rise from the grave and beat their asses.

Kellyanne Conway being quoted defending them does make me wonder if she's playing both sides. These are some low-down, craven people - most Republicans are craven but many dress it up in moral superiority. It's going to be a system shock for them when Lee Atwater mutations begin to take up more and more of their ranks.

And here we have Republicans already being pawns in Trump's media game - talk about an own goal. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/gop-congress-ethics-office-233123

You should watch Holly's death from Emmerdale last year. One of the best soap moments in a long time.

Yes, as Jeanne Cooper joked about at the time. (having no story) I remember reading about his intro and how he was shown swinging an axe, and so forth, making viewers wonder if he was dangerous. It did seem like he was more for Katherine's story early on. I don't know if that was always just planned for the intro and he was always supposed to be for Ashley (or Ashley and Hope). I didn't get the impression when watching sporadically at that time that they had any great idea where to take him. Does anyone have the episode from around this point where Cole and Ryan smash up Nina's living room? (I would have thought this was it but I guess there was another one) Someone asked me for it. I remember watching vaguely during this period but I was so disappointed at the time by where they'd taken Nina and Victoria that it was difficult to bother. I do remember that unintentionally hilarious story where Ashley went walking in the woods in the middle of the night and got the [!@#$%^&*] beat out of her, leading to various scenes of John saying, essentially, "What kind of a world is it where you can't go walking in the woods?" Genoa City must have been a very, very safe place if women had been wandering around the woods in the middle of the night for years up to that point.

Some of the original (not Soapnet) airings of a few summer 1988 episodes.

Republicans never destroy each other as much as Democrats do (Democrats seem to have a passion for it...), but I do think we're going to see some very nasty conflicts these next 2-4 years. Sadly the average person is the one who will pay the biggest price, so we can't even point and laugh.