I Am A Swede

All done with 1978, and I think this was the best year for Emmerdale Farm. Unlike 1977 I had already seen a fair amount of episodes from this year before, but it was wonderful to fill in the missing gaps. And this year's MVP was undoubtedly Katharine Barker as Dolly. She radiates a different kind of energy than the show's previous younger leading ladies like Diane Grayson (Janie), Carolyn Moody (Alison), Lesley Manville (Rosemary) or Polly Hemingway (Kathy). Dolly has such a bright, sunny personality and she breathed new life into the Emmerdale household. It's such a treat to go back in time and immerse oneself into this world. I'm amazed at how realistic the show was. The actors perform real farm activities on camera, and everything feels authentic. Beckindale really feels like a small Yorkshire village, steeped in hundreds and hundreds of years of farming tradition. It's a world of its own, with its own way of life. Which is why NY Estates arrival in the area when they bought the Verney estate (Home Farm) was such a huge deal. This would drive story for years, and in a way it still does. The constant battles over Home Farm that is still going on started with this. It was a huge change for a community that had essentially stayed the same for centuries. We saw the first of Seth Armstrong this year, and we also saw the last of Gail Harrison as Marian Wilks. That feels a little sad. She only appeared sporadically after her initial departure, but she was always a welcome guest when she appeared, and her replacement Debbi Blythe didn't impress me during her brief stints in the late 1980s. (That they didn't bring either of them back for Henry's funeral is still a sore point for me, even though it's been over 30 years). On now to 1979, and a year that will bring an even sadder departure than Gail Harrison's. This would be the last year of Katharine Barker's stint as Dolly, and I'm really not looking forward to saying goodbye to her.

Angela Mortimer Barrett, the 1961 Wimbledon women's singles champion, has died at the age of 93.

Wow, I just saw some clips from Trump's cabinet meeting yesterday and....just wow. I think I actually threw up a little. That was one of the most embarrassing things I have ever seen. How can those people look at themselves in the mirror after that pathetic behaviour. Their heads are so far up Trump's giant ass I'm amazed they can still breathe, and I think it would be easier to find Jimmy Hoffa than to find their spines. Liz Cheney was so right. One day Trump will be gone, but their dishonour will remain. It's all there on tape for posterity to look at and be shocked.

^^ I normally don't agree with almost anything anyone in charge at B&B says, but this is an exception. "Pure trash" is a perfect description.

How much better the world would have been if she had won, or indeed if Hillary had won in 2016....

For me characters like that would have been perfect to bring in. They had ties to one of the show's founding families which would please longtime fans, yet were unrelated to most of the current cast giving them a lot of romantic possibilities. Why not mine the show's long, rich history instead of bringing in totally new characters?

So I guess they will try to paint Luna raping Will as him being drunk and making a "mistake". 🤮

I'm not kidding, seeing that thing (I refuse to call him anything more humanlike) makes me feel physically ill. 🤢

Maybe it could be a new punishment? Force people who behave badly to sit through a weeks worth of B&B episodes. 🤔 Then again, I think that would classify more as torture than punishment.....

This is a great speech. Unfortunately the Republicans are too far gone for it to have any effect. They have sold their souls (if they had any) to the devil, and I can only hope that they will eventually find that the cost will be heavy on the day of reckoning....

Good to know that the show's creator is on my side. I can only imagine what he would say about the state of the show nowadays....

The tweet shows the original headline for the article. It's been changed. Probably because of the reactions from the viewers expressed in the comments and elsewhere.

I hope the backlash grows even more. Other sites are also picking up on it. ‘Disgusted’ Bold & Beautiful Viewers Rightly Outraged by Horrifying Twist: ‘Do Better!’

Thank you Daytime Confidential for calling this exactly what it was!! The Bold and the Beautiful Recap: Luna Rapes Will

Incredibly petty, but nothing I wouldn't have expected. These people are relentless.

Well, they didn't call it rape when Ridge did the same to Caroline or Brooke either. Not to mention Quinn and Liam. This show has a really twisted relation to sexual assaults.

Would she have called it a love scene (🤢) if the genders were reversed? I don't think so.

B&B didn't fall enough!