DramatistDreamer

I'm already getting tired of NBC's abysmal coverage. And have fun with that upcoming tropical storm.

Dusty absolutely challenged Lily on her attitude and it went into '86 and '87. I always liked how Dusty was written without guile. He's the type of character that would be called "boring" as today's soap fans seem only to gravitate towards "grey" (🙄) characters.

I didn't even expect the Monfilses to play in Tokyo, they had an exceptionally short honeymoon getaway. These courts are so slow but maybe Kei can make a go of it. Too bad there are no spectators. Under normal circumstances, Kei would've had a loud and proud Japanese public at his matches. Sorribes Tormo seems like a 21st century version of Arantxa Sanchez Vicario. I'm not sure how sustainable her style of tennis will be in these weather conditions and I suspect that a truly big hitter can still bash her off the court, as in the case of what eventually happened to Sanchez-Vicario.

Don't get me wrong @Broderick, I don't believe that the writing intentionally set Lily up to look like a jerk, a spoiled princess yes, but not an intentional jerk. Lily never believed that her intentions were anything but good and she was, at her core a very needy teenager by the time the Snyders entered the canvas. Unless, the character is a complete psychopath or a serial killer, a writer usually finds some empathy for the characters she or he writes. I also believe that Marland likely believed Martha a capable enough actress that she could play this type of a character and not totally alienate the viewers. Lily and Holden's popularity as a couple bore out that guess as being correct.

Speaking of what writers hope to achieve, where viewer allegiance is concerned, I'm going to say something that may shock some, or at the very least, surprise a few: I don't believe that Lily Walsh was supposed to be regarded as a likeable character, especially as played by Martha Byrne. I have my reasons, and as a writer, it becomes more clear to me as the years pass and I watch episodes from the 80s, in particular. I think that viewers often confuse screen time with favorability. Villains often get a whole lot of screen time and material too, not that Lily was a villain, but she was definitely a self-absorbed, selfish, and often thoughtless, rich girl. In her relationship with Dusty during the 80s, in particular, she did not come out looking good in that instance. I think this was intentional in the writing, the direction as well as the acting choices. In fact, there wasn't much emotional growth from Lily until she had her first child, a lot of stupid and thoughtless choices had been made by her. If you want to discuss a character who had the most growth, who made the transition from ingenue (and sometimes vixen) to heroine in the 80s, I would give that distinction to Meg Snyder.

Brad Gilbert said that Felix Auger-Aliassime had likely been preparing himself for days to play Andy Murray (who FAA beat in their previous meeting) and had no game plan for his replacement. Tbh, I tend to agree, as the news of Murray's withdrawal came a few hours before the match was set to take place. Olympic tennis can yield some unpredictable results sometimes.

They Waited, They Worried, They Stalled. Then They Got The Shot. https://news.yahoo.com/waited-worried-stalled-then-got-151520824.html

Sorribes Tormo dragged Ashleigh Barty all over the court today. It's hard for me to reconcile heat being a factor for Barty. It looked like Sorribes Tormo made the match very very physical, running Barty all over the court, mixing up shots and keeping Barty on her heels, not allowing her to essentially stand in virtually one place and hit.

It is lazy but he doesn't care enough to pay professional writers. I didn't really watch Loving but I heard that was there was a serial killer that killed several characters in the final days of the soap. I remember on Capitol, some character were shot in front of a firing squad in the last days. Both of these instances sound better than what happened on HAHN. Perry's already moved on to BET, lol, 'bout to ruin another show.

In primetime television, Ava Duvernay has done a lot to bring a whole group of women into the directing ranks, and women of color in particular (something daytime has yet to do, despite having a loyal following among Black women) but this is all fairly recent. There are a few ways that daytime drama genre, in it's earliest days can be regarded as fairly progressive but this is clearly not one of them. The genre more often than not, moves as slow as molasses. I also specifically mentioned daytime soaps on television as they are still where the money is (however scaled back). Web soaps don't yet measure up to the ones on television, although if the budgets decline any further, they soon shall be. Venice and other web soaps are still primarily crowd-funded productions.

Insightful thread that proposes that we think about anti-vaxx and COVID deniers the way we regard drunk drivers or those who knowingly infect people with HIV.

Oh I gave up in the middle of the second episode, but these bitter tweets are giving me Life!🤣

The reason why I specifically asked about women directors is because director is usually a male dominated field and I thought about the fact that the daytime soap was a genre that targeted women, whose audience was made up of primarily women and to see whether the genre was different from movies and primetime tv in it's day, was it somehow different, more progressive, given its target audience. Other jobs with television and film production tend to be more open to women. Historically there have been quite a number of producers-associate, line and executive producers. Director is often still regarded as a predominantly the domain of men, especially when one thinks of the most famous directors, women's name don't tend to automatically spring to mind. What I realize is that for television, especially daytime soaps, the director doesn't seem to occupy the same prominent position as he/she would in film. I'm not sure how gender dynamics might figure into why, for instance, it's so hard to find out definitively who the first woman to direct a daytime drama was, but the fact that the answer isn't right there is strange to me. Especially in a genre started by a woman, that likes to remind people of its 'feminist' credentials.

This got me wondering, who was the first woman to direct a daytime soap in the U.S.? Does anyone know?

During the 80s? Cool.

This question went unanswered when I posted it in the As The World Turns thread, so perhaps that wasn't the best place to pose this question: are there any daytime soaps that aired on American television that had two or more women as directors during the 1980s? As The World Turns had Maria Wagner and Jill Mitwell. I wonder if this was rare or are were there other daytime soaps that had at least two women regularly occupying the director's chair?

We're there any other daytime soaps that had more than one woman directing episodes during the 1980s? I have noticed that ATWT had Maria Wagner and Jill Mitwell and I wonder if this was rare or common during that time period.

Is Marcia Fudge doing her job at HUD? Just as the mayor of Newark, NJ.

Got my hands on the ebook version ( was hoping for the audiobook, oh well) and while looking through the Table Of Contents, I noticed the title of Chapter 12..."The World Turns" ☺️.

A friend of mine from AZ, who I recently talked to, basically said, "We're gonna vote her (Sinema) out".

I agree. So much so, that that bottom-feeding ex Fox News channel host is trying to latch onto Naomi just hoping to resurrect her battered "brand" but Naomi was having none of it. Remember when tennis media used to claim that the Williams Sisters were damaging their careers by not playing a "full" schedule in the late 90s? How did that prediction work out? They were also criticized for having "too many outside interests" and not devoting their time exclusively to their tennis. Again, how did that work out?

You're welcome. A few days ago, I put in a request for my local library to purchase her book. If it were in the stacks, it would give me an excuse to take a brisk walk to my library and check it out, donning my mask, of course.

It's been a long time since I've watched anything on CNN, other than a presidential debate, but I noticed that this was trending.