DramatistDreamer

Tamara Tunie has certainly been keeping busy.

I also find it difficult to believe that P&G suddenly care about these shows. I'm really starting to get suspicious. Part of me is starting to wonder if this isn't some type of Machiavellian strategy to him up interest in buying videos on the interwebs among soap afficionados and collectors. One thing about being a soap fan has been clear for many years--your loyalty as a fan will never be rewarded. Also, as much as I have been enjoying some of these reunion live streams, I have to wonder if the mention of songs and highlighting clips that contain pop songs (e.g. showing a scene btw "Lujack" and "Beth" set to the song "Almost Paradise") during these live streams might be setting off some type of trigger. Just wild speculation on my part.

Other countries are already either doing this or have authorized this.

Because she sits on all these committees, including the all-important Senate Intelligence Committee, Harris gets all of these briefings. That's gold!

Credit to Rucker. He kept pressing on to the next project. It was the show's loss.

Had it been written in 1987, it might have been more excusable but in 1997, just seems especially embarrassing. I thought 'School Daze' already covered this in the satirical context in which it deserved? The actresses did their best with the material they were given to work but sadly, each actresses got pulled into some of the worst, most stereotypical storylines ever written on the show (let's not forget Bonnie being involved in the Marshall Travers rape storyline as well as that stupid castle swordfight story with Billy.

Oh, it definitely wasn't me, lol. I cut cut out on that story so fast! I don't have much tolerance for stories that were that level of problematic. And so much about those storylines were problematic.

Some people in the comments section took it bad him trying to diminish VP-Elect Harris and her role as Biden's running mate. Such flawed analysis.

What's this guy's point?

Much of it definitely felt like colorism at play in those storylines, which is why, honestly, I couldn't get through much of it. I'd love to hear from Larry Bryggman on how he felt about the writer(s) who wrote his character, John Dixon as a rapist and a blackmailer. John Dixon's level of malevolent bad guy >>>>>>> Lucinda Walsh's level of bad guy.

If anything, Lucinda acted as something of a plot device when the character first entered the canvas in 1984. She was Craig's boss and had quickly become Lisa's nemesis, due to her prickly relationship with Whit McColl. It wasn't really until 1985, when Sierra arrived that Lucinda became entangled and somewhat obsessed with her children's lives. That aspect predated Marland, although he continued it. If a plot device could function as a character, (which it really cannot since a plot device is a situation, not a character) it would've functioned like a Nick Castello, James Stenbeck's lackey. Lucinda was an actual character with perceived autonomy. Hubbard may not have liked not being the heroine (Kathryn Hays already had that role) but the implication seemed to be that she was accusing Marland of preferring to write for the younger characters and that's simply not true. Kim, Bob and Susan and John might beg to differ. I asked about The Doctors' livestream because, I suspect there might have been some contentious carryover from there. Her behavior during that livestream spoke volumes on how she regarded her co-stars and her time there and her relationship with Marland on that show may have had a role in that. But even when she entered the canvas in '84, she was still a character (if an underutilized one), not a plot device, as characters cannot dramatically he used as such.

Gregg Marx was very candid in admitting that, looking back, he didn't realize how good he had it back in those days. Did Hubbard make her claim during the ATWT livestream or during The Doctors livestream? Yeah, La Hubbard got a ton of meaty stories during Marland's tenure, the only thing I could possibly think of is that perhaps she wanted to be a heroine instead of a villain but usually, it was the vixens, villains and 'bad gals' who had the most fun. Most characters on today's soaps would likely love to have someone write half as nuanced a character as she got to play.

My opinion but I think that much of the Democrats recent strategy in North Carolina was built around the Research Triangle and getting out the vote in those surrounding areas. The problem with that strategy is that in 2020, many of the students, researchers, etc. were unlikely to be on campus due to pandemic shutdowns that affected universities, research labs, museums and other cultural and academic spaces adjacent to the universities, not to mention all the volunteers that were drawn from their ranks. North Carolina Democrats could definitely do with utilizing local networks of organizers already living in existing communities and strengthening and building upon what is already there on the ground.

Georgia is a much more instructive model than Florida, which needs to start from scratch, if the Democrats are ever going to make it work. Georgia and even Arizona happened because of grassroots efforts in that were seeded years beforehand. I read an article about all the organizations in Georgia (not just Stacey Abrams) that were successful because of they were homegrown, not the usual method employed by the Democrats, which usually involves parachuting into communities for six weeks and canvassing. In GA and AZ you had community organizers that are well-known and therefore trusted engaging the community. Native American community organizers went to reservations to register people to vote as well as help some people get to the polls or drop boxes (if you think your mail is slow, try life on a reservation, where a mailbox can be miles away from where you live). The answer is not for Democrats to parachute in, per usual, in Florida but to find community organizers who are committed to breaking through the relentless voter suppression tactics and just support those people. It will likely take years, as it did in Georgia and there are never guarantees that these states' shifts will be long lasting but from what I have seen there seems to be new groups of newly empowered people who feel engaged politically in a way they had not been before. As cynical as I can sometimes be about politics (and judging from this group, I'm not alone), I can't be cynical about that.

Somebody heard me, lol.

Just clicked on QVC briefly and saw Terri Conn. Sounds as if she modulated her voice a bit. At least, from what I remember, her voice seemed to be higher pitched, somewhat squeaky when she was on ATWT.

An unattached to a playlist, in case anyone wants to see the episode but is having trouble finding it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=12KOOqGfJEI