DramatistDreamer

Zach Roerig was busted for DUI in May?!! In a less crazy time this would've made a lot more news headlines. https://www.tmz.com/2020/05/29/vampires-diaries-zach-roerig-arrested-dui-allegedly-urinates-pees-jail-cell/

Speaking of the overlooked continuity between writing regimes, only four years later David Cryer (Haskell) would return as Phillip Lombard. I would have liked the show to bring him back in the show's final years, as he might've made a good love interest for Lisa. Fulton and Cryer clearly have some zany, fun chemistry in these scenes. In the show's last years, Lisa was in desperate need of some fun and romance. I was going to say the same thing. Finn became much more assured in the next year and did some excellent work in 1986 and 87, in particular. Finn had come straight from Little Theater into television, already a different animal and daytime, in particular, has a very frenetic pace where one has to learn copious pages of dialogue very quickly. I don't think most people have an appreciation for how challenging that can be and Finn was not eased into things either...she entered in storyline that was already off the ground and running. I'd advise people to look at her scenes in 1986 and 1987, she did some fantastic work on the show! Last year I said that I wished Cal Randolph had stayed around (did the actor leave by choice or was his character dispatched? I ask because with these livestreams we're finding out that many actors who were alleged to have been "cut" actually chose to leave e.g. Frank Runyeon and wanted to be written out). The more I see the character, the more I think he should've stayed. Fight me, if you want but I think Luke Reilly and Lisa Brown would have had some really good chemistry. Was I the only one who didn't know that Zach Roerig got busted for DUI over Memorial Day weekend? https://www.tmz.com/2020/05/29/vampires-diaries-zach-roerig-arrested-dui-allegedly-urinates-pees-jail-cell/

No surprises there, especially when several members of his cabinet were testing positive for well over a month. Hm.

This. 2Chainz can go sit in his VR chair. Does he even vote?? Does Elon Musk even vote? I've talked to my nieces and nephews, some of whom are voting age now and they have told me that buying a pair of Yeezy's (which are ugly, tbh) is different from voting for the office of POTUS. It is an entirely different calculus. And I suspect the voices that are loudest on social media (that is, if it's not mostly some Russian troll factory) are the ones least likely to show up to the ballot machines, especially if those lines are long. The only tweets I've really seen are the ones joking that Kanye's M-I-L Kris Kardashian is likely behind this and also making jokes about what Kim would be like as FLOTUS, taking endless selfies.

I must be on a totally different wavelength because I have yet to hear any single person say that they will vote for Kanye. People are talking about 'splitting the Black vote' as if Black voters are stupid and fall for anything, when the majority of donors and financial supporters of conmen like Shaun King are white, who continually ignored the warnings of black women and continue to contribute to that fraudsters. Black voters are not stupid and we are not a monolith.

This is soap YT page quickly becoming my favorite channel for ATWT episodes because she/he/they are posting some episodes that I'm pretty sure have never been posted before. That cover version of "Every Breath You Take" in the opening scene had me screaming. There have been clips posted of Lisa struggling and Tom and Margo getting to the warehouse but much of how they got there was missing. This fills in the missing details.

Just a reminder. And this is all I'm going to even bother to say in regards to what's-his-face.

I agree and there was a continuity of style in some of the execution of later storylines during Marland's tenure. For example, the chaotic, frenzied night where Shannon got arrested at Diana's and a brawl ensues where the police ended up dragging everyone in the restaurant's dining room into the police station (with an exasperated Lt. McClosky bellowing for "Quiet!"), with Lucinda once again salivating at the prospect of capitalizing off the juicy gossip that will be in her newspaper. That happened a year later in '86. It has obvious echoes to the frenzied, chaotic scene at Bob & Kim's wedding reception. There are other examples where there is a continuity of characterizations and technique in story execution that might not be obvious to some but is obvious to me. The style and the execution are very similar, except a year later, the tracking of how the scene was filmed at Diana's was technically more sophisticated, having been filmed with edits that were more seamless.

From what I've seen of her work, I think that Susan Bedsow Horgan would have been able to manage HW duties. This just goes to prove how terribly misogynistic the daytime soap industry was and still is, which is pretty shocking, considering the role of Irna Phillips, a woman, in the creation of the T.V. daytime drama. I posted that episode because, for all the talk that Bob and Kim's wedding gets, no one seems to mention the fact that an entire room of the bridal party and guests were rounded up by police and shuffled off to the police station, where they were detained! Also, those scenes between Lucy Deakins' Lily and EH's Lucinda seem pretty tender and rare...not that it's meat, or anything but you catch my drift. but yeah, a pretty chaotic episode, lol.

...but by all means, let's rush these children back to schools and daycare facilities.

Breonna Taylor really could've had her own thread, so tragic is her death.

Can't remember whether I've actually seen this episode where the police burst into Bob and Kim's wedding reception. Has this episode been posted before?

This man fought so hard.

Oh my.

"knee injury" wink. This is somewhat surprising.

Question: So, just how many secretaries did Brandon Spaulding have affairs with? I remember Bess Lowell from that whole storyline about the 'footrace' to get control of Spaulding by proving that Jenna Bradshaw's father had no claim but I just read about a woman named Amanda Wexler (played by Rita Lloyd, who I best remember from her work on As The World Turns). Can anyone illuminate on this? Was Bess more of a retcon character or had the character been spoken of or appear before the 90s? In what order were all these affairs?

Watching this episode last night (I'm not sure I've seen this particular episode, just several episodes before and the aftermath) but it made me realize something. Craig and Lucinda's ONS was definitely not something to romanticize. I knew that they were both in pain because they had come to believe that Sierra had "died" in Montega but I didn't realize how heavily Craig had been drinking that evening leading up to the ONS. It also shows that Craig was feeling quite sorry for himself because he saved Steve's life and didn't appear to get any word of thanks from Steve or Betsy. This episode does, however, crystallize Lucinda's feelings and also why she may have become so embittered where Craig (and his ensuing romance with Sierra) was concerned. It had to do with that instant regret that Craig had begun to express once he discovered that not only was Sierra alive but she had apparently been in Oakdale for almost two weeks or so. Lucinda not only felt discarded but she realized that she was likely an outlet for Craig's pain...although I'm not sure why she wouldn't take Craig's swigging down copious amounts of alcohol as a sign of that. Also, this episode features Nancy arriving from Arizona and serving up some of that 'sauce' that she was often known for on the eve of the eve of Bob and Kim's nuptials. Also everybody is talking about Frannie, yet Frannie has not arrived. It's so interesting how much chatter about Frannie's arrival takes place, almost as if it is a hugely awaited arrival, before Julianne Moore makes her debut on the show. A precursor of things to come in Moore's career, I guess.

Yeah yeah yeah, I know it's the NYT but this Op-Ed piece (yeah yeah yeah, I know...Op-ed...) by Soledad O'Brien is worth having a read.

It's a Long Story YT page has some episodes posted but I don't want to duplicate is they've already been posted here.

Are you sure people are even watching? I don't know anyone who is actively watching this tournament. If they are, they aren't saying a word about it.

But you do realize that this is a "feature" and not a "bug", right? It has systematically been set up this way, it is evident from the way Mulcahey stated that specificity used to be a part of writing for character but that changed. So the genre changed things to make characters less distinctive, ethnic characters, in particular. Writer's rooms, at this point, they will probably only try to change the dynamics of the makeup of writer's rooms only once the proverbial ship has hit the Titanic...in other words, when these shows are seconds away from cancellation. And it will be done haphazardly and poorly.

I've been speaking about this possibility for several years. Years ago, the BBC found several master reels of shows that they assumed were lost, in someone's attic.

So interesting that Mulcahey mentions that writers would get notes advising them not to be too specific with characters. That seems the direct opposite of what most pre-professional writing programs would advise students. It certainly was the case in my graduate dramatic writing program. This explains so much.

Why are people even still participating in these stupid events? This is why I'm not bothering to even watch anything other than classic matches. To do otherwise feels like watching a slow-moving disaster. SMH. Wishing Frances all the best though.