DramatistDreamer

Can someone please explain how Chuck Todd still has a job?

The New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern gives me hope that New Zealand will emerge from this tragedy with stronger systems in place for preventing this type of tragedy in that country going forward.

Unfortunately, Rush Limbaugh got there already. Yesterday, against my better judgement, I decided to see why Limbaugh was trending. Apparently, he is trying to float the conspiracy theory that the mosques shootings are part of some leftist plot to get people to blame right-wingers. How this man could keep any kind of following is beyond me, he is truly disgusting.

Sadly, the death total is now 50.

Most New Zealanders likely no nothing about Ilhan Omar, nor do they care, I suspect. Why does U.S politics affect everything, even who gets to grieve about events on the other side of the world? This reminds me of my time as a New Yorker during 9/11 when most of the country, outside of NYC was already war-mongering while people inside Manhattan were still mourning and struggling to find a way to cope. Less than 20 years later, first responders are being cut off from healthcare with nary a word from anyone, except John Stewart. It's all leaving such a bitter taste in my mouth. People talked and used tragedy to make political and real world war but very few actually cared to the people who suffered that day and the days afterward. It's just striking that people have become even more coarse and desensitized to mass killing since then. Silvio Berlusconi has been untouchable in Italy for well over a decade. I'm dubious that something significant will come of this but one can always hope.

I now understand that the woman who confronted Chelsea was wearing a Bernie Sanders T-shirt. Well, that explains everything. Sadly, I now realize that America has become so desensitized to carnage, especially carnage wrought by gun violence that there is no longer any genuine recognition of the dead and the victims of mass gun violence. It's just straight to which campaign can best capitalize from verbal spats. No respect for the dead and dying or even those who cling to life to try to recover as best as they can from tragedy. Not much thought going into the cause and effects of these heinous acts. Just more feuding.

Indian Wells is an entire clusterf*ck and it's what they deserve. They never apologized to the Williams Sisters and their karma has been bad ever since.

That's what irritates me the most about all of this. Someone said "...what we're not going to do, is make this all about a white woman's fragility!" If these women hadn't come at Chelsea Clinton, guess what...this entire discussion of defending her would be nil and non-existent! Why take time away from a vigil to try to hash out your beef with another attendee? Why not save it for another time? Why not invite someone like Chelsea Clinton to another townhall to discuss Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia and their corrosive effects? This entire incident was unnecessary, through and through. Have some regard for the value of the lives lost and the lives that still hang in the balance because of this act of terrorism.

Sad. Maybe the writers themselves were self-aware of the schlock they were trotting out.

At least Marland created storyline possibilities, even if it included some and left some legacy characters off the canvas. The writers who came after him could've done with bringing back Dee Stewart because the mid-late 90s and beyond was clearly starved for more expansive storytelling. Even as Marland was (rightly) criticized for focusing too much on Lily, I thought it was even worse with the writing regimes after him because most of the stories (with one or two exceptions) were not really compelling. The mid-late 90s, early '00s would've been a good time to bring back Dee and the quads when you had Alison on the canvas. It would've been greatly appreciated since the show had become so dull by the late 90s. Also, after Marland died, no Penny right? Did Don Hughes ever visit Oakdale?

Some of the people on the left who are coming for Chelsea Clinton-- were they even around during the Clinton years? Or have they been reading and watching documentaries about it on Netflix/Hulu? Clinton made policy mistakes of course (every president does) but employment (i.e. good jobs with room for advancement and growth) and optimism surged during those years. I was a kid when Reagan was president and I remember the constant layoffs of friends and family members in the work force. Do people remember what it was like? Especially for people of color and women, during the Reagan years? I got a front row seat to see how hard it was for my mother and people like her during the Reagan years. During the Clinton years she (and people like her) was able to buy a house. Those homeowner policies were unfortunately abused by the GW Bush administration and the ties between the mortgage backed securities and the global recession is well known. Some of these people are going after Chelsea with not a whole lot of knowledge, they just see a potential person to unleash on and because Chelsea is known as being so polite, she has become their target, similar to how she has become the target of right-wing trolls and blowhards. Some of these left-wing critics are showing their inability to look at matters from a holistic viewpoint. And just as I thought, when you try to do a search of what happened with Chelsea and her critic(s) at the NYU townhall/vigil, much of the links are for right-wing websites (which I REFUSE to visit or give clicks to), which just goes to show that this incident is becoming grist for the right-wing. FWIW, other Muslims are disparaging the critics and defending Chelsea on this one, even those who disagreed with her remarks about Omar. AOC and Omar need to try to see if, for six weeks, they can actually focus on their actual constituents, instead of riding so hard for a national spotlight.

That's the last time I consult Soapcentral, they have Jacqueline Schultz listed as being on being on in April of 1986, which is what when that episode takes place. I thought it was Dawson but (sigh) let myself be convinced that my first instinct was wrong by Soapcentral, that has the dates and actresses all mixed up.

In the Old Y&R thread, being treated to some vintage episodes from the 1970s and appreciating how magnanimous many Y&R fans are, dipping into their collections and trading and sharing videos. Also wondering why ATWT doesn't have that same tradition. The Y&R videos are in such good picture quality, better than many of the ATWT ones from the 1980s and even early '90s! I truly don't understand what would be the harm in sharing, if you have vintage videos? I feel like, with Y&R, every year a crop of vintage episodes pop up somewhere online while with ATWT, I'm seeing many of the same videos uploaded and reuploaded from the past ten years on YouTube. Today I feel like I needed some entertainment "comfort food" so I am watching an episode leading up to ATWT's 30th Anniversary where several characters from the past visit Oakdale for Chris and Nancy Hughes' wedding anniversary celebration and seeing Dee Hughes converse with Tom Hughes, I felt that instead of Emily, it would've been much more interesting to me had Dee and Tom had a dalliance. The added effect it would've had on John (if he were still around) could have provided a lot of drama. I realize that part of the reason I just didn't care about Daniel was because I just didn't care about Emily and Tom's affair, the two actors who were playing Tom (SH) and Emily (KMH) lacked chemistry and for that reason, I wished the writers had never done the story. Seeing Greg Marx and Jacqueline Schultz, uh Vicky Dawson, interact made me see that, in the right hands, it could've been more plausible, compelling even.

Here is the longer video.

Oh wow, how long was the theme sung during the ending credits? Seeing those sets from the 1975 episode just goes to show that you can do elegant without an enormous set. What you really need is creative talent who can build tasteful and intimate set design. Okay the bar where Brock was looked a bit seedy but my point stands for the other sets. Thanks for posting these episodes. I look forward to seeing the episode from '78.

Ad-supported. They also produce original series/ Crackle was known for being the distributor of Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians In Cars with Coffee, where it built up a large following before Netflix scooped up the series in a multi-million dollar deal with Jerry Seinfeld.

@VeeSonyCrackle (used to be known simply as Crackle) is Sony Entertainment's online ad-supported streaming platform. They generally stream mostly older titles (primetime TV and movies) from their catalog but they also produce original content.

Kimberly McCollough is also on the #SaveODAAT bandwagon.

Why doesn't SonyCrackle pick it up? They produce some original material. StartUp, for example. Snatch (which I admit to never having watched), is actually a remake/reboot/whatever of the Guy Ritchie movie. Is there a reason why SonyCrackle hasn't gotten in on this?

What an awful man.

Indian Wells has always been trash. I didn't miss it when Venus and Serena used to skip it and I wouldn't mind if they skipped it again. The management at IW don't clean their facilities properly, sickening players, their courts are godawful slow and what in the ever-loving hell happened in Elina Svitolina's hotel room last night/early morning??!

I'm not sure what people's knowledge of the Muslim faith is but this happened on Friday in New Zealand. Friday is a day of prayer in the Islamic faith, it is a day when mosques are filled with people praying. The person(s) who staged these deadly attacks planned this to target the most people possible. When I went to bed last night, I saw that dozens had been shot. As it stands now, 49 people (including children, I heard) had been killed. The shooter had livestreamed at least one of the attacks, which is why after I posted the news last night, I got offline ASAP so as not to risk seeing it. The shooters were likely inspired by that Anders Breivik, the Norway shooter but Trump has not helped matters, in his associations with known racists and people tangentially linked to white supremacists. People like Trump have definitely helped those networks feel emboldened. For example, the shooter, once apprehended, had already claimed that there were more mosque attacks in the works. Shaun King is another person who needs to open his financial books. There are numerous complaints about him "fundraising" for vulnerable people but not producing the money. There is a lot of distrust of him within black social media circles.

Netflix will likely try to wait it out then bring out a ODAAT clone that they will produce so as not to have to pay another production company (e.g. Sony). That still doesn't explain why Netflix was willing to shell out $100 million to keep Friends on its streaming platform. I'm dubious that a network will allow the show's creators and writers to write material without restrictions or interference but networks like ABC and NBC are definitely in need of series television shows that inspire such critical acclaim and a dedicated fanbase. I also think networks usually do more to promote their shows (I said usually because this hasn't always been the case). I saw on social media that there were people who claimed they were frequent Netflix users and they had never heard of ODAAT. That was the crux of the problem, in a nutshell.