j swift
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For me, the biggest takeaway from the hearings and the SCOTUS rulings was that I underestimated Trump because he was such a buffoon. I thought it was all political theater and nothing would ever come of it. I went to the Woman's March and Black Lives Matter protests secure in the knowledge that justice prevails. I refused to believe that we're truly a divided nation because I live in a big city and only socialize with people who hold similar beliefs. I've also always been an optimist and my faith is rooted in the knowledge that progressive civil rights is the ultimate future of this nation. But, now my eyes have been open.
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May we discuss the looks at the Daytime Emmys? I get that it is a difficult event to dress for because it is literally the bottom of the barrel of televised award shows, and it was at the Pasadena Civic, which is around two steps up from your average high school auditorium. However the range of looks is what blew my mind. On the one hand we have Camilla Banus in an enormous ball gown which I am guessing was chosen because she was presenting Then, we get Carson Boatman in mismatched jacket and pants, no tie, and a shirt whose sole purpose was to distract us from Brandon Barash's hairline. Also, does RSW get a headache from constantly squinting in photos? Lucas Adams, dude I know you are out of work, but what is up with the unaltered pink jacket and matching sneakers? I mean Naomi Matshuda may have just lost her job, but she understood the assignment While the recently unemployed Marci Miller may have saved some coins by tossing on a tablecloth from The Salem Grill (pro tip: when looking for new jobs in Hollywood try not to dress as if you are the old lady from Titanic). And, of course Deidre Hall looks amazing, but I swear she's been wearing the same suit in different colors and fabrics since 1992 (if ain't broke, don't fix it) Ditto Nancy Lee Grahn, I appreciate the political statement, but she's been wearing the same haircut and color since Santa Barbara in 1987 This train says "I'm here to pick up an award please", but I have no idea how you get it into a car She meant this to be see-thru, right? But I don't know if she knew this was so transparent Lastly, Melody found a great place to stash her tickets to the event, but as Madonna knows, you can't botox the hands, so you probably shouldn't draw attention to them by carrying a huge red clutch
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@Dylan & @DramatistDreamer My thought was not based on the platform but the sponsorship. Scroll through tiktok, youtube, and instagram and a huge proportion of the content is sponsored by direct-to-consumer brands. Given that daytime dramas were built on their ability to sell cleaning products, it stands to reason that some company would seek to use the same model to produce long form daily content. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, but after all of these failed talk shows, perhaps there will be space for new creative opportunities.
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A major shock would be a network or streaming service announced a new daily soap opera sponsored by a single consumer manufacturing conglomerate like P&G. It may be a pipe dream, but everything old is new again...
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I hope its not too tacky to say that I hope Ms Fairchild's face has had a chance to de-puff since her time on DAYS when she was a tad unrecognizable. Also, note how much money they have to spend without Steve, Tony, and Ingo's salaries weighing down the budget (I know Ingo probably didn't make a lot, but I included him since I was already being snarky).
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Holly and Vanessa seem to make Elizabeth, Hope, and Jackie redundant. I mean how many mid-40s career women could they juggle? I still maintain that creatively the Mindy/Beth/Phillip/Rick quad only works if Phillip is perceived as a full Spaulding, worthy of MIndy and Beth's Prince Charming fantasies, with no lingering baggage about his origin after Bradley drop his truth bomb. Thus creating the need to usher those pesky parents out of the plot. As a side note, I am amused by comments on what writers "should" have done, rather than what we wished they'd done. Because it implies that there was a correct answer that any writer would have known if they could've read the mind of fans twenty years after the fact.
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I never know who wrote what, so this theory is based solely on conjecture, but I wonder if killing Jackie and sending Justin out of town as Phillip was SORASed into a leading man was to solidify his place as a Spaulding by not having to deal with the mess of his biological family? Although the reveal of his parenthood played a key role in his relationship with Beth and Mindy, it was really about the secret rather than anything to do with his identity. Unlike Dinah who really changed once she found that Vanessa was her mother, Phillip remained an uptight preppy regardless of his origins. For certain by the time John Bolger was cast, viewers would be forgiven for forgetting that Phillip was ever adopted. And by the end, when Alan was an organ donation match, despite having no common DNA, it was no longer an issue for plot purposes. Killing Jackie meant that future writers didn't need to deal with the constant issue of where she was during Phillip's wedding, divorces, the birth of his kids and his other trials and tribulations. Elizabeth was off in Europe and she had wanted Jackie and Justin to raise Phillip, so her absence was logically explained; even though she was sorely missed. But, how would they have dealt with Jackie, who spent years trying to be close to Phillip, not being a part of his adult life? I would hazard to guess that the SORASing of Phillip made casting Jackie (and Hope) difficult because they were both women in their 30s just a few years before Phillip was aged into someone old enough to have a kid and get married. One other note about recent discussions, regardless of the outcome of the Carrie story, I think it laid the character groundwork for Ross's attraction to Blake. He liked a creative, eccentric woman who balanced his rather staid personality, and the audience who had watched him with Carrie got that part of his persona.
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Does either character have a job? Wasn't Eric just fired from the church and when was the last time Nicole went to the office? Maybe these 40something characters should start focusing on earning a living and stop swooning like high school teens? I mean where's the character growth? He's still trying to save misbegotten women only to berate them for their indiscretions and she's still trying to avoid being abandoned after her 27th relationship with everyone from a priest to the former mayor.
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Even though her concept albums would be great to see as a stage musical, I think it is her unique voice that heightens the excitement, so covers in a jukebox musical would not do her justice.
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Has anyone ever mentioned that Babooshka is the female version of Rupert Holmes' Pina Colada Song? Babooshka lyric She wanted to test her husband She knew exactly what to do A pseudonym To fool him She couldn't have made a worst move She sent him scented letters And he received them with a strange delight Escape (Pina Colada) I was tired of my lady We'd been together too long Like a worn out recording Of a favorite song So while she lay there sleepin' I read the paper in bed And in the personal columns There was this letter I read
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Similar to @Vee I am a Kate Bush fan. In fact, I've bought a copy of Hounds of Love, the album on which Running Up That Hill (Deal with God) appears, on cassette, CD, or streaming for every car I've ever owned. However, it wasn't until this resurgence of interest that I realized I've been singing the wrong lyrics for years. Rather than a deal with god to "swap our places", for some reason I've always thought it was a deal to "swallow faces", which makes no sense, yet I never questioned it until now.
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Its rather tame, and the poor grammar leads me to believe this may be a foreign catfish
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BTW today's hearing with the election worker whose life has been in shambles because of lies told by the president was riveting and I would chose to watch it over a rerun of GH any day of the week. This woman who personally drove to the hospital and delivered absentee ballots to the elderly, and who kept her job because she knew that generations before her had fought for the right to vote, now lives in fear that her mother will say her name out loud in a grocery store because she and her family have been harassed for the past two years by racist bigots. The president's lawyer accused her on prime time television of passing a surreptitious usb key, when in actuality he just gave her mother a ginger mint. I actually shed a tear when she reported that the entire Fulton County election office have left their jobs due to threats of violence against themselves and their family. I don't want to come off as performatively "woke", but any fan of the type of heightened emotions that we see on daytime would be well served to watch these hearings both affectingly and informatively. I don't think it has anything to do with streaming or choosing episodes to repeat. I honestly believe that the networks feel we are better served as a nation by watching these stories.
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I'm currently getting catfished by a fake Carson TikTok account, but it's amusing so I'm going to see where it goes. One would have to be an idiot to believe that he would start a new account with no postings, (when his main account has 34k followers), just to DM middle-aged male fans.
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Nope I think Li is a goner and Sheila's redemptive arc will be nursing Finn back to health. He'll feel that he can't turn Sheila in after all that she did for him, and she'll blame the whole thing on Li. Meanwhile, the family could make a fortune suing the car manufacturer for designing a car that explodes on rear impact and then auto-drives itself into the ocean. For those outside of LA, we do have barriers to prevent cars from just falling into the ocean. And there's been a drought all year. So, don't let this deter you from visiting
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There's always those little details of producing stunts that takes me out of it. Like, would Li would be driving that huge older model or would she have a sleek EV sedan; like a Tesla?
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When I watched the Ashley/Traci anniversary it really clicked that after 40 years both characters could always be summarized by their established character traits. Ashley, the smart chemist one who never quite got the work/life balance correct. And, Traci the writer and the youngest child who always suffered from poor self esteem. Then, you look at their kids and others characters from the younger generations and their traits (and professional skills) are often not as explicit. I mean, try to explain Abby, Coleen, and Kyle according to the traits that have defined their character's choices. It is difficult because each has transformed with every new iteration (except for Coleen, but she's dead).
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I read this in Lynda Hirsch's summary in May and I still don't know what to make of it? Was it a fantasy scene that I missed? It is from her 5/21 column which was weeks before the actual murder. While, she has a notoriously bad editor, she never retracted the column. https://www.creators.com/read/lynda-hirsch-on-soaps/05/22/lynda-hirsch-on-television-summaries-1408d
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An ancillary question to who could have been cast as Mike Bauer, is (a) when in the plot timeline would you have brought him back and (b) what would be the purpose of his return to Springfield. For me, it would have either been after Roger's return at Phillip and Blake's wedding as a federal prosecutor in the litigation of Roger for his prior crimes, only to lose the case due to Alan's unlawful procurement of evidence (which is more credible than Roger getting immunity through the CIA). Alan and Roger's feud was missing the historical context of Mike. Or, to help Alexandra run Spaulding after her marriage to Roger and allow them to play out their abandoned love story (Alex & Mike, not Mike & Roger; just in case I was being confusing).
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I think Heather Ratrray has not gotten her dues in the annals of ATWT history. I don't want to disrespect Martha, but if you close your eyes and imagine a socialite who was lusted after by everyone from farm boys to Italian royalty you could see someone who looked like Heather. Martha was fine as a teen, and she played the angst of finding out the secrets of her conception very well, but Heather's Lily was more mature and worldly. She was believable in a corporate setting while Martha often looked as if she was playing dress up. And while Martha's Lily was understandably well liked by everyone in town. Heather's Lily made more sense as a woman who was the object of obsession both of her female romantic rivals and the men who wanted to possess her. Upon reflection, I would go as far as saying that she is a perfect example of the idea that soap fans are sometimes more upset about change than realistic about how re-casting can be an opportunity to evolve a character.
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I often think both Ron and Brad don't endear themselves to the audience when they seek to trick us, rather than surprise us. Nobody wants to feel either stupid or duped. Ron in particular never writes a mystery where the audience is in on the secret that the characters have to figure out, and I think it alienates his base.
