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I think Tim may have been dead longer than Mark Toland.

Ron would have done it. I can't wait for this book, actually. The stuff on the FB feed alone is riveting.

This is interesting. Some interesting anecdotes, including Lee Warrick (Julie Siegel) claiming that she of all people was poised to potentially return to the show but backed off after 9/11. I can't imagine who would've wanted to bring Julie back, and for what - the character was gone by the mid-'70s.

She's done very well since Who frankly shortchanged her as part of its Rose hangover. (They made up for it the following year and with the Torchwood offer, but still) Lots of work here and there. I'm so glad, I always just loved her. I think she'll end up being an elegant beauty and working well into old age.

I have to assume this is about the budget again. AMC doesn't know how to run a cable hit or being a TV network. This is amateur hour. They don't have the budget or their experience amongst their executives to handle dealing with shows of this scope.

The only Beth I ever really knew was the beautiful but deeply damaged, neurotic, self-destructive woman who dated a slew of lunatics and always, always dumped the good guys for more freaks. They wrote her to be a real flake in the Rauch era when she was after Vanessa or whatever, haranguing her about being too old for Matt. I don't know who they thought that would appeal to. But she reminded me of some women I knew around my family - beautiful, well-heeled and utterly off-keel - it was a little too real. I've never had much sympathy for Beth, but the character is fascinating.

Matt Smith reiterated again in a recent interview that he is contracted through to 2014. This apparently includes, from what we've heard, at least part of Series 8 in the autumn of next year, the anniversary special, and the following Christmas special. Everyone is speculating as to whether he will go beyond that. We just don't know. He seems game.

In the comic book, I don't know if they'll go there on the show. Also, Carl [!@#$%^&*] like that is why I eventually just walked away from the book. He's alive and kicking and tough, but who needs it?

Also, note Gerald Anthony as Marco Dane clashing with Lucy in Part 2. Like Todd today, I think he fits well here as an OLTL transplant. I wonder if Linda Gottlieb and Malone ever wanted him back for OLTL, but I half-doubt it. I wonder who came up with that idea to begin with. It's interesting to note that it looks like Riche inherited Gloria Monty's massive foul-up with the Scorpios, rumored to be what cost Monty her job; she fired Finola Hughes unceremoniously at the end of one day, replaced her with a woman from one of the Friday the 13th sequels to finish out a month of story with Faison and Robert, and by the end of February '92 both Robert and Anna were apparently gone. At that point Wendy Riche had been on the job less than a month, and had to deal with that. Whoof.

Yes, according to Wikipedia she started in August '93, just before Luke and Laura hit. I myself only started watching right around then. Riche was around at least a year prior, first with Norma Monty then a couple others. This is...Bill Levinson?

I wonder if this was her or what. I know Wendy Riche did lobby to get Lucy back around this time. Lynn Herring spoke kindly of her time at DAYS in a podcast interview the other day (she sounds gleeful to be back) but I'd always heard she was miserable and her treatment there infuriated Wayne Northrop.

When exactly in '93 did Claire Labine take over? Note the waterfront and bridge vista outside Kelly's. That's gone now. Too bad.

I think GH could do a minor zombie apocalypse episode for Halloween some year, set at the hospital. Why not? Say it's somebody's dream after too much Halloween candy. Or do a little subplot with some virus that makes people go 'rabid' instead. I don't care! And yes, Ellen Wheeler's GL did seem to be produced post-zombie apocalypse. That's why they never went inside; Shane Ellen refused to leave camp.

I've only watched Season 1, but I have to say Sarah Wayne Callies impresses me as a much more sympathetic and rounded version of the character. And yes, the game is pretty much all-new people dealing with the zombie apocalypse elsewhere. There are some cameos early on, but they weave into Kirkman's continuity and exit. The game is officially in continuity with the comics, apparently; Kirkman signed off on it. At times I find myself preferring to believe it is in continuity with the TV show. There was also a sticking point on one character, but that is a private discussion for another time.

The comic is just an endless train of adolescent hyperbole and misery and death. I can't get behind that. Nothing really changes in it to me, so I dropped it post-prison. I've tried to get into the latest arc on a friend's word, but Kirkman's dialogue style and approach to emotions is still like an 18-year-old juggalo so I'm not sure I can be bothered. His concept was wonderful, and was once a great story - the comic just bores me these days. Already the show seems like an improvement on his initial arc, though. The Telltale game is for all systems, plus PC, I think Mac, and iOS. It's more of an adventure game - less about action, much more about choices, characters and interaction. And it does it very well. It was very, very rewarding for me. A few TWD characters crop up early on; it's supposed to run parallel with the beginning of Kirkman's story. It was released episodically in chapters, there are six of them. A second "season" will be released in 2013. It really is worth your time, and it was cheap for me, maybe $20-30 for the whole six episodes. A real value. I'd recommend looking on Youtube for a playthrough of Episode 1 if you're interested.

I would've shot anyone in the back over Telltale Games' Walking Dead. Too soon? Seriously though, that adventure game is the best TWD out there. I gave up on the comic after the prison, was never a big fan of Robert Kirkman's OTT, adolescent writing style. It's become so repetitious, and nihilist dull. The show I am just now starting to give a fair shake. Only in Season 1 as of yet.

A mere shred of the magic of the Santi saga of 2004, courtesy of Michael Malone, featuring Antonio at his most unbearable: Amusingly, the clips are labeled "Carmen's Funeral". "Carmen" is the character Saundra Santiago played on Guiding Light - on OLTL, she played mysterious nanny Angelina Paredes, a.k.a the long-lost Isabella Santi, Antonio and Tico's biological mother. (Years later, Saundra took over the role of Carlotta Vega, after Patricia Mauceri fled the show in a fit of gay panic.) Given these dueling, endless Latin crime sagas, the confusion is understandable. Part 3 contains a flashback to her awkward, bizarre and just plain disturbing death scene. This episode also features GH's Lisa Lo Cicero as Sonia Toledo, male strip club owner and adopted Santi who fucked the daylights out of Antonio during this Tennessee Williams-by-way-of-kindergarten "dark period" in his life. Tico and the Santis took up residence in Victor Lord Sr.'s secret manse, Lion's Heart Manor, located in Llanview's mystical and heretofore unknown Lenape Forest. All this crap first surfaced in the ridiculous climax to the Mitch Laurence storyline in 2003, when the Arthurian parallels went wild as Antonio got lost in the forest's hallucinatory fog, and saw a lady in the lake. Who was a vision of Keri Reynolds. Or something. I dunno. I always wanted Lion's Heart to turn up again, but in the end Victor Lord Jr. made his own rapehouse, too.

Oh my God, it's Gregorzick! I remember him from the Datalounge.

Also, this happened.

No, you're not.

I've seen a bit of Troy Nichols. All I remember is he had a bizarre voice and just seemed weird to me. There was an article I saw a while back from '91 or '92 about how OLTL was "exploring the strata of black culture" or whatever with Sheila caught between two very different men. Well, it sounded interesting.

Yeah, I don't think it was the affair so much as the nature of the affair, the woman in question - his biographer, who had unprecedented access to him in the field and possibly his own documents and emails. That is a security breach.

I still can't believe he shut off the campaign staff's credit cards so they couldn't even pay for the hotels or cabs home. That is hysterical.

Again, it's not "my" "animation," Max; it's a viral GIF that has been making the rounds of the Internet, with two dudes' heads stapled on a scene from Terminator 2. And you and I both know there's plenty on the right who think Obama = Hitler. So your rationalization doesn't hold water. But unlike you, I don't care about it, and I'm not going to go around declaring you will burn in hell. Nor did I report you for your now-removed freakout post. But hey.

Let's not go that far.