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Ohhh, this is good. And of course, the incredibly self-conscious hipster critic at the A.V. Club hated it, which is always good news for me. Fortunately he's being raked over the coals.

Yeah, it was a kooky channel and so was Shelley Taylor Morgan. Remembering him now, I didn't care for Logan then and I certainly don't now.

Possibly a very appropriate clip for the month - E!'s Pure Soap takes a look at the death of Bill Eckert in 1993 and interviews Tony Geary. Tony is, of course, not pleased. I remember this show well. Is that Michael Logan or some other strange goblin? Oh, yes it is.

I think Marcus was one of the teen assholes doing or dealing drugs in the painfully bad Ecstasy teens subplot. And yes, they were clearly attempting to test Gabriel and Bianca, and it was gross. I don't know where that attempt came from.

This was in their third official month.

I may have posted this before. April 2003: Dorian returns and marries Mitch Laurence. I will never forget the scene in the second clip - a repulsed Dorian kissing Mitch as the wonderful, incredibly creepy music plays, and a darkened Llanfair is totally empty, except for them, the minister, the offscreen Evangeline Williamson and a disgusted Blair, who finds herself unable to either watch or leave. They were doing right by Blair around that time, one of the last times the show did on ABC - with Todd gone and presumed dead she was the 'vengeful widow,' the only game in town left to go after Mitch. Until she confronts Dorian on the terrace, and Dorian finally says, "Mitch cannot be gotten to from the outside."

Here's another vid and a description from the child's mother.

Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman chat with a young fan Dalek while filming in Cardiff Bay. It's hard to make out, but Capaldi is talking about the last Doctor and is asking the little Dalek for permission to be the Doctor too. According to the scuttlebutt, the little girl in the Dalek costume is an autistic child who loved Matt Smith and was very nervous about the new Doctor.

I half-slept through that episode. Not my favorite. I don't mind the separate group episodes, I like the exploration - I mind it when I have to just watch Daryl and Beth, who I like as part of the ensemble but not alone together, for an hour. It doesn't help that I'm sick and exhausted at the moment.

Oh, Sully is just a big emotional quasi-centrist galoot who vacillates a lot. He'll see sense eventually, even if he couldn't handle New York. I don't think these initiatives will ever succeed. But I do think they should be loudly fought against.

It's discrimination. And while I expected those initiatives to get shot down because of that simple fact, just the fact that it was coming up in this day and age - through the weasel tactic of trying to make it about "religious freedom" instead of what it was, which was institutionalized discrimination - made my skin crawl. Someone will try again.

Just wanted to add: Catelyn's speech in Episode 2 of Season 3 is jawdropping. I had no idea she felt that way - I thought the subject of Jon Snow was profoundly sealed and vaulted deep within her mind. That was incredible work from Michelle Fairley, who hadn't gotten as much to do in Season 2. The Tyrells - the women, anyway - seem very, very smart. They're a lot cleverer than not only Joffrey but also Cersei, who to me has seemed utterly at a loss and often flailing about since the glory of her early victories in the first season faded. She knew a few tricks from being raised by her father, she'd gotten comfortable manipulating things under Robert, but with an uncontrollable son she helped coronate, and faced with people her equal if not smarter (not the least of which is Tyrion), she's been struggling to stay afloat. Be careful what you wish for.

I'm getting to Season 3 as we speak. Good times.

Claire Labine talked at length in a WLS interview about the various aborted Holly stories in her time at the show - the Buzz and Billy triangle, the lesbian thing. I always thought the idea of bi/lesbian Holly lusting after a straight woman was a step back. I did like her with Jordan Clarke and Justin Deas.

I thought Abraham looked ridiculous. It was like the Street Fighter movie - put him in a tank top with a flat-top and dyed red hair, like he's Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile. This is why I prefer it when they deviate from Kirkman's tired comic, as they have with most of the show. The only reason the Governor worked for me is because they built that character slowly and differently from the cartoon of the comic.

This stuff was never going to get off the ground. It is scary in the moment, though.

Of course she did. Doesn't change the fact that she did it.

There are no more mainstream Republicans in office. There is only the fringe right - who were foolishly installed in a wave election by a power elite who mistakenly believed they could control the idiots they helped get elected - and the remaining old guard in office, formerly 'mainstream', who must struggle to pander to the extremist wing of their constituents in order to hold their seats. And as for the voters, your extremist wing is the most active, vocal and organized element of your party today. To retool and bastardize an old slogan, you bought it, you broke it, you own it. Regardless, Jan Brewer did the right thing today.

Yes, Alec played for Bo's football team, and Phylicia Rashad's character, Courtney, was its PR person, IIRC. Together they formed a quad with Ed and Carla. Holly waxed rhapsodic about Hill in her book. He had quite a career on the stage.

I had heard rumblings about a romance. But I have no idea where they're going with the character, except that I believe he is a companion.

As has been rumored for a while, the Doctor and Clara are getting a fellow companion: Clara's fellow Coal Hill schoolteacher Danny Pink. Per Moffat:

Is this show still edited, performed and paced like a silent film?

I don't think Rick had the wrong idea at the prison - Hershel supported it and he was right. They could build a stable community, and eventually they'll need to attempt one again. Those kind of safe zones are going to be the new normal. Their fatal mistake was leaving the Governor alive when he knew their location. I sympathize with Rick a lot. And yeah, I think that whole episode does nothing but keep pushing Rick and Michonne. Danai Gurira should win for that scene in the herd.

It's an ensemble - I like seeing the show stretch.

I had heard it would be mostly for the second half. I've no problem with that. I think it's innovative.