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William Lipton has an Amazon show. He's not coming back right now.

Because it's always been a tight race and because Harris has more work to do. She only got hard launched in July, which is unprecedented for any general election, ever. The fact that she's this competitive is remarkable. I happen to think she can break away from Trump and I happen to think it may not end up being close, but she's got more to do, particularly in the debate.

One point is not a surge.

Taniel is right about Cohn's sneering narrative-setting piece which insists that Trump is not only the 'change candidate' but the 'political center.' I'd forgotten how much Cohn shrugged off voter suppression and cheered on the imaginary red wave in 2022.

I still don't understand why they brought Mark back over and over on Dallas. They'd just done a long, tedious season story in which Pam does a wild goose chase around the globe looking for Mark and finally determining he is in fact dead after all, then the dream season kicks in and Peter Dunne and co. bring Mark back for real immediately on the heels of Bobby's death. The character doesn't work for me. I suppose they felt pressed to bring in a man, any man for Pam. I've been viewing the dream season with Dunne's KL team moving to Dallas concurrently with some of the Dallas hands moving to KL Season 7, and the contrasts are striking.

I think making the audience wait a year for Karen to have a serious romantic partner was right. You saw every step of her journey including false starts with other men before she finally let Sid go. My issues with S3's middle third are less to do with her family's story (except for some of the Diana eps lol) and more to do with other stuff that was standalone or felt circular. I do love how they very deliberately make you think 'Sid's risky operation' is another standard episodic TV setup a la Val in S2, and that he's out of the woods before then, only for him to die on the table very quickly.

And I said up front that he should lock those comments section in order to prevent abuse and snuff them out. If we want to get rid of these posts the first thing to do is starve their access points and isolate them so they have no other options other than to reveal themselves in more vulnerable places. soapfan's idea was to lock the comments sections to authenticated users. Mine is to simply lock the comments sections completely. Neither of us are 'telling Errol how to run his site.' We are trying to mitigate the problem. I may have theories on which of our old and supposedly banned trolls are behind this longstanding behavior but theory isn't actionable and I have no idea how to prove it or stop it. So all we're working from is a basis of harm reduction. You are not and have never been capable of being subtle nor coy, say what you want and keep it moving. When we want you to posture as a thread mod, we'll call.

What I'd start by doing is more unilateral, and isn't really going to help the disgusting situation in those comments. So instead I would just lock the comments sections period for now if possible then see what develops next, because they'll find another way or start trolling directly here again on one of (IMO) several alts. Again, I haven't really frequented Datalounge in over a decade so I wasn't privy to it at the time they were active, but this looks very much like similar stuff (and language) after the fact. I was told whoever it was with that MO who kept rambling on about ancient SON stuff on that unrelated site got banned from DL not long ago for similar spam. It makes sense that they'd circle back here to use any nook and cranny they can find. And I am sure they are using multiple accounts that have simply not been banned.

Laura evolves and changes a lot over the first three seasons (and then more when she meets Greg Sumner), but she stays a character who keeps her own counsel and marches entirely to her own beat. And yes, I love that episode.

Kristina Wagner celebrates 40 years as Felicia. A great interview and a commentary again on what has been lost to taping time.

I said it on Primetimer, but while I love Rick Hearst and I love Ric as a slimeball, Ric is beneath Liz and has been for many years. She's a single, lonely lady slowly becoming an empty nester. She should hit it and quit it with Ric for a night or two just to get laid, then move forward with Lucky for romance. It happens with exes! Rick Hearst playing this as Ric the schemer realizes he got used would be hysterical.

I know! This cracked me up. Whereas I don't think Val came into her own until leaving Gary. In the first three seasons she was much more at his feet. Her crowning moment that starts this, besides getting into her career as a novelist, was her confronting Gary in jail at the end of S4 and tearing him apart, telling him sacrificing himself for Ciji re: guilt over their marriage accomplishes absolutely nothing. I think the Val in S4 and S5 is much stronger and more sure of herself. She knows what Gary is to her but she works to move past it.

Apparently the mics will be unmuted for cross-talk, which is good.

They also would not have gotten the same juice from Joe and Stephen Macht that they got from Dobson, or from a new central love story for Karen. And I liked Joe a lot and have always been fond of Macht.

Silver is cooking and unskewing his own polls. He says it himself.

This has finally broken through and is not going away.

I think the Val operation episode in S2 is pretty hilarious tbh. Sid karate kicking the door, etc.

Axios (and the relentlessly anti-Dem gossipmonger Alex Thompson) are annoyed people aren't hitting Kamala Harris enough: Meanwhile:

My take remains the same: We will take GA, and likely PA.

I also care not a whit for Stone II: Revenge of Stone.

That is hysterical.