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She struggled mightily against a very messy writing situation in her time at AMC, but she was always very good.

But none of those were successfully spun as failures.

Not too surprised. Jen Landon was too good to be true. Alexa is talented so I am alright with it.

Oh, I know. But she's far from the first or last NY star to slowly fall from grace, turn more to the right and gradually become marginalized. That is her current trajectory.

I didn't even bother tbh. She's gonna be on Newsmax in 5-10 years.

Speaking of James Earl Jones, he passed away today.

The GOAT:

Cameron was treated poorly by Joss and the character was not a priority for the writers. But William Lipton is not Cameron. Lipton had a lovely time at the show by all accounts and has no ill will.

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.