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Recording stuff off Plex's livestream requires a paid subscription, not the FAST stuff.

Are we talking about the pre-episode teasers? They're there in Seasons 3 and 4 from what I saw at a glance. I went to check out how Sid's death episode and some of the early Karen/Mack stuff looked quality-wise.

So close! Hope they put up the rest soon. I checked Prime/FreeVee, no sign of it on demand there yet but I imagine that's next.

I think we will take both NC and GA (again). We've been up in NC in some other polling recently. It's tight but I suspect it happens. Nevada, I think it's possible. The media has scrambled to try to tamp down the Arlington mess for Trump but I don't think it's going to work. I appreciate you referring to RFK as 'the whale decapitator'. What a tale that was.

It's not exactly a secret Kelly was speaking out against the show re: the Jason/Drew storyline, or that FV would not have appreciated that. Their having beef isn't likely a surprise to anyone.

There was always going to be an outcry, but Sam as a character has been a tired afterthought for years so I'm not sure it's going to be enough. I think if you'd tried this ten years ago it'd be different. I just don't think there's enough of them alone to make a difference, and it's not like they're great at coalition building with other fanbases, case in point what was mentioned above. Plus they've been dragging Nancy for supposed slights against Kelly for ages (mostly imaginary IMO) so there goes the Alexis fanbase. And a lot of Jason fans ultimately don't care about anything but Jason. But hey, if you get enough of those prominent fans who fancy themselves insiders and still are reminiscing on misty memories of Kelly's work in the 2000s, who knows, a reprieve could happen. I just don't see this turning into a Genie or Becky Herbst situation. But anything that fúcks up Frank's standing works for me. That much is true. (Though I don't think he's really taken any damage for ME and RH, lol) Maybe after ousting Mulcahey and reinstalling CVE he thinks he's invulnerable.

It wouldn't shock me if they auditioned one but I don't know of it. (And poor Nic Robuck/James just seems happy living life out with his husband these days.) It's enough though that Connie/Kate's long-lost son with lisping Scully Jr., the tiresome Trey, was literally Ford xeroxed onto this show - cocky young reality show producer with a damaged past. Fortunately he only lasted about six months when they got bored and switched gears.

The only consolation there was the signpost in the finale that Jessica and Brody would likely get back together, as he visited her at Llanfair. I assume they're together today. And I think the Fords were both Frank and Ron. They didn't give it up with Ford and acknowledge the fan hatred of him til the final two weeks. Rylan's entry story as Lulu on GH was very clearly Ron redoing the Teen Jessica disaster at OLTL - Lulu comes out of a trauma thinking she is single, young and 'wild', divested of her husband and hanging out with new guys. They really were trying hard in that period to make non-actor Milo happen because they liked his abs. It was mindboggling to watch, especially since Teen Jessica was insanely unpopular at OLTL and they had to know it. This cheap gimmick to try to reset what he sees as a 'boring' character is something Ron has returned to more than once. Mark Lawson never worked for me on GH. He stuck out like a sore thumb, and I loved Brody. But I think Kelly has done wonderful work with a difficult character on GH.

Attacking Finola or Jonathan (or even LW, who gets blamed for everything up to the Treaty of Versailles) is not going to get these jamokes anywhere lol.

There has been talk about issues with Kelly for literal years, lol. And she's been phoning a great deal of her performances in since the early 2010s, and that's a conservative estimate. I suppose if I lived on soap twitter and only formed my opinions on GH based on how random people on the Internet felt I might be more invested, but I'm not. I don't particularly care that they fired Kelly because Sam has been dead weight for over a decade and the character is played out and has no story left. I think Sam's worked sometimes in recent years, but not enough that I would keep her. Does being fine with Sam gone mean I am fine with FV running GH? Of course not, and it is not an either/or. This isn't stan wars and I'm not 15 years old, I don't have to pretend to take one side or the other. If Kelly wants to battle it out in the press and try to topple Frank that's just fine with me. He needs to go for other reasons. But cutting Kelly Monaco, that I don't care about.

Try holding your breath.

Probably starting with the documented trail of WB clumsily trying to bully the estate out of a creator credit for Crichton on the revival. It wouldn't shock me if a script or pitch with Carter existed though.

It may be a licensing thing with Falcon Crest. Though I'm sure someone noticed Knots trending for a week.

I was much more enthused about Drew and Nina (and the Willow factor) when Mulcahey was here. Unless they continue to really lean into Drew Q the smarmy power player and cad and make the couple or triangle what it could be, I'd probably write them out together after a certain interval - 6 months, a year. If it's a budget issue though I'd cut them immediately. Dex can go at any time. Sasha must vanish. Natalia (if she's on a contract), of course. Wagger, gone. Same with Michael and Willow, possibly after a blowup over Drew and their subsequent divorce. Michael would be back recast in a year or two; Willow would not. Joss I would leave where she is - maybe she returns after a brief absence following either Dex's death or a breakup - and move into a secondary and more comic spoiled role for now. I'd probably recast with someone stronger down the road, but I think Eden has a certain raw facility and register she can work in. It's just not what they have her doing. Gio I would give a shot with an actual story and character, none of which he currently has. But if nothing works, bye. Cody is fine by me and stay the mischievous but sweet stable himbo. No notes. I'd also quickly cut Curtis, T.J. and Molly, Jordan and Chase. Bring on better characters who aren't played out. Chase would probably die, or he and BLQ would leave for a brief period - six months, maybe - and again only BLQ would return (recast if necessary).

This is wild:

FYI @All My Shadows and all: According to Plex, KL resumes on the livestream from Season 1 next week on September 2nd.

I had plenty of issues with Berman's Lulu - she was talented but they were clearly trying to make the character into the mini-Carly because they thought was the apex female of the show, and I never thought she had a ton of heat with any of her partners. But I do think Lulu is an essential character. I think the adventurous journalist angle is a good idea with the right actor, and I think she and Dante can still work well. It's a question of who they cast. I am not exactly enthused about the possibility of Stephanie Gatschet, who I've always found deeply boring. Fingers crossed. I always enjoy seeing Ric and Rick Hearst. He's just such a weird, duplicitous and damaged character who you can make do just about anything. He's very lucky he didn't get killed off several times. RC intended to kill him before he was fired in 2015, and Silas got the knife instead.

I don't know about Florida, but I can buy GA and NC. I think people are underestimating the vote again like '22, and I think it serves the Harris campaign to keep expectations tight.

Posting Dirty Soap episodes in this thread is already totally OT, but multiple posters have complained before about links being posted to the reprehensible right-wing Rumble site on this board. Please stop. If you have to send these links to people do it privately.

Yeah, I'm not really taking right wing Twitter accounts and Don Lemon's anecdotal chats as a great indicator of a trend.

Carly got a great line in about the panic room to Ric. I'm glad she brought that up because he was prepared to straight up kill her for her baby.

In addition to other soap alums listed on the last page, I hadn't realized Eric Morgan Stuart (Chris Madison, AW) voices Commissioner Gordon on Batman: Caped Crusader on Amazon. It's pretty decent. (Speaking of: Did you know Bob Hastings, a.k.a. Burt Ramsay from GH and brother of ATWT's Don Hastings, voiced Gordon on the classic Batman animated series from the '90s? I sure didn't.)

Contract players cost money. Recurring ones don't. I'd fire almost all of them. And Kelly too.