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All very impressive. I can't really put it all together in my head from the sides until I see some casting.

I agree with titan and dc - I've said before I think Jill thought she finally had her way back into some creative control when the show was in a tight spot (when Tamara abruptly dipped) by getting Bransford a job lol. It just collapsed immediately because JB was not an A-level player and the rest of the power behind the show was not remotely into it. I was embarrassed for JFP tbh. It felt like a desperate attempt to rewind the clock on her own EP career. Bransford's not a bad actress but as an OLTL fan who remembered her I was shocked they hired her for that part. Nobody was out there cutting for Georgie Phillips and watching it everyday was surreal. I do think Mo only got behind her because she was clearly not popular and was not going to wield audience power against him in the way Tamara had with Ted King, or in the way Sarah was a singular presence lol. With JB as Carly he would not be threatened onscreen the way he had recently been.

Don't look at me. I stopped watching regularly in 2015 until earlier this year (and have since stopped). All I know is that Nina gave birth in her coma(?), I think, to what she thought was one child but turned out to be twins. I believe they knew in Stafford's early days she had been pregnant but assumed she'd lost it when she ODed on pills after finding out about Silas' affair with Ava (which I think Donna Mills masterminded), and went into her decades-long coma. That's why I suspected from the beginning that RC had intended Kiki to actually be Nina's - Donna Mills/Madeline was willing to risk Nina's life to keep her from having Silas' child, as she hated Silas. I assumed Madeline had passed the child off to Ava to keep Silas out of her daughter's life. Regardless, the saga of Nina's long-lost child/children went on for around a decade and I've never cared in the slightest, except for when it resulted in the Nina/Drew/Willow triangle which I've lost interest in with PM gone. I am not going to come out here calling Kate Mansi the c-word for people on the Internet being crazy. A lot of Soap Twitter is weird as hell. They act like all these mid couples and characters on GH now are super popular.

The rift that will split our ticket:

The scene at the latest Trump presser: The music on the scene is currently playing (I am not making this up) The Doobie Brothers' "What a Fool Believes." Trump is now listlessly reading economic message points off a piece of paper in front of him, clearly unhappy as he is any time he is asked to stay on message. I'm sure he'll go rogue in here soon enough. Meanwhile: Rolling Stone (non-paywalled) on how red state polls are looking 'worse than they should.'

The Harris rapid response team is truly one for the ages. It's "not a battleground state" for me.

There was a significant gap. Haddad only returned for a brief guest run in '90, I believe. She was long gone before Laura Bonarrigo was hired the following year.

F&M is Pennsylvania polling exclusively, I believe.

LMAO I just thought back and it's true! You're wrong for this.

Joe in the mix:

It's hopscotched right back to Season 3 now. I may rewatch Night in a couple hours.

You can tell Biden-hating gossipmonger Alex Thompson was excited because after days of pretty minimal activity since Harris took over he sprung into action on this one. Here is the core Vanity Fair article the Daily Beast piece above is farming from.

I think this article is actually accurate. I have zero sympathy for him, but I have suspected for some time now that the mix of paranoia and laziness Trump has always had is only heightened by the assassination attempt, and that terror contributes heavily to why he is doing only one event at a week while Vance is out there stalking Harris from airport to airport and doing these little cowtown rallies in the back of a Big Lots or whatever. He now apparently wants a bulletproof glass partition in front of him if he is to go back out on the road.

That'll do it! I really don't think anything on Walz's 20 year old DUI is going to leave a real mark, particularly since he spoke openly about it in 2018. But you can tell the mainstream media folks are excited to have literally anything to gin up material from, since all the stuff on stolen valor has thus far failed to penetrate outside of the right wing fever swamp.

Pretty sure a lot of those Plex pages are automated. The stream has warped ahead to S8, apparently because of a name error - eps in both S3 and S8 named "Reunion". @DRW50 will be pleased to know the Jessica Walter episode has apparently caused this.

Sasha is as boring if not moreso than all of Nina's other pointless daughters.

No one does. And it doesn't matter!

A sure sign of success:

I think it may have been the intent (or something like it) under Guza. But Frank and Ron came in with a clean slate and just didn't have the mindset for any of that or I suspect any knowledge of it - they just went for something pretty pedestrian. As for the rest, I just don't think there's a chance in Hell that Ron Carlivati of all people revealed Obrecht and Victor had a past only to make them not have one if not two secret kids together. I think we were going to be subjected to Ryan Paevey and Stafford hanging around Wyndemere acting like Carlivati's 'new Cassadine generation' with little Nicolas Bechtel Spencer. Again, small mercies. I also strongly suspected Ron had initially intended for Stafford's Nina to be the true mother of Kristen Alderson's Kiki, who Ava would have somehow stolen from Coma Nina BITD during their feud over Silas in New York, but I digress. My brain worked overtime in those days because you had to with Ron's deranged twists and needless add-ons. WTFever is going on with Anna Lynne McCord's "Abby" on DAYS right now is the same sort of situation - I think people are right that it's probably Gwen yet again.

It still pisses me off. They wasted it on some random HS sweetheart hook-up. And I still think it's just Alexis' brain psychologically covering for Stavros, lol.

Nina's parents are Donna Mills' pointless character Madeline Reeves, Obrecht's sister, and her late(?) tycoon husband. Madeline took in Nathan. But again, I strongly suspected given all the musical parents Ron was doing at that time (including revealing that Nathan was actually Obrecht's, which was only brought up maybe a year in) that that would've been subject to change to tie Nina deeper into the show.