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That was always my preferred scenario, and still is. Though at this point he'd really be more of a community activist in the same ways as Andrew with maybe a dark past re: why he left the collar behind, which we were never privy to.

I have already waxed wistful about BMH's curate Joey many times. I think I am one of the dozen people in America who enjoyed that iteration of the character. It was Malone's obvious attempt to give Andrew Carpenter a heir apparent (right down to his forbidden lusts for married women), and it fit Joey's character background. It just was poorly plotted and given the worst possible romantic partners.

See, I liked it when they did that on AMC 2.0 because (and people will laugh, but hey) Rob Wilson's Pete had some of James Mitchell's imperious coldness when he got angry or was stymied in business. Physically he was a beautiful package and a fantasy prince for Celia Fitzgerald, but he had a darkness underneath that could be riled when someone didn't help fulfill his dot-com dreams. Further, they made it a story point that he used to be a four-eyed geek played by two almost certainly gay actors previously as a kid and teen on the network show - once she got him into bed, Colby Chandler needled him about being the nerd who'd had a crush on her when they were both played by different people. It gave the hunkier Pete an air of overcompensation. I don't mind the transformations when they are acknowledged. YMMV. Once again, wildly OT as an excuse to talk about the Hulu soaps!

Llanview's own on Andre Braugher: More from the cast of Brooklyn Nine Nine here.

Always nice to see more obvious bait.

I don't mind the idea, and I do think it's plausible he would change to be a contrast to them as an adult. But seeing as you have a lot of fans or critics including I think Levine speaking out against it lately, I do think Khan's idea is pretty good. Psychiatry has changed a fair bit since Frasier's heyday.

The scene I remember on YT was talked about in here a while back - it was a pretty melancholy, frankly depressing scene where Ed and Carla were in a restaurant talking about how their renewed romance hadn't really worked out, that they were going through the motions together and that she was taking the judgeship in AZ with Sadie. He wished her well. I do think Dorian was there, IIRC. I don't know if there was one with Sadie too, but it wouldn't surprise me. I don't know if it was said when Ed left that he had decided to reunite with Carla and join her and Sadie in Arizona. I've heard that before but it's not anything I can verify.

Holly said why she didn't attend in her book. It's been a couple days. Not verifiable. But regardless, this is all just another attempt by one blocked troll (not JoeCool) to stir up drama by grabbing at any hot button topic or controversial actor they can. They go from thread to thread hoping people will bite. They're also misquoting Jeff Giles' book; Erika has only addressed the claim re: her quote in the soap mags in the '80s about the show no longer having 'have-nots', and she did so in her fan newsletter, not Llanview in the Afternoon.

I think the suggestion I've seen had more to do with it purely surviving more easily on the network vs. any creative element. I agree it sounds like weak tea material. This whole angle reminds me of nothing less than the last two Indiana Jones sequels, if you'll pardon a tortured parallel. By the time Indy 4 came around in the 2000s, Denholm Elliott (who'd played Marcus Brody in the first and third films) was dead and Sean Connery was either not interested or well enough to return. John Rhys-Davies, for some reason, did not appear in that one. So what was their solution? Add not one but two new 'longtime friends of Indiana Jones': John Hurt and Ray Winstone! They stuck out like sore thumbs to me, obvious replacements. Same thing happens in the unfortunate Indy 5 recently: Antonio Banderas turns up for a few scenes to do very little except pretend to be a buddy of Indy, and the relationship with Toby Jones' character feels equally like a replacement for Marcus Brody. Anyway, this is all a longwinded discussion of Indiana Jones when I could've simply said: I hate when shows or movies do this with replacement characters years later. The character should be more unique if it's taking the place of another.

Really?? That's malpractice, same with Knots and Millennium among others. I do remember the early episodes and the movie, which I really liked.

Didn't they fire Nathan Varni years ago? I could've sworn.

Fair enough - I guess they either made up or DC had it wrong to begin with.

Did he? That's interesting, I had no idea. He always seemed like an intriguing forgotten character. Do we know anything about his return?

Shocking and just awful. What a force of nature. I guess I should revisit Homicide - I know him best from so many other things.

Advance reviews (more than just this but I'm not posting them all) for the Christmas special are good: RTD claims there are no plans for Tennant to return. I think he will inevitably appear at some point, but what I've heard is he's definitely not back in the next year in any way: The second Series 14 episode referred to above re: the Beatles is titled "The Devil's Chord" and is rumored to be a musical episode. There are rumors that Fifteen shares a dance and kiss with Jonathan Groff's character (who may be a Time Agent) in the period episode later in the series with Indira Varma, but I don't know any more about that.

It just seems like a show with the name branded on it and little other connective tissue. I've seen some defenses of it (and suggestions it would fare better on CBS proper, since it is so conventional) but I haven't been remotely compelled to tune in.

Did Stafford take a shot at Ron there or are they good and she's just playing around? I seem to recall DC losing their minds blaming her and others for getting Ron fired at GH by going the network en masse. IIRC they specifically called out 'actors who Periscope,' an app Stafford used often at the time.

Yep. It was also this quote she directly addressed in her newsletter a few years ago, flat-out calling that interpretation "bullshît" and explaining what Paul's described here while still fulsomely complimenting Holly. In any event, I'm not gonna feed the troll trying to stir anything up.

It''s largely because they haven't actively pushed the specials. As RTD has said, the major Disney push begins with Gatwa now, the specials were a prologue for them.

Disney+ Christmas special teaser and more: The new cast at the Christmas special premiere (including Anita Dobson):

Goblin time (featuring some of the Christmas special):

Pretty sure that's already happened. And I know, whisking her off is probably a pipe dream.

The great comic creator and artist Ian Gibson - of 2000AD, Judge Dredd, etc. fame and co-creator most particularly of the unfinished female sci-fi epic The Ballad of Halo Jones with Alan Moore - has passed away in the little time it's taken me today to revisit its gorgeous omnibus edition. What a legacy.