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In fairness I forget who Scout is every time she's offscreen (and often when she is onscreen unless they specifically name her or she calls someone Mommy or Daddy). I spent ten minutes trying to figure out who the little boy was with Obrecht at Kelly's a couple weeks ago too. Too many fuckin' kids!

Not surprised either. I feel for Martha nonetheless, her husband is another story.

Couldn't find a twitter link for it so here: Patrick Stewart and LeVar talk Season 3, now Patrick wants a movie too lol.

There have been rumors about him and Tricia Cotham for months.

They didn't just do it to boost The Flash, but the announcement was timed to make it seem like they were super confident in that movie and to try to direct its box office. They may like Muschietti, but a flop is a flop and he would only be the millionth director to get quietly cut after a box office failure. His name is now attached to a particularly disastrous chapter in an already bad cinematic history for their franchise and unless It: Chapter Three miraculously materializes in the next few years it will be the first thing people think of re: Muschietti. He's a provisional name they can slot in there, but if the movie actually happens I don't think he'll be the one making it. This kind of revolving door stuff happens everyday.

PR bluster. Trying to keep up the confidence and not turn audiences away in opening weekend thinking the movie is doomed. Happens all the time. Don't be shocked to see Muschietti quietly released in the next year. As sad as it is for that cast and crew, it makes me get why Batgirl was shelved - Blue Beetle looks like a cable TV movie/straight to Netflix dump. If Batgirl looked the same neither should've come out IMO, at least not theatrically. What's sad is those are all great characters, especially Jaime Reyes' Blue Beetle. Flash should've been shelved. And I don't give a shít about Aquaman and I suspect it will bomb too.

When movies flop, people get cut. Zaslav insisted The Flash would succeed up to the day it released. DC has had a dozen projects they swore they'd make with directors they claimed to love. None happened. Muschietti is as likely to be a casualty as anyone else.

Speaking of Diana, it seems a fair amount of non-L&L material is hard to come by (or at least hard to ferret out amidst other stuff) in the key month of January 1981 til early February when Diana gets killed. When and how did she hit on the plan to seduce Jeff let alone get him into bed? Around Christmas '80 she seems very nervous about Heather and preoccupied with her but doesn't seem to be making eyes for Jeff yet. Granted I've been skipping around but it seems like it must be a swift turn.

Nice to see this confirmed. Always happy for more Linda.

No, I agree. I think they've had plenty of both for a long time. It's the Frank Valentini house style, as I've mentioned before. Goes all the way back to I Wanna Be a Soap Star and the Ford brothers on OLTL.

They're pretty close!

New Carol Kane interview:

I'm getting there. There is no reason for her or any of these storylines surrounding these women to exist. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Chase is a very handsome man but has the look, vibe and delivery of an overgrown little boy. I cannot take him seriously in any capacity and it's in large part due to the neutered, milquetoast stories they give all these characters, not just him and poor BLQ. Every story turn he has is about how mean ol' Brook Lynn lied to him and crushed his dreams.

She just like me fr. I simply roll out of bed for work (from home) all the time. Where's my huge paycheck? Gladys and Sasha must be destroyed.

And a surprise:

Thought i'd check in with @AdelaideCate007 and anyone else who watches SNW: The premiere was very solid. But Carol Kane immediately stole the whole thing with an accent that vaguely suggests her roles in The Princess Bride or Taxi to me; I love her addition and almost can't believe she took to spouting classic Trek technobabble as easily as she's ever done anything else onscreen. The mysterious nature of her character's species is also very interesting. Given the backstory (camouflaged among humans for centuries, etc.) I choose to believe Pelia is canonically Lillian from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt lol. Maybe it's me but Chapel and Dr. M'Benga have real chemistry of the specific kind. I know Chapel's future path is fairly mapped out not only with her torch for Spock but for her driving focus on her ex/future? husband from Majel Barrett's original debut episode on TOS - I love the reinvention of the character, but it's still very strange at times connecting this Chapel to the often milksop character of the original show. Perhaps she is beaten down by life and tragedy in the interim. But you wonder if there isn't room for M'Benga to be the one man in Chapel's life we didn't know about. The time gap in production is especially noticeable in how much the little girl from last season has grown since last seen, lol. Lovely dedication to Nichelle Nichols at the end.

Just leave:

More casting:

Oh, damn.

It's crazy to me they drew putting Steve and Audrey back together out even beyond James B. Sikking's character (who clearly wasn't necessary). I know things moved much slower back then but I mean, how long were they apart? Close to a decade? I would love to see the tornado/hurricane stunt from Donovan's(?) EP reign just pre-Monty, when they tried to unsuccessfully revamp and killed Diana's daughter.

I'm not a fan of fi-core status. I consider it close enough to scabbing. But I understand why some longtime soap writers have done it.

I don't care about her credentials or who she is. She's just wrong on the facts.

I'm used to people not paying any attention to the ins and outs of daytime. Just keep stunting for clout, girl. She'll never correct it of course.

I think it's possible they intend to retain the fi-core writers and that's what this person is thinking of.