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Yep. It's a budget shell game Frank and Ron perfected earlier at GH and then at OLTL, then began to abuse (trying to force Genie to go recurring, which made her walk twice). I can understand doing that balancing act to a point but when half the cast is recurring, c'mon. What's really weird is the cheap-ass current PowerPoint opening constantly features the recurring players including the little kids, lol.

It's been fantastic purely for the faithful, who are pre-sold on Trump. It's not fantastic for CNN, which has been trying to pretend its pivot to 'the center' is Serious Journalism and that this event would not be an embarrassment. Both of those objectives failed. Most people didn't watch this live, they watched the ugly highlights on Twitter. They should never have done this. You'll see (and are already seeing) the usual Beltway wagon-circling for poor valiant Kaitlan Collins who is one of the gang - she even roused apolitical access robot Peter Baker to her defense while he was studiously ignoring this event - but make no mistake, it was a disaster for their rep.

You are extremely gullible.

Re: tonight -

I can't keep track of it all. So I mostly let other people catch it atm.

That's particularly weird as I don't exactly associate Sue Ellen with sexy undergarments, sorry Linda Gray. But Sue Ellen was a state beauty queen so I guess there is some background.

I wouldn't hate it, except the show plays host to so many cancelled soap refugees as is. It would need to be a solid role, which Gregory, etc. have not been for various new folks. I will say he looked much, much better in a recent Locher Room(?) interview.

When ancient accounts stop turning up after decades in convenient suspended animation randomly touting board-unpopular opinions seemingly tailored to create transparent controversy (entirely coincidentally, like one of our most lasting trolls), then I'll stop playing Whack-a-Mole. As to the show itself: I wonder if they aim to give Jane an actual love interest since she's back for the foreseeable future, and Tony Geary is most decidedly not.

Woof.

George R.R. Martin's blog post about his education in TV as an up and coming writer and how things have changed for the worse is very instructive and educational. I've encountered some of this myself.

Yeah, I don't watch this but the Marsha Warfield return caught my eye online. I figure @DRW50 will want to know. I guess she's also back in the next season.

I wonder when they officially decided to call it quits on Meg and why. Even in the few clips of her around this era in the early '70s she seems unbalanced. It seemed like a long decline. As dumb as the PC retcon backstory with her and DV Bordisso the psychic spy was, I've always wanted to track down some of those episodes or at least transcripts discussing her, as any mention of Scott's mother is few and far between in the last 30-40 years and I'm curious to see a relatively contemporary perspective from any of the characters on Meg. I haven't seen almost any of that terrible SL since it aired.

@Faulkner Another lewk for Ncuti:

Jake Sherman stays on brand: Meanwhile, rival Beltway access outlet Semafor takes shots at Sherman and Punchbowl, insert 'let them fight' gif here (I will not be linking to Semafor):

Another month, another freeze-dried account that makes the game too obvious and hits the Ignore file. Anyway, why they all immediately blamed Ned is beyond me, and knowing FV the characters won't be nearly as contrite when this is over.

I'd forgotten that was Barry Jenner. I know him best as Admiral Ross, Avery Brooks' cohort in the final years of the Dominion War on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. I am nowhere near Robin's run on the show yet but I look forward to it. I do wonder why/how Allan Miller's Scooter abruptly disappeared so soon after he and Laura started hooking up. There was zero mention of him or of Laura leaving his firm.

In other news: Whisper-thin Valentin writhing and whining to Anna in the Cassadine torture chair was giving Stuart from MadTV.

Don't feed the sockpuppets.

Oh yeah, I liked the ripped from the headlines aspect and Carrie's role but Austin doing even basic math is totally implausible.

I liked that story! The beginning, anyway. Just telling vaguely intelligent stories was a quantum shift for DAYS, but their management and audience didn't want it (not that that regime was exactly flawless, but still). The difference for me is GH has never quite descended to DAYS' lows that they needed to do that particular kind of story to approach some semblance of physical reality.

Calling the SEC is peanuts for characters on this show and just shows how much the last 7-8 years has neutered storytelling stakes on this show, first with Passanante/Altman in the twilight of their careers and now these guys who are clearly just writing what Frank okays.

Yeah, the whole Ivy thing is odd since I know she never showed up. I was under the impression Sharon Gabet was only on a temporary break, my mistake.

Even Peter Reckell!