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What is perverted about Galadriel being a warrior as a younger woman, hundreds of years before?

Adieu, grinning prince.

I mean, I'm no big LOTR fan and I am very skeptical about Amazon and this show which I probably won't watch, but it seems like you're almost the only one posting in here about how much you hate it. I haven't seen that much negative commentary on it online so far. I even went looking for it after you kept posting through it and have found almost none except for right wing nutjobs. Why not reserve judgment?

Well, it was fun while it lasted. As I'd always feared, the KL source on YT went down while I was recovering from a nasty bout with COVID, with me about halfway through Season 5. I don't use Twitter as a user, so should the @cbsknotslanding twitter account bring back its videos on another outlet (like Sharepoint) or people find another access point, DMing me would be much appreciated (and please pass along my regards to the account). In the meantime I'll post my thoughts on Season 5 at some point soon. It's not an ending, just a break. I doubt you can keep that account down.

Bringing Andrea back, divorced and a single parent to her child (a la Carly/Swank), as a romantic challenge to Brandon and Kelly and co-worker for Brandon at the paper would've worked. (This is a role Lindsay Price ended up filling for Steve as Janet at the paper, and I think she may have just started as a recurring bit player who moved up when they dumped Swank and liked the chemistry with Ziering; I never really cared for Janet.) But the show was allergic to going there with Brandon and Andrea despite the very, very long tease. It simply was not set up to disrupt its own paradigms.

Oh, I personally think she definitely approached Ted McGinley levels on primetime lol, at least in terms of being ubiquitous. She was added to virtually every show out there at one point, which is the main reason why I've said she's never lacked for work since GH. I just don't think she killed Melrose specifically, and I don't think she was necessarily wrong for all those shows (though she was wrong for a lot of them). When you take the Lois accent away, unless Rena's character has strong writing or at least an outsize personality - like Quinn on B&B did, hence her success - RS can be stuck doing what Carla Gugino, around that same era, had to do on a lot of sitcoms and dramas: Play the sort of neutral brunette who is just there. (Gugino is super talented and having a career renaissance these days, particularly in the work of Mike Flanagan on streaming, but there were a lot of years where she was stuck being 'That Girl' on primetime)

@DRW50I knew you'd like this skit for the Blu-Ray release of William Hartnell's second year. These sets are such a labor of love.

Donna, everyone already has talked about this in this thread.

Giving Mac a kid is an obvious way to go. The unknown backstory there is more than enough. The show potentially trying to magic up children for Felicia in the early '90s or Dominique and Scott out of nowhere, when they were all present enough that there is literally no available timespan possible for either of those things to have happened (unless Coby is Serena's twin or Ryan stole Felicia's eggs like Valentin or some gross shít), is ridiculous.

I don't love Scott getting involved with a deranged terrorist and eugenicist who should be back in Steinmauer, but Kathleen Gati is talented, they have fun together for the moment and it's not like Scott is a stranger to, well, strange. I'd still make Obrecht a recurring on-off villain to come in and out again; I don't believe she has a permanent place in a normal canvas. As for Bobbie, Jackie Zeman's face has gone through so many changes, both good, bad and worse in the last 20 years; every time I think it's settled down and is looking better, something else is done and she can barely speak. Frankly it's severely affected her performance, not just how she enunciates but what she poorly tries to bring to the delivery to make up for her facial issues. It's sad, because I love Bobbie and always have. But unless Jackie's face is doing better and she can deliver more nuanced work I don't need to see her that often anymore. AFAIK, based on timelines, there is absolutely no conceivable way Scott and Dominique could have another adult child. Unless they want to suggest Josh Kelly is somehow Serena's long lost twin which, no.

You're absolutely right, which was my first instinct as well.

Yeah, I remember that. Which is why I doubt anything serious will occur. We've been here before with Kin. But who knows.

What would they gain from cutting or offing Scott or Bobbie? I don't believe either have been on contract in forever.

Something like it is the only thing that can work now and is what should be done on streaming. Arc-based soap seasons, block taping with breaks. That is the only future the medium has in America, IMO but I doubt anyone will do it with the existing brands. The PP soaps came close but couldn't get there due to management.

It's a shame, especially since he gave a good interview about his time at GH and his praises for all the wonderful years maybe in the last day or two. But I've counted Kin out before. I don't think he'll ever be truly gone.

LOL she didn't kill Melrose. The final season was a bit of a renaissance. It just took the heat for 90210 and a bored network. The Eve character was a too slow burn and quite boring when she remained a heroine, but the umbrella story overall worked and when she finally lost her mind it was a good time.

@DRW50 Scott Evans (Oliver Fish, OLTL) is appearing in the new Amazon show from Gloria Calderon Kellett, co-creator of Netflix's late, beloved One Day at a Time:

It is obscene that the Trina frame-up nonsense has been going since March lol. It is clear the writing is there for Spencer and Trina, but I don't trust Frank Valentini when it comes to non-white characters, ever. He still operates from a mindset of 'don't upset the white grandmas' from 2010. I feel like they've strung this out for as long as humanly possible as he struggles to find any way to put the Black girl with someone else and find another white chick for Spencer. I hope I'm wrong. Either way, TA remains gold as she's been since her first day.

Never liked her, never will. Bye.

I agree. It's sad, and he was underrated and excellent on the show in some rough years even/especially as Carly's man and the father to her sons, the only place in the canvas post-Brenda that suited him at all for a time. Now I just don't need to see him ever again, which is a pity for Jax who I still felt had a bit more to offer in the right role.

Rena has never really lacked for primetime work.