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I'm with people who don't understand how they do business stories with the DiMera family so straightfaced. That's a function of Dena Higley not understanding tone, IMO. I guess you can make a case for the younger generations like Chad or E.J. or the Stefans/Jakes, or even poor Tony trying to go straight, fine, but with Rolf and Kristen still running around it kind of puts the lie to them being a sane dynasty. I don't dislike business stories, but I have a hard time buying DiMera business stories on DOOL, lol. They will 100% do this after the Kristen debacle and it is just pure hubris and IMO comes out of Ron Carlivati's mind. I think people put some stuff on him unfairly that is institutional, even when there are many bad things that are clearly his brainchild. But this just seems like the same kind of ego that led to the OLTL/GH mess, something Frank Valentini has only quadrupled down on since Ron left ABC. I assume seeing what GH has done since with this kind of chicanery has made Ron think 'sure, why not, I'm the only game in town and people like me, I can do what I want.' If you were going to bring Wilson back (and I don't dislike him, unlike a lot of people; he's no thespian but he works hard in [!@#$%^&*] positions) they could've at least revealed that Ben was, idk, a Kiriakis distant relation or something at the last second, and used that to lampshade the problem and let people acknowledge a resemblance with Alex.

There are all sorts of cranks and trolls on YT who hunt this stuff. I suspect some are just dedicated trolls who haunt boards like ours and use them to keep tabs.

LOL it's cool that the main feed shows us all people's blocked posts but for the record, @ing me doesn't work when I've had another obvious sockpuppet account blocked since the jump.

That story destroyed Jessica and did a lot of damage to the show. They did it because Dena Higley was a one-trick stunt queen and because Bree Williamson, a very vibrant personality, was bored playing Jessica, who she was incapable of giving much depth beyond the often poor scripts. Erin Torpey never had that problem.

That's an incredibly shitty and dangerous thing to do to anyone and completely inappropriate given the recent horrible incidents. There's a difference between roasting some pompous person from afar and endangering their life.

This seems like projection based on your own understandable resentments over the soaps being gone, but do you and mock us as you like. I personally don't think anyone left at P&G gives two [!@#$%^&*] one way or the other to spend the time and expenditure to wipe their rather vast library. I think much of it's either in a garbage dump somewhere, or in some dusty room out of the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark. YMMV.

Not sure what a person on soap twitter has to do with this board. He ain't here and we don't care. This board never has had a problem roasting Jamey Giddens back when he was just one of the little people on the bird app, or a number of others (Branco, anyone?), so I'm not sure why anyone else is off limits.

I would think Marland was the progenitor and source material, but I don't think you can discount the immense contributions of Monty at the same time (for all her sins), Pat Falken Smith and yes, people like Thom Racina, etc. who came later. Plus a lot of great staff writers in those years, including (IIRC) Bob Guza. From the copious episodes fortunately available from a wide range of these years and regimes, it was a magic time.

I would keep him gone. What he did is shameful. But oh well.

He's made it clear he doesn't want to do it. Which is very lazy. He just wants to show up in a shirt and jeans and play action hero. It's fireable IMO, but so was his pyramid scheme and antivaxx status and I still suspect he'll be back eventually despite the shít he pulled.

I've never understood it, but I assume it simply never happened because Steve Burton and perhaps Guza refused.

He'll always have a hard core of fanatics, but there has definitely been some decay in the numbers for Trump. It's been borne out in recent GOP polling, because of scandal fatigue and especially the J6 hearings. The softer GOP voters have been peeling off, both in 2020 and today. That's why he lost. He doesn't have the numbers.

The Spice Girls/Cardigans thing was him, but Jason Priestley began to EP in Season 8, I believe. He brought in Michael Braverman to try to make the show a more grounded drama. It didn't work, Braverman was tossed and JP fled the show in a very strange way at the beginning of Season 9 after an equally strange Season 8 finale. To each their own taste of course, but I remember Season 8 being dismally boring, and the longtime creative personnel were not happy with it either and have sounded off about it. Season 7 is a huge dud on many levels and completely forgettable despite the sad exit of Clare (Kathleen Robertson was focused on her movie work with Gregg Araki). But Season 8 just never worked for me on any level either. The only thing that did was Hilary Swank, and they dumped her halfway through the year very unceremoniously while trying to retool the show. She then went on to become a movie star in record time. Vincent Young was hired just because he was a very buzzy hunk in a big Coke commercial or something at the time, I can't remember exactly what, but they tried to push him as the new heartthrob and pair him with Donna to push her as the sexy lead, and they were both just dismal together. And once that ended and Dylan came back he had no purpose but hung around for another year or two with third-tier story. It was all just wretched to me. YMMV. The last year I bothered with in full was Season 6 - like Season 4 of Melrose it got campy and OTT, but unlike Melrose its characters weren't as adaptable for the changes. But it still had some good stories and great new characters like Emma Caulfield's Susan Keats. After Season 6 the show is a wash to me.

It's more that Feinberg, like most of the ex-Gawker kids, went all in on Bernie in '16 and have never recovered from that or Gawker's collapse (and it's never really recovered either, and won't last in its new form). As one of the comments notes, it's about something else: If they admit Trump is an aberration and uniquely dangerous and unlike other presidents, they have to admit Hillary Clinton and 'cringe libs' or 'boomers' were right. A huge portion of the burnout leftist psyche is invested in never, ever doing that, which leads most of them to drift to the right. It's an ego thing.

Man, I did not recognize Joanna Going who I loved on Dark Shadows 1991 and loved seeing in countless movies for years after. She's still beautiful but she changed her look really fast. I did not know about much of her voice work. Anne made a great Lois Lane.

I have never seen Birth, though I've always wanted to - the director's prior film, Sexy Beast, was fascinating. I'll have to watch it.

She stole I Know What You Did Last Summer in one scene (I think she may have been uncredited, as she was already a star by then). I never understood why they didn't bring that character back for the sequel, though I suspect they couldn't afford her.

Uh-oh!

Very, very, very sad. I may have to rewatch Psycho in her honor. Or maybe an AW episode someone recommends.

Bear in mind it's Nate Silver and quite early, but....

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That was my first instinct about this claim, as I said before. Like I said, this ain't the '60s or '70s. It would be a considerable expenditure for material the company does not care about. I think more likely it is somewhere shoved aside.