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Legends all day. Ugh.

Nothing.

Another glimpse of Zach Tinker (DAYS, Y&R) is what appears to be a prominent role as one of the many playable characters in horror video game The Quarry, starring a who's who of both horror and youth talent, including legends Lance Henriksen, Ted Raimi, David Arquette, Grace Zabriskie and more. Zach is playing the jock in the backwards cap who also gets topless a lot. A bit more of him here:

Same here. He was one of the greats. RIP.

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Viki (which is how her name is spelled) did undergo major therapy in 1995-1997. Her heading off to Paris, Texas was not depicted in any way as a psychotic break or mental illness crisis. She took a leave of absence from her job, told the family she was on vacation and went off to find herself. There's always more the show could've done, but they played her DID out more than once.

I've never heard anyone specifically blame JFP for Stuart Damon. Guza had creative power well above JFP, and his writers have always insisted Damon's firing was not his choice.

In which Kasie Hunt plays Twister with herself to avoid simply saying 'blocked by Republicans' and using every other synonym possible to avoid blowback from either her bosses or her GOP access:

I do think there is absolutely room to do a school shooting/gun violence story on soaps. But I remember the storyline on OLTL, and who was writing it (Dena Higley) and the depth or lack thereof of all the characters involved, including the would-be shooter played by a young Jonathan Groff, and I think it would've been a debacle. The weird irony is Higley actually had her finger on the pulse of several key 'ripped from the headlines' social issue storylines during her tenure - first aping the Jim McGreevey closeted gay scandal with Daniel Colson, then school shootings, and finally the rise of the new undercover white supremacist cells online and in media with "One Pure People" and Chris Beetem's Tate Harmon character. The big moment where Bo confronts Colson (and Nora standing by, watching) at his swearing-in ceremony is classic soap, if you remove the quality of the content itself. These are all storylines and issues soaps, especially socially conscious soaps like OLTL, can and should deal with. It's just that the actual content of the storylines Higley built and executed was crass, poorly-built, superficial or tasteless. The Colson and One Pure People storylines can and should be done so much better.

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Beto should take it to him. He can win there. And he's right to do this - the fact is he is in front of a mic, with cameras, preaching Democratic and liberal values, and there needs to be more of that all day, everyday in the current environment. Because if the vapid rich in cable news can't find a Dem to show out and get in front of a mic they will happily put on another ten Republicans, or guys like DeSantis, who has never met a podium he doesn't love to spew hate from. Often GOP rhetoric has no apparent news value but they still push it out daily, and they never stop. Media wants takes and drama and Republicans give it to them, so news producers feel no compunction in platforming their filth. Beto is doing the necessary in countering it. That's the ground war now, as much as organizing.

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Considering the fact that we already know in the past certain trolls have likely used this forum to monitor, target and wipe out sources of classic episodes, I just don't think it should be discussed in public period. I think people should be very careful.

In other, (relatively) better news: Perdue was absolutely crushed numbers-wise, which may speak to a waning Trump wave in the fall.

You don't need to worry about spoiling me for a 40 year old TV show. Use your own judgment but it's not your responsibility.

I'm taking aim at Manchin. The rest is simple reporting of what may or may not be on the docket this week for this, which I think is newsworthy. But no, on gun control I don't think it's a particularly harsh take to say no one in power is doing enough. Chris Murphy, for example, is a good man and is very passionate about gun control. But tonight, as he talks about it, he claims he thinks he can get ten GOP votes for 'something about guns.' I think he's living a rich fantasy life. Because it doesn't matter what the 'sensible' Republicans tell their friends across the aisle in hushed tones in cloakrooms; it matters what they do on the record. I don't believe there will ever be ten Republican votes for any gun control before I'm 50, at the very least. Maybe not before I'm dead. But regardless, that still doesn't leave the rest of us, elected or unelected, without a responsibility that goes beyond floor speeches and messaging votes. I've had enough of those. And I know we've all had enough, so I can sympathize with all of us.

So, to take my mind off events in Texas, here's a little more: Season 3, Episode 5 (The Surprise): In which Abby gets her kids back, Julie Harris is not yet in the opening credits and I still can't square little Brian being obnoxious teen Bobby Jacoby from Tremors as well as a recent MST3K episode, he's so tiny here. Interesting to see Karen trying to make her way selling at Knots Landing Motors, for however long it lasts. From a little reading it seems it was Donna Mills who went to the writers and told them 'no one wants to come home from work and watch people selling used cars' and tbh she was absolutely right, but I will miss Sid's baby a little when it's gone, and watching Karen and Gary try to preserve his business. Seems like there's a few hints of the return of Sid's engine with the man who bought a lot from Karen, too - the Carter-era gas/energy crisis figures heavily into the subplots of this season and the last, and it's a fascinating time capsule embedded in the storytelling. Olivia is still a pistol. "Don't worry, it wasn't a pervert or anything." Amazing that Crazy Jeff literally sits on the couch pretending to read the paper while he lets the ex-wife he stole his children from help do the dishes for him and his hostages. I am equally amazed Abby managed to convince Jeff to come back to KL with the kids vs. just grabbing them in the night and hauling ass, calling the FBI. She strung the trapline long. The Val/Lilimae friction continues to vibrate in the background, which I appreciate. Poor Richard stuck pimping hos! I loved Lilimae's response to Laura when asked how she was: "Fat, sassy and curious!" She already fits in well in the Ewing household, mixing things up, gossiping and cooking big meals. Lilimae is enough of an operator that I like to think she'd have seen through Abby's act instead of buying in, though. Abby works a Mata Hari act on Jeff beautifully. The look in her eyes at the end was scary as hell: "He hurt me. No one gets away with that." I wish she'd had him arrested, though. I have no idea if we hear from Jeff again. Dude does not seem like the type to give up because of a restraining order; you'd think he'd turn violent next. Episode 6 (One of a Kind): Terry "Weekend at Bernie's" Kiser is here! And so is OLTL's Allan Miller, the original and best Scooter, back again. I'm sure CBS mounted a massive "The Real Scooter Returns" campaign to promote the episode. The unique Karen/Richard friendship plays again early in this episode and it's just golden. I can't gush enough about it. The juxtaposition of their relationship and the dance with Scooter and Laura is pointed and very interesting, and I do wonder what the show would've looked like if Richard and Karen had actually tried it on, just for one night. Karen is so much the audience heroine for the show that I don't think they'd ever have gone there in that era, even with Richard being a much more positive and redeemed character over the last half-season who is currently true to Laura, but I still wonder. I am surprised Scooter and Laura actually went there, and I wonder where that goes next. I would not have expected Laura to be the one to stray at this point, and yet it makes sense: She is now the more empowered, increasingly more worldly one. And now dueling sports cars - woof. Poor Richard is struggling to be the best possible husband here. Never thought I'd be saying 'poor Richard' re: the Averys! Teddy the ex is right about Christmas in L.A.; it's obscene and there's no challenge! I'll never get over missing the old weather and the East Coast as long as I'm here, I'm still a New Yorker and a Washingtonian/Marylander at heart. "You're no spring chicken, Mom." Little Olivia remains a stone cold stunner. The breezy back and forth duel between Abby and Karen in the kitchen about Teddy and Diana showcased their fantastic, nuanced rapport with its baked-in history, their sniping still threaded with a grudging fondness. And Karen turning out the lights on Abby when she's still eating - I cackled. More exploration with Val and Lilmae as one of the sideplots here, as Gary gives Val a little insight into Lilimae the child bride, and Lilimae finally makes good on that homemade quilt. I like the push and pull between friction, trauma and analysis. Teddy's soliloquy about his sons was great work by Terry Kiser, on top of his very candid discussion about their romantic and sexual lives with Karen beforehand (and again with Karen alone at the end with Diana, giving a wonderful talk about the difference between Teddy and Sid in her life as a young woman). The long, long, slow pan to Karen on the stairs after his speech with no music was something you would not get today.

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I'm aware of that. I just don't care. I'll roll the dice. I've had enough.

My only consolation on days like today is that someday, probably far from now, this country will look back on the utter paralysis re: gun control in these years and find it incomprehensible and barbaric that we waited so long to do the right thing. Doesn't make me any less angry to be living through it now though.

Woof.