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It's right for Joss to hate Sonny, even if I frankly suspect they have her say those things because they know it'll get a subset of the audience on Eden's side (the same way RC used to have serial killer Franco suddenly be outraged by the mob lol). For all the reasons people have enumerated Joss should absolutely hate him. That "Uncle Sonny" shít used to turn my stomach. If Joss, recast or otherwise, took time off and came back as a socialite schemer enacting a plot against Sonny's business interests on behalf of her father I wouldn't squawk. I will forever maintain one of the biggest mistakes Carly ever made was letting Jax get away. That man raised her sons like his own and gave them a stable and loving home. He was devoted to them, Sonny or no Sonny. They were comfortable there and comfortable with him. It wasn't the hottest pairing on Earth but Laura and Ingo worked well together. Throwing him over for Sonny with what happened is one of her core sins.

I don't see why we can't have both down the road! Drew will recover eventually.

Yeah, I've seen the script too but haven't read it yet. We'll see.

It's still a brilliant idea! I'd do it tomorrow.

Burnett is kind of a right wing crank/grifter these days and has been for a long time. I have little interest in this revival, but I would not go by those two guys.

I would not kill poor boring ol' Molly. But she would hit the bricks for many years, with the exception of some holiday visits!

He doesn't care and it's clearly a sunk cost on Molly at this point.

lol if there's one thing Sarah never does it's stand on ceremony or be less than candid. She does not mince words in that new article. There are always execs like that out there. I frankly had no interest in a revival of Buffy; I thought its ending was good enough. I think it should be left where it is for longer as I think we are in the dying days of IP cannibalization, and any return would need both more distance from the Whedon scandal and the current streaming churn and burn cycle, and really perfect writers to nail the tone. I was willing to be pleasantly surprised but I'm not exactly weeping if it doesn't happen. I feel for Sarah and the new cast but that's about it. The only thing that would make me want it more is to spite that kind of executive, which I am definitely familiar with. I was surprised to hear she had heard from the entire original cast. Last I checked Alyson Hannigan is still very close to Joss and has kept very quiet in recent years, but it seems she and Sarah patched things up a few years ago.

You may well be right, but I've also made my case for why I wouldn't before so I won't rehash that. I would let her run as long as possible but would probably still kill her someday down the road (she'd probably last longer than Willow, but I'd also try to keep Willow for at least another 2-4 years). I couldn't fault anyone for killing Ava off at this point. I just ask that it be done in proper fashion in a grand blaze of glory.

They were pure starfúckers in those days, and clearly had a close relationship to the show and Ron at that point. They were the biggest voices pushing that OLTL was Ron and Frank and vice versa, and really disdained and ran down the PP shows preemptively because of that. (Prospect Park had many issues, but not giving Cartini sole creative ownership of OLTL was not among them) DC was very influential back then but it's a different world now, I haven't been there in many years and I don't know who still pays attn to them. Of course those guys also thought FV and RC were inseparable forever and an immortal dream team, and I knew that wasn't true. It didn't surprise me when Frank cut Ron loose to keep his job. It wouldn't have surprised them, if any of them had actually paid attention to OLTL or his stewardship of it (which was reasonable enough but extremely pragmatic) before Ron became HW. Jamey among others openly admitted he'd barely watched the show lol.

I think the difference with Ava is that at core she is a villain and a very arch, cynical personality. When they try to domesticate her it rings false for me because that is not who she is or how she's meant to function. From the very first day she appeared she has been right on the edge of high camp. That's not a bad thing IMO because Maura ate the role alive with gusto at that time and often still does, but the writing struggles to keep up with who she is. Which is part of why her being relegated to C-story is tedious for me. The version I heard was that FV considered making her Robin in 2014-15 despite Kimberly regularly being available and it being RC stalling out that story lol. High on their own supply (if it was true). No one would've tolerated that, though Daytime Confidential and a couple others dutifully tried floating the trial balloon for him. This was in the dying days when Jamey, etc. kept running interference for Frank and Ron gushing about all their star hires like Stafford and so forth, up until FV shivved Ron and suddenly they all began to admit the stories and characters hadn't worked.

A subsection of fans liked Budig and some of them were desperate for ME to have any remotely viable pairing (they weren't interesting). That's about it. The same people who think Finn and Liz were great. IMO Budig was an obvious shoo-in to play Sarah but they stupidly didn't do it. I suspect again they thought the role was not 'edgy' or new enough for a star like her, which was also allegedly part of Ron and Frank's reasoning for not casting Roger Howarth as either Steve Webber or Tom Hardy in 2013 vs. Franco. Pretty sure Budig pissed Frank off, hence her multiple abrupt exits. Maybe money.

I often do. Yet people try to convince me Hayden was some indelible, important character. Sure! She was reheated Greenlee at best, and weaker.

I thought Watros would be a hit with Ingo back then. Didn't happen but tbh I was barely ever watching at that time. Stafford I could never tolerate in the role, but Nina has always been a very weak character sketch Ron and Frank only brought on so they could say they had Michelle Stafford (see also: Budig/Hayden). Watros makes her watchable via sheer commitment and the force of her wild personality, and I've enjoyed Nina much more post-Sonny. But I'd still usher her out soon enough, maybe after a meaty role in some Willow stuff. Maybe give her a happy ending with some dude, who knows.

Not demon eyes!!

Happy for OBAA which I loved, but I suspected they would not give it to Sinners which I also loved when they wouldn't give Coogler Best Director (which I would've given him as well as probably Best Picture). Knowing the Academy part of it was the PTA thing, and part of it was the fact that Sinners was on a superficial level a horror movie. Too bad. It's apples and oranges for me but that's where I'm leaving this discourse behind lol. They're both great films.

Very happy for Jessie Buckley who has been amazing since before Chernobyl, even if I wish Rose Byrne had won. Jessie is a brilliant, brilliant actress.

Pine Valley's own Michael B. Jordan just won Best Actor!

Pine Valley's own!!

The (well deserved) cinematography winner for Sinners was really bending Demi's ear before and after accepting her award. I like to think she was praising her to the high heavens for The Substance, which Demi was really robbed for even if the movie was largely just silly fun. I would've been very happy for Delroy Lindo to win (at least as much for Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods if not for his big monologues in Sinners) but I think Sinners is going to wreck shop tonight (and well deserved) and I am fine with Penn taking it, even if I would've preferred Teyana and Benicio for OBAA. What Del Toro brought to OBAA BTS in his key sequences cannot be overstated beyond just his acting performance - it's an entire massive swath of the film and its messaging that he helped mastermind.

Oh, who cares. They both are great actors and while I love Jamie Lee warts and all Amy actually deserved the nod for this one. (Jamie should've won for Halloween 2018 but I digress) I need to revisit Alamo Bay which Amy did with her husband in the 80s. I do love her in The Dark Half and Field of Dreams, etc. She made a point to shout out Walter Hill on another red carpet recently, for letting her play the scripted male part in Streets of Fire and giving her her start.

I think Marty Supreme is very good and Timmy is very talented, but he screwed himself in the last week or so with those silly comments and he'll deserve it if he loses for it. I've been rooting for OBAA and Sinners for a long time - I think OBAA is PTA's best and most substantial film since Phantom Thread, and less of a piss-take than some of his other recent ones I liked but found lighter - so I'll be happy if they take a lot of it (and Rose Byrne for Legs). Hamnet has some lovely performances and beautiful direction, I adore Jessie Buckley, Mescal is great and little Jacobi Jupe was stunning too, but the second half is classic calculated Weinstein/Miramax Oscar bait straight out of the '90s, heavy on thudding schmaltz, and so I found a lot of the latter portion of the film tedious. Billy Shakes improvising To Be or Not to Be like beat poetry on the docks was giving Good Will Hunting's more memed moments. I am very happy for Amy Madigan tonight, even if I think it should've gone to Teyana or Wunmi Mosaku. Madigan has been a strong powerhouse and underrated stalwart for films even in leaner years, particularly the often forgotten, oats & dust indies of the '80s and other genre pictures where she first made her name. Weapons is not entirely the sum of its parts for me unlike Barbarian, but it has wonderful work from her, Julia Garner, Brolin, Austin Abrams and little Cary Christopher from Days. So I'll be glad for her win as is.

MVJ also told Patrick Mulcahey "Sonny's not that bright." So I don't think she's ever worshipped the ground he walked on. And I don't think she sees Joey as the irresistible master of the show. Sooner or later he's getting got.

I forgot all about the Ronn Moss shot at B&B from Ron and Frank. Thank you for reigniting this painful memory.