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Wow, such an unfortunate freeze frame of Victoria Wyndham. I often think YouTube does these kinds of things on purpose. Meanwhile, 12 hours to tape a one-hour program? You know, maybe live and live-on-tape had their merits after all.

Perhaps, lol. From what I can recall, even Jean Passanante, who was in the room when it occurred, was like, "I can't BELIEVE she did that!". Truthfully, I haven't thought much about Elizabeth Page ever since she wrote an article for some publication about how hard life was for her and her family during the last WGA strike. "No more dinners at fancy restaurants, no more $300 haircuts!" Karen, please! Wasn't it rumored that it had something to do with Michael Conforti, who had joined the staff as co-HW (I think?)?

IIRC, it was a long-term storyline (meaning, it wasn't over and done with in, say, two weeks) that affected other storylines as well. (For instance, in order to afford the purchase of the mansion, Ruth sold her stocks in her husband's ice cream company to a business rival/competitor, which caused a strain between the Marshalls.)

Off the top of my head: Ruth Marshall (Joan Pringle), matriarch of the African-American Marshall clan, faced terrible discrimination (threatening phone calls, obscene messages spray-painted on her walls, even a bomb scare at her housewarming party) when she bought the Whitmore mansion, which she'd been raised in as the maid, Vivian's (Lynn Hamilton), daughter. As I've said in the past, Sally Sussman had trouble head-writing even her own show; however, I have to give her credit for following in Agnes Nixon's footsteps by giving such prominence to non-stereotypical characters of color.

I get the feeling that Dee Hall would rather forget about Marlena's rape. It's the one storyline of hers that I've ever heard her criticize.

Frankly, I think they would've been better off bringing back Ellen Wheeler as a new character. I didn't care for how they had to change Marley in order to contrast her with Jensen's Vicky.

I wonder how a show like GENERATIONS would have addressed everything that's going on in our country right now.

Heck, they could've had Don as Marlena's friend and confidante during the whole time she and John were apart. That would've been better than nothing.

OTOH, you'd have a white billionaire adopting a poor Black child, which only works when that child is Gary Coleman (and even then, the whole idea is questionable).

Who's "jenny"? Are they talking about "Jennifer" from the Target riot?

"Hey hey! Ho ho! The New York Times has got to go!"

So. Damn. Tired.

Antifa, my ass! Those people were straight up neo-Nazis masquerading as Antifa! Let's be real! Eric Braeden will be DAMNED if Trump holds a Bible while sanctioning hate.

God help us.

I don't know whether this counts, but I was definitely appalled at seeing ATWT's Jessica and Margo fighting over Doc Reese like he was Mandingo.

"I was afraid for my life": the magic, get-out-of-jail-free card for all racists who kill African-Americans.

I remember when everybody (well, almost everybody) worked overtime downplaying and debunking that story: "It wasn't a real KKK rally! It wasn't the same Fred Trump! The police mistook him for a KKK member!" No one wanted to believe Donald Trump's father, whom he both feared and idolized more than life itself, was a card-carrying racist, because that would have meant admitting that there was a chance that Donald Trump was a racist as well. EVEN THOUGH there was proof that father AND son, as slumlords, had employed housing practices that were discriminatory against POC. Sigh. Forgive me, I'm just venting. It's been a long day. Also from Mr. Rather's Twitter: "So, is antifa part of Obamagate? Just trying to keep up." Who knew Dan Rather could slay, right?

ICAM. Some want him to address these protests publicly, and I'm like, "FFS, WHY??." They think things are bad now? I guarantee it'll get 1000x worse the minute he opens his fat, orange mouth!

Agree. Lorraine Broderick and Wisner Washam would have been fantastic as successors to Nancy Curlee and Stephen Demorest. Especially, if Patrick Mulcahey had remained on staff as an associate/breakdown writer. (As I've said before, although I know he didn't care working under Agnes Nixon at LOVING, I think Mulcahey would have been a great head, associate or even dialogue writer at AMC.) Exactly. And while I could buy Josh's redemption being a product of Agnes Nixon's imagination, I think she was much too tasteful to have him become Brooke's love interest as well. I feel like THAT part of the story was foisted onto the initial idea, either by Passanante, or the EP, or whoever was running ABCD at that time (Brian Frons?). Moreover, just like with Roscoe Born/Jim Thomasen, the Eliot/Brooke storyline cost AMC a really decent actor (David Beecroft) who could have been valuable to the show in the years to come. Honestly, the only thing I remember from Elizabeth Page's brief HW'ing tenure was a BTS story about how she (allegedly) hit Agnes Nixon over the head with a rolled-up script or something. Like, who DOES that?

So, the White House did what we all do whenever our relatives show up at our front doors: they turned out the lights, and they made like no one was at home. Now, that's what I call leadership! ;)

I don't think so either. IIRC, didn't the initial investigation into the crash prove that Adam through Chandler Enterprises, was responsible, due to faulty equipment or whatever? Then, the next thing you know, there was a second investigation and -- voila! -- they found the explosives. I do, lol! Bob Thomasen was there to clarify that, yes, Jim was Snidely Whiplash. But, I don't recall Bob being on for very long; and when he was on, he seemed to be a watered-down version of John Hudson (David Forsyth's character on AW) more than anything else. IA. There's no way the show could've ever sold Brooke being involved with the man who took pornographic pictures of her adopted daughter. Not even if they had explained it away (it wasn't really Jim, he had a brain tumor, he was working undercover for the FBI's Sex Crimes Unit, whatever). As it was, Jean Passanante tried pairing Brooke with a reformed Josh Waleski, and viewers lost their freaking minds (and rightly so). I will admit I watched McTavish's second stint, if only briefly, because Lee and Camille's introductions, along with Mateo's psychic visions, were just so patently absurd that I was perversely fascinated as to where she was going with them.

It both amuses and angers me that most who could have done something to remedy the ills prevalent in our nation's law enforcement communities and justice system chose not to until "woke" white liberals who were (justly) outraged by George Floyd's murder decided they'd heard and seen enough. I mean, we (African-Americans) have been screaming our heads and everything else off about this madness for God-knows-how-long, and all the rest of this country and this world could say was we were being too radical toward a nation and a government that didn't even think of us as human beings at the outset! That's why, as much as I appreciate people of all shades and stripes getting out there and protesting, I really, really, REALLY need those on the far-right AND the far-left to take their talk of a "revolution" somewhere else. You don't need to revolutionize a system that has always played in your favor. You just need to stand back, keep your mouths closed, free your minds and LISTEN.

For some reason, that tweet from Black Lives Matter cracks my s**t up, lol!

That's my recollection as well (although, I could be wrong). Regardless, there definitely was the feeling that TPTB had interfered with and changed the direction of the storyline. Suddenly, Jim Thomasen went from being a kiddie pornographer to being a kiddie pornographer AND a terrorist AND an arsonist AND a drug pusher AND I could go on. In retrospect, I think AMC was dumb to waste Roscoe Born (and David Forsyth) on such an irredeemable character. He could've been put to much better use as a new rival and adversary of Adam's, or even a new love interest for Erica and romantic rival with Jack (or all three).

IA. God bless and protect all those involved in these protests; but, more importantly, God bless and protest those (like the woman in that video) who are doing their best to restrain our so-called allies from sabotaging our mission.