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Wow, "Dark Money" would be such a good title for the eventual book about all this [!@#$%^&*].

Didn't I read somewhere that Goutman was ATWT's longest-serving EP? If so, then it amazes me how someone so clearly wrong for the job was allowed to stay on for so long.

So instead we received the blink-and-you'll-miss-her treatment? Goutman should have been horsewhipped.

It wouldn't matter what Colleen Zenk cared for, though, since her run-in with the Gunnar lookalike would have happened, in my projections, during the last act of the final episode. I'm not sure about bringing Emma's husband back from the dead. But one thing I would have LIKED to have seen in the final weeks was a triangle between Emma, the returning John Dixon and Lucinda. I know most everyone enjoyed seeing John and Lucinda getting back together -- heck, even I enjoyed it -- but, I dunno, considering how much John appeared to have mellowed when he returned, I think it might have been nice to see the older and wiser John Dixon choose Emma in that scenario.

Yeah, I think Bob's retirement deserved a more fitting celebration. They could have written a scenario where Bob insists on retiring without any big to-do's, but Kim and Lisa organize a surprise shindig that brings a lot of former residents back to Oakdale and allows all the loose ends to be tied up, with Bob giving one last speech to the well-wishers and the viewers at home. YES. Another idea for the finale: after she and Henry agree to remain friends, Barbara questions whether she'll ever find love again...and then she runs into someone who looks a lot like Hugo Napier's Gunnar.

Fortunately, they DID bring back Frannie (although, the fact that Julianne Moore WANTED to return probably had everything to do with that) as well as my favorite character, John Dixon. But yeah, more former characters (Penny, Ellen, Dee, Annie, Jeff, Betsy, etc.) should have returned.

Nah, they'll just sell more ad time to John Deere and Consumer Cellular.

I wouldn't have killed off Reid. I would have killed off Luke INSTEAD of Reid.

For the moment, anyway. We know the YT police just LOVES to remove that stuff with the quickness.

At the end of the day, the only thing that matters to TV networks is advertising revenue. Except Maxine Waters. She's giving Trump a whole 'nother kind of side-eye.

But, you know, I have to give them props for (allegedly) casting someone who isn't blonde and plastic and shiny as [!@#$%^&*]. I just hope he has charisma and can act. In a way, though, they dodged a MAJOR bullet. I'm all for spending the big bucks to get the best actors possible -- and, as I've said in the past, I'd be willing to put up with divas, male AND female, so long as they have the goods to back up the egos -- but from all accounts, Dunaway is simply not worth the headaches, Oscar-worthy talent or not. #DiversityRocks Gregory Harrison and Bruce Boxleitner are movie stars only in their own minds.

I miss the level and quality of acting on ATWT (and on GL). Especially in the later years, when stories were pure junk, you could still count on solid performances from many of this show's actors.

Was he also the one who yelled "YOU LIE!"?

Knowing Gov. Mary Fallin, I'm sure she'd be THRILLED to have law enforcement here round up every gardener and fast-food employee and slingshot them back to Mexico. (I truly despise that woman.)

I think what bothers me more (than Show's age) is the fact that Show, IMO, is dreadfully boring.

That's it, I'm calling Nunes "Pookie" from now on.

Yes, Mary Fallin is a Republican. She's also a shill for the energy industry.

Let's put it this way: if they're talking about it, Mary Frackin ain't listening. Speaking of Governor Fallin: for the third time in four years, Oklahoma has been hit with some kind of economic shortfall. Her answer is to tax the hell out of everything. They've even begun applying OK state tax to purchases made online through Amazon.com. Mama Khan: "Well, then, what's the point of ordering anything from Amazon? We might as well go back to buying whatever we need in the stores!" Khan (to Gov. Fallin): "Well played, girlfriend. " And I would agree. I think the GOP had their chance to come up with a suitable alternative. They proved they couldn't. So now, the objective should be to take what they have and improve it. I must tell you, though, that the more I think about this defeat, the more gleeful I am. It's a nice way to stick it to my older brother, a diehard Trumpster, without having to lift one damn finger.

But seriously: because I live in one of the states that refused the expanded Medicaid funds ("Obama money," as I call it), this news doesn't really impact me. I'm still without health insurance; and unless and until our governor changes her mind (or -- God willing -- I am finally employed again AND I'm able to purchase insurance either independently or through my job), that will remain unchanged. Nevertheless, it serves the GOP right to lose this after squawking for the past seven years about repealing and replacing President P-Funk's legacy.

Ah. Okay. In that case, Senator Ryan, this one's for you:

So...what happens now? Will the GOP try again? Does Obamacare remain as it is? Have they made changes to the ACA, repealed and/or replaced ANY part of it?

Tom Pelphrey looks like [!@#$%^&*], but that's nothing new. Not crazy about Mick Hazen's nose either.

Seriously, you need a translator to understand that man. He makes George W. Bush sound like William F. Buckley.

Two questions I never thought I'd have to ask: what did the President know, and when did he know it?

I think it's a testament to CK, VW and their chemistry that that relationship was at all successful. Because, no matter how hard AW's writers tried at the time (and they tried HARD), it was just as hard for many longtime viewers to get past all the years of bad blood between those two.