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February 7, 201411 yr

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I had heard it would be mostly

two or three-hander episodes with the group split amongst themselves

for the second half. I've no problem with that. I think it's innovative.

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The previews for After are very mixed some loving it others not. It is a straight adaptation from the comics written by kirkman.

CR has improved but not enogh to carry a whole episode.

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February 7, 201411 yr

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The previews for After are very mixed some loving it others not. It is a straight adaptation from the comics written by kirkman.

CR has improved but not enogh to carry a whole episode.

I have absolutely NO desire to see CR carrying an entire show! I will just have to suck it up

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February 7, 201411 yr

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~59 hours! I cannot wait.

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February 7, 201411 yr

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I have absolutely NO desire to see CR carrying an entire show! I will just have to suck it up

I feel the same way.

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February 7, 201411 yr

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Well thats what is happening on sunday and its going to be hard on viewers who dislike Carl.

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It's an ensemble - I like seeing the show stretch.

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February 8, 201411 yr

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If people sat through two Governor episodes surely they can take an episode with Carl, Rick, and Michonne.

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February 8, 201411 yr

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Looks like the new episode is on xbox already a day early.

The good thing for the show is that most of the casual viewers will tune in on sunday to see the show expecting to see all the characters.

The gov episodes lost them viewers going into the MSF. But saying that the show has been losing viewers since of the start of the season.

The ratings for the premiere was from all the hype and new viewers checking it out 16. 2 million. But by the MSF rating dropped to 12.2 million.

I think 4b is either only to be disaster or a stoke genus depending on how the new format in 4b is received by the audience.

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February 8, 201411 yr

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The show was never going to keep that level of viewers. Never. Every single season has lost viewers as it goes along. The ratings at the end of the first half of the season were similar to the show's typical ratings. They may fall again - the show is four seasons old and returning during the Olympics - but I don't think it will be because of some collective viewer rage toward Carl, Rick, and Michonne. There has already been an episode revolving solely around these three, and the ratings did not collapse.

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February 9, 201411 yr

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~12 hours to go.

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February 10, 201411 yr

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Thirty more minutes. I am so excited.

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February 10, 201411 yr

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I'm here!

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February 10, 201411 yr

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Here we go!

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February 10, 201411 yr

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Damn, Michonne is the woman.

Gawd, Hershel! This is horrible. I wondered if Phillip had stabbed his head.

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God, do I agree with this. Stephanie just doesn't cut it as a lead carrying this much story.
DAYS has all the elements to being good, but the truth is, it's not. Cwikly and Ford are better than Ron C, but that doesn't mean much when they're still not what I'd call solid. They aren't giving me anything to be excited about, and it feels like everything is on low simmer.

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By dragonflies · 2 minutes ago2 min
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Awful news. I've certainly said my fair share about Luke and the Eckerts on here over the years, but when he was on and committed, there was never anybody better. He was a huge part of growing up watching GH in the 90s and 2000s.
His relationships with Laura, Bobbie, Robert, and Lucky will get most of the attention, but I want to mention how good he was with a lot of the rest of the cast in that era. His relationships with Tony, Lucy, Felicia, Tiffany, Sonny, Carly, Nikolas, Alexis, Tracy- all so different, unique, and you really felt the connections.
Monica, Luke, Robert, Rick, and Lesley in one year is so much loss. Add in Bobbie, Alan, Nikolas, Sean, and Epiphany in the past couple of years and it's almost unfathomable.

By AdelaideCate007 · 3 minutes ago3 min
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I agree with this. You can see it in her shows, there is always movement. Those talking head scenes were walking around the nurses station, stopping at the counter at Kelly’s, etc. Scenes in the Webber home often begin or end with someone coming down the stairs, or headed to the door. I am sure Geary had run into plenty of issues where staging in a more traditional way hindered what he wanted to do and could seem stifling. Monty allowed improvisation, and spontaneity to be encouraged in rehearsals.
As a kid I always noticed that the ABC soaps of that era just felt more modern. When I watch old episodes now, the ABC shows still stand out that way. They took risks. Now I am not saying I think everything they did was fantastic- they had plenty of flops and bad ideas.

By titan1978 · 4 minutes ago4 min
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Her statement did not disappoint. They both spoke about that deep connection, that they didn’t share with anybody else. Even when Tony was fully committed to not ever playing Luke & Laura again, he still spoke about that connection as performers with some reverence.
I am not shocked they didn’t speak because that was their way even before his final exit. When they met to discuss returning in 1993 they had only seen each other a couple of times since their earlier run. That return was one of the handful of soap icon returns after being gone for a long time that fully worked. I have said this before but Monty, Marland, and PFS, with Geary and Francis of course, made such grounded characters with real internal lives that they could go and save the world, and also still fit in closer to reality in grittier material later under Labine, Guza, and Riche.
We saw Luke slowly morphed into a bitter and cynical man who eschewed connection with others. I had no problem with what Geary did with Luke’s characterization. Luke after Laura probably would self destruct. What I had issue with was Geary’s insistence that this was always the Luke he played. It very much was not, we saw it as it aired, the good and the bad before his revisionist history.
Almost every soap I watched had an iconoclastic character who challenged the other people in their communities. Soaps are so bland now and don’t really do these types of characters anymore.
Thanks everybody who has been posting tributes, I don’t use Twitter anymore so this is the only place I will see them!

By titan1978 · 17 minutes ago17 min
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I agree it'll just be sad to watch

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Why not? Tamara Tunie would play the hell out of that story AND maybe land BTG their first major Emmy nomination in the process.

By Khan · 19 minutes ago19 min
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Obviously, we'll never know exactly what Geary meant, but I think what Gloria Monty hated was the fact that most soaps at that time seem confined to "talking heads" regurgitating the same exposition over coffee inside various living rooms and kitchens. Monty wanted soaps to be more active, arguing that housewives and other viewers would be forced to put down their laundry or whatever and actually pay attention.

By Khan · 21 minutes ago21 min
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LOL!!
In the past, I've speculated that Empire Valley was supposed to be a story about phony real estate developers bilking people, before it got changed into what made it on air.
I would LOVE for someone to interview Peter Dunne - not just about Empire Valley, but about his time on KL (and DALLAS) in general. I feel like he would have a ton of great writing advice to share.

By Khan · 25 minutes ago25 min
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in total agreement! over the years, i’ve written thousands of words going into all the gory details — particularly regarding ‘as the world turns.’
always wished i could have asked him about the ‘i hate soap opera’ comments. was he being funny, sarcastic, ironic? would have loved to heard the specifics of what he — and gloria monty — hated. and what did he think about the impact on the soap genre.

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