Thanks. After the incredibly icky news of Gene Wilder's voice being AI-ed for some Netflix reality shlock I am even more sure this would be a better use of the technology.
Soap characters usually talk like that but still I never knew of all those Gwyn threats. It's a wonder she never killed anyone before.
Thanks for the comments about Jennifer and Susan. I thought Susan would have left anyway for her career but knowing the salary imbalance, no wonder. If they'd tried maybe they could have kept her. Clearly Stuart or whoever else thought she could be easily replaced but they never really did - the show could have used another female as so many kept cycling in and out and never gaining a following.
@dc11786 I'm so appreciative of you going through these blocs of episodes and giving your insights. This makes it much more interesting to me. Loving was such a unique show in that on paper much of the show was formulaic, especially in the '80s, but there is always some flavor - a performance, a story twist, a monologue, a relationship.
One of the big exceptions would be the whole Dolly and Hunter story, which in the brief glimpses now available is as disgusting as the recaps suggested and feels out of step with the rest of the 1986 canvas (even with Steve/Trisha, Lorna, and Ava/Jack/Stacey all feeling like their own worlds, at least there is more of a similar tone and characters who are intertwined to some point). It's bewildering that a story with such delicate subject matter amounts to scene after scene of Hunter sleazing at Dolly and forcing her into bed.
Jeff Trachta at times in the story looks so spindly I almost didn't recognize him from his B&B run. This whole mess is another reminder of how much of an unknown Loving seems to be in the industry, that Trachta was cast as a gooey romantic hero on B&B only a few years later.
Until the recaps and your posts I hadn't even known there was a Lucho. I wonder if they may have planned to bring him in earlier but had to instead create Ric due to Todd McDurmond quitting so early.
I know there was not anything earth-shattering about Rio and Rocky, even if I liked them, but I still think it was a mistake to entirely write out Rio and Abril with Abril having Clay's baby. I would have at least kept Abril popping in and out of story when necessary, and that would be a weak spot for Clay, especially after Trisha's "death."
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