I am now into 1993 and watched the Maureen death/mourning episodes and again coming back to add to the Melissa Hayden love. With some of the best actors on the show all onscreen mourning (Maeve/MG/Zas/RH) she was the standout and the one who really drove the emotional fallout. I wanted to give her a hug through my TV from 30 years in the future. No one else really made me cry but I was heartbroken for Bridget.
Watching that whole Ed/Lillian plot line unfold, I hadn't realized just what a slow moving trainwreck that affair was. Ed is just terrible. Lillian is at least lonely and deluded that there's something real there, but Ed just seems to sleep with her because he wants to? (Though writing that letter and just delivering it that way is a monumentally dumb thing to do, and you almost have to believe she wants it discovered by Maureen. But Michelle could've been the one to see it just as easily?).
Conversely, I am also up to the Mindy return with the super dud Mindy recast whose name I am too lazy to look up. It's wild because the entire cast is absolutely bringing it and....she's there. Walking into Nick's place to find him in bed with Eve. I do love the soap thing of people having absolutely zero boundaries and thinking the best way to see an ex months after they left them at the altar is to walk into their home unannounced in the dead of the night. I mean, wouldn't a Lewis be raised to shoot someone who did that? Billy definitely would.
Harley/Mallet are trying to figure out what happened to Buzz after discovering he's not on the Vietnam War memorial wall. (They pan to Harley touching the 1959 wall and I am going to just say it's a random wall she was drawn to and not where she was looking to not completely lose my sanity with the timelines. I mean, in no world would Buzz be 34 at the time of his return.) It's a very odd story right now actually knowing what happens when Frank waxes poetic about how amazing his father was.
I started this loopback in June 1990 when AM is first released from his kidnapping and is going on and on to Blake about how the baby was the only thing getting him through the torture when we know there never was a baby. Then right before he finds out about Maureen's accident he apologized to Vanessa and showed real remorse for his past actions, talking about nearly dying when he was shot and how all he could think about was Eleni/the baby. He of course deserves what's coming having switched out the birth control, but it's a different viewing experience knowing what's coming. I definitely feel I've gone full circle on this stretch of episodes. (It's pretty crazy how AM never has a kid given how consistently he wanted one-he's referring to the future grandfathers right before he marries Lucy. But maybe the thought of the future grandfathers made Lucy/AM have second thoughts down the line.)
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