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Jasus almost looks old enough to be Sasha's Father at this point. Funny, with all the body-shaming GH inflicted on Steve Kanan back in the day, he's aged a zillion times better than Burton. Also, keeping Jasus in Leather Jackets at his age is bordering on parody now, IMO.

Good. I hate this corporate marketing speak. Content, IP, franchise. Just some product to be boxed up and sold. How about at least trying to pretend to care, for the people who love it? Get them on side, they'll do a lot of heavy lifting for you and forgive some of your mistakes.

I've said what I've said about my theory of Cousin Oliver's blood bond to Carol and everyone can decide for themselves whether or not my theory has credence. Moving on. . Did anyone else watching the Wedding Pilot believe (as kids) that Mike and Carol had been needlessly harsh to their kids and deserved to guilt trip themselves from enjoying their first (and last?) chance of privacy at their honeymoon hotel? Oddly enough, I recall siding against the Brady parents after the Tiger-Fluffy Chase Fiasco. However, does anyone else as an adult have since come to believe that Mike was right to chastise the boys for not having secured Tiger in their car during the wedding [e.g. having a leash tied to the inside door handle] if not have had them leave him home in the first placeand that Carol shouldn't have felt guilty for telling her daughters to 'stop that SCREAMING!' since it wasn't helping anything regardless of their feelings for their one-episode feline. ..and that the Brady parents SHOULD have done their best to enjoy their privacy in the honeymoon lodge? Of course, even if one's stance about whether or not the Brady parents had been right or wrong earlier hadn't changed, it's hard to imagine any viewer over twelve not wondering where all NINE humans as well as their canine and feline companions were supposed to sleep in that honeymoon suite with just the ONE bed! It was a bigger than usual bed but it couldn't have held all eleven lodgers so my guess is that some if not all the Brady kids (and Alice) wound up sleeping on the floor !

The best bites from Harry Potter: Wizards of Baking – episode six Published on Dec 21st 2024 https://www.harrypotter.com/features/harry-potter-wizards-of-baking-episode-six-recap

In the NFL playoffs most home teams win. Higher seeds are higher seeds for a reason.

Let's not overlook the confusion that got sewn view ML's closing narration celebrating Mrs. Wilder's eventual publication of works that would still be popular in contemporary (early 1980's) times as evinced by the uncredited Landon daughter running in said library to pick this out. I'm sure the bulk of viewers knew that ML not only played Charles but also produced, direct and wrote the bulk of the series' episodes. However, ML's narration didn't once say 'I'm Michael Landon' before the 'blah blah blah'. Hence, it's probable that at least some viewers might have wondered if this meant that somehow Charles Ingalls himself was narrating Mrs. Wilder's and the Little House tomes eventual fates. .having somehow lived to the age of 153 yet still sounding as though he was at least a century younger!

So the villain, the duplicitous agent of chaos who is the threat to domesticity, is the "originally lower-class" gold-digging bisexual woman?

Let's not forget voter suppression and gerrymandering also plays a big part in the outcome of our elections. And the people who stay home. Yes some people who stay home do it because they are in a snit their most important issue isn't being addressed in a way they prefer but a lot stay home because they don't like the choices. We need better candidates on both sides.

Seems ok to me. I just came directly here with no issues. I assume the right of the site is fine. Good to hear that it was the certificate issue.

I keep getting asked to do reviews. If I like something, I will do a review, but I don't want to be sent something I don't want.

Shifting Gears

Also don't forget George Reeves' Superman from the 1950's (before my time)... (JoBlo Superheroes)

I only just saw this and thought it was funny (apologies if you're a fan of any of the names mentioned)... Wicked Auditions - SNL Saturday Night Live Nov. 17, 2024

Thank you! I was wondering what that warning was about.

Based on the cheers during Weekend Update, maybe they should try to get Luigi Mangione to host.

That’s always the conundrum when writing time travel stories- if a character changes something in the past, why don’t his memories change? Is next week the finale?

And that is no doubt inspired by Christopher Reeve's portrayal because comics will always incorporate elements of the movies/TV shows. If the bar is "the comics, but not influenced by other media" then we're talking stuff from decades ago.

That could be fun. I’d be coming up with my friend who’s a hoot. We could all meet up. I’ll talk to her to see what her schedule is and get back to you. BTW, I doubt she even knows who Erika Jane is as she never watches Bravo. To her it would all be about the show Chicago.

And one eye! I am glad I came here since I didn't pick up on that. I just figured her and her friend were more mature. And that Wim was also really immature compared to others his age. With all the bullshit that we have seen that has gone on in the galaxy since Star Wars started, not sure I can blame a planet for isolating themselves. I really like this show though. It's fun with new characters and what seems like an all new story. I also liked the woman from the brothel who helped the girls. And it was funny that she had to ask them if they were kids. Since in Star Wars who the hell knows.

I got invited to do Amazon "Vine" reviews. Has anyone here ever done that? Someone on Reddit who just quit doing the reviews said most of the free stuff they got was not something they would have purchased. So it sounds like a waste of time for more clutter.

I saw this on Instagram, and it made me think of the HummViewer (sp?). https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDn82HrqkYh/?igsh=eG8yZmxrNGllOHky

I think deeper and longer-term forces at work. The most important of these is the decline of class-based voting, and its replacement by values-based voting. For well over a century, the UK and most European countries have had class-based political systems. There has been a party or parties representing, broadly, the upper and middle classes, and advocating the retention of the capitalist system, and there has been a party or parties representing, broadly, the working class, and advocating some variety of socialism or social democracy. It's important to realize, however, that class is not the only axis around which democratic politics can be organized. In the US and Canada, political behavior correlates only weakly with class. White Southerners vote overwhelmingly Republican, regardless of class. New Yorkers vote overwhelmingly Democratic, regardless of class. Every seat in Toronto elects a Liberal MP, regardless of class. In most Asian democracies, voting has no correlation with class at all. People vote according to region, ethnicity, language, religion or caste - because these things are the focus of most people's loyalties, rather than economic class. Over the past 20 to 30 years, we have seen a consistent drift away from class-based voting in many democracies, including the UK. Increasingly, affluent, urban, highly educated people vote for parties of the left, while poorer and less well-educated people vote for parties of the right. There is also a strong generational divide: since young people tend to be more affluent, better educated and more "values-motivated" than older people, there is a widening generational gap in voting behavior. This change has been slow and incremental in most countries most of the time, but sometimes an issue arises which precipitates rapid change. In Britain, it has obviously been Brexit. Millions of working-class voters have abandoned Labour in the past two of three elections, because Brexit's appeal to English patriotism and anti-immigration sentiment has overwhelmed their previous sense of class solidarity. Simultaneously, in Scotland, the working-class voters of Glasgow and the "Red Clyde" have abandoned almost overnight a century of class loyalty and embraced Scottish nationalism. One striking feature of the 2019 British election was the Tories' abrupt abandonment of Thatcherism. Johnson campaigned on a platform of higher government spending on state services, increases in pensions, state intervention to support failing industries, and a strict timetable for achieving carbon neutrality. This partly reflected Johnson's lack of core belief about anything except his destiny to be PM, but it was also a calculated and successful Tory strategy. These progressive-sounding policies were bait for working-class voters to come over to the dark side. Johnson recognized one of the fundamental new rules of this emerging political era – that it is easier for the right to move left on economics than it is for the left to move right on questions of identity and culture. This is an important insight. Most Tories were happy to jettison 40 years of Thatcherite ideology in order to get back into power, because Tories are by nature cynics whose main concern is power. But the British Labour Party cannot act with the same cynicism. If it defies its supporters' key values, they will abandon it, and the party will split. I fear that the logical consequence of these trends is that social democratic parties in the western democracies are doomed. Progressive politics will have to find new forms if it is to survive at all, let alone defeat the forces of reactionary nationalism and popularism which are now asserting themselves so strongly.

But what is the "source material"? This isn't a movie based off of a single novel. It's over 80 years of comics continuity with countless retcons and a bunch of alternate universes. So if someone uses a story from the 90's is that faithful? Lots of the Avengers stuff is based on the Ultimate storyline, which itself isn't faithful to the original Avengers. Wolverine, Storm anf Nightcrawler aren't original X-Men so is that paying respect to the source material. What if for the next Spiderman movie they decided he would be friends with Iceman and Firestar. Not the source material but Spiderman and his Amazing Friends is pretty classic.

Except at this point, I'd prefer Chad to be with Abigail than with Kat, because it looks like the anvils are falling in that direction for sure. I'm no fan of Abigail, but I'd take her over scrunched-up face Kat.

Didn't the investigation start back up after his father was found in the pond? I really enjoy Sharon Horgan's work but I do wonder if Bad Sisters was only meant to be a one season show, and the popularity of it had Apple TV asking her to do another. At some point you have to wonder how many bad decisions the Garvey sisters can make. Not in their choices of romantic partners, but just the ridiculous situations they put themselves in, just for dramatic purposes. The interaction between the sisters, the way they give each other shit and then show so much love and loyalty rings very true, but shouldn't one of them be putting the brakes on some of these schemes?