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I must say THAT ENDING!!! WHAT?! IS MAYA GOING TO BE OKAY? And as much as I hate to say it I expected Lucas breaking up with Riley to save them from becoming his parents. But I hope they come back together later on, 5 years is a long time. I can't wait to see where everyone is 5 years on. But I swear to god if Riley is with Evan in the time jump I will riot. Like you can't have that kind of ending with Maya and expect me not to wonder what's going to happen to her in the 5 year time jump

is it bad for me to theorise that either Maya will die or something bad will happen to her after that concert that'll bring everyone back together? I just thought about it as I was reading the ending and trying to think about the 5 year time jump for season 5

welcome to the other side of season 4 bud!!

first off -- i am very grateful to hear you say you weren't surprised by the lucas events, because we sure were planting seeds about that since the premiere of the season. kenneth may be dead (bless up), but the threat to lucas's happiness wasn't ever actually in his hands -- it's in lucas. and until lucas is able to actually confront what he's been through -- the ptsd, the trauma, accepting and admitting what he's gone through -- unfortunately, we're going to end up with choices like this. it's complicated, and messy, but alas a part of life. hopefully not the end of the story though...

(also, lol about evan. no comment, but it cracks us up here how much y'all don't like him even though he is like, a nice guy who is just standing there. rl warriors, never change)

as for maya... firstly, so glad to see this reaction from so many of you about the time skip ending. that's exactly what we were going for -- and hopefully it'll give you much to chew on during hiatus while we prepare for season 5. you're totally right, 5 years is a long time... and who knows what exactly we're in for. but i hope you're excited to find out when the time comes.

cheers, and thank you as always for taking the journey with us!! onward,

-- Maggie

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really what's up with all this righteousness? in my dragon show??? no wayyy! Outdo their atrocities with novel dumbfuckeries and do it in a show stopping way, this is what is all about!!!

this is why i love the greens, they were written to be the villains. One subgroup thinking they are not (alicent lol) and the others reveling in this (aemond probably but i don't know im not serious about this show tbh i only watched this because their white hairs are fascinating 😭) the greens are compelling, they are distinct. I feel like they were written better than most of team black's members. Despite that i am also for team black because they are way sexier (TO ME) the red and black costume motifs, dragons (they are very important in my dragon show ok that's why i watch this shit), fireee, dragon riders, emma d'arcy, EMMA D'ARCY, EMMA D'ARCY my queem 10000X and matt smith sometimes.

Back to one of my points that i feel like team greens were written to be some sort of villains compared to the blacks....i hate that. Please let them be all villains together. I don't like it when the audience back a character just because they're "good"??? Uhmmmm but they're boring? Boooo gtfo with your moral righteousness ! They do not even contribute well to the sexiness of the lore? If they are good, why are they laying their life over a crown? that will eventually wage wars later on? gshshshs

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Harris scores in debate performance while electability keeps Biden in front (POLL) - ABC News

A wide advantage in perceived electability boosts Joe Biden in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, but he lags in having new ideas, is challenged by Bernie Sanders and faces a debate-energized Kamala Harris in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll. Interested in Democratic Party? Add Democratic Party as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Democratic Party news, video, and analysis from ABC News. In current preferences, 29% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents support Biden and 23% favor Sanders, with 11% apiece for Harris and Elizabeth Warren. The number of undecided potential voters has dropped sharply after the first debates, with gains in support for each of these candidates. Others are in the low single digits, at best. See PDF for full results, charts and tables. Given the time to register to vote in advance of the caucus and primary season, these results are among all leaned Democrats. Among those who are registered now, Biden goes to a 30-19% advantage over Sanders, with 13% for Harris and 12% for Warren. Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden speaks to guests at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition Annual International Convention, June 28, 2019, in Chicago. Crosscurrents underlie candidate preferences in this poll, produced for ABC by Langer Research Associates. A broad plurality, 45%, says Biden has the best chance to beat President Donald Trump in the general election, but only 18% say he has new ideas, trailing Sanders, Warren and Harris alike. At the same time, 41% say Harris stood out in her debate performance, easily the leader in this gauge, a wide 15 to 22 percentage points ahead of Biden, Sanders and Warren. And among those who actually watched both Democratic debates last week, the number picking Harris as a standout performer soars to 72%, well above any of her competitors. An impact is apparent: among the half of leaned Democrats who did not watch either of the two nights of debates, just 5% support Harris for the nomination. Among those who watched the debate in which she appeared, by contrast, her support swells to 20%. That places her numerically second among Thursday-night viewers; Biden has 28% support in this group; Warren, 17%; and Sanders, 15%. Warren also does better among viewers of her debate than non-viewers, 17 vs. 8% support. Showing strength among highly engaged leaned Democrats, she reaches 22%, virtually matching Biden’s 25%, among those who watched both debates. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., speaks during a Chicago Town Hall, June 28, 2019. There’s no meaningful difference in Biden’s support across debate-watching groups, and Sanders gets the booby prize – higher support among those who did not watch the debates, 26%, vs. 15% among those who watched the debate in which he appeared and 10% among those who watched both nights. Comparative inattention fits with his younger support profile; 18- to 29-year-olds, his best support group, are least likely to have tuned in. These results are from a question in which respondents were read a list of Democratic candidates. Asking preferences in an open-ended format produces similar results (25-18-9-9%, Biden-Sanders-Harris-Warren), with gains for each in comparison with April – Biden +8 points, Sanders +7, and Harris and Warren both +5. Those with no opinion dropped sharply, 35% in April compared with 19% now (and 6% when the full list is read). In another measure, intended participation is high: Seventy-two percent of leaned Democrats say they’re certain to vote in their state’s primary or caucus. That’s up from 56% in November 2015, when it was first asked in the last cycle, a race that pitted just two prime candidates. Current results are similar to what they were in November 2007, the last crowded (albeit not this crowded) Democratic race. Debate Reax Harris’ debate rating comes among those who actually tuned in. Respondents were asked which candidates stood out as having done an especially good job in the debates, with up to four names accepted. Among those who watched both nights, a vast 72% picked Harris for a standout performance. Fewer but 58% named Warren. Neither Biden nor Sanders, nor others, remotely approach these levels. (Pete Buttigieg comes closest, cited by 31%.) Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves as she joins supporters of the LGBTQ community at the Pride Parade in San Francisco, Calif., June 30, 2019. Groups Notably among groups, while Harris challenged Biden on the subject of race in their debate, his support is especially strong among blacks, 41%, 12 points higher than it is overall. Harris’ support, by contrast, is not differentiated by race and ethnicity – 11% among blacks and an identical 11% among all leaned Democrats. Warren, for her part, has notably low support among nonwhites, 5%. Biden’s support continues to skew older, Sanders’ younger: Among leaned Democrats age 50 and older, Biden leads Sanders by a broad 39-11%. Among those younger than 50, Biden’s support falls to 21% and Sanders’ rises to 32%. (There are no such age gaps in support for Warren or Harris.) Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) greets supporters before marching in the Nashua Pride Parade in Nashua, N.H., June 29, 2019. Among other group differences, Sanders’ support plummets among the most-educated group, while Warren’s rises with education. And by ideology, Warren does better with liberals compared with moderates. (Biden’s better number among moderates than liberals isn’t statistically significant.) While the contest pits prominent Democratic women and men alike, there are no substantial differences in candidate choice on the basis of gender. Men divide 26-26-10-9% among Biden-Sanders-Harris-Warren; women, by a similar 30-21-12-13%. Who Else? Former Vice President Biden and 2016 candidate Sanders are, of course, the best-known figures in the Democratic race. While they’re in front, it’s striking that most Democrats and Democratic leaners are not entirely wedded to their current choices; just about a quarter, 26%, say it’s "extremely" important to them that their candidate wins the nomination. That includes about the same number just among Biden’s supporters, 29%. Still, asking second-choice preferences finds another advantage for Biden: Among those who don’t support him now, 33% pick him as their next-choice candidate. By comparison, among those who don’t currently favor Sanders he’s second choice for 24%. Warren is second choice for 17% of those who don’t back her now, as is Harris for 16%. That said, another Biden advantage – being seen as the candidate best able to defeat Trump – is unlikely to be all it will take for Biden to prevail. It’s notable that, among those who pick Biden on this measure, 45% nonetheless support another Democratic candidate. Issues Health care is the top-rated issue for Democrats and Democratic leaners, and they side heavily with a so-called Medicare-for-all system, a central topic of the debates. Seventy-seven percent of leaned Democrats support a government-run, taxpayer-funded universal health care system like Medicare, essentially the same as it was in an ABC/Post poll back in 2003. Support remains high, 66%, even if it meant doing away with private insurance. Health care, moreover, is cited by 89% of leaned Democrats as a top issue in their vote in the general election, leading a list of nine items. Eighty-five to 79% cite gun violence, issues of special concern to women, immigration, global warming and the economy as highly important, followed by foreign policy, 72%; abortion, 69%; and taxes, 60%. Preference in handling two of these issues is generally similar to candidate support overall. On health care, 27% of leaned Democrats pick Sanders as the candidate they trust most and 25% pick Biden, followed by 13% for Warren and 7% for Harris. On immigration, another focus of the debate, 21% pick Biden; 17%, Sanders; 12%, Harris; and 8% Warren, with an additional 8% favoring Julián Castro. Viewed another way, Biden and Sanders are essentially tied among leaned Democrats who focus on any of five top issues – health care, issues of special concern to women, immigration, global warming and the economy. One remaining item differentiates them – gun violence, on which Biden has a 10-point advantage. Warren and Harris compete for third position on all these. While most issue preferences don’t sharply differentiate candidate choices, there are some differences in issue emphasis among groups. The economy, for example, is rated as highly important by 85% of those without a college degree vs. 67% of college graduates, and by 84% of those with less than $50,000 in annual household incomes vs. 70% of those in the $100,000-plus bracket. Some gender gaps also emerge. Democratic and leaned-Democratic women are 12 points more apt than men to cite health care as highly important, 95% vs. 83%. Women are 17 points more likely than men to cite taxes as a major issue, 69% vs. 52%. And in the widest gap, women are 23 points more likely to call abortion a top issue, 79% vs. 56%. Methodology This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by landline and cellular telephone June 28-July 1, 2019, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 1,008 adults. Results have a margin of sampling error of 5.5 points, including the design effect, for the sample of 460 Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents covered in this report. Partisan divisions in the full survey are 29-23-37%, Democrats-Republicans-independents. The survey was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates of New York, N.Y., with sampling and data collection by Abt Associates of Rockville, Md. See details on the survey’s methodology here. SOURCE NEWS SITE Read the full article

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The ‘Game of Thrones’ season 8 premiere ended with a shocking reunion that has been building since the series’ very first episode, Defence Online

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Warning: Spoilers for HBO’s “Game of Thrones” period 8, episode just one.

In the last moments of the period 8 “Game of Thrones” premiere, Jaime Lannister and Bran Stark came face-to-deal with in the Winterfell courtyard.

It was a breathtaking reunion that has been developing given that Jaime pushed Bran out of a tower window on the pretty very first episode of the present.

Both people have transformed massively considering the fact that they very last interacted.

Pay a visit to INSIDER.com for a lot more tales.

In 2011, the first episode of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” provided the shocking penultimate scene of Jaime Lannister pushing a baby, Bran Stark, out of a tower window.

In 2019’s initially episode of the remaining season, Jaime and Bran observed every other all over again throughout the Winterfell courtyard.

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Jaime sees Bran across the Winterfell courtyard.

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It appears Bran has been waiting for Jaime.

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Supporters could not consist of their exhilaration.

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Whilst the moment was just a single of quite a few reunions on time eight’s very first episode, this just one was especially jarring mainly because of how significantly Jaime and Bran have both of those modified through the collection.

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Jaime Lannister about to press Bran Stark out the tower window.

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On period just one, Jaime Lannister was dashing and detestable. Acknowledged as the Kingslayer, Jaime was in like with his twin sister Cersei Lannister and the two ended up partaking in an incestuous romance that they had managed because they had been teens, inspite of her relationship to King Robert Baratheon.

When Bran Stark, just one of the youngest sons of Ned and Caitlyn Stark who beloved to climb the Winterfell properties, witnessed the Lannister twins having sexual intercourse in an deserted tower, Jaime pushed him out the window with the iconic line, “The points I do for adore.”

Whilst the fall doesn’t kill Bran, it does go away him in a coma and afterwards, unable to use his legs.

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Jaime Lannister has improved so much considering the fact that time a person.

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But Jaime has remodeled into a a great deal far more honorable figure. All through the seasons and many thanks to his relationships with upright figures like Brienne of Tarth, Jaime has remembered what it is to be a knight.

In spite of his like for his sister Cersei, he understood on the finale of period 7 that he could no lengthier stand at her aspect. We know now his journey usually takes him to Winterfell, where the first individual he sees is Bran Stark, the boy he pushed out of a tower window many several years ago.

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Bran Stark is now the 3-Eyed Raven.

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But Bran is no longer a child. He’s now the Three-Eyed Raven with the capability to see into the past and existing.

Bran has “greensight,” which actor Isaac Hampstead-Wright (who performs Bran) informed INSIDER’s “Game of Thrones” correspondent Kim Renfro is the potential to see the whole historical past of the “Game of Thrones” universe.

Fundamentally, this electrical power aids him discover that Jon Snow is the trueborn son of Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark as effectively as the Night time King’s origin story. Bran’s greensight may also enable him see the long run or at least have a normal concept of destiny and what wants to be accomplished in the war from the White Walkers.

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Sansa Stark was unsettled by this new edition of her brother on year seven.

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But with these powers comes an entirely new character. Through period seven when Bran reunites with his sister Sansa Stark, he’s peaceful and reserved. A equivalent instant takes place when Jon Snow and Bran reunite throughout period 8, episode one particular. “You’re a male now,” Jon claims affectionately. “Almost,” Bran replies coldly.

He could imply that he’s nearly a male, or that he’s not definitely a guy at all – he’s now thoroughly transformed into the Three-Eyed Raven.

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Jaime Lannister has no concept who Bran Stark now is.

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In this exact vein, there’s a superior probability that Bran will not respond to Jaime the way Jaime expects him to.

Earlier on the episode, when Samwell Tarly asks Bran what he’s accomplishing sitting by yourself in the Winterfell courtyard, Bran replies that he’s “waiting for an previous pal.” He’s serene, distant, and cold – the exact way he was with Sansa and Jon, and how viewers have appear to assume from the A few-Eyed Raven.

There’s no doubt that he was ready for Jaime’s return to Winterfell, and there is a very good likelihood that he has viewed or appreciates one thing that would make it important for him to have an audience with the Kingslayer.

But just how that conversation will go is still a secret that will only be answered on the next episode of “Game of Thrones” season 8.

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Who will watch it: Prasar Bharati CEO recalls reax to 'Ramayan' re-run before record viewership

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Who will watch it: Prasar Bharati CEO recalls reax to 'Ramayan' re-run before record viewership

New York, May 23 (IANS) Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi Shekhar Vempati, credited with presiding over the most-watched TV show in history “the ‘Ramayan’ re-run on Doordarshan which has racked up more than 250 million unique views” recalls his WhatsApp groups ringing with laughter when news of nostalgia programming hit the headlines soon after Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered the first lockdown in late March.

“They’re all, like, laughing. Who’s going to watch it?! I had to tell them that, you know, India is very different. It’s not just the English speaking elite, it’s much bigger, much more diverse. So there was that worry,” Vempati told IANS during a video interview on the backstory of Prasar Bharati’s programming during the COVID-19 lockdown.

After the “Ramayan” re-run began, Doordarshan’s reach soared way past the top seven Hindi general entertainment channels. Time spent on Doordarshan moved from 15 minutes per week to more than 70 minutes. The re-run on April 16, 2020 alone logged 77 million viewers.

“It was crazy,” Vempati said, detailing the nuts and bolts of sourcing the “Ramayan” from the Ramanand Sagar family in Mumbai.

“The tapes were in the deep archive of the (Ramanand) Sagar family, and in Mumbai it was like operating in curfew. Someone had to physically retrieve these things. The formats had changed. People had to work through the night to figure out how to get it into a compatible format, and then push it from Bombay. Because the file sizes are so large, you can’t do it over the internet, it would have taken forever. So we had a satellite-based mechanism by which the content was beamed from Bombay and downloaded into servers here, so that the next day’s episodes could be aired.”

Now, nearly two months on, as India’s lockdown eases, Doordarshan viewership numbers are already reflecting the shift away from binge-watching spikes.

Vempati is now thinking about “reinventing the brand” for India’s youth while staying away from what he describes as the pitfalls of audience segmentation and OTT content that is inconsistent with “family values and culture”.

“Somewhere, the calculus of audience segmentation has lost its way,” Vempati said, speaking to how families watch entirely different content across multiple devices during times when they could instead be sharing a common viewing experience.

“The combination of lockdown and ‘Ramayan’,” he said, “showed us that families can still come together around television if the content is wholesome and appeals to every segment.

“Nostalgia was always a trend for Doordarshan. While we leverage nostalgia, we can’t rely on that alone”.

For Vempati’s team, the upside to Doordarshan’s lockdown programming is brand awareness among “an entire generation born into the world of cable and satellite and internet”.

Speaking with candour about the inner workings of public broadcasting, Vempati said Doordarshan happily finds itself sitting on a pile of fresh content because “bureaucratic process takes that long to bring content on it”.

“So while the rest of the industry is struggling, we have a large library that has not been seen by audiences across India which we’ll roll out in the next few weeks.”

Vempati points “history buffs” to Doordarshan’s YouTube channel. “We have the oldest TV interviews of Nehru. In fact, his last TV interview which he gave to an American broadcaster, just weeks before he passed away we have retrieved those, put them on YouTube.”

Vempati said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s reference to the metaphorical “Lakshman Rekha” when he ordered the first India lockdown became the tipping point for Prasar Bharati to go all in on mythological content.

“So one of the questions that bothered me when I joined to serve as a board member and later on as CEO was that all of these iconic serials have immense nostalgia and brand connect but we don’t have access to any of this content,” Vempati said.

Prasar Bharati took the decision to re-acquire this content late October 2019 but it took a lockdown announcement to fast-track the closure.

Ramayan’s four episodes a day format was based on the assumption of a 15 day lockdown. “Ramayan” closed out its re-run in mid-April.

Vempati is pushing hard for organisational collaboration with academia and startups to create what he calls an “enabling” environment to transform India’s public broadcaster for the digital age.

Prasar Bharati is working with Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, around research collaboration on direct-to-mobile broadcasting.

“We have asked IIT-Kanpur to create that enabling environment, create the test-bed to bring in startups. And then let’s see what we can do in this whole ecosystem. So that effort is on.”

(Nikhila Natarajan is on Twitter @byniknat)

[ambitionsource]

ok I FINALLY caught up (just before the s4 finale too let's go) and there's so much I need to say!! firstly, like always, the writing is just next level like I've laughed, I've cried, I've stared at my phone in shock I love this universe so much. idk where to actually start so this is so out of order and so long sorry but kenneth!! that whole plot was so sad but the resolution was so cathartic and lucas and grace becoming kinsleys is so beautiful and I'm so proud of him reclaiming himself. CHARLIE!! my jaw dropped when he came out to eleanor I wasn't expecting it but I'm so proud of my boy!! like he deserves to be happy and who he is!!!! him and zay oh I love them so, I'm so excited to see if zay's going on tour or not but I hope they're ok either way. FARKLE!! MY ORIGINAL BOY!! I was rooting for him and isa so much and I just want him to be happy. also ik I said this on ig but as a longtime stuart and jennifer fan I wanna again thank u for making him an absolute wifeguy it's so cute and actually makes a lot of sense (like no wonder u two have six kids 😭) and since gmw were cowards and never gave us their backstory I'm now accepting ambition as canon and I also eagerly await their spin off sksfjksk. anyway back to the main plot rucas I'm always rooting for u, riley matthews ik ur gonna do what's best for u both in or not in california!! the jeric wedding was sooo beautiful and rae!! maybe I'm name biased but I loved her, her connection to lucas was so sweet. super excited to see where josh and maya goes and yindra!! they could all work for the same label which would be so fun!! I kinda hope nigel gets to go to london (sorry jade) bc I think he'd do so well and they could still work somehow idk how but they could 😭😭 anyway sorry this went so long but I'm so excited for the finale ik it's gonna be amazing 💖💖

miss rae!! "like I've laughed, I've cried, I've stared at my phone in shock I love this universe so much" i adore how long this message is but rest assured, this sentiment alone would have been enough. this is exactly what we hope for with each new episode and it's so lovely every time y'all reiterate that we're hitting the mark. 💞

as for the rest of this beautiful wordy message (which we love and encourage):

yes on the friar plotline!! that piece of this world has truly been slow burning for years -- all the way back to season 1 -- and it was so cathartic to finally bring some clarity and closure to it. i can definitely say that writing 410 and 411 were challenging but also some of my favorite episodes to craft in the entire series (and, dare i say, some of our best). i'm so glad it landed and is paying off. it was so meaningful to start getting to write lucas james kinsley in the following episodes instead.

can't even get into the zc of it all i'm so *dial up noises* about them. make me insane, truly. it's been a long, hard-fought journey but oh did we get here. i'm so proud of both of them for the growth -- ESPECIALLY charlie, as you said. he's come so far (even if there remains tribulations to face, i.e., eleanor)

it's definitely been so fun to bring the minkus clan to life over the last five years. they are a unique, intriguing, colorful cast of side characters (just like the gardners), and i'm so happy that we have readers like you who enjoy even those details in our story universe. 😊 their dynamic as a family has certainly come a long way since the pilot too.

for everything else you've said... well, the finale awaits!! thank you so much for reading as always, pal, and i hope you enjoy the rest of the season (if you haven't already).

-- Maggie