maybe the actress who plays Helena is really pregnant

" And she ended up getting fired for her job from it."

…Hogan-Gawker wasn't a defamation case, so that's one reason.

The judge tainted the jury pool during selection by talking about her frustration with the state of the media, especially online. Later, she let a juror ask a witness if she had slept with Denton or Daulerio.

Here's the thing though: What's possible and what occurs to the lawyers changes once you know about Thiel. The specific plan for the Hogan case was clearly to get it to the point where there would be a large jury award, Gawker wouldn't make bond, and would have the file bankruptcy, making it more likely for the other…

That IS what happened here. There were multiple other cases funded by Thiel, and the non-Hogan ones had basically zero merit. One had Charles Harder (the point man lawyer guy) helping a plaintiff in secret weeks before the sex tape post ever happened.

I don't think the LVRJ reporters had anything to do with those copyright claims?

They didn't have the N-word stuff.

That comment from Denton was about Gawker's tone, specifically.

There is literally no proof that they did that. The Equirer has always insisted that they had 5 sources w/o Gawker connections, and the transcript (they did NOT have the video or audio) had been floating around the radio community for years. It would also be a potential death sentence for Gawker to violate that order…

They refused to pull the article itself when the judge ordered as much because it was a BS decision that was going to get overturned (it did). They took down the sex tape clips as soon as they were ordered by the judge to do so.

Because Thiel was funding other lawsuits, none of which really had merit, and it would have been death by 1,000 cuts.

That was the legal defense. Which both a federal court and a Florida appellate court agreed with.

Not withdrawing from public life specifically. That he had tons of people he talked to at least once a week that he abruptly cut off.

I know. That was the point.

Didn't the BBC actually commission it? Wasn't there even a "coming soon" page on their website for it? I've never seen a good explanation for why it didn't happen.

And there was a perception that it was "retaliation" for the rewrites required by her pregnancy, right? Hence the bad blood?

So, on that note:

That's what Joss has said. Not everyone believes him, in part because the way he explained it didn't really make any sense. And also because he was in full apology tour mode.

The last time I watched season 7, I was struck by how Dawn had the best lines episode to episode. She was arguably the highlight of a bad season.