I would imagine her being from the Utopian Parallel might mean she’s not technically Latina, though the actress certainly is.

I’d love to see this do well, but isn’t the tracking right now isn’t great. They’re saying a $30 million opener on a $120 million budget with tracking a week ago being at $12 - $23 million which makes it seem like it’s still going to be an uphill battle.

I honestly don’t know why they didn’t just make her a teen mom who gave her kid up for adoption so she could go after her musical dreams, but I think Shelby is supposed to be 18 - 21 and Rachel is like 15 - 16 so not quite as egregious.

And to be clear, I don’t think Gunn is a bad guy and I wholly agree that he likely had his “orders” from WBD on how to handle things. I personally think Gunn is being put in a position to fail and with how WBD has done business up to now, I suspect he’ll be scapegoated in the future, tbh, and things like this are very…

I agree that WBD is probably the bigger issue here, but they’ve put Gunn and Safran in charge and that means they’re the ones who will be left holding the bag.

My issue is more that maybe everyone jumped on this way too fast and way too soon when there were plenty of red flags around reporting it in the first place.

Gunn & co. are doing a terrible job of managing their talent, though, and this doesn’t make them look good no matter the reasoning behind it. They need people to want to work with them and right now DC doesn’t have much to make it attractive - a studio that keeps killing projects to the point of not releasing them,…

I think she knows it was pacifying crap and putting that out there with a “so time will tell” shrug now is one more way of making WBD, Gunn and Safran look untrustworthy which isn’t the best way to attract talent.

I don’t think it was enthusiasm. I think she has essentially put out there that Gunn and Safran have said something (that may have just been designed to placate her) and now WBD will have to clarify that it’s not true which makes the heads of DC seem untrustworthy to talent.

Minimally, they announced his slate and the idea of a hard reboot too early. I get that they ultimately had to announce him once the contract was signed because once that line item started showing up, it would have needed to be dealt with at the shareholder level (which is public). I also get that their hand might…

WBD is not good at managing their messaging. I don’t necessarily blame Gunn and Safran for that, but this is so much messier than it needed to be.

Agreed, I meant wanting more plots like that in the sense of the amount of space and air that storyline took up and how it became everyone worried about Sam and Sam’s choices than necessarily the Call Girl choice being great on it’s own.

There’s nothing to suggest she is not in fact, and I said at the time that they should update it to say that she alleged that wasn’t her name - That was not included in the article at the time I commented. It has been edited several times.

At least Miranda being concerned Brady isn’t making good life decisions feels like a concern Miranda would have. I’m hoping they can right the Miranda ship here.

It looks like they have updated the headline now, but they’re still running with the sad part in the entirely unproven discussion of her not having died...Weird.

Rob Lowe was fairly washed up in 1999, though wasn’t he? Prior to West Wing and Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me which were both 1999, the vast majority of his film work was direct to video garbage and a few Lifetime movies. The closest he had to a prestige title was The Stand which was 5 years old at that point…

There were some genuine rumors that someone sold the show to him that way - whether it was the network, his agent or Sorkin has never been completely clear. He certainly got first billing when he was on the show so it seems like his name carried weight for the production.

Pretty sure Brad beat him the only time he was Emmy nominated as well and I’m very confident that upset him.

I think if Rob Lowe had one of the Emmys the cast picked up in Seasons 1 - 3, he would have stuck around. I think he associates “undervalued” with “not being given the best material that got the others Emmys.”

Season 1 and 2 Sam has decent rapport with the others for me, but I think Lowe probably wanted more story arcs like the call girl one, for example, while Josh ended up having the weightier and better episodes (especially with what Josh went through in Season 2).