#THECONNERS WILL IT WORK OR IS IT PUTTING RACISM BACK IN THE CLOSET?
Oh, I'm loving this. The handwriting is on the wall. Speaking of hands, I cut the end of one of my fingers and it's still difficult to type. Anyway they're going to do a spin-off of "Roseanne" called "The Conners." The lead apparently has a swift death And if you watched the finale, Roseanne was having surgery on her knee. Very convenient.
Did anyone but me notice that Darlene (Sara Gilbert) was very prominent in the last episodes? She is one of the producers of the show and apparently it was her idea to resurrect it. Too much Darlene for me. And didn't we all think that Darlene was gay? The new Darlene came home with two children. Again, I'm thinking to keep the focus on her -- and her family. But it doesn't suit her. She's not much of an actress, and it shows when she is actually acting. But who cares what I think? What does her astrology chart say?
Tom Arnold gave an interesting interpretation of what went down with Roseanne. He was married to her. He thought that she killed the show because she was not the center of attention -- Sara was -- since she is producing and the storylines favored her. If you know anyone mentally ill (Roseanne has admitted to being bi-polar) they just mess with everything. It is very hard to keep happiness in your life when dealing someone challenged in this area. They handle their anxiety by being destructive.
Sara currently has predictive Mars sitting on her natal Sun. So she is going to cause friction in a big way. I would bet that Scorpio Roseanne and Aquarius Sara didn't get along. Those two signs are square and annoy each other. Plus Sara has every chance of attracting violent interaction at this time. I looked at Roseanne's chart before the show began and decided there wasn't enough to write a blog on and not enough to destroy the show (because believe it or not, it was mentioned before the show started). It is my opinion, Sara took down Roseanne by tripping off Roseanne's health issues. And Sara isn't sorry. She can barely keep from smiling. Sara had to put up with a boss she clearly didn't like all those years and she has wrestled the show away from her and pretty much destroyed her in the process. Watching this show go on without her, Roseanne will have another breakdown -- most likely.
Sara is sneaky Cancer rising. This is a very difficult rising sign with so many challenges. And one of the big ones is being jealous of lives other than your own. The cold Aquarians are the ones with Venus also in Aquarius like Sara. Pluto is her focal planet i.e. revenge.
So the question is, will the new show work? There are a lot of charts (a lot of people) involved, but if Sara takes over the storylines and keeps the focus on herself (the worst thing she could do), it will fail. The definition of Mars conjunct the Sun is your ego takes a hit -- a really super hit that will be difficult to recover from. If Sara is feeling like she won. That would only feed into the negativity of this aspect. It won't let her win. If she has some humility? No, I say she doesn't have any.
Here is what I would have advised Sara. Keep Roseanne (I know she didn't fire her, but...) and let Roseanne be a racist and deal with it on the show. We keep pushing racism into the closet when we need to force this ugliness into the open and deal with it. Let it hurt her granddaughter (who is black on the show). Let people see just how much pain is involved -- how many people's lives have been destroyed and continue to be destroyed.
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UPDATE: 10/11/18 Daily Mail quotes, "What we've discovered is that people want Roseanne - they don't want the family by themselves..." The debut of The Conners is next week. "What we're expecting is for there to be some tune in so fans can actually learn how Roseanne departs, but from there the worry is the ratings will freefall. And should The Conners flop, Channing and her team will have many questions to answer. The network fears they have upset viewers by firing Barr." By the way Channing is a black woman. Was firing Roseanne a personal vendetta? Was it because Roseanne's comments were about a black woman, Valerie Jarrett, and not about the good of the company she works for?