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The podcast may not have lived up to its premise, but we have the beverly hills 90210 show podcast to fulfill all those needs. What this 9021omg podcast turned out to be is still enjoyable for what it is, a little bit of show commentary, and basically a fun hour of jennie and tori freestyle banter. If you come into it with that expectation in mind then it’s all good. There is no need to nitpick every week in your recaps. They are not going to satisfy our needs for storyline and background info and they are going to make factual errors, ive come to terms with it but still enjoy the poscast. Sisanie is not a superfan. Tori and Jennie are rewatching the show as fans, not as showrunners. So the content will be different than Pete’s show and it’s fine.

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Whether or not it's fine is up to each individual listener to decide. It is also up to each listener to decide what expectations they have going in, especially given what the podcast is marketed as. My weekly posts are reaction posts, not recap posts, hence me giving my opinions. I am happy you enjoy it!

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On the Vanessa issue, the way you suggested she should have reacted was good but something a publicist would make her say. She was just honest saying she did not remember saying that to Vanessa and assuming she did say it, she explained what she may have meant at the time. if they territorial and unfriendly on the set (based on other cast members’ accounts it looks like they were), in an aloof “this is our show” kind of way, it doesn’t take away from our experience of the show at the end of the day. And they’re almost 50 now and mellowed, so does it really matter?

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I don't think it's necessarily something a publicist would "make" someone say. It is simply a mature, respectful response. I appreciated Jennie's honesty about not remembering as well as her perspective that it wasn't necessarily a negative comment. I agree that whatever went down all the years ago does not take away from our experience of the show itself, but their current discussion of it may color the way we view them as people. I am not sure if they have "mellowed" given how they behaved on this edition of the podcast, though, and it does matter because they are discussing it. I am not reacting to what did or didn't go down back in the day but to what is going on publicly now.

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