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Haven't you heard? Y&R produces one of a two good "scenes" a month and that makes it a step above the rest in the crappy daytime industry for some unknown reason!

Maria's excuse for falling ratings is probably "it's all by design!"

Her and her enablers deserve to be humiliated with a firing for their arrogance and atrocious storytelling abilities.

Ah, they went up a bit, after three weeks mind you. Oh well, I'm sure they'll be back to the lower 3's in no time.

This has been a banner week for one of soaps' greatest traditions: a well deserved slap in the face. For months, Days of Our Lives fans have waited for Sami to find out the awful truth: that her friend Nicole stole her baby. This week it finally happened. For an entire, glorious episode Sami confronted Nicole, using interrogation skills that would impress Jack Bauer to make her admit that yes, she switched Sami's baby with Mia's then passed it off as her own. This was an old school story, dragged out forever. Every character involved acting like a trusting idiot so that Nicole could get away with a series of implausible lies. However, this is one of those cases where the more frustrating the build up, the better the pay off. Watching Sami unleash her considerable temper for a good cause was a thing of beauty:

Yes, it was melodramatic, but there is nothing more satisfying then a good soap confrontation. I think we all fantasize about smacking down the annoying people in our own lives with such style. But mere words were not enough. Sami demanded that Nicole admit Sydney was Sami's child.

When she refused, Sami slapped her. Hard. When Nicole still wouldn't fess up, she did it again. Watching it was one of those cathartic moments of soap viewing. I had anticipated it for months, feared it would never happen, or that it would not happen the way that I hoped. Instead, it surpassed my expectations. It was everything I could want in a soap slap: the hit looked real, Alison Sweeney has the upper body strength to deliver a wallop, and the entire confrontation built to the physical. Nicole's Raising Arizonaesque justification that since Sami was fertile and prolific she didn't really need Sydney redefined the word chutzpah. Nicole needed some sense knocked into her.

If they hired Kay ALden I'd be pleasently surprised. So I suspect they'll hire JP.