pdm1974

I would be fine with 30 minute episodes and maybe 4 times a week. A smaller cast that you could use more often would help with storytelling, too. When actors are only used for their small guarantees it results in stories losing momentum with constant starts and stops. I think the DiMeras take up waaaay too much time at this point. I'd be fine with them just keeping Chad, Johnny, and bring back Theo since he's a DiMera and Carver. The show desperately needs a new crop of younger characters as well. I'd cut characters I feel have been played out: Rafe, Ava, Nicole, Eric, Stefan/Jake, Roman, Shawn, Belle...and dare I say, Steve and Kayla. I'd make them recurring characters. I'd refocus on the Hortons/Carvers/Kiriakis families: Lucas, Will, Allie, bring back Jack, Jennifer, JJ, and Eli and Lani, Sonny, maybe Alex, and Xander and have Abe, Maggie, Julie, Doug as the foundation/vets of the show. I'd also keep Kate just because.

This is such a missed opportunity. They should have announced this months ago, and planned an "NBC finale" episode. The people that have been watching it on TV for decades deserved that. They could have brought back some old faves at the end and gotten a little boost to the ratings as all the other shows got when they started to end. Then, mostly wrap things up and leave the viewers with a couple of cliffhangers, sort of what was attempted with AMC and the move to PP. After that, reboot the show on Peacock. Smaller cast, better production values, more modern storytelling (for the sake of God, no more masks, Dr. Rolf bringing everybody back from the dead, etc) while still retaining enough of the show to pull in some of the older viewers while attempting to attract new ones on Peacock for the reboot. But, oh well.

I figured this was coming eventually, but I'm shocked at the amount of notice they're giving viewers to make the transition. They should have had time to do a big NBC send-off on broadcast and do some major cliffhangers to get people to transition. It doesn't seem like they're going to get that UNLESS they knew about this months ago which I doubt. I'm reading that Peacock is floundering. They're stuck at 13 million subscribers and not increasing. If DAYS has been streaming well, I can see them doing this to get some sort of bump in their subscriber base. But, I really question how many viewers will PAY for the show at this point. If they were going to stream it for free to get people to the app, I'd be a little more hopeful. It sort of feels like execs are throwing things at the wall to justify Peacock. This many streamers is not viable in the long run. People are only going to pay for so many subscriptions. And, if DAYS doesn't give them the bump they need, I'm sure the show is on the way out. The hopeful part of me thinks that this could be a way to modernize the show, its storytelling, and its writing. The Beyond Salem seasons have been much richer and interesting than the mother show. Will they allow the show to be more daring in its storytelling? But, if they're already 8 months ahead, that's way off, and it may be too late to change course in time. Unless....they knew this was coming, which, again, I doubt. I would welcome a smaller cast, stories that feel more "today" and for God's sake, less of this Dr. Rolf/mask wearing/constantly coming back from the dead crap. After a while, no story has consequences as a result.

For me, she's what really made the show must see. She was just superb in the role. The Logans as a family just weren't working, and the Spectras gave that contrast to the Forresters. I'm still mad over Macy being killed....twice!

Does anyone remember what storyline Irene Daly submitted for her reel that year? By the time I had started watching, she'd become a supporting character and "Aunt Liz."

I enjoyed Cruz and Eden, but the show put way too many of their eggs in that basket. So, that when the actors left they couldn't fill the void.

Everything with the Newmans feels been there and done that...over and over. I'm sooooo tired of these corporate takeover stories on this show. I really don't care who's running Newman Chancellor Winters Yada Yada Enterprises this week. Susan Walters has done miracles in making me care some about the show again. But, she can only do so much! The Imani story has promise and those characters desperately need some sort of conflict. I like the idea of the character of Allie, but she needs some sort of an edge. Too much goody-goody nowhere, and a romance with Noah is Snoresville. The show badly needs characters that aren't Newmans or Abotts so they don't have to date each other! But, that's been the problem with Y&R for so long now. It's as if the writers AVOID having conflict.

I hope not. That would be way too easy and would leave Quinn and Carter without much to do. If I were writing it, I would have Quinn turn up pregnant with a late in life pregnancy (If Sally Spectra can have a baby at 55, why not?) and the father be Eric. That could throw the whole Quinn/Carter/Eric/Donna quad back up in the air again.

Zach Tinker is so damn adorable. It's definitely DAYS fault concerning CM. I'm sure he'd still be there if they hadn't written him off the last time. The show has sort of done it to itself by having one half of so many couple off contract. It's hard to write for the one who remains. As much as I like AS, they need to pivot from Sami permanently and open both EL and Lucas up for new storylines. Poor Lucas deserves a break for a change. I know he kidnapped Sami, but she's done a million times worse over the years. I still like Cady as Jennifer. I wish we could keep her full-time. I feel like so many Hortons have been written off lately.

And, of course, we got the parallel with Rachel & Ada/ Erica & Mona/ and Ava & Kate on Loving. Agnes really enjoyed the rebel daughter and her long-suffering mother.

I feel like Gwen had so much promise in the beginning, and I actually found her a little fascinating. But, the past year has not been kind to this character story-wise.

I, too, have never gotten the point of Chelsea. The only story that MIGHT be interesting with her is that if they brought in a teenaged Johnny who finds out that Victoria is not his mother after all and what the fallout could be. God knows Faith and Moses haven't set the teen scene on fire. Bringing in an aged Lucy, a mini-Phyliss, who messes up the other teen's lives would be great, too, as would be a return with Daniel. Lily and Billy are snoozeville. Don't even get me started on that podcast!! I wouldn't say that the writing is completely where it needs to be, but Susan Walters is definitely bringing it and has injected some much-needed life into this show. I hope they can figure out how to keep her long-term. And, I have to say I think Susan Walter's looks FABULOUS. Unlike (cough, cough) some other actors that have had waaaaay too much work done, she looks like a woman who has aged gracefully and well. It's so refreshing to see!

I've watched the show all 5 seasons, and I have to admit that season 5 has been quite boring. I thought the first two seasons were actually pretty good with OMG shocking twist. But, the last couple of seasons they seemed to really be struggling to decide what kind of show it was supposed to be. Some episodes came off more "sitcom" than "soap" and it began to feel more episodic than "soap" as well. EG has been amazing as Fallon and has spun gold out of some pretty bad storyline. A home shopping network for Fallon? Is this 1985??? EH has done an admirable job with Alexis, but the writing never presented her as much of a threat to Blake and Kristal. She was more of a joke. I never got Adam's purpose. He's creepy and weird...and??? What's the point of him? Again, he also comes off as more of a joke. I loved Sam, but I'm so disappointed they wrote off Steven and never brought him back. Sam has never had a story as good as when the two of them were going back and forth. Kristal #3 has been the best, but they didn't really even give her a strong storyline. Even the double story could have gone much further. The double SHOULD have slept with Blake, and he should have grown closer to her. Amanda and Kirby had some potential this season though. I'm hoping production had enough notice to at least wrap things up after 5 seasons. I do think the cast as a whole was very good, but the writing never matched their talents.

I'm sure you're right. DAYS loves to redress a set. Remember the "blue room" that was used over and over and over as everything?

It is kind of miraculous that ABC ran LOVING for as many years as they did. I wonder how much of it was "what else are we going to run against Y&R anyway?" and Agnes Nixon's pull (assuming she still had it at that point). I read her autobiography, and I thought it was strange that she NEVER mentioned Loving at all. Of course, she wrote tons about creating AMC and OLTL and her start in soaps, but not one word about Loving. It would have been interesting to get her viewpoint on why it never took off like her other creations. You can't say the show was a total flop. It ran for over a decade, and I'm sure money was made. The plotting for Marty's rape was very well-conceived, too. I found the graphicness of the plot hard to stomach at times, but in terms of plotting an arc for multiple characters, it was genius. I remember reading an interview with Michael Malone where he said he took the approach that the town of Llanview was actually the main character of the show. I think his experience as a novelist helped in terms of creating these large umbrella stories.