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What's new about today's Kristina? She's been moping and selfish and sad for months. Now she's so sad she can't even drive and is putting others in danger. Not that I care if she injured or killed Natalia, but she's been unlikeable for several months. I say that as someone who likes Mansi and her portrayal of Kristina. She's just not rootable or even sympathetic at this point. Sam's entire family and friends are very sad. It's not all about Kristina and her pain.

Kristina yapping with Eva La Rue today on those rocks was certainly a choice.

That's a very valid theory. It just seems like Marlena could care less. The show doesn't exactly play up their rivalry. Marlena just acts like Kristen is an annoyance and moves on with her day.

Yes, I believe you are correct. The Day of Days promo is the promo for as long as I recall. Raping Eric was the big nope for me, but Brady/Eric had been at odds on and off. I still need someone to explain to me why Kristen would even want Brady at this point. He's not exactly a catch. Not that Kristen is either, but I assume she can find a 50 year that has a house and a job lol.

It's amazing that Kristen gave up her John obsession so quickly. I mean, I get it was a lot of hijinks for a lot of years, but with Kristen's personality it is almost strange she moved on to Brady and it's lasted this long. SOD has always been more pro Bo/Hope than John/Marlena and then every other Days super couple sort of falls in line after those two for whatever reason. Days has a lot of couples to choose from I suppose. Plus, SOD always ranks GH couples super high-even ones that haven't been together for eons.

I feel like Kristen/Brady have some variation of this same conversation every few months. In six months they'll be discussing a different serum, flower, computer chip, etc and Brady still won't want Kristen lol. I wish the show would ditch Kristen or at least ditch this Brady/Kristen relationship. It's never been viable and it hasn't been interesting in years. Also, I know Brady's jacket is supposed to have that crinkled leather, but it just looks dirty on camera. The whole Steve/Roman conversation would have been much better with John, but such is life. I am glad Roman gets something to do outside the pub though I guess. Xander really just needs to stop trying to randomly kill his relatives lol. Sarah really puts up with a lot of sh*t from Xander lol. JPL seems like a nice guy and would probably be great fun in real life to hang out with, but he is so wrong for Phillip I can't even deal with it. I am still so confused what he's going for. Has he ever seen clips of JKJ's Phillip? Even clips of KB's Phillip? This is a pretty filler episode where half the characters spend the entire episode talking about people that aren't in the episode (Clyde, Cat)

I agree. I think the last time I remember Sonny/Mo doing really good work was at the tail end of the Brenda return and some of his work with Kate 2.0. I am hesitant to say Mo doesn't care or isn't trying, but that's what it feels like. He seems to be just coasting along going from typical Sonny emo story to another. IMO, even Steve's Jason has a stronger point of view. Carly is so hit or miss it's hard to tell, but that's more writing than Laura Wright.

I like Sonny more than most, but Mo/Sonny are certainly not above criticism. He just used to be a lot better. I don't find him depressing, per se, I just know he used to be able to do a lot more. I am very sympathetic to his personal health struggles and Sonny's also given me great memories. Sometimes people do need to know when it's closing time on a character and I do think Sonny is long past that point.

MB often looks down too so I wonder if lines are written on the floor for him or something? MB has been fumbling his lines for years now. He used to be more natural at it, but it's been a problem for at least 20 years. He also likes to whisper and mumble which makes it very difficult to hear him sometimes. The quicker paced, out of order format is clearly not for him.

Oh, I agree. EH has some sort of accent (Midwestern maybe?) that sometimes makes his words sound a bit jumbled. They could easily re-shoot that. I have noticed LW make errors before, but I sort of think it works with Carly as a character? She gets so worked up over something and needs to say what she's thinking immediately. I actually don't mind the fumbling every now and then because it's true to real life, but it's difficult to endure when you can see Mo searching into thin air for his next line lol.

I don't pay much attention to Dex, but he seems the same to me? Maybe his hair did change a bit. I wouldn't say Dex ever had a lisp, but he's always had moments of mumbled enunciation. I think the "rumors" about Dex being related to a legacy character are just pure fanfiction. I don't think they were ever credible. Although Sasha being Holly/Robert's daughter was never on my bingo card, so who knows?

I thought so, but wasn't positive. Thanks!

I think both Jack/Jen and Carly lived there. Can't remember if Steve did. I would still say I identify it most with John though.

Yeah..I think Deidre either was recurring or had a short term contract starting out, so once the show decided to keep Marlena they just gave her a set. The gatehouse set was pretty cute. Speaking of sets that I liked, I loved John/Isabella's loft. I know tons of people lived there, but I always thought the set up of the place was cool. They brought it back for KL's Brady and it just disappeared after a few years. It would be a great place for Brady/Tate to currently live.

I think it was more to give Marlena a more permanent set? I think Don mostly always had that apartment that Marlena/Don lived in.

Thanks! That mostly lines up with my memories of clips. I think Don/Marlena's apartment was the same just without Don because he moved in with Liz? I get a little confused with that as well, but it appears that Marlena rents the Penthouse after all the serial killer stuff, so the Roman/Marlena initial scenes are in her/Don's apartment.

Agree 100%. The effort it would take me to get Peacock to another program is too time consuming. I am in it to win it while watching Days lol. The scenes don't need to be short. I am not going anywhere.

I like the name. I think I have known 3 Sasha's in my life and they were Alexandra or Alexander, but that's obviously not enough data to call it just a nickname I suppose. Since Sasha clearly has lied about her last name and entire upbringing I thought there might be a different real name for her that she's hiding.

Haha! It's not a hard name to pronounce at all but it's hilarious her own mother can't pronounce it. It's strange that Holly would give her child a heavily Slavic/Russian name and mostly a nickname at that. I keep waiting for the 'real name' Sasha reveal lol.

You don't like the name Sasher?😂

Yeah, Abe was on my list, but then I realized that made 8 lol. I guess Shane doesn't count. He said 7 heroes. People were just guessing who the others were. I don't think it diminishes Drake or Bill's legacy or any other "hero" characters? You missed Ben the hero obviously.😂

Probably Tom and Roman too?

I am not going to lie, Kristen just sitting around while the entire Black/Evans family reunited and just blatantly ignored her was pretty funny today.

Got you. I am doing this mostly from memory so I could be wrong. I never saw full episodes of this era but just by judging from the clips I have I can tell some sets are different. I have a clip post Roman proposing and Anna appearing with Carrie where Marlena buys/rents some sort of penthouse. It may have been Alex's? Soapcentral just says various locations for her homes before 1983, but lists the same address as the OG Penthouse as her current home so they might be wrong. Unless this penthouse is supposed to be the 90's penthouse with a different set like GH's Sonny's penthouse set now.

No. DJ died in Marlena/Don's shared apartment. That's also where Kellam raped her. Marlena had moved by the time Sam died. I think Gwen Davies was her roomate at the time. It's definitely two different sets. I think Marlena moves again after into some sort of penthouse, then marries Roman, and they obviously live in the Brady house until John buys Marlena the awesome penthouse after Belle's birth and then we move on to the current Townhouse/Penthouse of today.