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Where is Theresa even staying while in town? Where are Andrew and Paul? They walked in the opposite direction of the Salem Inn today and it didn't seem like they were staying at John/Marlena's. Theresa was Jen's assistant at the hospital and then did fashion design or something with Basic Black so it's possible she works in that field at home. I think we are just supposed to think she's a schemer and screw up so maybe she got fired or does just stay at home.

I am just watching today's episode and did they have to actually move more chairs into Marlena/John's penthouse to seat 5 people? Their house set is so awkward lol. John and Belle are sitting on dining room chairs and Belle/Brady are practically sitting on top of one another and so are Paul/John. At some points Drake seemed to be just crouching behind the couch because there was no space available. Nice to see Paul/Andrew and the Black kids all in one room though. I will say I actually get second hand embarrassment when John/Marlena et all have to explain their past and lives to new people. It sounds so silly when said out loud. I don't even know what to say about Talia/Shawn. It was unexpected I guess. You would think someone would try to call his wife, uncle, cousin, etc in the pub his family owns instead of kicking him out lol. I really like Jen Lilley as Theresa. It's a shame she'll be gone soon. Johnny and Chanel are a little much. It's all a bit fast.

My hopes get so high when I am tagged in a thread that begins with General Hospital Actress Returns.......😂 I am super excited about this though. Can't wait to see Lois back in action. With WK and LLC both being recurring (and WK being on Days) I do wonder what they will do with Ned/Lois. And like @Vee mentioned I wonder if the show will truly tackle the fact Olivia and Lois are so similar in character.

I don't think your opinion is that crazy especially when you literally said it was unpopular in your first post so I don't think you were looking for massive agreement here lol. I really do think Tripp/LA is attractive, but Lucas Adams does look like a guy you could find at most college frat parties. I find Tripp to not even be exciting enough to hate at the level you do. That being said, I also can barely watch an episode with Gladys from GH because I have a visceral hate towards a fictional character like that and that character is one of the most inconsequential on the show. Everyone has their cross to bear.😂

I think Tripp is pretty innocuous. I like him now and think he's just a blandly handsome, nice guy. He was awful for most of his early run though. I can see how someone could dislike him. He certainly not the most complex character and he has bounced around with about 1000 love interests lol. If we are ranking Days characters though he would be nowhere near one of the worst characters to me. I agree about Wendy. She didn't even have any qualms about helping two criminals on the run. I know it's supposed to show she's a good girlfriend or something, but it just makes me think she's being stupid.

Definitely in agreement. Katherine just didn't work. The way GH tried to shoehorn Katherine into Stefan's story was a weird last-ditch effort to make the character liked by the audience. I suppose it was worth a shot, but it was painful. I honestly prefer 90's Stefan to anything Patch has done since he returned. I like 80's Steve a lot. I just think SN's portrayal of Stefan is better than anything SN has had on Days in the 2000's. Modern day Steve/John/Roman tend to be similar characters and pretty redundant.

I am a couple days behind and there are a lot of things I have questions and comments about, but why is Molly so mad at Kristina? They make up and then the next episode they are fighting again? Am I missing something?

I actually don't think Stefan as an overall character was a failure at all. There were a lot of missteps with the character overtime, but SN's Stefan was very successful launching a new era of Cassadines. I would consider MBE's stint as Katherine to be much more of a failure than Stefan. None. Especially bouncing off TB the last few Days. They both were playing Jason and Carly in one of her crazy states.

It doesn't help that Steve is playing Harris like Jason-lite right now either. On Beyond Salem he showed some range at least.

It's also a real stretch to think Ava and Harris would have anything in common. Besides being the same age and in the same location they have no similar interests lol. She's a criminal, evil, a killer?, possibly insane and now on the run from the law. I don't know why army hero, mostly sane, voluntarily committed Harris would want to hit that. I'd check myself out of Bayview and never look back. Days does have a long history of pairing characters together solely because they are both single and the same age though without regard to any reason they would make a good couple. Xander and Chloe is a prime example lol.

Ava is one of those soap characters that was great in their first run, but the show just kept bringing them back for no discernible reason except people liked it once. It helps TB won an emmy for the role too. Ava has definitely outlived her shelf life and has bounced around canvas with little purpose. She's also suffered from whiplash writing. The show redeems her than makes her evil again and tries pairing her with people ranging from Steve and John to Johnnie and Rafe. Is she evil? Is she sane? Are the drugs she was taking making her like this? No idea and I am long past caring. The show just has never made it clear. Harris is only around because he's played by Steve Burton. I did enjoy him on Beyond Salem and I do think there are interesting beats to the character. But Harris was never integrated with the cast at all. Everyone he had ties to is long gone and his only link to Salem is his shrink. I have no investment in him because eventually GH will hire him again and Harris will be a distant memory like Steve's Y&R character.

I have never really considered TB's Carly and Jason to be a romantic pairing or anything other than good friends. TB's Carly actually had better chemistry with Sonny. So it seems like Days is trying to capture what could have been with TB/SBu when there is no real evidence that's a good idea lol. They do work well together so it's not the worst idea, but both characters are just such duds. I think Harris has/had potential at least in the beginning. Ava is so far past her expiration date as a character it's pointless. And, no, I don't think it's ever worked to reunite popular actors on a different soap. We can look to the lovely MBE and SN and their painful romance as Katherine/Stefan on GH as exhibit A.

Sarah is one of the most unlikable heroines in daytime. I know people like LG in general, but her snarky, smug delivery of all her lines is absolutely obnoxious. Her keeping the babies parentage from Xander and marrying Rex for no real reason is idiotic. Sarah is an awful character.

Honestly the John/DVD dad story played out in an episode. DVD had a few episodes, but John found out DVD was in the same army unit as Jigsaw in the final scene of one episode and then the next episode we saw the entire reveal happened. The fastest retcon of parentage ever.

I 100% agree that the show dropped the ball badly with Stefano having Marlena vs. Orpheus. And then to bring Orpheus back and the canon is he just lost Marlena along the way lol. The Tale of Two Romans is poorly executed and the fact that Marlena's missed years are just dropped until decades later is weird. RoJohn and Marlena were all about discovering what happened to Marlena in those years and then Wayne's Roman appears and it's not important at all. I get the Roman matter was much bigger, but Marlena never really seemed curious about her lost years or got a true perspective of her losing time as well. The POV was always about Wayne/Drake's characters. There were so many things Marlena could have done those years from having RoJohn's baby to being a Princess Gina like Stefano operative, or even an amnesiac Marlena falling for Orpheus, but, alas it was always about the Romans. I tend to think Marlena/Roman's returns at the same time was just too big of a story to tell at the time. The two returns would have been better off spread out. I am not complaining about how the 90's ended up for Marlena, but there are a lot of ways you could have gone with that story. When JER brought Stefano back he really was presented as a scary figure. Marlena was hysterical while pregnant with Belle afraid Stefano would take her away from her family again. With the re-introduction of the Dimeras JER really did make Stefano out to be a very scary character. It obviously devolved into camp, but I did think his introduction played out well and Stefano was retconned into having Roman/Marlena back in 1991 so that wasn't his initial idea.

I think it's fair to say Stefano was always at the very least enamored with Marlena. Even after Roman's (Wayne) first death Stefano attempted to kidnap Marlena and the baby twins to ostensibly make a family with Marlena and the kids. JER is the one that ramped the obsession up and it started with Marlena trying to seduce Stefano to save John in Maison Blanche. He then became progressively obsessed with her. Then she took care of him after he was injured when MarDevil tossed him off the roof. Marlena softened to Stefano without his memory and was quite friendly with him letting him live with her at the Penthouse. This gave Stefano some hope that Marlena and he had a real chance which IMO the show almost seemed like it was heading for before the Aremid shenanigans. Anyhow, there isn't a single moment or exact reason, but I actually think you can connect the dots enough through history to make it plausible, if not terribly realistic. Especially with the rewrites of Stefano having Marlena for her lost years as opposed to Orpheus. JER added enough retcons to move the story and obsession along.

Tyler doesn't seem physically capable of taking a soap role at this point otherwise I suspect he would have been given another shot. And reading between the lines of Tyler's own words he was given several chances from GH and Days we just didn't hear about it. Tyler's struggles have gone on behind the scenes for years and he still hasn't conquered his demons. I hope one day TC is healthy enough to return to GH, but I think Tyler is truly unemployable at this point. I don't think he's actually blacklisted from soap work or anything.

Haley Pullos and Molly isn't a hill I am willing to die on or anything. She did some awful things. It just seems like other troubled soap stars with addiction struggles on this board get a lot more grace from some posters. I think you can feel bad for the actual victims and also hope that Haley gets it together so she doesn't hurt herself or anyone else again. Hoping she never works again and lives under a bridge so she can't afford a tall boy of beer seems counterproductive.

Didn't Haley go to rehab and/or is currently in rehab? Not that I care one way or the other if she comes back, but maybe she's trying to get help? Idk, she should obviously be held accountable, but I am not sure I agree she should never work again.

It's weird because I did like a lot of the episode in the fact that the sentiments spoken were sweet but delivered by the wrong people. A lot of the scenes were a bit clunky especially with Chelsea. I think it could have been a lot worse. I just think Jamey's excuses are very lame and I don't find them very believable. Days has so many vets on its cast and just didn't use them for another long-time vet's funeral but made sure Xander and Alex were front and center. Theresea had less business being there than half of the main cast.

I don't really get what Days has to do with Jamey Giddens failed show. Unless I am missing something Days wouldn't have to build new sets for Victor's funeral. They would have to add a few chairs. I get there might be a limit to how many people can be on a set, but I don't see why they couldn't have filmed Nicole, John, Marlena etc with a few people and rotate the cast in and out for scenes.

John's new backstory was resolved in an episode?!!? After all these years and all these false leads that's it? It's all very silly and so quickly done, but whatever. I have long since stopped caring about John's origins lol. At least the DH's seem to be in on the joke of John's past at this point. The Sarah birth scene was so disconnected from what was going on a few feet away inside. I don't understand why Chloe or Xander didn't alert her mother and everyone else. That's just sloppy writing.

I mean, Max did date his niece Stephanie as well who he did know his entire life, so it's a bit of a pattern. It is really a shame that Nicole, John and Marlena weren't at the memorial. I can understand Nicole might think it was in bad taste to go, but John/Victor had such an interesting relationship in the 90's and were quite close after Isabella died. Why are bars giving Shawn the entire bottle of booze? The small bar has given Shawn the entire bottle of whatever he drinks multiple times and that's literally illegal.

The Theresa wanting Brady stuff seems to have come out of nowhere. I don't necessarily have a problem with Brady/Theresa it just seemed like she was happy living her life with her son not hung up on Brady for 7 or so years. This is something that could have had a progression instead of Theresa immediately laying all her cards out on the table to Brady. And I just looked up the rumored recast and.....😬 Well, looks like we have another John retcon. It doesn't bother me either but I don't really want to go down that road again. Hopefully this backstory will make more sense. The DVD, Julie, Doug stuff was nice. I don't know what to say about the Ava stuff except I was perfectly content with Susan being DEAD dead. Harris is pretty useless. I keep waiting for GH to snap him back up honestly.

That's totally understandable. I wasn't watching very often during that story and when I re-read it on the internet I questioned if they changed John's story again and he was part Asian😂