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Jeff Webber abusing Liz would feel a lot like what they almost did with Rick/Laura. It just seems like something awful to do to a character that hasn't been on in years. Jeff can be a deadbeat dad, but let's not make him an abuser 30-40 years after the fact.

I LOVED the Audrey/Liz scenes and the exposition on where the Hardy/Webbers were. I tear up at Patrick's speech even if that would not be the person I would choose to give it. The ghost stuff was silly, but it was nice to see old faces. I would almost say the Sonny/Brenda/Jax/Carly stuff was out of place, but I can't say anything against Brenda, so I won't. I liked it all including the Nurses Ball and Sabrina!!!-I know. It fell off the rails a few days later with the frozen Lulu story and then the Michael/Brenda weird situation, but overall, an enjoyable month or so.

He'd probably make her a wacky singing villian out for revenge against Maggie or Marlena for no reason. Much like RC decided to make Diana Coleville an entirely different person to introduce......Leo. Who wasn't even John's son so what was the point of that?

I am surprised no one said GH's 50th show. I really loved it. I liked all the characters featured, the new interns getting a tour of the hospital, Patrick's speech, Audrey and the Steve portrait, Sonny/Jax/Brenda, GhostAlan, almost all of it. Luke/Laura finding Ethan instead of Lucky was a little lame as was GhostEmily, but probably my favorite episode of the last decade easily.

It's seems like it would have been a great oppurtunity for Neil to at least pop back in and introduce Noel. JG is 87, so he may not have wanted to but I actually think Gloria Loring would be open to doing at least a brief return. I want to stop making fun of Days stories, but each day gets a little worse especially with the Sarah story. Even the off screen stuff is stupid. Marlena just spent the night with Belle tied up upstairs and didn't inform anyone in the household?

Thanks! I was going back and forth in my mind if it was a pen or stethoscope lol. For some reason, I got the impression Neil didn't die recently because if he did he would have known she was on track to being a Dr. and had been a Dr. for awhile when she arrived in Salem.

I don't think it's weird. I think it tastes fine. I honestly wouldn't think twice about someone doing that in front of me and mayo is delicious. It is silly that was made out to cement how Lani/TR were father/daughter. I am not even sure anyone in my immediate family has the same tastes as me🤣

Probably too ridiculous, but maybe? I think for me personally as a viewer if the show just wiped it away as Marlena having no memories of it because it wasn't her it could work because all the pieces would line up if Sam was pretending to be Marlena pretty much. Plus it wouldn't negate all Marlena's marriages, made her a battered wife, made her so traumatized she forgot him for 30 years, etc and Alex could have not even known it wasn't Marlena and not believed he was deceived. No matter how you spin it-it was a terrible, embarrassing waste of Wayne, but thinking about it I could buy that. It also would have helped if John acted less like an obsessed weirdo (he was right, but he was acting way too intense) and worked with Roman, Bo, and/or Abe to figure it out instead of basically stalking Marlena and telling her she was wrong🤣. It also would have helped if Marlena didn't act like she had to stay married to Alex and disregarded everything John and her entire family were saying as well. There were multiple problems with the story.

I thought they confirmed he was dead. Maggie gave Sarah something of his (a pen?) and she said Neil would have been so proud she was a Dr. I guess they didn't say Neil was dead, but I took it to mean Neil had passed away and not recently. Anyway RIP Neil Curtis!

I hate to say this and I am not defending Teen Jessica, but this story makes less sense lol. At least Jessica thought she was Jessica, albeit a teen version of herself. Sarah thinks she's an unrelated person that died 40 years ago. People can literally prove Renee is dead, but aren't. Anyway, today's show. Marlena just tied Belle up upstairs and didn't tell Tony and Anna the devil was in their house and had an off screen interaction with Sarah/Renee and wasn't concerned? For some reason I find that hilarious. Also, hilarious, Tony/Anna didn't feel the need to investigate this at all. I don't understand how this movie is still a go with E.J. in jail. Wasn't he playing John? Among the million other things wrong with this story is Sarenee dressing so current. I know it's the least of the stories problems, but the show could put her in a dress that's classic and vaguely timeless like the stuff Belle or Nicole wear. Stuff that could work in multiple decades. I can't imagine any version of diary Renee would wear a crop top and plaid pants.

Correct. In theory, unless the diary had pictures she wouldn't know what anyone looked like lol. I have so many questions. Clearly she can see someone's age, so isn't she a little confused her "peers" are at least 30 years older than her? And even just simple things like Anna clearly hasn't been ovulating in at least 20 years so she didn't just recently have a miscarriage. Does she physically see herself as how she looks as Sarah or as Renee? Because pictures of her seem to indicate she sees herself as what she thinks Renee would look like or what Renee looked like. The more you think about it the less sense it makes and it makes 0 sense when you think about it briefly lol.

Lol! The thing is I don't think it's a new societal trend. I have known quite a few people who eat mayo and french fries. And some of them weren't even related.........but perhaps it's making those people feel more accepted since it was shown on Days with such care and understanding to those who make the choice of french fries and mayo🤣.🤣

Glad they told Maggie. It was really annoying me. I looked quickly over the recap and Sarenee mentioned Maggie had aged a lot? So I am very confused why she doesn't notice Tony and Anna, but I will have to watch the show today I guess.

I suspect the movie will eventually be cancelled, so I doubt it matters much. I am not really sure the true status of the movie. I think not everyone has committed as far as the 'cast' goes like Allie and Chanel. But, yes, you would assume he'd have more involvement. I thought it was shocking that the Devil was in Doug at first. I really didn't have a desire to see it, but it was at least a twist. He didn't do much of anything besides grab Paulina's ass and lock Julie in a freezer (which I don't hate lol). And it's nice of Marlena to save her 90 year old buddy, but maybe she shouldn't have let the devil in and unleashed it on the entire town. IMO, it would have made more sense for the devil to be in Belle first because Marlena would absolutely sacrifice herself for her daughter. Doug? I mean I guess? Lol. Or too slow. Like the Possession lol. Or we have Sarenee's story that's been dropped for days and I guess we just assume she's running around town looking for Don Craig and nobody has informed Maggie because last we heard she was on a trip with Victor.

Yeah, the T.R. stuff is terrible. I think the actor only signed on for short term, but maybe find a different actor then? It would have been so much better if Paulina was drawn back to him, even reluctantly, and starting giving him a second chance and Lani started to bond with him. Or if he did starting dating Nancy or something. The only thing that happened was Paulina yelling at him to stay away and Lani sharing some fries and mayo with him. It seems like such a waste of story. Eli got shot, but there were so many missed beats. Anyhow, through all my complaining I forgot to say how much I loved the Will/Allie scenes. It felt like another show. So realistic and natural. Chandler and Lindsey have great chemistry as siblings. They also look alike, which is something I feel Days does well with when casting usually. I still have no idea why the devil didn't go into Belle initially and not Johnny. She's such an obvious choice for Possession and I am not sure why the show didn't just go that route. It's not like JoDevil has done anything important.

I would have been interested in seeing T.R. be a big bad in town or at least seeing him fool people for awhile. Instead we have Orpheus brought back again and trying to insert him into to hating everyone in town for no reason.

Lol! But that was a huge bag of street heroin. At least be realistic about it. That's not a fix. That's a drug pile from Scarface. And T.R.'s trajectory from maybe decent to completely evil was not very good. It was 0 to 100 in an episode.

Perfect. That would be great to at least give the viewer some insight. I just assume Lee is dead. I don't think it's ever been mentioned, but with BB's passing I always just thought they wouldn't touch it. Lol! I was trying to rack my brain to figure out how MZ and MG returning after 10 years is the same as LG faux playing Renee after 40 years. Referencing history is the Devil saying Belle was the product of passion and infidelity. True facts. Maligning history is what this Sarah/Renee story is doing. Just my opinion.

It's two completely different things lol. PS/Renee aren't returning it's Sarah as Renee lol! Explain to me how you compare it?

Even if they took a character that died years ago, it should have been someone that has strong connections to the current cast. Someone like Samantha (could you imagine LG pretending to be DH's twin lol) or Isabella that are mentioned and are easily tied to the current canvas. I am not advocating for those characters or anything, but it would have been much easier to use those characters across the show than Renee. Who's even met Renee on the current show-Tony, Anna, Marlena, Julie, Doug, Roman, and Maggie? Renee has no children, Tony and Stefano never mentioned her, her parents aren't alive, she has no connection with her siblings, and, frankly, no one seemed to miss her at all. This has to be one of the most random characters to fake bring back ever on a soap and then she starts name dropping people that haven't been mentioned (outside David/Neil) for decades. When's the last time someone mentioned Don? The Reagan Administration? Marlena doesn't even name drop Don lol.

Am I the only one curious why Marlena is handling this whole Belle is the devil thing with Susan and Ben? Not Belle's husband and father? I have no problem with Belle as the devil but did Susan and Ben have to figure it out? I liked Will calling out Johnny. I am not sure why more people haven't had bigger issues with the movie moving forward. The TR stuff is not that interesting to me. But, man, he bought enough drugs for like 50 people. That was a huge bag of heroin, coke, or whatever it was supposed to be lol.

This is why flashbacks would be helpful. Even just to give us a hint of some context or interactions. There have been none of Renee. If the show can't afford flashbacks of PS or these actors then the story should have been scrapped. Even the Possession story got a great deal of flashbacks to set it up and the devil possession is much more famous, more recent, and objectively much easier to understand. The Renee story isn't very easy to understand and the show is using a few moments of exposition from a select group of characters to try to explain it. And Jamey Giddens is filling in the gaps poorly on twitter. I don't know the median age of Days viewers anymore, but I assume at least a good portion (like myself) weren't born when Renee was on the show. I can't see them being able to understand it without having to look up the character on the internet. I don't think a viewer should have to do homework to be able to enjoy a story. Outside of it being awful, the name dropping (Don, Alex, David, etc) isn't very relevant and like you said a bunch of characters lost in time for the most part.

Agree 100%. I love name drops like Eli saying Shane told him to call Billie the other day. Perfect use of history and a name. This is a story built around a character but doing no respect to the character. It's useless. I agree it's on LG to do the homework and it just writing on paper as Renee for her, but at least conjure up the image of Renee or what Renee would think of herself on paper. Not some dimwitted fool who can't tell people have aged or that Xander is not Alex Marshall. It's not respecting history it using history to manipulate the audience into thinking it's a good story by name dropping a super old, fairly obscure character. Just because Jamey Giddens can remember a name and a story doesn't mean it translates to good writing.

Agree 100% about the Brady family including John. DH had a different chemistry with the siblings but it worked. I also want to say I always thought Drake and Christie Clark had such wonderful chemistry as (faux) father and daughter. You could tell they adored each other off screen. Re GH- Obviously Sonny/Brenda would be my #1 as a hot romantic relationship, but I loved Lois, Ned, Brenda, Sonny, Robin, and Stone as friends. It was believable and nice to have actual friendships that felt like real friendships.

Agree 100%. It's literally Ron repeated the something that was popular over and over because he doesn't have any better ideas. It's so stupid to use Chad? Leo is a con artist-he's not an idiot. He knows Will and Sonny are on to him, do those two think Leo will be so blinded by lust with Chad that he will fall for this? If Ron brought Sonny/Will in to deal with Johnny, Allie, Arianna, the movie, EJ's trial, anything other than this I would be fine. It's a silly side story. Perhaps this will end quickly and they can deal with real stories after this. I just can't believe BRADY saying Chloe needs help brought them to Salem. Not Will's mom's kidnapping, Sonny's father's remarriage, the Possession of Will's grandma, the movie being made, among many other plots they could be useful in. It's like Ron thinks Will/Sonny are only worth writing for if they are doing silly gay stuff. It's annoying. I am not mad they are back, but I am mad at how they are being used for sure. And, you know what, if Craig is being conned should we feel bad? He left his wife of years because he was too afraid to tell her he was gay and treated her badly. He's a 55 plus grown man-if he get's hurt, oh well.