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I figured it was something he picked up in Europe? I have no idea if fencing is popular there, but I didn't question it lol. It seems like a bougie thing a Dimera would do, although how influenced Johnny truly was by Stefano/EJ is hard for me to figure out. My biggest issue with the possession, and there are several issues, is why possess Marlena at all? Besides it being a throwback, it had no lasting consequences besides Lani/Paulina. Marlena isn't even on dealing with the fall out except for a few apologies here and there. As much as I want to care about Johnny being Possessed it's not exactly carrying the same weight as the show's main heroine. We hardly know Johnny.

I am a little confused why Paulina is so protective of Lani/Ray. I know he's probably the worst, but Lani is a grown women that's a cop with kids of her own-I think she can handle herself and could handle knowing he's her father. It's not that dramatic. I mean it's Lani, so it's probably headed for catastrophe, but in theory it's not that big of a deal. I was also confused when I was listening to Ava/Tripp. He wanted her to keep the ring in case Rafe proposes? Can no one on this show afford rings? If you can't afford a ring you probably shouldn't be proposing or just get one that's in your budget?

Sorry. Didn't mean to spoil. There is a cliffhanger it's just not that exciting.

Lol! I thought it was cute. It looks weird here, but when she put it on in the Pub yesterday I liked it. Also, I know RC didn't know but what a lame way to go on the Olympic break. They couldn't have added something in?

Well, it's the price they had to pay for beauty. Yeah, I don't know. It's really stupid. Pathetic for Craig to spend half his life denying his feelings and lying to Nancy. Him being bi and cheating is enough to ruin the marriage. I am assuming RC thinks this is maximum impact for the reveal, but it's just a joke. Especially if

The only idea I had is Julie somehow gets entangled with Victor via Bo/Hope and maybe move that into possible romance since they did almost test that later on, but the Bo/Hope parental stuff would have dried up a few years later too when they left. It so hard to guess. A good writer could do it but the show was so Marlena/Brady/adventure/youth focus it's hard to imagine for me. I see them mostly used in a capacity as Doug Place's owners where they were there when things happened and just peripherally involved.

Yes. It would make more sense if Stefano did, but I surmise not since the devil threw him off a roof lol. Say what you will about Cin, but that most likely will be a gorgeous baby. I am actually glad they aren't saddling Johnny/Chanel with a kid as well because they give these characters all kids so young.

I thought the exact same thing about Johnny/Chanel having a baby and it being easier, but I am wondering if there is something specific about Ben being the father. MarDevil was very persistent about Ben being a father. Nancy specifically said something about dumping the chowder on Craig's pants while ranting. I think it was intentional.

Oh I am clearly one of those people who are against the story, but I am trying to think of ways that are less offensive to tell if you have to. Nancy's not exactly a shrinking violet and Chloe is acting like she will cease to exist when Craig leaves her lol.

I thought Nancy had Chloe at 16. I can't recall if they were together the entire time (clearly not or she couldn't hide a pregnancy lol), but I thought they were together in college and his excuse was they weren't married yet-not that they weren't together. But it's semantics I guess. PD and KS did a good job, but in no way does this make Craig less of an assh*le and I don't really feel for him at all. Also I could do without Chloe saying Craig was Nancy's whole life. Hasn't the woman been crapped on enough? Now she has no life without her husband. Ugh... I think I would like this better if Nancy and Craig came to town to tell Chloe they were divorcing and explaining it together and dropping the cheating aspect. I know it's not as dramatic, but a different story to tell. Nancy/Craig amicably parting and Nancy reluctantly helping him and supporting him in his journey, but Chloe being the one more upset and judging and Joy being a hellion in boarding school because she's so troubled by the news.

If Days didn't let the Hayes go where would you see them fitting on the show during that period? I honestly have a hard time picturing what they would do besides be involved with Bo/Hope. I am curious to hear peoples ideas.

At least they gave Craig some offscreen context and history with this I guess. At least JoDevil remembered he wanted Ciara/Ben's baby today.

True. But it would fall in line with Alexis's awful choice in love interests. I don't think it needs to be Harmony. They could test the waters with her and Alexis figures a few things out about herself and finds someone else. Idk, it would be more exciting than her lather, rinse, repeat disastrous love life she's had since Ned. I doubt GH would ever go there with her though.

Count me in as someone who wouldn't mind seeing this story for Alexis. I could definitely see it working more organically than it is with Craig on Days. A lot of Alexis's choices in romance and life could be motivated by the fact she never felt like herself. I am not sure how the audience would react, but I wouldn't mind it. It would be a good story for NLG.

Yeah it was weird, but at least Sonny and Ned do actually know one another and have for a long time. They have never been friends but they have been heavily in one another's orbits and I don't mind their scenes. Agree with everyone the Chad Duell stuff sounds weird, but maybe he's thinks he saving face for both of them by saying it wasn't a legal marriage. Things happen, but it is suspect he had two extremely short "marriages" Didn't he annul the other one so I guess Chad has never been married.

Lol! Brady likes signing, musicals, opera and all those things-the person Chloe was married to and talking to. Stupid dialogue and stupid reasoning. Roman had some weird lines today. The EJ ones and the initial Nancy/Craig stuff. He's still mad on Carrie's behalf about something they did 20 years ago? I don't think Carrie even cares anymore and hasn't for about 19 years lol. I don't know what to think about Sarah's behavior. I am slightly interested in this. And Xander proposing to Gwen with Sarah's ring. The show isn't even pretending we should root for Xander/Gwen. Talk about the tackiest, most insensitive thing.

Who knows what goes on in people's personal lives? It's probably best for both that it's not legal, although it's really odd to have an elaborate wedding for it to be for show. You are right. I was generally curious to hear other peoples points of views. I wasn't trying to be disrespectful. I thought the teens were just being dumb and didn't think about the entire view of the situation.

Nothing about Maggie's retconned history makes a lot of sense and didn't add anything to the character. Yeah, I don't get that choice with Sarah. It's not like they couldn't have found a more age appropriate actress. An actress 10 years older than her wouldn't have changed the story that much. PT is in his 40's. Kristen was in her 50's when the whole baby switch happened. But again, I think this a situation where Sarah is supposed to be older than LG. That all sounds really good. To be fair back then of course I don't think writers/producers etc would imagine the show would still be on today and Mike's paternity went on for an insane amount of time for a soap. The direction of Days changed so much in the 80's to be so youth focused that I don't think anyone considered how it would age Julie.

I feel like once she found out they were her kids she bent over backwards to make Austin/Billie happy. She was always weirdly invested in their love lives, gave them jobs, and I felt like Lucas was forgotten for awhile. You can see it from both views because she has done a ton of stuff for Lucas as well, but I personally always felt she wanted Austin to get everything he wanted more than her other kids.

MTW and RC are the same age pretty much and there is about a decade between them and Wesley Eure. He became a Dr in his time away, so I don't think we were supposed to think Mike was any younger. I do think RC looked really young and hung out with people who weren't born yet when he was a grown man and that made him seem younger as well. The only true de-aging I can think of is Sarah because she was born 40 years ago on screen. I know kids SORASing is a joke on Days, but I don't think anyone except Sarah is younger than when they were actually born.

Kate from Days is the first person I thought of. Not so much now, but in the 90's it's clear Austin was her golden child. She didn't even make it a secret. Carly on GH clearly loves Michael the best. I don't even know where her baby is most of the time.

See I think the show did build them up, but I don't know how you can really ever move past that. I will never not think Sonny would have just forgot about her if she didn't get pregnant-but the show told me otherwise so I briefly got on that train. Sonny/Carly were a great idea at the time, but if I had known I'd be watching the Sonny/Carly/Jason show for the next 20 years I probably wouldn't have been as enthusiastic. The moment Sonny shot her in the head is when I was done lol. I think they were still rootable even throughout Brenda's return. I could see why they were popular and they had chemistry. I think the Alcazar and Sam stuff and the way that was played out on top of Carson having some very nutty fans online just turned me off. And I thought Carly/Jax were just so much better together once LW took over. I have never hated Sonny/Carly really but I haven't been a fan since then.

I would say Sonny's reasoning for sleeping with Carly to prove what a slut she is to Jason is problematic to say the least, but early Carson is so good. It's disappointing they've lost those layers they had as a couple. We've had this conversation so I won't go too far in to it, but this scene literally proves why they should not be the shows leading romantic love story.

I think this was more of a problem then David being SORAS'ed. I am not sure if the show intended to do this or not, but Julie was more or less sidelined when Marlena became the big thing. I think Marlena as a character offered more possibilities in exec/writers minds because she was more of a blank slate and Julie was going to end up with Doug because they were a supercouple and married in real life and had gone through a ton of story. I genuinely do think Marlena/Julie started out the same age because they were both Don's love interests. BUT i also think the show made Marlena too old when they introduced her. Obviously, Marlena was a smaller role and meant to be temporary, but she was already an established, respected psychiatrist when she first appeared so then the show had to keep backtracking on her age because she was already presumably 30ish when she was introduced and I don't think even Deidre was 30 when she started. And it was always weird to me when the show pushed Hope/Marlena as Bff in the 2000s when Bo/John were close but Hope was a teenager when Marlena was already twice married and they weren't that close lol.

I think people and especially soap watchers find it odd for a couple to consciously make the choice not to have kids. I have been married for 15 years and still get the why don't you have kids question and it's just our choice, but people never stop asking. I am just not sure it relates to viewers that well if that makes sense. Also justice for Dougie. Why has he never been brought back lol