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I live in Los Angeles, less than a mile from the event, and I didn't attend because I have no need for a signed postcard, and I knew the teaser trailer would be on YouTube

Here's Mason's final scene with Pamela in 1988, before the dinner party in 1991. Mason has been shot after Ben Clark takes the family hostage (this is the denouement of the writer's strike story where Mason was falsely accused of killing Mark McCormick after his skull was found, but really Pamela had killed Hal Clark, Ben's brother and her former lover, then Mason goes to investigate the nunnery where the bones were buried, and he is presumed dead in a fire, but really has a head injury and turns into Sonny). Watch this and tell me why three years later, Mason would break his Mother out of the mental hospital, dress her up and bring her to dinner at CC's house (with Kelly, whom Pamela tried to throw off of a roof). The strike may have created the opportunity for a silly story, but at least Mason got some insight before his head injury. Also, why do Scott and Heather find the weirdest time to have romantic banter? "Pamela killed my uncle and my dad just held her a gunpoint. By the way, you're awfully sweet, Heather"

Here's my wild guess - she's the daughter of Veronica and Josh Landers

This pic confirms my concerns that it doesn't look well attended, especially for the venue, and given that it was free

In retrospect, why did Mother Blaisdel tape her son's phone conversations? Was she worried he would sell out her molasses cookie recipe?

I just noticed that Stephan Nichols wore the patch to Day of Days Talk about committing to the bit!

Thank goodness Lucas is getting out of jail. And, is that Holly on a ventilator?

Agreed. In retrospect, using Pamela as the linchpin of their comeback with the Dinner Party episodes feels like they're saying to New World and NBC, "see, I told you should've let us cast Marj Dusay as Pamela." 👅 Only, to write her off a week later and damage Kelly, Mason, and Eden in the process.

On a positive note (always an optimist), I like the idea of Paulina getting into a story with Stefan (it feels fresh when they mix up scene partners), the Pawn memories look intriguing (as long it's not another retcon), and I'm happy we got confirmation that Xander is the true heir. An interesting lack of Tate and Holly, given the fanfare of their arrival. Were the actor's present at the event? And it is nice to see Blake Barris not playing his annual role as a ghost.

The Prince Albert story was thankfully very short, and it was no worse than this Jaws rip-off with Joe and Siobhan from 1979

As we've discussed in the prior illustrated print ad and promo threads, NBC daytime was the worst of the three when it came to marketing. From the inconsistent identity for their commercials, to the illustrated print ads that often looks like they were meant for Mad Magazine, it just wasn't good. Which is a shame, because they couldn't benefit from some of the unique stories that they were telling. There were memorable individual ads, but never a great overall campaign. I mean, ABC effectively "stole" the concept of Love in the Afternoon that was created by the NBC ad team, and they ran with it for years. Meanwhile, Linda Dano's dragging around her partner on a dance floor like a dog on a rainy day. https://youtu.be/-kHBu9hLHLo?si=V8El1iijxP4LFWOf

Hopefully, it is hard to get the perspective from this angle, but the crowd looks sparse in most of the social media posts. Certainly, for the size of the venue.

It is hard for me to estimate the degree to which Dobson's return or Gordon Thompson is to blame, but it always felt like the final recast hurt the character. Watching Gordon play Mason, it is difficult for me not to be distracted by the similarities to Adam Carrington, especially because they were both rich men with daddy-issues. But, it feels like there are two things missing. (1) When Mason remarried Julia, there is a lovely scene where Mason and CC come to a peaceful resolution. This feels like a one of the elements that the Dobson's missed by not reviewing what occurred in the years they were away. So, when Mason brings Pamela to the dinner party which signals the beginning of the new Dobson era, it feels unmotivated given recent events (and using Pamela to out Cassandra as Lockridge was totally random). There was still plenty of conflict to mine without regressing the character. Also, Terry's Mason and Carrington's Kelly shared a bond, so it felt cruel to bring the woman who terrorized Kelly back into the house just to make CC angry. (2) Gordon's Mason is remarkably sillier, and certainly less sanctimonious, than Lane's (to be fair, the silliness began earlier with the Sonny story). But, I think that I was reminded of Adam because he only plays Mason's bombast, there's none of the depth that came from Mason's struggle with addiction. Lane gave Mason a vulnerability because I felt his struggle to be better a father to Samantha than CC was to him. Gordon came across as more romantic, but not as conflicted.

Stefan and Gabi need a cause. The whole idea that they want everyone's voting shares would make sense if we knew the issue for which the board is voting. For example, if EJ wanted the board to fund Dr. Rolf's Youth Serum, and Stefan wanted them to back his idea to build Dimera Mobile Mausoleums, then we would know what they're fighting about (of course, Kristin would pitch low cost latex masks or pre-fab underground tunnels). BTW, she quickly dropped her desire for power in the company once Megan died. As it stands, I have no idea who to root for in this argument. Because both parties seem ill-suited to run the company, and there's no logical reason that they couldn't manage it together. We never see them actually go to the office. Unlike, Titan, it is still unclear what their company does (shipping?, drugs?, films?) There's never been a scene where one man was an impediment to the other. And, everyone seems to have forgotten that the mansion only belongs to the CEO, so they'll all still be rich and have a house no matter who wins the vote. Where's the conflict? When is this stupid vote going to happen? And, while Tate's whining about not seeing his Dad in two years, has Gabi even FaceTimed her daughter since she moved to New Zealand?

@Carlos Abad No es necesario disculparse, todas las opiniones son respetadas en esta discusión. Y, tus opiniones impopulares pueden ser más comunes de lo que crees. OK, that's the best that I could do using Google Translate, turns out my parents were correct, I shouldn't have studied Latin in High School. 😉

I appreciate the novelty that it looked like Tate was going to be a bad boy, but really he just pulled a childish prank and Holly is actually the vixen in the relationship.

@soapfan770Although the BTS BS is intriguing, I try to only engage with what is happening on-screen when I watch. To me, the stuff about the producer is like listening to a stranger's office gossip. I'm in it for my own bad predictions about what's going to happen, and reading @AbcNbc247 morning summation.

found it, thanks @Vee Marland may have been inspired by an actual story, given that the news story and plot occurred around the same time. - truth is stranger than fiction (at least Duncan didn't collect Santas). In 1986, during a visit to Scotland, Masahiko Tsugawa.was driving along the A72 near Carluke, Lanarkshire, when he spotted Milton Lockhart House. Mr Tsugawa, a great admirer of Scottish and European medieval culture, decided the building would make the ideal home for his burgeoning collection of Santas in Japan. And so the following year the entire building was shipped, stone by stone, in 30 huge containers to Japan via the Siberian railway. The undertaking required the blessing of then-USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev.

Since you're watching that period, please remind me of the story about Duncan's castle. Did he ship it over from Europe? Or, did they just rebuild a similar one in Oakdale? And afterward was it just abandoned and nobody ever lived there again?

I've always rebelled against group-think when it comes to fandom, as I have no interest in expressing an opinion only for the purpose of consensus. Therefore, I've never cared that "everyone" hated John Conboy or those who say that Paul Rauch's stomping out the cigar was the "most offensive thing ever on TV." Luckily, we each have our own memories, and the distance of time, to come to our own conclusions.

I always wonder who is responsible in these "chicken or the egg" sceneries? Did Darren want to pursue other opportunities like made-for-tv movies, so he was less available to play the character? or Were there fewer featured stories for his character planned, so he sought opportunities elsewhere? I guess we'll never know...

Kudos to the University Hospital Surgical team! Dimitri was shot in the back last week, and today there's not a scratch on him, no tubes attached, and he's ready to be transported to jail. If we've learned one thing this week, it is that short staffing destroys efficiency. Salem PD hires a middle-aged vet straight from the sanitarium, next thing you know they've lost one of their most wanted criminals. University Hospital hires a new doctor who conspired to drug the whole town's biscuit supply, a week later she has a drunken one-night stand and quits. The Brady Pub hires an underage bar back, now the only customers are his grandmother and the owner's wife. I'm surprised that DAYS is not sponsored by Zip Recruiter.

I don't care for the wishy-washy early Kelly. It was difficult to get a take on the character because sometimes she would stick up for herself and be strong, and other times she would be so passive. It didn't help that she was written as completely oblivious to Peter's motives until it was literally thrown in her face. And, her other pairings with Dylan and Nick were uninspired. The less said about Jeffrey the better, as well as Kimberly McArthur (and TJ) On the other hand, I really enjoy the Kelly/Robert/Quinn story. In retrospect, it is so clever to play into the here-to-fore untold sibling rivalry with Eden, as a correlate to Quinn's relationship with Robert. They were both second best, and it helped define Kelly in contrast to her siblings. Prior stories could have been arbitrarily played by either Eden or Kelly, until the Barr twins helps flesh out the character's motives. Then, the Dobsons returns and Kelly reverts back to being just another pretty face. Ultimately, Eileen get saddled with the unpopular pairing with Cruz, and she doesn't really settle in until she hooks up with Connor, but arguably by that point Kelly had turned into Ashley Abbott 2.0 (although thankfully not Kristen Dimera 2.0) So, for me, the actress is only one variable because Kelly was usually a character who only captured my interest when she was paired with specific partners and written by specific teams.

Agreed that I don't enjoy the silliness of Leo. I actually think that there is a story to be mined from a lonely gay man living in a small town, but that's not where his character goes. My practical question is where does he keep the myriad of wigs that he seems to have available at a moment's notice?

@JAS0N47 thanks for the backup It is amazing to me how People Magazine and at least two other sources have aggregated this story from a podcast that can so easily be disproven by a simple Google search. I don't expect the podcaster to correct Kristen's story, but I guess that I have too much trust in traditional media to do the smallest possible bit of fact checking to amend the story. Just goes to show, I did an IMDB search on other famous Toms of a similar age and my theory is that Thomas Haden Church sat next to Frances Reid, and she mistook him for Tom Cruise. I just hope that they were all in first class. 😉