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As I said in the other thread:

A bad recast of a character that never had much there period, despite Vinessa Antoine's heroic efforts.

This happens every time a Dem wins by a considerable margin - Obama both times, Biden (in the final analysis) last year. The media always says a Republican has a mandate when they win, but when Dems do it it's 'can they heal the country? this isn't a mandate!' And they're proven wrong each time.

Nicki has had dumb opinions and behaved like an idiot for years, frankly.

Love it or hate it, the Possession story is now an indelible part of the DAYS legend and identity. Camp and fantasy/sci-fi are intrinsic to its brand, same as the families and yesteryear supercouples/triangles, and you can weave the two cornerstone eras of DAYS together carefully and successfully - it just so rarely does. They're wise to revisit it in theory, but in practice I don't think they have the budget or skill to execute properly. It can't be a one-off, and it shouldn't be another round of ol' Dee being possessed again. Marlena should be the heroine here, the wannabe exorcist. I first came up with the idea of it being Will early in the 2010s when Chandler first started getting a fleshed-out role and Will was acting out, but it could be any number of characters - or multiple characters. And there's all sorts of ways you could play up the horror in a genuinely creepy way. Some of it requires money, other parts just require taste and restraint, which Ron rarely has. Look at films like Hereditary and you have a roadmap for a lot of what you can do scares-wise. But Hereditary has a story/themes not that dissimilar from the issues that beset Marlena during the original story - a woman/mother/wife fraught by trauma and heartache who gives way to dark forces. I don't have any faith in them to do this well, but it was inevitable it was going to be done someday. It just should be done right. Hell, you could even use this story to finally exonerate ol' Ben (either say the Devil made him do it or preferably that he was framed), but Ron will never do that because he has never accepted that any of the rapists or serial killers he writes as 'edgy' heroes need that - he considered it a personal insult to his ego to be pressed to try.

Who exactly is "Me Too" in this equation and why is Rose McGowan Democrats' problem? Next. Meanwhile: As always, use archive.is for paywalls.

Can't believe I am the first to get to this. I have never seen Nicki admit to taking an L in several years of embarrassing clownery and I don't expect her to walk anything back now. What an idiot.

No one needed Rose McGowan to take those guys on.

I said they should've done this revisit years ago, with Will instead of Marlena. You could've taken a somewhat more subtle approach. It's an obvious go-to but I worry they don't have the money to do it justice. You also can't do it as a one-off (something both JER and I believe Ron have teased before in fantasy sequences) - if you go back there you have to go all the way.

Viki and Dorian also got locked in coffins in an abandoned church on OLTL '03, IIRC. Featuring a cameo appearance by The City serial killer Melissa Dye.

That Hadley Prescott deal (where she, like, got DID?) was some weird [!@#$%^&*]. I watched some of Malone's AW on YT and it bears a striking resemblance to his 2003-2004 OLTL - embarrassingly campy, fantastical, and all over the map tonally with poor writing to back up the broad flights of fancy. It did seem like they were testing Jake and that doomed Amanda at the time.

Remember to use archive.is for paywalled articles like the above (and always remove the dangling twitter linkage from the end of the main URL when copying and pasting it in).

I remember seeing some very early scenes with the young Christie and Drake in those days. They had a real connection.

We'll see.

Posted it above.

This has been an interesting day so far. Manchin went out on the Sunday shows to do his typical pageantry, and instead got pressed by more than one major anchor about specifics he didn't have re: the bill. Manchin doesn't usually get that pushback treatment in the gaggles on the Hill when the Capitol correspondents fawn over him like Prom King. I think the wind is not at his back atm, given some of the behavior of late from the WH (and Pelosi). I think he's going to have a tougher time doing his dance this month.

I don't agree because I don't think that's how he generally operates, unlike a lot of other folks. He's been pretty supportive of Biden from the jump. I do think he recircles the same topic and notes often, at times without offering a viable solution. Sometimes he's right but sometimes he's just retreading old ground.

I think any pairing with her and Nick was always a placeholder for both parties. I don't think most regimes are invested in it or were, but I do think Griffith and several others are loath to relinquish the ABC stars and the dream of the mediocre clone of ABCD which they want the show to be dating back almost a decade now.

Chelsea has never had much of a character and should've stayed gone years ago.

What happened to Chelsea? Is she gone again, finally?