Darn

I will never understand Sarah Buxton's appeal. She always looked like a series of bad plastic surgeries and affected acting to me.

It's funny to think of the soaps that were in some of their more notable eras in their 35th year: GH was in arguably it's golden era with the Labines and Riche at the helm, AMC was coming out of a mini-resurgence in popularity with Bianca's baby switch, ATWT was smackdab in the middle of Marland's heyday and...B&B is running on fumes with Sheila terrorizing this cavalcade of idiots and Brooke and Ridge are reuniting for the umpteenth time this decade.

That talking box of hair has only ever shown interest in Dex and corn.

I don't see her as a doctor either. I don't think it's necessary. It's not even like it's part of her familial legacy and she's never shown an interest in 10 years as an adult. It would feel real hammered in. I also don't like that they have Josslyn wanting to study medicine. She doesn't the intellect if I'm being perfectly honest. Maybe she can be a professional candy striper (do hospitals still do that?).

Who can top this other Stefano DiMera or James Stenbeck? And Victor never "died" for nefarious means, he wasn't trying to deliberately hurt anyone any of those times, was he? No one asked but I personally hate these type of stories. Mostly because they feel lazy and also because the other characters never grieve the way they would if the death was meant to stick or if the character died with the passing of an actor. They'll be sad for a few weeks and then it's back to normal so that the un-dead character can walk in as their spouse is about to marry someone else or something equally stupid.

I was using hyperbole, Emily was over 21, not yet 25. Still a major ick factor considering both Sonny and Emily's past (like @Vee said, and watching Amber's Emily grow up on the show).

I don't think any recasting or writing could have surmounted the fact that Emily was barely out of high school and Sonny was in his 40s. It was icky on a fundamental level. Not to mention Sonny's already gross past with teenage girls.

No one ever really leaves Days of Our Lives. Days of Our Lives isn't a place of employment, it's a state of being. Once you're Days of Our Lives, you're always Days of Our Lives.

Days of Our Lives now films further in advance than it used to, so it may take longer for viewers to notice a change in the quality of writing and dialogue.

Lucky! I saw it long after it aired. I meant to ask, can anyone think of any other examples?

I'm certainly no Michael or Willow fan but it's sweet that her last episode was that of her grandson's wedding. It's funny how that's happened a few times in daytime, where a veteran cast member's final episode feels like kismet. John Ingle's Edward putting Emma before himself and having those wonderful final moments with Tracy (this was planned knowing JI would pass but still felt destined) and Jeanne Cooper's final scene with Jess Walton couldn't be more perfect, a 2 minute scene that encapsulated the complexities of Katherine and Jill's relationship, it was the finest thing Y&R has done in at least 15 years. This doesn't compare to those examples of course (though the moment with the Spencer women welcoming Willow to the family was nice in spirit if not great in execution) but it's nice nonetheless.

How the hell did either of them make it in People? They weren't even popular for daytime.

February was a much better sweeps than May I’ll say that. The denouement of all of the shenanigans on Spoon Island was great, Portia’s (lame) secret finally came out, Sprina’s first kiss…all of it felt better plotted and executed. Everything’s been on the whole mediocre starting with the lameass Nurse’s Ball. Looking like it was set in the break room of a Walgreens…

They’re very aware that any prolonged mention of Dru would create a firestorm online and calls to bring her back and that’s exactly what they don’t want. They don’t care that it makes no sense story wise.

No, not like that. Someone completely foreign to the mob world. Think Skyler stepping up as Walt's right hand when she found out he was Heisenberg (idk if you've watched Breaking Bad). Take Nina for instance, if she wasn't an awful mess of a character, finding out that she enjoys the ins and outs and power that comes with running a crime syndicate.

Why not have one of Sonny’s love interests completely lean into the mob life? Not the weak way Carly did but someone who revels in it and becomes his partner essentially, maybe even more forceful and in love with it than he is. The way the show is handling Curtis and Portia’s separation is so odd. In three months they’ve had maybe 5 scenes together? They are married. And I don’t feel an ounce of the push and pull and anguish and longing that these newlyweds should be displaying. I understand he’s upset and disappointed in her but he was hopelessly in love with her in February. And Portia is doing absolutely nothing to fight for her marriage. She’s just crying and apologizing. Take some initiative! Make Curtis shît or get fûcking divorced!

Beautiful statement and what an amazing collection of pictures. She was so cute!

I have a feeling Frank knew, the cast regularly praises him as a great, involved producer so I wouldn't be surprised if she informed him of her illness.

So so good.

A gut punch. Ugh. Luke and Laura and especially Geary get too much credit for the rise of GH. And I think that's mostly because the press is able to hang their hat on the titillation of "victim marries her rapist" angle. They ignore the fact that the rest of the show had to be good to keep people watching and that that story didn't happen in a vacuum, there was so much more going on before and after the disco. Anyway, back to Jackie. Bobbie and her fiery red hair are (like I told @Vee when he shocked me with this news) are an indelible part of my childhood and part of some of my earliest memories. She really was a throughline across countless regime changes, a constant that helped to shape basically all of the eras post her hiring in 77. This is hearbreaking, she was entirely too young and still so vital.

Literal cartoons are more realistic than Days. Rugrats has a more consistent internal logic than Days of Our Lives.

Ric was amazing as Matt. That's why they brought him back as Ghost Matt for as long as they did, he and Sabryn had incredible chemistry. It's a shame Tricia has never been brought back or even referenced since that storyline ended. But as we all know Victoria has had two very distinct lives.

Yeah it's been real whiplash seeing the entire town turn against Ned. The writing has gotten real heavyhanded so everyone will be "shocked" that it was Nina. "The person who called the SEC on Carly and Drew must be a horrible, evil, terrible person" as if you aren't all terrible people who have done much more horrific things.