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I understand the budget reasons behind the hotel room, but it drives me nuts. Can't they at least change the decor up. It's especially glaring when they show multiple characters in the same room in the one episode. How much time would it take to switch out a plant or...anything...so it looks like a different room.

That's true! Didn't Bill throw his own niece over a balcony? We REALLY need some new characters on this show to freshen it up. Poor RJ needs someone his own age!

Another episode of people having the SAME conversations over and over. I usually watch on fast-forward if I watch at all. How could Hope have ever been interested in Thomas after all the horrible things he's done to her and her family? It's Los Angeles! There's no one else for her to date. You would think these people live in some podunk town where your only option for someone to date is your crazy step-brother or one of your current in-laws.

I thought that, too! Is there no one else that works at this hospital...other doctors, nurses, clerical staff??? Nope.

I liked him, too. I thought he fit in the role very easily. She just wasn't the friendliest compared to the others. Who knows though? Maybe she was just having a bad day.

I had the chance to meet her once at a convention that some of the cast just happened to be at promoting a DAYS anniversary book. It was around the time that Maggie first started getting huge stories again...2010/2011-ish. She was so super sweet, insisted we take a picture, and excited that she was being used as a front burner character again. Judi Evans and Renee Jones were also there, and both were quite charming as well! Louise Sorel...well...not quite as charming.

I know, right? I was impressed, too! I really do like the chemistry between him and ED.

I can only imagine how much the two of them together are costing the show. I would much rather have some Hortons, who have all but been eliminated, back on the show.

Seriously, do we really need Ava back? The show already has enough "super villains" as it is.

I would be okay with Billy and Chelsea leaving the canvas at this point. Billy has felt aimless for a couple of years now. It'd be better to rest the character and bring him back later down the road. I have similar feelings about Adam.

Overall, I thought Friday was the best episode I have seen on DAYS in a very long time. No sci-fi nonsense, silly Leo storyline, over the top Dimera antics but just simple character exploration. I've loved the characters expressing the fact that Victor had a very dark side, too. All the different reactions to his death have been very well-written.

The RJ obsession with saving Hope and Liam's marriage might could have worked if the writing has been more nuanced such as RJ coming from the point of view on how Ridge and Brooke's many marriages and divorces impacted him as a child. But, instead he's preoccupation with fixing everyone's marriage just feels odd.

The sets are so tiny, too. It takes an actors about seven or eight steps...if that...to cross a room. Some of the sets on DAYS are especially tiny.

So at the beginning of the show, I was like....maybe we're finally getting a Liam-free episode for once. But, NOPE, there he is! Smirking and being tiresome. Poor RJ. He's got a rocking bod. Should be having a fun youth focused story, but all he gets to do is play marriage counselor. Did Zende fall off the face of the earth?

Having a teen version of one of Victoria's kids, maybe Katie, on the show at this point would really help flesh the character out. Katie could disapprove of the relationship with Nate throwing another obstacle along Nate's path.

You're right. Noah should be the one dating Sally....not his dad. Between Nick and Adam getting to date all the much younger women, poor Noah doesn't stand a chance of a story. None of the Newman grandchildren have worked because their parents are still being played as 30-somethings. When was there last a mention of Reed? Victoria has three kids, but you get no sense of her as a mother. Faith went nowhere, too.

The show just can't seem to figure out a way to write Noah that works. He's been recast so many times at this point. I was disappointed that they attached Allie to him so quickly and then dumped that character as well.

Like some others, I started tuning in again after a very long time just to watch the fallout from Victor's death. Those scenes were great! I hope they really give SR a chance to shine with this story. Although, people come back from the dead so often, I don't see how anyone in Salem could take death seriously. The Leo/Gwen stuff was so out of left field. There's literally no one to root for in this story, and I'm so over all things Dimera.

I love all the talk about the extra security around Eric's house, yet people just walk right into the house over and over with the front door obviously unlocked. Liam is coming off soooooo creepy in this storyline. His marriage to Hope ended what...three weeks ago...and he's pledging everlasting love to Steffy now. I'm so over both Liam AND Ridge ping-ponging between the same two women. It all comes off very misogynistic.

I really enojyed Mia, too. I thought she had the potential to be the next Jill. But, then the whole family got shipped off except Rey. I've wondered if Audra created a persona, too. The actress could easily play Latina. There's sooo much potential with this character. I just hope they don't squander it. I love that scene! I wish we had a rough around the edges character on the show like that right now.

Monday's episode was yet another one where the same six characters repeat the same exact lines from the week before. I checked out before the opening. Speaking of the opening, if you were a casual viewer of the last month or so, it'd be perfectly understandable if you thought the show only had seven to eight characters.

I think the show really has something with ZS. Even when the writing is super thin, she manages to elevate it and give it more life. I, too, would love to learn her backstory. The character has so much potential, and there's so many interesting directions they could take her.

I really loved Hollyoaks until about the last six months. The show feels like a bit of a chore to get through. Either the stories are very dark and depressing or total fluff. I'm really over the Reign character, too.

For some reason, RC has always struggled writing something for Shawn and Belle when there's so much potential there.

Right?! I'm surprised the judge didn't just meet everyone at Crimson Lights or that same hotel room have the characters live in! And speaking of that same hotel room everyone lives in... I get it. It's budget reasons, but the least they could do is sort of change up the set decorating a bit. When it's the SAME room set up in the SAME way, it just makes things look even cheaper.