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I’ve been enjoying having characters pop up in the middle of the episode too. It adds an element of surprise when you didn’t really expect them to be on that day. Also, we are finally getting a good variety of sets again.. I will give credit where credit is due. The storylines itself are still absolute garbage but I will acknowledge minor improvements when I see them

Joshua and Sharon already confirmed in their interview this past month that the show is going in the direction of Shick once again but it’s a slow build. I doubt anything will come of this Burrows and Sharon interaction other than friendship. I have not always been a big MO fan, like at all.. but she is kind of impressing me with this storyline and it’s just been a nice welcome change to have Devon and Abby back and getting to see the Chancellor mansion again. The same characters and sets all the time get super boring. Also can we do something about Billy and Sally? I don’t like these two together at alllllll.

I love Stacy Haiduk and I loved her as Patty and even Emily Peterson (I wish they could have kept that character around for a real romance with Jack). However I’m torn about this news because there have been way too many villains on this show lately.. it’s super unrealistic even for a soap to have a new psycho villain pop up every few months and not even get proper resolution for any of them. It’s dumb.

Abby is a Newman but you’d hardly know it based on Nick and Victors non reaction to Dominic being kidnapped. I liked the scenes of Nick comforting Sharon over the news about Mariah kidnapping the child but why didn’t his mind immediately go to Abby and her well being? And where is Victor in all of this?

Electric as mother and son on Days? Cause I know we can’t be talking about right now.. There is no sexual chemistry between them. It’s so awkward. Sharon making them sandwiches and the family acting like this is Noah’s little girl friend from school coming over to have dinner with the family is SO CRINGE. This woman is in her 50s what on earth is she doing with this little pampered boy?

I must be in the minority here because as someone who historically has hated Phyllis since she was a shameless home-wrecker in 2006, I am actually rooting for her in this situation because to me, the Newman clan is even more dreadful when they’re all ganging up on someone and it’s always nice to see them get knocked down a few pegs. I still think these storylines make no f*cking sense, but I’ll root for Phyllis in this instance if it means the Newmans lose for awhile. I loved the storyline that MTS suggested in one of her interviews about all the Newmans losing everything for awhile and having to be homeless or live in a dingy motel, like that show Schitts Creek (which is what she compared it to). That would be great to watch, and the humour that could come out of it? It would be something different and fun.

Oh wouldn’t that be just what we need right now. Sharon getting kidnapped again on top of all the other kidnappings happening this year 😂 honestly wouldn’t shock me at this point.

Sharon looked really pretty yesterday with that sparkly jacket thing she had on. I’ve always liked her fashion until this new wardrobe lady took over. She does such a great job with everyone else’s looks except Sharon’s. They dress her so matronly lately. It’s definitely a hit or miss

The Chancellor mansion today compared to that September 1998 episode they aired during the Holidays. Ouffff what a downgrade! No doubt about that. Do those sets even still exist today I wonder? What even happens to them? The large dining/party room Kay had along with that large outdoor area with a pool. I’m going to assume that stuff is all long gone. I just wonder what happens with it.

It does seem like we are getting more sets, so that’s one good thing I guess. We are actually seeing the characters in their homes again instead of just sitting and chatting at Crimson Lights or the GCAC. Hopefully it keeps up..

Wow. We actually get to see NE on Monday. Actually kind of surprised.

And why? Why are we jumping to this when we haven’t even addressed the whole “Mariah killed a man” which happened months ago and was supposed to be the legs this storyline is standing on, but we’re just gonna drop that like a hot potato and start a completely new storyline? Super glad to have more Mariah back on screen more but let’s make sure we’re incorporating all aspects of this storyline and tying it together before we just jump to some kidnapping BS. I’ll wait to see if it all ties together somehow but I’m not gonna hold my breath.

Next week Jill spoiler Sally spoke to Snapper & discovers Jill has “taken a turn for the worst”

Chelsea is just coming across as a huge a** kisser to the Newmans. It’s giving desperate. Even Sharon wasn’t this desperate to “fit in” with the Newmans back in the day even though she yearned for Nikki’s approval, atleast she had her own personality. Chelsea trying to stick it to Phyllis at the coffee house was embarrassing. Acting like she has some kind of moral high ground to stand on because she’s married to Adam who is a baby stealing psychopath (let’s not forget that)..

That’s because Sharon is looking at the pile of sh*t of a script in front of her and struggling to keep a serious face throughout it all. Can’t say I blame her!

I mean I watched Michael Fairmans interview with Sharon Case and Joshua Morrow from a few days ago and he does kind of make it seem like the show isn’t going in that direction of Nick being an addict but we’ll see I guess. It does seem like it would be an unnecessary layer to add on top of this already messy storyline. Can we atleast address how Matt Clark is still alive after all this time first?

Is Sally’s only purpose in the show to nag at her boyfriends? It’s not often I take the straight man’s side in (any) type of relationship conflict but Sally is so friggin insufferable that she has me taking Billy’s side and I don’t even like him

Why does Chelsea need to “prove” anything to Nikki?

I was gonna add that about he and Gina Tognoni. It was probably the only time he was tolerable and that was mainly to her credit..

I stopped caring about Billy once Billy Miller left the role. I FF him and Sally any chance I get.

I was literally going to post about this very same topic on here the other day by presenting the exact same question.. what would everyone think of AI soaps? On one hand, it would resolve the lack of sets and large casts, which soaps had in the glory days with a larger budget. It would be so fun to see a vibrant rich fictional world with different families and classes exist in an AI universe where the writer or “creator” of this can be in the drivers seat showing us their vision for this kind of soap opera. It would be such a fun creative outlet for someone like me, who as @dc11786 mentioned, were one of those people creating fan fiction and actually wrote different storylines and posted episodes daily. I could control who comes and goes, what actors I wanted playing these roles in my make believe world. It would be really cool to see how this would work in 2026 with AI. On the other hand, one of the main things I love about soaps is also the real humans who play these roles. Each actor has a unique approach to acting and when we watch these shows the reason we feel so connected to it is because we see ourselves in these, very much real HUMANS. If we took that away what would it look like.. would it just be soulless and empty? It’s definitely fun to think about though. When I imagine what it would look like/mean to have an AI soap I can’t help but picture the Sims 😂 except obviously more advanced than that.

Why is this show always shooting itself in the foot 😂

I don’t even watch DAYS anymore and even I’m shocked that they would make the same mistake they did years ago getting rid of their younger and (popular couples) Shawn, Belle, Mimi, Philip etc all in one swoop. That really hurt the show back then and I suspect this will too

This Cane and Phyllis alliance to take Victor down is reminding me of when Sharon and Tucker briefly tried to take him down but failed miserably years ago. I somehow doubt this is going to work out for either of them since we know Victor always wins anyways. Holden and Audra have chemistry and I enjoyed their scenes together at the coffee house. If they’re leaning towards a Claire/Holden/Audra triangle though, where does that leave Kyle? I wish they would just pick a storyline and go all the way with it instead of switching things up every few months.

The soap is so bad right now I can’t even blame the actors for phoning it in anymore. I’d just be going to keep a paycheque at this point. They give these actors nothing of substance to dig their teeth into. I’d be burned the f*ck out as an actor at Y&R