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I still can't get over the "writing stall" while Ron was on strike. It's a complete dismissal of the audience -- intentionally giving us nothing of import for MONTHS. In what world is it OK to treat your audience this way? Talk about taking viewers for granted.

Bored, yes. Heather Tom should also be embarrassed. Pretty much none of this has any impact on Katie, who needs to mind her own business. Katie should be so into her romance with Carter that she doesn't know what day of the week it is, let alone who Bill's latest Baby Mama is.

-- Kelly Monaco's blown-up lips do not look good. -- Spinelli gets to take over at the Metro Court pool after getting a full-on employee's outfit? -- Michael Easton's acting has returned to dreadful.

Great choice. I have always, always loved that song. Power ballad heaven.

So Carter asks Katie how she feels about Bill having a daughter with Poppy. Are you kidding me with this? She's still "processing it"? Carter should be telling her it has nothing to do with her effing life, not indulging her to make sure she's ok. This all happened before Bill and Katie were ever a thing, and regardless, Katie should have stopped caring about Bill LONG ago. Also trash: All those scenes with Finn and Hope. Every one.

-- I thought Michael Easton was good in those scenes on Gregory's last day, but that was hard to watch today. Just didn't work for me at all. That was bad. -- Liz & Jason just work together. Becky Herbst elevates every scene she's in, which means she makes Steve Burton better. I'm not a SB fan, but I'm good with him when he's with her. -- Kirsten Storms continues to look really good, and I think Chad Duell got ahold of her Ozempic doctor. -- The Twitter criticism of Tabyana Ali is RACISM, period. As if an interracial story isn't enough to stir up the racists, Tabyana is dark-skinned -- which incenses these vile bigots even more. Their ignorance and hate are heartbreaking AND disgusting.

I know he's young, but damn, Mazza is adorable. That interviewer from Soap Central? Terrible. Couldn't be worse.

Emmy thoughts: -- The ratings are actually very good, and streaming also did very well. Should mean we get another network broadcast next year. -- The show didn't look expensive, but I wouldn't call it a bad looking production, either, and iT was pretty much glitch-free. -- I didn't like the choice to show a clip of the winner after the winner was announced and before the speech. Just odd, and the momentum was lost. -- Both Lead Actor wins were a major bummer for me. I don't think Michelle Stafford deserved that trophy, and for the life of me, I will NEVER understand Thorsten Kaye's win. Just a joke. -- The segment with Melody Thomas Scott and Edward Scott getting awards was special, and I appreciated that the Emmys didn't shortchange them with two minutes. That was done with the audience in mind. Too many times in the past the show has been helmed by people who don't care about daytime. I loved the shots of Joshua Morrow and Amelia Heinle during that segment. -- Camera shots were great all night. I enjoyed seeing all the soap stars there, dressed up and looking fine. -- As usual, much of the presenter banter was cringe. Some intros (like the cooking segment) were beyond awful. -- I agree with everyone else about Frank Valentini. He's clearly loved by his cast, but on awards shows he comes off as a psych ward patient. -- When Dan O'Connor accepted the writing award for GH, I thought he threw shade when he mentioned the show "drawing 2 million viewers a week." Those of us paying attention know that GH has been UNDER 2 million for a month -- since he was fired. I think his words were deliberate.

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Is that supposed to be some impressive move by Drucker? I'm no Steve Burton fan, but he's hardly a problem on DAYS. That means all she did was cut the budget even more.

Just awful. All DAYS cares about is getting any episode's taping finished. Doesn't seem to matter what it looks like -- whatever is easiest and cheapest works best. And we had to wait for Ron to return for this Konstantin wrap-up? For THIS??? How can it be satisfying when Maggie could have gotten rid of Konstantin months ago? Make it make sense. And Theresa the hoe bag is just going to skate on by and not be mentioned as a partner in crime? Uh...ok. I also find it ludicrous that Alex would be fine with Theresa being his one-and-only just seconds after finding her with Brady bodily fluids all over her.

I complain a lot about GH. I mean, A LOT. But I agree with you about DAYS vs GH. I expect so much more from GH, and I can see that happening. DAYS? It's just embarrassing in so many ways, and If I had to drop either DAYS or GH, I'd drop DAYS in a minute. I had hopes that DAYS would look better and get better after Alarr was fired, but that never happened. Janet Spellman-Drucker has not made even a single mark on the show. Not one.

This show is a bigger joke every week. And Katie being jealous and upset?? I guess Heather Tom has a guarantee to fill. She'll make faces for 3 days and then disappear. So Finn is cheating on Steffy? As I said yesterday, I no longer care. Steffy is a bi_tch, Finn is a cheat, and Hope is a wh_ore.

Brooke returning to power? I'll believe it when I see it.

I'm done with Finn and the stupid Michael Easton smiles, but if they kill him off, it's a mistake. We've just gone through a major death on the show with days of funeral and grieving, and I don't want to see it again. Just send him off to rehab and stop mentioning him. And no, I don't care about Violet's reaction no matter what they do.

I'm still LMAO at yesterday's show. Not only did we get more OCD offscreen -- ALL of it -- but we were treated to Chelsea wheeling her luggage from place to place. First she dragged it into Adam's suite. Then we got to watch her wheel it around Crimson Lights. Hilarious! Maybe if the story wasn't so bad I wouldn't notice this stuff.

-- Giovanni Mazza (Gio) is solid. Good casting, and I hope we get more of the violin. -- Kirsten Storms is looking good. -- That Metro Court pool makes me laugh. They try so hard to pretend it's a real pool with depth when it's obvious it's a wading pool. -- Eva LaRue is spending way too much time in the tanning booth. She's as dark and red as a lobster.

It's crazy. BOLD had solid gold with Finn And Steffy. SINN was electric. So what does Brad Bell do? He doesn't put soap obstacles in their way while keeping that electricity. Instead he proceeds to wreck the characters so much that I don't even care if they stay together.

Half of the show was someone holding a gun on Clyde. Great writing, Ron.

What was up with Katie's look of complete disgust when she learned that Bill is Luna's father? Does Katie not know Bill? And why does she care? I don't care about Bill and Luna, but go to hell, Katie.

Well said.

She's 76 and still doing the flight attendant thing? Jesus. Give it up already.

Agree with all of this. I hate the character and I despise the way ELR talked about the character. "She didn't know" is a lousy excuse and defense for someone in soaps for decades. It's sad that she can't see she's pretty much ignoring what a lot of the audience thinks about Natalia, or is even turning her back on anyone opposed to homophobia. I really want her gone.

So Audra can make a couple phone calls and take over as CEO at a company Tucker owns? WHO WRITES THIS SH%T???

To me, it's bad news when the biggest sign of Ron's return is that Leo is getting more airtime and is as obnoxious as ever. It's horrendous.