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They have announced that the seasons selected for streaming are: Season 58 (2022–2023) – Salem is rocked by shocking returns, the aftermath of the Devil storyline, and the move to Peacock that ushered in a darker, more cinematic era of Days of Our Lives, with betrayals, resurrections, and family wars escalating across the DiMera, Brady, and Kiriakis clans. Season 52 (2016–2017) – A season packed with classic soap twists, including long-running rivalries, surprise paternity reveals, and high-stakes crimes that pushed Salem’s families to the breaking point during one of the show’s most traditional, fast-paced story eras. Season 30 (1994–1995) – One of the most legendary years in soap history, featuring the unforgettable Marlena possession storyline, levitation scene, and exorcism that became one of the most iconic moments ever on daytime television. What a bitter disappointment to me. While I recognize that JER had his fans, turning DAYS into a low-brow, campy, ugly slasher fest destroyed forever the integrity and quality of the once-adult, subtle, erudite, quality drama. And...Dena Higley material? Really? I don't recall hordes of viewers being thrilled about enduring the show when the 2016/17 episodes were originally airing. 2022 and 2023 saw typical Carlivati dreck with more lame and unbelievable science fiction. Do viewers really crave rewatching those recent years? We don't get treated to any of the stellar, highly-rated William J. Bell/Pat Falken Smith glory DAYS? I wonder if the organizers of this project purposely chose material to rerun, which wouldn't make viewers of the 2026 episodes judge the current show harshly, seeing how good it used to be... decades ago.
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Since @j swift so kindly gave me some helpful hints on how to fine-tune AI images, I've been having fun tinkering around, trying to get credible likenesses of various favorite stars. Even if you hadn't mentioned them, I'm sure I would have gotten around to working on Jim and Mary Matthews. 😉 Here are the updated creations of Jacquie Courtney and George Reinholt, from the talented j swift.
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God bless @j swift for creating and sharing these images with us.🥰 He was even kind enough to explain to me, a technology-inept fossil, how to do it. The updated rendering of Jacquie Courtney and George Reinholt he shared was great. That Aunt Liz doll could keep me company for the rest of my days.🤣
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The real doll is better than a lot of the manufactured celebrity dolls I've seen, which so often bear no resemblance to their subjects whatsoever. After a personal friend sent me a poor, unrecognizable image of an AI Jacqueline Courtney doll, a generous SON poster went above and beyond to treat me to the much-superior version below. Wow. I can see why and how creating customized images of your favorite subjects could become...addictive!
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Ooh, I had not heard of this. Thanks for the heads up! I've watched Davies' Queer as Folk, Torchwood, Cucumber/Banana, A Very English Scandal, Years and Years and It's a Sin. I had varying degrees of appreciation for those series, with Queer as Folk, Cucumber/Banana and It's a Sin being my favorites. I hope Tip Toe becomes available to watch in Canada. The trailer intrigues me.
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Out of the blue yesterday, a friend sent me an AI image of Jacqueline Courtney from Another World as a celebrity doll (I didn't understand the point, TBH, since the reproduction was awful). Just for fun, I wanted to see if I could coax better images out of AI, with enough experimentation. Et voila! Here are Deidre Hall and Susan Seaforth Hayes. The reproductions may not be extraordinary, but they are soooooo much better than the unrecognizable image of Jacqueline Courtney. I think you can tell whom these dolls are supposed to represent (particularly the Deidre one). An attempted photo of Suzanne Rogers failed completely. AI still has a way to go.
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Which is what we all should do, as easy as it is to go off on tangents at times (as I did, above).🙃 Although I don't use AI and generally dislike it, I was stumped as to why the likenesses of Jacquie Courtney and George Reinholt were so awful, when the images of Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Judy Garland and even the smoking boys were all pretty good. So I took a plunge into the deep end, and tried to coax a commendable image of JC from AI. This was the best result I could get, after multiple tries☹️.... UGH. I think AI just does not have enough available data on "lesser known" celebrities to reproduce them effectively. All the other actors surely have a stronger, more widespread presence on social media, from which AI can cull better image examples for reference.
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I figured someone with a smoking fetish must have created the shot of the actors smoking. It doesn't feature vintage AW performers, however. The men in the picture are Theo James, Henry Cavill, Chris Evans and (I think) Leo Goodall on the right. They are all popular actors today. The thing is, there are real, actual photographs on the internet of all of them smoking cigarettes, so why bother creating a fake? But again, to each his own.
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@slick jones , from the moment she arrived on Somerset, Gretchen Wyler had a natural, gregarious charm about her. She worked quite well with Georgeann Johnson, who played Ellen Grant. Sadly, GW's Doris Hiller was basically a pointless, talk-to character who never served much purpose on the show. She faded into oblivion after a year or so of drinking coffee, and was only mentioned once more after that (IIRC), when Ellen mentioned that she had spoken to Doris. No one said where she was or why she has disappeared. What a waste. Another great actress Somerset hired and then did nothing with was Holland Taylor, who lit up the screen as Sgt. Ruth Winter. She had a spark to her and was fascinating to watch. Alas, the show was such a mess, always changing head writers and overhauling the focus of its stories. Taylor didn't last long either. How tragic about James Handy. May he RIP.
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I know; AI seems to be seeping into every nook and cranny of our lives. I'm not really a fan. Yes; I wish they were real. CAT is one of my all-time favorite films. This AI-generated image of celebrity hunks is floating around, too, but aside from the novelty of having all of them in one shot, enjoying each other's company, I can't really fathom the need to create a shot like this. To each his own, to be sure.🤷♂️
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To be fair, I have seen JC's hair look much like that, but the resemblance just isn't there. I know. Blechh. The Reinholt reproduction is even worse than the one of JC. That being said, my friend did send me some other images which fared significantly better. If they were real celebrity dolls, I'd like to buy them.
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Sooo, my friend Nick found this image on the internet and forwarded it to me, saying he had found a photo of a "Jacqueline Courtney doll" which he thinks is quite realistic. As a JC fan, I'm grateful that he thought of me; seeing the picture is interesting as far as it goes. That being said, this must be AI, and while the image is pretty good, I don't think the "doll" looks much like her. It's just a generic blonde woman from the late 1960s/early 1970s. What do you all think?🤔
