DaysFanatic777

I loathe mask storylines with an infinite passion, primarily because of what you just stated. This is Days. They went the JER route decades ago, and needless to say it can be cartoonish. But this is the second time ReRon has put Kristen in a d#mn mask. Seriously. He's ran out of things to copy from shows he once wrote for, so he's resorted to copying his lame a#s material from Days.

Yep. You got it. This one's going to be like watching a trash can catch fire.

So, I get to be the one to reveal Ron's asinine, tired, and repugnant plot to all of y'all. Sigh. Don't shoot the messenger. This is in the latest SOD that's slowly rolling out. In other words; this is accurate. Here goes..read below Yeah, ReRon is lazy, incompetent, and I wish he'd stop writing completely. He could always just relax in The Hamptons.

I've been wanting to post here again for a good while, but per usual I forgot my password. I frustrate myself at times. Obviously I couldn't post here until I suddenly remembered it. It's nice to be back. On to Days, and the continuing saga of how ReRon will self sabotage the show just as it's finally watchable. I'll save that ridiculous, stupid, repulsive and tired plot for the spoilers page. Still, Christ on a cracker that man is the hack of all hacks. I LOVE JACKEE HARRY! She lights up every scene she's in. Boy, did Days get lucky. I'm enjoying the "Who Killed Charlie?" Storyline, solely because of the dysfunctional family interactions. Sami brings much needed tension and conflict to the canvas, especially with her onscreen family. I wish Rafe would die. Xander has no balls. This Kristen/Susan story is going places. Places nobody asked for and not a soul wanted. I'm halfway enjoying the show again after loathing it for months. Knowing what I know, in about 3 weeks it's likely going to be painful to to even read recaps. Well, Ron will do Ron.

EVERYTHING you just said. I mean all of it. It seems like a lot of the greats had a hard time taking someone under their wings, and that left us with the mess we have been viewing for about three decades now. Sheri Anderson was schooled the right way, but I start drawing blanks after that.

Suddenly, it all makes perfect sense. The way Packer and Backus wrote Lester out was abrupt and ridiculous. However, as usual Lester's performance saved the day. Once he was done, they were done....to be honest.

+ 1,000,000 ALL OF THIS!! The wheels came off this INCREDIBLE drama when Marland died, and they never were placed back on. I know many didn't like the Royce Keller story, but I loved it. That was the last story I enjoyed on this show. Yes, it is post Marland, but it still felt like an ATWT story. Past that the show lost it's character chasing stunts. It was a sad sight to behold, because this was a jewel of a show. I loved Days, and accepted the camp because it was a standard feature of that show by this time. ATWT had maintained it's integrity (Well, besides the head shrinking) and had remained a show devoted to character dissection. I loved it for that reason. Watching it wander so far from that path was an excruciating experience.

I am happier today, and sober (gasp). Dude, there are good people everywhere....and bad people everywhere.... You just have to search for decent people, and any place can become livable. I lived In Lakeland, FL for 2 years. It was a fun place to live....right between Pleasure Island and Ybor City. I was 20.....,.You get the picture.

Bro, I am already wasted! Comon' if you are close enough! I live in the Rocket City (Huntsville, Alabama)....A bastion of reason in the cotton states. I'll admit it, this is a great place to live!!! I have resided in 14 states, from California to Virginia. Huntsville is an incredible place to live, shockingly. I thought I would hate it here. No one that actually lives here is from this area, Praise the name of Jesus! Man, it doesn't matter. You do what you do, and let the haters hate. It's sad that we have to recognize the fact that people want to enforce their views into a private bedroom in 2019. They need therapy, and some effective shock treatment. Why should anyone care about something so private? I Know Why!!! I grew up in it!!! Fanatical religion is a way to control things they do not understand, and they are afraid. That's their problem, I'll f#ck who I want to f#ck.

Dude, it made me stronger. I'm fine now. The funny thing is, when I told my parents I was bisexual, they blamed it on that. That had NOTHING to do with it. My great-grandfather left his wife for a man. It's genetic. When it comes to my "loving" parents, they spent most of their careers ignoring my pain to get ahead. Religion isn't the killer, man. It's greed. Now I am married to a woman and in an open relationship....she is a lot like me. It's not conventional, but I give no f#cks about what anyone may think.

You are the best!! I'm going tell my truth, because I have worked past the shame.... My father was an evangelical minister, and his best friend and associate pastor molested and raped me for two years (from the time I was 8, till around the time I turned 11). Even when I came clean when I was 15, my family only cared about keeping the money flowing, so my parents never sought retribution. They had a "Suck it up" attitude, and that really hurt. I have had to live with it. So, I agree with you. These stories resonate with me, so I don't want a piss poor rendition of a real personal tragedy thrown in my face. I'm alright now. It caused me to reject religion and move in a better direction, so it may have saved me from a different sort of pain. However, I don't want a soap to water down a very real experience and tell me they are doing a service. It's insulting.

Kman, I want to invite you over to my place for a beer, dude. We'd have a blast. Amy, I have admired your posts for a decade, so that compliment is truly an honor.

I think my issues with him stem from my dedication to Days and my love for what the show represented before he arrived. He was entertaining, and I felt his first couple of years are an example in rich and decadent soap opera. I loved the Procter and Gamble soaps. I was glued to ATWT and GL growing up. Of course, I had periods of time I'd get into GH, OLTL, and Loving. I don't know why, but AMC never caught my eye. That said, Days was always my main squeeze. Would I do the possession again now.....I actually think the show needs to go there before it's cancelled. Don't get me wrong, i blame that story for more than I can or will elaborate. The show could have easily been the heartfelt drama it once was, but the second Marlena morphed into a panther there was no going back. The show i knew and loved died in that moment, and it became something very different. That said, bringing back the devil at this point could only help this show. I am certain Ron has thought about it, and it's entirely possible he may do it if he has time. I cannot imagine how terrible it's going to look on this budget, but this show could use the buzz it would generate. Like it or not, it's kind of what Days is known for.

I can find good things to say about any writer. I stand by how I feel about him, but I agree with you completely. He also had a knack for developing new characters, weaving various characters in different orbits into various stories, and the man understood there had to be an A, B, C, and D story on the canvas at all times. When the payoff arrived, and the A story ended, he always had the B story ramping up. O yeah, and his payoffs were magnificent. Sure, it take 3-5 years to get a payoff, but somehow he always made even more fun than we imagined. At the same time, his dialogue was like something a crackhead would write on a used paper bag. His stunts always delivered ratings, so rival soaps started copying him and it brought the whole genre down to his level. He made the leading male heroes on his shows so f#cking stupid you'd swear they must have suffered some sort of head trauma, we just didn't see it. I remember during the big payoff with the secret room debacle, they had Stefano wondering around the mansion in plain sight wearing a mustache, and no one recognized him. I mean, he literally only had on a mustache and a butler's outfit, but none of those fools was the wiser. Idiotic things like that soon started spilling into other soaps all over daytime, and now here we are. Soaps were never respected, but by the time he finished working his magic non watchers were rolling their eyes and making fun of us. Yes, he had good qualities. I thought Days was absolutely brilliant in 1994. He made that year one of my favorites in the show's very long history. It's always complicated when you start dissecting various head writers, cause like Vee said earlier, you are going to find good and bad. However, out of all the hacks the genre has been cursed with since "Guiding Light" was sent over radio waves in 1937, I stand by my belief that he's is the Ultimate king over all the hacks.

If I were to make a list entitled "Soaps The Abused Rape And Treated Like A Trope", Days would be second from the top. I thought the show probably crafted the best fallout when Jennifer was raped by Lawrence Alamain. They were able to tie in Jack's past assault on Kayla, and deal with some unresolved issues. That didn't make it any less of a plot device. The show needed another year of the buzz Jack and Jennifer were delivering, so marrying them and sending to the back burner wasn't going to happen at that point. So, they once again returned a an all too familiar subject and used the rape card. I am shaking my head as a type this. It's all too much. So what would be number one? Passions of course! IF you can call that bullshit a soap opera. James E Reilly really lost his damn mind when he was "writing" for that show. When I think about the amount of sexual victimization he penned, it sends waves of nausea pulsating through my body. I'll tell you plainly, I despise what that man did to daytime, god rest his soul. He didn't just put the final nail in the coffin for soaps.... No, Reilly built the damn coffin, threw the genre inside, nailed the f#cking thing shut, and shoveled dirt on it was it sunk into the ground. He is the worst thing to ever happen to daytime television. Sorry Toups.

Can there be just one day when we don't find out something disgusting or appalling occurred thanks to the hysterics of that fool in the White House? It's head spinning when you look at the rate that frightening bombshells drop when it comes to this administration. I am the father three little girls, and my entire world revolves around them. When I think about the repugnant mess we are in politically in this nation, and think about the future I want for them, my heart literally starts to race. The horrific damage this malignant a##hole and his deranged followers have inflicted will not be neatly fixed when we get a real President in office. It is going to take decades to repair the mess, and my children will be dealing with the fallout when they reach adulthood, I'm afraid. It's not fair to them, but it seems unavoidable.

You've got to give the devil his due. Ron did in fact save GH, and he has found a way to give Days four extra years (I'm telling you, it will be gone more than likely after this next chance for renewal). That means two daytime dramas are still airing because Ron Carlivati found a way to reinvigorate the shows. That's no small feat in 2019. Save the rapemance, I thought his first year to year and a half at Days was enjoyable. Has it been plagues by tropes, ridiculous camp, enormous plot holes, and poorly developed characters? Of course, but it is "Days of Our Lives" and no one expects this show to be an in depth character study. There was a time when it was a sophisticated drama that was driven by interwoven relationships and social issues. Sadly that show died with disco, and this is what we are left with. I think Ron is a decent choice for the show at this point. I'm just seriously dreading where we are headed from here. Once he reaches this point in his tenure on any given show, things really go to hell in a hand basket. Since the new year arrived, this show has fallen apart faster than a gazelle popping Adderall, and it's going to continue to spiral. I had always hoped Sheri Anderson would be brought back to see this show off the air, but now that's highly unlikely. Ron will be there when this show makes it's final bow, and I'd bet my entire savings account that it will be a f#cking dumpster fire of enormous proportions when the sand finally runs out of the hourglass.

You know, I personally idolize Douglas Marland and William Bell. Harding Lemay is why up there on my list as well, as is Agnes Nixon. Then you have the incredible Pat Falken-Smith, the one writer I felt could and would do a outstanding job on any soap opera. She could work the canvas like an artist whether she was making Port Charles sizzle, or turning up the drama in Salem. That's a rarity. However, every single one of those greats also gave us some WTF moments. No one can be perfect turning out scripts for 260 episodes of television per year. That is an unbelievable challenge. I think Daytime Dramas have died a slow death because the writers we have had available this millennium didn't grasp what the greats had in common; they adapted flawlessly to the changing times. They weren't afraid to transform a drama as cultural norms and trends shifted. The stories currently being told on the remaining four could easily be told in 1992, and that is a massive issue that sadly is past the point of addressing.

+1. This should be framed. I remember when he took over at OLTL, and the fact is he did turn that show around. For a while, it was the most entertaining drama in daytime, and I remember praising him to the high heavens. In fact, a lot of posters on here did that as well. I did lurk a lot here back in the day. He has bad habits and he's unoriginal. When he first takes the helm at a show, he does pull from history and starts strong right out of gate. Then he loses his edge, and the show will become a boring mess until her thinks of some over the top stunt to pull it back out again. That cycle seems to continue until he is fired. I wouldn't want to be a soap writer because fans are so passionate and insane. You couple that with the work load and network higher ups, and you have the worst writing gig in the entertainment industry. I try to keep that in mind before I criticize a head writer too much, but lately Days has become so incredibly terrible that it's impossible to stop myself.

I thought ATWT did a fantastic job with Margo's rape back in the day, and Santa Barbara did a wonderful job with Eden's attack. Past that I have no other examples in mind to pull from. I have never liked how Days would use rape to create angst for their super couples. They turned a horrific crime committed against a human being into a plot device. It wasn't riveting...it was sadistic.

Drink a cup for me. Coffee is one of may favorite beverages (I think it's quite obvious what my number one choice would be ) Thank you so much for saying that, and you know great minds think alike. I have my own survivor's story, so when I see sexual assault being constantly presented as some cute and kinky plot device, it makes me both sick and furious. He's done it with every single show he's written, which actually makes me question his mental state. I don't think it gets more offensive than that shitty and repulsive story he did on OLTL.

I think Kristian actually enjoyed Cosgrove the most out of all her onscreen partners. I've heard that through a fairly reliable source. I think Haiden could have worked, but once they slept together they lost steam. Yeah, I do see some redeemable qualities in Ron. I like how he rotates the cast and brings back fan favorites. I enjoy his obsession with history when he channels it the right way. At Days, his brand of camp has moments when it resonates with the show. So before I go any further, I want to simply state that I don't see him as a total failure. But the man is destructive and he gets extremely lazy with a quickness. One example to me is how he wrote Leo. He relied on every horrible stereotype imaginable and it was past the point of simply being offensive. I can't believe he had him stripping down in front of men, while proceeding to sexually assault half the male cast. It was an embarrassment to even sit through an episode. The man also seems to love plot driven stories seemingly tailored to decimate vital characters, rendering them unlikable. The way he trolls people on Twitter is appalling, and once he stops giving a damn he targets fan bases with his writing. It's a shitshow. You can always tell when the man runs out of steam and checks out. The second he brought back Diana Collville (One of my fave heroines back in the day) and turned her into Cruella DeVille, I knew the man was asleep at the wheel. He needs to turn off his "Knots Landing" reruns, and start attempting to put some sort of coherent thoughts into his stories before this dumpster fire gets out of control. Where we are headed if this continues may make Dena Higley look like Jane Austen. I kid you not. I am afraid of how low it sinks from here.

Remember with the next one, I am from the south. In addition, it's Bradley Cooper for Christ's sake. And finally....My father was a full time minister. This really is my theme song....

Gawd I loved the Prisms. I'll gladly admit it. I have no shame. I'm not trying to say Days was bad in the 80's. It wasn't. It had some moments when it was flat insulting to one's intelligence, but it was still a compelling and multifaceted drama. Yes you had the action and adventure stuff, but they also still managed to tell stories revolving around contemporary social issues in a thought provoking yet respectful way. Everything that came after this era truly was a joke. It wan't a few moments of ridiculous plot points; it was just an endless stream of idiocy. ;

Daytime Soaps refused to evolve. It's that simple, really. After Reilly pulled his supernatural BS in the 90's, soaps just went back to trope after trope. Ron is so weird. He loves history, so he'll do fitting tributes like the one for Susan Hayes back in December. I can really get behind that. He has certain characters he just "gets" (Sami, Marlena, John, etc..). However, when he misses the mark, it's nothing short of atrocious. Just take a quick look at Hope Williams Welch Brady Jennings Hernandez. Like I've said, he didn't start said character's demise, but he gave her a massive push over the cliff. I can't think of a way to repair her at this point. Even Bo riding in on his motorcycle couldn't make her tolerable. Watching her is like getting a colonoscopy with no anesthesia.