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1 minute ago, DRW50 said:

Unfortunately, fans embracing the awful Kristen/Susan recast gave the show the ammunition to recast big roles like Jennifer and to a lesser extent Gabi.

Susan Flannery and Denise Alexander would like a word with you.

4 minutes ago, Lye-C said:

Her contract ended in January 2024.

Good, she'll be on screen even longer. After which, I imagine we'll see Tamara Braun as new Nicole.

7 minutes ago, j swift said:

Story-wise, I also have tons of questions.  Was last month's exit to Europe the last we'll see of Nicole?

She says her contract (and employment) ended in October so I imagine she'll be back onscreen for a few months. 

Ariane Zucker is suing Days for sexual harassment.

There's a thread dedicated to it.

1 hour ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Some posters on UglyX are being like vultures, or the Grief Police, in their insistence that all the actors post tributes to Bill Hayes. I hate that we have that in existence in fandom.

There are a lot of vile things about social media, but this is one that particularly rankles me. "How dare you not engage in a performative act of public grief for my entertainment!"

Fox News: His fiancée, Paige Press, says Musser was suffering from "a severe case of Covid," and believes he died from the illness. He was both vaccinated and boosted. She says he died at their home in Del Mar, California.

3 hours ago, Khan said:

DAYS' longtime EP/director Al Rabin once said that the essential ingredient for every couple on his show was the belief that one loves the other more than they love themselves.  Never was that more true than it was for Doug and Julie (and for Bill and Susan).  All Susan had to do was to look up at Bill with those gorgeous, closeup-ready eyes of hers, and all Bill had to do was to return her look with one of his own - with eyes that remained impish and charming to the very end - and you just knew.  Julie never would ache for anyone as deeply as she ached for Doug, and Doug never would recognize the best parts of himself the way he recognized them in Julie.

This is a wonderful tribute to their enduring appeal. Thank you.

He really seemed to enjoy life and he was obviously deeply in love with Susan and his family. My heart breaks for them. Thanks, Bill, for all the years of enjoyment. You will be missed.

25 minutes ago, Khan said:

I know NLG can be exasperating sometimes, too, but she's another actor who never bores me.  IMO, she was BORN to play Julia.

Agreed. That was just a perfect melding of character and actress. And Julia-Lane Davies Mason remains one of my favorite soap pairings.

I think the Dobsons' Santa Barbara had (many) moments of sheer brilliance sandwiched in between a fair amount of substandard material, and the inconsistency was its downfall.

18 hours ago, j swift said:

It's the regular excuse, Justin said she was off to visit Mimi.

Thanks!

I have to say, I'm liking some of the more character-oriented stuff happening under the scab writers. Melinda and Wendy, Tate and Holly, even Rafe and Jada had some good moments today. 

Did I miss a line explaining why Bonnie wasn't at the Kiriakis celebration?

Man, we lost a lot of great people this year.

6 hours ago, j swift said:

I guess none of the Horton actresses on DAYS are particularly vain about their age, like Eileen Fulton? 

I don't know if that was true. Susan Hayes:

“I was surprised when Julie’s son [David] went away to summer camp and was played by a 10-year-old and came home a 6-foot-4 blond and an unhappy adolescent with a sex life and pimples. That seemed very jarring. I’m used to it now, but I was hurt. The head writer explained to me that I was just being … that I didn’t want to be in an older category, but had to get used to it."

https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/icymi-susan-seaforth-hayes-interview/

13 hours ago, j swift said:

They don't build villains like that anymore.  Margaret Mason was an icon, Talk about a cool blond. I bet she sold a ton of bleach.  Her haircut became such an important part of the character. (I know she wasn't the only Linda; yadda yadda).

Yes, and Elaine Princi was even worse as a replacement for Margaret Mason than JLB was for Susan Flannery. 

I recall Susan's Laura as being much warmer than her Stephanie, and she had great romantic chemistry with Ed Mallory, friend chemistry with Bill Hayes and fellow doctor/surrogate daughter chemistry with Mac Carey. She could be cool and clinical at times, as you'd expect from a doctor, but nowhere near as much as Rosemary Forsyth, who was one of her successors. I can't really recall anything about Susan-Laura's relationships with other women on the show.

JLB was so far removed from Susan's Laura that I never bought them as the same character, similar to my feelings about Carmen Duncan's Iris on AW. 

I loved Bell's Days but could not get into Y&R at all. I tried a few times, but to me in those early years the style greatly overwhelmed the substance. Y&R did seem cold and chilly to me in comparison to the more homespun Days. Y&R bored me; Days, though it could move just as slowly, never did. Bold & Beautiful was even less to my taste. Even though those show were not for me, I acknowledge he was a master of the form. 

5 hours ago, j swift said:

I would have liked to seen Xander and Sarah fight for Victoria, at least for a little while.

They seem to call the custody battle on and off every time they make a joint appearance on the show, so you may yet get your wish. 

4 hours ago, j swift said:

And it made me think that perhaps Iris's romantic issues were not driven by her Electra complex issues with Mac, but her insecurities about being raised in a home with constant infidelity.

Iris makes reference to that toward the end of this scene. She's saying it to torment Rachel, but I suspect Lemay wrote it deliberately to help explain why Iris was the way she was.

And I can still remember Rachel referring to Mac as an "aging playboy" in one of their titanic arguments.

1 hour ago, j swift said:

Around the time of Rachel's pregnancy with Matthew, we learn that Mac is impotent (which we know is imprecise soap-speak for either male infertility or erectile dysfunction), that is how we knew that he wasn't the father of Rachel's baby.

IIRC -- and that's a big if -- Mac wasn't impotent but infertile, as a result of his poisoning at the hands of Janice. 

20 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

Well, considering his mother is the only physiatrist in town, and has violated many conflict of interests...

A physiatrist and a psychiatrist? Dr. Marlena Evans is a hell of a woman! 

Brilliant of Alex to want to resurrect a magazine in this day and age. I like Emily O'Brien, but she's not working for me as Theresa so far, and she and RSW don't have much chemistry.  

I've always liked Camilla, even though she has a tendency to overdo it. But the writing for Gabi & Stefan has been just atrocious, I don't care a whit about them or their quest for DiMera dominance, and I never have. Camilla does scheming well, but Gabi lost her rootability when they removed the connections that gave her character more dimension – namely, Arianna, Will and Sonny. 

The EJ as DA twist defies all belief, but that's pretty much the MO of this show. 

That had never occurred to me before, but Judi would have been great as a returned Nancy. I liked Cali well enough but Judi's chemistry with Tom Eplin was off the charts, and Nancy & Jake could have easily been paired. 

I thought Marlena as the Salem Stalker on Days was a real mistake for the show narratively, but I have to admit it got me to tape the show again every.

I was glad that all the "dead" residents of Salem returned, but the explanation was so nonsensical that I stopped watching again.  

2 hours ago, Gray Bunny said:

Speaking of Salem exits (Shawn and Talia), it's great that people can leave town so easily -- no packing to do, no apartment to clear. Talia left with one 20" rolling suitcase.

I'm just happy when characters get exits, as opposed to saying they're going to the mailbox and never being seen again.