Michael

They could do what they did with David and Valerie to make Eli's age work: say they reconnected years later away from Salem and hooked up, and she got pregnant but didn't tell him about the baby. They could've slotted this retconned reunion either between Michael T. Weiss and Roark Critchlow's runs (so 1990-1993) or after Mike and Carrie broke up offscreen (early/mid-2000s, which would put Liam's birth around the same time as Theo's onscreen one).

I was cracking up at that shot of poor little Charlotte standing there in the Town Square looking like she had no idea where she was. The kid is cute, but she's not exactly Cary Christopher's Thomas...

It's like they just see who's around to film a few scenes with Dan Feuereigel and/or Greg Rikaart on whatever sets happen to be up, and they write the 'stories' based on that...

Good grief, this was excruciatingly boring.

Right. Brady & Sarah are very clearly the interim pairing with Sarah & Xander are apart. They're not "pushing Brady & Sarah as the new Jarlena"???

Not as tiresome as her adding fifteen syllables to every single word of dialogue.

The new Arianna definitely seems decent. She certainly reads older than 18, but she looks more like Cherie Jimenez's daughter than Marissa Reyes did.

EM's Brady and LH's Tate work well together. EM plays "dad" well, just like his own Days dad, Drake Hogestyn. But you know Tate is going to wind up CEO of Basic Black within three months. And everyone will act like that's normal.

Brady has been so STUPID traditionally that it's hard for me to imagine that Steve thinks this is a good idea. This man has been snowed by Kristen how many times?? I am trying to figure out what the hell is going on with Kristen's voice. Stacy Haiduk is doing, like... Susan + Scarlett O'Hara + dental work? Today's scenes were insane to listen to.

It's so goofy that this entire plagiarism story is predicated on no one having read both books until Bonnie's had been published. I mean, an intern did have her illiterate love interest compare them, but that's about it.

Yeah, I mean, it's POSSIBLE she's Nicole. It's also technically possible she's Chad's mother Madeline, back from the dead, or Sandy Horton de-SORASed, or Victoria aged up. I just don't see what hints we have to suggest that this 34-year-old brunette is playing Nicole Walker.

I wouldn't put it past these people!!!

Sofia Mattson is 34. Nadia Bjorlin is 45, and Arianne Zucker is 51. It would be insane even to consider her for either of those roles. I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but Chloe and Nicole both have adult children at this point. I could sooner see them going to someone like Gina Tognoni for Nicole.

Dare I say... Abigail? I wouldn't mind if she were a love interest for JJ, who desperately needs something new.

Thanks for answering! I was listening more than watching tbh. It's still pretty stupid -- what is Owen's plan if the GUY WHO OWNS THIS LAB ever happens to drop by while he's on duty?!