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11 minutes ago, carolineg said:

Chanel gives all the baked goods out for free on some table in the square.  Why would I ever try?

LOL, true. What exactly is the business model here...?

1 hour ago, carolineg said:

Hey, if I could look like the people in Salem do while only consuming donuts I would live outside Sweet Bits to be honest.

Well, it's not like you COULD go inside Sweet Bits, anyway... 

Thanks, Errol! It's such a weird hitch.

12 hours ago, Mona Kane Croft said:

I had begun to believe I was the only person this was happening to.  What browser are you using?  Are you on a laptop?  I'm on a MacBook Pro using Safari browser.  

It's happening on my MacBook as well, but in both Safari and occasionally Chrome.

I'm having an almost identical issue as @Mona Kane Croft. Some ads jump in and change the entire layout of the page. The font goes from the usual sans-serif to Times New Roman and the page becomes unreadable.

2 hours ago, j swift said:

But, didn't they bury her?  Who is in the grave that they keep visiting?

I know it's Salem, but it seemed like she was dead/dead.  Like, bled out, no heartbeat, change the mattress, dead.

Also, I don't recall her working at The Spectator at the time of her death.

She was dead-dead. And they'll just retcon it away by using Rolf or some nonsense that makes no sense in relation to what we saw onscreen.

She was running the Spectator at the time of her death, though. Abby started working at the Spectator during the time jump and (minus times she was offscreen for mental illness and recasting) continued working there until her death. She was running it at that point, I believe. It was a pretty significant plot point.

10 minutes ago, janea4old said:

A writer (Lynn Martin) from Y&R said in February that she and other contract writers were let go three months after they returned from the strike.  (Link)   She pointed out that writers can be let go for whatever reasons every 13-week cycle, (same as actors).   

The implication is that writers who were on contract as writers before the strike, would be brought back after the strike, but they'd only be guaranteed to be kept for duration of their 13-week cycle.  (It wasn't clear if the cycle reset from the beginning after the strike, or if this meant cycles that started before the strike would finish out after the strike.)

My point being that maybe they had to bring firedguy's wife back after the strike but they probably don't have to keep her longer than whenever her 13-week cycle ends.  We'll see in three months who is on the writing team then.

That would make a lot of sense. They have to be careful about not appearing to fire writers for having gone on strike.

It's just bizarre to me. There's no way she wasn't a bit of a mouthpiece for him -- he was basically ghost-HW-ing the show before he got canned. And now isn't he SUING the show? It seems like such a weird conflict of interest that the intimate partner of someone perpetrating such acts is still "on the inside."

Sonja Alarr had never written a produced TV or film script in her life before her husband handed her that job. It's not like she's a writer with a ton of credits or like she had been working on another show for a long time. She lives with and is connected to the man. She only has a job because of him. She can go.

They also didn't really pause much between the last reunion and picking up the cameras for this season, right? Some of it could just be to take a damn break, which I'm sure the cast is asking for, too.

They have some creative stuff to figure out, as well, but I'm not convinced the pause is any kind of catastrophe.

What great news to have him healthy enough to be back at work.

35 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I tend to believe Days tries a lot to introduce edgy young people all the time and they immediatly lose their edge.  Allie, Chanel, Johnny, Ciara, even Wendy and Tripp started out more interesting.  Claire might be the only recent young teen/adult who kept a tiny bit of edge.

I have to agree with you that we missed a step or five from Holly not being into Tate at all and suddenly they are star crossed.  As an audience we obviously knew it was coming, but there was so little time spent on Holly getting over Johnny and her deciding Tate was the one.  I really don't think we got any insight on that from Holly at all.  It just happened in an episode or two.

That's exactly how it is. They introduce these edgy/rebel/messy kids and within six months, they're hugging "Gran" and wanting a wedding and children. It's gotten especially back in the last decade or so. I wouldn't mind it so much if there were an arc to it, but it just... happens.

I'm angry we didn't see Paulina on the snowplow. If you're gonna do something this stupid, DO IT.

This is cool as hell. Just such insanely good news.

Did Liz SHOOT Marie?! Or am I mixing up my old stories?

17 minutes ago, carolineg said:

I think Sloan likes the idea of Eric more than she likes Eric.  She had a crappy childhood and Eric was nice to her and different from men she dated before.  He offered her some respectability when the entire town hated her and does seem to love her.  

Sloan is realizing now marriage/kids isn't exactly what she wants though.

Totally. It's actually pretty justified in the writing, or at least the setup, and I like that Sloan is tepid on having this thing she thought she wanted. It just drives me nuts that no one ever mentions what a LOSER Eric is!

Why exactly is Sloan, a beautiful, successful attorney in her 30s, so desperate to hang onto this unemployed convicted murderer who can't even pay a bill himself? I mean, I get that he's hot, but girl...

You guys have no idea how completely ridiculous this is about to be.

Who's down there in the green in the bottom left corner?

8 minutes ago, carolineg said:

That's why I think the show is making this up as they go along.  He didn't look like Nick, but now Everett does.  If Ron hadn't gone out of his way to show Nick in hell working for the devil, it would have been pretty easy to just make him Nick and go from there.   Or even if you didn't want to work on rehabbing Nick as a character the show could have established he looked like Nick and just made him a twin/brother/whatever.

Totally. Nick, a character born offscreen to a mother who notably suffered from DID, is a much more plausible candidate to have a lost twin out there than a lot of the ones we've gotten...

They've even retconned how he looks. During his first episode, they intentionally had him run into Gabi, who didn't recognize him at all. So he didn't look like Nick and certainly wasn't identical to him. But more recently, they had Julie remark that he looked somewhat like Nick, or at least reminded her of Nick. That felt like someone (Alarr? The scab writers?) had decided to tie him to the Hortons after all. With the recent mentions of Tommy and Sandy, I kinda wonder if they're going to make him a cousin of Nick's through that line or something.

Yeah, it seems like he worked as a journalist under both names. So how did no one in the journalism community notice that Bobby Stein and Everett Lynch were the same guy? And the basic premise of the story still doesn't make sense: he ghosted Stephanie after this (alleged) accident, but he would've been married to Jada and left her prior to that... so the whole accident/ghosting thing kinda doesn't matter in the long run, unless he secretly went and started a THIRD life.

On 4/2/2024 at 5:10 PM, Bright Eyes said:

The best part of the of it all for me is that Kate Winograd's first name was actually Martha which we found out some years ago thanks to Jason.

I somehow totally missed that! Interesting tidbit for sure.

1 hour ago, AbcNbc247 said:

Wasn't it for Nicole?

EJ was determined to punish the person that put Nicole through the pain of possibly losing another child, so soon after she "lost" her baby?

In theory, yeah. They just never connected the logic in a way that worked for me. He knew Stefan was running drugs for Clyde, and the drugs would've come from them even if Tate had technically handed a pill to Holly, so it felt odd to me that EJ was wholly unconcerned with bringing down the people who were supplying drugs to teenagers instead of the men (whom he already loathed!) causing the entire epidemic we kept hearing about -- especially when the case against Tate looked pretty flimsy.

I thought Leo Howard did fine and was pretty natural on his first day. I liked JMM a lot, but he aired for, what, four months total? LH does read older -- like they could have cast him for the Johnny/Chanel age group, not as someone who's supposed to be 16-17. 

I still have no idea why EJ was so hellbent on prosecuting Tate, who at worst would've been the lowest-level offender (distributing small amounts, since he wasn't caught with any significant amount on him), when he knew Stefan -- the brother he despises -- was involved in high-level drug-running. Don't DAs usually want big convictions instead of small-time ones?!

21 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

That's wonderful. Never thought Gloria would be asked back and I'm glad she was able to return. I wonder if we might get a mention of Neil Curtis. When was he last mentioned? 

Probably 2019 or so. Linsey Godfrey debuted in late 2018 as Sarah and they've referenced Neil a few times since, and they definitively established onscreen that he had passed away.