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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.

5 hours ago, j swift said:

I agree, I find EOB very compelling in the scenes with Tate.  Also, I like her sense of humor.  She's a talented actress in search of a part (and a scene partner) that fits her strengths.

Agreed! I think she works as "Tate's mom" but she doesn't fully register as Theresa to me yet.

On 3/21/2024 at 3:33 PM, j swift said:

Meanwhile, have Paulina and Leo completely forgotten that they know each other?  It was odd that Stefan suddenly referenced his past with Abigail, but Leo seems to have completely forgotten his past with the mayor.

Leo and Chad discussed this in Thursday's episode. 

6 hours ago, Liberty City said:

SAME! Much preferred Guy Wilson!

Let's not go nuts here. 

I never get tired of the Wanchai Ferry clip. It's one of the most insane things I have ever seen on television.

3 hours ago, j swift said:

I wonder if Paulina is going to get Clyde's heart? 

Soaps being soaps, somebody on the canvas has to donate the heart. Even if the possibility of a middle-aged man donating his heart seems preposterous.   And I've totally forgotten where Stefan's heart is located.

And how are they running out of oxygen in that huge open space?

Clyde is like 70! Although considering this show almost had Lucas donate Kate's heart to Julie...

Kyle's "story" hasn't even been a story. There have been intriguing moments where she appears to get vulnerable about the distance between her and Mo, but that basically amounted to, what, 4 tense conversations? Nothing was spoken aloud, nothing was concrete, and they never went any deeper than the surface as far as showing something there. I thought there was going to be WAY more Morgan content, too. It amounted to Kyle giggling with her about 3 times all season long and hinting at one lunch with the ladies that she could maybe kinda be bi-curious?

I didn't know that about Jack's 2011 return. It's interesting that Higley & Tomlin were planning to bring him in, because as soon as TomSell took over, they axed Jack to get back to Jennifer/Daniel. So maybe that lends credence to Jack having been intended for a short-term stint.

Color me shocked that they don't have RSW playing Tom...

3 minutes ago, carolineg said:

At the risk of derailing the thread I just read it again and it does not make sense at all.  Carly/Reese (Charlotte) were bff in high school.  Carly slept with Reese's father, Reese got upset and into a car accident and was presumed dead, wasn't dead and had reconstructive surgery, Carly took over her name/persona when she left town to come to PC, and Reese married some guy and lost a son.  The END.

Thank you and I still understand very little. LOL.

I have NEVER been able to make full sense of the Carly/Reese backstory either.

I liked what Sheri did with those novels in 2009-10. They gave John and Marlena another kid in those, right?

I tracked down most (all?) of the novelizations of 60s-70s stories a few years ago and did a big blog post about them, if that's of any interest: https://whathappensinsalem.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/a-novel-idea-the-early-years-of-dool/