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re: Theresa's burned bridges and misdeeds ...Kristen is currently the CEO of DiMera. Convicted murderer Gabi just got a lucrative offer to revive the brand she launched. Ava is... doing something high-level at DiMera. It's ridiculous, but it's Salem. Theresa will probably be running Titan in six months if she's around.

I like Fiona so far, even though I agree that Xander's background makes no damn sense. No one ever pays for anything on this show, so I don't get why everyone is so up-in-arms about Theresa. She forged a letter and kidnapped a baby for 15 minutes. Obviously I don't condone any of it, but why is she more appalling than Xander, who literally laughs in the face of the woman he kidnapped a year ago while being coddled and cooed over by Sarah and Maggie, to whom he's done absolutely unspeakable things?

Ava was in a relationship with RoboJohn for months while he was living in the DiMera mansion. I thought NL was terrible, LOL. Like I didn't even believe she could walk across a room without hurting herself. But I also thought TB was an awful fit for that role.

They chem-tested them back when TB was playing Taylor, and they seemed like they could work together. But does Brady need to be with another lunatic who's slept with his father...?

This is the one story I've wanted them to do with Holly since her birth. A few months back, they made a weird reference to Eric having killed Daniel when Holly was 9 years old or something -- I'm hoping that just gets erased as something the strike writers threw in.

Nah. He'd have Kevin cross over from Y&R, finally in touch with his 'true' sexuality and perving on Thomas, Finn, Bill, Liam, etc.

If this was the team writing during the strike... we're in trouble.

Thank goodness. This show is overdue for some fresh writing, and the aspects of Ron's DOOL that I genuinely enjoyed his first few years have been overshadowed by his reliance on the same devices and "humor." He's clearly burnt out. Thank goodness. This show is overdue for some fresh writing, and the aspects of Ron's DOOL that I genuinely enjoyed his first few years have been overshadowed by his reliance on the same devices and "humor." He's clearly burnt out.

He's "still part of the cast" because they'll bring him in to do a single episode at the holidays or something.

Totally. This was a crazy story to do without Sami and Sydney! There's just an entire dimension of the whole thing completely absent.

I really struggled with the fact that EJ and Nicole never dealt with the ugliness of their past. Their first two marriages were a disaster. They just kinda... got back together. I also think it was insane to do a story about them getting remarried and having a child (ostensibly) without involving Sydney at all. Nicole being Sydney's stepmother should've been a HUGE thing.

Connie could get a pass for her crimes if she tore down those ugly-ass curtains in the 'new' Horton living room!

Thank you. My last two remaining brain cells strung it together before enduring the rest of Tuesday's episode, LOL. That was my thought, as well. Seems unnecessarily complicated, so maybe they screwed up filming the flashbacks and have to insert something to explain it. Or they just won't explain it! Things barely make sense from day to day on this show anyway.

We got rid of Konnie and now we get Connie. Sigh. Have they even tried to explain why she was covered in Li's blood when Bobby/Everett saw her in the park, but her dress was spotless in the aftermath of the crime itself?

Isn't Holly also about to be homeless? There are only about 8 places in town for them to meet up as it is...

It's a miracle they even have dressing rooms to use and don't have to get dressed in the bathroom of the Wienerschnitzel across the street, at this point...

There was one guy in the background at the press conference staring open-mouthed at the whole reveal, which was cracking me up because everyone else was just milling around like they were at a really boring cocktail party.

Abigail Klein, from the looks of it. It's common practice to use regulars' dressing rooms for recurring players on days that the main "resident" of the dressing room isn't working. Also that poorly removed sticker looks like it's from Monkeywench, which was Christie Clark's brand!

No, the character's name is Javi.

I think Theresa vs Holly works in the sense that it's less about their actual interaction and more about Theresa seeing Holly as too similar to her younger self and not wanting her own son to be subjected to a girl like that. I do think some of the conflict should be coming from the couple themselves (like with Tate having it out for EJ, for example) rather than completely external, though. But it feels like this has been a few different short stories stitched together without clear transitions.

I feel like the emphasis even with the Romeo & Juliet angle is off. People should be mad at Holly for taking the drugs in the first place, not for "lying and getting Tate locked up" -- she was in a coma for 95% of the time he was in trouble for that incident, and it was like 3 days after she woke up that she came out with the truth. She woke up completely disoriented, found out she'd been in a coma (and overseas and back!) for months, then panicked for a pretty short period of time before she told the truth. Yeah, she should've spoken up the minute she realized what had happened, but it's not like she deviously let it go on for months longer.

They could very plausibly cast Jeremy as 35-ish. They have him and Nathan both sitting out there as fairly blank-slate Hortons who have history with Stephanie, too. Actually kind of surprised they didn't just cast Blake as one of them and do a bunch of, "You remind me of your cousin Nick!" schtick.

I don't think I have the mental or emotional strength to get through the sh!t-show of "hilarious" inside jokes that this Body & Soul thing is going to be.

Didn't Vern and Jo actually get married? He appeared with her in the 2000s a few times. So Tanner has actually been Jack and Steve's step-brother for like 30 years... meaning there would be no need for some convoluted retcon because they are family, for all intents and purposes. Not that we need Tanner or Easton.

Ah okay. I forgot Marci Miller aired after Abigail died.