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This is all still Ron's stuff btw.

Yikes.

Holly hasn't even mentioned her brother Parker once! Would be nice to know what's up considering he has to be 21 or so.

I suppose the writing change was a condition of the renewal, which is fine. It means Peacock is paying attention, at least!

Agreed all around. My biggest concern for Days, given this renewal, is that Peacock will go to hell and Days will disappear with it. Otherwise, it HAS to be valuable that this cheap show gets this many people to open the app every single day.

It makes no sense. It would actually be insane if Joy DIDN'T know.

I am so happy to hear this. I can't lose this show right now, and it is not so far gone that the ship can't be turned around.

It's so absurd. The boards who make these constant demands of whoever's CEO at the moment aren't troubled by the fact that the CEO changes every three months? Kristen moaning that the board is losing faith in her is like... girl, you haven't even been CEO for an entire quarter, so whatever is showing up realistically could not reflect almost any decision you've made as CEO. But don't forget! She got pardoned a few years ago, which means no one can even remember or mention any of her prior crimes.

Exhausting.

I miss that set so much. This 'townhouse' set is so bland and without character. It's wild that we've had this set for longer than we had the penthouse!

2006-07 was that weird period where they were trying to figure out the budget but hadn't yet. They had John in that coma for a while after EJ shot him, and they were constantly side-lining the vets for months on end, either to save money explicitly or to test how the show would run without them. So I fully believe that John was supposed to be out-out when they killed him off in 2007. The culmination of all this was when Tomlin instituted the new production model in 2008, which led to the belt-tightening and the exits of John, Marlena, Steve, and Kayla in early 2009 (onscreen).

Just like going from Theresa to Eve to Nicole to Kristen to Chloe to Kristen (or however it all went) was not healthy! Eric Martsolf manages to sell just about every pairing, but boy does this man need to learn to be single.

Kristen and Marlena had an episode's worth of scenes a week or two ago where Kristen came to Marlena's office, invited her and John to Grandparents' Day at Rachel's school, and went on and on about how she still loves Brady. Marlena had a hilarious reaction after Kristen finally took a breath, something along the lines of, "Thanks for saying all that." Totally deadpan. So Kristen herself put the bug in Marlena's head.

Both Ryan Carnes and Van Hansis are in their 40s.

No, the last time she appeared was when her father Daniel died. Are you thinking of Chelsea, Bo's daughter?

Melanie hasn't been in Salem since 2016. But yeah, Mia and Melanie are in the same age group as Chad, Will, Gabi, and Abby, so it wouldn't make sense for either to be the mysterious mother. I also don't think it would make sense for Melanie (who was on perfectly good terms with Chad last time she saw him) to do something this insane when she also has a grandmother, aunt, and sister in town. And she would be more familiar with the players involved. I still wonder if there's a way the mother will turn out to be Konstantin's daughter, given that John was randomly connected to this whole thing by being found in the Poplar Bluff "apartment."

I don't think Leo Howard could plausibly play Will, who's supposed to be around 35 and has a daughter who's at least 10, but he could probably be JJ or Joey.

I have vague memories of this, but Tripp inherited all her money when he first showed up and then donated it as evidence of his redemption? Something like that. So when she came back from the dead, she didn't have any. But I might be misremembering or combining details.

Oh good, more scenes about Ava's revolving door of a job search. Girl, get on LinkedIn and leave us alone!

He's a P.I., so I got his drift even though Steve isn't technically a police detective.

That's my guess, too.

I don't think she was even aged much. She was born in 1990 and came back in 2006 as a late teen/young adult -- I think she was supposed to be, like, a 17-year-old race car driver and then she went to college at Salem U in 2007-08. She's basically the exact right age she should be now, but we just missed so much of her life and they kind of kept her in stasis between 2011-2022 other than establishing that she lived in Seattle and then adding Everett to her backstory. But she kind of nets out age-wise. Same with Abigail, actually.

I agree and ALSO, it looked like something CB's Gabi would've worn. Yay continuity?

I also don't get the sense that Fiona ACTUALLY gives a sh*t about Xander. She plays nice and cutesy with him and Sarah and Victoria, then is immediately like, "Get me away from these a-holes so I can have a drink." There's a strange gap in how she's being depicted. They also have really not given any space for Xander to process that he's Victor's son. No one asked any questions, Fiona hasn't really recounted how it happened, etc. It's bizarre how they move SO quickly through some stuff but spend forever on little random things.

My point was that it isn't "nearly rape" if both partners consented and there was no coercion. It was a consensual encounter in which one partner took the more dominant/aggressive role and the conversation that displayed consent took place offscreen. "Nearly rape" would be if Gabi had almost assaulted him but the encounter was stopped before anything actually took place.