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Who the hell would bring their dad to a Pride party with half-naked men? This is almost as embarrassing as the strip show on the Christmas special...

Oh God, we're going to get the spoken word dialogue from Oops!... I Did It Again between Andrew and Paul, aren't we?

I think most people figured that she said that to signal that they better bring a bag of money if they want her back again.

Oh gotcha. I don't mind minor up-aging like the one they're doing for Holly at the moment where they've obviously done it to make the kid slightly more mobile. Shawn-D is also a decent example of someone being slightly SORAS'd without disturbing too much of any time line - I think five or so years is a good ball park figure of what I think soaps should aim for since characters tend to stay in an age bracket (especially 20s/30s) for longer than they actually are that age.

Will is actually one of the characters age that makes some sort of sense since they pretty much allowed him to grow up on-screen, same with Abby (along with Shawn-Douglas, who also only had minor adjustments to keep Hope a "young" heroine). But the biggest [!@#$%^&*] up of all when it comes to ages is still Belle since she was so important to forming of Sami's character with the conception and then Sami kidnapping her. Now they're the same age!

Well, I think David would *probably* be in his 50s if they brought him on the show since they'd probably want to empathise that he's young enough to be Julie's kid (who is roughly in her 70s), but also old enough to be Eli's dad. Not that it matters since he's dead, but ages are confusing on DAYS. I still wouldn't put him in Abe and Tony's age bracket at this point since they seem more contemporaries of Julie at this point.

Abe and Tony are in their 70s...

I genuinely don't get why they went with such a contrived set up to begin with if it was just going to end so soon. But on the other hand, I feel the same with a lot of the villains that Ron tends to cycle in and out of the show - why not actually give them some stability in the sense that they can keep torturing their victims on the long term instead of sending them to jail/coma for long stretches, then spend time trying to justify why characters would tolerate having them around only to wish-rinse-repeat? The only thing I miss from JER is that he could write a long-term storyline that would end up in a real pay-off.

The "heaven" set looks like absolute [!@#$%^&*]. I get what they were going for - I guess sort of A Matter of Life and Death situation where people can look from there, but blah. I also like how they try to sell all these locations like they were there - uh, like it's re-dressed sets + some stock footage. The "Living in Cin" boat... criiiiiiiiiiiiiiinge. I wonder if Bo and Hope are going to come back to the main show now that Kristian's been lured back into the fold.

Because they own the show?

Sal is likely to be back I feel, but Lamon will probably be trying to build off his All American role.

Since the original prism storyline was about Stefano finding them to try and cure himself of a brain tumour... yes. I'm guessing Bo will be revealed to have been in a brain-dead-coma-by-tumour all these years and the prisms will cure him. If Megan re-joins him in life or will "fight" him in "heaven" only remains to be seen.

I'd imagine around the same rate they usually get per episode, just that there's no set amount of episode guarantee so it's by an as-needed basis rather than having a base salary.

CS, like most of the actors these days, would probably love a recurring contract where he can just fit the show in his schedule and collect a pay check until he finds a better gig.

lol, literally no one is dead in Salem. I guess at least they didn't recast Renee to bring her back too.

Megan? Megan Hathaway? So, is Bo staying dead or is he brought back by the "magical prisms"?

We've sort of heard this before I think? Shortly after Lamon went down from contract people said Sal was also off it. I assume we might be getting a bunch of guest arcs.

Ooof, I hope that's temporary filler on Courtney and it'll go down.

Honestly, that's why I miss Marlena's old penthouse - at least you could conceivably believe it had a bunch of bedrooms. The current one just looks like a one bedroom apartment, so you wonder where the hell they all sleep.

I guess Abby wasn't technically pregnant, but setting it up like that is like catnip for future storyline purposes.

What. The. [!@#$%^&*]. Look, I'm sure Rob Wilson is a lovely guy, but is it really that important to keep him on the canvas that they just couldn't find another actor for Alexander Kiriakis? Will everyone ignore that Sonny suddenly have a brother that looks exactly like Ben? It's not like he'll be even off the canvas for long... I hope they at least give him a bad bleach job or something.

Honestly though, "partying" with them for $1,500. What are they going to do - the strip act from the Christmas movie? It just seems like such a sad and downer of an event.

what the ever loving hell is this

To be fair, I think this is also a bit about the fact that people have a good idea how Missy - who is by extension Jennifer since she's played her for so long - would've played it. So the comparison will inevitable be there in people's head.

Count me in among those that like Marci. Chandler's main problem is that he's just very lazy. Rob Wilson however... ooff. I thought he was decent when he played a psycho, but the emotional scenes fall flat, but that might also have to do with my aversion to Ben in general.