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"Days of Our Lives fans and Abby/Chabby fans especially will be happy to hear that she is open to someday returning, "I have no idea what my life will look like years from now. So if by not recasting, in the event that I popped in for even a short amount of time or something like that. I'm not looking at times but I never say never and I'm not closing the door permanently."" In other words - when she needs to build a deck she'll be back.

Ummm....

Didn't they make her pregnant too? It's more or less guarantueed at this point she'll show up with baby in tow once Chad moves on with Stephanie, probably at their wedding.

Who knows if Marci even wants to act anymore? The reason they're killing her off is because she can't commit full-time, so either she wants to spend more time with her kids, or she might be looking into other career options (which isn't uncommon with actors that haven't made it big time in that age-range).

Eh, I wouldn't compare killing off Bill and Neil to killing off Abby and Laura - in the former cases we're talking about characters that had been off the canvas for decades and the most recognizable actors either stopped acting or passed on. I'm fine with them confirming what came of those characters since 80-year-old Bill Horton and Neil Curtis aren't going to drive a story and a huge point of veterans on the canvas is that we feel connected to the characters AND the actors. And DAYS has, to be fair, plenty of veterans that do get storylines. Killing off Laura was dumb because she has so many connections on the canvas and has a recognizable actress who has played her for 25+ years that clearly was willing to do the show every now and then when needed. Abby is dumb because it's short-sighted and they'll likely undo it the minute Miller or Mansi needs pocket-change.

Yeah and to be fair - what is he going to say, "yep it's 100% permanent, no take-backsies"? Bo, who by all accounts seemed dead-dead, is now appearing on Beyond Salem. If he's alive or not we'll see, but we all know that Corday has looked like an idiot before when he's claimed that death would stick this time around. He can really only say their intent when they wrote it was for it to be permanent, but obviously he can be overruled or fired and Miller/Mansi comes back.

I agree, I think they should kill off Will and Sami too.

I'm guessing Chad will move on with Stephanie and Abby will show up just in time for their wedding with a baby.

It'd be more likely to turn up on Paramount+ since they own the majority of the Spelling shows via CBS Studios. ETA: Roku is currently streaming the original series apparently. Unsure if it's the remastered version.

Is it funny that Kristen on the video link is the most Kristen she's been in ages? I wish they would write and direct Stacey more like that instead of the unstable mess she's been for the past few years.

Monarch is coming in the fall at least, even if it's a hold-over from 2021-22 season. I could see CBS attempting a prime time soap actually, especially with the success of Yellowstone.

Well, Pluto.tv uploaded ten episodes this morning instead of the normal five and since it's a national holiday here (it's the National Day of Sweden 🇸🇪) I have something to torture myself through. Finally through the dumb-ass Sareenechild plot. ETA: one thing I hate is how they arrange sometimes when people are supposed to run into a scene - instead of having them come into the scene in a natural way, you can tell that the actor is waiting behind the camera and running into the set from the sidelines - it was obvious when Chad ran into the wedding disaster and when Ciara / Ben interrupted the ritual. It's bad staging.

Of course it's a money grab. There are no similarities and songs having the same title isn't anything new - some artists even have multiple songs with the same title in their own music catalog.

I read he's leaving on June 15th, though he appears on Beyond Salem.

Catching up (which is easy when you have the show on in the background for the weekend) I will say that the Gwen / Leo meltdown wedding was at least fun, even if the budget is silly. But the Devil really should've had some sort of death count - it became ridiculous how he'd keep shackling people up in the DiMera crypt instead of just... you know killing them? But that's the issue with writing the Devil as a "regular" villain (as Ron put it) - there's absolutely no reason why he would avoid killing off all lame Salemites. Jake at least could've been a casuality, hot as he is. Also, now that Johnny's not just playing smarmy, Carson is being revealed to be a terrible actor. Even his voice-overs were bad - I mean, I get the storyline is ridiculous but... Our streamer here (which was recently bought out by Pluto TV) is about two weeks behind the US episodes, so I'll see you there in two weeks or so.

Interesting because Sonny was also recast via Beyond Salem... is this their way of audience testing to see if audiences will accept the new actor in the role?

God, I'm so behind on actually watching DAYS that I'm now at the scenes where Craig finds Leo in bed with Chad. I actually loathe Leo calling Chad "Chadwick", but I at least appreciate that they gave him some brains to see through what was obviously the dumbest scheme of the century. It's odd for Will and Sonny (two gay guys) to assume that another gay guy wouldn't see through a straight guy trying to fake "lust" for the d. Come on now... I can't believe the headwriter is actually gay here. Onto April...

So when is Abby getting the literal chop then?

Melinda Trask could swoop up Shawn.

I liked Anne and always thought she had more potential to be expanded as a character. The show needs people that aren't Hortons, Bradys or Dimeras lol

Reminds me of when Heather Locklear and Rena Sofer did flashbacks on Melrose Place when their characters were supposed to be 17. I guess Rena was "only" 30 at the time, while Heather was 37...

I guess this is good for the overseas fans since I've seen nothing about it being available on our streaming service (despite DOOL being exclusively streamed here), same with the Christmas movie.

Great! That's from Moviecraft Inc so I think it might be an episode that hasn't been around the collectors circuit/uploaded to YouTube before since he actually collects old Kinescopes and sometimes randomly uncovers soap material.

Because the pilot wasn't shot on a set - it was shot on location. This is standard for pilots since they don't know if they're picked up, so they don't bother building sets unless they're picked up to series.

Like, way to drop a huge cliffhanger and just opt out of the conversation @Soapsuds😂