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Days: Return To Me

Marlena faces her toughest battle yet with John when she learns that his brain will never recover from the effects of being shot by EJ. "It's new for her to be in this position," points out Deidre Hall, whose alter ego is usually the victim of one of Stefano's schemes. "You get to see who she is at her core. She's strong and determined and she doesn't surrender."

To that end, Doc Evans refuses to believe that her husband won't come back to her. "She doesn't give up on him and doesn't send him away to the happy rest home. She knows that there's still a John in there," says Executive Producer Ken Corday." Adds Hall: "John's always been her strength. He's always been the person who never gives up, and she's been in plenty of situations where people might have given up on her. She has a an immediate slide into, 'It's not so. You don't know his heart. You don't know his will to live. I'm not buying it. You don't know him.' She's fighting an uphill battle against health care professionals and she's relentless about it."

Marlena just might know her super spy a little better than everyone else: Bo and Steve come to visit John's room and when John hears Steve's voice, his blood pressure goes through the roof. While Marlena and Steve talk, John's hand moves slightly, trying to touch Steve, but neither notices. "Oh, he's in there," nods Hall. "The audience will see that first."

Once alone, Marlena falls asleep. She has a dream that John is trying to communicate with her, but can't get through. "When she nods off to sleep, she whispers, 'come to me,' and he does," previews Hall. "There's a thing we do best, which is that romance that is so deep and profound that it crosses lines of normalcy. And they shot it brilliantly. She feels his presence and it's just a warm bath of love. He connects with her and you see it."

This is just the first of many "dream" sequences between the two. "It's beautifully written," Hall praises. "My favorite scenes are in the middle of the night, when the world is asleep and the shades are drawn and important things happen in the quiet ways. This is that. There are no witnesses; it's just the real thing."

These "talks" won't just be about John and Marlena, reveals Corday. "He actually tells her some things in the dreams that are far bigger than who just shot him," explains the exec. "This will have an impact on other people of Salem."

By week's end, Roman persuades her to go home and get some rest. Once she's gone, John manages to whisper her name. And this just the beginning, says Hall. "There are scenes coming up where you'll be like, 'I'm on board. I'm staying for this,' " declares the actress. "This is how he will communicate with her; it's just so romantic."

Um, she was tricked as much as you were about that. She belived that was the truth as much as we did. Alex did turn out to be a good man, then they changed it and changed it again before changing it yet again.

I can buy the mental telephathy story though without it being in dream sequence.

We all know they are special so why ruin it with aritficial scenes.

Because it would be pretty darn boring otherwise. This s/l is the most interesting I've "seen" in years for J&M.

If you belive this s/l to be sci-fi then maybe you should really know what that word means first. Just a thought.

And ohh, about Alex North... Of course it's like Pest Spray said. It's obvious how TPTB changed that story.

From Wikipedia:

Science fiction (often abbreviated to sci-fi or SF) is a broad genre of fiction in which the narrative world differs from our own present or historical reality in at least one significant way.[1] This difference may be technological, physical, historical, sociological, philosophical, metaphysical, etc, but it should always be logically explicable with reference to the world we know (thus distinguishing it from fantasy). Exploring the consequences of such differences (asking "What if...?")[2] is the traditional purpose of science fiction, making it a relatively highbrow "literature of ideas"[3]. However, there are also many purported works of science fiction in which a superficially "sci-fi" setting is superimposed upon an otherwise conventional tale, and it is this "lowbrow" form of the genre that is most widely recognized outside science fiction fandom. As such, there is often a perception that science fiction is escapist or juvenile.[4]

I believe it fits into this category. It also fits paranormal and other escapist sorts of descriptions. I hate it, but that is what tptb want to do. Probably this won't be over a 10-month period of time and changed from day to day. As stated before, we just have to go through it to see. I do believe that Hogan won't allow something that isn't great to air though.

More on the sci-fi and paranormal theme...again from Wikepedia from above:

Psionics

Passive abilities generally deal with the mind and/or nervous system. This area is generally considered to include telepathy (Sensing or affecting thoughts), empathy (sensing or affecting emotions), precognition (predicting future events), remote viewing (seeing a location without the use of physical eyes), and nervous system-related effects (sensing or affecting the senses and/or nerves of others).

I'm not a huge sci-fi fan but have been interested since the first time I heard of sending a man to the moon in the fourth grade and read many books and saw nearly all the sci-fi movies. Tek Wars , a series of novels and a TV mini-series by William Shatner, is one of my favorites and it touches on these sorts of things. Very, very interesting. Still sci-fi though.

Edited December 30, 200618 yr by DaysFanJean

Any actor is excited when their story takes a new turn, ESPECIALL NBC SOAP ACTORS! It's a rare thing.