Great posts Steve, Kenny, and Toups.

I have my faves but I agree 100%.

Wow, that is hilarious.

The reason Bo & Hope have never been accused is the PRODUCERS fault and not anyone elses. The producers made a very bad decision in bringing Patch & Kayla back and taking John & Marlena off the screen for 8 weeks.

Corday knows these fan bases. He helped to create them, he has used them in the past, and he knows how they are. If he had been smart he would have just backburnered John & Marlena for 8 weeks, but taking them completely off the screen, announcing that he was doing it - esp. in the midst of so many rumors going on and them not speaking much about the rumors at the time. At the same time this happens Steve & Kayla come back.

I have heard this complaint before but it never made much sense considering Steve and Kayla did not really have much in the way of airtime or storyline when J/M were offscreen. Heck, they couldn't even give Kayla half way decent dialogue - "Do you remember? Do you remember?" So I had a hard time seeing how Steve and Kayla's weak return impacted John and Marlena's lack of airtime.

Seeing how the backburner thing is working now, I am not sure it would have made a difference this past summer. Maybe better public relations from the producers would have made a difference, but the trust toward him seemed pretty non-existent even last summer.

Kenny, Bree, King, Drew....great posts. You all are right in point.

I still don't get what all the fuss is about but I gave up trying to figure it out. Some fanbases have had it in for Hogan since his third week because they expected the couples back together and in story right away. Days fanbases always find something to complain about. That and they never know what they want. They nitpick the hell out of everything. I long for the days back in the 80's and 90's where there were fanbases but they were patient, rational, and weren't so obsessed with seeing their couple or favorite characters all the time. Like Kenny said, it's a rotation. The Fall was full of Bo/Hope and John/Marlena. They have only been backburnered for a month and people create such an uproar. I know J&M fans have a reason to be upset but it's only been a month. They are still around and Hogan gave them alot of attention in the Fall, which tells me he wants to write for them. Same for Bo and Hope.

I have no problem with Steve bringing the ATWT comparison in but I don't agree with alot of it. I think some of the ways he writes characters is similar but I don't think that is a big deal. The stories are different and he is writing for the vets. He wrote for them for the whole Fall and we have still seen the big 4 during this backburnering period. They have not been off completely. I think 2001 was much worse as we didn't see them AT ALL and the people featured were very hard to tolerate (except for Jack/Jen/Greta but even their story was annoying at times).

The rabid fanbases are the worst they have ever been and, like Bree said, they aren't good for Days and they certainly aren't good for Days. They are the reason for so many of the problems on Days in the past few years IMO.

I think fanbases... on the whole... are just an excuse. I've been a long time fan of DAYS and I do not like one specific couple and am not part of a fanbase. But that doesn't mean I won't miss certain characters when they are not on (or get sick of them if they are on way too much).

Corday himself and DAYS are a part of the problem with "fanbases". THEY WORK TO CREATE THEM. It is THEIR doing, it is what THEY want. They are obviously building a fanbase for Nick and Chelsea... so when they split up and their fans start !@#$%^&*]ing are you going to say it is the fanbases fault for complaining when Corday and DAYS worked to create this fan base so much??