Wow, I don't know why people hate Willow so much. She's one of the only things I'm liking about DAYS right now!

Willow is not front-burner. SHELLE are front-burner. Willow is a supporting character to Belle and Shawn. Until Willow gets a story of her own, she will remain in the supporting role that she's been on. I laugh at the constant hate for this woman. I just don't get it.

If DAYS insists on keeping Willow, they should fire the horrible Annie Burgstede and re-cast with an actress who actually can act and IMHO look like could be a sister to Jed. Get an actress with dark brown or black hair. There's way, way too many blondes on this show.

Willow is not front-burner. SHELLE are front-burner. Willow is a supporting character to Belle and Shawn. Until Willow gets a story of her own, she will remain in the supporting role that she's been on. I laugh at the constant hate for this woman. I just don't get it.

I think she has improved a lot since her first day, and I like her current role as wacky whore sidekick. I still loooove to make fun of her, but she doesn't bug me as much anymore.

Willow is not front-burner. SHELLE are front-burner. Willow is a supporting character to Belle and Shawn. Until Willow gets a story of her own, she will remain in the supporting role that she's been on. I laugh at the constant hate for this woman. I just don't get it.

Because Annie Burgstede's a horrible actress, weird looking and ugly IMHO (and many others), of course.

Hey, Mulder, please send me a picture of yourself so I can be in awe of your own beauty. You must be very good looking to be so shallow and judge someone else's looks.

I definitely find AB hot, I just have to try my best to ignore her shiny plastic lips.

Hey, Mulder, please send me a picture of yourself so I can be in awe of your own beauty. You must be very good looking to be so shallow and judge someone else's looks.

As long as he doesn't resemble a deformed salmon, he's in the clear.

As long as he doesn't resemble a deformed salmon, he's in the clear.

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I am with the whole Tired Of Waiting For People To Learn To Act party. Sure it's great when it works out, ie Nicole, but it should be the exception and not the rule, IMO. Just ... stop hiring people who can't act! Gah!

However, I must say that I have enjoyed Willow at times, and it was the times that Phillip was insulting her, and I actually think her bad acting was a part of the reason why that worked (though not the only way it could've worked).

Still, if she isn't gone at the end of the plotline I'll be taking names. I envision a glorious soapy soap end for Miss Stark

I think this may be a commentary on the poor choices they have when people audition.

TO ALL YOUNG ACTORS OUT THERE: Please, give up on your pipe dreams. You aren't going to make it. Please give up and leave it to the professionals. That voice in your head that says you aren't good enough is right. You are barely passable as bartenders. Go back to Iowa and to your broken dreams... for all our sakes.

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I am with the whole Tired Of Waiting For People To Learn To Act party. Sure it's great when it works out, ie Nicole, but it should be the exception and not the rule, IMO. Just ... stop hiring people who can't act! Gah!

However, I must say that I have enjoyed Willow at times, and it was the times that Phillip was insulting her, and I actually think her bad acting was a part of the reason why that worked (though not the only way it could've worked).

Still, if she isn't gone at the end of the plotline I'll be taking names. I envision a glorious soapy soap end for Miss Stark

I get the feeling sometimes that the reason Willow is amassing so many enemies around Salem (Shawn, Belle, Philip, Victor, Bo, Hope, Chelsea, etc.) is that they are going to get rid of her with a great big, splashy murder mystery with all of Salem being possible suspects. She alienates everyone she's around, even a supposed ally like Philip, so it's going to be difficult for her to stick around Salem long-term. And I can't believe she's actually going to deliver this baby; there have been too many baby storylines in the last year or so. With some of the actions she's taken and her I don't care who I double cross attitude, Willow is just asking to be killed by somebody. Wild man Philip dangles her over the ship's railing, threatening to drop her, and what does she do? She lets Shawn and Belle escape and then taunts him with it. It's like she has a death wish!

What do you mean buy the budget rumor... LOL... Wasn't it you trying to sell it??

Corday pretty much came out and said that that has nothing to do with it, making everyone who said that these are the characters Hogan WANTS to writer for (and even the comparisons to the ones on ATWT, though I never saw that show), right. This is who they want to write for meaning they could care less about anyone else. NO, it's not because of the budget. Hogan has already brought on a brother for Willow and Nick is still on almost 3 to 4 days a week. Overblow IMO.

And I do agree that many do like these younger actors/characters. I do too, they are much better than the 99 teen invasion. But they aren't enough to make me watch the show for them. None of them make DAYS worth of a watch for me. If they weren't on by themselves and were eventually oriented and stepped up into front burner then maybe it would have been easier. And, for as many people that do like them, it is not translating into viewers for the show (which I think is their ultimate goal), especially not younger ones, which the show wants.

Willow is all right though just on way too much, like the rest of the new/boring characters.

I never was selling the budget rumor, except in saying that they can't do big sweeps events on the level of GH.

We also don't know that Hogan wants to write for them. It's a cycle. B&H and J&M were on alot in the fall. Now the young characters, Steve/Kayla, Sami/Lucas/EJ are on the front burner. Shelle, Nick/Chelsea, and Max/Abby were hardly on in the fall. It's their time and soon we will see the tide change again. Things will change over again, as spoilers indicate. Just because you are bored with the characters doesn't mean that most fans are. Willow's brother is recurring. It doesn't matter who is on. If things were happening, ratings would be better. I constantly see shows pimping people that a good deal of fans don't like and the ratings go up just as long as something happens. Just look at 2001 with Days. The teen invasion was horrible but the ratings never went down until after 9/11 and that was when the story got beyond cartoonish. In fact, the ratings stayed the same or even went up. It goes to show you if there is action and things happening you will get better numbers.

I would also advise everyone in this thread to be careful of actor bashing, as that is not allowed.

I get the feeling sometimes that the reason Willow is amassing so many enemies around Salem (Shawn, Belle, Philip, Victor, Bo, Hope, Chelsea, etc.) is that they are going to get rid of her with a great big, splashy murder mystery with all of Salem being possible suspects. She alienates everyone she's around, even a supposed ally like Philip, so it's going to be difficult for her to stick around Salem long-term. And I can't believe she's actually going to deliver this baby; there have been too many baby storylines in the last year or so. With some of the actions she's taken and her I don't care who I double cross attitude, Willow is just asking to be killed by somebody. Wild man Philip dangles her over the ship's railing, threatening to drop her, and what does she do? She lets Shawn and Belle escape and then taunts him with it. It's like she has a death wish!

I could see this happening. I do think she'll be killed by somebody, I'm not sure if it'll end up being a murder mystery, but homicide is what I'm thinking too.