DAYS: This is a great time to bring back an original cast member

[RionPassions]

I don't think Marie should be the new Alice, but she should be there to complement Maggie, Doug, and Julie. She can fill a maternal role left by Alice as well, not necessarily by being the de facto Horton matriarch. I agree that Maggie should replace Alice, but there is a place for Marie in Salem, especially because of Nick.

[PhoenixRising05]

I would love that. Nick is her grandson afterall.

You never know. It doesn't seem like it will happen but anything is possible. Hogan had plans to flesh out the Horton's but that was before the balance issues and whatever happened behind the scenes. He wanted to do it but plans change. I would like this to happen and perhaps Marie will make at least an appearance this summer with the Horton stuff being hinted at.

[David_Vickers]

Great idea! DAYS should bring Maree Cheatham as Marie, and put her on contract. Also bring on Nick's mother, Jessica, with a soap vet in the role, maybe Kathleen Noone or Donna Mills, and have Nick's dad die offscreen and hook up Jessica with Roman. I do want Mickey back too, he's needed! If John Clarke can't come back, then bring a soap vet like Nicholas Pryor, Peter Hansen, Jed Allan or John Reilly as Mickey, if just on recurring.

[Gray Bunny]

OR... his idea of bringing back Hortons was to create a never-before-mentioned Horton named Nick Fallon to take center stage, even though he's about as much a Horton as I am.

[Jinxed Soul]

I would like to see Mike Horton return and reclaim his position at the hospital.

[Ridge]

Higley and JER were known and proven hacks. People expected much more of Hogan, 3 time Emmy winner. Sadly, I still hold out hope but I clearly shouldn't. Improving from what JER and Higley did should have been the easy part of Hogan's job.

[RionPassions]

JER's not a hack. DAYS just has bad fans who don't respect his work.

[Ridge]

I'll give JER credit where he is due, but post SSK and Island story is all HACK to me.

[RionPassions]

Blame Corday.

[Shawn]

You are kidding me right?

Wow...so a bad fan is someone who gets upset when a no talent twit destroys the fabric of the show they adore right in front of their eyes on a day to day basis?

And we're supposed to RESPECT THAT?

Of course. How BAD of me.

[Roman]

I can't tell you that you're wrong, but I can say that I COMPLETELY disagree.

Corday does take the lion's share of the blame, because it's his show, and I never denied that.

But to say that Days has bad fans just because they wouldn't swallow the crap that he put on our screens for all that time? I just can't get that one. The entire story had holes that you could have fit half the Eastern seaboard into, then he backburns the characters when they turned up alive on the island, keeping them there for 7 months, on top of the fact that he continued to destroy the show even after that story was over, and you blame the fans?

What?!

I know, and fight for, everyone having the right to their opinion, but I, personally, had to laugh when I read that one. I can't be so blinded by a HW that no matter what they write, they except no blame when it crashes and burns. You are more than intitled to how you feel, Rion, but do us a favor.

Don't blame us when JER almost destroyed Days, and then went back to the show HE created and got it cancelled because of HIS writing. Are the fans to blame for that as well? I think not. But, to each their own.

[PhoenixRising05]

Exactly Roman.

While Corday interferes and did so with JER several times, JER was given ample time to improve both shows but failed. He is just now improving Passions with only 5 months left. he had good things going with Passions last summer and that went down the toilet in the Fall.

His tenure at Days started out fantastic and, after his first 6 months, it became wildly inconsistent and, overall, dreadful. Sure, there were periods where the show was good like during Zack's death story and summer of 2005 but that isn't enough. What's funny about JER is it just seems like sine 2002 he has become wildly inconsistent as a HW. Both Days and Passions under hime had time periods where they were good but then there would a time period that would soon follow to knock it back down again.

For example, Passions became wildly inconsistent in the latter half of 2002. It picked up a bit finally at the end of 2003 and 2004-mid 2005 was great. He started out at Days on fire and then, after January, things slowy went downhill and became inconsistent. The show become awful in summer 2004 and didn't come close to recovering until summer 2005. It was then ok but nothing special and that feeling lasted the rest of the year into the Zack stoy in 2006, which, again, started out great but fizzled. Passions was terrible in the latter half of 2005 and experienced a brief renaissance at the end of 2005 only to fall back yet again in early 2006. June of 2006 it improved again but it fell back once again in Fall only to rebound a bit during the holidays and finally show major improvement right now.

It's too much up and down during his writing and that goes for Passions and for what he did during his second Days run. Contast that with his run at Days and the first 3 years of Passions where he was unbelievable all the time. I don't know what happened, I know Corday interfered but how does that explain what has happened to Passions on and off since 2002? I just can't believe this is the same HW who wrote 1993-1997 Days and 1999-2001 and even 2004-mid 2005 Passions. The man is capable of writing well. Why he doesn't is anyone's guess.

[Q Steph]

Right. Hogan came on with so much fanfare and has created more disaappointment than realized expectations. I've never been a fan of the "Emperor has no clothes" bling loyalty mentality. Granted, people have different tastes, but when a show such as Days is panned by the majority of fans, it's not the typical dissention. If there were no complaints, the show would still believe that they're at their creative zenith simply because Hogan is onboard. It's still a sinking ship. It's easy to make Corday a scapegoat, but Hogan shares in the blame.

[billyjill]

Excellent post, Roman.