I agree. Spectacular episode all around. The look on Caroline's face when Shawn and Victor shook hands was almost like "holy sh*t"...

If you could strive to make all episodes of Days like this, it might rocket up the Nielsen charts.

The funeral was probably the best funeral I've seen on a soap yet. Everything about it was great.

I was talking to my mother and she thinks Roman is behind the hit and run as well.

I, too, would like it to be Roman. There was definitely something off about him during his eulogy. He almost came across happy. Very unnerving to me. Nothing more to add to what everyone else said about the episode. Perfection.

I still say "Roman" (JT) is Stefano's pawn.

Let it be known when I predicted this, or hoped it would be!!!!

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So, according to spoilers, John is run down and killed. I think a dynamite story is that everyone blames the DiMeras, Marlena allows Roman to be there and comfort her, and at the end, it turns out to be Roman who did it! Just in time for may sweeps, Marlena learns Roman was responsible, that he was drunk at the time, and he ran off out of fear. Give Dee an emmy, and bring the whole John-Roman story full circle. Then, once we get rid of Taylor and send Roman off to prison and devastate the Bradys, bring Hogestyn back as a new character, the person that the pre plastic surgery John Black was made to look like. It gives Hogestyn and Hall a brand new love story to play. OK, I'm going to go subit the story to Sheffer LOL

Just finished watching this episode this morning. Amazing is all I can say. When a show can make a grown man like myself cry like a baby, then someone or many someones has done something right. I didn't just cry because the show was so awesome and sad this week. I cried because of 20 years of wonderful memories. From the moment Marlena walked into the church, I felt like I was at the funeral of someone I loved and with people that are family to me. Every speech was perfect, and everyone in the cast was awesome.

I just have to say a big Thank you to Drake for bringing to life the character of John Black. Thank you also to so many of the cast at Days for devoting themselves to their characters that they bring into our homes every week. Thank you Days of our Lives. This week made me realize that I will miss you so much when you are gone.

I haven't watched this show in years until this week, and most of the time I have watched it was more of a guilty pleasure, but I'll give credit where credit is due. The funeral was very well-done. The eulogies were right-on and though I wouldn't say DAYS has had a stellar cast in many, many years (if ever), everyone's acting was completely appropriate. And I can actually see this leading to good story.

And although I have no strong opinion about Hogan Sheffer one way or the other - I don't feel he's worked in daytime at a time when head writers actually had the creative license to be judged with certainty by what we see on screen - I can totally see the logic in killing John Black. His ludicrous past is a complete albatross to any attempt at this show being any semblance of a serious drama. The dialogue writer deserves a medal, because I've seen more poignant soap deaths but those shows never had to contend with explaining such convoluted relationships. How he came to be a second father to Carrie and Sami was glossed over effectively while capturing the emotion of those bonds, and new viewers might have actually believed that Marlena's metaphor about John "slaying dragons" for her was an exaggeration, instead of an understatement. I could almost buy Marlena as a down-to-earth matriarch at this point; her being possessed by the devil could just be something people don't talk about, like Viki going back to the 1800s on OLTL. And Drake was never going to be a serious actor, IMO. I'm no big Deidre Hall fan, but she carried herself well in these scenes and was believable and sympathetic as a grieving widow. I couldn't see that happening if this were the other DH portraying Marlena's funeral.

And hey, if this backfires, they have an out to bring John back and return DAYS to the cartoon it has been for so long: Vivian Alamain made all of the funeral arrangements, so for all we know he is buried alive with enough water and oxygen to last until the next sweeps month or whatever when they dig him up.

PS: Not having watched in years, I have totally lost count of John's identities. I gleamed when I saw bits and pieces of the serial killer story that John had turned out to be Tony's half-brother - I'm assuming that's via Tony's mother. I had thought that meant that he was no longer an Alamain, but then they mentioned Vivian this week, so is he still related to her (via an affair between Tony's mother and Lawrence's father I guess) or not? Or does she just not know that they are no longer related? Did the part about him once being a priest turn out to be true as well (and if not, then has Marlena still been possessed by the devil all this time because he wasn't qualified to perform the exorcism)? And if Tony has been on an island for twenty years, and it was Andre who stranded all the serial killer victims on that island (was it the same island?) then who was it that died when "Tony" shot himself to frame John for his murder? And BTW, this paragraph is why I think John's presence on the canvas would have been a permanent hindrance to DAYS ever being taken seriously again...I feel like I lost 10 IQ points just writing it.