DAYS: Week of August 11, 2008

[JackPeyton]

Aww, Stefano & Chloe. Remeber when it was so obvious theyw ere going to make her his daughter and then theyw ere like no! thats silly. lets make her craig's daughter after all! ugh. Ya know, Chlucas has really done a lot of Chloe, however nadia is still perhaps the worst actress in daytime...

ya know, days this week has been the best its been since... i dont even know. in a very long time. i wish it could be like this all the time. and i *love* that there is no bo or hope. inf act the only brady involved is Sami. well kayla too but i FF by that bitch so...

[ChiTownBoi03]

Yeah, I could have done without Chloe today...or any day really. Homegirl really is a horrid actress.

[brimike]

Just caught up on yesterday's episode. Yeah, there's definitely an old-school Days feel (although I could have done without the purple smoke. Isn't this what put Steve and Kayla in quarantine during the gloved hand nonsense?).

And I don't know who said it - but I think you're right - the Days that's expository and repetitive just FEELS like Days. It's familiar. On any other soap, it's annoying, but on Days, it's like the only shoe that fits. Depressing, but true...

I also agree with Toups - there were serious breakdown issues (although it might have been an editing issue). Why exactly did Stefano keep leaving Marlena's room?! And yes, a lot of the characters acted pretty stupid (can somebody please send the REAL Kayla Brady back to Salem? I'd love that. Thanks.) But like I said, there's a familiarity to this Days. It felt like early 90's days, where yeah - sometimes things were repetitive, and yeah, the dialogue was expository.

Clearly, I've accepted that this is just what Days is. It's what the fans want. You can't make it into something else it was before, and you can't try and evolve it into something "better". This is the DOOL that makes the majority of its fan happiest, and this is the DOOL they should deliver.

Although there doesn't seem to be any room in this DOOL for Dock Wars, autism or Adventures in (French) Babysitting. I'm curious to see where all of that goes.

Y'all were right. It was a good DAYS episode.

[JackPeyton]

Thats exactly how i feel. When i turn DAYS on THIS is what i want to see.

And ya know, as much i loved dock wars - and yes even adventures in paris babysitting your long lost paris hilton wannabe sister (and the autsim when it was showed). id be glad if it were all gone for this.

and id love it if i enevr had see hope brady on my tv again.

[ArizonaDaze]

Well, Wednesday's episode was pretty good, but, sorry, JackPeyton, this isn't what I want to see all the time. I guess I am too old school Days (no, I don't mean JER's first run) to get into all the stuff that has been going on for years. I know all you youngsters dig all this crazyness, but I started watching from the first episode and I miss what Days use to be. I didn't watch for a period of about 10 years due to having to go to work to support my three children, so I missed Stefano's debut, Tony & Rene and a lot of that period between 1975-1985 - that must be the reason that Stefano has never appealed to me. What I miss most of all is the Hortons. Oh, but I never stop watching and finding enjoyment anyway!I guess I never like to see the bad guy win all the time. I would like to see a stop to the dumbing down of certain characters. I guess Stefano was in and out of Marlena's room so he wouldn't get caught.Why Kayla didn't give the injection to Marlena when the smoke started to come out of the vents was beyond lame as she know how fast Marlena was deteriorating. It would have taken a few seconds and Marlena gave her the go ahead. But then, we wouldn't have Stefano torturing her would we.

[brimike]

I'm with you, ArizonaDaze. But I think we're in the minority. Most people I'm hearing from are thrilled with this week's episodes.

[ArizonaDaze]

Yeah, I know we are on this board and another board that I post on.

[Roman]

Arizona,

Stefano was excellent in hisvery first stint, so I see exactly where you're coming from.

And me to the list of old-school Days fans who just can't get behind the latest incarnation.

[holo37]

You can add me too!

When Tony was telling John all that stuff about Steffy hating Roman and then John because he was obsessed with Marlena....That is soooo not the way it was. I actually had already checked out of Days before the Queen of the Night and nothing about the flashbacks makes me want to go back to that kind of storytelling again. So although I actually really liked the last couple of weeks, yesterday and today makes me very unhappy....

[brimike]

WOAH! Tony said Stefano hated Roman because of Marlena?!

Never mind the Vendetta rewrite, that's not even CLOSE to it. You can say it's because he's a Brady, or you can say it's because of the drug-ring syndicate, but you CAN'T say the grudge against Roman was about Marlena.

In my head, I always saw Stefano knowing about the Brady grudge his father had, and then this cop, Roman Brady, goes after him - and SONOFAGUN, it's the same family! So Stefano decided to reignite the v-word his father had because now the son has stuck his nose in his business. (None of this was on camera, it's just how I rationalized it in my own head, fan-wanker that I am)

Replacing Roman with John-as-Roman was a way to screw with the Bradys, AND get revenge on the bastard son his wife had (which is what Stefano believed at the time, right? That Forrest Alamain was Leopold Alamain and Daphne DiMera's child, right? Or do I have that wrong?) So now he could get rid of this illegitmate kid that reminded him of his wife's infidelity AND screw with the Bradys.

But then Stefano eventually fell in love with Marlena, which is not something he planned on (and he did mention he wondered if he and Marlena were Santo/Colleen reincarnated last year to Sami/EJ).

And on top of all of this? This is all NEW information for Tony as well, since he's been on an island for twenty years, and that was Andre around for all of that stuff anyway.

My head hurts. I need to lie down. :lol: Why do I even TRY with this show?!

[Sapounopera]

ArizonaDaze, Mike, Roman and holo37, I am with you guys as well...

Dimera-centered Days does not work for me. I miss the Hortons and the traditional storytelling and I frankly believe that Stefano, John and the Dimeras have nothing to offer anymore. They are doing the same story over and over and over again.

[ArizonaDaze]

I see why your head would be hurting - trying to wrap it around all of this is mind boggling. Too many head writers changing history over the years.

[ArizonaDaze]

That sums up what I feel perfectly - they are played out. Unfortunately, a lot of the current viewers started watching back in the 90's during JER's first stint (which wasn't all bad by the way Toups! ) so that is what kind of soap they are use to.

[Roman]

Wait a minute.

If memory serves........Roman and Marlena were either not together or not serious when Stefano came to Salem in 1981.

Where is this coming from?!

[ArizonaDaze]

Roman, that was during the period of time I couldn't watch Days (due to having to go to work and no vcr) but I think you are correct. Didn't Roman first come on the scene to protect Marlena from the Strangler? For some reason, I remember seeing them when Roman was staying with Marlena and sleeping on her floor. Ah, good times.