DAYS: Dena Higley posted a new blog!

[YRBB]

I can't help but think that the 7 first paragraphs have a very specific reason to exist: "I'm having a hard time! Stop bitchin'"............. Change is upon us. Nothing I can really do about it. So many new challenges in our business. There are meetings and memos and budgets and lists and numbers being crunched... and the leadership of the show is doing their best. No matter what you think of what's going on, you have to know that.

Oh my, clearly she's telling people to shut the f*ck up.... What a hack!

[Cat]

Notice how she talks about "the leadership of the show," like she's not involved. She's the [!@#$%^&*] headwriter!

[jimmyk311]

I don't know why we even take are time out bitching about what's on Dena's blog when we should be blaming the 2+ million viewers who still watching this show.

[UKBoi]

While I'm not exactly a fan of Higley, I do think that some people need to ease up on the current regime at DOOL. They're trying to keep the series on the air, and if they have to cut big paychecks to keep within budget, they're being accused of not caring about the vets, about what viewers want and trying to shove newbies down viewers' throats. If they cut the newbies and keep the vets, they're accused of not building towards a future, relying on the glory days that have clearly passed.

I dont think that axing Hall and Hogestyn was necessarily the best move, but John and Marlena have been so criminally underused that maybe it's for the best. Although they really should have kept John dead when he died the last time and had Marlena move on with a new man (played by an actor with a lower price tag). Though I do think that Sheffer and his team were let go at the worst possible time...the show was really starting to go places.

I do enjoy the idea of Philip and Stephanie, the good girl and the bad boy, maybe she gets corrupted by him or maybe she tries to stay away from him because she doesnt approve of his actions, but her love keeps pulling her back to him. I think they could build on them quite well if it was done properly. The EJ/Nicole storyline has potential, but I think instead of bringing Brady back they could have had Eric Martsolf play Eric Brady...revisit Eric/Nicole while throwing Sami and EJ into the mix, maybe add Chloe and Lucas to it as well (although if I'm being honest, Chloe and Lucas could sail off into the sunset now and I wouldnt care...and I was a huge Lumi fan). Sami and Rafe...well its just Luis Lopez Fitzgerald in Salem and that doesn't interest me at all...they should have made him a bad guy, a corrupt agent secretly working for whoever he is meant to be protecting Sami from. And where are Bo and Hope in this storyline? They could be a crucial part of this storyline. The same with Abe and Lexie? Why was the hyped up autism storyline not played as a bigger part of the series? Where was them hating each other and fighting and blaming each other and making up and struggling to keep their marriage together for the sake of their son? So many missed beats of a potentially great storyline...

Higley has some good ideas, but she needs someone with a better knowledge of Days history (and by history I mean storylines before Tom Langan's reign of terror) to help balance out and develop her ideas.

[Rakesh]

LMAO

[rhinohide]

Thank you! I read it, and I thought it was sweet, and I am no fan of Higley's writing. But maybe it's because I am a mother and I can identify with her. Frankly, I am surprised at her typos more than anything else. You'd think a writer would at the very least know how to use spell check.

[Toups]

The blog is on daysofourlives.com, so I'd expect her to talk about writing for the show. Instead it's about her family? I would understand if it was personal blog on blogspot or something. If she's writing a blog, I would love to read about her insights into the characters and stories. That's what a writers blog should be about.

[rhinohide]

Didn't know that and ITA. If it were a personal blogspot, it would be fine. If you're checking it out to make sense of what's happening on Days, it would be annoying. Although with Higley, I would be scared to know what she thinks about some things.

[Vee]

IMHO, the only reason Higley writes about her life on a blog is because it was a craven attempt to humanize her, during the WGA scab investigation when she was targeted. I have no sympathy for her or her damn blog.

[tylerbo20]

why is nbc trying so hard to get us to like her her apperance on Today show and her stupid blogs..god i just want her to vanish. why did corday get rid of the good writer for this stupid idiot.

[rangethatrover]

God I am glad this piece of work no longer "writes" or should I say "plots" OLTL.

What a f-ckhead.

In what other business could you SUCK writing a show, be fired after 3-4 months- go to another show, destroy it, THEN- COME BACK TO THE SAME SHOW YOU WERE FIRED FROM YEARS AGO????????

I really feel for you Days fans. You deserve better. The show deserves better. When someone's life is at stake you get the BEST doctors you can find. You don't settle from some hack with multiple malpractice suits-

What a f-cking joke.

And I have a feeling she works for cheap.

[JackPeyton]

we agree. its so rare. lol.

i dont. its an nbc blog, just like ali sweeney has a blog and other various people behind and in front of the cam ahve blogs at nbc. 90% of them are not about the show they work on ind etail. its about the life they lead with mentions about things related to the show.

[miajere]

I'm starting to wonder if her son is truly autistic, or was he just tired of hearing her bedtime stories.

[phloeishot]

Here's an example of what her Blog on the Sony and NBC sites should be like:

http://www.greyswriters.com/

Grey Matter (Grey's Anatomy)

Joan Rater On "In The Midnight Hour"...

Original Airdate: 11-20-08

Okay, it’s a little crazy to try to take out an appendix. I get that. I think Lexie and Sadie and all the interns get that. IT’S CRAZY TO TAKE OUT AN APPENDIX! But here’s the thing – it’s the middle of the night. And an appendectomy is the easiest surgery you can do. And they’ve seen them done a lot. And they’ve done them on the practice dummy guy, IStan. And they’re competitive and feel like their residents aren’t letting them do anything and, I think it bears repeating … it’s the middle of the night. When all things are possible. It’s not the middle of the night as I write this, but it’s late, 11 pm, and I’m feeling like maybe I’ll wake up early and exercise before work. I probably won’t, cause like … um … I never have … but it’s late and under cover of darkness … all things feel possible.

Which brings me to Izzie. I’ll get back to the interns because more needs to be said – THEY TOOK OUT SADIE’S APPENDIX!- but Izzie … Izzie just touched Denny -- talking, breathing, right here in her bedroom Denny – and she’s just sitting there at the beginning of the episode wondering what’s going on, it’s not possible that he’s here, because he died, but he’s here and he’s talking and now he’s walking toward her and now he’s unbuckling his belt and …. Crazy. Unreal. Impossible. But …. I think Izzie is thinking that tonight she’s going to let this be possible. In the confines of her room she’s going to let this be real. But it’s complicated and scary. She and Alex are finally good, really good and so what is this, why is Denny here, why can’t she just move on? And I think she thinks she will -- tomorrow, in the morning, as I’m exercising, she’ll be all moving on and stuff, but tonight …. Tonight why can’t she just let miracles happen, turn off her scientist brain and just be in that moment, the two of them, finally alone together? And by the way, I don’t think she thinks it’s cheating on Alex. I really don’t. Because Denny’s dead. Whatever this is, whatever he is, Izzie knows this isn’t real, she KNOWS that, but it feels real and she just … closes her eyes and, you heard the sounds coming from the room, as Meredith said, it sounded kinda porny, so whatever’s going on with the dead guy, the sex is good at least … But by morning, in the light of day, when appendixes have been removed and you realize you can’t stay in your room with your dead ex-boyfriend forever, she chooses Alex and it’s sad as she looks at Denny who seems sad, but he gets it, after all he’s “here for her …”

Back to the appendix. Sadie’s appendix. Did you hear Sadie say to Lexie that Meredith is wrong about her, maybe Lexie isn’t such a priss? And the look on Lexie’s face, “Meredith thinks I’m a priss?” And that is what takes Lexie over the edge in the middle of the night and makes her go, yeah, we can do this, why not? How hard can it be to take out an appendix?

Sidenote- I had these hedges, really overgrown. And my husband, who usually trims the hedges wasn’t home, so I said to myself, how hard can it be to trim hedges? I trimmed one side and then the other, and then I had to even out the first side and then I cut too much and had to go back and then the whole thing looked like CRAP but I had to fix it and then I just started whacking away like a crazy person and then my husband came home and said in a voice that he usually reserves for our 5 year old. “Honey, put down the hedge clippers and step away from the hedge.”

I think that’s what happened a little. In the OR as opposed to my front yard. Things were fine and then they weren’t and when Meredith and Cristina walked into that horrible scene and saw Sadie on the table and intern Ryan and Lexie just looking shellshocked and horrified, it was like, “Put down the scalpel and step away from the table”.

Here’s what I love – Meredith and Cristina rocked that surgery. They stayed calm, they did it, and in doing so they showed everyone – the Chief, Bailey, themselves -- how far they’ve come as doctors. And Bailey was there to see it and take a little bit of pride in the fact that she raised her babies, she taught them right from wrong, now it’s their turn to do the same thing to their interns …

Speaking of Bailey, how about the scene with her and Callie where she talks about how she’s come to resent the appendix for getting infected and needing to removed? She resents a surgery that our residents are so excited to perform. And that gives her pause. Seeing their passion, missing that passion in herself, makes her wonder if maybe she needs a change …

And Mark and Derek. I love their friendship. And I think Mark does too, which is why he doesn’t want to mess it up. But seriously – he didn’t think of Lexie in THAT WAY until Derek mentioned it. It is Derek’s fault. But when we find out how Derek’s mom took Mark in, took in a stray, we see a new side of Mark and I’ve got to say, I love it. That he sees how in distress Lexie is and tells Derek to take her home … or he will …

Meredith and Cristina’s fight. Cristina lost the solo surgery and feels that it’s unfair that she should take the hit for this, that Meredith should have stood up for her more, but I get when Meredith asks, “what did you want me to say?” Meredith’s friend almost died, Meredith’s “sort of but not really” sister is probably going to get kicked out of the program … and Cristina knew intern fight club was going on?!! I like that they are both right and that there are no easy answers and that it’s complicated and messy.

Speaking of complicated … um … Major Dr. Owen Hunt. Complicated. And tortured. Words fail him all night, so that when he finally finds his words and tells Cristina he thinks she’s beautiful … it’s so surprising and nice and she gets this look on her face. It’s like she softens for just a split second. It’s not what she was expecting to hear, he’s not who she thought he was, and I like that they are both complicated and they sit on the stoop as the sun comes up on a new day and they can just be quiet together.

Because that’s the thing about morning. It eventually comes and when it does, your life and the people in it, who you’ve become, decisions you’ve made either look good by the light of day or just illuminate how far off course you’ve gone.

Izzie realizes she can’t stay holed up in her room, Ggeorge opens his eyes to the fact that Lexie has been in love with him and he’s been so preoccupied he hasn’t seen it, Derek realizes that he needs to “bring home a stray” and when he does, Meredith is grateful. Alex tells Izzie, I can handle your crazy, if you want to break up with me, that’s on you. It’s like the residents are growing up, especially in comparison to the interns who probably just wish they could take it all back.

So … it’s morning as I finish this. And I didn’t get up early. The alarm went off and I decided I’d sleep in. But tonight’s another night, filled with possibilities, and I bet I’ll set that alarm again and one of these days, maybe, it’s possible, I’ll get to the gym and work out. How hard can it be?

[MichaelGL]

They should just ban Dena from daytime so she can devote her whole life to blogging. Who knows, it'll probably be better written than her soap career.