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- Buried Alive (1993)

- Roman/Marlena/John triangle (1993-1994): the affair, Roman finding out, Belle gets kidnapped, Belle's true paternity is revealed

- Maison Blanche (1994)

- Vivian/Kate/Victor (1994-1995): Vivian tries to steal Victor away from Kate, Vivian causes Kate's "death"

- The Possession (1995)

- Aremid (1996): Tony frames John for murder, John's trial, John writes the letter (which will used for the next big arc in 1997), Jude St. Clair kidnaps Hope, The Women In White is revealed to Rachel Blake

- Lady in a Cage/Paris (1996)

- Susan Banks/Secret Room (1997): Kristen schemes to keep John and fakes her pregnancy, Susan Banks hijinks, the truth comes out at the Elvis wedding, the flying teeth scene!

- Lucas/Sami/Austin/Carrie quad (1993-1997): Sami trying to break up A/C, Sami getting pregnant and stopping A/C's wedding, Sami pretending the baby was Austin's, Sami getting busted the 1st time, Sami loses her memory then gets it back then fakes her amnesia, Sami/Austin's fake marriage, Sami gets busted for the 2nd time and Carrie knocks her out

- Bo/Billie/Hope (1994-1996): Bo/Billie's romance, Billie's trial in the "Who Killed Curtis Brown?" story, Hope comes back but as "Gina", Hope opens the puzzle box (one of the best scenes ever), Billie leaves town

- Jack/Jen/Peter (1994-1997): Laura sleeps with Jack when they don't know each other's true identity, Peter gaslights Laura

- The Salem Serial Killer (August 2003 - May 2004)

I thought those were pretty damn good. :)

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Listing storylines is all great... but it also helps if you offer an explanation. What about them makes you think he's a good writer?

I'm a Gemini, so I love to debate -- and I'm also pissed at your AMC thread censorship catering to those fools who don't participate in the threads, so I'm giving you a hard time as well.

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Then get to typing!

I have to say that Reilly is only as good as his Executive Producer. His writing style is redundant and somewhat juvenile, but he knows how to hook an audience. Even if it is with cliches, recycled plots, and movie ripoffs. Just about everything Toups has listed I would watch again, not only for the retrospective comedy, but also for the whole, "Awwww....that was(and still is) really cool."

Reilly at DAYS in 2003/4 was an epic fail because Reilly had to change his entire course after the ratings slid for the Stalker Mystery. It was obvious Corday(with NBC's assistance) forced his hand and made him change the entire course of his story. I'm curious as to what would have happened after the revamp. I feel DAYS would have survived. Reilly isn't the greatest storyteller, but his plan for slashing the cast was rather effective.

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Well, I was thinking more a "detailed list" as opposed to a short summary.

And Passions had its moments before it became this repetitive freak show. I only gave it three months, but I am still incredibly fond of certain actors, certain scenes(anything that has to do with Gwen beating up Terror, esp. the bedpan), and "Love Is Ecstasy."

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Reilly wrote hokey crap. Some of it was hokey crap that was in the right place at the right time (Days, the first run) and the show did well for it, but it was all hokey crap. People getting posessed by the devil, and all that DiMera "intrigue" was, though they are memorable for the actors or the performance or their place in Days' history...

...still hokey crap, but DAYS is a hokey crap show.

Passions was ridiculous, and I'm pretty sure Precious the Ape wrote most of it, and Reilly, finding it to be pretty damn good put his name on it.

The fact alone that the show did well under his tenure did not make him a genius. Write some of this stuff out and tell me if it sounds good on paper:

lady gets posessed by the devil

a woman becomes a princess because of a freaky chip in her brain

the most important part of an entire town gets "killed", by the stalwart Marlena Evans, to be put on an island that looks just like salem then make it home...

...WHILE MOST OF WHY THE F*CK IT ALL HAPPENED GOES UNEXPLAINED IN A PLOT HOLE YOU COULD LAND A LEAR JET INTO.

A genius he was not, but he was good for DAYS at the time, and his pure creative juices manifested in the most laughable soap to ever grace television for those 9 years.

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