On 14/12/2017 at 4:25 PM, soapfave06 said:

Watching the possession story and in February 1995 Stefano sends out five Marlena clones across the country to divert the authorities from catching Marlena. Were these clones ever revisited? And did I miss the explanation on when or how he created them? 

 

Between Hattie, Samantha and these five clones Marlena must be the soap character with the most look a likes. Lol. 

 

Hold back my hair, I'm going to hurl. There are sooooooo many reasons to loathe the atrocious writing during that era of DAYS.

pannoni4, who uploads a lot of commercials and sometimes soap operas, has a Google+ channel with an episode from 6/16/81.

Just Google pannoni4's Google+ and you will quickly see a link to their soap page. 

Youtube channel SMC6 currently has two episodes up from May and August 1989.

On Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 8:41 PM, vetsoapfan said:

 

Hold back my hair, I'm going to hurl. There are sooooooo many reasons to loathe the atrocious writing during that era of DAYS.

 

The thing is, JER didn’t need those gimmicks. He created one of the best young romantic quads with two pairs of half-siblings with Carrie/Austin/Sami/Lucas and turning the bland Kristen Blake into one of daytime's best villainesses. Both stories may have dragged a bit at times but the payoffs were worth it. Kristen as Susan's fake teeth flying across the yard into Vivian's champagne glass? Carrie, Eric and Mike crashing Austin and Sami's wedding with the irrefutable proof that Austin wasn't Will's father...and Lucas' reaction when he found out that HE was? Ah, good times.

The Marlena clones were briefly mentioned a couple weeks after the fact ("someone reported seeing Marlena in Iowa"). Random, huh? Otherwise never mentioned again. This lil story nugget is just the thing Carlivati could find out about and use for today's stories (and by "today," I mean 2020...) 

Let's hope Carlivati isn't reading this thread. 😨😉😂

32 minutes ago, amybrickwallace said:

Let's hope Carlivati isn't reading this thread. 😨😉😂

Amen! Delete now! LOL!!

17 hours ago, amybrickwallace said:

 

The thing is, JER didn’t need those gimmicks. He created one of the best young romantic quads with two pairs of half-siblings with Carrie/Austin/Sami/Lucas and turning the bland Kristen Blake into one of daytime's best villainesses. Both stories may have dragged a bit at times but the payoffs were worth it. Kristen as Susan's fake teeth flying across the yard into Vivian's champagne glass? Carrie, Eric and Mike crashing Austin and Sami's wedding with the irrefutable proof that Austin wasn't Will's father...and Lucas' reaction when he found out that HE was? Ah, good times.

The quad I'll grant you. And, I know this is unpopular as hell here, but Kristen's transformation, while believable due to Marlena and Kristen's insecurity, went way too far into later crazy rapist land. And the whole Susan/billion other characters dreck was awful. So I hated the thing with the teeth and Susan herself. It was that era - along with the admitted ratings juggernaut of Marlena's possession, IMO, that started Days' long spiral into campy laughingstock. And it has never fully recovered since. JER was great at gimmicks and shock. Actual soap with heart, not so much.

Edited January 26, 20187 yr by Wendy

5 hours ago, Dr Neil Curtis said:

Amen! Delete now! LOL!!

 

😂😂😂😂😂

4 hours ago, Wendy said:

The quad I'll grant you. And, I know this is unpopular as hell here, but Kristen's transformation, while believable due to Marlena and Kristen's insecurity, went way too far into later crazy rapist land. And the whole Susan/billion other characters dreck was awful. So I hated the thing with the teeth and Susan herself. It was that era - along with the admitted ratings juggernaut of Marlena's possession, IMO, that started Days' long spiral into campy laughingstock. And it has never fully recovered since. JER was great at gimmicks and shock. Actual soap with heart, not so much.

 

Fair enough! The wedding episodes in late August/early September 1997 were absolutely must watch. Reilly could deliver when it came to a bad guy/girl getting his/her comeuppance. But you're right that stories with heart weren't his strength. Too bad he didn’t have a co-HW who was good at that to balance him out.

 

I remember seeing some scenes of Bill Horton returning to Salem in 1987, but I can’t find them on YouTube anymore. 

On 1/26/2018 at 6:52 PM, Wendy said:

It was that era - along with the admitted ratings juggernaut of Marlena's possession, IMO, that started Days' long spiral into campy laughingstock.

 

I've said this before and I'll say it again -- JER got away with the most audacious storyline he could possibly come up with AND he got higher ratings for it! After that, I'm sure he knew he could get away with basically anything, evidenced by DAYS, PASSIONS, and then DAYS again. What was there to stop him?

 

I think Bell's influence on his work was clear and he retained a lot of what seemed to make Y&R successful, which also happened to be classic soap traits. He knew how to build tension and hold interest and I do think he was pretty good at plotting. I also don't agree he didn't have any heart (there have been plenty of moments in my viewing so far but I suppose they get overshadowed by the flashy stuff) but I do think he lost a lot of it overtime.

 

 

How do you embed photos?

Nice tribute to Leann Hunley here

 

http://neptsdepths.blogspot.com.au/2018/02/what-hunley.html

Am I supposed to take Laura seriously as a doctor/therapist? She seems crazier than her patients! It always looks like she's so vulnerable and weak, that she's a second away from a breakdown.