DAYS: Will & Sonny Spoiler Thread

[Ms. Chandler Quartermaine]

Even worse...

[JackPeyton]

Actually, eh had a pretty steamy makeout with that dude.

and sonny kisses him monday.

and he has a boyfriend like next month or the month after through fall.

[ChitHappens]

Daniel Colson was the best potential story on any soap in so many years, and it was wrapped up in 2 weeks to give Spencer Truman more airtime, as if he needed any. The ratings went thru the roof with Colson's outing, and then it was gone. They potential there was unbelievable and the story practically wrote itself, but again, no one has time to tell stories. Just drive thru rotgut. People still wonder why Daytime soaps are all but dead. Sigh.

[Khan]

Or, at the very least, write stories about gay characters that don't come across as plot-driven. I don't care how realistic it is for men like Will to sleep with women after coming out. No way would he sleep with Gabi, of all people. Not after all that happened between them before.

[Khan]

Thank the Lord for that, too.

[Ira]

The thing about a gay character sleeping with a woman is that it's easy to keep the stories you want on screen. There was an interview with Ron Carlivati I believe where he mentioned that because networks change things so much, baby switches are good stories to pitch. Because it has a ticking time clock, but it's a story you're allowed to play out because once it's started you see the logical end. Same for pregnancies. If Gabby is getting pregnant (is she?) it will lead to some sort of drama, and that has probably give Tomlin/Whitesell the ability to keep whatever story they want to happen on the canvas without getting notes to change it.

It's also partly why Fish got Stacy pregnant on OLTL, it was also to keep him involved in other storylines.

[Gray Bunny]

This would make so much more sense. Or the thought of Sonny being hurt/beaten to death would make Will realize he has feelings for him, etc. etc. But this whole knee-jerk 180-degree change of going back to poonany makes literally NO sense at all. If the DAYS powers-that-be are really chickening out, I don't understand why. The gay story is the ONLY story getting any praise as of late in the past year. The ratings haven't fallen, so if all the Debbies and Melindas from Bumblefuk Arkansas are writing in theatening to quit watching, it hasn't affect their Nielsen numbers.

[wingwalker]

Yeah, at least on OLTL when Oliver Fish had sex with Stacy and knocked her up after his "bad day" it made sense since he was still coming out.

[Eric83]

Agreed 100%

[wingwalker]

Here's an interview of Freddie talking about the bullying story. Not a whole lot new, but I thought it was a nice read.

http://sdgln.com/news/2012/08/17/freddie-smith-antigay-bullying-homophobia-days-of-our-lives

[Ms. Chandler Quartermaine]

So every site I've read that has reported this "new plot point", have panned it. I think it's safe to say this story has bomb before it has even aired

[wingwalker]

Yeah, same here. I love whoever writes the Instinct Magazine blog: "The actor also promises that 'There will be romance for Sonny.' As long as that romance is with a male, we'll be cool. Probably." LOL

http://instinctmagazine.com/blogs/blog/days-of-our-lives-will-tackle-gay-bullying-gay-panic-storyline?directory=100011

[DRW50]

That sure worked out.

[Ms. Chandler Quartermaine]

In the nicest way possible, no1curr about Sonny.

I don't care if no one agrees with me, but they need to recast Sonny, FS has as much edge as a plastic butter knife.

[JaneAusten]

Weren't the actors who blamed Kish fired and that whole storyline blamed for the ratings sinking that year?