oh, so will sleeps with her BEFORE sonny is beat up? i didnt expect that. i still like this.

Even worse...

I think what is actually happening is the show is going to great pains to not show Will in any sort of gay context. Has he even shaken a guy's hand since he came out? Now he is sleeping with women? It's soapy? How convenient that the brand of soap DOOL is selling is all hetero soap. That's the problem.

They went to events, they held seminars, this was a triumph to help gay kids see a role model on TV, they felt honored to have a role in it blah blah blah....and sure enough they chicken out.

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.

On another note, I can't believe you were all dissing that Daniel Colson sorry a few pages back. I LOVED that story!

I will forever be the lone DH fan.

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.

Have some originality and come up with some new stories.

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.

They wouldn't have Melanie jumping in bed with Gabi, or Nicole jumping in bed with Sami, or Abe jumping in bed with Bo.

Thank the Lord for that, too.

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.

How can it be amazing when its been done before and its just a stupid roadblock in the storyline. The simple assault of Sonny would have been enough to drive story with Will and Sonny. Sonny could have finally pulled away from Will and told him to [!@#$%^&*] off. Will would have been upset......Sonny gets help and finds himself a bf while Will is left lusting for him. No need to bring in Gabi into it again with this awful I was feeling bad so I had sex plot point....just dumb.

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.

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.

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.

Edited August 17, 201213 yr by wingwalker

I think that having Will scared about being beaten up after his parents have expressed that concern and seeing it happen to another young gay guy in his town he is friends with is more than enough to logically make him want to go back into the closet and not be gay. This does happen in the real world, it isnt far fetched or anything. Its pretty realistic. I think having him turn to his ex girlfriend and have sex with her is a very soapy move as Gabi is already unhinged, so for Will to use her will push her further and the possibility of a baby adds even more drama for both will and gabi, along with sami, rafe and many more and touches upon the history of sami being a teenage parent herself.

i dont want a very special storyline where "the gays" are treated with kiddie gloves. I want soapy stories that involve gay characters just like they do every other character, screwed over couples and all. Im not watching because will is gay or in the hopes of will/sonny happening, i dont care who is paired with who I just want entertaining, soapy stories and thats what this seems to be. Yes, i do think that is great.

Agreed 100%

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

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

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

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

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.

That sure worked out.

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.

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