He's very cute i want so badly to have high hopes for he's Days HW run but Dena's still there.

Edited February 19, 201610 yr by victoria foxton

August-November was Griffith but December and January was Dena.

How so?

Last fall Dena did a facebook chat with fans and all the things she talked about was stuff that aired Dec-Jan. She didn't talk anything about the stuff that actually aired at the time, this was back in August or September after her leave of absence had already been reported. By December, some stories came to a qucik end with little fallout and the feel of the show changed. All writers have a certain feel and style, anyone who's watched Dena's work in the past should know her's by now. The Steve/Kayla/Ava story is a repeat of the same story she wrote in 2008. Rafe being the male lead again being put with the female lead. Expanding the Hernandez family, like she did back in 2009-2011. I could go on, but that's all just the basics. Reliable people have pretty much confirmed it.

Last fall Dena did a facebook chat with fans and all the things she talked about was stuff that aired Dec-Jan. She didn't talk anything about the stuff that actually aired at the time, this was back in August or September after her leave of absence had already been reported. By December, some stories came to a qucik end with little fallout and the feel of the show changed. All writers have a certain feel and style, anyone who's watched Dena's work in the past should know her's by now. The Steve/Kayla/Ava story is a repeat of the same story she wrote in 2008. Rafe being the male lead again being put with the female lead. Expanding the Hernandez family, like she did back in 2009-2011. I could go on, but that's all just the basics. Reliable people have pretty much confirmed it.

So you're saying that when Dena/Josh started writing, Dena just sat there on the side, for about 3-3.5 months, and let Josh Head Write the show?  Then for about 1-2 months before Dena went on her LOA, Dena was HW while Josh sat on the side?   I don't know about this. It doesn't sound right.   I know what we're seeing right now is when Dena was on her LOA. 

I could believe in that outline only because Griff has pretty much said how much he loves Patch and Kayla thus the heavy focus they got in the months when the new writers starting to air. And it's something that we are STILL seeing. Given the slowness of his writing (which I liked at his Y&R...ik minority)  I could see Dena throwing in Ava.

 

And Griff's Y&R was about starting some diversity which I see here too with Lani, aged Theo and Rafe's family. Again, that does have Dena over it as well since she loves Rafe as lead.

 

Definitely feel the tone changed. I loved how the tone was. Now it has been hit&miss ffrom week to week with crazy Time jumping.

The other factor skewing the timeline of who-wrote-what is that the focus from September-December was almost entirely on Chad/Abigail/Ben and Hope/Bo/Aiden/Steve/Kayla. Aside from what was necessary for the murders (Eve's grief, Sami and Lucas's grief) and the bicentennial stuff, it wasn't really a 'regular' show. I imagine they came in with a very strict outline about getting through the serial killer storyline -- and you could see some of Higley's fingerprints there, like with the re-emergence of Rafe The Hero, and Sami's crappy little revenge arc. Once the table was cleared from those two huge, time-sensitive things, you almost immediately saw Higley-type stories (Ava's return, pushing Hope/Rafe) with the Griffith-style darkness and the wild pacing. I would guess that it was during that time that they either started clashing badly in their vision of the show, OR that Higley legitimately had a family emergency.

Griffith's HW time on Days reminds of Black and Stern's dark writing that was going on ATWT at the time. They didn't last long either.

IDK if he was a baby around the time of Marlena's possession but reports say he started off as a writing assistant at Passions. Lord, I hope he does not try and emulate JER for those who are still watching. 

I had to look him up and checked out Jason's page. He graduated from UCLA in 1999. Still a relative young'un, but not David Kreizman young. 

Can you please give me the link to Jason's page about Ryan?

IDK if he was a baby around the time of Marlena's possession but reports say he started off as a writing assistant at Passions. Lord, I hope he does not try and emulate JER for those who are still watching. 

I had to look him up and checked out Jason's page. He graduated from UCLA in 1999. Still a relative young'un, but not David Kreizman young. 

New blood now a days is better but look how bad DK was as HW. He was awful!

IDK if he was a baby around the time of Marlena's possession but reports say he started off as a writing assistant at Passions. Lord, I hope he does not try and emulate JER for those who are still watching. 

I had to look him up and checked out Jason's page. He graduated from UCLA in 1999. Still a relative young'un, but not David Kreizman young. 

Can you please give me the link to Jason's page about Ryan?

The bio on my page is a little outdated. I've updated it since the announcement. Here's my updated bio on him, along with the 50 scripts that he wrote the dialogue for from 2008-2011:

 

Ryan Shigeru Quan graduated from UCLA in 1999 and started off his soap career by winning Procter & Gamble's writing contest for college students. Quan was the writers' assistant for "Passions" from 1999-2005 and served as the show's website coordinator from 2005-2007. He joined "Days of Our Lives" on April 3, 2007 as the show's writers' assistant. He started doing double duty as a dialogue writer from September 2008-November 2008 and September 2009-March 2011. Quan has been doing double duty as both a breakdown writer and writers' assistant since September 2011. He won his first Daytime Emmy Award in 2012 and has been nominated a total of four times (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015). Quan, 38, was born on September 9, 1977 in Los Angeles, California.

 

Here's a list of the 50 scripts that new head writer Ryan Quan wrote for "Days" from 2008-2011:

 

2008: (9)
9/12, 9/15, 9/26, 9/29 (4)
10/6, 10/7, 10/15, 10/31 (4)
11/5 (1)

 

2009: (13)
9/11, 9/25 (2)
10/2, 10/15, 10/30 (3)
11/9, 11/13, 11/24 (3)
12/2, 12/11, 12/21, 12/28, 12/31 (5)

 

2010: (22)
1/14, 1/25, 1/29 (3)
2/12 (1)
3/15, 3/29 (2)
4/14 (1)
5/3, 5/18 (2)
6/1, 6/8, 6/17 (3)
7/16 (1)
8/4, 8/19 (2)
9/9 (1)
10/5, 10/19 (2)
11/9, 11/24 (2)
12/15, 12/27 (2)

 

2011: (6)
1/19, 1/28 (2)
2/7, 2/21 (2)
3/4, 3/17 (2)

 

Edited February 21, 201610 yr by JAS0N47

Griffith fits well with Jean and Shelly vision of smarttv. Jean has that magic ability to probably get him to do his best work. I bet Josh quit days to work with Jean.

Griffith fits well with Jean and Shelly vision of smarttv. Jean has that magic ability to probably get him to do his best work. I bet Josh quit days to work with Jean.

Griffith fits right in with Jelly all 3 are hacks. GH under Jelly is dull and boring with Griffith it will be beyond depressing. But i would love to see Griffith kill off all the dead weight on GH. 

Edited February 21, 201610 yr by victoria foxton

Griffith fits well with Jean and Shelly vision of smarttv. Jean has that magic ability to probably get him to do his best work. I bet Josh quit days to work with Jean.

Griffith fits right in with Jelly all 3 are hacks. GH under Jelly is dull and boring with Griffith it will be beyond depressing. But i would love to see Griffith kill off all the dead weight on GH. 

LMAO

LMAO So Passanante has magic abilities now? She's a witch???!!

  More like the fairy godmother in Cindarella waving her magic wand

More like Lady Tremaine in Cinderella III after stealing the wand.