4 hours ago, Antoyne said:

It really was a great scene. All of Sami’s goodbyes were great even though it doesn’t make a lick of sense that the kids wouldn’t just come to Salem for the holidays.

I don't worry about the semantics now. I take Days for what it is....good and ill. and I find myself enjoying it. Unlike Y&R, where the ONLY story I find interesting is Jack Vs. Ashley (For the 14,567th time).

I'm struggling with the JJ story.

4 hours ago, Edward Skylover said:

I'm struggling with the JJ story.

It was a nice showcase for CM.  Everything else was a badly executed mess. Theo's miraculously awakening from his coma on Christmas felt flat. JJ got decent writing while Abe, Lani and Val didn't. I'm just glad it's over. I always liked Abe. But bug eyed angry Abe was getting on my nerves.

Why is it JJ got the good writing while Abe, lani, and Val didn't?  

On 12/27/2017 at 1:04 PM, Antoyne said:

It really was a great scene. All of Sami’s goodbyes were great even though it doesn’t make a lick of sense that the kids wouldn’t just come to Salem for the holidays.

 

I thought that myself, until I remembered that Lucas was busy writhing in agony in a hospital bed from alcohol withdrawals. Maybe Sami had the right idea?

2 minutes ago, koos said:

 

I thought that myself, until I remembered that Lucas was busy writhing in agony in a hospital bed from alcohol withdrawals. Maybe Sami had the right idea?

That’s true for one of the kids but literally every other member of the kids family’s live in Salem if they aren’t currently presumed dead.

40 minutes ago, victoria foxton said:

It was a nice showcase for CM.  Everything else was a badly executed mess. Theo's miraculously awakening from his coma on Christmas felt flat. JJ got decent writing while Abe, Lani and Val didn't. I'm just glad it's over. I always liked Abe. But bug eyed angry Abe was getting on my nerves.

 

I thought it was nice that Silent Night was being played while Abe had his monologue, it felt emotional, I quite liked Theo waking up which has been the only part I liked. I struggled to feel empathy for JJ as Theo deserved to be shot as far as I'm concerned as he was committing a crime and it looked like he was holding a gun.

 

I did like the JJ/Gabi scenes as well.

 

Will and Sonny are getting on my nerves after getting off to a good start. I think Paul is the strongest gay character so his absence makes the story feel less significant.

 

Al the business crap with Kate, Chad, Andre, Brady, Eve....well I couldn't care less, it's literally fast forward material. Though I do love Kate and anything with her in is watchable.

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5 hours ago, Edward Skylover said:

I'm struggling with the JJ story.

It's a bad story. Why write a story like this when black people are being murdered by the police with impunity IRL? They took the actual narrative playing out in our society and turned it on it's head.  If you are going to go there at all, then the police officer should have been a new character who shot Theo under unjustified circumstances.  You don't make the officer the misunderstood good guy. What's next? Maybe Kayla can falsely accuse one of her fellow doctors of sexually harassing her so we can all see the problem is really the lying women.

12 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

It's a bad story. Why write a story like this when black people are being murdered by the police with impunity IRL? They took the actual narrative playing out in our society and turned it on it's head.  If you are going to go there at all, then the police officer should have been a new character who shot Theo under unjustified circumstances.  You don't make the officer the misunderstood good guy. What's next? Maybe Kayla can falsely accuse one of her fellow doctors of sexually harassing her so we can all see the problem is really the lying women.

I’ve been pretty much ignoring this story for this exact reason. It’s pretty annoying as an African American male.

36 minutes ago, Juliajms said:

It's a bad story. Why write a story like this when black people are being murdered by the police with impunity IRL? They took the actual narrative playing out in our society and turned it on it's head.  If you are going to go there at all, then the police officer should have been a new character who shot Theo under unjustified circumstances.  You don't make the officer the misunderstood good guy. What's next? Maybe Kayla can falsely accuse one of her fellow doctors of sexually harassing her so we can all see the problem is really the lying women.

 

24 minutes ago, Antoyne said:

I’ve been pretty much ignoring this story for this exact reason. It’s pretty annoying as an African American male.

 

Been saying this from day 1!  Its a White/Blue Lives Matter story, which is insulting and incredibly irresponsible!!!!!!

 

JJ, I told folks it should have been a new cop on the force for about 6 months so that the show could go there w/o compromising legacy characters.  Tell this from Hope, Rafe, Romen, Abe, Lani, Eli, etc POV.  

They shouldn't have gone there, period, as Carlivati can't do social issues. That's not in his skill set. They barely alluded to BLM, so it all felt superficial.

Just now, Faulkner said:

They shouldn't have gone there, period, as Carlivati can't do social issues. That's not in his skill set. They barely alluded to BLM, so it all felt superficial.

 

A white police officer shooting an unarmed black male most certainly alluded to Black Lives [don't] matter!  Viewers were bamboozled! 

8 minutes ago, ChitHappens said:

 

A white police officer shooting an unarmed black male most certainly alluded to Black Lives [don't] matter!  Viewers were bamboozled! 

I agree the story had no balls; seemed like it was melodramatic filler to get Theo off the canvas and stall until the story with Tyler Christopher could start.  The Abe (shot Brady) angle should have been at play from the start with Abe trying to defend the difference and accuse JJ of racism.  If this had been ABC and Michael Malone/OLTL it would have been more grounded in reality. But we all know that Corday and the network believe that Days core audience are Red State Trump conservatives who don't want to see a story about white racism.  Maybe that's true.  When 65million people put a maniac racist sex abuser in the White House, how does a creative head writer craft a ratings winner?  We also don't know if what we saw on the air was Ron's original pitch to Corday and NBC.  I'm gonna guess Ron would have liked to make it more realistic.  

Edited December 28, 20177 yr by RavenWhitney

11 minutes ago, ChitHappens said:

 

 

Been saying this from day 1!  Its a White/Blue Lives Matter story, which is insulting and incredibly irresponsible!!!!!!

 

JJ, I told folks it should have been a new cop on the force for about 6 months so that the show could go there w/o compromising legacy characters.  Tell this from Hope, Rafe, Romen, Abe, Lani, Eli, etc POV.  

Yes! Then you could have shown him doing some questionable things, so those characters were uncomfortable, but not sure what to do. They could have felt guilty for not seeing the signs of a racist cop sooner and stopping it. . 

 

I understand that the show was too chicken to really address this problem.  OK, it's a dying genre so don't bother trying to reinvent yourself and do better. Just don't do any harm by making the police officer the guilt ridden victim.  I can hardly believe what I'm seeing with this story, it's so irresponsible.

Do we know for certain that Ron Carlivati crafted this story with current events in his mind?  Because, IMO, I don't think that guy knows or cares about what's going on outside of KNOTS LANDING reruns on YT.