As long as they didn't attempt to "recreate the magic" and hire Kim Zimmer to play Trish Clayton, I'd be fine with Robert Newman as David Banning.

1 minute ago, Faulkner said:

Robert Newman would be fantastic. I just know that they’d end up pairing him with Kate and Valerie would be totally forgotten. It’s just one of those things...

Which would be crazy, Kate always gets the man. If he didn’t end up Val, I would have tested a triangle with Roman/Anna/David, but definitely not Kate. 

32 minutes ago, Dr Neil Curtis said:

Which would be crazy, Kate always gets the man. If he didn’t end up Val, I would have tested a triangle with Roman/Anna/David, but definitely not Kate. 

You just know they’d have him all up on Kate. She’s the only person in that age range they consistently write for. As for Val: it’s like when OLTL hired HBS as Hank’s ex. They didn’t hire a big ‘80s soap sensation to be “wasted” on Nathan Purdee. Of course, they were going to pair her with Bob Woods.

Edited February 26, 20187 yr by Faulkner

8 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

You just know they’d have him all up on Kate. She’s the only person in that age range they consistently write for. As for Val: it’s like when they hired HBS as Hank’s ex. They didn’t hire a big ‘80s soap sensation to be “wasted” on Nathan Purdee. Of course, they were going to pair her with Bob Woods.

Right!!

TC/Stefan is a very, very attractive man with a great body (especially at 45), but it was sort of funny to see him sucking in his stomach during his shirtless scenes. You can tell he’s self-conscious about being trotted out as eye candy.

It's obvious 98% of the music is performed on a single keyboard Corday must have bought in 1987.

Edited February 26, 20187 yr by koos

1 hour ago, Faulkner said:

TC/Stefan is a very, very attractive man with a great body (especially at 45), but it was sort of funny to see him sucking in his stomach during his shirtless scenes. You can tell he’s self-conscious about being trotted out as eye candy.

LOL I said exactly this yesterday. His mid-section was so stiff from clenching his abs, he could hardly get his lines out 

25 minutes ago, beebs said:

LOL I said exactly this yesterday. His mid-section was so stiff from clenching his abs, he could hardly get his lines out 

 

The show didn't have that bad of background music when Ed Scott was briefly in charge, but it's been a steady decline since then. 

14 hours ago, beebs said:

The music on DAYS has sucked since Marty Davich's cues were phased out around 1994-95. I think there's an archived thread on here in his honour somwhere, in fact. Unfortunately, Corday looooves to score his show (he was a wannabe musician before working on the show), so we're basically doomed to endure what we have for as long as he's living.

 

I thought the music created and used from 1993-1997 was fantastic. Very sweeping, moody, memorable pieces used. They started sounded rinky-dinky and goofy around 97 and into 1998. It didn't help that the Susan Banks character was saddled with campy circus music in every single scene. 

Caught up and watched Thursday's and Friday's eppys....floved Thursday with Will and Paul. Loved the Billie, Will, Kate and Lucas scenes too.

 

Today's episode was horrible...way too much of Rafe and Hope. I am not a fan of the couple. Whose bright idea was to put Hope with Rafe? And why does it continue? Yawn......

Edited February 26, 20187 yr by Soapsuds

21 hours ago, Khan said:

As long as they didn't attempt to "recreate the magic" and hire Kim Zimmer to play Trish Clayton, I'd be fine with Robert Newman as David Banning.

Oh God no!!!! Kim Zimmer can stick with those little dinner theater plays! 

4 hours ago, Dr Neil Curtis said:

Oh God no!!!! Kim Zimmer can stick with those little dinner theater plays! 

Never thought I'd see "Kim Zimmer" and "little dinner" in the same sentence. 

31 minutes ago, Winchester91 said:

Never thought I'd see "Kim Zimmer" and "little dinner" in the same sentence. 

 

OMG

19 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

way too much of Rafe and Hope. I am not a fan of the couple. Whose bright idea was to put Hope with Rafe? And why does it continue? Yawn......

 

That's the million dollar question, isn't it? I don't get it. I just blame Corday.

 

Rafe just sucks the life out of Hope. Galen's a problem but I could honestly use a nice long break from Hope and Kristian. Jennifer being backburnered with a slowburn romance with Eric and having scenes with friends and family has really helped me like her again. Hope needs the same. They rushed too quickly into Rope and I hated Bo 'giving' Hope (I like Hope just fine when Rafe isn't attached to her side and she defers to him like his little woman) to Rafe (essentially). It just turned me off to them. The Stefano cover up cemented by hatred.

 

Rafe and Hope should have been a long slow burn. Instead they forced them together (when they didn't have to force it, IMO). I doubt I'll ever become a fan of them. Many aren't. I often see things posted on Twitter. Rafe seems fairly disliked, not on Daniel levels, but still. So I'm shocked he's lasted so long. I'm not totally anti-Galen or Rafe, I've liked him with others (not Sami). I liked him when he was playing snarky cop and was single (maybe 2011/2012?). That worked. But that sadly didn't last long and we were back to douchebag (now including hypocrite) city.

 

While I like she's been given a little more to do with the baby story (and I suspect she has a VERY low guarantee), they're still wasting Vanessa A. Williams, IMHO. I don't dislike Abe but I hate they just up and shackled them together right away. It's pretty much vibrant Lexie and stodgy Abe all over again. I like Abe but I've always felt Lexie was stuck (they seemed to really hesitate truly breaking them up, which I don't understand) and now Val is stuck. They swapped one for the other. History use aside, you could cross out Val's name and put Lexie and not a lot would change. You just know if Lexie were still alive (I MISS YOU RENEE JONES!!! AND YOU TOO PETER RECKELL!!!) she'd be thristy as hell for Eli. LOL. She'd be all over that man. I like Lamon and he seems to have a great personality on Twitter, so I wish Eli had a bit more personality. I think being cops limits Eli and Lani and it's why the actors play them so ... hard. It doesn't actually work though. Lani just comes off as awkward and Eli seems to have been given the angry black man cliche. Or at least that's how Lamon plays it.

Edited February 27, 20187 yr by KMan101