Members teplin Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 Marlena's possession was really the end of Days for me. Oh, don't get me wrong, I watched it every day. It was so audacious, I just couldn't believe they were going there. But it destroyed all of my investment in the show and its history, and in Marlena, who had always been one of my favorite characters. It was clear, especially in the denouement to the storyline, that nothing that happened on this show mattered. And don't get me started on the Salem Stalker -- Reilly didn't even bother to try to make any sense of that. Marlena murdered all these people, but she didn't really, but we saw her do it on screen and the "victims" were buried before they were magically transported to a tropical island. Was everything we saw the Stalker do just a figment of Marlena's imagination? Were the victims also hypnotized so they just thought they were being murdered by Marlena? More importantly, why do I bother with questions about this idiotic tripe? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 That's why I don't 100% buy the story that JER had planned all along to bring back all the Salem Stalker's victims OR reveal that "Tony" had brainwashed Marlena into believing she was the culprit. JER could be very sloppy in his storytelling, but not THAT sloppy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AbcNbc247 Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 I wish full episodes from the early 80's were available to watch on YT again. Not only would I love to see the full three prisms story, I'd love to see a lot of other things from that time like the Neil/Liz/Marie triangle, the Anna/Tony/Renee/David situation, etc. It was way too half-assed and created way too many plot holes. I never stopped watching Days, but I do believe that it took years for the show to recover from that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 (edited) Thank you both, @AbcNbc247 and cranky @Khan, I am pretty sure that I wasn't watching that, just missed it. You did a fine job of telling a clarification to a lifelong DOOL fan. And, I've been more than clear about how stoopid I think this Stacy Haiduk business has been! Even if they hadn't had ED as RealKristen, they could've done some level of better Kristen story! I had stopped watching by that Salem Stalker. I just read about it then. I hung in there through DevilDoc even though fully half my DOOL friends quit the show then. As a matter of fact, it was during DevilDoc that a RATS committee (RATSmers and RATSaers) began to write some fine RATS fanfic named AltDAYS. It was great writing from DOOL fans & GH fans. Mostly "peels" & "cores". Edited October 2, 2019 by Donna B Add 1 line of text. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darn Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 Wow Stefano did the Infinity Saga before Thanos did. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 (edited) It's funny you say that about GL, because aside from them going completely off the charts from 1998 through 2001, GL was always a down-to-earth slice of life kind of show, like ATWT and AW (fellow P&G soaps). This was TPTB's way of competing with then-popular DAYS, along with the over-the-top NBC sudsers, Passions and Sunset Beach (low rated, but high demos, especially Passions). They came back down to reality from 2002 til the end. +1 I wish Bryan Dattilo was on contract. I never understood why Lucas is always given the scraps. I don't care if he's not as tall as EJ or Austin. Edited October 2, 2019 by Gray Bunny 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 I still miss Lexie, too. I read something where Renee Jones, after 20 years in the business, just wanted to live the quiet life. She made a reference to growing up on a farm in Georgia. I don't know if that meant she was headed back to a rural setting or not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members teplin Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 Were it not for Julie, Maggie and Marlena, I'd never bother with this show. None of them have been treated well story- and character-wise for the last 25 years, but they are my link to the glory days. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 Doug & Julie are my perpetual Salem tentpole characters. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Planet Soap Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 Just saw the mardevil storyline scene which "Isabella" turns into a deamon....they...they didnt haaaaave to add that part. Meanwhile everyone else in Salem is carrying on with relatively normal plots ex. Jack & Jennifer. This was just oddly placed in a show in which nothing else supernatural occurs. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 That phrase has a nice turn to it - a spectrum of realism. They didn't have any business doing that to Izziebee! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 Yes, that's what her final SOD interview said. She was going back to small-town Georgia. I hope they can scoop her back up for a bit when the day comes that DAYS comes to an end. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Planet Soap Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 (edited) I agree in that GL started going off the rails in the mid 90s with Amish/ghost/clone Reeva and Annie 2.0. Prior to that they didn't seem too extreme to me (from what I've seen). Supernatural and OTT stories have their place but soaps, especially given their budgetary limits and prior attempts, should stay clear of them. Edited October 2, 2019 by ironlion 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 (edited) Well, there was a period in the mid-'80's when GL attempted to lure away GH viewers with stories such as the Dreaming Death (a tropical disease that killed off Lesley Ann Monroe), Infinity (David Preston brainwashed Billy Lewis into shooting his presumed half-brother, Kyle Sampson -- this storyline ultimately ended with Lujack's death) and Miss Piper/Barbados (which killed off Hillary Bauer and revealed that Brandon Spaulding had not died and was, in fact, living with his African-American wife and children). Personally, I loved those stories. As OTT and uncharacteristic as they might have been for GL, I still believe they were far more entertaining than crap like Ghost/Amish/Clone/Princess Reva or everything related to San Cristobel. I feel the same way, @teplin. Staci Greason (ex-Isabella) has made several, brief appearances since she left DAYS and acting behind. I don't see why Renee Jones wouldn't be up for making a tiny cameo at the end, too. DARK SHADOWS is a prime example, though, of a soap where the supernatural storylines worked -- and that's because they were part of the show from day one. (Well, almost from day one. I don't think Laura Collins, the phoenix and (I think) DS' first supernatural character, was introduced until after the first 13 weeks.) Of course, the downside to being a "niche soap" like DS was that it never appealed to the mainstream soap viewer. Ergo, it shouldn't have been surprising that it ran only five years. Edited October 2, 2019 by Khan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AbcNbc247 Posted October 2, 2019 Members Share Posted October 2, 2019 Lmao Stefano was the original of everything when it came to being a larger than life character 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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