38 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

It rhymes with pay corn.😂

Well, that is one of the few genres where being wooden would be an asset. 

19 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Has he been auditioning already?

 

Hmmm I wonder lol

6 minutes ago, prefab1 said:

Well, that is one of the few genres where being wooden would be an asset. 

Lmaooo good one

5 minutes ago, prefab1 said:

Well, that is one of the few genres where being wooden would be an asset. 

I'm sure he's wooden in more ways than one.

19 hours ago, Khan said:

 

Agree.  Furthermore, the discussions about Allie's rape are a bit hard to take from characters who've been through the kind of only-in-soapland ordeals that characters like John, Kayla, Marlena, Steve, etc. have been through.

 

Exactly.

40 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

I'm sure he's wooden in more ways than one.

 

💀 lmao

22 hours ago, prefab1 said:

But the show has been giving us months of build-up to this moment. In fact, even before Abby came back from the clinic, they've been teasing the possibility of a Chad/Gwen hookup. And they've spent months showing Chad's growing jealousy and suspicion, as well as the way he's haunted by Abby's infidelity with Stefan every time he looks at Jake.

 

The show has also been dropping hints like crazy about Gwen's motivations. I haven't read any spoilers, but it seems pretty clear to me that she's Jack's daughter, who's resentful that he abandoned her and rejoined his "real" family (including her older half-sister Abby). So she's getting her revenge on Abby, who she envies intensely. 

 

Yeah but Gwen has been here since June. It's time to reveal her motivations. Ron wants the "omg" moment but instead he needs to let us in on her better. Of course I feel the same as you, she has to be or should be Jack's daughter somehow. But at the same time, it's time to clue us in. I'd rather be with her on the journey than watch this [!@#$%^&*]. But that's me. Truthfully I don't even know if Ron has a solid plan.

 

Charlie arrived in October and by December was a psycho with his motivations revealed.

 

I'm glad you think it all makes sense. But you know why fans seem to care a bit more about Charlie (besides the washboard abs)?? Because we KNOW HIS MOTIVATIONS and WE CAN UNDERSTAND HIM. Folks are tiring of Gwen. Why? Because we don't know her real motivations at this point.

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37 minutes ago, KMan101 said:

Yeah but Gwen has been here since June. It's time to reveal her motivations. Ron wants the "omg" moment but instead he needs to let us in on her better. Of course I feel the same as you, she has to be or should be Jack's daughter somehow. But at the same time, it's time to clue us in. I'd rather be with her on the journey than watch this [!@#$%^&*]. But that's me. Truthfully I don't even know if Ron has a solid plan.

 

Charlie arrived in October and by December was a psycho with his motivations revealed.

 

I'm glad you think it all makes sense. But you know why fans seem to care a bit more about Charlie (besides the washboard abs)?? Because we KNOW HIS MOTIVATIONS and WE CAN UNDERSTAND HIM. Folks are tiring of Gwen. Why? Because we don't know her real motivations at this point.

I hear what you're saying. I just think it's tricky from a storytelling perspective. Of course, the show could have let us in on Gwen's backstory and underlying motivations at the same time she told Dr. Rolf. But then, regular viewers would have had to suffer through weeks of flashbacks and scenes where Gwen talks to herself about her backstory, in order to bring infrequent viewers up to speed on why she's so determined to ruin Abby's life and Jack & Jen's marriage.  

 

Anyway, Emily O'Brien is fun to watch playing a kind of female Iago, full of "motiveless malignity." So I don't mind waiting to get the backstory that will no doubt humanize her and make her more sympathetic, but perhaps a little less fun.  

20 hours ago, prefab1 said:

No. I'm someone who's been lurking on the SON boards for about a decade, but only decided to start posting during the pandemic, when I started getting back into watching DAYS on a daily basis. And I'm also someone who's observed the dynamic on these boards, where the few people who are actually enjoying the shows they're currently watching get chased away by regulars who only want to engage in negativity and constant moaning about how the soaps were so much better in "the good old days." 

 

But in the spirit of getting along, I'll tell you some of the things that aren't working for me on the show right now:

--The whole Jan Spears story seemed poorly paced, with little suspense, and the resolution was weak. (I'm still not even sure what happened to Jan: is she in a coma or something?) On top of that, Belle and Shawn aren't especially compelling characters, so I had a hard time caring about the obstacles to their wedding, especially since they've had a common-law marriage for well over a decade.

 

--Nu-Claire continues to be a weak link in the Charlie storyline. It would be so much more fascinating if ORK were playing her, because then we'd get to see Charlie and Claire as kindred spirits, obsessive crazies who are both trying to reform (in Charlie's case, not very successfully). 

 

--Ben seems utterly superfluous, and RSW is still a much weaker actor than most of the other younger men. In his place, I'd rather have someone like Casey Moss back full-time. 

My apologies. And you are correct about the dynamic of the board. That's why I rarely post here.

I don't have any particular issue with the pacing with the Gwen storyline since they've pretty much dropped anvils about her being Jack's daughter anyway. If anything it's the usual issue of making all other characters completely dumb to drive the storyline that's the issue, but that's not a DAYS exclusive problem.

 

But yes, the pacing for the Jan storyline and Charlie have been a mess. It's like Ron likes to have these little quick stories that just runs for maybe two-three months among other things, but considering Charlie at least will be tied to the canvas via Allie I feel like that one should've been a slow-burner. But I guess since Allie's pregnancy and the paternity issue has gone on a while now they feel like they need to rush it? From the looks of it, it seems like John and Steve will inherit the town brain when Anna leaves.