Jump to content

Days 8/9/21 weekly preview


Recommended Posts

  • Replies 39
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Members

 

It's Ron so of course it's stupid. LOL. And of course it's right as Johnny arrives. I swear this show gets on my ever loving nerve no matter who the writer is. LOL.

 

And it never fails, secrets come out, we get drama for a day and then boom, someone is gone and then it's on to the next. Ron always skips the true fallout, really. Remember when Duke and Anna were finally reunited on GH back in 2012/2013 and then off-screen for weeks? It's bizarre writing choices. I get it's how he structures things but it's not working for me. (He also did the same on OLTL so it's clearly a budget thing/how he was trained on the ABC soaps and it works with DAYS being so cash-strapped I suppose and low guarantees don't help ...)

 

I thought she was sticking around longer than this but I don't know now. I assume she is. It seems stupid to set up EJ/Sami/Lucas and then have both men on contract and no Sami ... like, OK? Really Ron?

 

And it does feel fast but she's been here since February/March. She spent weeks in the Salem PD, wasting time, like Ron does (because they didn't fully have her yet). He's obsessed with her being arrested and in jail for some reason.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

It seems like it's a combination of a lot of things; poor writing choices, actor's schedules, an unwillingness to recast, combined with some characters who can't be recast, which I completely understand (Hi, Ali!) and we end up getting rushed things like this

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

 

That's the thing. It often feels rushed towards the end. It's just a combination of a lot of things but still, Ron makes the calls as writer (meaning his choices often suck, and I know he can do better). He could do better but sometimes I'm willing to give it a pass, like the Sarah nonsense. 

Edited by KMan101
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I thought it was a year and they got her late because of Hallmark stuff.   I am glad Ali gets work, but this felt mismanaged.  She barely interacted with Allie.  EJ was brought back for this?  Johnnie hasn't even aired?  Is she in the Beyond Salem stuff?  I saw Christie posting a pic with her so I assumed she was. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I've said this for years - he learned this from Frank Valentini and has done it ever since. They would block-tape people, stagger story for weeks and months at a time in the background, then rush exits and leave stories unfinished for key actors they gamble on having come back eventually. Sometimes it worked, but more often than not it ends up like this.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

SOD says EJ kicks Sami out of the DiMera mansion, and then she decides to go visit the Hernandez home to ask Gabi for permission to stay at the DiMansion.  But as Sami approaches Rafe's house, she gets kidnapped.

There was also some weird SOD spoiler for 11 August that Ava wants to exact revenge on Sami.

SOD says Ali Sweeney's arc ends (for now) on 11 August when Sami is kidnapped.

Ali Sweeney stopped taping Days in April because she went to Vancouver, BC to tape some Hallmark movies.  This involved renting a place to stay by herself for two weeks in quarantine before taping, per Canada's Covid rules for people entering Canada at that particular time. (I think the rules are different now but that's what the rules were then.) Anyhow she quarantined for two weeks, then taped a few movies.  Then returned to California in mid-June for a family event.

Ali began taping at Days again sometime in July, (or maybe the end of June).  So basically we will see Sami again sometime in November or December, but it could be earlier because they don't always tape things in order. (No idea how long that next arc lasts)

 

Edit to add: There was a big announcement last year that she'd be returning to Days with a one-year contract.  And yes that return was delayed because she was filming Hallmark movies in Canada from late August 2020 into some of autumn 2020. Then she finally began taping at Days in late 2020.  Her first airdate was 25 Feb 2021. Jason47 tracks the closing credits.  And every week that Ali has aired in 2021, she was listed with the non-contract cast.
https://www.jason47.com/days/castcharts2021.html

Edited by janea4old
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

It actually seems like a mismanaged announcement.  Ali had other obligations, but Days went out of it's way to say it's a year.  I am sure she will end up doing a year's worth of work, but everything is mistimed now. 

 

Why would she ask Gabi to stay in the Dimera mansion?  Can't she just go back to her mom and John's house?  

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members


I agree 100%! Lucas and Sami having an secret affair as they also spar with each other with EJ and Nicole thrown in the mix just feels like Days. This past year has seriously been the first time I thoroughly enjoyed watching Days since the 2009-2011 period, which was a may have been a strange time for the show but was carried superbly by AS, AZ, LK, NB and SR. 

I hate we’ve already lost Jennifer & Abby from the Gwen story and now this with Sweeney taking a break. I can’t stand the Ben/Ciara/Claire hour at all. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • In my usual account on my most used video hosting site with the video title  DAYS 1-8-15 Will & Paul Sex This is an edit I began when I was first teaching myself to edit & at that time I couldn't make it do what I wanted it to do. I pulled it up & finished it this morning. 
    • Or Megan is shot by mobsters as retaliation for Dave's unpaid gambling debts.
    • Finland seemed such an odd choice for a location shoot. ATWT went to Greece and later Spain while GL had Tenerife and there were others in that timeframe. But Finland not being a known tourist destination or offering the tropical/sunny atmosphere usually associated with location shoots seems off brand. Maybe they were negotiating a deal with a tourist association and it fell through.
    • I was talking about 1986, but the glimpses of 1982 are about the same. 
    • I skimmed some of the 1982 synopses; Steve was planning on an opening an office in Finland, and I think Jim went there as part of the preparation. That probably was a big issue; AW had already gone to San Diego that year, with Rachel/Steve/Mitch. And to upstate NY with Pete and Diana. I wonder if upstate was as expensive lol  AW in 1982 has always fascinated me, because of how messy it was 
    • That makes sense. What a messy time for the show. And any changes they made were mostly for the worse.
    • The transition from Neal to Adam was very abrupt, and to be honest my theory is that the character of Neal was designed so that we think he is super shady but then it turns out that he was on the side of good all along so Neal could have seamlessly become a hero of the BCPD with no need for Adam. I don't know whether Robert Lupone was hired on a short contract or if he was fired from a longer-term contract because they decided they wanted someone who was more of a leading man type, but I can imagine a scenario where Charles Grant did both the undercover Egyptian treasure/flirt with Victoria and the straighter-arrow day to day police investigation. But in my imagined scenario the MJ prostitution plotline probably doesn't exist and instead he probably continues a relationship with Victoria. The story seems very odd to me. I assume that David Canary would have been included only because a plotline where Steve is going to Finland in which only Rachel is seen in actual Finland seems unlikely. The synopses explicitly mention that Alice can't go with Steve but would whoever was playing Alice at that time have had the kind of clout to get the remote cancelled? It also strikes me as unlikely that production would have approved the expensive location shoot and *then* cancelled it only because of jealousy. It seems more likely that they rejected it because of the expense but then the jealousy part got added to the gossip speculatively, possibly because while it was being worked out they justified not including more castmembers because of the expense. 
    • My comment has nothing to do with cast resentment, but does relate to the Finland location shoot: It may be a coincidence, but Jim Matthews died in Finland in 1982.  Hugh Marlowe's final episode was in April 1982, but the character probably didn't die untll May or June. (I'm unable to find the character's date of death, only the date of Marlowe's final episode). SInce Jim and Rachel had very little interaction after around 1975, it is unlikely Jim's death in Finland had any connection to Rachel's potential visit, but the choice to have Jim die in that location at that time is a head-scratcher.  I'm sure the writers sent Jim on an extended trip (and off-screen) because of Marlowe's illness.  But Finland seems like a strange choice considering the (then) recently cancelled location shoot.  
    • I totally understand your sloths concern about it and I agree with you. Let’s hope the show plays it’s cards right.    Further comments about the last few episodes: - I liked that one of the attendees was filming the scene. That’s realistic. I wonder if the writers will follow up with that.  - Martin and Smitty trying to drag Leslie out was very heteronormative, so perfectly in line with them two as characters lol.    As for the future: it’s obvious the Duprees will come to accept Eva one way or another, but the rivalry with Kay should be here for the long term   On the topic of acting: the only bad actors I’m seeing are Ted and Derek. Tomas hasn’t proven to be either good or bad, so far, but he’s certainly mediocre and uncharismatic. He sucks the energy out of the scenes and I don’t see any couple of women ever vying for him. 
    • I’m trying to think which actors VW were working with at the time, and none of them had been there for a while. Even like Mac and Ada didn’t have that big of a part in Rachel’s storyline.  And Jamie was involved with all that movie stuff.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy