6 hours ago, DynamiteKiddo said:

And how much notice did they have?  Because Abby should’ve had scenes with at least D&J, Gabi, WilSon, Ben, and Tony & Jake (harking back to Andre & Stefan) to make this hurt more.  And how are you gonna do an Abby whodunnit without Gabi as a viable suspect?!?

Yes, if this is supposed to be a murder mystery, it's the most ineptly set up one in the show's history (and that covers a lot of murders). It's hard for me to get too upset since death means nothing on DAYS, but I like Marci and the show is going to suffer without a viable heroine in her age range. On a shallow note, I think Marci has been looking exceptionally pretty of late. 

2 hours ago, teplin said:

On a shallow note, I think Marci has been looking exceptionally pretty of late. 

Well, I don't know if it's shallow but she sure has!

11 hours ago, Wendy said:

Say what one will about Abigail, but she was born on this show and grew up on this show,

By blood she's a Horton, by blood and by name she's a Deveraux and by marriage she's one of the new generations of DiMera! I don't know any way she could be more legacy. I guess we could say that she's the mother of a new generation yet again of DiMeras, as she has 2 children that we know! If we make up a word, she is the most legacious of all possibilities onscreen. This waste of a character life is as bad as it gets!

Personally, regardless of what was said in the interview, I think the better thing to do was not give interviews until AFTER the death and not give out spoilers that allude to any death on the show. This way viewers all around would be truly shocked by a sudden death of a character as they wondered why someone would kill such a person, especially a young mother.

With that said, the reasons for killing Abby don't sit well with me as no one seems to have as valid reason for doing so with the exception of maybe Gwen who shouldn't be able to have committed the crime since she's supposed to be "in prison."

I think a shocking murder of a character like Abby would be a great plot twist if done right.

I agree that everything doesn’t need to be a twist or a mystery, at least not for the audience. A weird story for a whodunnit.

26 minutes ago, Errol said:

Personally, regardless of what was said in the interview, I think the better thing to do was not give interviews until AFTER the death and not give out spoilers that allude to any death on the show. This way viewers all around would be truly shocked by a sudden death of a character as they wondered why someone would kill such a person, especially a young mother.

That's what I've said for a while now: Days really has to do a better job at keeping their spoilers under wraps.

1 hour ago, AbcNbc247 said:

what I've said for a while now: Days really has to do a better job at keeping their spoilers under wraps.

Yabbut, how much value do they put in being able to float a false spoiler like a decapitation! Aren't we supposed to be grateful that they did not do the heinous thing?!

1 hour ago, AbcNbc247 said:

That's what I've said for a while now: Days really has to do a better job at keeping their spoilers under wraps.

It is hard enough to pull out for most soap nowadays but Days shooting six months in avance? Close to impossible

Maybe they should stop trying to make everything a shocking surprise and instead focus on giving more attention to how the characters react to these big events. Maybe it's only me but I would get just as much pleasure (if perhaps not even more) out of watching everyone react to something like Abby's murder, and even watching everything leading up to it knowing that it's about to happen. Watching the human drama, instead of just wafer-thin characters playing out storylines without any depth.

But the soaps now jump from plotpoint to plotpoint without bothering to write proper build-up and/or aftermath.

Edited June 11, 20223 yr by I Am A Swede

my 2 theories:

 

#1 the Abigail we've seen this whole time was a clone that went out of control, and when Kristen was calling her back she refused so Kristen went to get her and ended up killing her. The real Abigail is on the island, still. 

#2 with the help of Kristen, Gwen got a mask of herself and Abigail. She hired somebody to play her in prison while she snuck out to get revenge... when the real Abigail saw her own face staring back at her she split and became Gabi. Finally free, Gabi "killed" Abby and ran away, etc. 

7 hours ago, dio said:

my 2 theories:

 

#1 the Abigail we've seen this whole time was a clone that went out of control, and when Kristen was calling her back she refused so Kristen went to get her and ended up killing her. The real Abigail is on the island, still. 

#2 with the help of Kristen, Gwen got a mask of herself and Abigail. She hired somebody to play her in prison while she snuck out to get revenge... when the real Abigail saw her own face staring back at her she split and became Gabi. Finally free, Gabi "killed" Abby and ran away, etc. 

I like the #2 option, and with DAYS as it is now, and mask crazy, would fit in to the way the show has been for awhile.

On 6/10/2022 at 5:30 AM, janea4old said:

What Kenny ( @KLN ) said on this thread back in January about Abby is coming true.  Something savage (or bloody) happens so you believe she's dead and not missing.  That's what Kenny said but he didn't mention the specific method of death.  He said that due to the inability to work things out with Mansi and Miller, they made a casting and story decision.

The only details in the new SOD that were not in Kenny's intel were the list of suspects and that the "story" part of the decision was the need to free Chad.

Thanks for that!

Or, you know, radical idea here...recast AGAIN.

Kate Mansi was a recast. Marci Miller was a recast. Mike Horton had bunches of actors play him.

Chad still could have been freed. Couples do not last forever.

But, as this stands, this is just more of Ron's bullshyt tactic of killing yet another legacy character for short-term shock value, but decimating the show long term. (See also, in no particular order: Laura Horton, Bill Horton [could have been recast; the actor that played the role for Alice's funeral was great!], David Banning, Adrienne Johnson, likely Neil Curtin, the way Maggie spoke to Sarah about him...) But at least his precious retcon Gwen gets to be Jack's lone span on canvas.

Edited June 14, 20223 yr by Wendy

Has anyone else watched the DAYS spoilers on this YouTube page? I swear, it's wild. Now, if only I were only trippin' on shrooms.

 

1 hour ago, Noel said:

Has anyone else watched the DAYS spoilers on this YouTube page? I swear, it's wild. Now, if only I were only trippin' on shrooms.

 

Well, I have looked at them now. Not sure what to think. First off, I guess I think, what is this delayed sweeps? And, then I think here's one's 15 minutes of fame announcing spoilers! The facial expressions are certainly expressive!

On 6/11/2022 at 8:16 AM, Errol said:

Personally, regardless of what was said in the interview, I think the better thing to do was not give interviews until AFTER the death and not give out spoilers that allude to any death on the show. This way viewers all around would be truly shocked by a sudden death of a character as they wondered why someone would kill such a person, especially a young mother.

With that said, the reasons for killing Abby don't sit well with me as no one seems to have as valid reason for doing so with the exception of maybe Gwen who shouldn't be able to have committed the crime since she's supposed to be "in prison."

I think a shocking murder of a character like Abby would be a great plot twist if done right.

I agree with this post 100%.

On 6/11/2022 at 1:05 AM, Vee said:

DAYS' foolishness should still be GH's gain IMO. Marci is too talented for this show, I've always said so, but tbh if she's gonna make it outside of daytime it will likely need to be soon. There's even money that that won't happen (sadly for her), and if it doesn't a smart GH could snap her up as Serena Baldwin, cosmetics wunderkind. But they won't.

am I crazy? Marci Miller can't act. LOL She's about on Ben's level of lifeless cardboard. And I can't blame the material either, because LG and CB are stellar, imo.