Days of Our Lives: February 2022 Discussion Thread

[Gray Bunny]

+1.  Paul Narita was the best part of the Will/Sonny/Paul triangle.  I love that Christopher Sean has a longstanding appreciation for the show and Drake as his onscreen father. 

Paul was apparently conceived around the same time as Will. While struggling with his newfound priestly responsibilities and keeping his urges for Kristen under control, he randomly boffed Paul's mama who wandered into St. Luke's church.  I mean, sure, I guess. LOL 

[Soapsuds]

This didn't hurt either... @Gray Bunny and @carolineg

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[Antoyne]

That’s the story?! You’re kidding me.

[carolineg]

The fact he got Paul's mom, Isabella, Marlena, and Kristen pregnant in like a 5 year span is a choice for the John character, but it didn't really effect anything so whatever.  Paul could really be just a random guy and I still would have liked him.  Even if he was conceived at the same time as Will he shouldn't be that much younger than Belle/Brady.  And I do get a tiny bit skeeved out that even though they aren't blood related Will probably shouldn't be hooking up with John's son.  John's been married to his grandma his entire life practically and raised his own mom lol.

Yowza!  He's so hot.

It was always very vague as a backstory.  I am pretty sure Paul's mom was the Dimera maid?  Am I wrong about that?

[AbcNbc247]

Damn I miss him 

Lmao yeah. Will sure loved his Uncle Paul

Paul’s mother was said to have worked in Stefano’s lab. What they should have done was say that she was in love with John and stole his sperm sample from the lab. It’s far-fetched but better than the lack of explanation we got about Paul’s conception 

[carolineg]

Thanks.  For some reason I knew she worked for the Dimera's but I could not remember in what capacity.  The whole story was strange.  I think it was just a one night stand and when she went to tell him she was pregnant she found out he was a priest.  Which, apparently that's a deal breaker even though he had kids already?  And apparently Paul's mom (Tori?) never googled her sons father again to find out he wasn't a priest anymore.  Stupid. 

[Antoyne]

Lol which writer do we have to blame for this?

[carolineg]

Google tells me Tomlin and Whitesell.  Idk, it all was very flimsy because Marlena didn't even care and it's not like John wouldn't have taken care of his own child.  And I don't recall John even being that mad about it.  It was just basically a non story.  Does anyone know if Paul's still paralyzed?  

[janea4old]

There was no google back in those days.   Eventually Tori learned he was with Marlena but she didn't want to interfere with that.

[carolineg]

Obviously, but I assume she could have done more lol.  Marlena barely blinked about it.   John/Marlena weren't together at the time Paul was conceived.   It was kinda crappy to do to John and Paul.  But whatever.  No one seems too mad about it.

[janea4old]

Christopher Sean did great acting on the show, he was committed to his scenes, and had lots of magnetism/dynamism.  So I didn't really care about details of the retcon that brought his character Paul to the canvas.  Drake and CS vibed so well together as father/son, it was really amazing.

[carolineg]

Oh!  Nothing against CS.  He's awesome.  I loved Paul.  The story was just dumb and I can overlook it, but it still makes no sense.  It also happened all off screen so I disliked that.  It's not like John is a newbie character.  There was stuff that happened on screen the show could have gone off of.

[MichaelGL]

I remember the show trying to turn Paul into sort of a action hero like his father, and I approved of this. 

[Khan]

I just wonder why the show felt it was necessary to give John yet another child in the first place.

[koos]

There was Yahoo and Webcrawler.

I still can't believe CS was on the show that long. They wasted like 85 percent of his time.