DAYS: January 2024 Discussion Thread

[Contessa Donatella]

I've talked about it in terms of the narrative style being different & in this case different equals better! I think that includes what you're saying & I've also noted less confusion about what day it is & not being different days or times of day in different character's experience, which affects pacing. Although at times we did still have it being both day & night during the same time period, just across town. 

To me the problem with musicals is not all that singing & dancing, it's that everyone automagically knows all the same songs & choreography!! 

[Contessa Donatella]

Another thing about Alex has to do with money. Now that he's Victor's sole heir he seems to think any problem can be solved by him throwing large amounts of money at it. 

[Mona Kane Croft]

Our dear Bill Hayes, rest in peace.  

 

[TEdgeofNight]

We all knew that Bill wasn’t doing well. RIP.

[titan1978]

My heart breaks for Susan.

[aim4thestars]

Doug

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[Wendy]

While not unexpected, Bill Hayes' passing hurts. My heart goes out to his wife, Susan, and the extended Days family as well as his real-life loved ones. 

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[Antoyne]

It’s extremely random. There was zero build up to him suddenly just being disgusted by Justin. 
 

RIP Bill Hayes. Poor Susan.

[Khan]

Now, more than ever, I advocate for digitizing and making available to the public all episodes of DAYS that Corday and Sony have archived.  We are losing so many giants from this genre; and with them go the history of soaps themselves.  Charge a subscription fee for that [!@#$%^&*] if you gotta, but if we can go out of our way to preserve all other, fading forms of entertainment, why couldn't we do the same for the soaps?

Edited January 13, 2024 by Khan

[Contessa Donatella]

Supposedly DAYS has all but one early season. (Warehouse fire.)

[dragonflies]

BOLD was horrible IMO. MIchael Minnis the co HW wrote for the show and needs his ass canned 

 

YR nothing changed cause the HW for the show was already FI CORE lol 

I don't get why they can't put it on peacock since people already pay for that 

[Contessa Donatella]

Unless they wanted to do a YouTube channel, peacock would be the natural destination. 

[AbcNbc247]

Peacock can definitely do it. Is it true that they spent $100 million on the football game tonight?

Even if they don't release every single episode, anything is better than just having them waste away in a storage room somewhere. 

[Manny]

I would think that thousands of episodes of soap would require a lot of servers to support all the episodes. Because finally everything published on a streaming service (or anywhere online for that matter) requires physical servers to save that data somewhere... and thousands of gigabytes of a soap opera would take a lot of their servers, I assume. A space that can be filled with content that more people would watch, I assume...

On top of that there is the digitization cost, I assume.. as well as residuals for all the cast members and writers, probably... 

[Contessa Donatella]

Yes, bare minmum, for chronological order, digitzing & servers. If they marketed, say by storyline, then there's more curating to be done, titles, segues, etc.