2 hours ago, Soaplovers said:

Day to day episodes help execute a vision a head writer has for a show and story.

I've noticed since the scab written episodes have started airing that we're getting more character moments, somewhat better pacing, and a bit more depth in how the plots are being carried out.

It doesn't Ron's ideas gold..but at least there seems to be more effort in making them less stupid..thus far.

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!! 

On 1/11/2024 at 5:58 PM, AbcNbc247 said:

Very random, but I’m liking it.

It was one of those things that the scab writers needed to establish a little better 

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. 

Our dear Bill Hayes, rest in peace.  

 

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

My heart breaks for Susan.

Doug 😭😭😭😭

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. 

On 1/11/2024 at 5:23 PM, carolineg said:

I just find it very random and very mean.  It never built into animosity or anger.  One day Alex just started being awful to Justin.  None of this is Justin's fault at all.  I mean, he might not be the best lawyer, but this all feels out of nowhere.  I just keep wondering what the hell is wrong with Alex.

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

RIP Bill Hayes. Poor Susan.

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, 20241 yr by Khan

2 minutes ago, Khan said:

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?

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

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How was Y & R and Bold during their strike episodes?

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 

7 minutes ago, Khan said:

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?

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

7 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

 

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

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

20 minutes ago, Khan said:

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?

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. 

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... 

14 minutes ago, Manny said:

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... 

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.