12 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

See ya, scan writers! You made some mistakes but you had a good run. I wonder if we’ll ever get a definitive answer as to who the writers were lol 

 

11 hours ago, Contessa Donatella said:

Supposedly it is posted at Daytime Dish. I cannot get registered so must be a "Guest". I've plugged different names into Search with no results. And, I don't mean results that say your guess was wrong but simply doesn't search so finds nothing. Maybe it's because of the guest status. Is anyone here a member there? If so, search on Anderson, on Sussman & on Whitesell. 

Sussman and Whitesell are not on the ficore lists.
The ficore lists are public and they are here:
https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/66743-all-wga-fi-core-lists/

Edited May 30, 20241 yr by janea4old

17 minutes ago, janea4old said:

Sussman and Whitesell are not on the ficore lists.
The ficore lists are public and they are here:
https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/66743-all-wga-fi-core-lists/

Thanks. I looked for them & did not find them on one list & then couldn't find the other list right off & never got back to it. I hadn't thought about them, or the question of the scab writers identity since then, till today when it came up elsewhere. 

Another specious rumor bites the dust. Couldn't happen to a more deserving piece of wrong information.

I feel dumb for admitting this, but I just realized that Kristen is not EJ's aunt.  I was wondering why he doesn't refer to her as Aunt Kristen, because Susan is his mother (whom he did not call on Mother's Day, or tell that his baby is alive).  But, then I remembered Susan is just Kristen's doppelgänger, they're not related.  Which I guess makes Kristen his half sister?

From the silly question file, did Lucas fly to Montana in his monk robe, or did he pack it just in case he needed a disguise?

Finally, why does it feel like there's no exit story in mind for Theresa?  I thought she was temporary, but it feels like even when the fraud is uncovered, she's got a viable reason to stay in Salem with Tate. 

I mean, Harris's exit story seems to be heavily foreshadowed, meanwhile Theresa and her wig feel like they'll be around all summer.

Edited May 31, 20241 yr by j swift

23 minutes ago, j swift said:

I feel dumb for admitting this, but I just realized that Kristen is not EJ's aunt.  I was wondering why he doesn't refer to her as Aunt Kristen, because Susan is his mother (whom he did not call on Mother's Day, or tell that his baby is alive).  But, then I remembered Susan is just Kristen's doppelgänger, they're not related.  Which I guess makes Kristen his half sister?

From the silly question file, did Lucas fly to Montana in his monk robe, or did he pack it just in case he needed a disguise?

Finally, why does it feel like there's no exit story in mind for Theresa?  I thought she was temporary, but it feels like even when the fraud is uncovered, she's got a viable reason to stay in Salem with Tate. 

I mean, Harris's exit story seems to be heavily foreshadowed, meanwhile Theresa and her wig feel like they'll be around all summer.

Well, it's still pretty early, but I have a feeling that as the summer progresses, we'll get a better idea of what her exit story is ultimately going to be. And I still think that Tate is going to be extremely upset with Theresa and he's going to decide to cut all ties with her altogether along with Brady, Alex, Maggie, and possibly the large majority of the cast. But if for some inexplicable reason Theresa does end up sticking around beyond the summer, she might end up staying near the DiMera orbit especially if she remains a villain for the foreseeable future, (probably forever). She's going to need some allies especially if she's going to possibly lose Brady and Tate forever anyway. On the other hand, I hope the rest of the good people of Salem are on to whatever future schemes she has and they don't somehow get dumbed out just to give her an unfair advantage, but you never know with Ron though... 

2 minutes ago, MissPhoenixGirl92 said:

but you never know with Ron though... 

Speaking of which, what do we know with Ron, our returning fearless leader?

Rape means never having to say you're sorry. 

He never met a serial killer he didn't want to redeem. 

Leo Stark has an actual key to the city.

Mission Impossible style latex masks are forever! 

When it comes to humor, his taste is all in his mouth. 

Is eternally passionate about General Hospital, NOT Days of our Lives.

Who wants in? 

1 hour ago, Contessa Donatella said:

Speaking of which, what do we know with Ron, our returning fearless leader?

Rape means never having to say you're sorry. 

He never met a serial killer he didn't want to redeem. 

Leo Stark has an actual key to the city.

Mission Impossible style latex masks are forever! 

When it comes to humor, his taste is all in his mouth. 

Is eternally passionate about General Hospital, NOT Days of our Lives.

Who wants in? 

If his writing is as bad as it was before the strike, it's probably only a matter of time before many people start tuning out again. I really don't see myself sticking around for long. I think I'm pretty much done with this show. 

Ron's reliance on old tropes and campiness by the truckload, will again make the show a joke.

A little camp is fine, but Ron has never learned that less is more.

Of course Leo would be the first thing we saw in Ron’s first episode back 🤮🤮

Too bad Eric or EJ didn’t beat the crap out of him. I’m not really sure about all the scenes either. Him being all sincere with Eric but all scheming with EJ is one of the many, many reasons why fans hate him.

The Nicole/Sloan showdown was really good though. I was glad to see Nicole finally let loose and I was also glad that Sloan threw Nicole’s past in her face. I’m Team Nicole but that was something that really needed to be brought up. And, the punch actually looked a lot better than it did in the promo. 

As for Bobby-Everett, I guess we’re finally seeing what the original plan was for him. I just wish that it hadn’t contradicted anything that we’ve already seen onscreen. Plus, his dream at the beginning didn’t really seem to fit in with the rest of his scenes, though Blake Berris did look hot lol guess Ron had to make sure that fans knew he was back

11 hours ago, carolineg said:

Honestly, he has two children that should be on the show currently, so I don't really need more, but I am here for a Lucas story.

I guess, but it was the only thing I could think of to keep him on the canvas 😂

8 hours ago, Wendy said:

... but Ron has never learned that less is more.

Here again, you make me want to do a series of David Letterman style Top 10 lists. This one would be

Things Ron Carlivati has never learned:

 

13 hours ago, carolineg said:

Days is more than welcome to steal my idea about giving him a long lost son teenage son 😂

Or an Adult son/daughter he made during his military school days and Kate paid the mother’s family hush money to kept the secret. 

2 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

 I guess, but it was the only thing I could think of to keep him on the canvas 😂

 

22 minutes ago, Dr Neil Curtis said:

Or an Adult son/daughter he made during his military school days and Kate paid the mother’s family hush money to kept the secret. 

I'll take it lol.  I just wish the show would use Will and Allie even if they recast.  

Also, we really need Sydney cast.

Ethics aside, it is intriguing to think that the scabs had to come up with a BobEtte story with just the scraps of character background that had been established between his debut on 10/30 and when RonC went on strike after writing the December episodes.  If you think about it, all they knew was that Jada knew him as Bobby, he had an affair with Stephanie, and there was a missing part of his timeline. 

Unlike the baby switch, which was already in progress (minus the Leo/Dimitri stuff), and the Tate and Holly romance, the DID story was not foreshadowed.

So, I guess we'll never know the original plan, but it struck me what a difficult task it must have been for the scabs, despite their self-interested, non-labor, willing-to-throw-others-under-the-bus mentality.  

Oh, yes, Unkie RonC is back. The Leo onscreen quotient just tripled! But, still, wow, what a day today was. Rafe arresting the DA! Sloan showing up at the DiMera mansion. Nicole punching her. Sloan bringing up Nicole's history with Sami, who Sloan refers to as Eric's twin. Nobody else ever lists Sami that way. 

24 minutes ago, Contessa Donatella said:

Oh, yes, Unkie RonC is back. The Leo onscreen quotient just tripled! But, still, wow, what a day today was. Rafe arresting the DA! Sloan showing up at the DiMera mansion. Nicole punching her. Sloan bringing up Nicole's history with Sami, who Sloan refers to as Eric's twin. Nobody else ever lists Sami that way. 

I'll give Sloan a pass on referring to Sami as Eric's twin because she's never met her.  That's the only context Sloan has of her.  Once Sloan meets Sami she won't forget her lol.

is that Albert Alarr's wife??