DAYS: April 2025 Discussion Thread

[Khan]

Neither can I.  Susan Seaforth Hayes isn't just some "old fogey."  For years, she and her husband WERE the show.  They were and are daytime royalty.

I agree, especially now that we're calling a spade a spade and saying yes, in fact, E.J. did rape Sami.

[Efulton]

I love how everyone came together in defense of Susan Seaforth Hayes! She is a legend and we need more vets and Hortons onscreen not less!

[teplin]

Get rid of Susan and the show gets rid of me as a viewer.

[Contessa Donatella]

Get rid of Susan & Maybe I will come for you. 

[j swift]

WHILE, we are welcoming of all new ideas and opinions, it is important to recognize that sometimes those new ideas and opinions are incorrect, and engagement can be found more organically.

That being said, to me, one of the highlights of the show for the past year has been Julie's friendship with Chad.

[Maxim]

Ageist comments are never a good introduction. 

 

[Khan]

I agree!!  SSH is the Lillian Gish of daytime.  She can do more with one close-up than other actors can do with entire monologues.

[Efulton]

@Tishy-Lish keep sharing your thoughts and opinions.  I hope you did not feel like we were ganging up on you. We get a bit passionate on here!

[Paul Raven]

Yes SSH is a soap opera queen.

I agree sometimes her delivery is melodramatic but she is from a different era and I enjoy her for that very reason.

[AbcNbc247]

Yeah… I still don’t know about that BTG ripoff establishing shot for the Kiriakis mansion

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But a lot of people did look hot today. And I see that Doug III was looking a little more natural too

I think that there should’ve been more follow up with EJ’s shooting but I’m glad that it wasn’t completely ignored. The things that Kate said did make a lot of sense, even though I don’t think she’s the shooter. And it seemed like we got another dynamic/red herring with Sophia and Tate as well. 

Speaking of Sophia and Tate, I’m glad that Tate has somebody to confide in again about how he’s feeling. I’m interested in seeing where everything goes from here. NuSophia did ok too. And so did Doug III. And I’m really looking forward to the showdown between him and Tate tomorrow. It’s about time that the feud between the two of them really got off the ground. Plus, in terms of acting, it could be a real test to see what Leo Howard and Peyton Meyer could do. 

And hopefully, the dream that Stephanie had was more foreshadowing of what I suspect may happen. The fact that it may happen under the new writers (and hopefully not be biased in favor of Alex) makes me even more interested in it. Plus, all the Alex praise and Philip bashing made me a little

And like I said in the spoiler thread, I like that the Kiriakises are going to take advantage of EJ’s shooting to make their move on Dimera. This is how an umbrella storyline should be. The fallout could be really good. 

[janea4old]

DiMera Enterprises should not exist.  Stefano wasn't into corporation stuff.  The whole corporation is an artificial construct that some writers (I don't remember who) added quite a few years ago, and then the idea grew with each of successive writing regimes.   It's possible that Stefano created the name DE as a front for his personal nefarious deeds, but if he did, there was no actual enterprise.  He wasn't into business, not even illegal business.  He was into his personal plots. The bottom line is that Stefano didn't care about any of that business stuff.  It wasn't a thing.
Before EJ was "killed" in 2014, he and Clyde were arguing about running drugs.  But that wasn't a Stefano thing.

I think it may have been Dena Higley who  added on the Kiriakis/DiMera rivalry, but it wasn't based on history.  Just something she wanted developed.

None of it interests me.  Just like all the endless corporate takeovers on Y&R are uninteresting to me.

 

Edited April 7 by janea4old

[Contessa Donatella]

It was rather unusual since it is rare when lots of soap fans agree on any one thing.

 

[Khan]

ICAM!!

[Vee]

I too always found it weird as hell they tried to make 'DiMera' a legitimate business lol. The DiMeras who have had 50 different mad scientist capers on this show?

[carolineg]

Yes.  I always thought it was a vague front to make Stefano seem legitimate, but the business just owned properties and laundered money or something.  They didn't actually care about business.  That wasn't anything Stefano was interested in.