DAYS: May 2025 Discussion Thread

[Liberty City]

Nor should the actress be made to be saddled with Wilson. No one should have to suffer like that.

[carolineg]

I have a hard time imagining JPL with CJ.  Their acting styles are so different.  I actually think LG and JPL have more chemistry together and could see Phillip/Sarah.  I know, I know.  That's an awful idea lol.

[AbcNbc247]

Ehhh… I wouldn’t mind it

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But Xander/Sarah are still endgame to me 

[carolineg]

Of course.

[Liberty City]

I feel like it could go either way; either connected to the primetime special (which would be cute to get on Peacock for a limited run) or it'll have zero connection by anything but a name.

[Contessa Donatella]

ONE STORMY NIGHT 1-10-92 Carly, Isabella, NotCarrie, Lawrence, Bo, little boy ShawnD, Caroline & Shawn, All of these people are not in Salem today. Oh, John isn't either. OH Tanner & Molly! Ginger, Brian, Kayla & Shane, UGH. 

[carolineg]

It's a very easy concept to recreate with 3 new couples.  It's seriously the most boring of the 3 specials, but generic enough to use a similar plot.   I think you could use inspiration to tie it in with JJ/Gabi, Belle/EJ, and Shawn/Jada, but then it would have absolutely nothing to do with Stephanie so it would be odd she wrote it lol.  

Kayla and Shane weren't in One Stormy Night.  Marcus was.

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[Liberty City]

Must be why they chose it if it's the most generic. If only Cruise of Deception could be revisited, but... after the Possession revisit, I'm all set on that crap.

[j swift]

@Soapsuds

Here's how I remember the chain of events — let me know if I'm missing anything:

1. Rafe used the tunnels to sneak into the house and plant the surveillance device.
2. EJ figured out Belle was wearing a wire. Presumably, off-camera, this must have tipped him off to search for other bugs. He found the camera and yanked out the SIM card.
3. EJ was shot shortly after.
4. Meanwhile, Rafe reused the tunnels to retrieve the camera — but, like a total dummy, he didn't bother connecting it to his laptop for two days. When he finally did, he realized the SIM card was missing.
5. Later, EJ came back home and checked the SIM card (which would only show footage from before he found it — which was before he was shot).

Thus, much like Rafe himself, the camera is useless because it would not have recorded the actual event.

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[Soaplovers]

If the show was interested in tying in one of the three prime time specials in the 90s, the smarter choice probably would have been Night Sins from 1993.

Night Sins was the ushering in of Titan Publishing, the first mentions of Kate Roberts coming in to run it, plus it had involved Jack retyping a manuscript he had found in the new house he and Jen moved into... which ended up being a thinly veiled story written by Kate about her dalliance with Bill Horton that produced Lucas.

However, I doubt the writers were even thinking about the prime time episodes when deciding to name the manuscript One Stormy Night.  I also don't see Stephanie being the one that would be writing it.  The current actress playing Stephanie seems to play a more passive version of Stephanie vs the previous takes by Shayna and Shelley..imho.

Javi is cute... much too good for Leo.  He can do so much better.

[carolineg]

Why would you even tie into Night Sins if you are just re-hashing B stories?  John/Marlena on the conference table with Sami seeing it and Carrie getting acid thrown in her face are the two main plots.

You would be better off just throwing a Titan Anniversary party instead. 

I am skeptical they are even tying One Stormy Night from 1992 into this plot at all, but it's a much easier plotline to rehash and you could use several couples to make it work.

Now that you mention the Jack/Kate/Bill story that might be one of the few "book" stories that worked though.

[Soaplovers]

Because that particular primetime episode kick started stories where the effects are still felt on the show to this day.  

[carolineg]

Sure, a lot of the storylines of that era are felt on the show today, but the movie was almost entirely about Roman/Marlena/John plus Sami/Carrie/Austin and a side plot of Carly/Bo/Billie/Lawrence with the background of Titan's opening.   It's...not about Jack and the memoir.

So, yes, you could go back and use some of the small parts of the movie, but you couldn't or shouldn't do a direct homage of it like you could with One Stormy Night.  It's two different things IMO.