21 minutes ago, Bright Eyes said:

Both the Will shooting EJ reference and the custody war over him were used so smartly yesterday and today

It was good, but wouldn't have been a more apt conversation to have between Kate and Jen as two grandmothers? Kate found that he couldn't let her animosity for Sami get in the way of her love of Will.  And she grew to appreciate Sami's parenting, but not the rest of her choices.

Lucas's line was good, but a father fighting for custody is very different than the trickery Jen is causing.

20 minutes ago, j swift said:

It was good, but wouldn't have been a more apt conversation to have between Kate and Jen as two grandmothers? Kate found that he couldn't let her animosity for Sami get in the way of her love of Will.  And she grew to appreciate Sami's parenting, but not the rest of her choices.

Lucas's line was good, but a father fighting for custody is very different than the trickery Jen is causing.

No. Kate knows to stay away from Horton festivities, especially Jennifer, who still hates her to this very day. But this does prompt me to want Kate to give Cat some advice about dealing with long-standing Horton grudges.

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19 minutes ago, Bright Eyes said:

Kate knows to stay away from Horton festivities,

Ah, that answers soapsuds question about Kate and Roman being missing from the party today. 😄

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1 hour ago, Bright Eyes said:

 

Both the Will shooting EJ reference and the custody war over him were used so smartly yesterday and today. If I was a fan of Chandler Massey it would make me want Will back

I'm sure Chandler would return given a meaningful or meaty storyline. Previous writers kept writing him in and out, which wasn't any form of job security, and that's why he got a real job. He needed a constant paycheck.

 

Previous writers and the current writers were/are too busy writing for Leo, of all people, who has no ties to Salem.

And the DiMeras are played out. It's time to write them out and focus on the Horton family. I'm not interested in what EJ and his goons are up to.

1 hour ago, Bright Eyes said:

But all in all, I really did love this 60th celebration. I hope the for best for this show, my show, for the next 60 years and beyond, all the days of our lives!

Well said 👍

1 hour ago, j swift said:

2. Forgotten Connections  
Raise your hand if you honestly remembered Doug³ and Jeremy’s tie through Robin and Robert LeClair. Exactly. A missed opportunity. Doug³ could’ve reopened the bistro in honor of his great-uncle, giving us a legacy callback instead of another dangling thread.

Which could've led to some good conflict for Tate, Holly, Ari, Aaron, etc.

A very missed opportunity.

10 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

I'm sure Chandler would return given a meaningful or meaty storyline. Previous writers kept writing him in and out, which wasn't any form of job security, and that's why he got a real job. He needed a constant paycheck.

 

Previous writers and the current writers were/are too busy writing for Leo, of all people, who has no ties to Salem.

It really does all go back to that; Will and Sonny should never have been written out in 2020

3 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:

 

A very missed opportunity.

 

This should be the show's motto. 

So many missed opportunities.

 

5 minutes ago, AbcNbc247 said:

 

It really does all go back to that; Will and Sonny should never have been written out in 2020

Sonny another legacy character with ties to Salem nowhere to be found.

But hey, we've got Leo still stinking up the place.

8 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Sonny another legacy character with ties to Salem nowhere to be found.

But hey, we've got Leo still stinking up the place.

They're safe from Leo; that's the important thing 😂😂

Sonny could add an interesting dynamic to the Kiriakis family storylines if he were full time though. I could see him being pitted against Xander or Alex somehow

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I have a full love/hate relationship with this 60th celebration.

Even with all the great returns and wonderful flashbacks, the budget cuts cast a pall over all of it. Characters are present one day at the Square, gone the next, to such an extent it makes no sense.

Was this the only way to present this story? I won't repeat who disappeared and who's missing -- others have pointed it out, and they're right. So while this has been enjoyable, I can't forget how much better it could have been. 

It really is a glass half full/half empty situation.

2 hours ago, ranger1rg said:

I have a full love/hate relationship with this 60th celebration.

Even with all the great returns and wonderful flashbacks, the budget cuts cast a pall over all of it. Characters are present one day at the Square, gone the next, to such an extent it makes no sense.

Was this the only way to present this story? I won't repeat who disappeared and who's missing -- others have pointed it out, and they're right. So while this has been enjoyable, I can't forget how much better it could have been. 

It really is a glass half full/half empty situation.

Well with a 2025 budget, they couldn't keep all those characters on screen for five-days in a row.  And actually, I don't believe that was ever possible on soaps -- even in the 1970s.  TPTB wisely decided not to celebrate the show's 60th anniversary with one stand-alone episode (Oh jeeze, I hate stand-alone episodes), but to give us an entire week of memories mixed with current plots.  So I completely expected various characters would be featured intermittently throughout the week.   

Was the 60th anniversary week perfect?  Absolutely not.  But TPTB did their best to honor the history of DOOL, all the way back to day-one. And I think they did a damned good job!   If you disagree, It won't rock my boat.    

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1 hour ago, Tisy-Lish said:

Well with a 2025 budget, they couldn't keep all those characters on screen for five-days in a row.  And actually, I don't believe that was ever possible on soaps -- even in the 1970s.  TPTB wisely decided not to celebrate the show's 60th anniversary with one stand-alone episode (Oh jeeze, I hate stand-alone episodes), but to give us an entire week of memories mixed with current plots.  So I completely expected various characters would been featured intermittently throughout the week.   

Was the 60th anniversary week perfect?  Absolutely not.  But TPTB did their best to honor the history of DOOL, all the way back to day-one. And I think they did a damned good job!   If you disagree, I won't rock my boat.    

Well said!  I completely agree with you on this.

I thought they navigated the budget and productions issues decently. As was said above, I'd rather have had five days of visitors and memories than one single episode. I enjoyed this a lot more than the 50th, which had higher highs but much lower lows (like half of Salem being picked off right around the anniversary).

On 11/14/2025 at 3:06 PM, Soapsuds said:

And the DiMeras are played out. It's time to write them out and focus on the Horton family. I'm not interested in what EJ and his goons are up to.

ITA. I think the Dimeras are beyond played out. In my opinion, they really only work in small doses with the exception of Chad.

Lately I’ve been thinking about how Days defines itself—especially now that it’s sixty. Characters like Dr. Rolf may not be critic darlings, but he represents something central to the show’s DNA: the blend of human drama with absurdism. To insist Days is purely about the Horton family or small-town romance feels historically inaccurate. The sci-fi, crime, and cloning chaos has been present for decades. Long before the possession or other plots of a single writer. It’s not an anomaly; it’s a house code.

I say this as someone who’s fully onboard with the current DiMera energy. EJ, Kristen, and Chad form a compelling triangle, with Tony adding texture as the elder statesman. I’d take one sibling scene between EJ and Kristen over ten more Brady/Belle whine-offs. Rachel’s development has been genuinely fun to watch—there’s a real opportunity here for a slow-build villain arc, a la Sami.

More than anything, it feels like the show has stopped treating the DiMeras as a revolving door of CEOs. They have a base, a dynamic, and a mystery. The “missing DiMeras” arc and the EJ shooting gave us compact, character-rooted suspense without blowing up the canvas. That’s how you use legacy villainy well.

Days isn’t supposed to be tidy. It’s not All My Children or The Waltons. It’s a gothic sprawl. When it leans into that—on a small scale, with strong characters—it works. The mishegoss is part of the appeal.

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