7 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

Thanks. That's where I get confused as until recently I thought they'd basically said he was dead.

I agree they should have had John and Stefano die together. It would have been fitting.

The show goes down a slippery slope with Dr. Rolf bringing every character ever back from the dead, so I guess characters believed there was a slim possibility he could still be alive. At the same time characters would point out Stefano would be a very old man so it's unlikely. Idk, I dislike the tease of it. It was okay the first few years after JM passed to keep it mysterious, but it's been far too long now.

9 hours ago, te. said:

I definitively think that Ari was sidelined because Doug III kind of turned out to be a flop that got written out quickly.

I won't say too much about the actor - because, frankly, most casting choices on DAYS mystify me - but I do believe that how you introduce a character, especially one who has ties to one of your show's main families (even if we've never seen them or have heard about them before) - can really make or break you. To be more blunt: don't show me Doug III for the first time on the lam and right on the heels of his grandfather's death, when you haven't so much as kept me up to date on where Dougie LeClair has been all these years or what he's been up to. That's a surefire way to make me hate the kid from the start.

13 minutes ago, Khan said:

I do believe that how you introduce a character, especially one who has ties to one of your show's main families (even if we've never seen them or have heard about them before) - can really make or break you. To be more blunt: don't show me Doug III for the first time on the lam and right on the heels of his grandfather's death, when you haven't so much as kept me up to date on where Dougie LeClair has been all these years or what he's been up to. That's a surefire way to make me hate the kid from the start.

This! Horrid introduction of "Doug III" , clearly shoehorned in for plot.
If the writers thought it would be a tribute to Bill Hayes' Doug, just no! It did not work.

16 minutes ago, Khan said:

I won't say too much about the actor - because, frankly, most casting choices on DAYS mystify me

I get you on that.

Well I myself personally will say about the actor Peyton Meyer that he could not act. I know some posters here found the actor to be physically attractive. But he could not act, and all of his scenes (and his storyline) were cringe to me.

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